• gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    right? right? right? i told you that guy wasn’t that bad just a few years ago. it’s only recently that he’s become a right-wing extreme. i wonder why/what happened.

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      3 months ago

      I think it all started to unravel when he wanted to gain prestige from making a submarine to save some kids that needed to go through some flooded caves but then one of the divers embarrassed him by rejecting the idea without the kid gloves on (it was a naïve idea, the sub wouldn’t have been able to get to the kids and the divers got them out without it).

      Elon then accused the guy of pedophilia because he was already on Thailand when it happened and, according to Elon, pedophilia is the only reason a man would want to travel there.

      That moment was enough for me to realize the image he had created for himself as a real life Tony Stark was false, he was a billionaire who wasn’t even smart enough to stfu and bitch about something behind closed doors, plus he chose a really bad idea to throw this tantrum over.

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          3 months ago

          Yeah, wasn’t his whole “try weed for the first time on Rogan’s show” just a little while before that? He didn’t inhale properly, which I don’t think he would have done if it was an act (doubt his ego would have allowed him to appear to be a newbie if he had really been doing it the whole time). I bet he had a ton of celebrities offering all the fun stuff after that.

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      3 months ago

      He certainly did not treat his trans daughter terribly well even before a few years ago. Then again he did not treat anybody around him well, but still he certainly seemed homophobic in private back then. The issue is that EVs are mostly sold to left leaning people and most tech workers are also left leaning. So he was not talking about it. Now it is out and he has a fan club, which celebrates him for it. Hence no reason to hide it anymore.

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      3 months ago

      I’ve been saying for years that the man has had some kind of mental breakdown, and what we’re seeing now is a man that is using a mixture of hard drugs and the dopamine hit from being a billionaire right-wing edge-lord to keep himself from going utterly bonkers.

      If he were a normal person his employer would have either fired him or requested that he seek help. He’s a billionaire without a boss or a support network, so he lacks that safety net. He’s the very definition of “you don’t know they’re laughing at you, not with you, right?”

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      3 months ago

      He thrived on the positive attention. When he started getting negative attention, it was the media/mob/etc.'s fault and never his own. When your ego prevents you from introspection, it creates monsters.

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      3 months ago

      Failure, public humiliation, and lots of Twitter and YouTube.

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      3 months ago

      He always was incompetent and an asshole, it’s just the recently he pushed the volume to 11. If you look at past interviews with him, it’s all there already. If you read about his past behaviours you can see that he’s still the same.

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        3 months ago

        once I saw him on the simpsons, that’s when I realised things were off. Anyone who goes that hard out of their way to tell others how great he is, is probably not a good person.