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Musk wants to leave politics because he’s tired of ‘attacks’ from the left: report
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
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He is the richest man in the world. He has every resource available to him. He constantly punches down. He doesn't deserve any sympathy.
Exactly, Muskrat expected to be able to shit on and ruin peoples lives and get ZERO push back.
You can't buy a likable personality.
He tried, but he colflated a person on the leaderboard of a video game with a likeable personality
(No offense to likeable people on leaderboards)
I often wonder what the world would be like right now, if he'd simply taken it on the chin, congratulated that cave diver on rescuing those Thai kids, and went about his day, rather than jumping right into calling him a paedophile and sinking into ever further nutbaggery.
Money and power is a mirror, this is just who he is at his core.
That event didn't make him a fucknugget. It just showed the entire world that he was, in fact, a fucknugget.
Wouldn't have changed at all.
That event didn't change him at all, for fuck sake
No but I do feel like he nailed the ‘era’ where he started going off the deep end. From there on my graph it’s been a downhill slide from there. I thought it couldn’t go lower, but, as they say… lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut.
I also wonder ….. while it’s a safe bet that he didn’t change with that event, it was also one of the first times he strayed into something he knew nothing about to show his true nutbaggery. When he was talking about his companies, his products, that side of him didn’t really come out more did it really affect anyone outside his employees. That event made it clear the world was hanging on his every word and really shouldnt