Elon Musk can’t take the heat
Elon Musk can’t take the heat
The numbers say anti-Tesla protests are working. So do Musk's increasingly unhinged actions.
As the de facto head of the Department of Governmental Efficiency, Musk has deployed this brand of tactical callousness to maximal effect. He has boasted about throwing the United States Agency for International Development into a “woodchipper” and stumbled around the stage at CPAC with a chainsaw. He has presided over the dismantling of the administrative state and the harassment and mass-termination of federal workers—all while flaunting his lack of concern for the lives he has upended. Fired government employees, he announced last Thursday, with the laughing/crying emoji that’s become his calling card, will now have to “get a real job.”
This kind of depravity is a prerequisite for Musk’s new line of work. Dancing on the graves of lifesaving programs for kids is not something you can easily do with a conscience. But there is one set of feelings Musk is uniquely attuned to: his own. On Friday, the same day foreign service officers around the world received notices from a DOGE flunky alerting them that they would soon be out of a job, Musk—sans sunglasses—sat down with Fox News’ Brett Baier to ask for a little sympathy.
“I mean, you have Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price, where the stock price has gone in half—and he is overjoyed,” he said. “What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like, who derives joy from that?”
Now I need the video with Tim Walz to get my share of the joy!
The damage was done. Surely the russians got what they wanted.
So you're asking me to feel bad, for the richest person on Earth. After he just harmed a ton of people and damaged our country.... All because he has slightly less money, the difference of which no average person could ever dream of?
No, I don't think I will.
No this is just the food they're feeding to their sycophants. Now they're making the argument that "Democrats are heartless for rejoicing at people losing their jobs" and that they're "bullies for rooting for an American company to fail"
I derive joy from Tesla stock crashing, because I sold all my shares ages ago, and I like it when companies run by Nazis crash and burn <3
Should Tesla fall low enough to trigger a margin call that wipes out Space Nazi, I doubt I will ever be as happy at that moment for the rest of my life.
I’m gonna fuckin pop some champagne if that happens lol
“Empathy destroys civilisations” according to Musk. If there was ever any doubt that he is a sociopath, the evidence is now abundantly clear. Empathy is what a civilised society is built upon. He is mixing up society and imperialism. Lack of empathy is what imperialists and fascists demonstrate when they invade their neighbours. Other notables who lack empathy are misogynists, abusers, criminals and fraudsters.
Everytime his sociopathy is mentioned, this quote from the Nuremberg trials should be mentioned:
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
-G. M. Gilbert
Being a billionaire is both a symptom and cause of sociopathy.
This sums it up
I know a MAGA like this. Constantly tells people their feelings are just made up mental things and not physical facts.
But then when he talks about how something is affecting him that isn't a physical fact, he gets animated and literally says he is upset that people don't listen to his feelings and that makes him feel bad.
These people are lost in their own worlds. They are the main and most important character and other people are simply NPCs to them. They haven't learned to relate their own experience with the experience of others. They don't consider there other genuine experiences outside of their own. Empathy is an abstract concept that means nothing but weakness to them.
They can learn to see the world and the people within it differently but it takes an inner awakening and personal effort that they are unlikely to muster the longer they exist as an isolated entity.
I'd be surprised if any MAGA isn't like this ...
Could you help me understand something? Is this person also... dumb? I don't mean to be disparaging or judgemental, but I'm trying to navigate all this and I'm having a hard time understanding how someone can lack this much self-awareness and still function in society. Unless, they can't do that either? Thanks.
“I mean, you have Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price, where the stock price has gone in half—and he is overjoyed,” he said. “What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like, who derives joy from that?”
We all derive joy from watching the villain get their just deserts.
A jerk? On twitter he calls everyone retards. Not such an edgelord when you're talking to real people huh?
Who derives joy from that?
-Man who was gleefully swinging a chainsaw on stage, deriving joy from stealing taxpayer dollars and cutting government services.
with the amount of alcohol and ketamine he consumes, he probably havnt felt joy in a while.
It's no where near what his just deserts would be, but it's a start. At least it's one area where the people have a little bit of power over him. Owning a Tesla (I've always hated that he stole the inventor's name for his company) should be made anathema, unacceptable, unthinkable. We should keep up the pressure in every possible way.
Natural consequences, Muskrat.
Someone who is tired of your bullshit, that’s who.
You know how sometimes your get so frustrated at someone you struggle to eloquently articulate your dislike of them because there are so many facets to that dislike. This is how Elon makes me feel these days. I struggle to put it in the simplest terms.
It really bothers me that he thinks he deserves pity while denying it to others. It bothers me that his attitude towards money comes from never having had to worry about it. It bothers me that he thinks that he can take actions that threaten people's livelihoods and even their lives and expects to be loved for it. It bothers me that the only way he can rationalise why people hate him is that they have brainwashed or paid by the left rather than having legitimate grievances with him. It bothers me that he thinks if you aren't a billionaire it's because your are lazy/don't deserve to be and that their hard work is not equal to his. Lastly it bothers me that I don't know if he genuinely holds these positions or if he just uses them as justification to do horrible things.
Musk is the guy that says he wants to burn society to the ground and rebuild it better. Then he's shocked people are focusing on and strongly disliking the burning part. Also people have seen the cyber truck and the yearly promises to have self driving next year for sure and don't trust his rebuilding abilities.
I feel this so hard, and it extends to people who still support him (which is thankfully very few in my day to day life.)
Yes! Absolutely this.
Lock him in one of his exploding cucktrucks and see if he can take it.
Musk cannot take the heat. He has not just the taste and sensibilities of a boy, but the temperament of one. He throws a fit out when things don’t go his way. He wilts. This is someone who can be beat. In another context you might call this terminal inability to take a punch a “glass jaw.” The term “keyboard warrior” comes to mind. But I can think of another word for something that’s so ostentatious and in-your-face except for when it needs to be—a symbol of decadence and insecurity and deregulation that boasts bulletproof toughness, but which breaks into pieces at the first sign of stress.
Elon’s not unstoppable, Wisconsin voters showed on Tuesday. When the rubber hits the road, he’s nothing but a Cybertruck.
Well put. Elon is not a tough guy. Make him uncomfortable.
He's afraid, all the time - armour vest not well hidden under his shirt making him look even weirder - holding his kid in front of him when he enters or leaves places.
I'm glad he lives in fear - he must pay his guards a lot not to shoot him at any moment.
Aww, little Afrikaner nepo-baby's pwecious fee-fees hurt? It's almost like being right-wing also means you're a special little snowflake who can dish it but can't take it.
south afrikaner.
Afrikaners are an etnic group specifically from South Africa so "South Afrikaner" would mean an Afrikaner from the south part of South Africa.
(The word Afrikaner is derived from the Dutch word for "african", because most Afrikaners are descendants of Dutch Colonists who went there centuries ago, so maybe that's a source of confusion for people who speak Germanic languages!?)
who derives joy from that?
Me.
Thoughts and prayers
I say we deport him to Mars.
He has literally said he plans on dying on Mars.
Let's oblige him.
EDIT:
I somehow forget to link to this banger.
EDIT 2: Alt, Live Take at KEXP
send him to mars in his own rocket
It seems like after he lost the Wisconsin judge election that Trump has started to turn on him.
Yeah, this was the big test to see if Elon’s money could still buy additional power for Trump. Didn’t work in this case, hopefully it sows further division in the admin.
Dear sane Americans, please keep on going in that direction!
Stay out of the kitchen then
BREAKING: Musk’s Arsehole-to-Mouth Pipeline Hits Peak Efficiency—Verbal Diarrhoea blasting at Unprecedented Volumes.
Once more Musk showcases a supreme lack of knowledge. If not for empathy we wouldn't even have civilisation. Empathy is the social glue that keeps us together. It's through empathy and cooperation that communities and societies form.
Empathy is a weakness. In all its forms it must be stamped out. Unless we're talking about empathy for power.
--Elmo
As I believe the band Semisonic once said about ouroboros diarrhea, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end”
Hah! I love that!
What a fucking snowflake LMAO
Concerning
He's a sociopath
A very well written article..how refreshing.
I thought empathy was a weakness man baby. Grow a fucking pair.
When the rubber hits the road, he’s nothing but a Cybertruck.
I must admit, I too derive great joy from watching reaping what they have sown.
Good. Burn, motherfucker.
Time for him to get out of the kitchen and out of our country. Gitmo is the best place for him.
Liquidate Musk
Me. I was straight jorkin it when walz was parading that stock price around on stage. Can’t wait for the next dip so I can do it again
Fyi that is tagged as "couldn't find post".
Oh! Thanks for letting me know. I was trying to share this again
