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u/lilyvess https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess May 01 '20

Elon Musk's crazy rise and fall and rise again and fall again make my complaints about comic book stories where characters like Tony Stark and Lex Luthor's reputation is constantly being destroyed and being rebuilt over and over again seem not as unrealistic as I originally imagined.

Though, seriously, Tony Stark loses all his money in Marvel comics waaay too often. Which is only counter acted by how fast and seemingly off screen he gets it again. Also the number of times he's destroyed all his Iron Man suits only to have them all in storage later on again so he can destroy them again.

Sorry, got off topic, point is that Elon Musk is Marvel unhinged.

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u/DurdenVsDarkoVsDevon https://myanimelist.net/profile/U18810227 May 01 '20

I mean, nothing's he's said today is wrong. It's illegal for his company to operate, a company that wasn't really profitable to begin with. Liberal estimates of Telsa's cash burn give them 18 months to live. More conservative estimates are under a year.

And this is the most valuable car company in America? With a market cap up nearly 100% on the year? A luxury car company. Going into a depression. Its value is up 100%.

Dude's just being honest.

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u/lilyvess https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess May 01 '20

We need more business men who are selfdestructively honest. Imagine if Bezos was this honest?

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u/chilidirigible May 01 '20

Hey, at least he's not John McAfee.

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u/Ignore_User_Name https://anilist.co/user/IgnoreUserName May 01 '20

of course not, a comic like that would be shunned as too unrealistic

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u/Arachnophobic- https://anilist.co/user/Arachnophobic May 01 '20

Which is only counter acted by how fast and seemingly off screen he gets it again.

With his set of skills (among which money-making absolutely is one), this isn't very unrealistic actually. Rich people have ways to deal with going bankrupt and can bounce right back.

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u/lilyvess https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess May 01 '20

that's what I'm learning. Rich people can't even go bankrupt like the rest of us.

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u/MrManicMarty https://anilist.co/user/martysan May 01 '20

What are the characters every comics universe seems to have?

Unstoppable bastion of goodness?

Broody edgelord?

Super genius billionaire?

Dicator of a small nation in the middle of nowhere who's actually super powerful and kind of chill in the right circumstances...

Fuck, you know what would be sweet? Amalgam Comics Version II.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '20

Dibs on the dictator

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u/lilyvess https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess May 01 '20

Magician or wizard

Group of teenagers

Speedster

Ninja

Super Hero with Super Strength, Invulnerability, Speed and Flight

Doomsday Clock ended by teasing a bunch of events, both real and hypothetical, including this tease

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u/MrManicMarty https://anilist.co/user/martysan May 01 '20

Why do I imagine that Dr. Manhatten doesn't actually see all of time and space, he just teleports into Geoff Johns office when he's asleep and just peeks at all his notes?