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    Usually I’d feel pity for someone being cyberbullied, but Elon told me that’s a sign of weakness, so fuck him.

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        Honestly if he offed himself I’d consider it a first step, though I don’t know if there’s anything of worth to harvest from his corpse.

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        I’m not as familiar with the whole theology involved, but still am pretty sure he’ll have to weather a few cycles as whatever multi-legged miniature vermin that insects eat before he can break back into the mammalian strata. He can’t possibly be acting like such a gigantic piece of shit accidentally, can he?

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          He’s always been an asshole, but his reported ketamine addiction compounds with his Twitter addiction. The ketamine allows his brain to reform pathways and Twitter boxes him into a self-made echo chamber. Combined this is the perfect recipe for a god complex, and boy does that prediction fit the observed outcome.

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            Huh, TIL that he was into K. I thought that he was just an oddball because of his weird upbringing and fuckwad entitled bourgeois attitude.

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              No he’s admitted it, although he claims he has a prescription and it’s for depression.

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                Prescription or no, it’s not healthy to dive into Twitter so heavily right after doing psychedelics - you’re retraining your brain on the shittiest content available.

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                You can get a prescription for ketamine? Jesus Christ, and this whole time I’ve just been using coffee, alcohol, tobacco, hash, and whatever psychedelic I can get my mitts on…

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        To be fair, it would take me about 16,000 years at an average wage to make a billion dollars. Since Musky has more than one billion years. With the exchange rate of 16,000 years per billion. Musky is going to have a fucking ton of life times to pay his karmic debt.

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      As a wise man recently said,

      They tried to rig the game, but you can’t fake influence.

      Money can buy everything but it can’t buy respect. Nobody respects Musk getting to level 90+ in SSF HC PoE2 because he just bought his way there. Nobody respects him on Twitter, because he bought his way there. Nobody respects Tesla, because (say it with me kids) he bought his way there.

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        Money can absolutely buy respect the problem is fuckwad is too stupid to know how, for example he could bankroll building functional replicas of historic vehicles and weapons for museums which would earn him some respect. That’s assuming he doesn’t want to help the poor and build public libraries like Rockefeller or Carnegie.

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          You’re both right - spending tons of money just to build influence does not buy you respect, but investing your money in something that contributes to the greater good does. Unfortunately for Elon, this requires good intentions and substantial effort, neither of which he possesses. So, he bought an epic gamer account to brainwash the most vulnerable members of society into believing he’s some kind of 22nd century technogenius! Seriously, what the fuck is actually wrong with this man???

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            Thing is, he could still hire people who do know how to do that - he just doesn’t see the point. Like the person who refuses to hire an electrician instead of just doing it himself, he keeps getting it wrong and then being shocked.

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      What gets me is that he has the means to become the most beloved man in history pretty much on a whim. I can’t even begin to comprehend the amount of good he could do by dumping half his fortune into good causes, which would still leave him with orders of magnitude more money than he’d need to buy/do whatever the fuck he wants with.

      The attention he craves is right there. But he chooses instead to be a villain. Why?? Be a fucking superhero - even if it’s for completely selfish reasons, humanity won’t give shit.

      I don’t get it.

      If I randomly obtained a billion dollars, let alone hundreds of billions, I’d spend the rest of my life riding a warm-and-fuzzy high. Helping people feels good!

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        Look at Bill Gates. He’s a complete asshole and was widely hated until he stepped down from Microsoft. But, spend just a small fraction of his fortune on charity, much of it self-serving, and he’s now he’s widely loved.

        If I randomly obtained a billion dollars, let alone hundreds of billions, I’d spend the rest of my life riding a warm-and-fuzzy high. Helping people feels good!

        The thing is, you don’t become a billionaire if you have empathy. If you’re a normal kind of person who likes helping other people, you start giving away your money long before you hit $1B.

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          In a functioning society, we wouldn’t have to rely on the “philanthropy” of rich people to fund good causes. It should not be possible for one person to hoard so much wealth that they get to personally decide which issues get ignored.

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          From what I understand, Musk was under investigation from multiple federal US agencies for malfeasance, I don’t know for what

          I’ll give you a hint. It starts with “e” and rhymes with “Epstein didn’t kill himself”…

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        He had that aura when he was building Tesla and solar city and the gigafactory. Become a billionaire and fight climate change? Go Elon.

        Go to Mars? Bit of a stretch goal, but helping Nasa and science is good. Go Elon.

        Save kids trapped underground? Go Elon.

        What? Called him a pedophile? Maybe he has some inside knowledge. Anyway.

        Shout about doge coin? Bit weird. Ok he’s just having fun.

        Sell a consumer grade flamethrower? What?

        Pay 44bn for Twitter? What? Where’s the value? This doesn’t save the world.

        And down and down.

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            I was addressing the downward trajectory of his outside perception, not his actual skills.

            Musk is willing to risk his capital, and does seem to be able to identify talented engineers and individuals. He used to be able to attract them too.

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          Celebrities are just rich people sportsy, artistic, sympathic, entertaining or sexualized looking enough to get public attention

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          Bill Gates makes a strong argument for becoming beloved while you’re still around to enjoy it.

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      And let’s be real, it’s ok to be emotional and want attention. That’s human.

      But I’m sure this can be done, and is probably easier to accomplish by not being a nazi, which is the real issue here.

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      Right? I wouldn’t be trying to pretend to be King Shit in a game I don’t even know how to play, I’d make my own game with black jack and hookers, hookers who are voiced by Jack Black. That’s right I’m casting a cisman in the role of a sexy cisfemale character and there’s not even a joke or a bit to it. The character is not implied to be trans and there’s not even a transphobic quip about it, I just got Jack Black to voice a woman because I could, because I’ve got fuck you money… And if the ESRB or Gabe Newell didn’t like it, I’d start an alternative to Steam that actually works.

      It seems such vivid Imagination is wasted on those who cannot make their dreams into reality…

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    Transcript:

    Elon Musk rage quit a livestream of the video game Path of Exile 2 on Saturday night after repeatedly dying while also being ruthlessly cyberbullied in the chat.

    Path of Exile 2 is one of Musk’s favorite games—so much so that he once claimed to be one of the world’s top players in an attempt to boost his gamer cred, before later backtracking and admitting that he had been secretly paying people to level up his account to make him appear more talented at it than he was.

    Nevertheless, while attempting to show off Starlink’s in-flight WiFi capabilities while onboard his private jet over the weekend, Musk streamed himself playing some PoE2 on the hardest difficulty, which was broadcast live on X.

    The DOGE chief was, predictably, terrible at the game, but that was the least of his problems—Less than five minutes into the stream, a player logged on and asked Musk if he could “please jerk off mr trump so he dies of a heart attack.” It only got worse from there.

    For the next hour and a half, Musk sat in stony-faced silence and blasted techno music while dozens of users with names such as ELON_IS_A_PEEDOPHILE and ELON_MUSK_IS_PATHETIC repeatedly spammed the chat to tell him “YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS AND YOU WILL DIE ALONE” and “YOU WILL ALWAYS FEEL INSECURE AND IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY.”

    Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Getting Ruthlessly Cyberbullied by Gamers Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Getting Ruthlessly Cyberbullied by Gamers YouTube “Elon. It’s me, Ashley St. Claire. I have no other means of contacting you so I bought PoE2 early access. Please pay your child support. Thank you Elon,” said an account pretending to be the conservative influencer currently locked in a custody battle with Musk over their five-month-old child, while another said his estranged daughter Vivian “was right” about him being terrible at video games.

    Some streamers attempted to help Musk out by trying to show him how to mute the chat function, while others encouraged people to “Buy TSLA” and thanked him for his work with Starlink and DOGE, but they were drowned out by a cavalcade of abuse from gamers relished the opportunity to give the billionaire a piece of their mind.

    Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Getting Ruthlessly Cyberbullied by Gamers Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Getting Ruthlessly Cyberbullied by Gamers YouTube “There’s a lot of r-----s in the chat,” said Musk at one point, using the r-word slur while a user named HC_John_Wick repeatedly spammed “ELON HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO LOOK THIS DUMB AND UGLY WHY IS UR TESLA COMPANY FALLING APART AHAAHAAHAAH! WHAT HAPPENED BUDDY?”

    But aside from muting a couple of the loudest trolls after almost an hour of sustained abuse, Musk did little to stop the army of trolls from relentlessly mocking him.

    Eventually, he vanished when his WiFi connection abruptly cut out and ended the stream, which he later deleted from X but was swiftly reuploaded onto YouTube.

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    Is it really “cyberbullying” against Musk if Musk first negatively affected the lives and livelihoods of, say, millions of people?

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      Yes. And it is still harmful. But there is no good solution here. He should be able to play a mostly single player game in some isolation from the public. (I.e. put DND on and be “fine” but hated, possibly the game should have made that easier for streamers being flooded by spam.)

      That being said the harm being done in America is incredibly impactful and must be stopped at high cost.

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        He could have played alone. HE DECIDED to steam himself publicly, after spending the last two months actively trying to destroy those people’s futures. All for personal gain. He does not deserve to know a moment of peace whenever he chooses to show his face publicly after what he’s done.

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    Elon. It’s me, Ashley St. Claire. I have no other means of contacting you so I bought PoE2 early access. Please pay your child support. Thank you Elon

    I died

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      Notice that despite the awesome trolling, it wasn’t until someone called him dumb and ugly that it elicited a response from him. Calling him out for being a piece of shit doesn’t work, denigrating the attributes he built a superiority complex on…ohhh fuck yeah that shit burns him real good.

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    Reminder: He died to a Tutorial Boss in a game he tried to use a boosted account in to fake being one of the top players only for the devs to go “Wait, aren’t you a top Diablo IV player? Either you have the time management skills of a God and are the top player in multiple games, or you’re bullshitting… and guess what’s the winning one.”

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      top 10 player btw…

      what a fucking idiot. no one would be making fun of him if he just said he likes playing video games but as a CEO of multiple companies he’s too busy (lol) to get good at them. just say you suck at video games but love the art form, dumbass. but he can’t because he’s sick in the head and desperately needs approval from other unfuckable shits.

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          His daughter said he played video games with them just to get his kids to carry him. Which is just very strange and sad.

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            bronze torbjorn in the early days of overwatch. I can’t tell you how bad you have to be to play torb in 2016-17 and stay in bronze. he should be auto climb at that rank. not to mention because no one really knew what they were doing early on, the ranks were highly inflated too. diamond players back then would be gold today.

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    Correction: Elon musk tries to prove his gaming skills and then Rage Quits after dying to the Tutorial Boss.

    The bullying was a side piece.

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    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 makes me so happy to see him demonstrating in real time, the old saying “Money can’t buy happiness.”

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      Well if it was just that he was weird he could probably find a real friend or two. Hell I know a ton of just god awful people who still have folks who wanna hang with them.

      It’s that there’s no mutual benefit to knowing or liking him at all. Even your typical maga shitdick has friends who like them but Muskrats only here for clout and that’s the kinda guy who turns on you for a quick part on the back from someone who hasn’t told them theyre special today.

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        True, and I actually like, and even prefer, people that others think are weird. Weird can be really fun and entertaining.

        But this is a different kind of weird, its Creepy Weird. Like you just know this guy has some incredibly shocking and revolting kinks, beyond your wildest imagination.

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    Maybe if we all just start referring to this as “the gas leak season” while we’re in it we can break the 4th wall and escape whatever the fuck this supposed reality is.

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      All the more reason to give him hell for doing a terrible job. If you can’t handle the heat get out of the kitchen.

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        Dude unfortunately has no problem throwing a match over his shoulder when leaving the kitchen or even to return later to do so.

        I think, everybody living in former Eastern block countries, in former East Germany, in former Germany in the 1930s/40s has a story of someone being gone after telling the wrong joke a little too loud. Sometimes they came back but they were different. Often they didn’t. You do not know where that regime will be in three years, using opsec now probably isn’t a bad idea in hindsight.

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          You should be careful to tackle the gaming community. There are many nerds and script kiddies who are well connected and who have little troubles to make your life less happy. Something which did not exist in the Eastern block, and especially not in Eastern Germany - remember: it wasn’t Eastern Germany where the revolts started against the regime! They just jumped on the train. Not few Eastern Germans are dreaming nowadays to have something like the German Democratic Republic back.

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          While you’re not wrong, I hate this line of thinking - it gives them too much power if we start censoring ourselves because they might retaliate.

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          The hard part is finding an acceptable balance between good OPSEC but not pre-emptive compliance.