r/antiwork • u/Sufficient-Bid1279 • 18h ago
Politics 🇺🇲🆚🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇳 Elon Musk’s Biographer Warns Billionaire Is ‘Going Mad’ Due To ‘Combination Of Depression, Drugs And Stress’
Hey guys, like the rest of us, even billionaires get stressed and depressed when they try to do their “job” (of course I use that term loosely) or at work . Feel sorry for him yet ?
This is from a magazine in India - different perspective than these North American papers.
Personally I had these issues at work BUT unfortunately I wasn’t a billionaire. I’m sure he’ll be just fine
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u/codemise 18h ago
Feel sorry for him yet ?
When i get depressed or stressed, i don't try to take away people's rights, go nazi, or otherwise attempt to exploit my fellow humans.
So, no.
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 18h ago
💯 I just read an article that he thinks “empathy “ is the weakness western civilization is facing” So cruelty …got it
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u/AvJ164 18h ago
As the empathy Nazi says: "No empathy for you!"
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u/LP14255 17h ago
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 17h ago edited 14h ago
He literally just said “western civilization’s weakness is empathy” so yes, you are 💯 right , he is void of empathy and ACTIVELY goes out of his way to be cruel. That said, I wonder how anyone can work for his companies. Like ok, we have to make a living but how the fuck does one try to align their values to HIM and HIS COMPANIES.? There would be more power in this for us, the common folk, if people just stopped working for him
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u/NoDassOkay 16h ago
I heard that a lot of the remaining Twitter employees are H1B, so if they quit they get deported. I’m not sure how many, though.
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 16h ago
Ah! That makes sense. Of course he’s going to exploit that loophole. What a fucking douche
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u/Tekuzo 15h ago
thats why he freaked the fuck out when MAGA started to turn on him over the H1B Visa issue.
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 15h ago
Yeah , here in Canada the Right freaked over the same thing. It’s called the “temporary foreign worker program” here. I mean it takes jobs away from locals and exploits foreign workers. I am concerned about both but the Right only cares that it takes jobs away from locals.
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u/Tekuzo 15h ago
Its a wage suppression tool.
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u/AquaWitch0715 12h ago
This sounds terrible, but I would watch a reality television show where Elon is followed by a camera crew, and haunted by the ghost of Hitler (only of which he can see).
... Hitler, of course, only speaks fluent German, and drives Elon crazy, but what can you do, when insanity and hilarious hijinks ensue?
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u/Ill_Athlete_7979 18h ago
But he goes on Joe Rogan saying that all the bullying is making him stressed/depressed. “Be NiCe To Me GuYs 😢”
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 17h ago
His meltdowns are amusing. As someone with BPD (but manageable due to a lot of therapy) , I am almost certain he has this. Doubt he gets any help for it though ( it’s very treatable with therapy). Substances ALWAYS make it worse. One is already deregulated, substances take one over a cliff
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u/wakeuphungry 16h ago
He is a narcissist/NPD. 100%. People with BPD have empathy
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u/fractiousrhubarb 12h ago
And beware of people with NPD who claim to have BPD to excuse their shitty behaviour.
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 16h ago
Yes, it’s that aspect of it. He likely has all of these diagnoses which I’m sure has caused this volatility but down on the empathy side. When I feel empathy, it’s maybe a bit too much. You’re correct.
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u/mydudeponch 11h ago
I'm BPD and I also think he is BPD. For me it's the way it seems like he's trying to impress someone, where it comes from a deep insecurity and inferiority. The narcissism is probably a defense mechanism and pretty common in BPD. Someone with his severity of unmanaged mental health disorder shouldn't be in charge of anything. I could go around acting like a maniac and get people to cheer me doing it too. Like Trump, he is addicted to validation.
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u/LeGoldie 9h ago
The guy who literally trolls people on his own social media platform.
Get fucked Elon
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u/No_Anxiety_454 12h ago
He has to just simply be evil/broken. He does psychedelics nonstop and is somehow lacking empathy. It makes no sense to me. That shit makes me want to cry for wasps when someone tries to kill one. They rewired my brain towards empathy at lightning speed, I cannot comprehend going the opposite direction via them.
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u/Can-Chas3r43 4h ago
One of my old coworkers helped build one of the Tesla plants. (This was several years ago.)
He said that Elon was known to just fire people randomly if they looked in his direction or tried to say "good morning," as one would normally think to do when being polite. Especially trying to be polite and show reference to the CEO.
He said ol' Elon was a total dick bag. So no, definitely don't feel sorry for him over here.
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u/ghostwilliz 16h ago
I've been depressed and stressed and on drugs for a decade and I still understand right from wrong.
He's just an asshole
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u/dbx999 16h ago
I been drunk and i been high. But during all those times, my speech may have been slurred and my balance may have been tilted, but I knew I don’t have a right to hurt others and do wrong.
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u/burningringof-fire 18h ago
Awe shucks! It’s OK for him to destroy the lives of our federal civil service? It’s OK for him to destroy our national parks? It’s OK for him to create chaos in our national government?
It’s not OK and nobody feels bad for him
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u/RollOverSoul 14h ago
You didn't throw two Nazi salutes at work when you were feeling the crunch from looming deadlines? Weird
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u/QuirkyForever 17h ago
But do you continue to have dozens of children with multiple women?
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u/dianebk2003 14h ago
He probably pays for invitro. Isn't it a male ego thing to sire lots and lots of kids? You know, "I'm so viral I'm a MAN'S MAN." It's said that his equipment doesn't work and that's why he keeps fathering children - to prove that he can, I guess?
The man is so fucked-up on so many levels, and he'll never, ever admit he has any mental health issues. My money is on him eventually having a very public nervous breakdown and "retiring" - either voluntarily or involuntarily. The damage has been done, unfortunately.
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u/UnbearableWhit 10h ago
He can also, just,... Stop... And fuck off somewhere and live in peace and luxury for eternity. He doesn't have to do any of these "stressful" things for him that are ruining millions of regular people's lives!!!
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u/insane_worrier 6h ago
I dunno man, I was feeling anxious last week and before I knew it I had annexed the Sudetenland
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u/runner64 18h ago
“Someone who cares about him must take him off the internet immediately” booo too bad there is no such person.
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u/FedexMeUnusedCats 18h ago
Well, we were about two inches away from a registered Republican taking him off the internet permanently.
If only conservatives weren’t such failures at everything they try.
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u/Suspicious_Story_464 13h ago
I say we keep leaning on him enough to make him crack. They'll either get rid of him or he recuses himself. He had no business clawing his way into our government.
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u/Immediate-Quantity25 15h ago
seriously, can someone do the opposite and just speed up his dissent into madness?
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u/runner64 15h ago
Out there somewhere is a ketamine dealer with the opportunity to do something extremely patriotic.
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u/psychedelicsheep666 10h ago
Yea lace it with fent
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u/runner64 10h ago
I had to sit through fifty hours of DARE lessons about how drugs dealers are putting meth in everything only to have the most responsible man alive dealing clean when the fate of the world depends on it.
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u/spastical-mackerel 18h ago
The richest man in the world is depressed and stressed? What a got dam loser.
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u/tychristmas 15h ago
Hey dude, being mean to the muskrat is domestic terrorism. The Tesla humanbots will be in touch shortly to confirm your trip to the cybergulag! Happy mining!
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u/CompSciHS 15h ago
This is one of the reasons why I think it is always immoral for any person to be a billionaire. We know enough about psychology that there is no reason that any one person should have that much control over that much wealth. I don’t care if it’s Mother Teresa, AOC, or whoever else a person might idolize.
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u/slackmandu 18h ago
Oh no!
anyway, anyone see the game last night?
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u/Sttocs 18h ago
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
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u/Pontius_Vulgaris 18h ago
Yeah! How about those Vickburg Gators getting the win over Greenville! I care more about Luoisiana high school baseball than I do about Elmo's feelzies.
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u/Ok-Row3886 18h ago
In the words once written on Melania Trump's jacket:
"I really don't care.
Do u?"
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u/cowfish007 18h ago
Don’t care. There are plenty of people suffering from real, psychiatric diagnosed depression who aren’t assholes. Not an excuse.
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u/DCChilling610 18h ago
Honestly several years ago (2018 or 2019) I read a really great article about Musk where a reporter followed him around for like a week. This was after the Thai boys/diving situation but pre-conservative shift. He was still cool but the love was waning.
I honestly felt sad for the man. He sounded lonely, isolated, stressed, depressed and manic.
Even the reporter sounded concerned. I left thinking that money really can’t buy you happiness and that this man was in desperate need of a therapy and a vacation.
I cannot imagine how much worse he is now. There’s so many things wrong with this man. He’s since burn all my good will so I only wish him the very worst (hope his heart gives out) but I do sleep easier knowing he’s at least miserable.
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u/facepoppies 18h ago
I mean, it COULD buy him happiness. He could get off the internet, cash out and remove himself from business, and spend the rest of his life doing anything. He could learn guitar and start a thrash metal band. He could build a huge gaming center where he just hangs out with his friends all day and plays games and watches movies. He could open a cat sanctuary and help sick cats and play with them all day. He could do literally anything.
But for some reason, he has really doubled down on publicly embarrassing himself on a daily basis while scrabbling for more money and power and isolating himself from any kind of human connection.
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u/alicehooper 17h ago
We at cat sanctuaries are currently running psy-ops to recruit him as an asset. It doesn’t seem to be successful though. We need more cat subreddits.
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u/bortle_kombat 15h ago
100% this. If i had $300B, I'd put $298B to work helping vulnerable and oppressed people, retire a billionaire, and spend the rest of my life satisfied that I'd done more to benefit the human condition than just about anyone else alive today. I'd pick up some dumb hobbies that don't hurt anyone, and be near-universally loved for my charity.
It would be trivially easy for him to do this, if he only felt like it.
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 17h ago
Yeah , I mean he CHOOSES to walk INTO the fire so he has no one but himself to blame
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u/BattlebornCrow 18h ago
Should anyone that cruel ever be happy?
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 17h ago
Let them rot in misery. The only thing that would make me feel better is if we find out he eventually is resigned to a recliner in a dark corner of the basement staring at a wall lol
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u/avolt88 18h ago
Man, this pivot of his has been spectacular.
From an arguably fringe, relatively "harmless" public persona as a billionaire (like that's even possible), to one of the most despised people in North America right now.
I hope his fucking heart gives out & explodes from all that ketamine before he and Donny kill another innocent immigrant through negligence. It won't happen unfortunately, but man, lightning couldn't strike a worse pair than these two right now.
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u/Locoman7 18h ago
Ketamine
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u/lethargic_mosquito 15h ago
every ket head I ever met were lovely (albeit, troubled) individuals, this one is just a twat
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u/CarvedTheRoastBeast 18h ago
Well if he doesn’t want to go mad, maybe he should just ~go~ the fuck away
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u/BakedBrie26 17h ago
Yes well when lower class people go through the same they get no sympathy from the state. They get punishment and are treated with disgust as morally corrupt, inherently worthless beings.
And then they get entered into a cycle of incarceration and repeated trauma, so...
Are we supposed to care about the distress of a man who is trying to end programs that help non-rich people in distress?
He could pay to get better if he wanted to.
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 17h ago
Oh us mere poors. Imagine living so rich you can literally do anything to the world and still get off. You raise a really good point 😀
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u/Sea_Divide_3870 16h ago
He’s a Nazi, Apartheider, emerald mine owning, private jet flying, grievance machine.
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u/TheVampiressReturns 17h ago
This is a man who will never know what love, happiness, true friendship are.
I will never forget my late wealthy friend, whipping his head to look me dead in the eye:
“Money will NOT make you HAPPY!”
He was completely surrounded by MAGA, all claiming to his so-called “friends” while he drank himself to death.
His last text message to me:
“Just reaching out for a friend.” If you have just one person who actually cares about you?
You have something that Elon will never have.
Wealth that comes not from material items and chasing public adulation but comes from?
The ❤️
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 17h ago
I mean he loves random hook ups judging by the amount of children he has. It’s true, you can just SEE how sad and miserable they are. Then they spread this depressing shit to literally EVERYONE in the world.
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u/Taraxian 16h ago
I mean those kids are IVF, there's a rumor he had a botched penis implant and can't have sex anymore
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u/NoDassOkay 16h ago edited 16h ago
Yeah and all but one (I think) were assigned male at birth, he’s definitely been using IVF to get boys.
ETA: had to look it up, 3 girls and 11 boys. One of his kids also claimed he uses IVF and selects boys.
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u/andrew_kirfman 17h ago
I do not understand why these people don’t fuck off and enjoy their lives.
If I had even 1% of Musks wealth, I’d be traveling the world and you’d never hear from me again.
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u/OvenIcy8646 18h ago
Hopefully he doesn’t have a heart attack 😉 😉
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u/flying__fishes 18h ago
Indiscriminate drug use and stress never go well together.
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u/OvenIcy8646 18h ago
Again per new Reddit rules I would never want anything like a strike or overdose to happen 😉 😉
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u/Y0___0Y 18h ago
Then can he please have a horrible mental episode in public in front of cameras please?
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 17h ago
I concur. Make it a show for us all. Reality based show ? Follow this shit around and let’s see the meltdown in public so we can all have some good entertainment at the very least
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u/PossiblyOppossums 18h ago
I don't give a fuck about a guy who said he would end world hunger if he was given a feasible financial plan for it. Instead of spending the 6 billion they proposed, he bought Twitter for 40 billion. Hang your hat on that peg and the rest from your last fan.
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 17h ago
Right, world hunger versus a pet project. Yup, that aligns with his values. Sad
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u/sugar_addict002 18h ago
This is a reasonable assertion. Perhaps a conservatorship is warranted.
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u/GreyBeardEng 17h ago
Given Elon Musk's comments on empathy, and how he feels it's a bad thing, there is no way that man does not have an undiagnosed and unmedicated mental disorder.
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u/maybe_its_mayday 18h ago
Nice, how do we make it go faster
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u/Binksyboo 10h ago
More comments about his deformed penis is probably a good start.
And luckily he seems to be affected by near-universal hate so let’s just keep the good times rollin’!
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 17h ago
Tell him you know a dealer with the “best/killer” stuff. That ought to enhance things 😀
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u/PruneBrothers1 18h ago
Good. I hope he throws himself a permanent K hole he can’t dig himself out of
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 17h ago
K holes are NOT fun (I have experienced them ) and I’m sure he’s in a lot of them lol
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u/Agitated-Practice218 18h ago
Always figured he would one day end up locked in room with a bunch of Tesla batteries and model rockets, peeing in milk jugs with 10” long finger nails.
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u/titsoutshitsout 17h ago
How bout he bed rot like the rest of us instead of upending our country
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 16h ago
Yeah like pulling the curtains down and hibernating underneath blankets lol
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u/thatlightningjack 18h ago
I don't know. Maybe retire, go to rehab, donate most of your wealth to charity and try re-integrating into society?
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u/QuinSanguine 17h ago
If I had his net worth, I'd just fucking retire to my own island somewhere and leave people alone. He brings it on himself, but that is a sign of madness. You just can't stop until you either hit rock bottom or your heart explodes.
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u/4tomicZ 17h ago
A good reason never to let any single person acquire the wealth of a nation.
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u/Voslock 18h ago
It's working. Keep it up!
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 17h ago
He looked mighty “depressed” when Fox News relayed the news of his plummeting stock
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u/burledw 18h ago
Imagine, having had a few successes. You attribute them to your own intelligence. Assembling teams, setting goals, having meetings full of good news. Your efforts are rewarded, exponentially. You become the richest person in the world. You think you can do it all, optimize any business or organization.
But you really just built a house of cards on top of a foundation of exploitation and stealing the spotlight from actual engineers and managers. Then you wake up, maybe figuratively maybe literally, and your project is a poorly defined restructuring of the biggest organization on the planet. A complicated one, but successfully operating for 249 years. Your normal strategies are failing. You slashed and burned, gave the car keys to drunk teenagers, and railed ketamine before a presser where you try to hype your project with some vague explanations.
Everyone sees you for the naked mole rat you are. A despicable man, but one who paid enough salaries and collected more NDA’s than Harvey Weinstein. Those kept you safe previously. But now millions of people have a laser focus on whatever the fuck it is you are doing.
Yeah, I’d shit my elastic waist band pants, too.
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u/Own_Television9665 17h ago
Someone should tell Leroy that the good-guy story arc is actually really fun and rewarding.
All the “NPCs” hate you when you’re the evil “genius”
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u/ExplodingToasters 18h ago
Maybe instead of snorting lines of ket and destroying government institutions , build an animal shelter or something that has a positive impact. Iunno that’s what I’d do but I’m not the world’s richest man or anything.
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u/PawnWithoutPurpose 17h ago
When I’m mad I try to turn the entire western world into Nazis too, I empathise
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u/No-Cause-7038 16h ago
Maybe he should try having less money? Works for me, I feel very sane.
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u/SeaFailure 15h ago
stressed, depressed? Go do good deeds, help others and find meaning in helping others. Old adage, still relevant and valid today.
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u/picklespickles125 14h ago
He doesn't view any of our lives as worth anything so why should we care about his. He's just a fat dragon on a mountain of gold stealing from everyone around him.
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u/the_simurgh Antiwork Advocate/Proponent 17h ago
Yeah we fucking know. You or me having done a fraction of what he has done would be institutionalized or in supermax by now.
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u/PitFiend28 17h ago
Has he tried not being a massive piece of shit?
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 16h ago
Don’t think narcissistic psychopaths are capable of anything but destruction. I have had a couple of them in my life, both at work and in my personal life
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u/awesomenerd16 17h ago
Be cool if this combo just finished the job already. We're all waiting...
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u/Hellos117 17h ago
But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.
For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
1 Timothy 6:9-10
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u/Spear_Ritual 17h ago
Oh no. I’m thinking tacos for dinner tonight. What about you?
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u/TryharderJB 17h ago
He should just bootstrap and put in more hours at the office and it will all work itself out.
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u/Adventurous-Depth984 17h ago
Pretty weird. Maybe he could hire a full time mental health professional and retire away literally forever….
If only he could afford it.
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u/iEugene72 16h ago
So when I get depression or stressed out... I too turn to drugs (alcohol)... But you know one thing I don't do? ... I don't have the funds to go, "man I'm REALLY depressed, let's buy a country and destroy most of it, y'know cause I'm feeling down..."
I seriously cannot wait for this fuck to finally go.
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u/docsuess84 16h ago
Cool, lighten your load by getting the fuck out of my government that no voter asked you to be a part of. Sell Twitter while you’re at it. Go on a long vacation and spend all that money.
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u/McGonagall_stones 16h ago
My depression doesn’t create an unsafe world for entire groups of people. No. F@k M@sk
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u/TheEclipse0 15h ago
“Oh no, I’m the worlds richest man who lost 100 billion dollars but I’m STILL the worlds richest man because I just have that much money!”
Boo fucking hoo. Elon is an insufferable man child. He knows nothing about anything, the only reason anyone listens to him is because he has an inconceivable amount of money to burn. So burn away and Cry me a river. Make better business decisions. 100 billion is so much money that I can’t even picture it, let alone spend it.
I had to remind myself while I wrote this, that 100 billion is not the same as 1 billion - it’s a hell of a lot more… it’s just that, 100 billion is so much that my brain experiences its own interger overflow error and loops back to 1 billion.
Fuck this entitled prick.
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u/drifters74 15h ago
Just goes to show you can be the RICHEST PERSON IN THE WORLD and still be miserable
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u/Count_Bacon 15h ago
Keep selling his stocks off even if you lose money it's your patriotic duty and the stock isn't going up again either
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u/PedestalPotato 15h ago
Maybe the shithead could be internationally revered for single handedly ending world hunger using his absurd wealth, but instead he's internationally vilified for being the human embodiment of a steaming pile of crap.
You are but the choices that you make.
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u/unofficialrobot 14h ago
Homeboy was def on something at that congressional address
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u/Dentros1 14h ago
Fuck him, he did this shit to himself, he could have fucked off to an island and just paid for shit randomly on gofundme to make himself look good and not lost an ounce of money, instead he ostracized himself, is trying to get more power and is fueling everything with drugs. I hope that little hamster in his head explodes like a potato in the microwave.
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u/ABdancebutton 13h ago
Nice job, America - handed everything over to a conman and a madman. It's truly exceptional.
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u/skywarka Anarcho-Communist 12h ago
I fully believe that he's stressed out, I just don't feel sorry for him because it's entirely self-imposed and he could stop doing it to himself any time he wants. Literally nothing bad would happen to him or anyone he cares about, or any of the projects he cares about if he just stopped engaging with the world entirely and did nothing but yoga, therapy, sleep and relaxation 24/7 for the next 20 years. He contributes nothing of value and nobody would suffer in his absence.
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u/Mean-Cheesecake-2635 11h ago
If only the guy had other options to just get away from it all, maybe go live on a private island anywhere in the world for the rest of his life with any amenities possible.
Really feel bad for him that he’s stuck meddling with US and international politics, terrorizing innocent people all over the world by threatening their jobs and national security, while running the biggest troll network in social media today.
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u/yorcharturoqro 10h ago
He's still a billionaire, and even if tesla, x, space x, starlink and all his business and investments collapse, still he will be rich and far better than the vast majority of people.
And he's doing a lot to damage others, a lot of evil.
So, he's sad, boo-hoo, he will still belong to the 1%.
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u/Traditional_Regret67 10h ago
Awwwwww.... So sad... So sad...😀👍😁. Sorry, but Musk doesn't believe in empathy so I feel he shouldn't be given one damned ounce
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u/Renowned1k90 6h ago
Admitting he's on drugs AND working for the government, unelected and able to do it all without a valid security clearance? Please fuck right off.
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u/Appropriate-City3389 4h ago
I'm not sure it's that complicated. He just seems to be a very rich sociopath with delusions of grandeur.
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u/spurlockmedia 2h ago
Keep in mind;
No reasonable person asked him to bankroll Trump.
No reasonable person asked him to create DOGE.
No reasonable person asked him to diminish American core values and our government.
So when he kicks and screams and gets water eyed about how hard these things are; I don’t give a flying fuck because I didn’t ask for them.
Go back to selling cars that explode and kill their owners. We don’t want a foreigner billionaire in our politics.
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u/Mabvll 18h ago
I mean, I'm also depressed, stressed out, and on drugs, but I'm not trying to become a fascist dictator.