Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself”

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tell your revenue stream to go fuck themselves. It’s a bold move Elon. Let’s see if it pays off.

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  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re acting like he wants Xitter to succeed. I suspect he wants it dead because he thinks it contributed to his child being trans. And also because some of his financiers don’t want an Arab Spring.

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    • billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I used to agree with you, but now I really think he’s just a narcissist who wants the attention. If Twitter wasn’t profitable, the longer he owns it the more money he’s going to lose on top of how much he over paid for it. If he really wanted Twitter gone, he could have bought it and just… shut it off.

      Like every single techbro, he thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room and demands the masses worship him for that. He just was lucky enough to have money to buy an entire platform to stroke his ego.

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If he didn’t want it to succeed, he wouldn’t have rebranded it the same exact way he tried to rebrand PayPal. He wants this X everything app to be a thing.

      There would be much less compromising ways for him to destroy Twitter if that was what he really wanted. He could have left his puppet CEO to do all the ridiculous shit and sit on his real life Iron Man throne only to eventually say “Welp, we tried. Clearly this site was doomed from the start.” and shut it down. Which people would have believed before he revealed what a clown he is.

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  • dellish@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, no, no, it’s not Elon who’s out of touch. It’s the advertisers who are wrong! Just wait until all of Earth, apparently, hears of how these big mean advertisers killed the wondrous and righteous place named X. There will be outrage!.. so thinks Elon anyway. What a deluded moron.

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• IHeartBadCode@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Musk responded that the advertising boycott is likely to kill the company. "What this advertising boycott is going to do is it's going to kill the company, and the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail,"

  When Sorkin pointed out that advertisers see things differently, Musk replied, "oh yeah? Tell it to Earth."

  Sorkin continued: "They're going to say, Elon, that you killed the company because you said these things and they were inappropriate things and they didn't feel comfortable on the platform. That's what they're going to say."

  "And let's see how Earth responds to that," Musk replied.

  I mean… I think that pretty much removes any last doubt anyone might have had that Elon Musk had any grasp on the reality that he himself exists in.

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  • Minarble@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dude you missed quoting the best bit!

    “If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself,” Musk said.

    Sorkin replied, “but,” and trailed off. Musk wasn’t done. “Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is. Hey, Bob!” Musk said. Musk was apparently addressing Disney CEO Bob Iger, who previously said at the conference that advertising on X “was not necessarily a positive” association and so Disney “decided we would pull our advertising.”

    The Muskrat told Disney CEO to go fuck himself.

    On video.

    With a hard F. No dissembling.

    The Tesla board should remove him as CEO as he is clearly unstable.

    It’s mean to laugh at people self destructing.

    But anyway … fucking lol.

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think he’s going to OD someday

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    • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He was already destituted as CEO years ago.

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    • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I need this video

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    • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Tesla board should remove him as CEO as he is clearly unstable.

      Walk me through how you get from this to “instability”, whatever that’s intended to mean.

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    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He’s clearly lost what little he had

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    • sergih@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isn’t he talking to Sorkin, tells him to fuck off and then he talks to Bob?

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  • m13@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He truly must believe he’s one of the good guys. Lmao Earth isn’t going to rise up for a divorced apartheid emerald mine inheritor, you dork.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Aren’t loans collateralized with Tesla shares? Maybe he is implying that if Twitter goes poof, it could really hurt or possibly destroy Tesla

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    • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, fuck divorced people!

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  • catboss@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can’t hold a firm grasp on reality if it is distorted by your massive narcissism already. He thinks anyone but the bags of shit still on his platform care.

    Twitter never actually mattered and nothing of value will be lost. He can pound sand.

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  • breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yikes. Broke Mind Virus.

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  • catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What does he mean with his Earth comments? I’m so confused.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He means the planet is on his side. Because his ego is that size.

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  • whofearsthenight@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, he seemed pretty fucking high out of his gourd, so I suspect that he didn’t really know what reality he was in.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “And let’s see how Earth responds to that,” Musk replied.

  I’m getting strong Kanye vibes from Elon these days.

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kanye’s straight up bipolar, maybe even schizoaffective. Musk still just looks like a narcissistic asshole, and the grandiosity about “the Earth” caring about Twitter is par for the course

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    • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m sure the ketamine doesn’t help, in Elon’s case.

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  • RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was just thinking the exact same thing the other day. Dude needs to take his meds.

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    • a1studmuffin@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep. Can’t put my finger on what’s happening there exactly, but there’s some kind of mental health crisis going on and it’s very public.

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  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Earth?

    The last time Earth told me anything I was on a lot of drugs.

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    • Uglyhead@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Gaea told me she thinks Elon is a complete fuckwad and is the worst of the worst kind of virus on her.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Surprise!

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  • Katrisia@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A recent comment of mine:

    In an old interview, Mr. Narcissus said he may have bipolar disorder; he said he experiences “great highs, terrible lows, and unrelenting stress”.

    He has doubts because his highs and lows follow events in his life, whereas episodes from bipolar disorder often appear without triggers. […]

    We’d know if he went for an evaluation/possible diagnosis, but I cannot even imagine him doing it.

    Kanye West is usually manic when he acts this way. I guess this supports Musk’s suspicion.

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He has doubts because his highs and lows follow events in his life, whereas episodes from bipolar disorder often appear without triggers. […]

      Maybe the events are what follow the highs and lows.

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Quick, someone introduce Musk to Jonah Hill!

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• argon@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He is taking zero responsibility. I wonder if he is even capable of understanding that this is all the direct consequences of his actions. Or maybe he is just deflecting. But this is all happening because of you, dumbfuck. You did this. Ten years ago he was getting Iron Man cameos and Star Trek writers thought he some kind of religious figure. Then he went down some right wing freakout wormhole and he drank that kool aid down to the last drop. You did this. No one owes you their advertising dollars. You bought a company that had reach and influence and a huge ass userbase and you fucked it all up. Enjoy your edgy memes and your ruined company.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gotta respect that double spacing. 👍

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t get it, what double spacing?

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    • argon@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just do it automatically. Thanks to my typing class in junior high in the 90’s. I’m guessing most people on the internet don’t do it? It’s never even crossed my mind that it might be unusual these days.

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    • Yoz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol

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  • Saltblue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Alternative conspiracy theory, he got paid to do that, as twitter even with all the bad things was a political tool against fascism and misinformation.

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    • iegod@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe, but I do think he’s dumb and egotistical enough to lack self awareness.

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    • argon@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is he getting paid enough to recoup the 44 billion he blew on twitter?

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Frankly there is no alternate conspiracy that can make this make sense. Even if the point is destroying Twitter, why does he have to be the one to personally take the reputation hit? He could downright hire some celebrity CEO to say and do all the shit he wants done, get all the flak while he relaxes on a yacht. There may or may not be backroom deals but he’s still being a chump for exposing himself like that. His business are taking hits because he’s seen as increasingly unreliable.

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    • LucidNightmare@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I really don’t understand this take at all. He just seems like a straight up fool to me. Even if he was coerced into destroying Twitter, why do people seriously go, “Oh no! There is literally nowhere else to have these kinds of discussions or rallying!” When there are in fact PLENTY and could even be MADE for these kinds of situations? Look at the Fediverse for example, but why stop there? You’ve got other silly social media sites that can be used the same way if someone actually tried hard enough. If those don’t work out, you can always find a way IF you truly do care enough.

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    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s no way he would’ve willingly taken a hit to his reputation like this

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  • fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Twitter has roughly 240 million daily users, about half of whom are from USA. It might be a bit early to called it a ruined company.

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    • KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      By comparison Lemmy has 30,000 active users and steadily dropping.

      It’s actually pretty funny how much of an echo chamber Lemmy can be. All I see is positive comments about how Lemmy is so great and growing, and Twitter is dead! Meanwhile it’s the opposite. Twitter is still very much alive, and Lemmy is becoming a small cul-de-sac echo chamber.

      My Lemmy app lets me tag people, which I use to tag people who are rude to others, nice to me, helpful, racist, etc, just so I can remember who was nice and who wasn’t nice to interact with, and I literally see the same handful of people in every thread, and the front page of “everything” is filled with the same people making every thread.

      Same with Reddit. We all thought Reddit was dead, and, well… it isn’t. Some days I really regret getting IP banned for shilling out Lemmy. Plenty of communities I really miss from Reddit that just simply won’t work on Lemmy, because of how Lemmy is so FOSS centric.

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• Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Musk says X advertiser backlash is “going to kill the company.”

  For once I hope you’re not wrong, Musk!

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  • billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “It’s not me being an antisemitic transphobic bigot that’s killing Twitter; it’s all the companies who don’t want their brands next to my antisemitic transphobic comments!”

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    • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which comment did Musk make that was antisemitic?

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  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh shit, is that how capitalism works? I never thought the money leopards would eat my face!

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  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Smartest thing he’s ever said.

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• MuuuaadDib@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The best part was the dead silence when he was waiting for laughter or something, the silence was murder on his soul. Not unlike when Dave Chapelle brought him out on stage for who knows why and he was booed like …how fucking out of touch are you Dave, and why would you bring that turd out?

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dave got rich and kinda lost his grip with reality

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    • xenoclast@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is probably some secret rich person drug that they’re all doing that makes them this way. We’ll find out about it in a few decades.

      Like lead on gasoline

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You know looking back on the history of Dave Chappelle and his blatant misogyny, it’s not surprising in hindsight that he turned out to be a piece of shit. He doesn’t seem to be fond of the idea of minorities getting rights unless it is specifically the minority he belongs to. If this guy were a white man, he would be up on stage saying the n-word twice is often and screaming about how the radical left wants to cancel him.

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    • letsgocrazy@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Jesus fucking christ mate turn it in.

      He did a comedy show where he repeatedly professed respect fir trans people but criticised the way some people behave, and you’re acting like he “isn’t fond or minorities getting rights”

      It’s just fucking psychopathic gibberish with you lot.

      If this guy was white he’d be racist against blacks.

      What the fuck does that even mean?

      He’s black.

      Calm the fuck down.

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    • interceder270@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think Dave Chappelle is a piece of shit. I think a lot of criticism towards him is exactly what his recent gripes about the alphabet people are about. He made fun of everyone and nobody cared, but when he makes fun of the LGBT then all of a sudden people like you are say “he’s always been a bad guy.”

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  • arc@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or when he died on his ass on SNL. Or when he appeared in a Rick & Morty episode and managed to kill it by his mere presence. He thinks he is edgy, funny and cool but he isn’t. Instead he is awkward, unfunny, weird and deeply unpopular for being a dick.

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    • Surreal@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s all because he’s a dick. No amount of quirky, charisma can cover it up if deep down, he’s an evil asshole.

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    • interceder270@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He was fine on rick and morty.

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    for who knows why Money.

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• guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bigbrain businessman buys stable business that wasn’t profitable, promises to make it profitable. Proceeds to destroy company’s main line of business, complains about being “blackmailed” by business partners as they leave for making said line of business entirely untenable.

  Is he like, trying to be funny right now or something?

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  • twisted28@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IMHO Musk and the 1% saw the collective power Twitter gave to the working class. It was able to usher in the #Metoo movement and finally bring justice to powerful people. The rich aren’t gonna leave a tool like that intact

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  • prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He’s so painfully unfunny that it’s hard to tell sometimes if he’s making an attempt at humor.

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• NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I see we’ve hit the anger stage. I think bargaining is next.

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Never go full Elon”

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m going to start using this from now on

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• squiblet@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He seriously thinks the public will blame the former advertisers and be angry at them when the issue was obviously Musk running the company into the ground?

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  • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ‘running the company into the ground’ actually has a term, it’s called elonning.

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• Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if hes going through a mental breakdown. Im all for him going down, but the way hes talking is weird.

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  • simonced@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Certainly nothing that a brain implant can solve…

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  • IHeartBadCode@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He's the right age for a midlife crisis and a lot at that point can get triggered by growing mortality combined with a perceived lack of accomplishment in life. Additionally, as others have said, substance abuse is likely a factor in his life. A lot of wealthy people have huge substance abuse issues that their access to vast resources allows them to buffer most of the usual consequences of such. On top of all of that, he's going through a divorce and child custody case with Grimes that is gearing up to be more toxic than a bottle of freshly pumped reactor four coolant water from the Chernobyl disaster.

    Yeah I think mental breakdown is a pretty good bet. It is highly likely Musk has a substance abuse issue on top of all of that which is likely not helping anything. The wealthy in the United States do have some of the highest substance abuse rates because for many of them, their lifestyles and access to their vast wealth helps to buffer pretty much a lot of the usual consequences that people face with substance abuse issues. It wouldn't surprise me the least to hear Musk diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder and that he's largely avoided his "come to Jesus" moment in that due to his vast wealth.

    the way hes talking is weird

    Yeah, it looks exactly the same way my Aunt used to talk when she was heavy on psychedelics, including the body language. It's a kind of disinhibition where the mind isn't firing any of the parts that would usually guide a person on making thoughtful responses and keeping up with the current situation. Like Musk in the video constantly looks like he's talking to someone out in the audience rather than responding to the person asking the questions but then after talking jets his head right back to the person asking questions like he's asking "more fuel please".

    I would be surprised if all of this isn't driven by some substance abuse. But that said, none of anything that's happening is likely good for his mental state, even with his wealth all of this is likely taking a toll on his mental state. The drugs only beg the question of how aware he might be of his declining mental health. But he'd likely tell any doctor concerned about Musk's mental state to go fuck themselves at this point.

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  • Chemical@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And behaving. If not, then I believe he believes he is above all of this.

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• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He’s so much like Trump. Except maybe even more childish somehow.

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• mojo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People wrote books about how much of a genius this guy is

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah. Musk has gone funny in the head. Does he not know the concept of brand-safe content?

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• Zak@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Usually people with fuck-you money don’t literally, publicly say “fuck you” to their revenue streams. Usually.

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• Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nepo baby held accountable for his actions, thinks it’s unfair he’s responsible for them.

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• Synthead@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  X, formally known as dead bird

  Image

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I say “Go f…k yourself if you are still advertizing with this guy.”

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• clearedtoland@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  clip

  The interviewer tried really hard (and failed) to hide his incredulity.

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• ATDA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This barrier of capitalism loving fascists finding that capitalism works best with maximum participation therefore maximum diversity is infinitely entertaining to me.

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• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While I’d normally support someone telling Disney to go fuck itself, it doesn’t mean much coming from Musk.

  Was he ever rumoured to be a pedo or anything like that?

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• likelyaduck@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait till SpaceX IPO tanks next month. “Don’t buy the stock. Go f*** yourself”.

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• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aww, he’s pouting.

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• Embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Smart fella that musk… Wait I meant fart smeller

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And people aren’t using Mastodon because?

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• 8000mark@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions!

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Has anyone ever noticed how much he looks like a PS1 character.

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• erranto@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He is waiting for trump to save Xitter, but trump is taking his time

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• Modva@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not companies pulling ads that kills the platform. That’s not a root cause. Ads pulling out is a consequence.

  The root cause of this, is the platform owner choosing to publically engage with a heavily charged emotional minefield where everyone and their dog has chosen hills to die on.

  If your goal is to try make Twitter a successful company, wading into that mess is simply not a high quality decision.

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• BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck Musk, Fuck Spez!!

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