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Can democracy survive now the world’s richest man has it in his sights? | George Monbiot | The Guardian
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Considering he’s visibly losing it already, I should think so. I originally thought it was a midlife crisis but it’s been like 4 years.
I think it's pretty obviously been more than that: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/03/media/elon-musk-testifies/index.html
For the worlds richest man, and CEO of multiple companies to tweet like that, you'd have to be pretty far gone already.
Musk has probably "had issues" most of his life, but at this point he obviously lost control publicly, and was unable to contain it.
Musk is a spoiled brat who thinks his behavior has no consequences to him. This continues to be mostly true, so his behavior gets steadily worse, because he has no shame and no reason to believe he will be held accountable.
God, I’m getting old. I could have passed a lie detector test saying the pedo guy incident was in the 2020s, at least.
The Tesla model S came out in 2012. I just remember that when Musk made that tweet, I'd already identified Musk as a conman.
But I don't remember anything in particular that stood out as much before that tweet. Except he had already failed on his promise on FSD, with little to show it was even close. I also remember identifying him as an introvert narcissist. Which is kind of an oxymoron, but nonetheless describes his public social conduct.
If you are old, do you remember Lee Iacocca (Chrysler)? Or Jack Tramiel (Commodore)?
Those were stellar businessmen and CEOs, that were geniuses without being narcissistic sociopaths.
Those were true role models. 😀
You ever see a dude buy a sports car during a midlife crisis? That shit's his baby for years. I've got a neighbor who's been waxing his Miata for decades... Keeps it under a tarp and never drives it.
Meanwhile musk crashed his McLaren trying to impress Peter Thiel
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-spent-1-million-213715650.html?guccounter=1