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.
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
Sometimes I say “sympathy without empathy” for these situations lol
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 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
Execs: mental break down isn’t sexy, let’s say he has a drug problem so people can rally for him.
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.
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.
It would be awful if he got ahold of too much fentanyl.
Drug use? … Or he was always just an idiot.
Just because you’re naturally stupid, it doesn’t always mean you’re on drugs.
Most of my friends use the same drugs, but none of them are cunts like Musk.
There’s a high chance of both being the correct answer.
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?
I hope he buys Facebook next
the insanity and the cartoon villainy are a no comment
Elin’s on smack
And there ain’t no going backElon’s on smack
And he ain’t be going back
For the holidays!
He’s really working hard to follow closely in the footsteps of his idol, Hitler.
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Drug test and prosecute.
Why would someone be prosecuted for failing a drug test? He doesn’t live in South Korea
Yeah, wrong word. More like the share holders should hold to account.
Some drugs are illegal
The American way!!
