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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 99 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Hell, even I knew he was high as a fucking kite most of the time. It's obvious from watching him. He has serious drug abuse problems.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 9 points 4 days ago

Wasn't he openly bragging about regular use of Ketamine a few years ago?

I thought him (and the entire SV "tech bro" scene for that matter) being in drugs was an open secret?

[–] lucelu2@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Him and Don Jr.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago

It was known. You were just too cowardly to report on it

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 65 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Elon is getting the media to downplay his naziism by letting everybody know that the drugs made him do it. 30 days in rehab and BOOM those chiseled trucks will start selling again.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

those chiseled trucks will start selling again

No one's buying those things ever. Maybe if dumb emerald boy managed to somehow recover his image from being a nazi the cars would sell again. But the trucks fucking suck shit on literally every metric. He produced the Homer and he's gonna tank the company with it.

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[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I live in rural Canada. It's truck country. Like, every second vehicle. No one here would have been caught dead in a cyber truck BEFORE his shenanigans. I remember showing my family the concept photos and they reacted, poorly. There is no fucking way those sales go up.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm 100% certain that people who actually use trucks for their intended purpose were not the target demographic -- it was rich kids who wanted a cool tech toy, while also playing dressup with the "labourer" aesthetic.

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yep. Monied tech bros from the bay area & etc was always the target demographic. It was never expected to sell to actual workers.

Unfortunately it seems the overlap between nazis and tech bros wasn't as high as he thought

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately

😐

Haha, but I know what you meant.

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

I'm not sure why they haven't started stripping these things for parts yet. I can't imagine anyone at the company expects to move the current stock

[–] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Elon never needed the media to downplay anything.

the media wanted Donald Trump and his band of misfits in the White House.

I'm 41, I can't remember a time when the media wasn't carrying Trumps water.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The reporting on Trump and the current batch of Republicans is God awful.

I mean you have an entire political party touting the need for "fiscal responsibility" release a budget that increases the deficit?! How are they not being ridiculed for it?

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 51 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh look, it's the rats fleeing a sinking ship.

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

More like "Elong outlived his meger usefulness and Trump booted him like he always meant to." Trump has long disliked Elonga, and as soon as Elongat showed any signs of acting independently, he was doomed. He was kicked out for the same reason McCarthy was replaced by a nobody like Johnson, the same reason a weakling like Pence was needed for VP. There's just no room on it for anybody with independent power; only the king can sail.

The ship is far from sinking, and not recognizing that we're stuck with Trump until he dies is wishful thinking.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 days ago

The ship is far from sinking, and not recognizing that we're stuck with Trump until he dies is wishful thinking.

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[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 4 days ago

Maybe to people who had their eyes closed lmao. Jokes about him and K and all sorts of shit has been spiraling for what, a few years now?

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 28 points 4 days ago

Maybe DOGE should focus more on DUI recruitments in the government

[–] rhvg@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He’s not that evil, he just took too many drugs.

Well nice try whitewashing

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I guess that explains hitler

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

Interestingly, Hitler was pretty much constantly high at the end of the war. But he did write his manifesto while in jail, so he was not evil because he was on drugs, he just happened to be evil and then started drugs. Might explain some of the more stupid late war decisions.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 25 points 4 days ago

Anybody who's seen that kind of thing in real life already knew that he was an addict years ago.

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

according to a report published Friday by The New York Times

Friday??!!!!!!

The actual FUCK?!!?!!?

Why is this shit not reported DURING the election!??!

--oh right, access and $$$ Assholes.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

why has nobody talked about Elon using drugs before today?! How did we not know this?!

Uhh…

[–] DizzoMyNizzo@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Once again, BIG FUCKING SUPRISE

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think he's just bored here honestly, I'm no stranger to drugs I mean he might be on something but he looks like he's just boring fucking around with forks to me

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Dudes staring at it like it's from a different planet, and she's rocking back and forth like she's on a horsey ride. They're both lit.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 4 days ago

If Ol' Musky did that on Ketamine. Mad respect for that. Ketamine is not known for heightening someone's motor control.

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 days ago

Man, that "was" really got my hopes up for a minute.

[–] thisnameisnottolong@aussie.zone 13 points 4 days ago

He is a drug addled clown, so the idea that anything he does is serious is unexpected.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

He can afford health care like you and I have never can, nor will we. His high priced doctors will keep him going past 100.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Tough to say. He'll need never livers and kidneys no matter how good the intermediate care is. Not saying buying a healthy young person for spare parts isn't beyond him.

You'll know he's grokked how badly he's fucked his body once he starts up an organ printing/regeneration company. Which I guarantee he will, assuming by his calculation he figures out the reality of his situation in time. If he finds out late...? A bunch of Ugrher people are going to be getting blood tests and one of them is going to disappear along with any records they ever existed at all.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 days ago

This is the man going around using his own child as a human shield. He might intend to harvest organs from his own children. Somehow a new low, despite also selectively making sure all his children are AMAB.

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He'll buy a company that does work in a related field. Or perhaps neural link will suddenly become more active in other organs, and he'll dump money into that.

The neural link idea is that he'll eventually not need a body anyway. It's a transhumanism thing. Have fun with that rabbit hole.

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Didn't work out for Michael Jackson and Prince. Eventually it'll spiral out of control.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 4 points 4 days ago

Yes , sometimes the hubris that comes with extreme wealth, combine with the access it gives you and freedom from consequences. The drugs don't care. They'll destroy him. He's a horrible person but I assume some of the awful decisions are drug related.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It used to be serious. It still is, but it used to be, too.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Shame, no overdose.

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 4 days ago
[–] dash_jackson@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

99% tax on this mf

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Which drugs? Like how some world leaders are supposedly coke addicts, but that's never true, but *this *is?

[–] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

ketamine. Elon's drugs of choice are public knowledge.

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