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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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[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 138 points 2 days ago (4 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

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days 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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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 29 points 2 days ago (5 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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[–] frezik@midwest.social 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

People show you who they really are when they can do anything they want. Elon is failing at it much worse than someone who sits on the couch and does weed all day.

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[–] excral@feddit.org 24 points 1 day ago (1 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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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

there's your problem innit

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 1 day ago

So get him the fuck out of anything important

[–] No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 days ago (6 children)

So sad. :(

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

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you want to save energy, consider launching him outside our solar system instead.
I'd be fine with both though and even grant him the trip to Mars of which he apparently dreamt some time ago.

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[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago (8 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.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Power disparity derived from wealth disparity inevitably leads to unchecked corruption.

Late Stage Capitalism is a malignant cancer on both society and the planet

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[–] Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days 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.

[–] Viskio_Neta_Kafo@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago

If he wasn't a cunt then maybe I'd care but he makes it so easy to enjoy his own suffering.

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[–] SirFasy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Oh no.. anyways..

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 344 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (24 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.

[–] Nora@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 2 days ago (13 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.

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 72 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 2 days 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...

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days 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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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 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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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago

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

[–] europeanfan122@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)
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[–] Ferroto@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago
[–] Sm0ke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s devastating to see the toll fentanyl takes on hundreds of thousands of lives every year, destroying families and communities. Yet, it feels incredibly unfair to see someone like Elon Musk openly joke about or trivialize its use. While he may have the privilege to brush it off, so many others don’t have that luxury. It highlights the stark divide between those who face the real consequences of this crisis and those who seem untouched by it. Accountability and awareness matter, especially when it comes to something as serious as fentanyl.

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[–] WarLorax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago
[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

He had mad the world so much worse i can't feel sorry for him

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Just another drug-addicted Hitler.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days 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.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 17 points 2 days 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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[–] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 145 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 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.

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Maybe if we can stress him out enough he'll have a heart attack

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[–] Yoga@lemmy.ca 61 points 2 days 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...

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[–] arc@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Musk may well be going mad and I certainly hope he is. I hope his lack of recognition and watching his empire crumble is eating him up inside.

But Seth Abramson is not a reliable narrator let alone "biographer" whatever that means. He has a very long and storied history of embellishing facts, or placing too much weight on rumours and extrapolating way too much from them.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I saw this kind of take a lot when he first started appearing in my feeds, and I just sort of accepted it since I didn't read anything by him anyway.

Now that I've read more, I think his books are well-researched and meticulously cited using primary sources from well-known publications. He's a professor with degrees from Dartmouth and Harvard and I mention that because the original image I was given was he was some influencer or "citizen journalist" who just liked being incendiary, and that's not the case at all.

So are there some examples of his embellishing to share? I don't understand this particular take on him. He's very critical of Trump and has said he's directly connected to the Kremlin (and shown it in the most detailed, and cited, ways), but I don't think he's someone to ignore for that.

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[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 61 points 2 days ago (7 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.

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[–] BookSnob@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 days ago

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

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

As a loyal subject to HRH King Charles III, I propose agent 007 for the job. For King and Country.

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[–] zeepintor@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago (5 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

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 32 points 2 days ago (8 children)

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

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[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

He apparently gets really pressed from the online hate he recieves, so we can help push him further.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

He apparently gets really pressed from the online hate he recieves

Maybe he could stop doing things that lead people to hate him?

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[–] __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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