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[-] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 116 points 11 months ago

They don't mention it causing turmoil at Xitter, presumably because they are already at maximum turmoil capacity

[-] Pepsi@kbin.social 56 points 11 months ago

Theres nobody left there to ask

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 35 points 11 months ago

Perhaps they contacted Twitter for a comment on Elon's drug use and got a statement that read: 💩

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 66 points 11 months ago

drug use? it would explain a few things...

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.world 71 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

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[-] ours@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

I don't understand people buying such high-end toys and not bothering to pay for some training.

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[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Holy receding hairline, Batman!

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[-] DanglingFury@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Lol i love how he called it X .com way back then and they renamed it to paypal.

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[-] set_secret@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] vind@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

I think I read somewhere he's hopped up on ket every day (but someone correct me if wrong)

[-] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

RC "nootropic stack"

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 14 points 11 months ago

he is lookin a little rough, even for that piece of shit

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

I LOVE KETAMINE SO FUCKING MUCH. I LOVE IT SO MUCH I PUT IT ALL ON MY MUSK.

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[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 64 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 11 months ago

Normalize pitying your enemies instead of hating them.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 33 points 11 months ago

Yeah do like Mr T. And pity the fools.

[-] jopepa@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

Misuse of decimate gets me every 10th time

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[-] rsuri@lemmy.world 57 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 74 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] butterflyattack@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] SlurpDaddySlushy@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago

Execs: mental break down isn't sexy, let's say he has a drug problem so people can rally for him.

[-] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 53 points 11 months ago

What about his toxicity and narcissism? Are they also cause for turmoil everywhere he goes?

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Those were already handled by dedicated people in most places.

[-] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 38 points 11 months ago

Here's an archive link to the original WSJ report.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Taking party drugs at a party is honestly fine with me. Taking party drugs at work is something an asshole would do.

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[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

He seems pretty public about it. I’m wondering how many of these celeb parties have a “no phones” policy.

[-] BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 23 points 11 months ago

After all... you can't spell "cocaine" without "AI".

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Unless you can't resist getting fancy and spelling it "cocagne*

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 months ago

Drug use? ..... Or he was always just an idiot.

Just because you're naturally stupid, it doesn't always mean you're on drugs.

[-] Granite@kbin.social 20 points 11 months ago

There’s a high chance of both being the correct answer.

[-] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Most of my friends use the same drugs, but none of them are cunts like Musk.

[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] rivermonster@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

It would be awful if he got ahold of too much fentanyl.

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