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    Usually I’d feel pity for someone being cyberbullied, but Elon told me that’s a sign of weakness, so fuck him.

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    It astounds me that a middle aged man, who can literally afford anything, do anything, go anywhere, is so fragile emotionally that he craves adulation from absolute strangers. Particularly teenage boys, which emotionally, he is also.

    It would be pitiable if we wasn’t such a psychopath.

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      As a wise man recently said,

      They tried to rig the game, but you can’t fake influence.

      Money can buy everything but it can’t buy respect. Nobody respects Musk getting to level 90+ in SSF HC PoE2 because he just bought his way there. Nobody respects him on Twitter, because he bought his way there. Nobody respects Tesla, because (say it with me kids) he bought his way there.

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        Money can absolutely buy respect the problem is fuckwad is too stupid to know how, for example he could bankroll building functional replicas of historic vehicles and weapons for museums which would earn him some respect. That’s assuming he doesn’t want to help the poor and build public libraries like Rockefeller or Carnegie.

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      What gets me is that he has the means to become the most beloved man in history pretty much on a whim. I can’t even begin to comprehend the amount of good he could do by dumping half his fortune into good causes, which would still leave him with orders of magnitude more money than he’d need to buy/do whatever the fuck he wants with.

      The attention he craves is right there. But he chooses instead to be a villain. Why?? Be a fucking superhero - even if it’s for completely selfish reasons, humanity won’t give shit.

      I don’t get it.

      If I randomly obtained a billion dollars, let alone hundreds of billions, I’d spend the rest of my life riding a warm-and-fuzzy high. Helping people feels good!

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        Look at Bill Gates. He’s a complete asshole and was widely hated until he stepped down from Microsoft. But, spend just a small fraction of his fortune on charity, much of it self-serving, and he’s now he’s widely loved.

        If I randomly obtained a billion dollars, let alone hundreds of billions, I’d spend the rest of my life riding a warm-and-fuzzy high. Helping people feels good!

        The thing is, you don’t become a billionaire if you have empathy. If you’re a normal kind of person who likes helping other people, you start giving away your money long before you hit $1B.

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          In a functioning society, we wouldn’t have to rely on the “philanthropy” of rich people to fund good causes. It should not be possible for one person to hoard so much wealth that they get to personally decide which issues get ignored.

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            I completely agree. It’s like one of those supposedly uplifting news items about a kid selling their rare stamp collection to pay for their bus driver’s surgery. Sure, it’s nice the kid did that, but what kind of dystopia are we in where someone with a steady job can’t get the health care they need.

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        From what I understand, Musk was under investigation from multiple federal US agencies for malfeasance, I don’t know for what, but he got involved to make those investigations go away. Then he got addicted to being in charge after buying The Presidency.

        Because, as we all know, narcissists love being in charge, and adulation.

        And why is he being an asshole, when he could be generous and beneficent, and get the adulation he craves? Because he thinks he’s superior, and like he said, empathy is weakness, He is unable to understand, or feel empathy.

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          From what I understand, Musk was under investigation from multiple federal US agencies for malfeasance, I don’t know for what

          I’ll give you a hint. It starts with “e” and rhymes with “Epstein didn’t kill himself”…

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        He had that aura when he was building Tesla and solar city and the gigafactory. Become a billionaire and fight climate change? Go Elon.

        Go to Mars? Bit of a stretch goal, but helping Nasa and science is good. Go Elon.

        Save kids trapped underground? Go Elon.

        What? Called him a pedophile? Maybe he has some inside knowledge. Anyway.

        Shout about doge coin? Bit weird. Ok he’s just having fun.

        Sell a consumer grade flamethrower? What?

        Pay 44bn for Twitter? What? Where’s the value? This doesn’t save the world.

        And down and down.

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          In comparison to his wealth, that’s so small time that it’s not even worth mentioning.

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            Yeah, because doing anything altruistic is “virtue signaling.” No one really cares about anyone but themselves. How do I know? Because I don’t.

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          Bill Gates makes a strong argument for becoming beloved while you’re still around to enjoy it.

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    Elon. It’s me, Ashley St. Claire. I have no other means of contacting you so I bought PoE2 early access. Please pay your child support. Thank you Elon

    I died

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    its almost as if he forgot what gamers are. bitch behind a keyboard forgot that other people can be bitches behind keyboards too.

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    lol rage quits, whining about being bullied on X. Somebody needs to slap the wokism out of Felon Musk.

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      All the more reason to give him hell for doing a terrible job. If you can’t handle the heat get out of the kitchen.

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    In the age of information take-downs by the Fanta Menace’s Nazi regime, make sure to archive this and mirror it to Peertube and Archive.org.

    YouTube link (for now, it will probably disappear in the next 48 hours): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDJaymU2hfw

    You can also find this on Archive.org. I won’t put the link here to help protect it from takedowns. If you have the capacity to do so, seed the torrent. Don’t let the world forget of this hilarious clown-show.

    And remember - you probably feel empathy witnessing someone get bullied like this. But don’t forget what this James Bond villain is responsible for, the havoc he has caused, and the millions of lives he has disrupted. Harden your heart because these facists will NEVER change. Cyberdump man-baby emerald mine fascist Nazi jumping Tesla man deserves to get cyberbullied, and at points in the video he looks like he is going to cry; those are Crocodile Tears. He’ll hide the pain with his hundreds of billions of dollars, memes, and ketamine while sitting in his ivory tower resting his feet on Trump’s back.

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    Maybe if we all just start referring to this as “the gas leak season” while we’re in it we can break the 4th wall and escape whatever the fuck this supposed reality is.

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    Basically he chose to undergo some exposure therapy that probably felt an awful lot like the bullying he experienced as a kid.

    It’s tragic he never got a chance to grow up and mature into a healthy and balanced individual. Instead, he appears to have institutionalized himself into the perpetual social pariah.

    Fuck him. He could be better. He has every single resource anyone could ever want or need (wouldn’t be surprised if he even had personal nukes at this point), but instead of finding a path toward healing, he just continues to do dumb shit like flagellating himself with hostile gamers to fuel his internal rage and hatred.

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    I don’t play video games, are there are lot of 53 year old men seeking the adoration of gamers?

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      Yes, the ones raised in a bubble of entitlement, privilege, and emerald mine money, by Nazi parents.

      Don’t you peasants get it? Musk is special. Homo Superior. Just ask his mom.

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        Apparently, he got his ass kicked in High School for bullying a classmate whose father committed suicide.

        I don’t think he got his ass kicked enough.

        On the same tangent, Alex Jones severely injured a classmate, brain damage injury, when he sucker punched him, knocked him out, then literally pile-drove him Wrasslin’ style. Well, after, that guy’s friends invited Jones to a party, and set up him 80’s style to get his ass beat. And they beat the shit out of him. So bad, that Jones’ dentist father wrote an article for the local paper about it, and the family left town. Because those guys would have probably killed Jones, eventually.

        Jones, and Musk, and many other grifters and predators like them, are psychopaths. They are unable to feel empathy. They think it’s stupid, and weak, and interferes with their goals and desires.

        Evil, true evil, is the lack of empathy. These people are evil.

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          On the same tangent, Alex Jones severely injured a classmate, brain damage injury, when he sucker punched him, knocked him out, then literally pile-drove him Wrasslin’ style. Well, after, that guy’s friends invited Jones to a party, and set up him 80’s style to get his ass beat. And they beat the shit out of him. So bad, that Jones’ dentist father wrote an article for the local paper about it, and the family left town. Because those guys would have probably killed Jones, eventually.

          Alex regularly relieves that sucker punch and pile drive on air. “I’m going to (nonviolently, lovingly) slam the globalists faces into the curb.” The reason he and his family left town in his narrative was because he knew too much about the police and some kind of sex ring.

          It is disturbing how often he vividly describes that attack though. There’s something quasi sexual to the violence for him.

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        100% agreed. But yeah, oligarchs, nazis, and other fascists are excepted from that standard.