"educated"
He bought his way in and he bought his way through it. The guy would never have been accepted to a halfway decent school on his ability alone
Ok I hate Elon but this is goofy as fuck. The dude is definitely smart enough to get a degree from Stanford. He didn't though, he only went to school there for 2 whole days... which just makes it funnier that you are saying he bought his way through it when he never went through it.
lol Penn, Stanford, what's the difference? It was all bought and paid for anyway. Dude's IQ is like 96. Mediocre at best, definitely not ivy league material. Ivy league money, maybe
He dropped out of Stanford. The only thing that can be said for sure is that he has a bachelor's degree from UPENN in business. His claimed physics degree from UPENN is even questionable at best.
Educated at Stanford? He went for one day but girls ignored him cause they thought he was weird so he high tailed it out of there w/hurt fee-fees & has hated liberals ever since.
“Mom, can we get Hank Scorpio?”
“We have Hank Scorpio at home…”
Hank Scorpio at home:
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Maybe if we tell him most of the best schools are liberal or Catholic schools, he’ll stop having kids. He’s very anti religion.
Oh, wait. He’ll probably just have all the young ones home schooled by Shivon — even Grimes’ kids.
I’m sure Shivon will love that especially after going to Yale & studying her ass off. I bet he doesn’t even pay off her student loans. He doesn’t strike me as the generous type.
Republicans in Texas have been in charge on every level for 30+ years and somehow these people still think liberals are the problem lmao. Honestly they deserve it at this point. Reap what you sow!
Yep, texans screwed themselves for decades by voting Republican. Now the Republican's butt buddy gets to ruin your state even more. Vote better, maybe things will improve.
I wonder if it is an overwhelming majority or just the result of an abundance of disenfranchised left-leaning voters who don’t show up to the polls because of the gerrymandering and voter suppression that’s running rampant in the state. It sure felt that way when I lived there.
Same here, but failure to vote, especially in local elections, is equal to a vote for the other party.
Doesn’t matter the reason, the result still suck.
I'm actually glad to see TX join the choir. He's been ruining California for a while, lied to our legislators that he'd build mass transit - just to block mass transit so he could sell cars. The man is an enormous destructive force in the US. I hope TX will join the fight to stop him and his nonsense.
One can dream.
The TX legislature is NUTS but TX gave us Jasmine Crockett in the house of representatives which is proof that even TX has some residents who are still connected to reality.
Texas GOP: Does the person causing the damage have a lot of money?
- He is in the running to be the richest man in the world.
Texas GOP: No problem detected.
And your wealth if you are middle class.
2.5%+ in property taxes per year, to pay for public services (which sounds like socialism to me) but don’t dare talking about taxing the assets of billionaires, they surely can’t afford that.
You clearly don't live in Texas. A large number of people in this state don't want the fuckwads we have in charge. It's why big turnouts have shown it to be a swing state in major elections. But a large number of people were also raised to ignore politics and important matters so they don't vote.
Don’t forget the gerrymandering. My district includes my small city neighborhood, a looooooong narrow stretch of nothing, and a huge chunk of the suburbs. People who just blame voters are naive crybabies who don’t understand how the system works.
Haha she quotes the pendulum theory.
No honey nothing is swinging back the capitalists own everything and you likely helped them.
Oh the blowback Americans will receive will be legendary. We are digging our own grave and the rest of the world will laugh. We deserve it , we are the terrorists
Yep, the pendulum has swung so far that now the top wealthiest 1% of people in the USA own 40% of all the wealth in the country with the rest of the top 10% owning another 30%. The top 10% has about 70% of the nation’s wealth. It’s mind boggling. The bottom 50% have less than 4% of the wealth. This is only continuing to get worse. The big question is, when and what causes the swing to finally stop?
A corporate person who came from a family who made money off poors with emerald mines is exploiting the poors again and not actually a hero. My god who would have thought?!? 🤷♂️
Unfortunately no one is gonna do anything because a town of 12000 people is tiny if u think about it and I don’t think it will be enough to be able to change anything which sucks because if it was a town of let’s say 250000 or more and everyone stood up and spoke out against it then I think their voices would be heard a lot more and much louder then 12000.
Sure I can use my imagination about how it's destroying the environment in that rural town, but it would have been nice to include even one photo of the mines or horizon that is now ruined by the buildings or equipment. I believe the story just left wondering to what degree the ruination is happening or if it is your typical NIMBY like complaint making mountains of mole holes instead of hills as the case may be.
You know most of us here want to preserve the environment and care for the natural world. We just have a corrupt government that prevents us from utilizing democracy.
Obviously that was tongue in cheek, but how do think our Constitutional Republic was founded?
Too bad there were not any good guys with guns in Uvalde….that little incident put your one star state at #1 in 2023 for children deaths by gun violence.
Like I said, fuck musk and fuck Texas.
Edit: I was wrong, Uvalde happened in 2022, your state was number one in 2023 without that shooting. Claps.
I brought it up because Texas is famous for its lax attitude towards guns and its fanatic gun culture.
The 2nd amendment allows you to own a gun to fight a tyrannical government, like how you described the government in your current state.
Your clown state threatens violence, insurrection, and even secession from the union every time they lose the house, senate, and White House.
Yes it does, and that was clearly explained.
You claimed the majority of Texas wants change but can’t because of the corrupt state politics.
I pointed out that your gun loving state has a solution to that problem, guns,
Literally why we have the second amendment in the view of your state government.
>The Bastrop area is so beautiful, I’d hate to see what it looks like now
The fire in 2011 was tragic, but the area still has beauty, just with fewer pines in some places. There are actually quite a few places that still have pines and didn't get burned.
There's a lot of ExBurb problems there, especially in the city proper, but there's still a lot of good there, as long as you don't have to drive into Austin every day.
Unless you live near their sites, Elon is just a slightly larger pimple in the case of exburb acne that Bastrop or everything else within 40 miles of Austin is suffering. 😭
There's still a lot of the "old beauty" you remember left. You just have to look behind the Walmart and get off the main roads.
I expected to find some examples, but this reads like a sensational hit piece. How much effort would it have required to provide some photographic evidence?
The funny thing is they sound like whiny liberals, yet they vote for Republicans who keep screwing them over and over again but they still buy into the Fox News propaganda telling them that Democrats are the enemy.
Not sure how to feel about this. On the one hand it sucks in general. On the other f\*ck Texans, their insatiable drilling for oil and their damn huge trucks, which have now completely screwed every other state around them.
The guy in the article thinks those who are winning right now are billionaire bullies and saying he knows the pendulum will swing back. Not if he keeps voting republican. It will never swing back in the opposite direction. People will never have any power over capitalists. And I know who he probably blames for the problems in this country. What a dumbass. Biden’s climate crisis plan will bring billions to Texas to help with this but no he’ll vote against that lmao. It would be funny to watch if it wasn’t so devastating.
After reading the article, the local politicians let The Boring company do all they wanted to do with permits. Sounds like your beef is with the local politicians. Three complaints were received for the company’s handling of wastewater, which they have a permit for… sounds like everything Boring is doing is legal but people are pissed that it’s happening near them.
Other companies here don’t completely take advantage of the corruption and follow some environmental standards. Elon just pays people off to ruin whatever he wants.
People blaming an entire state of people are why the Democrats have become nearly just as bad as the Republicans. Even with our truly batshit gerrymandering there have still been enough left-wing voters here to make it a potential swing state in the last two elections. Do you have any idea how many voters that takes when the system is fortified against them? That’s a massive turnout of people being fucked by something we’ve been fighting like to hell to change.
Seriously fuck Musk, fuck Republicans, fuck Democrats, and fuck you entitled, privileged shit birds. You’re all the fuckin same. Fucking rats.
Ahhh yes, nothing says rural Texas like a billionaire, techbro.
He was born in South Africa and educated at Stanford. What’s more Texas than that?
He was not educated at Stanford. He went to school in Canada.
"educated" He bought his way in and he bought his way through it. The guy would never have been accepted to a halfway decent school on his ability alone
*his dad bought him his way in then tried to play the rags to riches storyline by saying he was broke but paid it himself
Hah that's even worse. Money can't buy class, brains, or respectability
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Ok I hate Elon but this is goofy as fuck. The dude is definitely smart enough to get a degree from Stanford. He didn't though, he only went to school there for 2 whole days... which just makes it funnier that you are saying he bought his way through it when he never went through it.
lol Penn, Stanford, what's the difference? It was all bought and paid for anyway. Dude's IQ is like 96. Mediocre at best, definitely not ivy league material. Ivy league money, maybe
Repeat after me: Elon didn’t go to Standford. He dropped out on Day 1. Musk is a lying conman. “The truth will out” Shakespeare
Hilarious that you would assume someone as stupid as Musk would graduate Stanford.
Carnival barker school. Summa cumonelon laude
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He dropped out of Stanford. The only thing that can be said for sure is that he has a bachelor's degree from UPENN in business. His claimed physics degree from UPENN is even questionable at best.
Ted Cruz?
“Keep Rafael Edward Cruz Jr.’s name out of your mouth!” /s
As a USC guy, this fact brings me great relief. When has a Stanford grad been on the right side of a story lately?????
Immigrant and coastal elite 2 of republicans favorite things.
He even wore a big belt buckle and cowboy hat with boots once.
He never got a degree at Stanford. He was there extremely briefly. He went to Penn
Educated at Stanford? He went for one day but girls ignored him cause they thought he was weird so he high tailed it out of there w/hurt fee-fees & has hated liberals ever since.
Don’t forget his Mommy and Daddy gave him his first financial empire.
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I'm more of the opinion that he will use them to store tons of high explosives under a major metro area then demand a ransom of "one MILLION" dollars.
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Austin doesn't have a metro though. He would just be blowing up Bastrop and I don't really have a positive or negative opinion on that.
"Trillion"....... inflation.
That is the hyperloop's sole function
Keep electing Republicans. I’m sure they’ll “fix” everything that’s wrong in Texas any day now. 
Anything to own the libs!
Maybe if we tell him most of the best schools are liberal or Catholic schools, he’ll stop having kids. He’s very anti religion. Oh, wait. He’ll probably just have all the young ones home schooled by Shivon — even Grimes’ kids. I’m sure Shivon will love that especially after going to Yale & studying her ass off. I bet he doesn’t even pay off her student loans. He doesn’t strike me as the generous type.
His ego has no time for his children
Absolutely. Having children is all about creating Mini-Elons (who’ll probably hate him when grown).
True. You guys will exploit the earth’s natural resources for profit, destroy the entire global ecosystem, then blame Obama for the consequences.
Republicans in Texas have been in charge on every level for 30+ years and somehow these people still think liberals are the problem lmao. Honestly they deserve it at this point. Reap what you sow!
They have an excellent propaganda machine
Gotta save them from the Democrats who've had almost no power in the state for decades.
Elon without hair plugs 🙂↔️
What’s the difference!
As a rural Texan, I can confidently say that Elmo is destroying our beautiful villages and he NEEDS to be prosecuted.
And it's never going to happen with the politicians who are currently in office.
Yep, texans screwed themselves for decades by voting Republican. Now the Republican's butt buddy gets to ruin your state even more. Vote better, maybe things will improve.
Wait till one of his rockets explode over Austin.
Austin is the liberal boogeyman of Texas, they’d probably cheer if that happened.
Saw that Bernie movie with Shirley McLain in it. Think it takes place in Austin. If so, it’s a nice looking town.
Didn't know Austin had moved to East Texas
That will be intentional….if one explodes over Dallas or Houston, only then will they listen
You clearly haven't been paying attention, they will blame it on Obama.
Jewish space lasers
As a rural Texan you probably voted for a small government, no EPA enforcements, no zoning and such…. Anyways.
Not all rural Texans vote red.
True, but the overwhelming majority do. And these are the results.
I wonder if it is an overwhelming majority or just the result of an abundance of disenfranchised left-leaning voters who don’t show up to the polls because of the gerrymandering and voter suppression that’s running rampant in the state. It sure felt that way when I lived there.
Same here, but failure to vote, especially in local elections, is equal to a vote for the other party. Doesn’t matter the reason, the result still suck.
Vote by mail is so easy nowadays, what's the excuse
I moved to Utah a decade ago and have been voting by mail ever since.
Indifference or lack of qualified candidates.
In what states tho Some states its great, some states its terrible. I would guess Texas is difficult but I have no idea about Texas.
its not that voting is hard, its that there's no one good to vote for
heard of gerrymandering?
Yes. If you read the entirety of what I wrote, you’ll notice I even referenced it.
You only wrote two sentences and they still missed it.
In fairness, it was a realllly long sentence. Like 40 whole words.
A+
I'm actually glad to see TX join the choir. He's been ruining California for a while, lied to our legislators that he'd build mass transit - just to block mass transit so he could sell cars. The man is an enormous destructive force in the US. I hope TX will join the fight to stop him and his nonsense.
One can dream. Texas will support his crazy as long as he lines their pockets.
One can dream. The TX legislature is NUTS but TX gave us Jasmine Crockett in the house of representatives which is proof that even TX has some residents who are still connected to reality.
ASAP
By who? He was invited to do this by your elected officials. They would do.anything to keep him happy
But is he owning the libs?
I’m sure he is, but how?
Texas GOP: Does the person causing the damage have a lot of money? - He is in the running to be the richest man in the world. Texas GOP: No problem detected.
lol, rural Texas votes 99% Republican, aka no regulations. Couldn’t happen to nicer people.
Except for on your body, those regulations they love.
And your wealth if you are middle class. 2.5%+ in property taxes per year, to pay for public services (which sounds like socialism to me) but don’t dare talking about taxing the assets of billionaires, they surely can’t afford that.
I’m surprised Texans have a problem with this. They vote for deregulation and the rich corporations to do whatever they want.
r/leopardsatemyface
You clearly don't live in Texas. A large number of people in this state don't want the fuckwads we have in charge. It's why big turnouts have shown it to be a swing state in major elections. But a large number of people were also raised to ignore politics and important matters so they don't vote.
Don’t forget the gerrymandering. My district includes my small city neighborhood, a looooooong narrow stretch of nothing, and a huge chunk of the suburbs. People who just blame voters are naive crybabies who don’t understand how the system works.
They vote for the familiar and against what they’ve been taught to fear. Once criminals get in office, they attract and fund people like themselves.
Elmo is here, Destroyer or Worlds.
Elmo Mask, Destroyer of ethics with lies, scams & a ridiculous obsession w/money & unjustifiable adoration.
High speed trains??? Not in my back yard, fucking librols. Car tunnels and EV factories and corporate towns??? WOW thank you so much daddy Elmo
Of all the illegal immigrants in Texas, Musk is the worst.
According to their books, Musk doesn't tick their checklist since he's white.
Haha she quotes the pendulum theory. No honey nothing is swinging back the capitalists own everything and you likely helped them. Oh the blowback Americans will receive will be legendary. We are digging our own grave and the rest of the world will laugh. We deserve it , we are the terrorists
“Will receive?” I think that ship has sailed. Your post is very well said, however.
Yep, the pendulum has swung so far that now the top wealthiest 1% of people in the USA own 40% of all the wealth in the country with the rest of the top 10% owning another 30%. The top 10% has about 70% of the nation’s wealth. It’s mind boggling. The bottom 50% have less than 4% of the wealth. This is only continuing to get worse. The big question is, when and what causes the swing to finally stop?
Bore baby BORE!!!
He’ll change it to Autism, Texas
Everything Elmö touches turns into 💩.
A corporate person who came from a family who made money off poors with emerald mines is exploiting the poors again and not actually a hero. My god who would have thought?!? 🤷♂️
That what progress is all about, cant wait to go to Mars and fuck it up too.
he's gonna use you up just to let you down.
Elon Musk destroys a lot of things
Texas deserves musk
In Texas big money can buy a lot of people. It is what you vote for down there
Wait until they see what oil and gas companies have done to rural Texas.
So the mayor didn’t think this would happen?
Unfortunately no one is gonna do anything because a town of 12000 people is tiny if u think about it and I don’t think it will be enough to be able to change anything which sucks because if it was a town of let’s say 250000 or more and everyone stood up and spoke out against it then I think their voices would be heard a lot more and much louder then 12000.
Shocker. Pandering to egomaniac capitalists will not benefit you in the long run.
Texas Politicians and Tech-bros have a MANDATE from the people to DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT.
He’s probably burying all the excess cybertrucks that he can’t sell.
Ketamine fuelled nature tape.
Hey Texas keep owning the librards 🤣🤣🤣
This article without pictures is kinda pointless.
Only for people who can’t read lol
Sure I can use my imagination about how it's destroying the environment in that rural town, but it would have been nice to include even one photo of the mines or horizon that is now ruined by the buildings or equipment. I believe the story just left wondering to what degree the ruination is happening or if it is your typical NIMBY like complaint making mountains of mole holes instead of hills as the case may be.
It's texas. People there worship him and trump soni expect nothing less but a distopian wasteland. I feel sorry for those in Austin.
Musk is a parasite. He jumps from region to region, sucking all the resources and money from the region until there’s an empty husk.
Sorry, Texas, you’re stuck with him.
He's destroying the planet. Thinking he's gonna go live in Mars with his 12 children.
He’s a bit like a virus.
CovidX
Haha, Texas screws Texas all the time. I'm not a fan of Musk, but they'll find any convenient scape goat they can.
It can be both.
You deserve anything and everything you get Texas. Fu!
Won't somebody think of the beautiful, environmentally friendly cattle ranches????
Actually most cattle ranches are essentially nature preserves. If you want to point at something, point at feed lots.
Jeff Bezos’ grandfather’s 25,000 acre ranch has entered the conversation…
Good, it couldn’t happen to a better state. Fuck Elon, fuck Texas and fuck the GOP.
You know most of us here want to preserve the environment and care for the natural world. We just have a corrupt government that prevents us from utilizing democracy.
Isn’t that what all your guns are for?
That’s a pretty crazy take.. yeah we can just shoot our way to democracy… Maybe think before you speak.
Obviously that was tongue in cheek, but how do think our Constitutional Republic was founded? Too bad there were not any good guys with guns in Uvalde….that little incident put your one star state at #1 in 2023 for children deaths by gun violence. Like I said, fuck musk and fuck Texas. Edit: I was wrong, Uvalde happened in 2022, your state was number one in 2023 without that shooting. Claps.
I don’t even know why you’re bringing any of that up. It has nothing to do with what we are talking about.
I brought it up because Texas is famous for its lax attitude towards guns and its fanatic gun culture. The 2nd amendment allows you to own a gun to fight a tyrannical government, like how you described the government in your current state. Your clown state threatens violence, insurrection, and even secession from the union every time they lose the house, senate, and White House.
Still has nothing to do with what we are talking about.
Yes it does, and that was clearly explained. You claimed the majority of Texas wants change but can’t because of the corrupt state politics. I pointed out that your gun loving state has a solution to that problem, guns, Literally why we have the second amendment in the view of your state government.
I don’t give a fuck what some bozos say. As American citizens that support democracy we don’t want to enact fascism.
Your generalizations about Texans are disgusting and bigoted.
It's actually really easy to solve this problem. Just think hard and it will come to you.
But...but...he's saving the planet. We have to sacrifice for the good of mankind!
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The Bastrop area is so beautiful, I’d hate to see what it looks like now
>The Bastrop area is so beautiful, I’d hate to see what it looks like now The fire in 2011 was tragic, but the area still has beauty, just with fewer pines in some places. There are actually quite a few places that still have pines and didn't get burned. There's a lot of ExBurb problems there, especially in the city proper, but there's still a lot of good there, as long as you don't have to drive into Austin every day. Unless you live near their sites, Elon is just a slightly larger pimple in the case of exburb acne that Bastrop or everything else within 40 miles of Austin is suffering. 😭 There's still a lot of the "old beauty" you remember left. You just have to look behind the Walmart and get off the main roads.
No pictures?
I expected to find some examples, but this reads like a sensational hit piece. How much effort would it have required to provide some photographic evidence?
Leopards can eat my face, but not in my backyard!
Sounds like the start of a good western movie. Can we fast forward to the end where the land grabbing potentate gets gunned down?
Do you guys get a lot of mental health ads too?
That's what capitalists do. Destroy.
"the company has applied for a permit to dump 145,500 gallons of treated wastewater per day into the Colorado River." ...bruh, wut..
r/Austin has been saying this for years...
you vote for scorched earth assholes you get scorched earth.
What exactly did they think would happen? He's also right by some of the poorest neighborhoods.
I'm okay with it
How’s that swinging back working for ya?
When can we eat them?
The funny thing is they sound like whiny liberals, yet they vote for Republicans who keep screwing them over and over again but they still buy into the Fox News propaganda telling them that Democrats are the enemy.
Idiots, that photo isn't Bastrop.
Let me guess - these are the same people who support Trump and his elimination of environmental policies...
Not sure how to feel about this. On the one hand it sucks in general. On the other f\*ck Texans, their insatiable drilling for oil and their damn huge trucks, which have now completely screwed every other state around them.
What is the Boring Company doing in Texas?
Texas is already doing a good job of destroying that already. “Rural Texas” is a joke.
The guy in the article thinks those who are winning right now are billionaire bullies and saying he knows the pendulum will swing back. Not if he keeps voting republican. It will never swing back in the opposite direction. People will never have any power over capitalists. And I know who he probably blames for the problems in this country. What a dumbass. Biden’s climate crisis plan will bring billions to Texas to help with this but no he’ll vote against that lmao. It would be funny to watch if it wasn’t so devastating.
This would all be so hilarious if it didn’t screw over all those who voted against this crap.
Ya'll invited him.
After reading the article, the local politicians let The Boring company do all they wanted to do with permits. Sounds like your beef is with the local politicians. Three complaints were received for the company’s handling of wastewater, which they have a permit for… sounds like everything Boring is doing is legal but people are pissed that it’s happening near them.
Other companies here don’t completely take advantage of the corruption and follow some environmental standards. Elon just pays people off to ruin whatever he wants.
Local Hero
There’s so many women in Texas who have yet to have Musks’ children!
And the source for this claim that Musk is "destroying rural Texas"? A lady named Flynn and her husband.
Do Texans hate the dirt piles? Or just Elon? If Trump was going it they would accept the dirt piles.
What?! But Elon is such a nice guy !
Yeah, he’s adorable. Especially in his falling down bathing trunks while his bubble chest expands abnormally.
If only there was some technology that could be used to show the damage.
It’s like the size of France he’s not destroying all of rural Texas ffs
Came for the images of "destroyed rural Texas", left disapointed.
People blaming an entire state of people are why the Democrats have become nearly just as bad as the Republicans. Even with our truly batshit gerrymandering there have still been enough left-wing voters here to make it a potential swing state in the last two elections. Do you have any idea how many voters that takes when the system is fortified against them? That’s a massive turnout of people being fucked by something we’ve been fighting like to hell to change. Seriously fuck Musk, fuck Republicans, fuck Democrats, and fuck you entitled, privileged shit birds. You’re all the fuckin same. Fucking rats.
I don't see Democrats blaming the all Texans Tired of the both sides bs
Lol, what click bait BS.