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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
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.
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".
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.)
I think there's also the possibility that he genuinely believes a significant majority agrees with him.
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.
the nazis were trolls. they would have loved 4chan
What do you mean "would have", they're there right now.
You don't even need this to have happened given what he's done with DOGE and his buying an election. People would have still hated him, just not as many.
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.
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.
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.
Confirming he's not as smart as he pretends to be
People are telling you why Elon.
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.
Earn friends by firing tens of thousands of people. It should have been so simple, what could have possibly gone wrong?
I don't remember that chapter from How to Win Friends and Influence People.
This just in: man who despises empathy struggles to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
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.
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 truly is a mystery 🤷♂️
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.
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.
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
It still surprises me someone with that complete of a lack of self awareness manages to get dressed without injuring themselves.
How dumb can this jerkoff be?
No matter stupid you think he is, I guarantee it's more than that.
That makes it so much more fun to hate his guts.
Cry about it you fuckhead.
narcissist never do. They are forever the victim and honestly believe it.
Willful ignorance