It astounds me that a middle aged man, who can literally afford anything, do anything, go anywhere, is so fragile emotionally that he craves adulation from absolute strangers. Particularly teenage boys, which emotionally, he is also.
It would be pitiable if we wasn’t such a psychopath.
As a wise man recently said,
They tried to rig the game, but you can’t fake influence.
Money can buy everything but it can’t buy respect. Nobody respects Musk getting to level 90+ in SSF HC PoE2 because he just bought his way there. Nobody respects him on Twitter, because he bought his way there. Nobody respects Tesla, because (say it with me kids) he bought his way there.
Money can absolutely buy respect the problem is fuckwad is too stupid to know how, for example he could bankroll building functional replicas of historic vehicles and weapons for museums which would earn him some respect. That’s assuming he doesn’t want to help the poor and build public libraries like Rockefeller or Carnegie.
You’re both right - spending tons of money just to build influence does not buy you respect, but investing your money in something that contributes to the greater good does. Unfortunately for Elon, this requires good intentions and substantial effort, neither of which he possesses. So, he bought an epic gamer account to brainwash the most vulnerable members of society into believing he’s some kind of 22nd century technogenius! Seriously, what the fuck is actually wrong with this man???
Thing is, he could still hire people who do know how to do that - he just doesn’t see the point. Like the person who refuses to hire an electrician instead of just doing it himself, he keeps getting it wrong and then being shocked.
He had one, but he fired her and looks to be too stubborn and sure of his own competence to hire another one (or maybe too proud to admit that she was right and useful after firing her for petty reasons).
What gets me is that he has the means to become the most beloved man in history pretty much on a whim. I can’t even begin to comprehend the amount of good he could do by dumping half his fortune into good causes, which would still leave him with orders of magnitude more money than he’d need to buy/do whatever the fuck he wants with.
The attention he craves is right there. But he chooses instead to be a villain. Why?? Be a fucking superhero - even if it’s for completely selfish reasons, humanity won’t give shit.
I don’t get it.
If I randomly obtained a billion dollars, let alone hundreds of billions, I’d spend the rest of my life riding a warm-and-fuzzy high. Helping people feels good!
Look at Bill Gates. He’s a complete asshole and was widely hated until he stepped down from Microsoft. But, spend just a small fraction of his fortune on charity, much of it self-serving, and he’s now he’s widely loved.
If I randomly obtained a billion dollars, let alone hundreds of billions, I’d spend the rest of my life riding a warm-and-fuzzy high. Helping people feels good!
The thing is, you don’t become a billionaire if you have empathy. If you’re a normal kind of person who likes helping other people, you start giving away your money long before you hit $1B.
In a functioning society, we wouldn’t have to rely on the “philanthropy” of rich people to fund good causes. It should not be possible for one person to hoard so much wealth that they get to personally decide which issues get ignored.
I completely agree. It’s like one of those supposedly uplifting news items about a kid selling their rare stamp collection to pay for their bus driver’s surgery. Sure, it’s nice the kid did that, but what kind of dystopia are we in where someone with a steady job can’t get the health care they need.
All hail the orphan crushing machine.
Money is a social construct. Society should have a say in how it’s allocated.
From what I understand, Musk was under investigation from multiple federal US agencies for malfeasance, I don’t know for what, but he got involved to make those investigations go away. Then he got addicted to being in charge after buying The Presidency.
Because, as we all know, narcissists love being in charge, and adulation.
And why is he being an asshole, when he could be generous and beneficent, and get the adulation he craves? Because he thinks he’s superior, and like he said, empathy is weakness, He is unable to understand, or feel empathy.
From what I understand, Musk was under investigation from multiple federal US agencies for malfeasance, I don’t know for what
I’ll give you a hint. It starts with “e” and rhymes with “Epstein didn’t kill himself”…
I need more dots to join.
Yeah, who’s Eepstein? Apart from the offspring of a great felt scientist and some dead guy with fluffy hair.
He had that aura when he was building Tesla and solar city and the gigafactory. Become a billionaire and fight climate change? Go Elon.
Go to Mars? Bit of a stretch goal, but helping Nasa and science is good. Go Elon.
Save kids trapped underground? Go Elon.
What? Called him a pedophile? Maybe he has some inside knowledge. Anyway.
Shout about doge coin? Bit weird. Ok he’s just having fun.
Sell a consumer grade flamethrower? What?
Pay 44bn for Twitter? What? Where’s the value? This doesn’t save the world.
And down and down.
He had that aura when he was building Tesla
Tesla was a going concern (with excellent product quality) when Musk bought it. The product roadmap was already there. The only big things Musk has influenced are underfunding quality during scale-up and rolling out the Dumpsterwagen. Well, that and lying about self-driving.
I was addressing the downward trajectory of his outside perception, not his actual skills.
Musk is willing to risk his capital, and does seem to be able to identify talented engineers and individuals. He used to be able to attract them too.
Working theory is that you don’t get to his point by having morals.
He could literally fund free lunches for kids in schools, forever.
In comparison to his wealth, that’s so small time that it’s not even worth mentioning.
Yeah, because doing anything altruistic is “virtue signaling.” No one really cares about anyone but themselves. How do I know? Because I don’t.
I didn’t say any of that.
Rich people are just celebrities with hoarding tendencies.
Celebrities are just rich people sportsy, artistic, sympathic, entertaining or sexualized looking enough to get public attention
Dumping ill gotten gains into charity will not make you beloved down in history so much…
Certainly not " the most beloved"
Bill Gates makes a strong argument for becoming beloved while you’re still around to enjoy it.
And let’s be real, it’s ok to be emotional and want attention. That’s human.
But I’m sure this can be done, and is probably easier to accomplish by not being a nazi, which is the real issue here.
You’ve probably seen people with mommy and daddy issues before, but this is the first time we’ve ever witnessed a billionaire with severe mommy and daddy issues.
Dude wants attention and doesn’t care how he gets it. Helps a lot to be a Nazi too.
this is the first time we’ve ever witnessed a billionaire with severe mommy and daddy issues
Trump’s one of those too. His mother was a hyper-reserved Wee Free ball of congealed repression, and his father was a mob-connected slumlord bully. None of the kids got affection. Some internalized it, some became raving assholes like Trump.
He should play a lot more Wolfenstein.
Yes. Thanks.
Humans are pack animals. We’re not supposed to be alone. When we are, bad things happen, mentally. Which is on display with Musk.
Right? I wouldn’t be trying to pretend to be King Shit in a game I don’t even know how to play, I’d make my own game with black jack and hookers, hookers who are voiced by Jack Black. That’s right I’m casting a cisman in the role of a sexy cisfemale character and there’s not even a joke or a bit to it. The character is not implied to be trans and there’s not even a transphobic quip about it, I just got Jack Black to voice a woman because I could, because I’ve got fuck you money… And if the ESRB or Gabe Newell didn’t like it, I’d start an alternative to Steam that actually works.
It seems such vivid Imagination is wasted on those who cannot make their dreams into reality…
Elon. It’s me, Ashley St. Claire. I have no other means of contacting you so I bought PoE2 early access. Please pay your child support. Thank you Elon
I died
Notice that despite the awesome trolling, it wasn’t until someone called him dumb and ugly that it elicited a response from him. Calling him out for being a piece of shit doesn’t work, denigrating the attributes he built a superiority complex on…ohhh fuck yeah that shit burns him real good.
The richest guy in the world, and he is so horny for any love and respect that the smell of desperation fills any room he is in. You can even see it anytime he makes a media appearance. The guy actually exudes a breath-taking level of anti-charisma. He’s truly revolting to anyone who sees him.
All that money, and he has to rent wombs to manufature his DNA Storage Units/ Organ Donors/ Human Shields because no woman will go near him. Ive heard his dick doesn’t work anyway, due to a botched wiener enlargement surgery.
So he thinks the gamers are his peeps, and they’ll love him, right? Nah, all those great toys, and still none of the neighborhood kids want to play with him, because he’s so fucking wierd.
It makes me so happy to see him demonstrating in real time, the old saying “Money can’t buy happiness.”
Well if it was just that he was weird he could probably find a real friend or two. Hell I know a ton of just god awful people who still have folks who wanna hang with them.
It’s that there’s no mutual benefit to knowing or liking him at all. Even your typical maga shitdick has friends who like them but Muskrats only here for clout and that’s the kinda guy who turns on you for a quick part on the back from someone who hasn’t told them theyre special today.
True, and I actually like, and even prefer, people that others think are weird. Weird can be really fun and entertaining.
But this is a different kind of weird, its Creepy Weird. Like you just know this guy has some incredibly shocking and revolting kinks, beyond your wildest imagination.
Well we 100% know he has daddy issues at the very least
Reminder: He died to a Tutorial Boss in a game he tried to use a boosted account in to fake being one of the top players only for the devs to go “Wait, aren’t you a top Diablo IV player? Either you have the time management skills of a God and are the top player in multiple games, or you’re bullshitting… and guess what’s the winning one.”
It’s such a weird thing to do. He’s in his fifties. He has a bunch of companies and a bunch of kids. If he was a top ranked POE player would you respect him more or would ypu respect him less because he was shirking his duties to work and family to crush mobs?
Yep. The elite players usually do it as their full time job don’t they? He has a full time job and 304 children to care for/avoid.
Even if it isn’t a full time job each CEO role should be 8+ hours of the day.
And the only thing he spends 8+ hours a day on is shitposting on his shitty social media.
Your name made me smile 😃
Correction: Elon musk tries to prove his gaming skills and then Rage Quits after dying to the Tutorial Boss.
The bullying was a side piece.
With that many kids, I’d assume side pieces are part of his SOP
It’s gonna be crazy when the American people cut his head off live on Twitch.
TRUMP BEING GADAFFI’D!!!
LIVE!!!
Brought to you exclusively on Amazon Prime.
Screw that, pirate bay here I come!
This would absolutely be on brand. But I missed the good part due to the commercial break.
That reminds me, I have to sharpen my guillotine.
This should happen to him everywhere he goes for the rest of his days
In the age of information take-downs by the Fanta Menace’s Nazi regime, make sure to archive this and mirror it to Peertube and Archive.org.
YouTube link (for now, it will probably disappear in the next 48 hours): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDJaymU2hfw
You can also find this on Archive.org. I won’t put the link here to help protect it from takedowns. If you have the capacity to do so, seed the torrent. Don’t let the world forget of this hilarious clown-show.
And remember - you probably feel empathy witnessing someone get bullied like this. But don’t forget what this James Bond villain is responsible for, the havoc he has caused, and the millions of lives he has disrupted. Harden your heart because these facists will NEVER change. Cyberdump man-baby emerald mine fascist Nazi jumping Tesla man deserves to get cyberbullied, and at points in the video he looks like he is going to cry; those are Crocodile Tears. He’ll hide the pain with his hundreds of billions of dollars, memes, and ketamine while sitting in his ivory tower resting his feet on Trump’s back.
Bullying a bully isn’t bullying.
I really believe that too, that those are just crocodile tears. Whatever he perceives as anguish is something we would call an entirely different emotion.
i doubt it’ll disappear honestly, youtube is ironically one of the better platforms regarding moderation. They tend to leave a lot of controversial stuff up, even if it’s pretty bad. It’s only the really bad shit they take down.
its almost as if he forgot what gamers are. bitch behind a keyboard forgot that other people can be bitches behind keyboards too.
He thought all gamers consisted of gamergate incels.
I read that he lost to a tutorial boss during the stream. lmao
top 10 player btw…
what a fucking idiot. no one would be making fun of him if he just said he likes playing video games but as a CEO of multiple companies he’s too busy (lol) to get good at them. just say you suck at video games but love the art form, dumbass. but he can’t because he’s sick in the head and desperately needs approval from other unfuckable shits.
Or, he could just say, 'I’m new to this game, I suck," and laugh it off with everyone else. I think that would be popular. “Let’s watch Elon suck at games.”
But no. Embarrassment is worse than death to a narcissist. But he keeps setting himself up for humiliation, for attention.
This man is mentally ill.
His daughter said he played video games with them just to get his kids to carry him. Which is just very strange and sad.
bronze torbjorn in the early days of overwatch. I can’t tell you how bad you have to be to play torb in 2016-17 and stay in bronze. he should be auto climb at that rank. not to mention because no one really knew what they were doing early on, the ranks were highly inflated too. diamond players back then would be gold today.
You are correct. Pathetic.
It’s the Find Out stage that follows his Fuck Around rather than any sort of him being bullied.
When extremely wealthy and powerful people knowingly ruining the lives of tens, hundreds of thousands or even millions, them getting some well deserved opprobrium from everybody else, that’s Fair Consequences, not bullying.
I mean, I wouldn’t call it fair. They said some really nasty things but I think for it to be fair, we would have to get a guillotine involved.
Yeah, I think you’re right.
I doubt if he knows just how much well-deserved hatred he has accumulated. It’s like a thunderstorm and he’s on a high hill licking a flagpole. That’s going to be a lot more extreme than some shit talk in a gamer forum.
lol rage quits, whining about being bullied on X. Somebody needs to slap the wokism out of Felon Musk.
Something something snowflake.
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will DEVASTATE MY INNER CHILD FOR-EV-ER.”
He’s definitely acting like the little snowflake he is.
Also, isn’t he managing six companies, leading the DOGE team, and still finding time for gaming?
Any idiot can manage 27 companies. You outsource your job to managers. That is why CEO jobs should be replaced by AI asap.
Um, no love to ceos, but an AI CEO sounds worse
How so ? No drugs, no nazism, doesn’t take a salary (more money for rest of us), and is only focused on the job, no drama, has more empathy and compassion than Felon Musk, doesn’t care for bribes. Doesn’t wear a costume. Seems OK to me.
When AI eventually gets genuinely I, I’d bet it could be reasoned with.
In fact, since it would likely be unbound by our biological emotions and short-sighted instincts, it would probably think longer term than the current crop of utter psychopaths running the show.
I mean, that’s a loss for capitalism right there. They put a machine smarter than they are in charge, they’re in for a rude awakening I reckon.
We talking about Elon, or all CEOs here?
Helps if you proudly “don’t do market research.” Tesla has stopped taking in Cybertrucks as trade ins, funnily enough.
Little bitch
Love it but be careful, dude is your president now
All the more reason to give him hell for doing a terrible job. If you can’t handle the heat get out of the kitchen.
Dude unfortunately has no problem throwing a match over his shoulder when leaving the kitchen or even to return later to do so.
I think, everybody living in former Eastern block countries, in former East Germany, in former Germany in the 1930s/40s has a story of someone being gone after telling the wrong joke a little too loud. Sometimes they came back but they were different. Often they didn’t. You do not know where that regime will be in three years, using opsec now probably isn’t a bad idea in hindsight.
You should be careful to tackle the gaming community. There are many nerds and script kiddies who are well connected and who have little troubles to make your life less happy. Something which did not exist in the Eastern block, and especially not in Eastern Germany - remember: it wasn’t Eastern Germany where the revolts started against the regime! They just jumped on the train. Not few Eastern Germans are dreaming nowadays to have something like the German Democratic Republic back.
While you’re not wrong, I hate this line of thinking - it gives them too much power if we start censoring ourselves because they might retaliate.
The hard part is finding an acceptable balance between good OPSEC but not pre-emptive compliance.
Maybe if we all just start referring to this as “the gas leak season” while we’re in it we can break the 4th wall and escape whatever the fuck this supposed reality is.
I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride
