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As the de facto head of the Department of Governmental Efficiency, Musk has deployed this brand of tactical callousness to maximal effect. He has boasted about throwing the United States Agency for International Development into a “woodchipper” and stumbled around the stage at CPAC with a chainsaw. He has presided over the dismantling of the administrative state and the harassment and mass-termination of federal workers—all while flaunting his lack of concern for the lives he has upended. Fired government employees, he announced last Thursday, with the laughing/crying emoji that’s become his calling card, will now have to “get a real job.”

This kind of depravity is a prerequisite for Musk’s new line of work. Dancing on the graves of lifesaving programs for kids is not something you can easily do with a conscience. But there is one set of feelings Musk is uniquely attuned to: his own. On Friday, the same day foreign service officers around the world received notices from a DOGE flunky alerting them that they would soon be out of a job, Musk—sans sunglasses—sat down with Fox News’ Brett Baier to ask for a little sympathy.

“I mean, you have Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price, where the stock price has gone in half—and he is overjoyed,” he said. “What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like, who derives joy from that?”

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

Now I need the video with Tim Walz to get my share of the joy!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

What's the matter Elon, did the mean NPC hurt your feefees?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

Lock him in one of his exploding cucktrucks and see if he can take it.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

So you're asking me to feel bad, for the richest person on Earth. After he just harmed a ton of people and damaged our country.... All because he has slightly less money, the difference of which no average person could ever dream of?

No, I don't think I will.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

No this is just the food they're feeding to their sycophants. Now they're making the argument that "Democrats are heartless for rejoicing at people losing their jobs" and that they're "bullies for rooting for an American company to fail"

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Definitely have zero empathy for people that believe "empathy is weakness".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Considering other people's hurt in one's own actions is a social contract and those who have no consideration for the hurt they might/do cause others with their own actions don't deserve that others to take their hurt into consideration in theirs.

Musk is very much an extreme example of somebody who couldn't give a rat's arse about the hurt he causes to others so it's absolutely Ethical and Moral for others to reciprocate it.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I derive joy from Tesla stock crashing, because I sold all my shares ages ago, and I like it when companies run by Nazis crash and burn <3

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Should Tesla fall low enough to trigger a margin call that wipes out Space Nazi, I doubt I will ever be as happy at that moment for the rest of my life.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

I’m gonna fuckin pop some champagne if that happens lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

who derives joy from that?

Me.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

“Empathy destroys civilisations” according to Musk. If there was ever any doubt that he is a sociopath, the evidence is now abundantly clear. Empathy is what a civilised society is built upon. He is mixing up society and imperialism. Lack of empathy is what imperialists and fascists demonstrate when they invade their neighbours. Other notables who lack empathy are misogynists, abusers, criminals and fraudsters.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Everytime his sociopathy is mentioned, this quote from the Nuremberg trials should be mentioned:

I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy. 

-G. M. Gilbert

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If I could give this a million upvotes, I would!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Me too! I think I am going to hand-letter this quote and make a bunch of copies and put them around on the local bulletin boards.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Thanks, I will use that for our -nazi- far right Minister of Finance, when she says “empathy doesn’t belong to politics”.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago

Being a billionaire is both a symptom and cause of sociopathy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Liquidate Musk

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Stay out of the kitchen then

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

Thoughts and prayers

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