They don’t mention it causing turmoil at Xitter, presumably because they are already at maximum turmoil capacity
Theres nobody left there to ask
Perhaps they contacted Twitter for a comment on Elon’s drug use and got a statement that read: 💩
I still can’t believe that’s a real thing he did, it’s straight out of a comedy skit.
I loved when the writers would try to get in contact and would point out the reply in their articles. Seems they got tired of it after a while unfortunately.
You know, I thought they already were at capacity before Elmo agreed publicly with fascists.
I really like the term “maximum turmoil capacity”. LOL, ty.
I used to play bass for Maximum Turmoil Capacity.
We were an experimental noise core thrash jazz quartet.
Oh so kind of a fusion? Radical
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Xhitter employee #1: Oh dude, I think the boss is tripping balls!
Xhitter employee #2: Maybe today won’t be a total loss. Should I ask him to share that shit with us?
I’m usually ready to laugh at this asshole, but if he has a drug problem, then I pity him.
Important note: pity and sympathy are similar, but not the same thing.
Normalize pitying your enemies instead of hating them.
Yeah do like Mr T. And pity the fools.
I used to work with this mean miserable guy and there were so many times a lot of us would try to cheer him up. Share food, invite to after work drinks, movies, concerts, just include him. He never took anyone up on it, ever. After a friend of mine left that job and confronted him about his shitty attitude and self alienation, he just said, “I don’t want your pity.”
Ironically, after I heard that I stopped sympathizing and did just pity the guy.
Maybe he just didn’t want to hang out with you guys and had a perfectly fine life outside of work. Crazy, I know.
I sincerely hope he does, but I think it’s pretty sad that someone conflates kindnesses with pity.
I often don’t want to hang out with coworkers. I just politely decline if asked affirmatively. There’s no reason to decline and say, “I don’t want your pity” since I assume they’re just to be inclusive and friendly. I know a lot of people on here have a hard work/life separation, but you do have to exist with your coworkers for some portion of your life. Might as well make interactions with them pleasant.
I can do both. I pity the sad man who is addicted to drugs, but also he’s a fascist campaigning for human suffering and I hate that about him.
Sometimes I say “sympathy without empathy” for these situations lol
Empathy is to understand another’s emotional state. Sympathy is to effectively mirror it.
Buuuut, much like “literally” now means “figuratively” and “decimate” has lost all meaning after being mistaken for “devastate”… Carry on. The species is circling the drain anyhow.
Misuse of decimate gets me every 10th time
You miss 100% of the pants you don’t shit
Does decimate actually mean to place a decimal?
It meant to kill every tenth soldier as punishment for bad performance.
That’s a hell of a way to make… a point
Romans weren’t known for their subtlety.
It gets me like every third time
drug use? it would explain a few things…
No. I interacted with him on two occasions during the PayPal days. They were pitching PayPal as a payment mechanism for a bunch of our verticals. Even back then he was weird, awkward, and cringe. I think there is video of him back then taking possession of a McLaren and you can see how cringe he was.
EDIT: Found it.. On rewatch, it doesn’t really show how insufferable he was in person. It’s funny to see how x.com gets recycled though.
Then he immediately wrecked his (uninsured) McLaren:
https://www.thedrive.com/news/32191/did-you-know-elon-musk-wrecked-an-uninsured-mclaren-f1I don’t understand people buying such high-end toys and not bothering to pay for some training.
Seriously. Racing school was fun and only $1,500! Yeah that was serious money for me, but I thought it was a good investment/ birthday present. For him though… That’s like a quarter.
Uninsured is also just strange. Even if I bought a junked supercar, rebuilt the thing myself, and didn’t care if I wrecked it, I’d still insure the thing.
I feel like Elon is the type of guy who views having insurance as weak. Like someone or something having an even minute amount of authority over him is unthinkable.
For him though… That’s like a quarter.
Today, yes, but back then he was just another dot com millionaire. Remember, that footage was before PayPal, so he probably had about 300M, tops. A million was still only a fraction of his wealth, but it was still a noticeable fraction.
Even so, I seriously doubt the $1500 he could have spent to learn to drive the thing properly would have been a serious expense.
Holy receding hairline, Batman!
Nothing money couldn’t fix apparently.
Lol i love how he called it X .com way back then and they renamed it to paypal.
Some prophetic words from the finance there.
That’s not just a McLaren, that’s probably the most famous McLaren of all time.
I was thinking he wrecked his F1 but I think that was Rowan Atkinson…
According to another comment Musk wrecked his McLaren but so did Atkinson (twice!).
It’s like crazy high-performance sports cars are hard to drive.
I won a competition to drive a Ferrari F458 on a track. It was dope but it took me several tries to even pull away cleanly (this is after an hour long lesson about the track and 30min hands on with the car).
One of the Ferrari guys took it and warmed it up for me after which it behaved much better but it’s a long story to say that I can see an inexperienced driver screwing up badly in a super car especially when cold.
And the McLaren F1 is an older more raw car than the F458.
If I were into cars and had the money, I think it would be part of the joy of getting my new toy to pay up for a few days of track time with a good trainer.
But I guess I’m not surprised Mr. “I know more about manufacturing than literally anybody else” would be pretentious enough to just wing it and fuck it up gloriously.
The schools are worth the cost. It cost me $1500 for a 3 day course way back in '98. Same racing school is now $2050. I can say I gained a lot more control of my car after that.
That sounds reasonable and fun. Compared to the cost of a McLaren F1, it’s peanuts.
The number of lies that came out of that Muppets mouth during that cringy piece was remarkable. My fav had to be ‘just three years ago i was sleeping on the floor on the YMCA hostel’. what an absolute fucking donkey of a human.
Calling him that is an insult to Muppets everywhere. You gotta know Gonzo would make a way better CEO.
I think I read somewhere he’s hopped up on ket every day (but someone correct me if wrong)
You don’t get hopped up on Ketamine, that’s for the comedown.
You get stimmed up on amphetamines, and then take the edge off with downers.
The way he’s slurring his words, I’d guess benzodiazapines (Xanax, Valium, etc.)
But I’m sure he’s taking Ketamine as well, and probably mixing up quite a few daily cocktails with who knows what else.
His dumbass is probably doing a bunch of RC’s to top it all off.
RC “nootropic stack”
That sounds brain melting. Like I’m all for amphetamines, they don’t work recreationally on me, but I know a lot of people who realized they had adhd when partying and trying Adderall left them thinking clearly. But benzos, nah I’ll take panic over benzos, those fuckers scare the shit out of me. Benzos will ruin your life if you let them.
he is lookin a little rough, even for that piece of shit
I LOVE KETAMINE SO FUCKING MUCH. I LOVE IT SO MUCH I PUT IT ALL ON MY MUSK.
I’d buy that.
Not as many things as untreated bipolar disorder would explain.
His whole life story explains everything already. The drugs are just the icing on the cake.
It’s interesting to look back at his AMA on reddit in 2015. Every response was so to the point and on topic, even friendly. Clearly something changed since then.
I like John Oliver’s take that he really didn’t like the orders to shut down factories during pandemic and got a lot of support from ‘mah freedom’ nutjobs over this causing not-so-slow fall into the extreme right rabbit hole. It actually makes a lot of sense. He clearly craves attention and approval. He used to get it from the left because electric cars are green and SpaceX is cool technology but eventually the left began demanding more regulation and he started getting some criticism (which he doesn’t like that much…). At the same time he noticed that the right is ready to accept him as the ‘free speech savior’ and love him unconditionally as long as he will help them ‘own the libs’ so he switched sides.
I think that Some More News’s take on it also gets to the point. He got vocally anti union and the left got vocally anti billionaire. Many CEOs seem to take pro union sentiment personally and he seems to be particularly sensitive.
Their videos are great! They are as informative as they are depressing. Man, the truth really does hurt sometimes!
Some More News YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng
Fun facts, the Cody Showdy (Some More News) is from the Cracked.com days. They have since obviously persisted on YT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracked.com#Video_content
I am guessing he had good publicists, probably decided he could do the job better and got rid of them just before the pedo thing.
Pretty much. After fucking up PayPal and getting kicked out for being an insufferable POS, he hired a PR firm who constructed the real life Tony Stark image for him on the public. Writing and getting press around his person. They also unfortunately had to tell him to not say or do certain stuff that would damage his image, there’s nothing a narcissist hates more than being told no. They also allowed him to position Tesla as the futuristic libertarian ideal and the overpriced manufacturers they are now, and SpaceX as the renaissance of US space exploration. In my opinion not entirely undeserved perceptions but immensely amplified by a marketing machinery. Then he had a meltdown, fired every single PR, marketing person from every single one of his companies. Declared himself the only marketing that his companies needed. He essentially bought into the crap that his own PR wrote for him.
In his recent “interview” with Alex Jones, Musk called all PR firms “propagandists.”. So that tracks.
I can tell you that nothing has changed about him. I personally know people who worked with him at that time, and he was just as much an arrogant and insufferable egoist as he is now. Legendary screaming matches and him talking completely out of his ass about absolutely everything were the norm and expected in every meeting.
Do any research on his tenure at Zip2/PayPal or any relationship he’s ever had, and you’ll see Musk has always been a petulant child, he just had a lot of people around him to try and hide it, but it seems like he’s scared basically all of them away.
his political situation was completely different
What about his toxicity and narcissism? Are they also cause for turmoil everywhere he goes?
No no, now that he has a drug problem, we’re supposed to pretend he’s not a narcissist, never said anything racist or sexist, and is just a misunderstood entrepreneur.
Those were already handled by dedicated people in most places.
Execs: mental break down isn’t sexy, let’s say he has a drug problem so people can rally for him.
Here’s an archive link to the original WSJ report.
In 2018, for example, he took multiple tabs of acid at a party he hosted in Los Angeles. The next year he partied on magic mushrooms at an event in Mexico. In 2021, he took ketamine recreationally with his brother, Kimbal Musk, in Miami at a house party during Art Basel. He has taken illegal drugs with current SpaceX and former Tesla board member Steve Jurvetson.
That seems, uh, well-documented.
Also, Kimbal? Ok.
Taking party drugs at a party is honestly fine with me. Taking party drugs at work is something an asshole would do.
Yeah I’m all for lsd use, shame it didn’t give him the drive to try to be a better person that it gave me
He seems pretty public about it. I’m wondering how many of these celeb parties have a “no phones” policy.
After all… you can’t spell “cocaine” without “AI”.
Unless you can’t resist getting fancy and spelling it "cocagne*
cokaggin?
Only if it’s from the Cocagne region of Columbia
Otherwise it’s just sparkling bath salts.
Come to think of it, if every time Musk says “AI” you replace it with “cocaine” or “hard drugs”, his behavior starts to make a lot more sense.
“Our hard drug future”
Could make a good extension. Try popping it into any of this drivel: https://analyticsindiamag.com/top-ten-best-quotes-by-elon-musk-on-artificial-intelligence/
Drug use? … Or he was always just an idiot.
Just because you’re naturally stupid, it doesn’t always mean you’re on drugs.
There’s a high chance of both being the correct answer.
Most of my friends use the same drugs, but none of them are cunts like Musk.
Drugs are invoked a lot to explain and justify human behavior to some external factor. It’s like when people say Nazis were on meth as an explaination for their actions, while not applying the same logic to basically every other military using amphetamines.
or both?
It would be awful if he got ahold of too much fentanyl.
I hope he buys Facebook next
He’s really working hard to follow closely in the footsteps of his idol, Hitler.
He’s following Hitler’s lead
the insanity and the cartoon villainy are a no comment
