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I did not see this published outside of India. But not sure why. It’s all based on Xitter.

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[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 154 points 1 month ago

He's doing it too himself, fuck off.

No one asked him to be a co-nazi. No one asked him to take over Twitter. No one asked him to play make-believe auto maker. No one is asking for his fucking biography. He's acting like everyone is pulling him in all these different directions, and no one wants him.

He is the world's richest fucking man. Fuck him. He could have the best doctors/therapy/drugs in the world, could travel the world and "find himself," maybe even do something worth writing about. But he chooses to be a completely waste of human flesh that will be nothing but a smear in history. That's his legacy. A shit smear on an already shit covered era. He's not helping anyone, not even his own kids, he is willfully putting his effort into being the biggest piece of shit.

Fuck him. Fuck his depression, fuck his addiction, fuck his stress, and fuck him. He's ruining my country and wants pity because it's stressing him out.

FUCK HIM

[-] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

Also calling it stress is so fucking gross when normal people have to deal with soul crushing extisence of inadequate food, housing and life of wage slavery, and he's just upset cause his world domination plans makes people say mean things to him.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 31 points 1 month ago

Yeah. He could fuck off and never have to speak to another person or do anything he didn't want to do if he wanted with just a tiny fraction of his wealth. He doesn't have to be this way. He chose it. He's like a child breaking things for attention.

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 18 points 1 month ago

People show you who they really are when they can do anything they want. Elon is failing at it much worse than someone who sits on the couch and does weed all day.

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[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 150 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 asylum~~ our society.

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 28 points 1 month ago

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

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] EldritchFeminity 20 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] zeepintor@lemmy.world 99 points 1 month ago

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

[-] SteveCC@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] vegeta@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago

"going" is doing a lot of work here...

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Going implies he's not there yet and there is much worse to come.

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[-] cupcakezealot 71 points 1 month ago

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...

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[-] imvii@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] maniclucky@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago

Can we get a fast painful decline? Minimize how much harm he does to... everyone?

[-] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Honestly. I'd be happy with decline at 3200 feet per second from 400 yards.

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[-] Yoga@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 month ago

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...

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 month ago

"Guys would rather upend the world economy and peace in a ketamine bender than go to therapy"

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[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

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.”

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 50 points 1 month ago

Elon Musk could have been remembered as a cool tech guy. All he had to do was just keep running his companies and let the smart people working for him do the talking. Nobody would be the wiser that he didn’t know what he was talking about.

Instead, he let his ego get in the way of things and people know him for who he really is. I used to think he was pretty smart. After reading the things he writes, it became apparent that his companies thrive despite him, not because of him.

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

That guy's mental health reached rock bottom years ago. He has been digging ever since.

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[-] Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

I expect the problem is that, when you get that rich, people stop caring about you, they start caring about your money. A string of women who just smash a kid out for him then fuck off. Kids who don't seem to want anything to do with him. Does he have anyone he actually considers a true friend? Probably not. He's just surrounded by bootlickers and yes men, and deep down he knows it. He's probably deeply lonely and paranoid.

Not that I care. He's also a cunt.

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[-] No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 month ago

So sad. :(

Clearly for Musks own sake the best solution is to launch him into the sun.

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[-] CompleteUnknown@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

We noticed.

[-] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 32 points 1 month ago

Hopefully he offs himself before his DOGE takes full control of a nuclear silo.

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[-] excral@feddit.org 31 points 1 month ago

I thought that he always was an asshole and just dropped the facade, but him once being somewhat sane (as far as billionaires go) and going mad from stress and drug abuse seems like a plausible hypothesis, too. Either way, doesn't change that he needs to be stopped

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Someone who cares about him needs to take him off the internet permanently

there's your problem innit

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[-] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

imagine ruining people's lives so you can have all the money, only for you to still be miserable. dont get me wrong im happy he is.

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[-] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Don’t forget this guy bragged a few years back about not sleeping or sleeping in his office. Let’s not discount how years of sleep deprivation has probably influenced his chaotic behavior.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 19 points 1 month ago

I don't buy that shit for a second. He can't tell the truth if he wanted to. Back when he made these claims, overwatch just launched and he spend all day on twitter telling people he works 20 hours a day, plays a lot of overwatch, binges 6 different animes, and spends a lot of time with his family.

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[-] BookSnob@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago

Maybe he ought to do himself and us a favour and just… delete himself.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago

Oh no please don't kill yourself live on X, that would own the liberals too hard

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 month ago

Depressed you say? Go on Elon, follow your leader.

[-] PearOfDees69@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Praying for the worst for him. 🙏

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Just another drug-addicted Hitler.

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What does the richest man in history have to stress about. He doesn't know the meaning of real stress. The pansy.

[-] salty_mariner@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I do think he has stress, but it's self-induced. He's clearly mentally unwell. Honestly, makes me think of that BoJack Horseman episode where you hear his inner monologue throughout the show and it's just things comments directed at himself like, "you piece of shit.", "You're so fat", etc.

Not an excuse at all for his actions, but I do really think that's what's going on. He hates himself. Needs constant validation. But no amount of validation is going to soothe his inner monologue. So he's spiraling while his stress continues to grow.

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[-] SirFasy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Oh no.. anyways..

[-] yrmitz@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Combination Of Depression, Drugs And Stress"

Sounds like my life without billionaire part.

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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Maybe if we can stress him out enough he'll have a heart attack

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[-] prole 15 points 1 month ago

Why can't he just kill himself? Why does he need to bring the entire country down with him? Piece of shit.

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