Having spent much of my life around nerds, I do believe he may be dumbfounded by the reactions to his new role in MAGA. Nerds tend to be very good at some things by virtue of hyper-focusing on them, while simultaneously being oblivious to many others. Add to that the fact that his circles and social media feeds must be filled with MAGA ideology and fans for whom he can do no wrong and what you get is someone who’s probably feeling like he’s doing good.
He’s good at disregarding his fellow human beings’ wellbeing to hoard wealth. And at throwing tantrums when people don’t suck up to him.
He’s the adult version of that kid we all knew in middle school - the one who was creepy and awkward and desperate to get the cool kids to like him and he talked too much and laughed too loud in a way that sounded like he could tip over into hysteria any second, and the only thing he had going for him was that his family had money, so he always got the latest and coolest games and toys and he’d show them off in the desperate hope that someone would want to play with him but nobody ever did because he was just so desperate and creepy.
fame and wealth are forms of abuse. he never learned why the other kids hated him because his home environment sheltered him from connecting with others
Some kid pushed him down the stairs and seriously injured him when he was in school, and I don’t blame them. I guess it’s a chicken/egg situation, but I think generally you don’t get pushed down stairs if you aren’t an absolute shit.
Some kid pushed him down the stairs and seriously injured him when he was in school
True story?
I wouldn’t doubt it.
I really know very little about Musk’s past in a biographical sense, but as a lifelong student of human nature - both collectively and individually - I know him all too well.
and I don’t blame them
Nor do I.
You can see it in his mannerisms and the look on his face. He was and still is one of those people who’s unjustifiably smug - who’s obnoxiously arrogant in spite of the fact that everyone around him just thinks he’s a loudmouthed asshole. And the secret behind it is that he’s actually desperately insecure and his entire life is bent toward (over)compensating for that.
He’s obnoxiously smug and arrogant because he has virtually no empathy or understanding of other people, so he doesn’t know how to act to actually appeal to people.
But he sees other people who do know how to act and who have spent a lifetime earning respect and admiration, and he sees their confidence and that’s what he wants. So, failing to understand even the most basic principles, he jumps right past the earning respect and admiration stage and to the confidence stage, and unable to even pull that off convincingly, he just ends up smug and obnoxious.
Which makes people dislike him, which leads him to try to compensate, which ends up just being more obnoxious arrogance, which makes people dislike him and 'round and 'round it goes.
I don’t know if it’s been confirmed by Musk, but it’s been stated by his (also shithead) dad in an interview:
He also recalled a time when Elon made a hurtful comment to a schoolmate about his father’s suicide.
The boy pushed Elon down a staircase at school, injuring him so badly he had to be hospitalised.
When he heard what had happened, Errol wanted to defend his son.
“But I realised Elon overstepped the mark with this little boy. I had to drop it,” he said.
The way he is would be sad if it wasn’t completely self inflicted, and also hurting a lot of other people.
Ah… yes. Every bit of that tracks.
2 points to consider. 1. He said that empathy is the weakness of Western civilization and his cronies are saying that empathy is a sin. 2. He posted a meme comic saying that unless you’re capable of great violence that you’re basically harmless and thus easily ignored. This is what he wants.
Maybe there’s some kind of psychedelic experience that would help him gain an outside perspective /s
Seriously though: Elon is the best argument that psychedelics don’t provide any sort of meaningful insight; just the subjective feeling of insight
The fucker needs to take a bunch of mushrooms to make him face his demons and inadequacies. Maybe it might make him go mad idk.
I hear inhaling 100% nitrogen for 10 minutes does wonders for curing Nazis.
Thats because Elon is actually an idiot who has lots of people tricked … have you actually heard him try and talk about a subject you happen to be well informed on? Turns out he has no clue and just uses big words and lies alot.
Elon Musk is the ultimate Dunning-Krueger.
He talks well enough to fool someone who doesn’t know shit, with the confidence of someone who knows everything.
But if you have even a wikipedia level of knowledge, you know he’s talking shit. Nonstop shit.
I wouldn’t say he’s an idiot. He’s a narcissist who feigns ignorance in order to pander to his fanboys. I think he’s a lot more dangerous than Trump who is an idiot and also a narcissist.
Articles like this one are well-meaning but they just end up signal-boosting him and validating his narrative that “left wing media are persecuting him.”
So many people love the narrative that they are idiots.
Congratulations then, the commander in cheif of the worlds most powerful army and the worlds richest man are idiots. The most powerful democratic nation on earth just got usurped by Pinky and The Brain. If you’re so fucking clever and they are so fucking dumb, how could you let this happen?
They are a lot of things, but stupid isnt one of them.
Yeah, this is a very good way of putting it. Musk was born wealthy, but you don’t become the richest man on earth without being good at something.
No amount of tap dancing lessons can prepare me for this man’s death.
No lessons needed, just stay hydrated and queue up for the new public restroom.
He’s doing a Fox News thing. He’s saying people are mean to him because he’s telling the truth and it’s the woke left that’s got a problem with it.
He’s also doing the fox news thing of being incredibly mean to people in one sentence and then 5 minutes later crying about people being mean to him…
Forever the victim with these fuckers even when they’re putting their neck stomping boots on.
Empathy is weakness, remember you said that, old man. Quit your bitching, no one cares.
Empathy is also a social contract. In order to recieve empathy you have to be willing to show it towards others. You can’t expect to reap the benefits of a contract that you fail to uphold your side of.
He understands fully well. He’s just playing coy and being a smart ass.
Fucking enlon…
All that money, everyone still thinks you’re a boring, unfunny dork.
Not a dork. A fascist oligarch Nazi pile of shit.
Why not both?
BUT GUYS HES GOOD AT PATH OF EXILE SEE HES A GAMER GUYS REALATE TO HIM
SEE RICH ASSHOLE IS RELATABLE RIGHT?
/s
What if his Ketamine runs out and then he snaps back to reality like oops there goes gravity
I have a story for you… it was 2007…
suck it up buttercup.
not everyone can be a snowflake lover.
If he gave me a million dollars I wouldn’t be mean to his face…
I’d need at least 5M for that courtesy.
Fair enough but I’m a cheap bastard.
Empathy is a weakness according to Musk. So suck-it-up-Buttercup.
