he said. “We’ll be gone, and it’ll be gone because of an advertiser boycott.”… eeer, no.
“I fucking hate you and wish you’d get hit by a bus”
Five minutes later: “Please don’t leave babe… I love you…”
Dude is not well.
Yeah I just watched the clip and he seems legitimately unhinged. “Earth will judge them.”
I mean what the heck, honestly.
Billionaires are money addicts
True but normally they at least rationally act to pursue their goals.
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Their goal of getting more money might not be rational, I just meant they act with a kind of logic that’s in accordance with that goal. Burning down the planet is the perfect example, they don’t care if it doesn’t impact them, but they can earn more money and have that as a side effect.
Musk is saying shit like “the Earth will judge them” when someone asks him how he’s going to make sure his business earns money. This is another level of deranged and disconnected from reality in my view at least.
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I think your analogy is missing how much power money buys. Musk is hoarding power, the money is the easiest way to get power especially if you’re born rich.
Guys that talk this much are megalomaniacs, not just money hoarders.
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Fair enough, maybe they are all just crazy after all
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A source for billionaires pursuing their goals rationally? I don’t think there’s been a study on that but I’m sure it’d be an interesting one. My point is mainly that Elon seems comparatively unhinged, I’m not trying to establish any kind of objective truth or anything.
“Tell that to earth!” Spæce Kæren
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I’ve been saying this for a while now. If he were an average person, a loved one or friend would have probably tried to get him help, if not voluntarily, then as an intervention. He’s a billionaire, and has clearly been unwell for a while, but the world just keeps egging him on to do more crazy shit.
It reminds me a little of the South Park pop star thing, where the world needs a “sacrifice” in terms of fame. We’ve now moved past pop, and now we’re letting influencers (which, let’s be frank, that’s basically Musk’s contribution to any of his businesses) dance for our enjoyment.
In theory, I think bad people deserve pity more than anything else, because something made them that way, and we don’t get to choose our formative experiences. We are fundamentally still just animals responding to our environment.
But in practice, I have a finite amount of empathy, so I’ll save it for people who aren’t actively making the world a worse place.
keep it going musk, I want to see that company burned to the ground 🔥
The best thing for the Fediverse has been Musk cannibalizing twitter with ever decision he makes it seems.
Twitter imploding -> People finding Mastodon as an alternative -> People discovering federation as an alternative to walled garden social media
98% of people I see leaving Twitter are headed for BlueSky, not Mastodon
Well, as dumb as this was (and it was very, very dumb), I found myself distracted by just how… weird he looked. Not just his face, which reminded me of Lady Cassandra from Dr Who (“Moisturize me, moisturize me!”), but his weird, jerky movements, and just his general vibe. He’s like the personification of the uncanny valley. Eggar-from-MiB “get me sugar water” lookin’ ass. If someone were to come out with a tell-all saying that Musk had been secretly replaced by aliens, I wouldn’t even be terribly surprised at this point.
It’s always fun to play is he weirdly out of touch because he’s a billionaire or is he weirdly out of touch because he’s autistic. I think this might be a bit of both.
Hand gestures don’t come naturally to everybody. Some people learn them just to fit in and some try and evoke the same emotions from them without understanding the emotions or the motions completely because they’re just not physically capable of connecting those brain synapses. Add to that the fact Elon doesn’t hang out with normal people. He only hangs out with engineers and sycophants. So he doesn’t get to naturally see people in their everyday environment. He only sees people acting in videos and then he tries to imitate that and the sycophants and engineers around him applaud him. The dumb shit he says gets retweets so he thinks everyone agrees. Then he goes out into the real world and continues parroting this end stage meming with gestures he learned from Hitler speaches, not realizing the jerky movement was due to low frame rate and high meth rate, and is stun locked when everybody else is trying to figure out what the fuck is happening. And what the fuck is happening is that we are witnessing a man who is so far up his own ass that even basic hand gestures are oddly shitty.
He claims to be autistic. As far as I know, there has never been a formal diagnosis. But he sure does like to use it to excuse the things he says and does.
I think it might be tourette’s, my son has the same jerkey movements but without the verbal symptoms.
People are also speculating drug use, and I personally wouldn’t rule that out considering just how stressful his life currently is. Hell, I feel as though his hairline has receded a bunch (again) too.
I think it’s likely that’s it’s a mixture of all three. Drug use (even some completely above-board prescriptions. I know that my ADHD prescription makes me act strangely when I’m low on sleep or over-caffeinated) would dull his ability to mask his other behavioral idiosyncrasies, which could originate with his placement on the spectrum and the fact that he’s surrounded by sycophants. But who fucking knows.
Isn’t it fun playing armchair doctor for Elon Musk! If you’re wrong, who are you hurting, fuck that guy. And if you’re right, it’s fucking hilarious because fuck that guy.
I’m not so self-involved as to think my anonymous comments have any material impact on Elon’s well-being, but if they did I’d be pleased.
Fuck the rich, but especially fuck the fascist ones.
I think it’s the ketamine
Being a social media ceo turns you into an uncanny valley monster apparently.
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This is the free market at work, not black mail like he claims.
Yeah, they seem to have problem understanding that businesses want to make money, and you make the most of it, if you preferably don’t exclude any. They don’t give damn about anything else.
Did someone actually watch the interview? He just looks like an overgrown kid trying to make others in the classroom laugh… That would have been funny if it was not pathetic…
Holy smokes! I just watched it, he doesn’t hardly even look at the interviewer, he’s constantly looking at the audience and trying to get a reaction. I take it back what I said earlier, I was far more mature then him when I was in 8th grade. The interviewer is having a hard time with someone so cocky and stupid.
I could only manage to skip through a bit… any idea roughly when he says the fuck yourself line?
Here around the beginning I think
Wow, that was worse than I expected. I think I have second hand embarrassment from watching it.
“That is what everybody on Earth will know,” he said. “We’ll be gone, and it’ll be gone because of an advertiser boycott.”
Oh no, not at all, dear … everybody on Earth is perfectly aware that it is YOU who is killing the company. Twisting the narrative to feel better within yourself ain’t gonna change the fact. Why would any advertiser worth a damn, want to be associated with Stormfront 2.0?
everybody on Earth will know
hahaha holy shit, he believes. he really believes his own shit. he really views “X” as being of planetary importance. he’s actually living in his daydream, where Mars (by his hand) and Earth are networked (by him) and his “X” has somehow supplanted the Internet and spans between planets. his principal operating perspective is a delusion. wow. like, all the time.
The book Red Rising was suppose to be fiction but fucking hell if people like Musk continue to hold the top of the economic and political power structures, that shit is gonna be reality.
Most people are rooting for that shit ass company toburn to the ground.
It is hilarious to me how this guy thinks he is entitled to have advertisers on his platform. I don’t understand why he thinks he can coerce them back with insults and claiming they will bankrupt his company. Why do they have any responsibility to save your rotten company? Delusional!
Typical conservative victim mentality. It can’t be a result of his actions, no. It’s not his fault the company is crashing and burning. It’s those darn blackmailing advertisers!
In 7th grade, many years ago, my school had an excited young teacher who convinced management to let them teach a Logic class. I can’t even remember if the teacher was male or female, but I use the shit I learned in that class constantly, particularly the fallacies and biases we memorized (and then promptly weaponized against teachers, parents, and pastors).
When billionaires attribute their success entirely to their own virtues, skills, or talents, and blame others or external circumstances for their failings, they are demonstrating a self-serving bias, a specific form of the fundamental attribution error. They fail to acknowledge external factors like market conditions, socio-economic advantages, or the efforts of their teams that may have contributed to their success. Conversely, they externalize blame for failures, ignoring any personal shortcomings or misjudgments.
Sprechen sie Deutsch?
What about the Dutch?
Nein aber ich spreche sehr gut Englisch. Bitte sprich Englisch
Du hast mich gefragt, und ich hab nichts gesagt!
He’s just using abusive partner/parent tricks to manipulate people. I doubt they have any real basis in logic.
oh but they will be judged!
Biznis jenius
You needs to gets urself to school and get some learnings and spellingzl
Ahh, the negotiator
So he’s not even trying to control the damage anymore, huh? Just decided he might as well finish flushing the last 20 billion?
Good fucking riddance.
If only it was actually his last $20B
We’ll be gone
Don’t threaten me with a good time…
This cunt wearing dogtags…
I hope he needs them.
Edit: they’re Israeli dog tags… Woooow…
So did he steal them off a dead soldier?
Apparently he was given them by the father of a hostage when he visited Israel yesterday.
Just an aside, what a weird moment. Why would you, father of a hostage, give this man anything? And dog tags at that
why would you give this man anything?
Should have given him a lobotomy.
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I made an edit to my comment above yours.
Jewish people are funding causes meant to “annihilate” them
This is what happens when your CEO overdoses on his own farts.
I hope the boards of Tesla and SpaceX are paying attention. Once Xitter goes down in flames, he’ll be looking for the next project to micromanage into bankruptcy.
Why wouldn’t he have done that first?
Twitters downfall is intentional, if he wanted to micromanage Tesla and SpaceX he would have. This is all a symptom of the fact that he didn’t want to buy Twitter in the first place, he was using it as a coverup for selling stock in Tesla.
Both companies had teams of handlers that followed him around and kept him from messing with important work. Now that he’s addicted to 24/7 media attention, I doubt the handlers will be able to contain him.
I don’t understand why Tesla won’t remove him. He isn’t even the majority stock holder. I highly doubt he adds any value for the company at this point so the only thing I can think of is that there must be some weird clause in their agreements.
I’ve owned a Tesla since 2017 and at this point, I’ve only replaced tires and spent less than $1000 on electricity to go a bit over 50k miles, but I’m ashamed to be driving it every day and it sucks.
Sounds like a win for Tesla and SpaceX employees.
