Precisely why I believe that Musk is a mental patient. And I'm being damned charitable.

[634-5789]

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Just because he's trolling doesn't mean he's a "mental patient."

[H2O Man]

6. +1

Right. There is nothing to suggest that he has a mental illness. It's in poor taste to say someone has mental illness just because you disagree with them, or consider them an idiot.

He might have a personality that is disordered in the manner he seeks to get his needs met. That is distinct.

[empedocles]

9. Let's not readily rule out musk having a significant personality disorder

[hamsterjill]

11. I agree

There are episodes in his past that sure would be hard to defend against some type of disorder. He’s an unstable genius in my opinion. And that can be dangerous.

[KS Toronado]

52. I know of a very stable genius who is dangerous to Democracy.

Hopefully we'll see him behind bars someday.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. Oh, let's, and just judge him by his actions, which we can talk about as being ridiculous,

irrational, greedy and manipulative, without using ableist frames.

[H2O Man]

32. I didn't.

[Ray Bruns]

38. Don't mind me.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

41. He's no doubt a fucking narcissist

Dark triad personality type. Basically human shaped poison.

I know a lot of people with mental illness and they arent self serving dark triad assholes.

Stop lumping us mentally ill people in with the dark triad assholes.

[H2O Man]

48. Right.

He most likely has some items from Cluster B. Those may have some genetic components, and definitely environmental factors. But that is very different than mental illness.

I doubt that many billionaires are without some Cluster B dlavors.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

14. +1. N/T

[Gilbert Moore]

19. Agree

I thought we were better than this. . .

[RussBLib]

54. some are

takes all kinds to make a community

[leftstreet]

16. I think he trolls. I also think he's not very intelligent

I don't mean formally or self educated. More that he seems to have a barren intellectual landscape

[smirkymonkey]

27. I agree.

I also think he is a megalomaniac. There was one tweet someone posted on a thread about him that struck me as particularly descriptive of him and men like him.

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=LtGjxTrxdJx8ZCLtKoEBhw

[leftstreet]

30. +1

Oh that's good!

[Lucky Luciano]

28. No he likely has a very strong intellect, but zero emotional intelligence.

[leftstreet]

29. Which would prove he was trolling

A strong intellect would recognize that the political divide he was referring to didn't include anything extreme. It's not like someone in Congress is demanding we nationalize all public utilities.

[Lucky Luciano]

35. He's a troll. He likes to induce reactions he finds entertaining.

Remember he tweeted about taking TSLA private for $420. Now he’s trying to buy TWTR for 54.20.

Two different 420 references in those prices. He likes trolling.

[Mr.Bill]

26. I don't know if I would call him a mental patient,

but when he hosted SNL, he himself said he was autistic. I think he is someone that is just wired differently than most of us. I think he has incredible focus on details but is somewhat socially inept.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

42. There are autistic people

Who are not narcissists.


And dark triad assholes who happen to be autistic too.

Seperate the dark triad assholiness

From mental illness and neurologically atypical people.

A fucking dark triad is a dark triad.
Whatever issues he has beyond that is moot.
A toxic asshole with issues is still a toxic asshole.

[Mr.Bill]

45. No argument here. n/t

[certainot]

56. he has a bad case of sowb

sex on the wrong brain, which has been normalized and selected for over millions of years, especially in the last few thousand years.

it can get worse with age.

we elevate insane level greed and royal certitude, major symptoms, to leadership positions

[Quakerfriend]

2. Yes, having worked with psych patients

it’s clear he has issues.

His power is a bit scary.

[Bev54]

3. Block him.

[Jm7603]

4. Musk is an Asshole Savant. N/T

[soldierant]

10. Good one.

[aurora the great]

15. Musk! A**Hole savant

Okay its funny but its not but its the biggest laugh I've had today. So thank you

[Jm7603]

31. Sometimes we have to laugh at the situation to not

cry. I know I'm childish sometimes but it helps me keep going.....

[H2O Man]

49. +1

[Farmer-Rick]

20. If he hadn't been born to people who had excessive amounts of capital

He would just be an Asshole, no savant about it.

[Jm7603]

33. True dat We would never have heard of him. LOL

[SledDriver]

34. Phony Stark

[I_UndergroundPanther]

43. Duzy lol

[Mr. Sparkle]

5. He moved to Texas and started hanging around with the wrong kinda of ppl wearing stupid hats

His personal life is a mess since.

[BMW2020RT]

7. Back at you, Mr. Musk.

I did not vote for Obama and the extremists are still on the Republican side of the political aisle just as they were when I cast my final Republican vote for George H. W. Bush.

[yaesu]

8. Needing to acquire so much wealth & power is a mental disease, probably along the lines of

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hoarding disorder with sociopathic tendencies.

[texasfiddler]

12. He wants right-wingers to buy his electric vehicles too.

Plus, he hates unions. Therefore, he moves to Texas and starts saying stuff like this. I think the poor baby is a little hurt that Biden gave subsidies to union built electric vehicles and passed his poor little company over. I just see him as an egotistical opportunist. On the positive side, maybe a few on the right will start accepting renewables.

[Hoyt]

17. He is much better than those who voted for trump in my rube red area (about 70+% of voters).

[CrackityJones75]

18. Hmmm

When people acquire and stockpile things that they will never use or that seemingly no longer have any real value to them we call it a mental disease.

With billionaires we call it success.

And here on DU if you liken it to the issue of hoarding you are called an ableist for pointing it out.

[Gary 50]

21. I'm pretty sure by extremists he means those who want to tax his wealth.

[SunSeeker]

24. He thinks anyone who disagrees with him is an extremist.

And he will block them on Twitter.

[SunSeeker]

22. What specifically is "extreme" in the Democratic Party's platform right now, Elon?

Never might, it's obvious you are just lying about Dems because Dems criticized your union busting, and self-aggrandizing purchase of Twitter.

I realized you were a vicious egomaniacal liar when you baselessly tweeted that the diver who rescued those boys in that Thai cave was a "pedo guy" just because he accurately said your offer of a submarine to rescue the boys was a PR stunt.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter

[LiberalLovinLug]

23. Twitter will become the next RW extremist cess pool

The only thing that's funny is how Trump and associates spent a year raising over a billion to start up "Truth Social". Thinking it was the only way to spread their lies after Twitter started "cancelling" them. Now they are in a dilemma.

Keep pushing TS and maybe fail disastrously, but if it catches on could make them billions, or turn their backs on those investors, many small donor Trumpists, throw in the towel, because Twitter is going to be a full on MAGA disinformation outlet soon anyways.

What to do?

Yes I'm laughing through my tears.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

44. Right wingers just arent happy talking to each other

They want someone to abuse. Thats why musk bought twitter to give all the dark triads people to abuse.

There was no one to abuse at truth social
Thats why it failed.

Dark triads aren't happy unless they are abusing someone .

I wish all the dark triads were dead.

[FakeNoose]

25. I think he's "playing to the base" with these stupid tweets

If he can capture Chump's base of the usual idiots, he can safely ignore Chump himself.

It's garbage in - garbage out.

[XacerbatedDem]

51. Sure he's not just "playing the base" to make money?

Rich people don't just put out that much money because they want more free speech. Have a feeling there's more to it than that. And it involves $$$$$$$$$$$$.

[Martin68]

36. He's very high-functioning, in any case, which makes him very dangerous.

[Boomerproud]

47. He's low functioning as a human being.

99.8 billionaires are total jerks.

[BigmanPigman]

37. They just did a story on this topic on MSNBC.

They saud that Fux Ruse will use it as their platform for "free speech". In fact, they already are saying that on Fux.

[Mr. Evil]

39. There is only one reply to his post necessary.

Name one!

Then he'd most likely go into 'screed mode.'

[Evolve Dammit]

40. Good Dog man. He'll probably run for Pres with Grimes as first goth.

[Jedi Guy]

46. There are extremists and zealots in any group of people united by a cause, usually on the fringes.

So sure, there are zealots and extremists on the left side of the political spectrum. He's not wrong there. Where he is wildly wrong is the assertion that the zealots and extremists of the left are in control of the Democratic Party.

He's also wildly wrong in the implicit comparison in his tweet, which is that the Republican Party isn't "hijacked by extremists." Any halfway reasonable person would have concluded that the GOP was hijacked by extremists quite a long while ago, around the time they united around a pile of Cheetos in an ill-fitting suit.

Musk is no idiot, or he wouldn't be where he is today. He's a smart guy. But he's socially inept to a frankly amazing degree. Bit of a cosmic injustice, really.

[dchill]

53. Luckily, he's not a native American.

A small relief.

[moondust]

55. One theory

suggests that he's actually an amoral apartheidist who supported Obama to publicly downplay his upbringing and curry favor with Americans, but then with the rise of the Tea Party, etc., leading to TFG he realized there are lots of would-be apartheidists in the U.S. and he didn't have to hide it anymore.

[Joinfortmill]

57. Not my favorite guy. We need more & better rules

[OMGWTF]

58. I have loved driving my Chevy Volt for eight years, but my dream car is a blue Tesla S

with aluminum wheels and a light grey interior; however, this mofo is making me want to buy something else when the time comes.