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One thing Elon doesn't seem to understand is that no matter how many billions of dollars he spends to "combat the woke mind virus", it will never make his daughter love him. Accepting her and loving her unconditionally would, but that requires a level of emotional maturity that Elon simply doesn't possess and no amount of money can buy for him.
Rich people are far too often bankrupt in the matters of the heart and soul.
Good lord it must suck so much to have a father like that. Hope she has all the money to afford good therapy at least.
Musk did quite a fast way from the "Occupy Mars" to a Starwars-like family drama. Outer space is not a joke, guys!
One of the crazy parts of growing up with a narcissist is recognizing that you are supposed to stop their bullshit. They are in charge as a parent, so being a fucking kid means you think them lying about shit to glorify their mistakes is what is supposed to happen. And to be safe you go along with it.
It is not pleasant to be expelled from an abusive, controlling, narcissistic family to the world only to become a mark to every dark triad person on the planet.
And to find the good in that world is nigh impossible without almost endless resources.
I grew up with a narcissistic, neglectful mother. It made me a stone cold liar. I'm so good at lying that I sometimes used to lie just for fun to see how crazy I could make it before someone would call me out on it.
That being said, with my child I'm a totally different person. I'm super honest with him. I tell him constantly how much I love him, how much he matters to me. I just have this aversion to do anything my mother would have done. My instincts tell me to do almost everything the exact opposite of what she would have done.
I'm so fucking poor compared to Musk. His wealth grants him access to so many things I'll never have access to. He is financially far more successful than I will likely ever be. I don't feel any envy though. He's so life and love poor that I feel like his superior simply because my family loves and respects me, and I feel the same towards them.
He's a loser. It's a weird thing to say about a guy who can buy my entire neighborhood and tear it down for funsies, but he makes it so clear. No matter how much he has, he'll always be a pathetic loser. He's proof positive that money does not buy happiness.
Child goes on Threads, not twitter. She used Zuck's platform to tear down her father
Isn't calling someone or something "camp" classist and elitist?
camp /kămp/ noun
Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect. Even if camp has a history of being looked down upon (particularly in the mid-20th century), that view is a bit outdated as postmodern artists have long incorporated camp and kitsch into those same elitist contexts that previously rebuked it.
Art history and shifting attitudes towards camp aside, it doesn't seem like the context of Vivian using a descriptive term like camp to point out the almost excessive artifice in Elon Musk's made up stories is intending to denigrate the lower classes, even if for some people "camp" carries some classist associations.
It is good to be sensitive to classist attitudes, but it seems a bit weird to call it out in this context, especially considering the power dynamic of the context where Vivian, the victimized trans daughter, is standing up to her father, Elon Musk, literally one of the richest people in the world.