Please stop bullying the billionaire 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

He's the adult version of that kid we all knew in middle school - the one who was creepy and awkward and desperate to get the cool kids to like him and he talked too much and laughed too loud in a way that sounded like he could tip over into hysteria any second, and the only thing he had going for him was that his family had money, so he always got the latest and coolest games and toys and he'd show them off in the desperate hope that someone would want to play with him but nobody ever did because he was just so desperate and creepy.
- Some kid pushed him down the stairs and seriously injured him when he was in school, and I don’t blame them. I guess it’s a chicken/egg situation, but I think generally you don’t get pushed down stairs if you aren’t an absolute shit.
  
  Some kid pushed him down the stairs and seriously injured him when he was in school
  True story?
  I wouldn't doubt it.
  I really know very little about Musk's past in a biographical sense, but as a lifelong student of human nature - both collectively and individually - I know him all too well.
  and I don’t blame them
  Nor do I.
  You can see it in his mannerisms and the look on his face. He was and still is one of those people who's unjustifiably smug - who's obnoxiously arrogant in spite of the fact that everyone around him just thinks he's a loudmouthed asshole. And the secret behind it is that he's actually desperately insecure and his entire life is bent toward (over)compensating for that.
  He's obnoxiously smug and arrogant because he has virtually no empathy or understanding of other people, so he doesn't know how to act to actually appeal to people.
  But he sees other people who do know how to act and who have spent a lifetime earning respect and admiration, and he sees their confidence and that's what he wants. So, failing to understand even the most basic principles, he jumps right past the earning respect and admiration stage and to the confidence stage, and unable to even pull that off convincingly, he just ends up smug and obnoxious.
  Which makes people dislike him, which leads him to try to compensate, which ends up just being more obnoxious arrogance, which makes people dislike him and 'round and 'round it goes.
- fame and wealth are forms of abuse. he never learned why the other kids hated him because his home environment sheltered him from connecting with others

Thats because Elon is actually an idiot who has lots of people tricked ... have you actually heard him try and talk about a subject you happen to be well informed on? Turns out he has no clue and just uses big words and lies alot.
Elon Musk is the ultimate Dunning-Krueger.
- He talks well enough to fool someone who doesn't know shit, with the confidence of someone who knows everything.
  But if you have even a wikipedia level of knowledge, you know he's talking shit. Nonstop shit.
- I wouldn’t say he’s an idiot. He’s a narcissist who feigns ignorance in order to pander to his fanboys. I think he’s a lot more dangerous than Trump who is an idiot and also a narcissist.
  Articles like this one are well-meaning but they just end up signal-boosting him and validating his narrative that “left wing media are persecuting him.”
  
  So many people love the narrative that they are idiots.
  Congratulations then, the commander in cheif of the worlds most powerful army and the worlds richest man are idiots. The most powerful democratic nation on earth just got usurped by Pinky and The Brain. If you're so fucking clever and they are so fucking dumb, how could you let this happen?
  They are a lot of things, but stupid isnt one of them.

Empathy is weakness, remember you said that, old man. Quit your bitching, no one cares.
- Empathy is also a social contract. In order to recieve empathy you have to be willing to show it towards others. You can't expect to reap the benefits of a contract that you fail to uphold your side of.
  
  People can't really receive Empathy since that's an inherent human ability in others. Also Empathy itself is an entirelly emotional thing - it's feeling a reflection of what others are feeling - that involves no reasoning.
  At most what can happen is that those who do have more empathy can turn it down a bit for some and leave it at a higher level for others, but those who have less empathy (or none, such as psychopaths) are literally unable to empathise more even if they wanted to.
  So I don't think it's Empathy that's the social contract, I think it's more something like Respect For Others' Feelings, as in "I'll respect the fellings of those who themselves respect the feelings of other people", which works even for people who have no empathy because beyond a certain level of feeling even psychopaths can see the external effects of an emotion in others and determine rationally - rather than via empathy - what those feelings are and take them into account, and thus they can refrain from doing things that cause certain feeling in others.

2 points to consider. 1. He said that empathy is the weakness of Western civilization and his cronies are saying that empathy is a sin. 2. He posted a meme comic saying that unless you're capable of great violence that you're basically harmless and thus easily ignored. This is what he wants.

All that money, everyone still thinks you're a boring, unfunny dork.
- Not a dork. A fascist oligarch Nazi pile of shit.
  
  Why not both?

He's doing a Fox News thing. He's saying people are mean to him because he's telling the truth and it's the woke left that's got a problem with it.
- He's also doing the fox news thing of being incredibly mean to people in one sentence and then 5 minutes later crying about people being mean to him...
  Forever the victim with these fuckers even when they're putting their neck stomping boots on.

What if his Ketamine runs out and then he snaps back to reality like oops there goes gravity
- I have a story for you.. it was 2007..

https://newrepublic.com/post/192856/elon-musk-everyone-mean-to-him

No amount of tap dancing lessons can prepare me for this man's death.
- No lessons needed, just stay hydrated and queue up for the new public restroom.

Empathy is a weakness according to Musk. So suck-it-up-Buttercup.

It’s a completely self-solvable problem: Don’t act like an awful person.
I mean, if you have empathy, it’s not really hard to suss out the causes and work to fix them… 🤷🏻‍♂️

I remember something like almost 20 years ago, reading an interview article with him after his first wife? girlfriend? dumped him. I think it was in Rolling Stone. Anyway, the dude was nowhere near as (in)famous as he's become. And basically the interviewer wrote that Musk seems to want to be loved, but also seems incapable of being lovable. Or something along those lines.
I'm sure part of it has to do with shitty parenting. I mean, just look at his dad. Same thing with Trump too. For such emotional and psychological damage, I can at least pity both of them. It is sad that impressionable young children in need of love and security don't receive that from the most important people in their lives. But my pity ends when they take their daddy issues out on literally everyone else around them rather than go to therapy.
- You mean his dad that fathered 2 children with his own stepdaughter?
  
  Yeah, that gross dude.
  Like, we can see in real time the damage done by shitty family life and even the fundamental skewing of an entire worldview and empathy-spectrum due to wealth. And, if these dudes weren't causing so much damage to everyone around them because of that, I would pity them more. They're some of the most obvious cases of "hurt people hurt people." But I am also finite, and so my empathy goes more to the people they are hurting.

Claims Empathy is bad Is surprised when no one has empathy for him
I don't think the problem is a lack of heart, but rather a lack of brain.

keeps fucking with people's lives and futures cuz he thinks it's a funny joke to do that
wHy DoEs nOBoDy LiKe mE???? i ThOuHgT i wAs tHe funNY mEmE SAvE-ThE-wOrLD MAn

i have a feeling he does and hes not as much of a clueless naive kid this article insinuates.
- Awareness is not a binary. He probably has moments when he's painfully aware of unpopularity e.g. on stage with Chappelle. We all live in some kind of bubble, it would be intolerable not to. His trajectory is common to someone like a rebel leader who becomes a dictator and eventually a tyrant where he's despised by everyone except the few people around him. They typically recede from public life but never let go of power.

If he gave me a million dollars I wouldn't be mean to his face...
- I'd need at least 5M for that courtesy.
  
  Fair enough but I'm a cheap bastard.

- Saying "Fuck you, Elon!" is positive, informative and beautiful.

Because he is dumb as a rock.

Yes he really does understand why people hate him. He has enough awareness of the effects of his actions to realize that he is destroying people's lives and his policies are killing people in real numbers. He also has enough awareness to realize that those things don't make human beings particularly happy.

Did we hurt his widdle feewings?

He understands fully well. He's just playing coy and being a smart ass.
Fucking enlon..

The Polish president is not a little man. Elon is.

Maybe there's some kind of psychedelic experience that would help him gain an outside perspective /s
Seriously though: Elon is the best argument that psychedelics don't provide any sort of meaningful insight; just the subjective feeling of insight
- I hear inhaling 100% nitrogen for 10 minutes does wonders for curing Nazis.
  
  On the case of Nazis, maybe it's better to use carbon monoxide just to be sure.
- The fucker needs to take a bunch of mushrooms to make him face his demons and inadequacies. Maybe it might make him go mad idk.

Having spent much of my life around nerds, I do believe he may be dumbfounded by the reactions to his new role in MAGA. Nerds tend to be very good at some things by virtue of hyper-focusing on them, while simultaneously being oblivious to many others. Add to that the fact that his circles and social media feeds must be filled with MAGA ideology and fans for whom he can do no wrong and what you get is someone who’s probably feeling like he’s doing good.
- He's good at disregarding his fellow human beings' wellbeing to hoard wealth. And at throwing tantrums when people don't suck up to him.
  
  Well that is probably where Trump and Musk are most alike.

BUT GUYS HES GOOD AT PATH OF EXILE SEE HES A GAMER GUYS REALATE TO HIM
SEE RICH ASSHOLE IS RELATABLE RIGHT?
/s

What a sniveling little bitch boy