• KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz
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    8 hours 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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        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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        Plenty of real stuff we can still hate him for though: the video game cheating, transphobia, epstein stuff, transphobia, doge, list goes on

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    Money can absolutely buy happiness, but you have to be capable of feeling it. A trillion bucks would let anyone do amazing things that could make you incredibly happy.

    However, the process of getting a trillion dollars requires that you’re an evil psychopath incapable of experiencing pleasure.

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      Science says the money turns you into that, as well as them being more likely to get the money in the first place.

      It literally destroys your brain. The alienation from real life, from friction, from thinking.

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      Just think about how much happiness you’d get from:

      • Completely solving world hunger, single-handedly.

      • Massive vaccine roll-outs to eradicate or nearly eradicate some of the worst diseases.

      • Giving every single homeless person in the US a free house to live in.

      • So much hookers and blow.

      And after all that, you’d still be a billionaire. Just getting started.

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      Except he doesn’t have a trillion dollars. He’s got assets he can borrow against that he claims are worth that much and people believe him.

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      There have been studies done that suggested money can buy happiness but only to a certain extent. I think the cap was somewhere north of the upper middle class. Enough money where you didn’t ever really have to worry about bills or ever going broke, while also being able to travel and vacation several times a year.

      Past that point increasing the amount of money didn’t increase the overall happiness of the person.

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      Yeah I agree, if I was a billionaire I’d be spending a lot of money on things that don’t just benefit myself, and I’d hope that’d make me happy at least a little bit. I think the not having happiness part comes from the hoarding part of it.

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        But you wouldn’t be a billionaire. There are people in the world that do good, they just don’t get as rich because they care about people

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          Exactly. I believe that becoming a billionaire is necessarily a symptom of some kind of mental illness because of what it takes to do so. Most people would be unwilling to do it.

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    Never forget that Elon is such a colossal looser, that even Epstein, the most despicable piece of shit on earth, wanted absolutely nothing to do with him.

    This is the type of special that Elon brings to the world.

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    I live in a so-called progressive blue state that has a lot of Democrats. I see more and more of them driving new Teslas around. To me, all Tesla owners—especially those who purchased their vehicle in the last couple years—are just authoritarian Trump supporters. Prove me wrong.

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      I live in the south and just spent a week in the PNW. While the lack of lifted trucks was nice, there wereso many damn Cybertucks and model Ys. I rarely see a CT here but they were everywhere out there. It was wild. Beautiful place though.

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    I see no friends and family in those pictures. Even his a.i. generated fantasies make him look like a loser.

    (edit: fixed typo)