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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Is Elon playing some clever 5D chess that I don't understand? Why is he doing things like this, how is it benefiting him? Has he lost his fucking mind?

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 months ago (7 children)

He really went off the deep end when Grimes dumped him. I'm not saying he didn't have issues before, but his compete public persona changed when their relationship ended. When his relationship with Amber Herd ended her did an interview with Rolling Stone where he was crying and talking about how life just isn't worth doing anything of you aren't in love. I think he really thought that with Grimes he found his true soulmate. My guess is that once she became a mother she realized that he isn't someone she wants raising her children and she broke his heart and he's gone full incel now.

One day she will be free of him and she's going to tell her story. I can't wait to hear it.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know if it coincides with grimes, but his daughter disowning him and him blaming the woke school system for turning her against him is also where the anti work crusade started, which don't ya know, brings you down the far right rabbit hole into psycho land.

Edit: whatever his views were before this event, that was a defining moment where he had to make a real choice, and he made the wrong one.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

He faced a lot of abandonment in a short time period and instead of self reflecting lashed out. And when an angry white man lashes out against other people for self preserving, there’s a chunk of the internet there to help guide him away from ever getting better

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

To add insult to injury (in his mind), Grimes dated a trans person after dumping him.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Remember those creepy, desperate Tweets from Grimes to Musk about seeing the kids or whatever? God. Imagine literally the richest person in the world is also your incel ex.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Nope!

Sounds awful though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

His villain origin story is because of a broken heart. A tale as old as time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It's more likely that when she had his children, Elon felt like he had total control over her and could ramp up his abuse of her. This is a classic maneuver by abusive men. Marriage and moving in together also tend to cause them to lash out, but having a baby usually really does it for them because the woman is often physically weakened by it. This includes raping the woman after she gave birth and isn't healed.

Once the abuse escalates, the woman is able to realize he wasn't going to change and that he'd get worse. She is able to realize it's too much. Someone like Grimes with money and power can escape more easily once they realize this.

So yeah it's less to do with Grimes becoming a mother and realizing he wasn't good enough (implying his behavior has been steady/the same), and more like him trapping her and taking off his mask.

Men like Elon - narcissistic and obsessed with women, especially trans women - have a compulsion to control women like dolls.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I think he's so focused on "success" he's never grown as a person beyond, I'm Bestest because I can buy the biggest things...and just uses people.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

No. He's stupid. Never had a functioning mind, he's been substituting money for one all along.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hes a shitty racist that is extremely high at all times.

Imagine your meth'ed out rural cousins, but 200 million people/bots follow them on twitter for some reason.

[–] Grandwolf319 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everyone replying to you is saying he is essentially a troll but imo it’s him affirming a narrative that benefits him.

He was born rich and then became a billionaire (and still would claim being self made). He truly believes some people are born better. That’s actually a core tenant of conservative ideology and the justification for social hierarchy that they support.

When you believe some people are born better, and that the market decides who has what it takes, then minorities over represented in poverty must mean that some races are born better/worse.

It’s basically social Darwinism and it benefits him if people believe that rich and successful people are better and thereby should be rewarded with more power. That is the benefit, the racism just part of the package deal.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That’s actually a core ~~tenant~~ tenet of conservative ideology

It’s basically social Darwinism; it benefits him if people believe that rich and successful people are better and ~~thereby~~ should be rewarded with more power.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Go back into your basement Dale.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

He's just a Nazi with a shitposting addiction and he fired his PR team so they can't hide it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He's a 4-chan troll that gained enough wealth from his parents that he can now actually believe and preach the things he used to read on those forums and not only barely see consequence, but actually ignite passions and movements in the world's most ignorant and mentally challenged chuds.

We have to stop wondering what his "plans" are because he has none, he is just a stupid man, like so many others, and yet commands legions of devoted followers because our species is fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I enjoyed this comment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

He's pandering to his right wing sycophants and pushing the boundaries of free speech on his platform so that when he inevitably faces consequences, he can immediately play the victim and say "see, I told you this is what the left would do!"

Normally I'd say don't give him the attention, but he's a Nazi sympathizer, and those motherfuckers deserve condemnation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

He is helping build the 'wall'.