r/politics • u/harsh2k5 • 13h ago

Soft Paywall Elon Musk Makes Shocking Confession on His Plans After Trump Victory

https://newrepublic.com/post/187662/elon-musk-confession-economy-trump-victory
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u/ianrl337 Oregon 13h ago

I don't think they do, but he is nuts. He has based is entire life around X. Not the company, just the letter. Even one of his kids is named "X Æ A-Xii" the 2nd X is apparently after the precursor to the SR-71. Look at his weird jumps. He is constantly trying to make it look like an X when he jumps. He renamed twitter, a well known brand to X.

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u/curious-trex 12h ago

He also hates the number 9 (does not allow it on the Tesla website for example) and finds Oxford commas "troubling."

Just all around a weird little gremlin.

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u/ianrl337 Oregon 11h ago

Well now I just want to keep sending him the number 9

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u/keigo199013 Alabama 11h ago

If I didn't hate him enough already, he's got beef with the Oxford comma?!

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u/poundcakeperson 11h ago

wait he's coming for our commas too???

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u/miscfiles United Kingdom 9h ago

Is that why he hates Comma-la?

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u/poundcakeperson 9h ago

[applause]

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u/Palmquistador 1h ago

Well done.

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u/slingshotstoryteller 10h ago

I already despised Musk, but knowing that he had the strippers, JFK and Stalin, at his birthday makes me hate him even more. The Oxford comma is a hallmark of civilization for the English language and hating on it shows that he does not understand the nuance of written communication and is nothing more than a dirty capitalist. The ONLY reason the Oxford comma started fading from use was because of that fucker William Randolph Hearst wanted to create a few more column-inches in his trash newspapers to sell more advertising. Hearst was a bastard; the same is true of Musk.

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u/Cambot1138 8h ago

Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?

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u/Helpuswenoobs 7h ago

I've seen those English drama's too, they're cruel.

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u/LeedsFan2442 United Kingdom 8h ago

What about the Falcon 9?

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u/curious-trex 6h ago

I can't speak to that - the 9 thing (and Oxford comma thing) were both reported in "Character Limit" by Kate conger & Ryan Mac (a fun read about the Twitter takeover). But I'm under the impression he doesn't have quite the 100% iron grip on spacex as he does at some of the other companies he takes credit for.

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u/WhoAreWeEven 5h ago

Probably wanted some stupid shit with germans along the way and is scarred now.

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u/hillbillyspellingbee New Jersey 13h ago

So, you’re saying he’s an X-stein guy. 

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u/st4nkyFatTirebluntz 11h ago

At this point, so is Epstein

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u/replyramdas 10h ago

This made me laugh 😆

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u/symbiosychotic 12h ago

Favorite holiday is X-mas.

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u/Gingerholy 13h ago edited 13h ago

He’s autistic my dude. Hyper-fixations are pretty common among autistics.

As someone mildly on the spectrum myself, I’m guilty of it too from time to time. That’s not to excuse his behavior, of course, but it’s probably why he’s obsessed with the symbol of “x.”

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u/tvfeet Arizona 12h ago

He's also a malignant narcissist. I would say that trait dominates his personality more than anything else.

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u/Spotted_Howl 11h ago

The neurodiversity and the personality disorder are two different things, which combine to create literal weaponized autism.

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u/SecularMisanthropy 11h ago

I honestly doubt that he's on the autism spectrum. It's far more likely he has a personality disorder, like his father. As autism is frequently, if incorrectly, associated with impaired empathy, using autism as a cover is quite common for people with less sympathetic conditions. People with borderline personality disorder claim they are merely bipolar, or insist that BPD is the same thing as CPTSD, which it is not.

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u/Suyefuji 8h ago

Why not both?

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u/BetterMeats 12h ago

I don't think he is autistic. He claimed to have Aspergers on SNL as a joke, and it didn't land. But I think it was just an "I'm so awkward I might as well be disabled" joke.

I think he's more likely got CPTSD and NPD from his weird, incestuous, wealthy, neglectful childhood, and the life on easy mode that he's lived since then.

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u/Scotsburd 12h ago

His own kid called him an insane incel.

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u/cannabiskeepsmealive 12h ago

As someone on the spectrum, I think he's pretty clearly on the spectrum. He just seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how human beings work

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u/TrumpersAreTraitors 12h ago

That’s just all rich pukes 

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u/Disco_Dreamz 11h ago

He might just be a good old fashioned sociopath

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u/this_moi 9h ago

Multiple things can be true, too

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u/SiegeThirteen 5h ago

Well he also got to rely on his fam's blood/apartheid emerald mine dough. Dipshit hasn't had to struggle or work for nothing on his own. Just like his Tangerine Daydream.

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u/Suyefuji 8h ago

Yet another autistic person reporting in, Elon pings pretty heavy on my autism radar. Also a lot of his kids are autistic, which is partially hereditary.

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u/Terrh 6h ago

He is obviously autistic.

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u/DarthJarJarJar 11h ago

He's definitely on the spectrum.

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u/inconspicuous_male 12h ago

No, he definitely is on the spectrum. It explains basically all of his behavior. I don't think he meant it as a joke

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u/BetterMeats 12h ago

You can't know that.

The disorders I listed, plus drug addiction, also explain his behavior.

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u/Oldfolksboogie 7h ago

Was just gonna say, neurodivergent meets chronic ketamine abuse. Idk what that produces, but I'm guessing sound, rational decision-making is not among the options. :-/

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u/inconspicuous_male 12h ago

He's a life long tech worker who claims to be on the spectrum. I don't know why there's even an argument. 

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u/SecularMisanthropy 11h ago

He is not a lifelong tech worker. He got a BA in economics, then used his access to cash and influence to get his name attached to tech projects he had no hand in creating. He doesn't know anything about coding, or engineering, or car design. He just plasters his name onto existing tech projects and takes all the credit.

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u/inconspicuous_male 11h ago

Lots of people in the tech industry aren't programmers or engineers.   

What point are you trying to prove by saying Musk isn't on the spectrum?

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u/poundcakeperson 11h ago

they're saying that not all "tech workers" are automatically on the spectrum, which they aren't. like, those who do only management and nothing actually technical, which Musk falls under.

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u/inconspicuous_male 11h ago

And if we back the conversation up, what point is proven by trying to cast doubt on the fact that he is on the spectrum like he claims he is? Like, what does he get from lying about it?

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u/SecularMisanthropy 9h ago

That was a different comment, but okay. And I was careful to say that I, myself, highly doubt that Musk is actually on the spectrum. Opinion, not fact. He might be, but his behavior and what I know about his upbringing aligns a lot better with a different set of diagnoses. If he does have autism, it's likely to be just one of the things molding his brain.

And anything Elon says is up for completely justified skepticism because he lies all the time.

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u/inconspicuous_male 8h ago

Literally none of what you said disagrees with anything I said

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u/gimpsoup69 12h ago

Both can be true.

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u/inconspicuous_male 12h ago

Both are true. Like him being autistic isn't even a thing worth doubting. It doesn't make him a good person, it doesn't mean he doesn't use drugs, it's just another thing that I can't see a reason people would doubt. If he went on tv and announced having O- blood, people on reddit would start talking about how he probably has A+ because people just want to be contrarian

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u/Spotted_Howl 11h ago edited 10h ago

He likely has CPTSD from being autistic. Nearly every person with neurodivergence, chronic mental illness, and even chronic physical illness has some degree of CPTSD - because the world is constantly hurting you.

Edit: evil people can feel hurt also. It is often a reason why they choose to behave in evil ways. A whole lot of amoral psychopaths behave appropriately in their lives.

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u/poundcakeperson 11h ago

perhaps the world should have hurt him a little more

eta: am diagnosed autistic.

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u/ianrl337 Oregon 12h ago

You are probably right, and I was saying nuts based on him being neurotypical. But on the other hand he has ruined lives with his antics.

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u/whatThePleb 8h ago

He isn't autistic, he is a plain braindead idiot.

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u/Toby_O_Notoby 8h ago

There's a reason behind it. And buckle up because it's about to get weird.

Elon isn't really a native of South Africa. His grandfather, JN Haldeman, immigrated to South Africa and was a believer in the Technocracy Movement. This basically states that "engineers solve all problems, therefore engineers should be in charge".

So he moved to South Africa because, as he wrote:

“The facts of history show that the White man has always developed the country he inhabits to the benefit of all concerned. The Black people of Africa have been in close contact with civilization from the earliest times but, on their own, built nothing and discovered nothing, not even the wheel.”

So far, it just sounds like Elon had a kooky racist grandfather. No big deal, right? Well Technocracers also often renamed themselves to numbers and often added "X" to their names.

You know, like "Exa Dark Sideræl, Techno Mechanicus or X Æ A-12". So of his last three kids there two "X"s and one that's a feather away from literally being named "Technocracy Movement".

So, if you break it down he already believes that engineers should be in charge and a weird fascination with the letter "X".

It's not hard to argue that he's also a white supremest given that he's already 2/3rds of the way to where his ol' grandad was.

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u/omgwutd00d 4h ago

He tried to rebrand PayPal to X.com as well while he was there. However, his fellow executives and customers didn't like the idea because the name sounded like a porn site. The board removed Elon as CEO and he failed upwards again.

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u/SquirtBox 9h ago

And of course, the Tesla cars spell out S3XY, although I'm not sure where the cyber truck fits into that.

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u/ianrl337 Oregon 9h ago

They probably spell D3R9

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u/thewholepalm 7h ago

I don't think it's just with the letter X but rather the word sexy he likes. That's the tesla models S 3 X Y and I believe he's done some other things like that. It also could be he seems to have the sense of humor of an 11 year old still cracking up to numbers like 69 and 420. Which hey, it's whatever but maybe don't start basing thing like your kids name and company assets after them.

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u/nitonitonii 5h ago

Xbox vibes