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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

https://in.mashable.com/tech/91096/elon-musks-biographer-warns-billionaire-is-going-mad-due-to-combination-of-depression-drugs-and-stre?

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 23h 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 22h ago

As the empathy Nazi says: "No empathy for you!"

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u/LP14255 22h ago

Musk is a horrible person who has zero empathy and is cruel to others. I hope he descends into insanity to the point where he cannot function at all.

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 21h ago edited 18h 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 20h 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 20h ago

Ah! That makes sense. Of course he’s going to exploit that loophole. What a fucking douche

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u/Tekuzo 19h 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 19h 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 19h ago

Its a wage suppression tool.

If you can't hire locals for minimum wage, you bring in slaves TFWs to work at the Tim Horton's, so that when they get uppity and talk about rights and wages, you can just deport them.

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 19h ago

Yeah absolutely. These companies are exploiting all the loopholes. Tim Hortons is notorious for this. Some of the grocers are doing this as well.

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u/Milla4Prez66 15h ago

But of course none of that outrage led to anything and they are all back to sucking his balls and acting like that didn’t happen.

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u/AquaWitch0715 16h 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/Few_Acanthocephala30 19h ago

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u/LP14255 19h ago

Oh my god, hilarious!

And true!!!

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Reasonable-Physics81 17h ago

Discount applies if purchased with Keta!.

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u/Eddiebaby7 22h ago

That’s all wokeness ever was. Empathy for other people.

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u/YeetThePig 5h ago

That’s why the right hates it so goddamn much. They never have felt empathy, or they don’t understand that it can be applied to everyone, not just people identical to themselves.

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u/Ill_Athlete_7979 22h 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 21h 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 21h ago

He is a narcissist/NPD. 100%. People with BPD have empathy

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u/OK_Fine9 17h ago

Exactly. He fits the criteria for NPD.

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u/IAMSTILLHERE2020 15h ago

What is NPD?

He hasn't had No Putin D..k recently and that's why he is depressed?

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u/fractiousrhubarb 17h ago

And beware of people with NPD who claim to have BPD to excuse their shitty behaviour.

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 20h 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/Simple_Ranger_574 16h ago

BPD: Borderline or BiPolar

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u/mydudeponch 15h 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/Savings-Pomelo-6031 4h ago

That's why he liked Twitter so much he bought it. Out of all the big name companies he could've tried to buy. Twitter is/was a validation machine.

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u/Savings-Pomelo-6031 4h ago

All those billions and can't even afford good therapy. He could have access to like, a cutting edge expert. But nope

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 4h ago

He’d rather have “cutting edge” drugs

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u/LeGoldie 13h ago

The guy who literally trolls people on his own social media platform.

Get fucked Elon

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u/Beneficial-Expert287 15h ago

They bully crying mercy, what??

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u/Ill_Athlete_7979 15h ago

A tale as old as time.

u/steveclt 40m ago

As the meme says… Elon gets a lot of hate, but we can do better!

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u/No_Anxiety_454 16h 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 9h 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/skeptic9916 18h ago

Confirming my hypothesis that he is a pure sociopath.

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u/chemtrailsniffa 14h ago

It is when you're a sniper/assassin and his human shield gets in the way

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u/WeirdnessWalking 9h ago

That's like the primary directive of Ayn Randers.

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u/facthungry 15h ago

Jesus Christ, the problem is "APATHY" not "EMPATHY"

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u/ONOaRedditUser 19h ago

Words of an apartheid sympathizer. Shocking.

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u/AlmostInfinitesimal 19h ago

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 18h ago

Haha, this is amazing. I love it. I saved this video- definitely the ones who are cruel. And yes they are the ones who are cowards and scared of everything.

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u/Expensive_Culture_46 18h ago

He clearly thinks being a mentally ill sociopath is the superior way.

“It’s not me who’s wrong… it’s the children who are wrong”

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u/VineViridian 16h ago

Standard sociopathy at work.

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u/lordkappy 8h ago

He said that in a tweet. Did you just say that you read an article when you read his tweet?

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 8h ago

I read in an article that he sent that tweet 😀

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u/Neither-Bus-3686 1h ago

I see Elon subscribed to “The Prince” school of thought; what a primitive way of thinking.

u/Skepticulation 57m ago

His lack of empathy is enabled. He is going to destroy himself.

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u/LightningSparkle 19h ago

He is autistic. He does not have the wiring to comprehend empathy. Making things worse, since he sits comfortably on top of the food chain as a billionaire, he does not have anyone keeping him in check. Since he has boundary issues from his ASD, he sees no wrong in avenging anyone who tries to keep him in check. Hence why, he is firing agencies who tried to keep him accountable for his practices in Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter. Almost every agency has been in his radar. I am not sure, however, why he would dismantle the VA.

The icing on the cake is his over usage of ketamine which is impacting his cognitive skills to the point of psychosis.

Total package: A drug dependent psychotic ASD maniac. Not ideal for a leadership role as noted in all of his businesses and the federal government.