I believe this was one of his “jokes.”

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    I’m having such a fucking hard time accepting that I ever thought Elol was smart

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      Everyone makes mistakes. You’ve grown, rejoice.

      It’s also a reminder that many may still learn who he really is.

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      Well he had millions in a PR fund before, and likely still does now. He’s a real moron for fucking it all up. When he was made to step down as chairman on Space X for one of his dumb ass statements, investors threatened to pull out of he wasn’t still on the board, he was supposed to be this sure thing. He burned a whole image as an stock market winner to be king shit of Twitter.

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      I was just talking about this with a friend. Remember back when he seemed like a neat guy? Quirky and kind of a dick sometimes but maybe an actual good rich guy with interesting ideas. He was even on Rick and Morty!

      It turns out that was all bullshit. What a disappointment he turned out to be.

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          He misjudged the time ghost. But also he fired the woman who kept his image and behavior under control, and lost his mind over unions. I imagine he thought he’d be like Walt Disney, but aforementioned zeitgeist made him look like Henry Ford with less competence and sanity.

          I know he always had tumultuous relations with Grimes, the two of them both seem to have a lot of issues both separately and together. But also Naziism is meant to appeal to people like him. He is rich, powerful, and emotionally insecure. He must hear that he is special and better and that he should be having a ton of sex. He parrots eugenics that flatters him because it tells him what he needs to hear.

          He refuses therapy because what he needs to hear to be healthy is the opposite, that he needs positive interactions with those around him and that that comes from genuine humility. That Twitter is terrible for him and that psychedelics clearly haven’t helped him fill the emptiness inside and so he’d be better served by something like volunteering. Not by giving some huge extravagant shit to show he’s the best, or some partisan thing. Something like swinging a hammer for habitat for humanity or stocking a food pantry. Something painfully ordinary that does direct good, allows him to be taught or guided and corrected, and puts him in community with strangers for a common goal. But he’s not going to do that. The emptiness in his soul is like an irrational phobia, it drives him away from the solution and towards behavior that makes him into a weirder and less likable person. If he hollows his soul out enough he’ll feel less empty right?

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      I knew about Elon from some very lengthy posts on a blog called waitbutwhy that made him look like some very rad dude.

      I loved that blog because it was informative and funny and it had a very hopeful view on future technologies, it all sounded incredibly exciting.

      Then they made a post taking cryonics seriously and I was like “huh?”. And then I started learning who Elon really was and now I can’t trust that blog anymore.

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        I mean people also admired Hitler for being such a great politician before he set the world on fire.

        People are idiots.

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      I was always aware he existed, but didn’t know much about him. I just had the general sense that he was an eccentric billionaire that seemed like an okay guy overall, which is the image he cultivated. As someone who’s been disappointed by people I admire revealing themselves to be pieces of shit before, I can empathize with previous Musk fans who aren’t right-wing shitheads.