this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yup. This is classic narcissism. The role of the abused in this relationship is to perpetually make the abuser feel happy, whole, and loved; the abuser cannot do this for themself. By breaking with this pattern, the victim is living a life that doesn't feed back into Elon's, which is verboten in the eyes of the abuser. So, we get the hate-train turned pitty-parade reaction on Xitter, potentially drawing in more people to feed this bottomless pit of an ego. It's also textbook to not be able to self-assess, so he's totally unaware of the dissonance around claiming to be the victim while hating on your own kid and a whole social movement.

BTW, if this sounds like vampirisim, it basically is. Go watch Renfield for a playful, over-the-top, and yet informative, take on all that.