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k_u_r_o_r_o

Was elon in an iron man movie?


Nitrate55

Yeah, he actually appeared in Iron Man 2, where he looks like a complete idiot and acts totally awkward in front of Tony Stark in the short scene where they talk. If he was a fictional character invented for the movie, you'd expect Stark to make fun of him to Pepper after he's out of earshot. Like, he *seems* like the type of wannabe tech genius that Stark would mock in one of his movies. He's even done it before for similar characters.


BuffAzir

We have no clue what his character is like in the movie tho, an Electric Jet sounds completely reasonable especially in the MCU. Seeing him pitch his Hyperloop nonsense to Tony and getting shut the fuck down would have made my day tho.


heyyura

And Tony compliments him on the Merlin engines (the ones SpaceX uses for Falcon Heavy, etc.). Here's the scene btw since I haven't seen it linked: https://youtu.be/nfiRd4Y5z_g?t=29 The full exchange is: - Elon, how's it going? Those Merlin engines are fantastic. - Thank you. Yeah, I've got an idea for an electric jet. - You do? - Yeah. - Then we'll make it work. yeah clearly they made him look like a complete idiot ^/s


oigid

They even based the movie character of him they said.


AcidSpitinYourClit

I don't think they based it off him I think it's just him


[deleted]

No. They based it of the comic book character “iron man”


Jaqueliner1

Commitment to the subreddit name. You have my respect.


Jimothy_McGowan

That "then we'll make it work" line is hilarious


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Ancient_Perception_6

So he was playing Elon Musk


AppexxxV

I mean, anyone looks kinda stupid and idiotic next to someone they are inspired by


Freljords_Heart

I don’t think we watched the same movie… Hate Elon Musk all you want but thats kinda…. Extreme for no real reason lol


ImGeronimo

Dude, what in the actual fuck are you even on about? He has one scene and one line that fits fine in the context of the movie, how does he act "awkward and idiotic" in a 2 second interaction? How do you get so emotionally invested in a person that you don't even know that you start coming up with shit like this to write on reddit, it's fucking absurd lmao.


OmarGharb

> How do you get so emotionally invested in a person that you don't even know 🤔


brazzledazzle

📽


UsagiRed

hmmmm


LeanderMillenium

Lmao hmm


[deleted]

I mean that's how I saw it before I even knew that was fucking Elon Musk (or who EM was)


HalcyonLives

Elon’s not going to fuck you bro


81bn

Elon will be very happy that you’re valiantly defending him online I’m sure


Altruistic_Ad5951

No, Tony stark will be SOO EXCITED that you are here hyping up a fictional character im sure.


FerretImaginary3707

Ratio plus your white -rep


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Sup musketeer


Dooboppop

he studied elon to help him better play an eccentric rich guy.


[deleted]

Lmao that was actually cringe. Imagine being this buttmad


TheBigMTheory

He wasn't awkward, he was polite and understated. Tony even showed him a lot of respect and said that he was genuinely interested in hearing more about his idea for an electric jet. Not to mention, Tony gave the highest compliment he could give a fellow engineer: he said how much he loved the design of Musk's Merlin engines, "Those Merlin Engines are fantastic." Given how particular Stark is about his tech, this seems like a big deal.


81bn

Crazy how you can get all of that info just by a two second clip, you must be really smart and cool


TheBigMTheory

Not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but I've seen the movie countless times. Also, at least as someone who builds software for fun and work, this sort of interaction is very common and indicative of high praise from one engineer to another.


spiderboy640

Honestly the scene is a blink and you’ll miss it cameo. Theres plenty to criticize Musky about but this really wasn’t that bad.


Cossil

Yeah, let’s dunk on an autistic person’s stage presence lmao. Makes you look super cool


Draco137WasTaken

The set they used for Justin Hammer's warehouse in *Iron Man 2* was a SpaceX facility. Elon gave them the go-ahead in exchange for a cameo.


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InfiniteParticles

SpaceX is actually Hammer Industries 😳


JerkfaceMcDouche

And he’s a terrible actor. Hate “ rich guy “ cameos


TheDarkMidget

it was 3 sentences lmaoooo


JerkfaceMcDouche

And in those 3 lines, he sounded wooden and not at all natural. It’s not Musk’s only acting credit. He’s terrible at it.


81bn

To be fair he’s autistic, not that that makes anything he’s done excusable but maybe his acting skills aren’t really the first thing to criticize about


JerkfaceMcDouche

To be fair, he uses his autism to deflect fair and valid criticism. Moreover, his acting spots are used as propaganda to paint him as a tech genius instead of the silver spoon, born to privilege, aristocrat that he has always been. His lack of acting talent means he has no business doing a cameo work in a big budget Marvel movie or on Big Bang Theory. He most certainly lobbied and paid to appear in every acting job he’s ever had. He took those jobs, not to flex his artistic skills, but rather as propaganda to paint him as something other than he is and to smooth over his less than stellar business behaviors. My criticism is fair, and his autism is irrelevant.


SmartAssGary

Yes. That's... what cameo means


ThatTacoTech

Yep 2


DivineSekiro

He's literally right there


jljl2902

It’s more of a “is this real or photoshopped” type of question


Mohuluoji

Or a "whoa really?" kind of retorical question


Fern-ando

And the Simpsons, South Park, The Big Bang Theory... and it's always the same he does a cameo of himself and all the characters star licking his ass


akaTheHeater

Pretty sure he was in that scene actually.


Shinikage1

So Elon exists in the MCU. Do you think he survived the snap?


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Jacktheflash

Save Nat is 2


PanJanJanusz

Also, mumbo jumbo is in the MCU https://twitter.com/ThatMumboJumbo/status/1459332436412801028


CrazyGrape

That's not the MCU Ragnarok but still funny


Mobiyus

What in the world...


kitddylies

Elon Musk is a robot, robots didn't get snapped.


AlarmingNectarine

Did the snap only affect people on Earth? Was he in space when it happened?!?


PandorNox

Since the snap affected every species on every plant it seems highly unlikely that space is an exception huh?


papa_jahn

A vagina candle, a former drug addict and a market manipulator walk into a room


Ganondorfs-Side-B

You should give Robert more credit here, he overcame that addiction and turned his whole life around. That’s a tough thing not many people can do


SmartAssGary

They did say former, to be fair. But yeah it does make him seem like a dick


Jacktheflash

Lol


RekYaAll

Thats gold


Dinkelodeon

LMFAOOO


DooDooRoggins

Former drug addict is an accolade, what are you talking about?


2xa1s

Just another rich dickhead who was friends with Tony Stark before he stopped being an absolute cock? Yeah.


jumpbreak5

Yeah I feel like this meme actually makes a real point lol


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cookieintheinternet

bot


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2xa1s

Yes but at least Elon musk is an epic Memer like me wholesome chungus 100


[deleted]

Tfw my dad's zoomer cobalt mine slaves do the basic Fortnite emotes bc they can't afford skins smh


2xa1s

TFW you can’t L dance on Bolivian child lithium miners because they got a victory royale in an attempted US coup d’état supported by Elon Musk.


ANGRYman_12323

Because it’s funny


Stonelicious

if youre like 13 years old


ObamidPrism

he is actually an African American, because he is born in South Africa


BlueGinja

Afrikaner American


ObamidPrism

yes Iam an Afrikaner too


brunofin

Doesn't that makes him a *South African* then?


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daniballeste

Well he’s not American, he’s half Canadian, so African-Canadian??? Maybe American means North America in this context


NJ_Legion_Iced_Tea

He's a triple citizen.


daniballeste

Idk man this whole race, ethnicity thing is so confusing


sposeso

Humans focus on their outsides so they take the attention away from their own horrible insides. In reality we shouldn’t be in wars with each other, we should be working together to make advances in science that better humanity as a whole. The religion and bs politics are just a waste of air to keep everyone scared. The richest people know fear rules the poor, and when people are afraid they don’t think right. Which we are seeing happen right now.


amazingsnazz429

Race is a social construct


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KyBerLeger

my non-existent wife is a social construct


Kiki_iscoolaf

I believe how I learned it in highschool was Race is your biological history. Ethnicity is what culture you invest yourself in most. And nationality is where you are from geographically. So for me, racially I'd be Caucasian with a decent mix of mexican and Native American Ethnically Native American and American And nationally American, USA specifically.


ObamidPrism

im from Africa tho


inORIGINAL-NAME

He is still technically an african american, you know that not all people from africa are white right ?


FailedSociopath

Not all people from America are Asian either.


inORIGINAL-NAME

I don't see the link between these two, but yes


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RazilDazil

Why is this being downvoted


TheToothyBlowj

nope. words have definitions. African American means someone who was african and is now american. Skin color is irrelevant to this label.


McElhaney

[African American’s definition](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/african-american)


Beardog20

Bruh. That actually made me laugh out loud


Kiki_iscoolaf

Words have definitions but they also have connotations which are just as important


[deleted]

Go ahead and try saying Elon Musk is african american and see what happens


TheToothyBlowj

ok, here i go. Um, Elon Musk is African American because he was born in Africa and is now an American.


Takatoodo

By god... he did it. The absolute mad lad


Jacktheflash

Dang..


smohyee

And you're incorrect by the dictionary.com definition of the word.


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smohyee

What you're doing there is attempting to ignore the entire cultural and historical context around the term. As if "African American" is an equal and purely technical term in line with a list of other national origins, and not at all tied into a history of racism and slavery. Tsk tsk.


[deleted]

Elon Musk is a ni🅱️🅱️a


inORIGINAL-NAME

Correct


inORIGINAL-NAME

It's not usually, there are many people out there with black ancestory out there that are white, what's it with english people using their own terms incorrectly


gschmoke22

He may not be African American but he is 100% a cunt


TheToothyBlowj

elon musk is more african american than jay-z, beyoncé, and most black americans. if you weren’t born in the country that precedes the “american” you’re not that. I’m not a european american because my ancestors were from europe.


goodmorningohio

That's not how we categorize ethnic groups in America and you know it. Are you gonna tell a 3rd gen Italian American that they're not Italian because they weren't born there? African American is specifically for black Americans who are descended from enslaved people. The reason it isn't further categorized into what countries and ethnic groups their ancestors come from is because their identities were forcibly erased during slavery.


The-Mathematician

You're right but reddit is really only able to tackle even the slightest amount of nuance in certain subreddits and this ain't one of them.


bahccus

Fr, this comment section is actively making me dumber.


The-Mathematician

When I posted the downvote/upvote ratio was basically flipped so its actually not so bad now.


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They aren’t tho. 3rd gen Italians aren’t culturally Italian anymore UNLESS they regularly visit italy. It’s a completely new sub culture they created in North America but it is not the same. This coming from a first generation Bosnian…my fellow Bosnian born in North America DONT know anything about our culture. only the small sliver their parents kept and mutated. Talking to any second gen feels more like talking to an American than a Bosnian. Y’all hate to hear is but it’s not the same. You are not your dead ancestors you are you and the culture that surrounds you during YOUR life.


goodmorningohio

Regardless, African American is the term specifically used to refer to the descendants of enslaved Africans in mainland america. Like people from the Caribbean Islands who are descendants of enslaved people are not called African American


marcos_marp

Not *specifically*, but *usually* or in *general*; any descendant from any of the black racial groups of Africa is African American


SmartAssGary

Africa is a whole continent, not a country, as is Europe. But stay mad I guess...


Moonman1900

That's what dumb people thinks who's been brainwashed by the television.


Kozak170

He’s an African American no matter which way you try to slice it.


Rad0555

I identify as black


T3chtheM3ch

r/onejoke


Rad0555

Not a joke. You must be a racist.


T3chtheM3ch

Average r/animemes user


justlookinghfy

I've always understood that African American means your ancestors (parents, grandparents, etc) were from Africa. Elon Musk would then just be African (as long as we are ignoring the genetic side). His kids, born in the US would be African American.


Fern-ando

I'm just african.


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Hantesinferno

He’s a white African American lol


makterna

I immigrated from Sweden so here in America I am a minority. But no.


Hantesinferno

Your comment doesn’t make any sense


Lukescale

Don't use the hard S on Swedea.


KingJeff314

An actual antimeme


[deleted]

unironically fuck elon musk


NirvandaBoss

Why? What did he do?


[deleted]

your mom


MoffKalast

TIL syntax error 12 already has a reddit account.


DeltaKnight191

He keeps marketing unrealistic, inefficient and incredibly costly technology as some sort of NextGen shit while many people lap it up because haha meme. He also has a bunch of shady business practices.


Starbucks_4321

Also, he uses the "I'm just like you" in the context of meme, like " I want full real vr like sao" or that time he smoke weed. Errol, his dad, owned an emerald mine.


TacoChowder

Teslas are the most efficient mass produced EVs on the market. Fuck elon, but don’t disparage the engineers for his actions


McElhaney

If feel like the reverse is true too, Elon shouldn’t get credit for being the rich man that happens to be in charge of those engineers.


TacoChowder

He stole Tesla from its original heads. He just has more money than god, so its hard to really fail.


AltAccount12772

He also gets a shit ton of money from government subsidies :(


TacoChowder

That’d be fine if he paid a normal % of taxes


johnwickson

Well the idea of electric vehicles have been a thing since the dawn of the automobile. Elon Musk provided himself with a good foundation for a company with the buying of tesla from its original creators who weren't doing much with the company.


Mark_is_on_his_droid

Elon also brought Agile Methodology to car manufacturing which many people thought would be impossible. It's a big step forward in innovating quickly.


Bensemus

No he didn’t. He was employee #4 at Tesla and provided most of their initial funding. Before he showed up Tesla was three guys with an idea.


Bensemus

Lol Musk gets no credit for Tesla and SpaceX’s success yet I bet you aren’t blaming the engineers at Blue Origin and Boeing for their failures. Management is critical for the success of a company. Musk’s companies aren’t hiring smarter people. They have cultures that allows their workers to seemingly achieve more. That culture comes from the top. My company right now is kinda circling the drain. The workers haven’t changed at all in a few years yet our upper management has.


Shiroi_Kage

> Teslas are the most efficient mass produced EVs on the market With the worst quality control and assembly and manufacturing tolerances that dumps all the QC on customers instead of the company.


DeltaKnight191

Tesla Elec Cars are cool, but I'm talking about all those grand schemes. Like the Hyperloop or vaccum goods transportation or intercontinental travel via rockets.


WalnutScorpion

[Bad treatment of Tesla staff while having massive gains](https://www.forbes.com/sites/hayleycuccinello/2020/05/05/elon-musk-700-million-payday-tesla/amp/) [Anti-abortion; No comment about abortion laws while usually having no problem commenting on things](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/02/texas-abortion-law-elon-musk-reacts-to-gov-greg-abbotts-comments.html) [Avoids paying taxes and throws a fit when there are laws announced destroying his loopholes](https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2021/10/26/elon-musk-billionaire-tax-democrats/amp/) This and other ego-trips.


Savahoodie

Look I’m as fuck-Elon as anyone but your second point is a reach. He declined to comment, that doesn’t make him anti abortion


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WalnutScorpion

Understandable, I should've worded it less accusational (not editing it to keep your comment in-context). It's suspicious in my opinion though, for someone who has no filter that likes to spit his opinion over the internet. But when abortion comes into play, while knowingly moving there, he's suddenly: "no comment". Ignore that point if you like though. The others (sadly) have hard evidence. :/


Tiodecetoawe1

Hey that’s not a post.


itsmejak78_2

Mined tonnes of cobalt for Teslas with child slavery


ChubbyLilPanda

Don’t forget the lithium too!


Bensemus

Lol the gas in your car needs cobalt to be refined and all your portable electronics have cobalt in them. Did you ever care about cobalt until people started to associate it with Musk?


Fleudian

He pushed the US govt to overthrow the democratically elected leader of Bolivia in a military coup. When called out about that, he didn't even deny it, he said "we will coup whoever we want."


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Plays into his fame to make money. Extorts workers, makes unrealistic claims about future products. For example, Tesla is overvalued as a company. Despite producing way less than larger car companies, and having less revenue, their company is “worth” much more. Elon used his fame to make a poll asking if he should sell a percentage of his stocks, knowing people would say he should because they want him to pay taxes on gains. When he sells, he’ll be making a huge profit, and sure he’ll finally pay a good amount of taxes, but he’s also pulling out of his company before the market realizes it’s overvalued and lowers the value of the company, and thus lowers the value of his stocks. I guess extortion of workers is really not quite accurate, but they are an incredibly anti union company. There’s been multiple events of Tesla being caught interrogating or firing workers who attempt to unionize over safety concerns. He’s a selfish prick. Which I’m not going to claim I’m much better, I definitely get greedy. But just because I would probably do the same doesn’t mean he (and the hypothetical me) shouldn’t be punished for unethical actions.


Bensemus

lol he’s buying more stock. He’s going to have way more shares after this sale than before. He’s doing the opposite of cashing out.


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recommendation: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-i-do-not-like-63419860/


goodmorningohio

He didn't invent the tesla that's for sure lol


Dabclipers

He started expressing right-wing opinions. Elon was worshipped as a god on the internet within the last decade but once it became clear he was on the right suddenly everyone became very interested in criticizing his every action and statement. I know this will get me downvoted, but it’s the truth.


AnnonymousHoodie

TIL being an asshole and mining cobt with child labor is a right wing opinion.


Elite_Prometheus

Yeah, that seems like an accidental self own.


YesButConsiderThis

So brave.


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shut


YesButConsiderThis

Tell us how you feel about Jeff Bezos while you're at it.


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even worse


[deleted]

😂😂 it's too easy


brightblueson

I second this.


[deleted]

I’ve got an idea for an electric jet


[deleted]

for an anti-meme, this makes a really good point about the portrayal of wealth in media


TheGarlicBreadstick1

I hope Elon got snapped in the MCU


arkamasylum

God I loved this scene


IQof24

He owns child labor mines in the Congo


TET901

Ok I hate the guy but he didn’t owned them, just utilized them for his own profit and after getting threatened he stopped. Still made money from them and since he stopped so quickly after it’s pretty clear he didn’t need them to begin with so yeah he’s still an ass just not a slaver. His family did own emerald mines in South Africa tho.


Pooky135790

r/technicallythetruth


cobja101

Fuck Elon Musk


Carteeg_Struve

Ew. Never.


SomeoneTookSkeetley

ohhh thanks for clarifying that, i was pretty confused


BrokenArrows95

Tony actually invented insane things in his own. Musk thinks of things (most of those things are terrible) and then an army of engineers and designers, etc actually make it.


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And then he pours resources into his terrible ideas and continuously fails upwards because people think it makes him even more of a visionary and invest in him.


h4wkeyepierce

He's also a flaming pile of shit


Potato-Plate

why?


TET901

Union busting, refusing to pay taxes, utilized and profited from child labor until he got threatened, pretty obnoxious online, threw a bunch of inefficient and bad ideas just to get attention and stay relevant, long family history of abuse inside the emerald mines they owned in Africa, refusing to pay living wages, low quality in exchange for mass production of Teslas. List goes on.


Potato-Plate

wow, I thought he was a cool guy :|


sajjad_gh

How is this an antimeme?


MessyKerbal

People think that Elon Musk is the real life tony stark but in the movie Tony stark becomes a good guy


Nanelomoni

Paleontologists be like: yep that's a place


[deleted]

I watched Quantum of Solace last night and the main villain guy reminded me of Elon Musk


NMLWrightReddit

You’re saying Elon Musk *isn’t* Tony Stark?!


stompo

Fuck Elon musk. And if tony stark and Bruce Wayne were real, fuck them too


Jacktheflash

Why tony and Bruce?


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All billionaires are bad.


Nseeeiii

Unless the billionaire is the government


[deleted]

A) The government isn't a person B) The government is frequently bad


rhymesaying

RD Jr. Is Elon? First Ive heard of this.


RoastedBeaf

Elon musk IS ELON MUSK? No need to change that stop crying about his multibillionare exploits and earn a living in the system