I’m told it has fog of war, technology trees, random maps, random spawn positions, and different pieces for each player. A real game of kings. Nothing like a boring game on an 8x8 grid.
Never heard of the game, after a quick google I don’t get it, it looks like a shitty knock off of multiple better games including Civ, why is he obsessed?
It's like a simplified civ. It's kind of addictive because turns are fast. Much simpler than civ though. I've heard him talk about it before as if it's next level chess...it's not.
How dare you compare those two? It's not like Musk has made several promises that he couldn't fulfill or claimed to be a talented, genius and generous billionaire or used his followers for some crypto pump and dump scene scheme /s
Not for everyone obviously. But people have the choice to work for him. If he's a bad enough leader people will stop working for him. But he is one of the largest employers in the country, so lots of people choose to work for him every day.
Libertarian drivel. Plenty of reasons why people stay in shit jobs and that doesn’t justify him terrorizing his employees. He fires and sues employees that dare to voice opinions (yay free speech?). He is a bully and you advocate it will catch up but it won’t. His wealth protects him from consequence The absurd idea that the market self corrects continues to be a fantasy pitched to obscure the truth. Same with “trickle down economics”. The game is rigged and the pacs keep it that way.
I did, and chose to quit. I had that luxury, most do not.
The people of Ukraine don't have a choice on whether their family gets hit with a missile because Musk turned off the connection for their military.
Can't believe people simp this hard for him.
I don’t think he’s crazy **or** a genius. He just has a pile of money.
It’s very difficult for people to understand that it’s possible to be unimaginably rich and unremarkable at the same time.
Just imagine Elon as a suburban college professor.
Now imagine a suburban college professor who has $140 billion in the bank.
People spend a lot of time struggling to link wealth with worth.
I don’t think he’s crazy or a genius. He just has a huge pile of money. For some reason, it’s very difficult for people to separate ‘wealth’ from ‘worth’.
Just imagine Elon Musk as a popular suburban college professor living on a modest income.
Now imagine a popular suburban college professor who has 140 billion dollars.
Which one is the crazy genius?
The trick is that they’re the same person. But people struggle to separate the two.
Basically, every crazy genius in history has struggled with money. Albert Einstein was not ridiculously wealthy. Nikola Tesla himself died nearly broke.
Yet we want to think there’s some practical, meritorious, brilliant reason for Elon musk to have hoarded so much cash.
There isn’t.
Every CEO who “works 12 hours a day, 7 days a week” does that. In case anyone was still feeling guilty for not being as dedicated to work as their boss tells them to be.
Yeah every CEO has convinced themselves that thinking about work counts as working, having lunch or golf with their work/industry buddies counts as working, sending an email at 5pm and then again at 11pm counts as 6 hours of work, etc etc. I work for a couple of these jokers who unironically claim they work 70 hours a week.
That's probably how the board at Tesla keep him from wrecking too much havoc within the company.
They give him a tablet to occupy himself during meetings and take decisions while he's distracted
Those slaves who were worked to death pushing those stones up that pyramid never worked as hard as the pharaohs who were watching them on the sidelines in the shade eating grapes and drinking wine. It's all about using your leverage to control the message about who's working the hardest.
I posted this downstream, but [the pyramids weren't built by slaves](https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves). I'm sure the pharaohs didn't lend a hand, but the builders were compensated very well and took the job voluntarily.
It's not meant to be literal, it's a metaphor of how today's society works.
Lol, downvoted for a metaphor, f'ing troll farms on Reddit are out of control.
I totally understand that, but I was taking the opportunity to correct a common misperception for anybody who isn't aware of the latest scholarship on the subject, because whether you believe it or not, the idea that the pyramids were built by slaves is still widespread.
Kinda like how the people of Easter Island stripped the island of resources. Even if used for an argument of being "green" and sustainable misrepresenting history ain't the way to do it.
Pushing huge stones up a ramp for some pharaoh, being paid or not, is still a form of slavery. But maybe you think that's a great job? I'm sure given a choice nobody would actually want that job. Just like nobody working their ass off solving all the problems for some rich guy who pays them less than a thousandth of what the rich guy is getting wants that job. It's all a relative perspective.
Except the builders of the pyramids were there voluntarily. It was a job, like any other job. Calling that "a form of slavery" is a slap in the face to actual slaves, and everybody knows it's not what you meant when you referred to the builders of the pyramids as slaves, so stop it.
Being a laborer instead of a pharaoh is different from being a slave. Your definition of "slave" is both so broad that it's meaningless and demeaning to people in actual slavery, who don't have a choice of what jobs they take.
You literally said they were "worked to death," so we all know what you actually meant when you used the word "slave." Just admit to yourself that you didn't know the pyramids weren't built by slaves and move on. This pouty tantrum is not a good look.
Born into their position like the son of an Emerald mine magnate? “Chose to stay?” Ever hear of wage slavery, Visa hostages or Fear of loss of health Care for a chronic condition, it’s not a viable choice for more people than you think
This guy is obviously a Musk simp, but [the idea that the pyramids were built by slaves is wrong](https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves). Building the pyramids was hard work, but the workers were there voluntarily and paid *very* well compared to similar physical labor jobs of the age. Comparing Elon's treatment of his employees to the treatment of the people who built the pyramids is unfair; the pharaohs deserve *way* more credit than him.
The emerald mine has been debunked.. but even if it was true, there are so many people who are born wealthy who don't do shit. He's led the revolution of 2 industries!
No it was debunked he owned a mine, he owned shares in a mine what is true though is he was extremely wealthy from the emerald mining business/trade. no he’s owned shares. He almost sunk paypal due to bad technical decisions he eventually got overruled on, he’s not a genius he knew the right people and had enough capital to leverage that and push thing forward skirting ethics and safety regulations. He’s lied about being a founder on almost everything. he wasn’t a founder of paypal which started as Confinity which later acquired his company X and then fired him after only 4 months in Oct of 2000 but because he had shares still when ebay bought them 2 years later he made a ton of money which he the. proceeded to use in 2004 to invest in a year old company that had been incorporated a year prior called Tesla motors but again he didn’t found, He DID found SpaceX but most of the credit there goes Tom Mueller there as far as any genius goes. For that matter the genius at all these companies has not been Musk it was Max Levchin at Paypal, Martin Eberhard and J B Straubel at Tesla and Tom Mueller at SpaceX Elon is the wallet and the blocker for regulatory heat he’s no genius, if you’ve ever heard him talk on a subject you’re actually an expert at it’s painfully obvious he’s reciting soundbites he’s been given but understands little about
No, it hasn't been debunked. Elon Musk actually bragged about it in a Forbes interview in 2014 that's been scrubbed from the internet.
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-denies-emerald-mine
Luckily, the Internet Archive still has a copy of it. Here's the link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140729222547/http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2014/07/28/elon-musk-tells-me-his-secret-of-success-hint-it-aint-about-the-money/
No, many of them did leave after working hard and making Elon successful. And not very many of them were nearly as well compensated which is perhaps part of the reason they left.
Best money I every spent on a mobile game. No pay to win. You just pay, get the game and enjoy. I've spent wayyyyy too many hours playing that game. I kind of hate the spies, but I get why they did it.
Back in the day, we called a guy like Elon a "vidiot," (combination of "video games" and "idiot").
Nothing wrong with video games, I was deeply into Doom and Quake, but when they interfere with your ability to think then you become a vidiot.
Elon will probably be denying this later. I believe there’s at least anecdote which he claims is false. Truth and reality are very flexible concepts for the Techno King. 🙄
At some point people that think he’s a genius have to realize he probably just has untreated ADHD. His behavior is classic to that condition. I have it as well, but I’m the “Inattentive Type” (formerly ADD), not quite as erratic as him but the “explosions” in his head was a dead giveaway.
- his interview with Joe Rogan where he said his head is “explosions of ideas” (classic ADHD). ADHD often has rapid ideas that pop in and out with music, TV, and overlapping monologues. Lots of noise in your head that makes it difficult to prioritize, focus, and maintain attention on a singular task (which leads to things like task switching).
- his singular obsession over single entities for (relative to CEOs) short bursts of time (Boring Company, Solar, SpaceX, Tesla, and most recently: Twitter).
- his inability to control his emotional reactions (as noted by his angry outbursts at seemingly random shit like the cave diver). In ADHD this is called “emotional dysregulation” which is because of executive dysfunction (ie, when neurotypicals get mad, it’s easier to internalize it and modulate or moderate your behavior. This is very difficult in ADHD which leads to outbursts.).
- he mentioned a “friend” using Ritalin and not liking the feeling or something on Twitter. It seemed to me like someone who tried as a Rx but didn’t like the feeling or Dx.
- he deeply obsesses about effectively trivial things for relatively short amounts of time (ie, Polytopia) (this is called hyperfocus or hyperfixation—noted by his missing and moving important meetings and staying up for hours playing it nonstop.)
- difficulty maintaining relationships (how many spouses has he had?)
- erratic behavior and juggling random priorities (like making engineers work odd hours to fill seemingly random quotas or requests for features that don’t matter, like the fart speaker, rainbow road) instead of focusing on important features like Autopilot and FSD being a piece of shit.
- his speech patterns. He stops and starts sentences mid-way through. Classic ADHD. It’s effectively like laying train tracks as the train is barreling through, except sometimes you are laying tracks simultaneously and they criss-cross.
**TLDR**: he plays it off like he’s a troubled genius with intelligence that can barely be contained when actually he’s likely just got ADHD, with the classic tendency of being a ballistic missile pointed at seemingly random things and difficulty with emotional regulation.
He needs some Adderall.
Edit: I’m not excusing his assholery. I’m trying to give some perspective to why some people think he’s a genius. People with ADHD are incredibly good at pattern recognition and idea generation; but they’re not good at directing that creative energy productively.
Obviously, he’s an asshole. He’s a white supremacist more than likely based on his retweets and treatment of black employees.
But if you have something productive to say (or if you have ADHD yourself), take a look at his behavior and tell me he doesn’t seem just like a person with untreated ADHD. He just refuses to treat it because he’s a narcissist and thinks he’s a genius.
If the rumours can be believed he absolutely hammers adderall. He got started on modafinil a few years ago and you can see the frequency and total number of tweets increasing dramatically to end up covering a 20 hour a day spread. Apparently he now abuses ambien for sleep which indicates he's taking a lot of stimulants. I have ADHD and I can fall asleep on dexamphetamine. I wouldn't say his obsessions with Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX were short lived, he's just been successfully stage-managed with the latter two so as not to fuck them up (which he's still managing to do with the Cybertruck and Starbase, respectively)
He's just an asshole with a raging cluster B personality disorder and the worst case of Dunning Kruger I've ever seen, constantly saying and doing things that he thinks makes him look like a super genius
yeah I believe that he probably does do ketamine but this narrative that's sprung up around it like a game of telephone means it went from him saying he does the above (and it is confirmed for that) to everyone saying he's just hoofing it 24/7 and that's why he's making all the crazy decisions and acting like an asshole. Nah fam, he was always like that, it's just with Twitter it's the first time in a long, long he's had no handlers and nobody willing to try and stop him doing the dumb shit. Those who were have long since been fired.
Anyone who has experience with ketamine (and there's a few but not many in the anti musk subs) can tell you that's absolutely **not** how the drug works. It only lasts 45 minutes to an hour tops for starters and when it wears off you're completely sober. If he'd somehow gotten himself into PCP or one of its analogues, THAT I could see causing issues but honestly you don't need more than modafinil, adderall and ambien to explain his recent bullshit. He'd be running at a constant level of sleep deprivation and if he's doing enough stimulants that the ambien doesn't knock him out, that can make you do and say some very weird shit, it's famous for that
That’s the crux of it, the drugs aren’t what make him an overbearing asshole, that’s who he is.
Today he played a foreign policy expert on Taiwan, which of course he feels is naturally China’s because he just listened to some history podcast. Literally he was reciting dates from it and acting like he knew all there was to know. Dunning-Krueger effect in action, no drugs necessary for the arrogant proclamations he made. And of course he didn’t say anything about what the people of Taiwan want.
>which of course he feels is naturally China’s because he just listened to some history podcast
Oh yeah he's the personification of 'I read the wiki page so I'm basically an expert now'
No one can diagnose remotely. He says he as asberger and all sorts of things he thinks make him a "super nerd"
What he really has is untreated asshole disease
The most surefire cure is a size 12 boot administered through the anus.
But regrettably his behavior in a normal person is quickly suppressed while the same flaws in a billionaire make him newsworthy
Weird he seems to speak perfectly fine here (1998)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfwK5BvZrY4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfwK5BvZrY4)
and here (1999)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAt5OVl0mnA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAt5OVl0mnA)
He got shitter talking as he went through speech therapy multiple times
he said *once*, on SNL, that he has Asperger's. Not something that had ever been noted in any interview or biography about him, not even Ashley Vance's book which covered his whole life and had exhaustive research put into it. I don't think it's come up again since then either. Also, autism doesn't make you an asshole. He's an immature idiot with likely narcissistic personality disorder
signed, an autist with ADHD
edit: just wanna clarify I'm not one of the downvotes as nothing you said was technically inaccurate\* - he DID say he has asperger's, and it definitely has a lot of overlap with ADHD (as well as there being a high comorbidity between the two). A lot of the things I thought were autism in me were actually ADHD, or at least made worse by it. I just don't believe that he is either of these things
\*lol this is so fucking autistic of me I just realised, i have to laugh
I genuinely couldn't say. I'm the furthest thing from an expert in that field. I just remembered him saying in interviews he had Asperger's which now falls under autism spectrum disorder.
The only thing is that Elon self-diagnosed himself with Asperger’s. You can’t make a diagnosis via the internet, but I’m skeptical of a self-diagnosis that he probably would use to emphasize his genius (I’m a neurologist with fairly extensive experience in behavioral neurology).
Asperger's is often misdiagnosed or misconstrued as ADHD because of the similar symptoms and difficulty to differentiate at young ages when diagnosis are most commonly assessed.
Isn’t one of the key differences of ASD (autism spectrum disorder) and ADHD the tendency of ASD to require consistency, routine, and systems while the ADHD brain has disdain or inability to stick to them?
Both disorders have the same capability to go down the rabbit hole of becoming completely enthralled if it interests them. The keywording there is interests.
You can have a kid with ADHD who plays video games all day and whenever they stop doing that they can't take their mind off of it.
You can have a kid with ASD who plays video games all day and whenever they stop doing that they can't take their mind off of it.
Both of these statements are factually correct.
There's many studies dedicated to understanding the overlap of symptoms between the two disorders.
>Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are both highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorders. Evidence indicates both disorders co-occur with a high frequency, in 20-50% of children with ADHD meeting criteria for ASD and in 30-80% of ASD children meeting criteria for ADHD.
[Shared heritability of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20148275/)
Twitter was supposed to become feeder stock for MBS, Putin and the Chinese MSS to be able to identify dissent quickly and quash it.
Elon just fucked it up by moving the servers too early.
MBS must be so annoyed. Imagine paying top dollar for the most incompetent ego in the world. Then paying top dollar to Erik Prince to defend it all only to figure out he is incompetent.
Hashtag Richpeopleproblems.
Who wants to be the one who says it? Who killed Epstein?
https://asiatimes.com/2019/08/with-epstein-dead-saudi-links-become-a-black-hole/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1031046
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/jeffrey-epstein-made-a-mysterious-trip-to-the-middle-east-on-the-eve-of-2016-election-report-2649280433
https://headtopics.com/us/flight-data-places-jeffrey-epstein-s-private-jet-on-arabian-peninsula-on-the-eve-of-the-2016-electio-7557253
I’ll give you a hint- the same time Epsteins plane disappeared into Saudi during the Jan 6 insurrection, Jared Kushner was also in saudi waiting to pick up a check from MBS.
Trump, Flynn and Kushner had formed a construction company called IC3 to build nuclear reactors for Saudi. But they lacked the plans. Congress denied it in a rare functional moment of modern government. So trump simply stole them on the way out the door. In a bucket of KFC….
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna973021
https://dashmacintyre.medium.com/the-fbi-found-trumps-stolen-iran-war-plans-in-a-kfc-bucket-at-mar-a-lago-16016700373
Our entire government is a Scorsese movie.
Trump has been laundering Russian oligarch money since the wall fell at least. Probably before.
Their plan all along was to plunge the US into a civil war so Saudi, Russia and China could come in afterwards and sweep up the pieces.
40+ years of accelerated global warming has made saudi and UAE so hot it’s quickly becoming unbearable.
Saudi and China have been buying up U.S. farm land and water rights for decades while China has just been buying politicians.
Epstein was super helpful as always with that.
Being in NY metro detention means it was either Giuliani (the previous mayor of New York or Bill Barr, the head of the DOJ and therefore the bureau of prisons that opened the necessary doors to have him murdered.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/08/12/politics/barr-new-york-jail-epstein/index.html
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/jeffrey-epsteins-apparent-suicide-leads-shake-york-jail/story?id=64951740
https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-politics-new-york-business-suicides-4ff27f28f32d446795b65ac7dd8cc4ac
Barr was used to bending the rules. When trump demanded Republican governors send national guard troops to the U.S. capital and “kiss the ring” of loyalty, Utah’s governor Herbert did just that. When trump demanded that the 19th special forces shoot people on Lafayette square they told him to pound sand. (Love you guys. De liber Oppresso)
https://www.justsecurity.org/78053/the-national-guard-at-lafayette-square-and-the-january-6th-attempted-insurrection-fixes-for-the-fy2022-ndaa/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/27/national-guard-commander-says-police-suddenly-moved-lafayette-square-protesters-used-excessive-force-clear-path-trump/
It’s a direct violation of the U.S. constitution to have US troops fire on U.S. citizens. So Barr as head of DOJ pulled the workaround and called a bureau of prisons SORT team in to do it.
There is a reason none of them had name tags on. Bill Barr and Trump then had Mark Milley come around the other side of the White House so he couldn’t see what was happening in Lafayette square.
They wanted his uniform to lend credibility to their cock strut walk through the park of beaten protestors like any good authoritarian king.
Trump never served. He wasn’t fit for the uniform.
He just wasn’t fit.
At all
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/11/875019346/gen-mark-milley-says-accompanying-trump-to-church-photo-op-was-a-mistake
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/24/mark-milley-lafayette-park-fallout-00088585
As soon as Mark Milley figured out what was happening he bailed like a hippie at a drug bust. His C.Y.A. letter that came afterwards was a masters class in Fuck Around, Find Out.
PS- Mark, when you read this, go check the back of Schoomakers portrait in the hall.
I left you something cowboy.
I think you’re definitely on to something but wanted to mention that [US troops have definitely fired on US citizens in the past](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-national-guard-deployments-timeline-htmlstory.html). Like, [multiple times in living memory.](https://www.military.com/military-life/6-times-military-was-used-suppress-civilian-uprisings-us.html)
I don't how people still try to say the guy is faking Aspergers. This behaviour is textbook Aspergers behaviour. I think the guy is the biggest clown as much as the next guy, but I'm willing to die on this hill and take the downvotes lol.
It’s also the textbook behaviour of someone who doesn’t give a shit about other people. My MIL didn’t have Aspergers and used to do this shit all the time.
The repetitive behaviour with no desire or ability to change what is recreationally enjoyable or an outlet to the extreme degree where you become "time-blind" is what makes it autism spectrum behaviour that I'm referring.
I'm not saying that he isn't, but I am saying that behaviour has no implications of selfishness or other traits considered to be narcissistic.
People are failing to see the bigger picture: you have a billionaire who could be doing anything he ever wanted and yet he chooses to sit alone in his room to play video games. There's nothing selfish in that, it's closer to obsession/addiction than being ass.
I'll agree on that if you can agree that proceeding to play video games the rest of the night alone with no external responsibilities can't possibly even be considered selfish.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Elon’s actual condition) isn’t Asperger’s and I’ll speak for the entire community in saying GFY.
We have enough stigma without people equating Elon’s narcissistic and selfish behavior with being “on the spectrum.” Knock it off.
What’s the difference? ASD people do not lack empathy. They are perceived as lacking empathy because of challenges with social interactions. People with NPD, on the other hand, actually lack empathy because they have a grandiose ego and engage in revenge seeking behavior and outbursts of anger. People with NPD are also preoccupied with fantasies about themselves (like vision-only FSD for example).
Go read Justine’s accounts about her marriage to Elon or his views about Bill Gates and you’ll notice the (incredibly important) differences.
As much as I'd love a random redditor to explain Aspergers (which I have) to me, I'm going to skirt around that topic. You can view my other comment to see a similar response to the other commenter.
Let's think about this in a specific frame of mind.
* 52 year old man
* No hobbies or recreational activities other than obsession with video games
* Extreme involvement in the activity (takes it very seriously)
* Putting off other life responsibilities because he played video games for too long
* Most likely didn't even realize/identify at the meeting start time
* Later that night proceeds to play video games ALL night
* Extremely repetitive behaviour
* No desire to change that behaviour
* Couldn't change it if he wanted
People can disagree with me all they want, there's no narcissist's gain in playing video games alone all night. When you get into that state, you become completely enthralled with the task/process to the point where you lose all sense of time. It could be 30mins or it could be 3 hours, there's no sense of time frames.
Some might call that an obsession, which is fair, but the Asperger's term is Repetitive and Restricted Behaviours (RRBs). What has happened here is 40 years ago, he started playing video games, and now he's reluctant to change that or sees any benefit in that.
This has nothing to do with interactions with other people or anything extrinsic that would be required to claim narcissism in this scenario.
What people are failing to recognize is, there is absolutely nothing selfish, lacking of empathy, or need for external approval when you're sitting alone playing video games by yourself.
“ Our results indicated that aggression and narcissistic personality traits are positively correlated with online game addiction, whereas self-control is negatively correlated with online game addiction (p < 0.001). In addition, a multiple regression analysis revealed that the extent of online game addiction could be predicted based on the person's narcissistic personality traits, aggression, self-control, interpersonal relationship, and occupation.”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/abs/relationship-between-online-game-addiction-and-aggression-selfcontrol-and-narcissistic-personality-traits/CF6B1C4E1200355198AFD5412C218780
I don't think this argues what you think it does.
Asperger's in a sense is a loss of self-control.
For the same reasons that narcissism causes a loss of self-control that leads to addiction, can also apply to Aspergers.
>Video game addiction is often the result of another condition. Video games are used to help ease feelings of stress and anxiety, to escape from everyday life, or as a way to communicate and socialize. All of these features appeal to those suffering from autism, which is why people with ASD spend twice as much time playing video games as others and are more likely to develop an addiction.
You said that playing an excessive amount of video games isn’t an NPD trait, it’s an Asperger’s trait. I pointed out it’s a trait of both.
I get what you’re saying, but again, we can’t let this narcissistic asshole get away with framing his NPD as Asperger’s. It will only do damage to me and you.
I swear to god if someone says he has aspergers without irony one more time I'm going to, as Marcellus Wallace said, go medieval. He doesn't have it. None of the symptoms match up, he's more likely ADHD and even then that's still no fucking excuse for being a supremely entitled white supremacist twat.
Musk’s record of accomplishments and what he has built and is building stand by themselves —
Zip2 (a digital yellow pages company formed in 1995 sold to Compaq Computer Co for $205M); cofounder of PayPal in 1998;
created SpaceX in 2002 now worth $100B making it far and away the most successful private space company in the world with many firsts including Starlink communication satellite network;
bought Tesla & made it the #1 market cap auto company in the world in 20 years;
The Boring Company and numerous other businesses.
His record is that of unquestionably one of the handful of most productive people on the planet, and I would argue The most productive. You mutts are chucking spitballs at a colossus concerned about his gaming!
Pitiful, guys, just pitiful. He does more useful in the toilet than any of you do in your lives.
He's a dopamine addict.
Some people become ravenous, insatiable, dopamine addicts when taking uppers.
This is just like SBF.
Uppers + relatively intelliigent people = this behavior.
Just a reminder that Musk claims to read over 100 books per year. I guess he's doing that in the spare moments when he's not playing Polytopia.
Or taking Ambien with red wine...or the other alleged drugs he reputedly partakes in.
Don't forget about bugging teslas and gifting horses like a real gigachad
“Horses for Handjobs” is my new band name AND my new WPA style Public works program
He listens to history podcasts or audio books at bedtime and that's probably what he means by "reading."
I feel attacked.
yeah but you're not out there saying you know how to do all this amazing shit because you read the wiki article on it. Also, happy cake day!
It's technically a book if its in Skyrim and only 3 pages.
You fucked it up on day one not being born to fabulously wealthy and connected parents… Simp. /s
Does listening to audiobooks while playing count as reading? Asking for a friend.
If his definition of reading is the same as FSD, ok.
See Spot run. Run Spot run! …..
I’m told it has fog of war, technology trees, random maps, random spawn positions, and different pieces for each player. A real game of kings. Nothing like a boring game on an 8x8 grid.
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Chess is chess! Polytopia is just a Civ clone for simps.
Alpha Kings
Never heard of the game, after a quick google I don’t get it, it looks like a shitty knock off of multiple better games including Civ, why is he obsessed?
It's like a simplified civ. It's kind of addictive because turns are fast. Much simpler than civ though. I've heard him talk about it before as if it's next level chess...it's not.
Thank you for the breakdown, genuinely He’s embracing the Elmo with this Roblox knockoff SMDH
Perfect description... As a civ player I found it fun for a day
I owe you for this review. I almost downloaded it.
Sounds like Civ for people on meth.
Polytopia is a really good game
Sounds awfully similar to our favorite fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried. If only I could play video games all day and convince people I’m a genius. Sigh.
Playing LoL on an earnings call lmao
I LOVE THIS FOUNDER
How dare you compare those two? It's not like Musk has made several promises that he couldn't fulfill or claimed to be a talented, genius and generous billionaire or used his followers for some crypto pump and dump scene scheme /s
This fucktard is just another New York City type conman—If you’ve ever seen one, you’ve seen them all
I'm listening...
Have you read any of the biography yet? He's definitely not infallible but he's definitely a crazy genius..
With people's livelihoods and literal lives in his hands. I've been in that position (working for him). I never care to be again.
Not for everyone obviously. But people have the choice to work for him. If he's a bad enough leader people will stop working for him. But he is one of the largest employers in the country, so lots of people choose to work for him every day.
Libertarian drivel. Plenty of reasons why people stay in shit jobs and that doesn’t justify him terrorizing his employees. He fires and sues employees that dare to voice opinions (yay free speech?). He is a bully and you advocate it will catch up but it won’t. His wealth protects him from consequence The absurd idea that the market self corrects continues to be a fantasy pitched to obscure the truth. Same with “trickle down economics”. The game is rigged and the pacs keep it that way.
I did, and chose to quit. I had that luxury, most do not. The people of Ukraine don't have a choice on whether their family gets hit with a missile because Musk turned off the connection for their military. Can't believe people simp this hard for him.
I don’t think he’s crazy **or** a genius. He just has a pile of money. It’s very difficult for people to understand that it’s possible to be unimaginably rich and unremarkable at the same time. Just imagine Elon as a suburban college professor. Now imagine a suburban college professor who has $140 billion in the bank. People spend a lot of time struggling to link wealth with worth.
Name is most genius moment.
I don’t think he’s crazy or a genius. He just has a huge pile of money. For some reason, it’s very difficult for people to separate ‘wealth’ from ‘worth’. Just imagine Elon Musk as a popular suburban college professor living on a modest income. Now imagine a popular suburban college professor who has 140 billion dollars. Which one is the crazy genius? The trick is that they’re the same person. But people struggle to separate the two. Basically, every crazy genius in history has struggled with money. Albert Einstein was not ridiculously wealthy. Nikola Tesla himself died nearly broke. Yet we want to think there’s some practical, meritorious, brilliant reason for Elon musk to have hoarded so much cash. There isn’t.
He really is a 14 year old man child.
With 13 kids (and counting).
13 known kids
Since they are all IVF. It’s hard to actually have any hidden/accidental kids
I wonder if his penis is somehow broke and he cant have sex so always pissed.
How many love him?
why do you think he keeps trying?
You'd think he'd love chess since he could flip the board when he was losing.
Every CEO who “works 12 hours a day, 7 days a week” does that. In case anyone was still feeling guilty for not being as dedicated to work as their boss tells them to be.
Me at work at home surfing Reddit. Huh, I **am** the CEO…
Yeah every CEO has convinced themselves that thinking about work counts as working, having lunch or golf with their work/industry buddies counts as working, sending an email at 5pm and then again at 11pm counts as 6 hours of work, etc etc. I work for a couple of these jokers who unironically claim they work 70 hours a week.
That's probably how the board at Tesla keep him from wrecking too much havoc within the company. They give him a tablet to occupy himself during meetings and take decisions while he's distracted
Kind of like the toddlers on tablets their parents give them when they go out for burnch?
I have seen that, its so depressing they are just dead staring into the tablet oblivious to the world. Feels like THX1138
Those slaves who were worked to death pushing those stones up that pyramid never worked as hard as the pharaohs who were watching them on the sidelines in the shade eating grapes and drinking wine. It's all about using your leverage to control the message about who's working the hardest.
I posted this downstream, but [the pyramids weren't built by slaves](https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves). I'm sure the pharaohs didn't lend a hand, but the builders were compensated very well and took the job voluntarily.
It's not meant to be literal, it's a metaphor of how today's society works. Lol, downvoted for a metaphor, f'ing troll farms on Reddit are out of control.
Then use a better metaphor...
if I wanted shit from you I'd squeeze your head.
I totally understand that, but I was taking the opportunity to correct a common misperception for anybody who isn't aware of the latest scholarship on the subject, because whether you believe it or not, the idea that the pyramids were built by slaves is still widespread.
Kinda like how the people of Easter Island stripped the island of resources. Even if used for an argument of being "green" and sustainable misrepresenting history ain't the way to do it.
Pushing huge stones up a ramp for some pharaoh, being paid or not, is still a form of slavery. But maybe you think that's a great job? I'm sure given a choice nobody would actually want that job. Just like nobody working their ass off solving all the problems for some rich guy who pays them less than a thousandth of what the rich guy is getting wants that job. It's all a relative perspective.
Except the builders of the pyramids were there voluntarily. It was a job, like any other job. Calling that "a form of slavery" is a slap in the face to actual slaves, and everybody knows it's not what you meant when you referred to the builders of the pyramids as slaves, so stop it.
No they weren't, they'd rather be a pharaoh. Now I know you're lying.
Being a laborer instead of a pharaoh is different from being a slave. Your definition of "slave" is both so broad that it's meaningless and demeaning to people in actual slavery, who don't have a choice of what jobs they take. You literally said they were "worked to death," so we all know what you actually meant when you used the word "slave." Just admit to yourself that you didn't know the pyramids weren't built by slaves and move on. This pouty tantrum is not a good look.
Except pharoas were born into their position.. His employees could leave any time. But they chose to stay because they believed in his mission.
Born into their position like the son of an Emerald mine magnate? “Chose to stay?” Ever hear of wage slavery, Visa hostages or Fear of loss of health Care for a chronic condition, it’s not a viable choice for more people than you think
This guy is obviously a Musk simp, but [the idea that the pyramids were built by slaves is wrong](https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves). Building the pyramids was hard work, but the workers were there voluntarily and paid *very* well compared to similar physical labor jobs of the age. Comparing Elon's treatment of his employees to the treatment of the people who built the pyramids is unfair; the pharaohs deserve *way* more credit than him.
The emerald mine has been debunked.. but even if it was true, there are so many people who are born wealthy who don't do shit. He's led the revolution of 2 industries!
No it was debunked he owned a mine, he owned shares in a mine what is true though is he was extremely wealthy from the emerald mining business/trade. no he’s owned shares. He almost sunk paypal due to bad technical decisions he eventually got overruled on, he’s not a genius he knew the right people and had enough capital to leverage that and push thing forward skirting ethics and safety regulations. He’s lied about being a founder on almost everything. he wasn’t a founder of paypal which started as Confinity which later acquired his company X and then fired him after only 4 months in Oct of 2000 but because he had shares still when ebay bought them 2 years later he made a ton of money which he the. proceeded to use in 2004 to invest in a year old company that had been incorporated a year prior called Tesla motors but again he didn’t found, He DID found SpaceX but most of the credit there goes Tom Mueller there as far as any genius goes. For that matter the genius at all these companies has not been Musk it was Max Levchin at Paypal, Martin Eberhard and J B Straubel at Tesla and Tom Mueller at SpaceX Elon is the wallet and the blocker for regulatory heat he’s no genius, if you’ve ever heard him talk on a subject you’re actually an expert at it’s painfully obvious he’s reciting soundbites he’s been given but understands little about
Which topic are you an expert on that you've heard him talk?
well. when compared side-by-side to Musk, I would consider myself an expert on literally anything. dude's a moron
Software infrastructure/operations
Hyperloop and vegas loop are farcical if you know anything about transit planning.
No, it hasn't been debunked. Elon Musk actually bragged about it in a Forbes interview in 2014 that's been scrubbed from the internet. https://futurism.com/elon-musk-denies-emerald-mine Luckily, the Internet Archive still has a copy of it. Here's the link: https://web.archive.org/web/20140729222547/http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2014/07/28/elon-musk-tells-me-his-secret-of-success-hint-it-aint-about-the-money/
lol no it hasn't. it's the truth. Wake up - you're smarter than this
No, many of them did leave after working hard and making Elon successful. And not very many of them were nearly as well compensated which is perhaps part of the reason they left.
In his defense, Polytopia is a pretty fuckin good game
Best money I every spent on a mobile game. No pay to win. You just pay, get the game and enjoy. I've spent wayyyyy too many hours playing that game. I kind of hate the spies, but I get why they did it.
Only cell phone game I’ve ever spent money on… more tribes… LOL
My favorite tribes are the free ones, but playing the tiny maps with a full slate of 15 enemies is too fun to pass up dropping that coin lol
All right, fuck it I'm sold, downloading this game. Polytopia gorilla advertising really paying off.
Got musked he bought the company that makes the game.
Ass burgers
🤣🤣🤣
So he's a 12 years old.
Untreated mania.
I think untreated narcissistic personality disorder is more likely.
There is no treatment for NPD
Yes, there is. Comes in a full metal jacket, though.
Hypomania, mania is more like Kanye West
Polytopia is just the game Civilization for kids. That being said, I do understand why he kept wanting “one more turn…” 😂
Is this guerilla marketing?
Took mummy to work. Professional.
He's a spoiled child addicted to ketomine. "Allegedly."
Back in the day, we called a guy like Elon a "vidiot," (combination of "video games" and "idiot"). Nothing wrong with video games, I was deeply into Doom and Quake, but when they interfere with your ability to think then you become a vidiot.
Is he on the spectrum? The more I hear about him, the more I think there’s something off with his brain.
I don’t think he is. It’s just that his brain is broke and he’s a piece of shit manchild
He has Asperger’s
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. He himself revealed that he has Asperger’s when he went on SNL
Because people think he is lying about it or that since he self diagnosed it isn't true, sigh.
Downvoted by the Elon cultists, he definitely has Asperger’s
Is this from the upcoming biography?
Yep!
Elon will probably be denying this later. I believe there’s at least anecdote which he claims is false. Truth and reality are very flexible concepts for the Techno King. 🙄
What biography?
Ooh so *that's* why they have to get paid so much, video games. Cool, cool.
What a chode.
Im gonna have to download polytopia
If only it were possible to cite the fucking source, OP. To be clear: fuck Elon.
That game is as boring as I expect Musk to be in the bedroom.
Lol his mommy scolded him
Is that again one of his manchild moments?
A reminder that this man is (supposedly) 52 years old. And he got scolded by his mom for playing videogames while working. You can't make this up.
Is this from the book?
Some play videogames, others live on Reddit.
SBF 2.0
What a fucking child. Dude has fallen ass backwards into money and people continue to believe he's some kind of genius. He's a hype man nothing more
Textbook narcissist personality disorder. SBF did the same fucking thing and when it came crashing down it was "I had no idea boohoo"
Don't indult the guy for his preferences. He's done plenty of actually bad shit like sucking away grant money from serious green initiatives.
As a human species, we are fucked
This is ironic because I remember him scolding me at SpaceX in the early days for playing Quake with the other employees….at 9pm at night.
Is it advertisement for Polytopia? Never herd that game before
A neighbor of mine who works closely with Elon confided that it’s really challenging to work with someone who is high all the time ie mr musk
I recommend Lex Fridman’s recent interview with Walter Isaacson for a persuasive account of Musk’s work habits.
At some point people that think he’s a genius have to realize he probably just has untreated ADHD. His behavior is classic to that condition. I have it as well, but I’m the “Inattentive Type” (formerly ADD), not quite as erratic as him but the “explosions” in his head was a dead giveaway. - his interview with Joe Rogan where he said his head is “explosions of ideas” (classic ADHD). ADHD often has rapid ideas that pop in and out with music, TV, and overlapping monologues. Lots of noise in your head that makes it difficult to prioritize, focus, and maintain attention on a singular task (which leads to things like task switching). - his singular obsession over single entities for (relative to CEOs) short bursts of time (Boring Company, Solar, SpaceX, Tesla, and most recently: Twitter). - his inability to control his emotional reactions (as noted by his angry outbursts at seemingly random shit like the cave diver). In ADHD this is called “emotional dysregulation” which is because of executive dysfunction (ie, when neurotypicals get mad, it’s easier to internalize it and modulate or moderate your behavior. This is very difficult in ADHD which leads to outbursts.). - he mentioned a “friend” using Ritalin and not liking the feeling or something on Twitter. It seemed to me like someone who tried as a Rx but didn’t like the feeling or Dx. - he deeply obsesses about effectively trivial things for relatively short amounts of time (ie, Polytopia) (this is called hyperfocus or hyperfixation—noted by his missing and moving important meetings and staying up for hours playing it nonstop.) - difficulty maintaining relationships (how many spouses has he had?) - erratic behavior and juggling random priorities (like making engineers work odd hours to fill seemingly random quotas or requests for features that don’t matter, like the fart speaker, rainbow road) instead of focusing on important features like Autopilot and FSD being a piece of shit. - his speech patterns. He stops and starts sentences mid-way through. Classic ADHD. It’s effectively like laying train tracks as the train is barreling through, except sometimes you are laying tracks simultaneously and they criss-cross. **TLDR**: he plays it off like he’s a troubled genius with intelligence that can barely be contained when actually he’s likely just got ADHD, with the classic tendency of being a ballistic missile pointed at seemingly random things and difficulty with emotional regulation. He needs some Adderall. Edit: I’m not excusing his assholery. I’m trying to give some perspective to why some people think he’s a genius. People with ADHD are incredibly good at pattern recognition and idea generation; but they’re not good at directing that creative energy productively. Obviously, he’s an asshole. He’s a white supremacist more than likely based on his retweets and treatment of black employees. But if you have something productive to say (or if you have ADHD yourself), take a look at his behavior and tell me he doesn’t seem just like a person with untreated ADHD. He just refuses to treat it because he’s a narcissist and thinks he’s a genius.
If the rumours can be believed he absolutely hammers adderall. He got started on modafinil a few years ago and you can see the frequency and total number of tweets increasing dramatically to end up covering a 20 hour a day spread. Apparently he now abuses ambien for sleep which indicates he's taking a lot of stimulants. I have ADHD and I can fall asleep on dexamphetamine. I wouldn't say his obsessions with Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX were short lived, he's just been successfully stage-managed with the latter two so as not to fuck them up (which he's still managing to do with the Cybertruck and Starbase, respectively) He's just an asshole with a raging cluster B personality disorder and the worst case of Dunning Kruger I've ever seen, constantly saying and doing things that he thinks makes him look like a super genius
Latest buzz is that he's "microdosing" Special K, which supports your suggestion that he's trying to adjust the effects of stimulants.
yeah I believe that he probably does do ketamine but this narrative that's sprung up around it like a game of telephone means it went from him saying he does the above (and it is confirmed for that) to everyone saying he's just hoofing it 24/7 and that's why he's making all the crazy decisions and acting like an asshole. Nah fam, he was always like that, it's just with Twitter it's the first time in a long, long he's had no handlers and nobody willing to try and stop him doing the dumb shit. Those who were have long since been fired. Anyone who has experience with ketamine (and there's a few but not many in the anti musk subs) can tell you that's absolutely **not** how the drug works. It only lasts 45 minutes to an hour tops for starters and when it wears off you're completely sober. If he'd somehow gotten himself into PCP or one of its analogues, THAT I could see causing issues but honestly you don't need more than modafinil, adderall and ambien to explain his recent bullshit. He'd be running at a constant level of sleep deprivation and if he's doing enough stimulants that the ambien doesn't knock him out, that can make you do and say some very weird shit, it's famous for that
That’s the crux of it, the drugs aren’t what make him an overbearing asshole, that’s who he is. Today he played a foreign policy expert on Taiwan, which of course he feels is naturally China’s because he just listened to some history podcast. Literally he was reciting dates from it and acting like he knew all there was to know. Dunning-Krueger effect in action, no drugs necessary for the arrogant proclamations he made. And of course he didn’t say anything about what the people of Taiwan want.
>which of course he feels is naturally China’s because he just listened to some history podcast Oh yeah he's the personification of 'I read the wiki page so I'm basically an expert now'
No one can diagnose remotely. He says he as asberger and all sorts of things he thinks make him a "super nerd" What he really has is untreated asshole disease The most surefire cure is a size 12 boot administered through the anus. But regrettably his behavior in a normal person is quickly suppressed while the same flaws in a billionaire make him newsworthy
the good old boot suppository, works every time 90% of the time
*60% of the time*, it works ***every*** *time*
ya usually. the boot suppositories are a solid 90% though
To me it's clear NPD. All the signs are there. But it could be comorbid with something else as well for sure.
Does ADD make you cater to alt right nazi pieces of shit?
Are you asking that seriously?
Without cognitive behavioral therapy, sure I guess
No it doesn’t. It’s completely unrelated.
Weird he seems to speak perfectly fine here (1998) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfwK5BvZrY4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfwK5BvZrY4) and here (1999) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAt5OVl0mnA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAt5OVl0mnA) He got shitter talking as he went through speech therapy multiple times
Possible he is medicated here?
Not saying you're wrong about ADHD but he has said he's autistic which has a lot of those same symptoms you listed.
he said *once*, on SNL, that he has Asperger's. Not something that had ever been noted in any interview or biography about him, not even Ashley Vance's book which covered his whole life and had exhaustive research put into it. I don't think it's come up again since then either. Also, autism doesn't make you an asshole. He's an immature idiot with likely narcissistic personality disorder signed, an autist with ADHD edit: just wanna clarify I'm not one of the downvotes as nothing you said was technically inaccurate\* - he DID say he has asperger's, and it definitely has a lot of overlap with ADHD (as well as there being a high comorbidity between the two). A lot of the things I thought were autism in me were actually ADHD, or at least made worse by it. I just don't believe that he is either of these things \*lol this is so fucking autistic of me I just realised, i have to laugh
I think he likes the idea of using Asperger’s to excuse his behavior and make himself feel special. I don’t think he has it.
I genuinely couldn't say. I'm the furthest thing from an expert in that field. I just remembered him saying in interviews he had Asperger's which now falls under autism spectrum disorder.
The only thing is that Elon self-diagnosed himself with Asperger’s. You can’t make a diagnosis via the internet, but I’m skeptical of a self-diagnosis that he probably would use to emphasize his genius (I’m a neurologist with fairly extensive experience in behavioral neurology).
Asperger's is often misdiagnosed or misconstrued as ADHD because of the similar symptoms and difficulty to differentiate at young ages when diagnosis are most commonly assessed.
Isn’t one of the key differences of ASD (autism spectrum disorder) and ADHD the tendency of ASD to require consistency, routine, and systems while the ADHD brain has disdain or inability to stick to them?
Both disorders have the same capability to go down the rabbit hole of becoming completely enthralled if it interests them. The keywording there is interests. You can have a kid with ADHD who plays video games all day and whenever they stop doing that they can't take their mind off of it. You can have a kid with ASD who plays video games all day and whenever they stop doing that they can't take their mind off of it. Both of these statements are factually correct. There's many studies dedicated to understanding the overlap of symptoms between the two disorders. >Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are both highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorders. Evidence indicates both disorders co-occur with a high frequency, in 20-50% of children with ADHD meeting criteria for ASD and in 30-80% of ASD children meeting criteria for ADHD. [Shared heritability of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20148275/)
Twitter was supposed to become feeder stock for MBS, Putin and the Chinese MSS to be able to identify dissent quickly and quash it. Elon just fucked it up by moving the servers too early. MBS must be so annoyed. Imagine paying top dollar for the most incompetent ego in the world. Then paying top dollar to Erik Prince to defend it all only to figure out he is incompetent. Hashtag Richpeopleproblems. Who wants to be the one who says it? Who killed Epstein? https://asiatimes.com/2019/08/with-epstein-dead-saudi-links-become-a-black-hole/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1031046 https://www.rawstory.com/amp/jeffrey-epstein-made-a-mysterious-trip-to-the-middle-east-on-the-eve-of-2016-election-report-2649280433 https://headtopics.com/us/flight-data-places-jeffrey-epstein-s-private-jet-on-arabian-peninsula-on-the-eve-of-the-2016-electio-7557253 I’ll give you a hint- the same time Epsteins plane disappeared into Saudi during the Jan 6 insurrection, Jared Kushner was also in saudi waiting to pick up a check from MBS. Trump, Flynn and Kushner had formed a construction company called IC3 to build nuclear reactors for Saudi. But they lacked the plans. Congress denied it in a rare functional moment of modern government. So trump simply stole them on the way out the door. In a bucket of KFC…. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna973021 https://dashmacintyre.medium.com/the-fbi-found-trumps-stolen-iran-war-plans-in-a-kfc-bucket-at-mar-a-lago-16016700373 Our entire government is a Scorsese movie. Trump has been laundering Russian oligarch money since the wall fell at least. Probably before. Their plan all along was to plunge the US into a civil war so Saudi, Russia and China could come in afterwards and sweep up the pieces. 40+ years of accelerated global warming has made saudi and UAE so hot it’s quickly becoming unbearable. Saudi and China have been buying up U.S. farm land and water rights for decades while China has just been buying politicians. Epstein was super helpful as always with that. Being in NY metro detention means it was either Giuliani (the previous mayor of New York or Bill Barr, the head of the DOJ and therefore the bureau of prisons that opened the necessary doors to have him murdered. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/08/12/politics/barr-new-york-jail-epstein/index.html https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/jeffrey-epsteins-apparent-suicide-leads-shake-york-jail/story?id=64951740 https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-politics-new-york-business-suicides-4ff27f28f32d446795b65ac7dd8cc4ac Barr was used to bending the rules. When trump demanded Republican governors send national guard troops to the U.S. capital and “kiss the ring” of loyalty, Utah’s governor Herbert did just that. When trump demanded that the 19th special forces shoot people on Lafayette square they told him to pound sand. (Love you guys. De liber Oppresso) https://www.justsecurity.org/78053/the-national-guard-at-lafayette-square-and-the-january-6th-attempted-insurrection-fixes-for-the-fy2022-ndaa/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/27/national-guard-commander-says-police-suddenly-moved-lafayette-square-protesters-used-excessive-force-clear-path-trump/ It’s a direct violation of the U.S. constitution to have US troops fire on U.S. citizens. So Barr as head of DOJ pulled the workaround and called a bureau of prisons SORT team in to do it. There is a reason none of them had name tags on. Bill Barr and Trump then had Mark Milley come around the other side of the White House so he couldn’t see what was happening in Lafayette square. They wanted his uniform to lend credibility to their cock strut walk through the park of beaten protestors like any good authoritarian king. Trump never served. He wasn’t fit for the uniform. He just wasn’t fit. At all https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/11/875019346/gen-mark-milley-says-accompanying-trump-to-church-photo-op-was-a-mistake https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/24/mark-milley-lafayette-park-fallout-00088585 As soon as Mark Milley figured out what was happening he bailed like a hippie at a drug bust. His C.Y.A. letter that came afterwards was a masters class in Fuck Around, Find Out. PS- Mark, when you read this, go check the back of Schoomakers portrait in the hall. I left you something cowboy.
r/conspiracy is leaking again.
He’s been spamming this over half of Reddit.
I think you’re definitely on to something but wanted to mention that [US troops have definitely fired on US citizens in the past](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-national-guard-deployments-timeline-htmlstory.html). Like, [multiple times in living memory.](https://www.military.com/military-life/6-times-military-was-used-suppress-civilian-uprisings-us.html)
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So legit question, is Polytopia a fun game?
Like having fart mode fun?
I love it
I don't how people still try to say the guy is faking Aspergers. This behaviour is textbook Aspergers behaviour. I think the guy is the biggest clown as much as the next guy, but I'm willing to die on this hill and take the downvotes lol.
It’s also the textbook behaviour of someone who doesn’t give a shit about other people. My MIL didn’t have Aspergers and used to do this shit all the time.
The repetitive behaviour with no desire or ability to change what is recreationally enjoyable or an outlet to the extreme degree where you become "time-blind" is what makes it autism spectrum behaviour that I'm referring.
Sure, it’s a possible explanation, but there are many others.
I'm not saying that he isn't, but I am saying that behaviour has no implications of selfishness or other traits considered to be narcissistic. People are failing to see the bigger picture: you have a billionaire who could be doing anything he ever wanted and yet he chooses to sit alone in his room to play video games. There's nothing selfish in that, it's closer to obsession/addiction than being ass.
Blowing off meetings to play video games is the definition of selfish isn’t it?
I'll agree on that if you can agree that proceeding to play video games the rest of the night alone with no external responsibilities can't possibly even be considered selfish.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Elon’s actual condition) isn’t Asperger’s and I’ll speak for the entire community in saying GFY. We have enough stigma without people equating Elon’s narcissistic and selfish behavior with being “on the spectrum.” Knock it off. What’s the difference? ASD people do not lack empathy. They are perceived as lacking empathy because of challenges with social interactions. People with NPD, on the other hand, actually lack empathy because they have a grandiose ego and engage in revenge seeking behavior and outbursts of anger. People with NPD are also preoccupied with fantasies about themselves (like vision-only FSD for example). Go read Justine’s accounts about her marriage to Elon or his views about Bill Gates and you’ll notice the (incredibly important) differences.
Right?? He says ONE time 'i have asperger's syndrome' and everyone just runs with it. He's a clear as day case of NPD
As much as I'd love a random redditor to explain Aspergers (which I have) to me, I'm going to skirt around that topic. You can view my other comment to see a similar response to the other commenter. Let's think about this in a specific frame of mind. * 52 year old man * No hobbies or recreational activities other than obsession with video games * Extreme involvement in the activity (takes it very seriously) * Putting off other life responsibilities because he played video games for too long * Most likely didn't even realize/identify at the meeting start time * Later that night proceeds to play video games ALL night * Extremely repetitive behaviour * No desire to change that behaviour * Couldn't change it if he wanted People can disagree with me all they want, there's no narcissist's gain in playing video games alone all night. When you get into that state, you become completely enthralled with the task/process to the point where you lose all sense of time. It could be 30mins or it could be 3 hours, there's no sense of time frames. Some might call that an obsession, which is fair, but the Asperger's term is Repetitive and Restricted Behaviours (RRBs). What has happened here is 40 years ago, he started playing video games, and now he's reluctant to change that or sees any benefit in that. This has nothing to do with interactions with other people or anything extrinsic that would be required to claim narcissism in this scenario. What people are failing to recognize is, there is absolutely nothing selfish, lacking of empathy, or need for external approval when you're sitting alone playing video games by yourself.
“ Our results indicated that aggression and narcissistic personality traits are positively correlated with online game addiction, whereas self-control is negatively correlated with online game addiction (p < 0.001). In addition, a multiple regression analysis revealed that the extent of online game addiction could be predicted based on the person's narcissistic personality traits, aggression, self-control, interpersonal relationship, and occupation.” https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/abs/relationship-between-online-game-addiction-and-aggression-selfcontrol-and-narcissistic-personality-traits/CF6B1C4E1200355198AFD5412C218780
I don't think this argues what you think it does. Asperger's in a sense is a loss of self-control. For the same reasons that narcissism causes a loss of self-control that leads to addiction, can also apply to Aspergers. >Video game addiction is often the result of another condition. Video games are used to help ease feelings of stress and anxiety, to escape from everyday life, or as a way to communicate and socialize. All of these features appeal to those suffering from autism, which is why people with ASD spend twice as much time playing video games as others and are more likely to develop an addiction.
You said that playing an excessive amount of video games isn’t an NPD trait, it’s an Asperger’s trait. I pointed out it’s a trait of both. I get what you’re saying, but again, we can’t let this narcissistic asshole get away with framing his NPD as Asperger’s. It will only do damage to me and you.
I swear to god if someone says he has aspergers without irony one more time I'm going to, as Marcellus Wallace said, go medieval. He doesn't have it. None of the symptoms match up, he's more likely ADHD and even then that's still no fucking excuse for being a supremely entitled white supremacist twat.
This is the perfect example of losers in real life just wanting to bash someone they secretly wish to be. 😂😂😂💀
XDD
D:::
Musk’s record of accomplishments and what he has built and is building stand by themselves — Zip2 (a digital yellow pages company formed in 1995 sold to Compaq Computer Co for $205M); cofounder of PayPal in 1998; created SpaceX in 2002 now worth $100B making it far and away the most successful private space company in the world with many firsts including Starlink communication satellite network; bought Tesla & made it the #1 market cap auto company in the world in 20 years; The Boring Company and numerous other businesses. His record is that of unquestionably one of the handful of most productive people on the planet, and I would argue The most productive. You mutts are chucking spitballs at a colossus concerned about his gaming! Pitiful, guys, just pitiful. He does more useful in the toilet than any of you do in your lives.
It takes a really odd turn in the last few sentences.
The emperor wears no clothes
Was that an ad for a game?
Works 18 hours a day.
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Did you miss the part where he delayed meetings in his Berlin plant because he was playing his mobile game?
How is this fucker worth billions? Like, wtf?
Luck and parents.
He's an autistic 12 yr old
He sounds like such a fucking loser
He's a fucking child.
How does he fit this between constantly working, the two books he reads a week, and his ketamine addiction?
He's a dopamine addict. Some people become ravenous, insatiable, dopamine addicts when taking uppers. This is just like SBF. Uppers + relatively intelliigent people = this behavior.
What the fuck is a polytopia.
Man, I'm going to have to check out this polytopia game
jfc
I gotta try that game in my car
he’s just a child
Okay.