Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year

• EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He probably always was a bit of a right-wing loon, but everything about him over the last few years screams “cry for help”.

  If he were a normal pleb, he’d have probably lost his job, or had a friend tell him that he needs to seek professional help. Because he’s a billionaire, I assume people just say he’s “eccentric” and laugh while people push him to do more crazy shit.

  He doesn’t realise it, but people are laughing at him, not with him. He’s a performing monkey for the apathetic, and aspirational for the morally questionable.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was always there. He just has the wealth not to care what anyone thinks now.

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    • EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think any amount of money replaces human interaction, and because of his status, his perception of himself is probably so fucked up that I’d be shocked if he did anything but care.

      I don’t want to infantise Musk, nor do I want to excuse what a total cunt he is, but if he were a child you’d basically call it a cry for attention or help. The primary difference between us and him is he can mask whatever mental health issues he’s got with money and social media…

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He has the wealth, but not the ego.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think he has an inkling of that now. Since he got booed off stage multiple times and locked himself in isolation for a while.

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• JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the correct phrasing should be “turned out to be”

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• III@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apparently some people are okay with extreme racism so long as you convert it into money first.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There was a time when he was like “watch this, I’m going to make the entire auto industry go electric to help save the planet.”

  And he has pretty much done that. Great for him. But yeah other shit like his antisemitism and childish tweet wars have dialed up in recent years. Now he’s ruining Twitter itself because he doesn’t believe in content moderation or rules of engagement in a forum. Unless it’s tweeting already-public data about his plane transponder! Oh then it’s wrong! His pro-Texas bullshit and his anti-union bullshit has gotten stronger and stronger. He’s posting pictures of his gun now.

  Yeah. The guy has changed. Maybe this is always who he was going to be. Maybe this was always who he wanted to be. But he wasn’t necessarily this guy, always, outwardly.

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