it's a mystery for sure
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Even given the most charitable reading that he was doing a Nazi salute to troll people instead of because he's an actual Nazi, the whole intention behind trolling is to piss people off.
And I'm not inclined to give this steaming coprolite any charity, because he acts like a fuckin' Nazi.
(I'm not going to play along with the whole "he said his heart goes out" bullshit. Other Nazis sure knew what he was doing and loved it.)
the nazis were trolls. they would have loved 4chan
What do you mean "would have", they're there right now.
You don't even need this to have happened given what he's done with DOGE and his buying an election. People would have still hated him, just not as many.
Unrelated (completely related) : chatgpt refuses to acknowledge musk having anything to do with Nazis, even when presented with facts about his "memes" and his Nazi salutes. And will not write a story about musk and his Nazi associated acts.
It will happily tell you stories about Hitler.
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I wish the media would stop giving this asshole an audience.
I support freedom of speech, but it does not mean that you are automatically entitled to an audience.
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Confirming he's not as smart as he pretends to be
Earn friends by firing tens of thousands of people. It should have been so simple, what could have possibly gone wrong?
I don't remember that chapter from How to Win Friends and Influence People.
He knows perfectly well why.
He’s gaslighting so the people who hate him hate him louder, which he can then use as validation that they’re crazy or irrational.
It’s fucking disgusting and obvious as hell. He deserves all of the shit thrown at him and he knows it but doesn’t care because he doesn’t have to face any real consequences for it, so he escalates.
Everyone’s anger is his weapon against them, sadly because his supporters are dumb enough to go with it. He needs tangible consequences or else this will just keep getting worse.
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I wonder if that's actually true, because I think that he is to some extent literally psychotic. What happens when someone who actually has enormous wealth and power still goes through manic phases or experiences something like grandiose delusions? He might really believe that he's saving the nation and the world, and that this should be obvious to all.
It's like those movies (I can't remember which ones but I'm sure I've seen some) where the king thinks of himself as good and is genuinely surprised and confused when he learns that the common people feel oppressed by him. Except in this case the king does not (and probably can not) learn a heartwarming moral lesson.
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How dumb can this jerkoff be?
No matter stupid you think he is, I guarantee it's more than that.
That makes it so much more fun to hate his guts.
Cry about it you fuckhead.
This just in: man who despises empathy struggles to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
Maybe he doesn't know because he refuses to listen to anyone who criticizes him, banning them on Twitter and calling them paid actors in public events.
It truly is a mystery 🤷♂️
Fun fact, Solar City, a company owned by Elon musk, is infamous for signing people up for lengthy solar panel leases and refusing to repair them if they break.
Right now, without China, solar would be unaffordable by anyone but the rich in America.
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It still surprises me someone with that complete of a lack of self awareness manages to get dressed without injuring themselves.
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This dude has the whole collection of type B personality disorders
Checks cluster b list
antisocial PD, borderline PD, histrionic PD, narcissistic PD
math checks out
He also ticks the boxes for the dark tetrad.
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That guy hears loving cup and knows he can’t
Run and jump and fish or fight
Or fuck
Dude can’t fuck. lol
His sex organ is mangled after a botched gender affirmation surgery.
I am not making this up.
This is a real story the media reported on until it abruptly went quiet on it.
What
Yeah, I'm gonna need a source on that one.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/26/musk-penis-implant/
There were stories on regular traditional media websites. For a few hours.
Then it disappeared to rumor status lol.
All them kids are ivf.
His dick doesn’t work. lol.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/breaking-down-rumors-musk-penis-230000612.html
seems iffy at best though i 100% believe the hair implant stuff no one comes back from the balding he had.
My father-in-law has been divorced three times. Each of his exes have told him directly that they left because he’s too controlling. To this day, he openly and genuinely states he has no idea why he’s been divorced three times - “I try so hard in marriage. I just don’t get it.”
Some people can’t hear the truth even if you rubber stamp it on their forehead.
Cue: Elon Musk.
Never underestimate a human’s capacity for self-deception. I think it’s our most perfected trait.
And he'll keep pretending to wonder why until a mob executes him live on Twitch
We could only dream such an ending
Hitler probably said the same
Ironically, Hitler was a very charismatic man who people felt had a honest interest in and a magnetic personality.
You can feel something if that when listening to the Mannerheim tapes, the only recording of his actual speaking voice. When not shouting through a tinny PA system that warps his voice into the shrill shrieking that most people know, he had a lovely warm voice.
So Elon has very much less rizz than the Führer.
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What is so crazy is that at the same time I see a headline with "Tesla's sales plummet 13 percent as Musk backlash grows" and yet TSLA is up 4.72% at the moment.
W T A F
Sales plummet 13%. Stock goes up nearly 5%.
The value of the stock (which is outrageously overvalued) is solely down to musk's personality cult. So now that it's been announced that he should be "leaving government and going back to his companies" it led to a stock jump, since his presence is the only reason that the stock is worth a lot in the first place.
The issue is that Musk often sounds convincing when he talks about things you don't really know much about, and there are a LOT of investors who have a lot of money but don't really know much about anything.
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Love how we dedicate dozens of professional journalist staffers and editors to follow this asshole around with a microphone and queue up to hear him do Trollface into a camera and say "Why you mad, tho?" in a Ketted out South African accent.
American Journalism A#1. Liberty, Whiskey, Sexy. Most informed population on earth.
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narcissist never do. They are forever the victim and honestly believe it.
Why doesn't anybody like me? I don't understand.
Guess I'll have to crawl inside, and I don't know why
I'm sitting by myself, when the problem isn't mine
I’m surprised he’s even willing to indicate he cares. Well…cares about anything past his falling stock price and burning swasticars.
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That's because, like every other egotistical rich asshole, he has surrounded himself with yes men who are only around to eat his crumbs.
Imagine living your life unaware that no one around you actually likes you.
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