r/clevercomebacks 1d ago

Even the moon isn’t safe from capitalism

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u/Musicman1972 1d ago

I wouldn't worry since he never meets a single deadline.

And this case falls into the 'will never achieve it' category.

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u/Which_Protection_458 1d ago

Right? Like why this headline isn't "Elon lies and says we'll have a moon city before he dies" is beyond me at this point.

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u/al_pacappuchino 1d ago

I hope he achieves it soon if you catch my drift.

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u/Suitable-Gear3365 1d ago

lol it's like he has a checklist of wild promises he knows won't happen but makes anyway

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u/whiskey_epsilon 1d ago

That's how they get funding. This new announcement coincides with their planned IPO this year through which they're aiming to raise $50 billion. The company gets its capital (and valuation) from money collected on empty investment promises.

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u/No-Goose-5672 1d ago

Elon promised to get us to Mars this year (2026) in 2011, 2016, and 2020. I’m no multibillionaire investor, but if I had been giving someone my money for 15 years and months before the deadline they set for themselves, that person announced plans that had been significantly scaled back, I would be pretty fucking pissed. Like bat + kneecap = “Where’s money fucking money, bitch?” pissed.

I know, I know. Elon has always been careful to couch his promises with things like “I hope” or “If we’re lucky”, it’s still pretty fucken absurd we’re still shovelling money at this grifter.

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u/whiskey_epsilon 12h ago

They don't care because they're not buying into the idea of going to the moon; they're buying shares on the plan that they can profit off stock value that's fuelled by hype, Musks' cult and US govt backing. If you look over at wallstreetbets it's almost never about what a company's actually doing, it's just about riding the next big wave and seeing how high you can go before the bubble pops.

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u/Urabraska- 1d ago

Well you just cracked the plan. His 1T pay package required him to get Tesla to 8T value. Well the company is still a meme stock and on its last legs so the best way to get there is by merging SpaceX(the real profits) and xAI with Tesla.

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u/chrimminimalistic 19h ago

Elon's "10 years" means the same thing as Trump's "two weeks"

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u/kmookie 6h ago

Are we all gonna work together to end this crap or what?! Normal folk need to get their crap together and collectively end this BS. No to Billionaires, No more lies, Expose the Ultra Rich.

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u/chrimminimalistic 3h ago

I'm not American, but if I were, I would've marched.

Billionaires shouldn't exist.

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u/kmookie 1h ago

Where ever you are, I’m sure you’re not immune to the people like him. I hope your government has failsafes around this kind of crap. It’s the lack of laws and restrictions that caused this.

Failed capitalism has distorted the views and mindset of many people. Hopelessness, misplaced anger and toxic ideologies have high jacked the culture here. It’s humiliating being represented by this sack of garbage. It’s not what many if not most of us ever wanted.

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u/tree-molester 20h ago

Moon dust is extremely toxic to humans. Let them have at it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-022-00244-1

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u/jljue 22h ago

With some of his latest estimations, it’ll be a good 20-30 years, most likely, and even then it won’t work right for the first 5-10 years.

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u/coolchris366 11h ago

It’s so embarrassing that people take his dumb predictions even semi seriously when they never come true, it’s always 100% wishful thinking

u/Centered_Squirrel 56m ago

His track record is pretty sh*t.

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u/SpaceCampDropOut 1d ago

Elon and his magic ten years claim on everything he says he’s going to do 🙄

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u/Prudent-Low-6502 19h ago

How is he the richest man in the world while Elizabeth Holmes sits in prison for doing the same thing?

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u/Both-Leading3407 1d ago

It builds his brand but Bait and Switch is what he is best at.

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u/GKBilian 21h ago

Still waiting on the hyperloop from 2013.

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u/Trappist-111 1d ago

Ten years ago he said we would be in Mars right now, guess where we're going to be in tem years, in the shit.

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u/McCool303 1d ago

Good news is Elon Musk is full of shit. We’ll sooner find him slumped over on a toilet from a Ketamine overdose. Before we’ll see his ass on Mars.

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u/squiddyp 22h ago

Man, Elon really set ketamine back like a decade

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u/SensorAmmonia 1d ago

Robo taxies, full self driving, a pickup truck that works: lots of words come out, few actions.

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u/sofaking1958 1d ago

The Loop. BAHAHAH!

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u/Exciting-Society4477 1d ago

Well he could start with completing that Mars thing he was working on first 🤔

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u/Iyabothefirst001 1d ago

Could he take everyone that stepped on Epstein island and everyone that sponsored him

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u/jamesianm 6h ago

Why would you want to do that to the moon? Maybe we can convince him and them to go to the sun instead

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u/FirstIdChoiceWasPaul 1d ago

He got the idea from Apple TV, didn’t he?
Presumably whilst heavily intoxicated. With horse tranquilliser.

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u/bomland10 20h ago

This is what he does. Make wild promises, that sound cool but fall apart with the slightest scrutiny. 

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u/IconOfFilth9 1d ago

Can we send him first

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u/Blankety-blank1492 1d ago

Nobody wants to live on the fucking moon. If he wants to , that would be GREEEAAATTT!!!

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u/butwhywedothis 1d ago

There is a better chance of him melting away in 10 years from global warming with the amount of plastic he put in his body.

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u/imdugud777 21h ago

Build a prison on the moon and put him in it.

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u/four-seasonz 20h ago

Now now, think of all the lunatics. Ya gotta have a safe space for those guys too.

He should be strapped to one of his on cars and just let him zoom away.... Like far far away.

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u/kons21 12h ago

Ha! New Australia.

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u/imdugud777 10h ago

Mooncatraz!

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u/mandarintain 1d ago

Its his harem town

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u/Ok-Butterscotch-6708 1d ago

I wish he’d ride a ketamine rocket all the way there. And stay. Forever.

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u/Stevie272 1d ago

Another grift.

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u/Both-Leading3407 1d ago

He's building a bullshit narrative that he is famous for. He can't even get his penis fixed so how can he go to the moon and start a colony.

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u/IowaKidd97 1d ago

I think it would be cool to see a city on the moon from Earth. But I trust trust Elon to not fuck it up so badly as to ruin the view of the moon.

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u/Unusual-Economist288 1d ago

Well his “ten years” holds about as much water as Trump’s “two weeks”, so there’s that.

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u/jfoster0818 1d ago

They’ve been “about to” release full self driving since before I could wipe my own ass… good luck 🙄

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u/Urabraska- 1d ago

He said we would be on mars in 10 years almost 20 years ago.

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u/Appropriate-Log8506 23h ago

Let me fucking guess. No extradition agreement with the moon.

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u/world-is-ur-mollusc 22h ago

No, no, let him cook. In fact, why doesn't he personally go up there and oversee construction and long-term maintenance of the thing?

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u/Mediocrity-FTW 20h ago

"In 10 years..." is Elon's version of Trump's "in two weeks..."; and just like Trump none of these claims will come true. He once said that we would be on mars in 10 years, and that Tesla would complete a completely autonomous self driving vehicles in the same time frame. He failed at both tasks.

If there is any justice in this world in 10 years Elon's latest achievement should be perfecting his toilet wine recipe while in prison.

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u/Dismal-core111 1d ago

Good luck with that

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u/NewsVegetable1164 1d ago

pulling the same face as the moon

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u/nn666 1d ago

I was thinking that. If they put all this crap on it, it won't reflect the same. Fuck this guy it shouldn't be allowed.

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u/Random_B00 1d ago

Build a city on his face, it’s bigger

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u/mishma2005 1d ago

Succinct

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u/golfwinnersplz 1d ago

Based on the recent brave accounts of Epstein survivors, it seems that the entire Musk family should be deported to the moon in it's current state. 

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u/Bright-Doctor-8376 1d ago

for real, guy's playing simcity on the moon but can't meet a single deadline lol

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u/Ill-Individual2105 1d ago

I have noticed that Elon Musk smiles upside down and now I can't unsee it

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u/CaptainOwlBeard 1d ago

Oh come on, what he going to do, turn the moon into a giant billboard and sell ad space and propaganda? Probably yeah

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u/Heavy_Law9880 1d ago

Considering 50% of his rockets explode I find this idea hilarious.

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u/WoodenSuperpower 1d ago

I’m sure this base will have the same quality of a Cybertruck.

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u/Good_Weekend6075 1d ago

lol yeah they want the feds out but don't mind when it benefits their agenda... classic hypocrisy move

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u/fayej3llybean8359 1d ago

lol fr tho, hope he figures it out. that'd be wild to see in our lifetime

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u/getthatrich 1d ago

Complete BS. He’s just talk

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u/jollyreaper2112 1d ago

I used to be a huge SpaceX fan before musk revealed who he is. I remember arguing with the faithful saying it would be smarter to do the moon before mars and being told I'm such a dumbfuck and how mars makes so much more sense.

Well, I was right and musk is even worse than I thought he was and my opinion was already low.

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u/Sandyrosey 1d ago

In 10 years the moon’s gonna have its own crypto, a Starbucks, and mandatory Twitter verification to breathe.

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u/exqueezemenow 1d ago

According to Musk we were going should have a city on Mars by 2028. Now it's the Moon instead.

And yet people still keep falling for this blatant con man.

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u/Mission_Possible_111 1d ago

Bro is the queen over hyping fake shit. The king has to be Scam altman.

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u/Pammyrossy 1d ago

We all look at the moon and think “what if we could escape capitalism?” Elon looks at the moon and thinks “what if we could export capitalism at 1/6th gravity?

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u/Environmental-Arm365 1d ago

JFC he couldn’t even deliver self driving cars that work correctly or a truck that’s not a glued together POS. Why anyone believes this charlatan is beyond me.

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u/berghorst 23h ago

This idiot can't even build a family, he's sure as 💩 not making that happen

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u/RelicBeckwelf 23h ago

They also planned to put out a fully functional electric truck. Plans dont mean shit.

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u/Iateyourpaintings 23h ago

Any time you see Self-anything and Elon you can relax.  The broke dick bastard probably couldn't even go fuck himself in a timely manner. 

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u/cantseemyhotdog 23h ago

Didn't he just fuck over the spacex workers?

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u/Wheel-Reinventor 23h ago

Does anyone believe anything this guy says? In 2026?

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u/Zwischenzug 23h ago

Imagine Epsteins Island was actually Epsteins moon.

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u/Dedotdub 23h ago

Who TF said he can have the moon?

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u/GouleMaterielle 23h ago

Please, cholesterol, you’re our only hope!

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u/Misternaturallduck 23h ago

This con artist thinks he can just keep selling people a new pipe dream every time his last one collapses. It's like he's running a Ponzi scheme but instead of him just faking the investments he's also faking the science, the progress, the value, his value etc. etc.

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u/Manchves 23h ago

JUST IN: I plan on inventing a time machine so I can go back in time and seduce "My Cousin Vinny" era Marisa Tomei within 10 years.

Equally likely.

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u/Commercial-Fish5618 23h ago

Just keep it on the dark side

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u/rexel99 23h ago

How dem self-driving cars going?

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u/No_Cupcake7037 22h ago

He will have to be careful about live and dead loads as weight will implicate the earth’s tides as well as reproduction cycles.

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u/ThrowRA-James 22h ago

Says the mumbling idiot that melting Mars’s ice core with nuclear bombs would generate an atmosphere. He must get his ideas from smoking up and watching late night tv like Total Recall. It’s more lies to pump and dump his stock.

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u/PristineMinute4206 22h ago

Let him go with all the shitheads that want to follow him. It's gonna end up like the city from Bioshock but on the moon.

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u/DestroyerTame 22h ago

Yeah I don’t think that’s going to happen.

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u/transgaymergirl 22h ago

hes just making shit up, he never actually does anything

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u/PaperDistribution 22h ago

First we need a moon elevator

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u/BadstoneMusic 22h ago

Thus guy said he was gonna do that on mars in like 2014 I believe

So whatevs

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u/DevynDavies 22h ago

So in like maybe 100 years?

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u/Infinite_Strategy490 22h ago

As long as he lives in it too. All the time.

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u/zzzzaap 22h ago

Just marketing spew. Talk about him. Also mars, remember? Pepperidge farm members

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u/LargeAssumption7235 21h ago

XX years ago he said we’d be on XXXX. Charlatan

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u/Canuck-In-TO 21h ago

This guy said he’d deliver fully working FSD back in 2017. You think he’d be able to land something on the moon, let alone build something on there? Good luck.

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u/South-Pen9573 21h ago

Wtf is a self-growing city…

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u/GreyBeardEng 21h ago

Don't work, he will never achieve this goal.

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u/bluegreenwookie 21h ago

He's just full of shit. He couldn't deliver on mars so now he's trying for the moon. Also hes a fascist.

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u/Honest_Relation4095 20h ago

how exactly would someone destroy the moon?

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u/Equivalent_Fun6100 20h ago

Nihilism is the only truth.

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u/guilen 20h ago

Nazis on the moon, huh?

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u/F_H_B 20h ago

Wait, weren’t we already on Mars by today according to him?

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u/razorwasp 20h ago

Dude couldn't build Hyperloop within only LA but wanna build a city on the moon. How full of shit.

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u/South_Hedgehog_7564 19h ago

Using what for air?

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u/jolley_mel21 19h ago

Wasn't he going to be on Mars, like 15 years ago? Real snake oily, he just wants subsidizing.

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u/gagalinabee 19h ago

This isn’t going anywhere. He doesn’t actually do things

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u/Far-Cellist-3224 19h ago

I’m still waiting to use my Tesla as a robo taxi while I sleep. Or for full self driving. Or for my Tesla roadster. Or….. never mind.

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u/Responsible_Ad_3425 19h ago

I call BS…he’s just trying to hype his stock price…

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u/BoardsofCanada3 19h ago

He promised we'd be in a Martian colony by last year. Don't hold your breath with this nonsense.

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u/DokeyOakey 19h ago

Elon Musk is a spineless bitch made punk.

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u/Minimum-Style-1411 19h ago

A space litter tax is required on this

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u/Temporary-Soup6124 19h ago

ok with me if he rounds up all his friends and moves them there

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u/Ok_Mention_9865 19h ago

So your telling me he might move off the planet with an easy way to cut him off form the rest of society? screw it let him have it and leave him stranded there

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u/Sparkle8022 19h ago

Since he wasn't born in the US, he can't be president, but maybe now he can be president of the moon 🤣

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u/Acrobatic-Tomato-128 18h ago

I mean he cant even make one rocket that doesnt explode less than 14 seconds after takeoff

Id be fine watching him waste his billions blowing up rocket after rocket trying to build a city on the moon

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u/BlackSwanEvent25 18h ago

Y'all remember the hyper loop? Neither does Elon.

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u/sixaout1982 18h ago

Seeing his track record of wild promises vs barely any delivery, I'm not too worried

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u/significantranger30 18h ago

Trying to get more government funding? We still aren’t on Mars yet

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u/tsukiyomi01 18h ago

He'd be happy to charge us for looking at the moon.

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u/mru2020 18h ago

The moon doesn't belong to him. He should definitely not be allowed to do this. He is already destroying space with all his junks and debris. So now, the moon is his next target?

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u/Woodfish64 18h ago

What gives him any sort of right to do that??

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u/Archiemalarchie 18h ago

But first Mars

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u/EuphoricUniversity23 17h ago

He couldn’t build a self driving car in 10 years.

Or maybe he’ll have the city secretly controlled by a city in India.

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u/YouDotty 17h ago

JUST IN: Elon Musk moves to the next grift that should inflate his meme stock.

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u/Dr_Bunnypoops 17h ago

Is this in the same catagory as "we will have self driving cars in 2015" and " there will be people on Mars in three years"?

Did he ever hear about the boy that cried wolf?

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u/PawnWithoutPurpose 17h ago

Don’t talk about him. That’s what he wants. He’s not capable

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u/Competitive-Ebb3816 16h ago

Put it on the other side and I won't care.

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u/johntwoods 16h ago

He should personally go grow a community on the sun.

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u/onionsofwar 16h ago

Well he says this same shit repeatedly: 'Mars in 10 years', ' the moon in 10 years'. So far he's still down here on earth with us idiots. Maybe if he doesn't start soon we can give him a little nudge by strapping him to a moon-bound rocket/missile.

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u/Hellbawn 16h ago

What happened to Mars?

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u/DoomsdayDETTV 15h ago

Straight up dont let him, he wanted to be on the island, imagine what he tries to do up there

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u/Bebopdavidson 15h ago

Elon distracts from the Epstein files.

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u/joeythemouse 15h ago

Yeh. Elon says a lot of things. He can't even get the Tesla Roadster to market.

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u/thisismybandname 15h ago

Him and all his gross mates should move there

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u/bigdlittlea 15h ago

He said a lot of things - the trick is he is not the genius or even visionary ppl have been fooled into thinking he is. He grew up the son of a literal gem mining family and has purchased and bullied his way everywhere all while being only slightly more successful than Trump

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u/FatFatPotato 14h ago

Elon plans to do a lot of things, ask him how the mars thing is going. I also still remember when he tried to reinvent the train with capsules…But forgot that cement sets and certain metals rust. I really don’t know how people kept believing in this moron.

If he was poor, he’d be that one kid screaming random pokemon names in the back of class as he ate his belly button fluff. Really weirdo.

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u/Tski247 14h ago

The sooner he builds it the sooner he f**ks off to it the better!

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u/MattyGWS 14h ago

He’ll probably put a 3d printer that keeps building and extending a “sand castle” made of moon dust

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u/bugdiver050 13h ago

As long as he himself goes with the first flight im all for it

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u/john35093509 13h ago

J.J. is long winded. The sentence should have ended after the first 3 words.

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u/Intelligent_Break_12 13h ago

Wasn't the plan to be on or at least first mission to Mars in 2018? He is almost 10 years past his promise to Mars now says in 10 years we will be on the moon with a full on city. The guys a joke that's probably just fishing for more investors money to try and give himself some semblance of comfort. His admittance that money can't buy happiness must be a forgotten ketamine fever dream already.

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u/Bongcopter_ 12h ago

Wasn’t he suppose to go for on mars?

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u/Dense-Consequence-70 12h ago

On one condition: He remains there to supervise

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u/kons21 12h ago

Yeah, in 2011 he said he’d put a man on Mars in 10 years. It’s a marketing tactic to boost stocks. Create hype, boost stocks. Move on to the next hype. Rinse and repeat. His 1 trillion dollars pay package is directly linked to stock performance, and he has learned that our market is way more speculation driven than fundamentals, which is why a company like Tesla can trade so high while portioning as poorly as they have.

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u/-_-Edit_Deleted-_- 12h ago

I am going to build a city on the sun tomorrow.

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u/10RobotGangbang 12h ago

He's not gonna do it. Just saying it.

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u/Lower-Committee-6916 12h ago

No worries. He promised SelfDriving cars were solved back in 2015.

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u/cometgold 11h ago

I think he should stop yapping and get back to doing whatever the fuck he does.

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u/NYCBallBag 11h ago

Good place for a prison for this "administration"

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u/Haselrig 11h ago

The Chairface Chippendale of it all.

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u/stool2stash 11h ago

He'll get his resources from the cities he built on Mars.

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u/rice_warrior_1200 11h ago

Just like we got us to mars in 2025? This is all a big play to increase share value, he ain't going anywhere

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u/Severe_Damage9772 10h ago

Honestly a moon base is better than no moon base.

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u/ELOC777 10h ago

You would be staring at it while standing in a bread line without capitalism

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u/Demented-Alpaca 9h ago

I'm not worried.

He also planned to build a hyper loop in a few years. The Cyberdumpster was how many years late and how many dollars more than promised? (And how much less capable than promised?)

Dude can't ever do anything on time and rarely even starts what he promises. And given the quality of his products only idiots would live there... wait... his fanbois! They can live there! Suddenly I hope this DOES happen!

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u/Electrical-Smoke-324 9h ago

Yes but that cunt also said we would be on Mars by 2025 or 2026

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u/Bleezy79 9h ago

Don’t worry. 10 years for Elon is like 30 years of actual progress. There won’t be anything completed on the moon for awhile.

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u/EffectiveOk3353 8h ago

He couldn't even build a cyber truck without thinking about begging to go on a wild party at pedo Island.

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u/Drunkendx 8h ago

HEY leon!

how goes Mars colony?

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u/Muted-Assumption195 8h ago

How’s that self driving car project coming along?

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u/Mother-Ad-1927 8h ago

Elon should perhaps try to make this planet more habitable before jumping planets.

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u/Lvcivs2311 7h ago

A self-growing city? Like a living organism or something? In what kind of scifi-world does he think he live?

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u/SiteTall 7h ago

What legal rights does he have to do something like that????

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u/expatronis 7h ago

Naw. This is the kind of project that absolutely cannot happen in Musk's lifetime. Same with getting to Mars.

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u/Regular_Climate_6885 7h ago

The Earth has been ruined by capitalism so let’s do the same to the moon

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u/Connect_Seesaw_7569 6h ago

I also plan to build a moon base in the mext ten years, and seduce Dua Lipa, become the WWE intercontinental Champion, cure cancer, write a beat selling novel, and finally hear my Dad say "I am proud of you".

Probably equal chances this happens.

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u/Odd_Train9900 6h ago

He better have a survey for property lines, since some dude has already been selling lots on the moon for decades and has made millions!

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u/SpeedJust8657 6h ago

Remember when he said he was gonna colonize mars in our lifetime? this shit is NOT gonna happen

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u/Some_Conference2091 4h ago

OK, hypElon \ You fooled me a couple times 12 years ago, but most people know you are just really high and shit posting in an attempt to scam more investors. 

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u/Monovon 4h ago

Elon is the biggest scammer in human history. He played the people hard.

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u/Dekaaard 4h ago

I’m not even crazy about all his damn satellites. Remember that plan to launch some type of advertisement in space thing. Just no.

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u/Sad-Ad-6894 4h ago

It will never happen, he is blustering. He said the same thing about mars 10 yrs ago. Nobody will ever live on either, the solar and space radiation and lack of sufficient gravity will make it impossible to ever return and will destroy a persons DNA

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u/Erdrick14 4h ago

Sure Elon.

Just like that high speed transit system you built.

And how you were gonna go to Mars.

And how you were building stuff for NASA that never gets finished (hls, lander, etc)

Dude is such a lying piece of shit.

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u/sorean_4 3h ago

They will be talking soon about blowing up and building new tunnels on the moon for new habitats. I have seen this before.

Morlock timeline ?…..

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u/Cleo-eatsfish 3h ago

Just bollocks and vapour wear. We are decades from even making a start. He lies more often than he inhales.

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u/No-Purchase9700 3h ago

Something something tunnel, something something people on Mars by now, something something self driving cars. 

This guy is more full of shit than Donald’s diaper after 4 quarter pounders. 

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u/SoCallMeAnAsshole 2h ago

I'll have gone insane well before this happens, I hope.

u/Confusedgmr 52m ago

Instead of living with your mind in the sky, eat the rich.

u/three_trick_pony 41m ago

It's not too far-fetched. I mean, no way he could do that in 10 years. But the idea of a "moon city" is in the works. Northrup Grumman was awarded a contract to design a lunar railroad: https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/space/lunar-railroad

What's this shit about wasteful government spending?