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My father-in-law has been divorced three times. Each of his exes have told him directly that they left because he’s too controlling. To this day, he openly and genuinely states he has no idea why he’s been divorced three times - “I try so hard in marriage. I just don’t get it.”
Some people can’t hear the truth even if you rubber stamp it on their forehead.
Cue: Elon Musk.
Never underestimate a human’s capacity for self-deception. I think it’s our most perfected trait.
And he'll keep pretending to wonder why until a mob executes him live on Twitch
We could only dream such an ending
Poor Elon. Rich people really do not understand. Even if they came from poverty backgrounds, they lose perspective. They think they did it all by themselves to get where they are and do not understand that chance and luck play a big part in determining which 'hard workers with an idea' get ahead. The working world is littered with smarter people who just didn't get the breaks to become super rich. Once they are rich enough to waste $25M on a judge's election they really do not understand that for the majority of Americans losing their job can mean a quick succession to homelessness from which they may never recover.
What made them rich is not paying attention to social clues. They were unable to read the room. But they were allowed to decimate it and alienate anyone with valuable feedback. They isolated themselves and never thought "maybe I drove them away".
People are telling you why Elon.
What is so crazy is that at the same time I see a headline with "Tesla's sales plummet 13 percent as Musk backlash grows" and yet TSLA is up 4.72% at the moment.
W T A F
Sales plummet 13%. Stock goes up nearly 5%.
The value of the stock (which is outrageously overvalued) is solely down to musk's personality cult. So now that it's been announced that he should be "leaving government and going back to his companies" it led to a stock jump, since his presence is the only reason that the stock is worth a lot in the first place.
The issue is that Musk often sounds convincing when he talks about things you don't really know much about, and there are a LOT of investors who have a lot of money but don't really know much about anything.
Too many people shorting?
Shorting would drop the price.
Not always, right? Like if there is a short squeeze.
That is a very specific and unusual circumstance.
Shorts have to be bought back after the term. You borrow it, sell it, and buy it back after so much time and give it back to the lender. You think the stock is shit so when you buy it back it will be lower cost than what you sold for and you keep the difference.
Too many shorts all at the same time and now everyone is buying it back and driving up the price, but that just rarely happens, and when it does happen it will work itself out in a few days or weeks.
That's because, like every other egotistical rich asshole, he has surrounded himself with yes men who are only around to eat his crumbs.
Imagine living your life unaware that no one around you actually likes you.
He was always like this, BTW. Even back in the 90s his relatives wanted him to stay out of the spotlight because of his poor social skills.
What's amusing is that a lot of smart people were giving him sideeye even before he bought xitter and wayyyy before the Nazi salutes. It took the nonsense surrounding him when he bought xitter and after he seized power for me to realize he had no fucking clue what he was doing. And of course his magoff sympathies started to become more and more apparent...
When I saw other broligarchs wishing they could behave the way he did when he seized xitter (treating labor like dirt), the general problem here was obvious.
People justify their own behaviour and responses, they build justification for why *it's ok when I do it because.. *. People with narcissistic personality disorders and the such, who do very bad things, perpetually see themselves as in the right, to a delusional extent. The bad guys, genuinely think they're the good guys. We all do it, to an extent, they double down, they go big.
i always thought it was a little hyperbolic to call these people narcissists… like, they were similar to narcissists but not actually pathological…
i think musk is actually further out on the narcissistic personality disorder spectrum, it actually seems like he can’t understand how people could be mad at him even when it’s extremely obvious, front page news, people have hired airplanes with messages to tell him… massive protests… multiple websites and forums dedicated to exactly why they’re mad at him….
he’s literally targeting the poorest people possible, and any organization investigating him….
all of this and i think he’s really just not capable of understanding when people are mad at him….
he can’t understand how people could be mad at him
The ASD could explain the difference between him and the next narcissist
Who else has been making bank being paid to protest, I was just at a fundraiser where George Soros was jumping around on stage gleefully after dismantling our government services and leaving the country concerned for their future. George was also handing out million dollar checks for a few lucky folks.
I am so happy George decided to get so involved in politics.
Hitler probably said the same
Ironically, Hitler was a very charismatic man who people felt had a honest interest in and a magnetic personality.
You can feel something if that when listening to the Mannerheim tapes, the only recording of his actual speaking voice. When not shouting through a tinny PA system that warps his voice into the shrill shrieking that most people know, he had a lovely warm voice.
So Elon has very much less rizz than the Führer.
Whether or not you consider Hitler legit charismatic is based entirely on personal perspective. There were people who met him in the early 1930s and thought he was the most bland person ever. Orson Wells in 1970 even said that when he met Hitler when trekking through Germany as a young man he said he was the most unimpressive person he ever met and could not fathome how anyone was swayed by him.
Yeah it's also a matter of taste, and I think most charisma dehydrates in the shade of Welles.
But there's no denying he had some type of amgnitism, a rockstar-like aura that very many people are sensitive too. With Elon he had a spell of 'cool nerd cred' due to him backing cool ideas. However he seems to repulse most people if they get to know him. Aside from money he has no people who want to be his friend.
There's no 'von' in Mannerheim. Just pointing out, appreciate the comment.
Ah I may have conflated him with von Mannstein. Ty, fixed!
He knows perfectly well why.
He’s gaslighting so the people who hate him hate him louder, which he can then use as validation that they’re crazy or irrational.
It’s fucking disgusting and obvious as hell. He deserves all of the shit thrown at him and he knows it but doesn’t care because he doesn’t have to face any real consequences for it, so he escalates.
Everyone’s anger is his weapon against them, sadly because his supporters are dumb enough to go with it. He needs tangible consequences or else this will just keep getting worse.
I'm not certain that's true. Even if he knew it was bullshit at some point. If you surround yourself with bullshit you stop being able to smell it.
You can come to believe a lie you tell yourself long enough and hard enough. He is surrounded by enablers who are also lying to themselves.
It doesn't matter what he believes. He does need consequences.
it's a mystery for sure
Even given the most charitable reading that he was doing a Nazi salute to troll people instead of because he's an actual Nazi, the whole intention behind trolling is to piss people off.
And I'm not inclined to give this steaming coprolite any charity, because he acts like a fuckin' Nazi.
(I'm not going to play along with the whole "he said his heart goes out" bullshit. Other Nazis sure knew what he was doing and loved it.)
He uses all the Nazi secret code shit. Like his fascination with the letter X for example which is modern Nazi code for Heil Hitler. Saying that Hitler did not kill millions of people. He throws it right out there and expects the world to ignore it.
This just in: man who despises empathy struggles to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
Willful ignorance
Fun fact, Solar City, a company owned by Elon musk, is infamous for signing people up for lengthy solar panel leases and refusing to repair them if they break.
Right now, without China, solar would be unaffordable by anyone but the rich in America.
It'll all be great again, wait till the end of Term 3.
It truly is a mystery 🤷♂️
I wish the media would stop giving this asshole an audience.
I support freedom of speech, but it does not mean that you are automatically entitled to an audience.
The thing is that he is the defacto ruler of the US right now. So his words are important, regardless of them all being nothing but gaslighting whiney bullshit.
Confirming he's not as smart as he pretends to be
narcissist never do. They are forever the victim and honestly believe it.
Earn friends by firing tens of thousands of people. It should have been so simple, what could have possibly gone wrong?
Maybe he doesn't know because he refuses to listen to anyone who criticizes him, banning them on Twitter and calling them paid actors in public events.
It still surprises me someone with that complete of a lack of self awareness manages to get dressed without injuring themselves.
I wonder if that's actually true, because I think that he is to some extent literally psychotic. What happens when someone who actually has enormous wealth and power still goes through manic phases or experiences something like grandiose delusions? He might really believe that he's saving the nation and the world, and that this should be obvious to all.
It's like those movies (I can't remember which ones but I'm sure I've seen some) where the king thinks of himself as good and is genuinely surprised and confused when he learns that the common people feel oppressed by him. Except in this case the king does not (and probably can not) learn a heartwarming moral lesson.
I’m surprised he’s even willing to indicate he cares. Well…cares about anything past his falling stock price and burning swasticars.