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Summary

Elon Musk reportedly mocked federal employees he fired by privately reacting to their hardships with "laugh-crying emojis," according to Rolling Stone.

Sources say Musk finds amusement in stories of lives disrupted by his mass dismissals.

Ben Vizzachero, a fired wildlife biologist, confronted Musk at Trump’s congressional address and asked, "Am I waste?" Musk responded with a line from the 1999 movie Office Space: "What would you say you do here?"

Even Trump officials express frustration, calling Musk "irritating" and difficult to work with.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

That's because he's a narcissistic sociopath.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This man literally has no empathy..he thinks it's a weakness

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Elon needs to be constantly bullied online. Hope he keeps doing videogame streams.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And IRL. This guy needs daily atomic wedgies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Could you imagine if he switched from ketamine to bath salts or LSD?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

"Kill yourself Elon"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Funny thing is, he IS insecure, and it will NEVER go away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

And offline too. We need to mobilize and get "Elon should kill himself" all over the place.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's OK. When some disgruntled worker inevitably goes postal and he learns that having billions of dollars doesn't make you bulletproof, I'll also react with laughing emojis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That day would become a world wide day of celebration.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Only one in three hundred million something Americans have the balls to do anything like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Musk needs to get lucky and avoid it every time; The public only needs to get lucky once.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

right, but only one in three hundred million needs to do it

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel like in some weird twisted sick way, Elmo is accidentally our savior. All these guys are evil and incompetent, but Elmo is so overtly incompetent that he fucks up most of the evil plans they had. It would have been so much worse of Elmo wasn't here because then they maybe could have succeeded.

So far it's bad but just so incompetently bad that you know it won't last very long. They're playing with lives but it's American lives, they're getting what they wanted

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Here’s a reminder that the Allied forces had multiple opportunities to assassinate Hitler, but chose not to do so… Because he was a laughably bad military tactician, who was surrounded by yes-men. He would repeatedly make bad military decisions, and everyone around him was too afraid to tell him it was a bad idea. The Allies were worried that if they assassinated Hitler, a competent military leader would take his place.

Sun Tsu’s Art of War has a line that goes something like “Never interrupt the enemy when they’re making a mistake” and it feels germane. I wouldn’t be surprised if historians are writing about how Europe had several opportunities to assassinate Musk/Trump but chose not to because they didn’t want anyone competent in charge.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think Musk is a necessary catalyst for any resistance movement. He is so evil, unlikable, unhinged and too powerful; a wet dream for any author who writes dystopian novels.

If he did not exist I would fear that the nascent American protest movement would just evaporate like before. But here, literally one can just point to this bastard instead of arguing politics, and it generates waves of hate.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 days ago (4 children)

My mom is a lifetime Republicsn who up until last year was on a pure reactionary right feed on Facebook. She's basically turned 180° in just the last few months, and while it started with her immediate gut-level dislike for Vance, it was driven home by her imnediate, gut-level dislike for Musk. It's now expanded out to criticizing (and laughing at) Trump and the rest of the would-be oligarchs, and she's moved from Facebook to Reddit and is already trying to decide which Democrats she's going to vote for.

And while it actually started with Vance, it was almost entirely Musk (or as she referred to him for quite a while - "What's his name - the asshole co-president") who accomplished the most to drive her away from the party she'd supported her entire life.

And I assume she's far from alone.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you thanked JD Vance even once for nudging your mum onto a slightly more sane trajectory?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

It's tempting - it would be greatvto be able to say something like, "I just want to thank you for being such an insufferable asshole that you were the catalyst that started the process that ended with my mom becoming a Democrat."

But I assume it would be lost on him. Like both Trump and Musk, I assume he's determinedly oblivious to the fact that he's an asshole

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

She'll be permanently banned from Reddit for criticizing Musk. Trust me. They're cleaning house. Because they're cunts, and Spez is a little bitch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Maybe by then we can welcome her here!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

The richest guy in the world, and he is so horny for any love and respect that the smell of desperation fills any room he is in. You can even see it anytime he makes a media appearance. The guy actually exudes a breath-taking level of anti-charisma. He's truly revolting to anyone who sees him.

All that money, and he has to rent wombs to manufature his DNA Storage Units/ Organ Donors/ Human Shields because no woman will go near him. Ive heard his dick doesn't work anyway, due to a botched wiener enlargement surgery.

So he thinks the gamers are his peeps, and they'll love him, right? Nah, all those great toys, and still none of the neighborhood kids want to play with him, because he's so fucking wierd.

It fills me with such glorious schadenfreude to see him demonstrating in real time, the old saying "Money can't buy happiness."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

The oligarchy reacts with laugh-crying emojis to the suffering of the common man.

For the likes of Sieg Heiling Space Karen and their ilk, I'll continue adding mine to corporate obituary announcements resulting from the consequences of the unspoken class war.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Do you want to create more Luigis? Because that’s how you create more luigis. 🤞

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's just a correction in the Free Market. We need a lot more Free Market corrections.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I'll believe it when I see it, Americans too often prove otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

He believes we're all NPCs and that he's the main character of the simulation. There's no need for empathy in that paradigm.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We need to further expose these kinds of happenings.

The greatest weakpoint of fascism is the exposal of its cruelty. They have to hide behind "concerns for the common good", while in reality, they see them as nothing more than when a school bully convinces their teachers that their targets were the ones "starting it". Cruelty was the main reason I left the far-right, then "moderate conservatism". They just gaslight not only others with their lies, but themselves too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unfortunately I don’t think it’ll work here. For republicans and most supporters: cruelty is the point. They want to see their enemies lose. They revel in “liberal tears” and lust for the downfall of their adversaries. They’re sick in an emotional way. Elon is on record saying empathy is a weakness.

They’re all sociopaths. They only care about money and power for them, anything that prohibits that is an enemy.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Man, I cannot wait for the fucking day this son of bitch gets his karma. It's going to be fucking delicious.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago

Yep. My immediate thought after reading this headline was of the couple times he looked like he was gonna cry because people were celebrating the downfall of Tesla and the time he was streaming PoE2 and got bullied enough that he pretended to lag out and ragequit.

He's truly a net negative contribution to the species, and he furthers that status with every breath. Maybe there could be some argument that putting money into stuff pushed companies to adopt new, greener technologies in order to compete, but his pro fascism agenda has completely negated any praises I might have ever sung. And I think he's too deep to ever reverse course.

We know that he salutes like Hitler. Let's all hope that he does that other thing like Hitler did that one time in late April of 1945. Epic memes ftw for the edgy memelord mastermind if he does it on the same day. 360 skibidi no scope rizz king shit.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That reminds me, i need to sharpen my guillotine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Guillotine is too fast for this fucker, sharpen a machete far better control on how fast they die. Plus a machete is good for limbs and disembowelment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He needs to be skinned alive. Slowly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let's start by deskinning fingers. Then pulling out each fingernail inch by inch.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that gonna be outside any oligarchs mansions? Or is it gonna be somewhere they can safely ignore us again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have just simply stopped spending. I buy absolute essentials and that's it.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And he wonders why people hate him? smh.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is the reply that needs to spam his feed.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

At least the money DOGE saved by ruining lives will be put to good use ruining more lives and fattening oligarchs’ pockets with the record $1 trillion Pentagon budget Trump just proudly announced.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Just sociopath things.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

“What a creep. What a jerk.” https://youtu.be/33o88UWkO2c

“The fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy.” https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elon-musk-empathy-quote/

Which is it, Papa Elon?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

How Vizzachero didn't greet Elon by reaching over and hugging Elon tightly around the neck until he decided to catch some permanent shuteye is beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Uh, Musk knows what happens to the company in office space, right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

The Bobs don't see any consequences, though, and they're the ones to actually say the line.

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