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[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Over the years, Phony Stark went from some sort of [anti]hero to straight up supervillain. I guess kinda like Robert Downey Jr. from Iron Man to Dr. Doom.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What do you get when you cross Kim Jong Un and Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this going to be the next photo he permanently deletes from the internet forever? I still can't believe this one is gone

poof

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Has he gotten this one removed yet?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's only a matter of time

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Jong-Baptist Unmanuel Xlon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

His hair looks like Reverend Putty’s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They were wondering if it'd be possible to fire 500,000. Maybe from one of the smaller companies where no one would notice, like one of the cab companies?

Zorg: fire 1,000 000.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Maybe they dug too deep for those hairplugs and damaged the empathy part of his brain?

^^^just ^^^kidding ^^^he ^^^was ^^^a ^^^asshole ^^^from ^^^the ^^^start

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Nah, he decided thah hes dedicated Elon-Marketing team was not useful, he could do it better himself! So he fired them sometimes IIRC in 2018.

The rest is history :-)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Do you mean empathy? Apathy is more like indifference

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Eh, whatever… I feel that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Fixed it. Was early in the morning before coffee

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this supposed to be formatted using a larger font or something? I'm on Apollo and I just see a bunch of carrets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Supposed to be super script I think?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This is very insulting, Dr. Doom is an intelligent and effective ruler, please do not draw such an unfair comparison between him and Musk. Fictional character feelings matter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Supervillains have some sort of charisma. People love to hate them. When a Bond villain is on screen, it’s like oh, this guy is cool… if Musk was in a movie it would be like wow, please skip this shit, this guy is boring and creepy. Musk is far from authentically charming. He tries though, and it’s nauseating. I admit that the deranged tangerine baboon has some sort of natural charisma - Musk does not. His special facial expressions are atrocious. His attempts at humor are embarrassingly bad. He has very little social awareness. To top it all off, despite being an off putting and repellent petty, immature and clueless ignoramus, he clearly radiates that he think he is the absolute best. So, his new sycophant relationship with Trump is perfect. He’d be like the #2 or 3 evil henchmen, kind of a side character, who gets knocked off 2/3 through the film and the crowd is relieved.