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musk is clearly a deeply disturbed human being. this explains a lot and is, in and of itself, deeply disturbing.
is vivian the only close person who refused to be what he wanted them to be? the closest person that could not be bought and said "no!"? is this what broke him?
now everyone will pay for his inability to accept the truth and reality of another person.
a couple of thoughts that i'm sure aren't popular on their face:
it takes a village to fail an idiot. elon has shown in the past that he's capable of being better than he is now. i don't think there's anyone in the world who* actually, really needs a genuine, loving hug right now more than he does (*edit - fixed sentence)
it's impossible to grow, learn, and make mistakes as a fucking trillionaire without it affecting millions of lives. everyone deserves to be able to make mistakes and learn and grow. it hurts us ALL when we allow people to amass such perverted fortunes. there shouldn't be super-rich people with respect to the rest, because it's harmful to all involved
elon is in pain. not just right now, but all the time. it's easy to see that he has a lot of regrets. he's still human, and he's still got a conscience. he's just misled, and it might be better to rally around him right now than to burn down his dealerships
i'm sorry - i know at least one of these is completely crazy - i'm just racking my brain trying to think of new things, because the way i'm currently thinking is fucking me up.
I guess my thought is: What if we had more of a "We know you're better than this" vibe than the whole "fuck you nazi" vibe?
I'm sorry, but seriously fuck him with the rusty chainsaw he used as a stand in for all the insecurity he has.
We are well past "you could do better" and more "needs to be tried for literally working to dismantling the government and ruining countless lives"
i'm not saying he's not accountable, i'm just saying it could have been different. we all should have seen the culture war long before it cost us the fucking world. cowboy hats or extensions, you're (edit: we're) all fucked now.
The culture war has always been a manufactured distraction creates by conservatives to make people blame the powerless instead of the wealthy for their problems.
As a trans person I am fully aware of the culture war because it effects me directly. I was aware of it long before I considered I might be trans.
But the culture war is still a distraction. They want to blame the economy and stuff on everything but "corporate greed".
But as much if a distraction as it is it sti does harm. It still kills people.
A-fucking-MEN. (edit: probably the worst possible time to 'split the infinitive' so to speak, but whatever)
for what it's worth, i was trying to provide food for thought.
i hope you have a good sense of humour, because i imagine your typos are the result of having long, fabulous fingernails :P
The only chance to show him a better way probably over by the mid 80s. He had cemented a sense of superiority by then and whatever humility he might have had was completely blown away when he managed to sell Zip2 for millions, before anyone knew who he was.
The only way to "resolve" the "culture war" to Elon's satisfaction would have been for Vivian to deny her identity and keep trying to be Elon's son. There's no fair or equitable resolution that caters to Elon's sensibilities.
That's the most fucked up part to me. His dick is broken, so he has to rely on IVF for kids. He's apparently obsessed with having sons, so I'm sure that some fuckery went on with said IFV. and then he had a "son". but his "son" realized that their gender was engineered. i can't imagine how fucked up it must be to be her and realize that. now, her fucked up father is saying stuff like "my son is dead". I think I recommended the wrong target for the hug.
Yeah, I couldn't imagine ever acting like that toward my child the way he acts toward her. Just flat out declaring your child dead to everyone and refusing to acknowledge who they are now, just because of what they chose to do with their own life... It's pretty heart breaking.
He doesn't even have an excuse of losing his path to a genetic legacy, he's got a dozen living children who may still go on to have children. He's neglected all of them until Luigi killed a CEO and suddenly he's carrying one around like an ornament all the time, but still they got his genes, for better or worse.
Maybe 1970s Elon could have used a few more hugs, but this century it's just too late.
sometimes you just have to give credit where it's due, and i'm sure my LLM query cost a bunch of people a day's worth of artificial light, but here goes:
(i added the geek tragedy one. tip your waitresses)