They don’t mention it causing turmoil at Xitter, presumably because they are already at maximum turmoil capacity
Perhaps they contacted Twitter for a comment on Elon’s drug use and got a statement that read: 💩
I used to play bass for Maximum Turmoil Capacity.
We were an experimental noise core thrash jazz quartet.
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-f1
I don’t understand people buying such high-end toys and not bothering to pay for some training.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Execs: mental break down isn’t sexy, let’s say he has a drug problem so people can rally for him.
