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I did not see this published outside of India. But not sure why. It’s all based on Xitter.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 37 minutes ago

So get him the fuck out of anything important

[–] skozzii 2 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 19 minutes ago)

He's depressed so he decided to go full Dr.Evil I suppose...

Make everyone suffer along with him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

It’s devastating to see the toll fentanyl takes on hundreds of thousands of lives every year, destroying families and communities. Yet, it feels incredibly unfair to see someone like Elon Musk openly joke about or trivialize its use. While he may have the privilege to brush it off, so many others don’t have that luxury. It highlights the stark divide between those who face the real consequences of this crisis and those who seem untouched by it. Accountability and awareness matter, especially when it comes to something as serious as fentanyl.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago

Someone who cares about him needs to take him off the internet permanently

there's your problem innit

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I think it's more the money. money causes mental illness.

but you know, there's a cure, and he employs so very many engineers who could build him one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

Power disparity derived from wealth disparity inevitably leads to unchecked corruption.

Late Stage Capitalism is a malignant cancer on both society and the planet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 45 minutes ago
[–] Lexxly 2 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

I think you're right in some cases. Something about having so much twisted his mind. I honestly think they he never used to be this bad (not saying he was good). But he wasn't this bad, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

You are correct.

Previous to ~2013 before the boring company bullshit, he was just a nerdy guy with a vision and poor social skills. From memory, he was hard to work for because he expected so much of people and drove them hard. Yes his early money source is sketchy.

I think the popularity after the boring company started to mess him up, basically he became the memes he was sharing, and it broke his brain, then the drugs and money separated him from reality. Now he is so divorced from the experience of the regular person, that no matter what happens....barring the complete loss of his fortune, he will never be the same nerdy guy.

I think he will just get worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

when he got rid of his PR team, it was gameover

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

it's progressive, but he was also less visible.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 33 minutes ago

Certainly not recreationally.

[–] Lexxly 3 points 2 hours ago

Unless you're a horse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Don't do regular doses of ketamine. If you do it once and stay the fuck away from the internet for two weeks, that's fine. If you do it in supervised therapy sessions thats fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

i think it takes it with alcohol and cocaine, which would explain the erratic and energy to post on X all day

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Musk may well be going mad and I certainly hope he is. I hope his lack of recognition and watching his empire crumble is eating him up inside.

But Seth Abramson is not a reliable narrator let alone "biographer" whatever that means. He has a very long and storied history of embellishing facts, or placing too much weight on rumours and extrapolating way too much from them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 32 minutes ago

TBH, I rather more hope he goes dead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

I saw this kind of take a lot when he first started appearing in my feeds, and I just sort of accepted it since I didn't read anything by him anyway.

Now that I've read more, I think his books are well-researched and meticulously cited using primary sources from well-known publications. He's a professor with degrees from Dartmouth and Harvard and I mention that because the original image I was given was he was some influencer or "citizen journalist" who just liked being incendiary, and that's not the case at all.

So are there some examples of his embellishing to share? I don't understand this particular take on him. He's very critical of Trump and has said he's directly connected to the Kremlin (and shown it in the most detailed, and cited, ways), but I don't think he's someone to ignore for that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

He had mad the world so much worse i can't feel sorry for him

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