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I did not see this published outside of India. But not sure why. It’s all based on Xitter.

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[–] [email protected] 364 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

Imagine having more money than anyone's ever had

Being stressed, depressed, drug addicted, and an actual Nazi.

Times like this I think about Enya. Yeah, Enya. Where's she been? In a fucking castle. With a fuck ton of kitties.

She made her millions and said "oh golly, I don't need to do much of anything anymore. And I quite like castles and kittens."

She didn't say "what can I do to make more people like me?" And then please the most hateful people on earth. How are these paths even a choice one has to ponder? Go fuck off in a castle full of cats.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 week ago (8 children)

It's kinda crazy to me because let's say you do want to be the most beloved person on earth AND you have more money than anyone ever, you could do that?

Like at one point musk said if there was a plan to end world hunger in 6 billion dollars he would do it, and of course he didn't... But if he did, a small fraction of his infinite wealth would be gone, but people would have loved him.

If, Tesla actually produced a fully self-driving electric car that was better and cheaper than anything else, he'd have even more fans than he currently does.

If, he actually created high speed mass transit, instead of whatever the fucking "hyperloop" thing he made is.

He could have done probably all of this for the price of twitter, but nah instead he had to go be a nazi.

Doing like even half this list would make him beloved by the average person who isn't too interested in him. They'd see all the good he does and say "That's what a billionaire should be." and not do any digging. It's honestly batshit insane to me that someone can say "everyone hates me and it makes me sad but I'm not going to do anything about this because clearly they are the ones that are wrong."

Like how do you fuck it up so bad. The first time I heard of the guy I bought into that "elon musk is ironman" persona thing, and now he's just a crazed nazi I want nothing to do with.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Narcissism, ego, and wealth create one hell of a combination.

He wants to be worshipped by the masses, but he's also the kind of person who needs to appear powerful and can't stand being in any position but first. He has to be the richest person while also being the most adored, and he isn't willing to sacrifice anything to achieve the latter.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is the difference between the ultra-wealthy of the gilded age and today. Those of the gilded age built things with their wealth for the public, so they wouldn't turn against them. Today they think they're untouchable. They hoard their wealth and don't try to do anything with it.

Yet, the gilded age came to an end with regulations, because they were amassing too much wealth. They only had a small fraction of what the ultra-wealthy today have. Something needs to be done about them, and the government isn't taking action...

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Does anyone know if she needs someone to help care for the kitties...?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I selflessly offer to do this for a modest sum of 100k per year.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (7 children)

We were just having a similar discussion, though not about Enya. My position was if I had a billion dollars, you know what I would do? I'd recreate Hogwarts Castle. I'm not even a huge Harry Potter fan and hate what's-her-name, but how cool would it be to live in a beautiful movie set house the size of a small town?

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[–] [email protected] 149 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

It's not the most important reason by a long shot, but it's yet another reason why extreme wealth hoarding, aka billionaires and centimillionaires, should have been taxed out of existence and legislated from existing going forward:

Even they aren't happy, even sitting in the complete victory of their coup. They could have a dozen space station mansions each and they still wouldn't be satiated or satisfied. They can't be satisfied. That is their defining character deficit. Literally everybody loses so long as the avarice diseased capitalists remain in charge, even them. The intensity of their cringeworthy attempts at social media flexes betrays their intent and blasts us all with their screaming insecurities day in and day out.

They're mentally ill with an obsession/compulsion related disorder that they've manipulated civilization into enabling at literally every possible expense, including mass human murder and seriously risking human extinction for short term private profit.

They should be in mental health facilities receiving inpatient treatment for their extremely destructive antisocial behaviors for both their and everyone else's safety and wellbeing, too bad at least in the US they defunded mental healthcare into utter ruin (and education, and common infrastructure, etc) to cut their own taxes through their captured government.

The inmates are truly running ~~the asylum~~ our society.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

I've read a load of academic articles on psychopaths recently. Narcissism is linked to all sorts of terrible behaviours, and cos they don't accept they're wrong, they don't tend to change their behaviour even when they're hurting themselves

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m sure there are some that are happy but you never hear about them. A secure, well-adjusted individual with boat-loads of money doesn’t need to stir shit up. They can relax.

The insecure, maladjusted individuals will constantly be defending themselves against perceived threats despite having the means to offload all of that to paid professionals.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The best evidence of this is the creator of Tumblr. He sold it and got a payout of like a hundred million dollars or something and completely disappeared from public life. He only ever appears in the news when he makes some big donation to a charity.

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[–] [email protected] 149 points 1 week ago (6 children)

He's doing it too himself, fuck off.

No one asked him to be a co-nazi. No one asked him to take over Twitter. No one asked him to play make-believe auto maker. No one is asking for his fucking biography. He's acting like everyone is pulling him in all these different directions, and no one wants him.

He is the world's richest fucking man. Fuck him. He could have the best doctors/therapy/drugs in the world, could travel the world and "find himself," maybe even do something worth writing about. But he chooses to be a completely waste of human flesh that will be nothing but a smear in history. That's his legacy. A shit smear on an already shit covered era. He's not helping anyone, not even his own kids, he is willfully putting his effort into being the biggest piece of shit.

Fuck him. Fuck his depression, fuck his addiction, fuck his stress, and fuck him. He's ruining my country and wants pity because it's stressing him out.

FUCK HIM

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also calling it stress is so fucking gross when normal people have to deal with soul crushing extisence of inadequate food, housing and life of wage slavery, and he's just upset cause his world domination plans makes people say mean things to him.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Yeah. He could fuck off and never have to speak to another person or do anything he didn't want to do if he wanted with just a tiny fraction of his wealth. He doesn't have to be this way. He chose it. He's like a child breaking things for attention.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Thats why power and management of a country should be spread thin, to avoid that corruption from a single point to affect the life of many

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nailed it! Just like in nature and agriculture, monocultures are vulnerable. One disease can wipe out an entire population. Same principal can be applied to almost anything.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (10 children)

"going" is doing a lot of work here...

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (4 children)

ive been living with a combination of drugs depression and stress for most of my life and im not a megalomaniac asshole billionaire hellbent on destroying the country...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah that's the key takeaway.

A billion dollars turns you into some kind of Duke, or Landed Noble.

Where you can like.. buy a small army, take over a country, that sort of thing.

Billionaires shouldn't exist.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Given how this douche canoe acts, and the damage he's done lately, I just hope he finds himself in a very slow, painful decline and maybe he'll snap while in the oval office with first lady Trump.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Can we get a fast painful decline? Minimize how much harm he does to... everyone?

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Wealth doesn't heal old wounds. You can be the most powerful man in the world and not feel in control.

He needs a good therapist not a biographer.

Just when I was starting to feel some sympathy for him I googled "Elon Musk therapy" and this was the first thing to come up...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

"Guys would rather upend the world economy and peace in a ketamine bender than go to therapy"

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Just to pointlessly clarify, this is article is a paraphrasing of tweets by a journalist who calls himself a Musk biographer. The quoted journalist is not, as the possessive apostrophe in the headline implies, a biographer hired by Musk.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I didn't realize it was the guy behind the Proof series, but I like his work. His book on Elon is apparently upcoming.

Some zippy quotes from that article include:

Musk “was sued for stealing the idea for Zip2—which fired him as soon as investors got involved” and “was going to run PayPal into the ground after his company merged with it—again he was fired.” He then “invested in Tesla when it was distressed and quickly began running it into the ground.”

Musk founded Zip2, described as “a sort of digital Yellowpages” by Belmont Hill School’s The Panel Online, with his brother. The outlet reported that in an attempt to impress investors in the company, Musk “created a large, fake casing around the Zip2 computer to make it seem like an extremely advanced supercomputer” — a move that worked, but investors who put $3 million into the company did so only after Musk agreed to step down so “someone more experienced to take his place.”

The code used by the program, which Musk taught himself, “was soon exposed to be so scrambled that a majority of the program had to be rewritten by more advanced programmers.”

Musk ultimately returned to the company as CEO and benefitted financially when it was sold to COMPAQ in 1999. He used the $22 million his 7% share brought in to an “internet bank” at X.com — the same company he merged with the founders of Paypal. He was named CEO after the merger in April 2000 but was removed from the position six months later.

SpaceX, Abramson continued, is Musk’s only “truly successful and novel company” and a chunk of its success was owed to President Obama, who Musk “successfully lobbied” after “Russians had laughed Musk out of Moscow.”

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh man... So Obama not only roasted Trump so bad that the touchy little bastard ran for office, but he also handed Elon his only genuine W.

Talk about a monkey's paw president.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Elon Musk could have been remembered as a cool tech guy. All he had to do was just keep running his companies and let the smart people working for him do the talking. Nobody would be the wiser that he didn’t know what he was talking about.

Instead, he let his ego get in the way of things and people know him for who he really is. I used to think he was pretty smart. After reading the things he writes, it became apparent that his companies thrive despite him, not because of him.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That guy's mental health reached rock bottom years ago. He has been digging ever since.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I expect the problem is that, when you get that rich, people stop caring about you, they start caring about your money. A string of women who just smash a kid out for him then fuck off. Kids who don't seem to want anything to do with him. Does he have anyone he actually considers a true friend? Probably not. He's just surrounded by bootlickers and yes men, and deep down he knows it. He's probably deeply lonely and paranoid.

Not that I care. He's also a cunt.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (7 children)

So sad. :(

Clearly for Musks own sake the best solution is to launch him into the sun.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

We noticed.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Hopefully he offs himself before his DOGE takes full control of a nuclear silo.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I thought that he always was an asshole and just dropped the facade, but him once being somewhat sane (as far as billionaires go) and going mad from stress and drug abuse seems like a plausible hypothesis, too. Either way, doesn't change that he needs to be stopped

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone who cares about him needs to take him off the internet permanently

there's your problem innit

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

imagine ruining people's lives so you can have all the money, only for you to still be miserable. dont get me wrong im happy he is.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

He's a ketamine abuser, so it checks out.

Short-term side effects of ketamine use may include headache, dizziness, sleepiness, feeling strange or “loopy,” difficulty speaking, numbness, blurred vision, or nausea. Ketamine may also cause changes in blood pressure and heart rate.11

Studies show that unsupervised ketamine use may have serious health risks.1 These include respiratory depression, which is dangerously slow and shallow breathing. A NIDA-funded study found that problems related to ketamine use reported to poison control centers increased 81% from 2019-2021. The use of other drugs along with ketamine, especially opioids or GHB, another club drug, led to the most health problems, some of them life-threatening.12

Long-term, heavy ketamine use is associated with memory problems, depression, and anxiety.13 At high doses, ketamine may cause psychosis, a mental illness that causes a person to lose touch with reality. Frequent recreational ketamine use can lead to delusions that can last to up to one month after a person stops using it.14

Long-term use of ketamine may cause gastrointestinal problems, including abdominal pain sometimes called k-cramps5. Ketamine use can also cause ketamine-induced uropathy, a treatable but potentially serious condition that causes symptoms like those of a urinary tract infection.15,16

From NIDA.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Cool, i hope he has a painful and debilitating aneurysm during a live interview in the Oval.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Don’t forget this guy bragged a few years back about not sleeping or sleeping in his office. Let’s not discount how years of sleep deprivation has probably influenced his chaotic behavior.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't buy that shit for a second. He can't tell the truth if he wanted to. Back when he made these claims, overwatch just launched and he spend all day on twitter telling people he works 20 hours a day, plays a lot of overwatch, binges 6 different animes, and spends a lot of time with his family.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Maybe he ought to do himself and us a favour and just… delete himself.

[–] zipzoopaboop 24 points 1 week ago

So get him the fuck out of anything important

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I think it's more the money. money causes mental illness.

but you know, there's a cure, and he employs so very many engineers who could build him one.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Oh no please don't kill yourself live on X, that would own the liberals too hard

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Praying for the worst for him. 🙏

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Depressed you say? Go on Elon, follow your leader.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Im so glad we have two mentally fit gentlemen working to bring down the entire system of U.S. government.

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