For people like that there’s no compassion, regret or remorse, it’s either water under the bridge or someone else’s fault.
Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by pocker_machine@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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RandomUser@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, they wouldn’t reach that level of wealth if they had any amount of compasssion or self awareness.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
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db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A wise man once said “they not like us”.
They’ve got a head full of bad wiring but because they control the money they get away with that psycho shit. As to whether it bothers them it doesn’t, they’re not capable of it.
Signtist@bookwormstory.social 3 weeks ago
People who are capable of feeling guilt for hurting others would never do the terrible things required to achieve such a position anyway. It’s the way they make sure only people who are part of the in-group get that high on the ladder. At best, Elon sees us as insignificant specs that don’t even register in his brain. At worst, he hates us and actively enjoys making us suffer.
stefenauris@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Please don’t alter names so those who want to filter them out can successfully do so
pocker_machine@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh sorry I didn’t think of that. I was just using his name in a funny way. Besides my intention were about people like him, but the discussion went about him anyways.
stefenauris@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I totally get that, I twist things like that all the time for comedy :) Just wanted to point out something I didn’t think about the first time someone told me either. Because I’ve had days where I literally can’t even and shut it all off lol
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There are only a few variations in popular use, if it bothers you that much, filter them too.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Some people may alter names and words to avoid retaIiation if/when the oIigarchs figure out how to scrap Iemmy for keywords in search for those who may oppose them. This is already happening on other pIatforms.
I don’t have a solution to this dilemma.
I will continue to protect myself in favor of assisting others to keep their heads in the sand.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I think that was the point, to get those filters. Op is a jackass if true
9point6@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s probably what the drugs are for
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Drugs is a helluva drug
DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He’s a nazi, so that means he’s incapable of empathy.
Any pangs of humanity that might be left are killed with Horse Tranquilizer, Ecstasy, Weed, or whatever the advanced billionaire version drug is that we won’t have access to for another 20 years. Probably because it costs $100,000 a dose or something stupid. He’s a junkie. They have no sympathy, remorse, or the ability to look back on their mistakes. Their only goal is more hard drugs, keep them coming, and fuck anyone with full force that tries to stop the drugs.
It’s not a secret on either point. He’s an open public nazi. He’s an open public junkie.
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Well, it was just reported widely that he uses a lot of drugs and that it was way more than previously thought, so I’d say that.
He reportedly uses ketamine, ecstasy and possibly mushrooms. Ketamine usage alone can help him ignore all of that.
JTskulk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You know he does ketamine, right? The drug that makes you feel like you’re not yourself but someone else instead?
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I had a cousin who probably could have been diagnosed as a psychopath. He had no sense of right or wrong, of good or bad. The only think that registered with him was who he could manipulate, and whether he could get away with it.
It was interesting to see. At a family funeral, he started goading his brother, talking about how much time he had to golf (in jail, no less) while the brother had to work all the time. He thrived on being an irritant to get his own way.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Elon’s a big believer in Ethical Altruism - the idea that any action you take is ethical as long as it improves life for someone. In his case ‘someone’ is future generations, ie. people who can’t tell him his actions on their behalf are wrong, because they don’t exist yet. It works as long as you don’t think about it too hard, which he doesn’t.
yesman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
News reports that Musk is a heavy drug user suggest that he self-medicates to cope.
Elon knows all the money in the world can’t make him a real boy and that warms my cold dead heart.
Bonus: Elon’s dad is exactly the kind of POS you’d expect, but his one redeeming quality is that he heaps praise on Elon’s brother while regarding the world’s richest man as a disappointment.
bizzle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They do not feel emotions like you and I do. All they know is hate, fear, and all consuming greed.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The dude is like, constantly high
MerrySkeptic@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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He’s a narcissist. People don’t get to his level of wealth by having compassion for the feelings of others. No billionaire ever gat there through their own hard work, they did it by taking advantage of the hard work of other people. He literally does not give a fuck. But narcissists aren’t typically born in a vacuum.
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Do some research on his upbringing. His father was a narcissist and did all he could to make his son unfettered by compassion for others through constant power games and humiliation. He was raised in South Africa where there was a huge macho culture and it was expected that the strong took advantage of the weak. Elon himself was picked on mercilessly by his classmates, though so he literally had to cope by suppressing his own emotions and not caring about the feelings of most others. I say “most” because the exception would be the fact that he was constantly trying to earn the approval of his father because of his twisted upbringing. Even after his parents divorced when he was 9, he eventually went back to live with his dad despite the constant criticism. In short, Elon learned during his formative years that compassion was a weakness and you can’t just flip a switch to unlearn that.
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He does copious amounts of drugs and sleeps with a constant stream of women to hide from any possible problematic feelings that would get in the way of his ambitions
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PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 3 weeks ago
People can get used to anything.
pocker_machine@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
True, but still, by getting used to does it mean they don’t bring cringe inducing memories to themselves. I know the feeling when some of mine bottle up once in a while. But I can’t imagine how much they would be for people like him and Orange Bob. It is superhuman level of self tolerance.
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Yes. He’s a fucking mess, they all are. The only happy ultra-wealthy are the ones who no one ever hears about, they live like normal people (except they have an endless bank account to fall back on). It takes mental illness to have enough money to live in luxury forever and keep chasing more just to compete with your peers
But as for Musk personally? He’s a true believer. He actually believes in his grandfather’s technocracy ideas… And the eugenics. Which is extra funny, because Musk’s dad treats Elon like a genetic dead end. He calls him out publicly on Twitter no less
Musk is actually that dumb. Fucker actually thought Trump brought him in to cut the budget, and that firing his own regulators was just a little job perk no one would notice. He honestly thinks he’s the anti-hero making the tough decisions for the future of humanity
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That is the thing about narcissism…
reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
They have no guilt. They likely see rest of us as weak and stupid, worthy only of being exploited.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The man thinks (or at least says) empathy is a bad thing. There’s no guilt without a conscience, and no conscience without empathy. Obscenely unfathomable wealth takes care of the rest.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thing is, hes criticized amphetamines geavily exactly because they blunt empathy. He’s tweeted at length comments about amphetamine and Adderall minimizing empathy and bringing out the inner asshole
Furbag@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I see you’ve never met a narcissist before. They are bad enough when you have to interact with them in your daily life, and I feel sorry for people who had to grow up with one as a parent. Letting multiple narcissists be in charge of the government has proven to be one of the worst decisions Americans have ever collectively made.
plyth@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
They evaluate reality with other priorities. To them it seems like they are doing good.
Almost all cruelties are committed for the greater good. People just disagree on what is good.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Displacement is a hell of a coping mechanism.
Until it isn’t.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think Putin has kompromat on him and he in some sense doesn’t have a choice. I’m not trying to absolve him of agency but i think he did a horrible thing that he can easily and reliably be totally controlled with that the russians possibly put together
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Ketamine or other drugs it seems
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
People like that genuinely believe that they should be in charge because of who they are. He has absolutely no feelings of guilt about the terrible things that he does; he thinks they’re good because he did them. Narcissistic megalomaniacs, especially ultra wealthy ones, lose their ability to empathize (or even the ability to mask and pretend) because they quite literally never have to care about how another person feels. I do think he’s confused as to why people hate him though. He sees himself as a lovable cheeky troll instead of the Nazi dickhead that he clearly is.
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Before the not-a-cunt mask slipped he was seen as a cool, anti establishment troll by space nerds. I think he is trying to get back to that.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
But that mask slipped long ago… and the longer you look at his past the further back in time it slips…
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How anyone can see a billionaire as “anti-establishment” is beyond me.
paranoia@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
There isn’t really any rehabilitation of his current image possible. It’s not like he did one or two bad things he could apologise for, it was systematic and continuous. He’s revealed himself to be a fascist which is pretty bad to begin with, but also a degenerate which repels even the fascists from liking him.
pocker_machine@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
On the face of it, it looks like that. It probably is that.
But if we think about it for a moment. He is a person after all. Brushes teeth, eats, po*p s like everyone else. And it is sometimes when we do these mundane things in our lives, we just think. At least during some of those moments there would be some self reflection. Everyone has something to be guilty about. It’s just that these kind of people have a lot of options in that area. So I’m wondering if they are just in denial. And that is such a sad superpower to have.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think it’s a mistake to believe that everyone has a sense of empathy; there are plenty of people who do not because of their brain meat or their experiences.
I think the closest Musk gets is the desperate and pathetic attempts to get gamers to like him: it makes him crazy that he can’t just buy their respect like he does for everything else that he wants.
entwine413@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
He doesn’t do that thinking. People like him are incapable of self reflection because they truly believe they can do no wrong.
pixelkitty@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There is quite a bit of evidence that, in his spare “thinking” time, he is ingesting a huge amount of mind-altering drugs.
OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m with the other commenter. There are people in this world born without empathy, and within that group, there is another two subsets, those that can learn it, and those that can not. It gets broken down further to people who can learn it and use it for good and learn it and use it to manipulate.
People born without these emotions aren’t common, but there really are ‘psychopaths’ out there that don’t/can’t/won’t feel things for other people. The only hope for these people is therapy, and even then, therapy is a double edged sword that also teaches them the tools to manipulate. And to a group that already is predisposed to not care how others feel, that’s a risky move.
…wikipedia.org/…/Antisocial_personality_disorder