154 points

Us trans people truly have the ability to melt the minds of middle-aged white people.

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59 points

this ability is so strong they forget what pronouns even are

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49 points

That’s my second most favourite trait of trans people.

My most favourite is that they are people living their truth.

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118 points

Spoiler alert: It was his heart.

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95 points

Grimes either doesn’t really have a problem with what Musk says or she’s a complete fucking idiot who had 3 kids with a man she knows to be a piece of shit.

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45 points

He’s a malignant narcissist. It takes a long time to escape that kind of programing. Being in a relationship like that is basically like being in a cult.

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22 points

Money probably helps too.

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spot on. doesn’t help that he’s a household name with lots of fanboys. actual notoriety of a malignant narcissist partner can easily amplify the self doubt that gets spurred on by gaslighting and other manipulative methods. not to mention she has children with him so she can’t just cut him off completely. can’t say i feel for her, but i sure would want to be in her place.

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3 points

He’s not a narcissist. pwNPD are a vulnerable minority of disabled people. Elon Musk is a bigoted asshole. Those are opposites.

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7 points

Abusers are often victims first. You can’t really look at Musk, or any billionaire, and think, “yeah, this person is totally fine.” He’s not. None of them are.

Patriarchy and capitalism reward the unhealthy coping mechanism he uses to protect his ego. Patriarchy specifically asserts that those coping mechanisms are not only normal but optimal.

He’s absolutely a victim of this system and in a functional one he would be given help instead of power, which is literally the opposite of what he needs to be able to recognize his problems and heal.

He is who he is because the only way he can see himself as valuable at all is if he’s basically the savior of the world. Anything less than that is unacceptable garbage. Anyone who believes differently must be manipulated or destroyed.

There’s no way he can ever be happy. He needs help. It’s tragic that we live in a society where he can’t even see how much he needs help.

None of that takes away from the behaviors he expresses. The fact that his manipulation of others comes from his insecurity doesn’t take away from the manipulation, the feeling of unreality, that comes from experimenting that manipulation. Both of these things can and do exist at the same time.

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2 points

I would suggest that narcissists and borderlines are vulnerable minorities solely because they almost always refuse treatment until it is no longer their legal choice to do so.

An adult with untreated narcissism is almost certainly going to be the least vulnerable person in all of their chosen relationships at any time.

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24 points

His personality probably changed when he started taking all the drugs.

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49 points

He’s always been a spoiled heir with massive wealth from apartheid and blood gems

How good could his personality ever have been, truly

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2 points

well, according to legend Siddhartha Gautama was raised as a prince and he still figured out that privilege and wealth causes suffering. alas.

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34 points

He shared pictures of her c+section against her will, is that drug behavior or asshole behavior? You decide!

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4 points

What the hell. Why would you ever do something like that?

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14 points

Or when he stopped taking specific drugs

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4 points

Or when he started hanging out with rich right wing weirdos.

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1 point

WHy not both?

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2 points

I also believe this. Seen it happen before. Somebody introduces an asshole to drugs thinking it will open their mind, because it happened to them. Pikachu face when they just become a bigger asshole.

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20 points

I get the impression she has very little “real world” experience, particularly with people.

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8 points

I watched my mom go through a lot of bad relationships and thought the exact same thing.

Sometimes people can’t get out. Sometimes they don’t think they want to, until something finally gets through to them.

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7 points

There’s a track record to suggest Grimes is a Nazi sympathizer. Elon’s LGBTQ+ rhetoric just hits closer to home, so she clutches pearls over it. Not a fan of either of them.

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7 points

I don’t blame her. You can’t help who you love. It is really sad, though.

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64 points

Why single out pronouns. Let’s all pile some hate on adverbs and prepositions while we’re at it. Ffs as if people wanting to be addressed using different language is something worth thinking about when there’s literally a climate catastrophe that will kill billions on the way.

But no, it’s the Pride people who are wrong. Smdh.

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4 points

Can we also declare war on collective nouns? I hate them all with a blaze of passion.

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2 points

All? Only a Sith deals in absolutes!

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2 points

Why, indeed. Almost like it’s a deliberate attempt to distract us from real problems…or, in the particular case of Elon, an attempt to make something that isn’t about him be about him because he’s the specialist little boy.

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55 points

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76 points

Just saying… Shit just got real

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