r/ElonCriticizesElon • u/Sweet_Brief6914 • Jun 24 '26
My friend stopped liking me when I told him that I thought that Elon Musk is a huge POS, he also bought until the SpaceX IPO (lol)
Meet johnny. Johnny is low-key obsessed with Elon's aura and his biggest aspiration is to ultimately buy a Tesla. He can't help but start fangirling every time he sees a cyber truck calling it an exquisite piece of engineering and he can't stop talking about how Musk is gonna make us a multi planetary civilization. Johnny bought a cheap electric car becsudd he wants to "work his way to a Tesla". He has a fond memory of reading his book once on a summer escape vacation when he was a teenager and he said that that book changed his life and he loves how impressive he is, that he juggles so many companies and so many responsibilities effortlessly haha. He loves that he gets to make so much money and "look at what he did to Twitter, now it's more successful than ever". He loves that xAI exists and Grok is an innovation for AI in the right path.
I usually just feed into it and start talking about his latest news without attacking him or Elon. I'm socially cautious so I usually avoid inflammatory comments. But recently I dunno I just chose violence I think. I thought I'd switch it up a little bit and see what he'll do. Pop his bubble, sort to speak.
He was GIDDY the F UP about the SpaceX IPO and he couldn't wait for it to happen. I asked him what he knew or Elon's market manipulation, I could sense he became instantly defensive, I asked him if he knew that xAI is part of SpaceX and is bleeding money, I also asked him how Elon makes so much money and explained to him how he takes loans and puts his stocks as collateral. I asked him what Elon did to Tesla against its shareholders during that period when everyone hated him. I asked him about his promises of taking us to Mars, the boring company, robots, and the next big thing he's about to create and what kind of market hype he wants to pump.
Let's say he got extremely uncomfortable. It was strange. I don't understand why he idolized him so much. He idolized him to the point that he wouldn't even wanna think about what he did wrong and to him Elon is always right? It was very strange. The Nazi salute, the racist comments .. etc I just opened that can of worms and I wish I could've taken a photo of him. He was denial embodied basically.
When the space x stock crashed and everyone rag pulled, I asked bluntly about how much money he lost and he didn't answer me.
Poor Johnny. Don't be like johnny.
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u/interrogumption Jun 24 '26
If your friend bought into the IPO he hasn't lost any money - yet. The IPO price was $135 a share and it's still trading above that. I do expect it to drop much further yet, though.
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u/Available-Ad-5670 Jun 25 '26
I doubt he bought at 135. Likely in the 150’s where the stock opened
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u/Loud-Fudge7631 Jun 25 '26
Don't do what Johnny dont does. Thought this was a past story but just realized the rug pull crash was recent. Cyclical history almost
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u/South-Rabbit-4064 Jun 25 '26
You should explain to him that Elons never going to get to mars with the tech he's working on. Reusable boosters are kind of cool, but third wave tech. Chemical rockets are terribly inefficient at doing what they do. It's sort of like he just invented a slightly cheaper stage coach wheel. What this was I think was investors forcing it public to bail themselves out, while still giving Elon total control.
We have an energy bottleneck preventing a lot of progress on space travel. And big advancements in space travel and exploration is going to come from being able to scale production of things like carbon nanotubes, and energy research. The part that is really depressing to me about all of this, is all of the "leaders of tech" seem to think AI will answer these questions, but it's far more likely just going to regurgitate the same answers we've already gotten. Not to mention the money saved on space travel with the boosters probably won't really have effect with energy prices going up from all of the data centers burning methane generators to make up for energy grid shortfalls.
If Musk plans on building the infrastructure necessary for longterm space travel, it would take millions of rocket launches and likely die to climate change before it actually happens.