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“I mean, you have Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price, where the stock price has gone in half—and he is overjoyed,” he said. “What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like, who derives joy from that?”
We all derive joy from watching the villain get their just deserts.
A jerk? On twitter he calls everyone retards. Not such an edgelord when you're talking to real people huh?
Who derives joy from that?
-Man who was gleefully swinging a chainsaw on stage, deriving joy from stealing taxpayer dollars and cutting government services.
It's no where near what his just deserts would be, but it's a start. At least it's one area where the people have a little bit of power over him. Owning a Tesla (I've always hated that he stole the inventor's name for his company) should be made anathema, unacceptable, unthinkable. We should keep up the pressure in every possible way.
This sums it up
I know a MAGA like this. Constantly tells people their feelings are just made up mental things and not physical facts.
But then when he talks about how something is affecting him that isn't a physical fact, he gets animated and literally says he is upset that people don't listen to his feelings and that makes him feel bad.
I'd be surprised if any MAGA isn't like this ...
Please tell me you mock him roundly for it.
Wouldn't matter, that kind of person is incapable of self-reflection.
But they ARE capable of misery, and that my friend is worth something
Please tell him his feels make him gay
(But only if that hurts his previous feels)
These people are lost in their own worlds. They are the main and most important character and other people are simply NPCs to them. They haven't learned to relate their own experience with the experience of others. They don't consider there other genuine experiences outside of their own. Empathy is an abstract concept that means nothing but weakness to them.
They can learn to see the world and the people within it differently but it takes an inner awakening and personal effort that they are unlikely to muster the longer they exist as an isolated entity.
You know how sometimes your get so frustrated at someone you struggle to eloquently articulate your dislike of them because there are so many facets to that dislike. This is how Elon makes me feel these days. I struggle to put it in the simplest terms.
It really bothers me that he thinks he deserves pity while denying it to others. It bothers me that his attitude towards money comes from never having had to worry about it. It bothers me that he thinks that he can take actions that threaten people's livelihoods and even their lives and expects to be loved for it. It bothers me that the only way he can rationalise why people hate him is that they have brainwashed or paid by the left rather than having legitimate grievances with him. It bothers me that he thinks if you aren't a billionaire it's because your are lazy/don't deserve to be and that their hard work is not equal to his. Lastly it bothers me that I don't know if he genuinely holds these positions or if he just uses them as justification to do horrible things.
I've felt like that about Elon for a good decade now whilst everyone was praising him as a genius
He's not a genius, hes mostly an idiot with very few discernable skills. He is a scammer who got very lucky
He's a scammer who was born with an emerald mine shoved up his ass and a silver spoon dangling from his mouth.
I had a bit of an argument with a former boss a few years back about him. My boss couldn't understand why I didn't like Musk, so I explained. It didn't help.
“Empathy destroys civilisations” according to Musk. If there was ever any doubt that he is a sociopath, the evidence is now abundantly clear. Empathy is what a civilised society is built upon. He is mixing up society and imperialism. Lack of empathy is what imperialists and fascists demonstrate when they invade their neighbours. Other notables who lack empathy are misogynists, abusers, criminals and fraudsters.
Everytime his sociopathy is mentioned, this quote from the Nuremberg trials should be mentioned:
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
-G. M. Gilbert
Being a billionaire is both a symptom and cause of sociopathy.
So you're asking me to feel bad, for the richest person on Earth. After he just harmed a ton of people and damaged our country.... All because he has slightly less money, the difference of which no average person could ever dream of?
No, I don't think I will.
"Empathy is a weakness"
Definitely have zero empathy for people that believe "empathy is weakness".
Musk cannot take the heat. He has not just the taste and sensibilities of a boy, but the temperament of one. He throws a fit out when things don’t go his way. He wilts. This is someone who can be beat. In another context you might call this terminal inability to take a punch a “glass jaw.” The term “keyboard warrior” comes to mind. But I can think of another word for something that’s so ostentatious and in-your-face except for when it needs to be—a symbol of decadence and insecurity and deregulation that boasts bulletproof toughness, but which breaks into pieces at the first sign of stress.
Elon’s not unstoppable, Wisconsin voters showed on Tuesday. When the rubber hits the road, he’s nothing but a Cybertruck.
Well put. Elon is not a tough guy. Make him uncomfortable.
He's afraid, all the time - armour vest not well hidden under his shirt making him look even weirder - holding his kid in front of him when he enters or leaves places.
I'm glad he lives in fear - he must pay his guards a lot not to shoot him at any moment.
I think that most billionaires are clueless to how savagely hated they are by the larger population.
I think Musk is actually fairly unusual in his degree of cluelessness about that. You don't really ever see billionaires getting onstage with popular comedians so they can be booed like Musk did with Dave Chapelle. The super-wealthy generally know to keep a low profile and surround themselves with armed guards.
I derive joy from Tesla stock crashing, because I sold all my shares ages ago, and I like it when companies run by Nazis crash and burn <3
Should Tesla fall low enough to trigger a margin call that wipes out Space Nazi, I doubt I will ever be as happy at that moment for the rest of my life.
Aww, little Afrikaner nepo-baby's pwecious fee-fees hurt? It's almost like being right-wing also means you're a special little snowflake who can dish it but can't take it.
Dear sane Americans, please keep on going in that direction!
The damage was done. Surely the russians got what they wanted.
I hope Tesla goes bankrupt
I say we deport him to Mars.
He has literally said he plans on dying on Mars.
Let's oblige him.
EDIT:
I somehow forget to link to this banger.
EDIT 2: Alt, Live Take at KEXP
It seems like after he lost the Wisconsin judge election that Trump has started to turn on him.
Yeah, this was the big test to see if Elon’s money could still buy additional power for Trump. Didn’t work in this case, hopefully it sows further division in the admin.
who derives joy from that?
Me.
Now I need the video with Tim Walz to get my share of the joy!
Thoughts and prayers
BREAKING: Musk’s Arsehole-to-Mouth Pipeline Hits Peak Efficiency—Verbal Diarrhoea blasting at Unprecedented Volumes.
Once more Musk showcases a supreme lack of knowledge. If not for empathy we wouldn't even have civilisation. Empathy is the social glue that keeps us together. It's through empathy and cooperation that communities and societies form.
A very well written article..how refreshing.
He's a sociopath
What's the matter Elon, did the mean NPC hurt your feefees?
Concerning
What a fucking snowflake LMAO
Lock him in one of his exploding cucktrucks and see if he can take it.
I thought empathy was a weakness man baby. Grow a fucking pair.
When the rubber hits the road, he’s nothing but a Cybertruck.
Stay out of the kitchen then