I did not see this published outside of India. But not sure why. It’s all based on Xitter.
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…
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.
But if you had money, you might just be.
Broke ass cant even destroy the world with his depression
/s
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.
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.
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.
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…
The government is taking action, just not the action we’d like.
all that turned out to be scams, his charities, the hyperloop was meant to stop california from developing thier own fast rail system.
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.
Not just that, but an NGO said we could do it in that budget and he bought Twitter with the money instead
For him it was his parents and South Africa. Drugs + environmental influence is the guaranteed way to create a monster.
Basically his entire childhood he understood that there are two classes of people: the people who earned something, and the other is the rest of us. People who look different, have to work, or talk funny.
Don’t forget his trans daughter. Pretty sure that she was a catalyst.
Does anyone know if she needs someone to help care for the kitties…?
I selflessly offer to do this for a modest sum of 100k per year.
Hero…
un does she need someone to be another kitty?
If she adopts us both, I will feed you, brush you, trim your claws, etc!
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?
Muskwarts?
Sounds like a venereal disease. Though to be fair, so did ‘Hogwarts’
Sorry babe, you’re gonna have put the blindfold on, the warts on my hog are back
I’d make sure I had enough money to live comfortably, travel lots, etc. Then I would get busy trying to give the rest of it away.
If I had Musk money, I would commission lots of hentai media and bribe politicians to give more rights to everyone. No more porn bans in Texas, science-based textbooks in schools, term and age limits on SCOTUS, sex work is protected work, buy anime & cartoon IP to make it public domain, ect.
…if only.
unlike jk rowling using her wealth and fame to become a “terf”, i think shes buddy buddy with musk too. she must be constantly depressed and stressed from that too. and many pointed out her books are actually low-key her prejudices. also family guy has pointed this issue out 2 different cutscenes too.
Turns out, having obscene levels of wealth and power is really bad for your psyche.
We talk a lot about taxing billionaires for the good of the 99%, but it would do wonders for the well-being of the 1% as well.
Not to defend Musk, but there are plenty of examples of money destroying someone’s life. I’m thinking primarily lottery winners. Just because one person successfully adjusted to it doesn’t mean it’s easy and everyone can.
Of course Musk is a special case where he ruins other people’s lives with his wealth but that’s not my point.
The idea that 70% of lottery winners lose all their winnings isn’t true. It’s based on a fake statistic.
The news loves to highlight the cases where that’s true because it reinforces the cultural notion that wealth is tied to morality.
Yeah that’s one if those truthy sayings that no one really looks into.
I completely agree the point of the lie is to convince poorer people that they aren’t good enough, smart enough to handle wealth.
Everyone knows 50%of statistics are made up.
This is 100% true half the time because the internet.
Damn that’s messed up, yo.
I didn’t expect to learn about Enya in this discussion. Thank you, kind sir!
I hope Yanni is in a palace full of pups. And Rhys Fulber a temple full of snakes (I’m assuming he likes snakes).
I read a “fuck ton of titties” and got a little confused
Also good.
Welp, I have a new goal in life.
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.
Depressed you say? Go on Elon, follow your leader.
Maybe he ought to do himself and us a favour and just… delete himself.
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.
Can we get a fast painful decline? Minimize how much harm he does to… everyone?
Honestly. I’d be happy with decline at 3200 feet per second from 400 yards.
The russki bungee jump?
World competition window jumping
Truly the only therapy that will work for the FElon.
If he could decline in such a way that utterly destroys the United States empire, Israel, and Russia while causing minimal harm to the working class and oppressed minorities that would be great.
No no no… we want a very RAPID decline to minimize the damage. If he were on his own, it’d be different but this is a time I’d rather minimize the suffering for everyone.
I’m still down for the painful one at least.
Hopefully he offs himself before his DOGE takes full control of a nuclear silo.
He’ll be replaced by another billionaire, with their own agenda.
That’s probably true but it would still be semi cathartic to see Musk off himself
Like any megalomanic narcissist he is not going to off himself before having taken as many people with him as possible.
I mean it would set an example
An example of what, being too lenient? Protesting will become illegal by then and you’ll be picking up cotton…
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…
“Guys would rather upend the world economy and peace in a ketamine bender than go to therapy”
I would never defend Elon, but therapy ain’t for everybody. I gave it a good honest try and my therapist fired me.
Finding a good match isn’t easy but it’s crucial.
Cool. Get fucked asshole.
Well said, and may I add, with a rusty reamer
Jaggedy for his pleasure. Better add diy reaming lube…mix hot pepper powder in lemon juice and vinegar. Mix with honey for a pasty texture that sticks.
Goddam. That’s an old, big, reamer. Looks like it’s for hand reaming wood. Modern reamers for metal are very different.
The funny thing is, that’s the perfect tool to ream a bunghole for a good fit for a plug.
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 asylumour society.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
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.
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.
Well said friend! I agree wholeheartedly.
Cool, i hope he has a painful and debilitating aneurysm during a live interview in the Oval.
Stop, my penis can only get so erect.
Only if he also soils himself.
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
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.
and farmers dependant on a single crop where its vulnerable to market/tariffs fluctations too.
The ancient Roman understood this simple concept, but it somehow goes over so many modern people’s heads.
That’s the exact thesis proposed in The Dictator’s Handbook by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith for making a government good for its constituents. Coalition size is THE most important feature.
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.
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.”
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.
thanks Obama!
I have watched that joke start off unfunny, get repurposed ironically, fade into sincerity and circle back to being unfunny, get exhumed in a funny way, die again, and now there’s just this breccia of nuance that makes me feel weird and sad… But in a funny way.
What a trajectory, failing upwards at each step.
Good thing he’s a white man! Or that plan would have never worked.
biographers are not always and more clearly rarely “hired” by their subjects.
True, hence why the grammar used in the headline implied to me that these were the words of a biographer either hired, or at least sanctioned, by Musk himself. So I just wanted to point it out in case other people were having the same interpretation as me.
So he a Musk biographer, not Musk’s biographer.
Praying for the worst for him. 🙏
Homeboys scams are coming to an end and those will destroy him, so he is trying to destroy America instead and has found useful greedy idiots to help.
