• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Well yeah, there’s only so much you can do to fix mental and personality issues. The things wrong with Elon cannot be fixed by money alone.

    For us normal folks though? You just TRY to be unhappy while getting your dick sucked by a supermodel in your million dollar Ferrari parked in front of your mansion the size of a French palace. Physically impossible.

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      3 days ago

      I disagree - I could easily be unhappy in that scenario and I think I’m pretty normal*. I get that normal is subjective, but I’m not like on medication, or in treatment for anything.

      I think I would immediately be really insecure about having to buy sex and how the only reason people love me is my money and I’m incapable of intimacy from a genuine place. I think I would immediately feel shame at having purchased a Ferrari while not knowing anything about cars. I think I would feel guilty having a big house to live in all by myself, and probably would never buy it to begin with.

      That isn’t to say I couldn’t make myself happy with money -I could give a fuckton of it away to worthy causes and basically feel good about myself immediately despite not really working very hard or personally accomplishing much. That feels like a cheat code to me. “Yeah, I didn’t lose twenty pounds this year like I wanted or write my novel despite having tons of free time, but I gave away a Billion Dollars to cancer research and another Billion to RAICES and another Billion to the ACLU and another Billion to the Trevor Project. So basically, I’m fucking awesome.” But even then, I think over like a decade or similar, the lack of personal involvement would eventually make me embarrassed.

      I think that’s why hiring sycophants (or now building them from AI) is such a popular remedy for the obscenely wealthy. A chorus of voices to drown out your own insecurity about how you didn’t earn it, didn’t use to better yourself, didn’t find real happiness. And why reality checks drive these people nuts.

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    4 days ago

    He is only 55! Thats a rough 55 for having all the money in the world. I don’t mean go get plastic surgery, but you would think he would be able to take better care of himself. Man, imagine what he would look like if he was never rich? For starters no hair.

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    4 days ago

    I’m 99.9% sure you are right on this. Just to be sure, would anyone mind giving me a few billion dollars for a Brewster’s Millions type of experiment?

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    5 days ago

    Is there a particular reason to think this is not really his mother? Or is the joke to simply assume that?

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      One time Elon posted about how he can’t be out of touch because his grandmother was poor, and his “mom” immediately replied and agreed with him, but it sounded like she was confusing his dad’s mom with her own mom, so everybody assumes Elon was posting as her and fucked it up.

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      Yes, i wondered the same. I don’t want to assume this is correct just because it fits into my worldview.

      I did a bit of digging. This post is bullshit. There are multiple photos from the event and the cake around. And the account, as far as is can tell, is run by his mother.

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        5 days ago

        The left and the right are NOT the same. Only one of them works at least in the general direction of a future that can work, for everyone.

        But the level of lies, propaganda, deception, gaslighting absolutely is. Every single time I read something implausible, like this, and dig deeper, it turns out to be complete and utter BS, like some left mirror version of Trump. ALL of it.

        Again, the lies are on the same level, not the policies.

        This photo shows the exact opposite: A heartfelt congratulations post from a mother, a wonderful cake. Note how they decided to lie about this, even though they could easily have talked about the family relation that is NOT intact, his daughter. But no, they don’t want to talk about his daughter and how he treats her. They want to smear the mother-son relationship with lies.

        And I would also point out that criminals who have not yet been convicted by a court (and never may be in this case, different problem) have the same right to a great birthday party with loving family as everybody else.

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          have the same right to a great birthday party with loving family as everybody else.

          Of course they have the “right”. That doesn’t mean anyone has to support it.

          But, yes, there are plenty of true reasons to hate and mock this asshole without making shit up.

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        5 days ago

        Plenty of real stuff we can still hate him for though: the video game cheating, transphobia, epstein stuff, transphobia, doge, list goes on