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https://bsky.app/profile/strictlychristo.bsky.social/post/3lljxba45ks2rMusk:
"Empathy is a weakness" Feb 2025
"How dare people laugh at my pain" March 2025

Skittles
(162,957 posts)and no HE AIN'T NO GENIUS
Johonny
(23,138 posts)He creates enormous evaluations of wealth on paper, with often little to no results.
defacto7
(14,010 posts)but he weeps for himself. That's how narcissists do it.
Emrys
(8,498 posts)I'm feeling pretty muscly where Musk's concerned.

Xipe Totec
(44,274 posts)AKwannabe
(6,688 posts)Hahahahaha!
Grokenstein
(5,941 posts)I hear Little Lord Piss-Ant, Self-Proclaimed Champion of Freeze Peach, is currently trying to badger Reddit into "moderating" posts that are meeeeeean to him.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,287 posts)
bronxiteforever
(10,224 posts)was dead to him because she is trans. He said this on tv imagine how cruel that is.
colorado_ufo
(6,032 posts)a "Gone Pecan" (Pea-kahn, not the Pea-cans that apparently grow north or the Mason-Dixon line!).
Evolve Dammit
(20,419 posts)
bmichaelh
(759 posts)Both Trump and Musk admire Ayn Rand.
Which would explain a lot.
She was also a hypocrite, just like they are.
She collected Social Security.
Unlike Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Shakespeare, her work lack empathy.
rasputin1952
(83,497 posts)But I would add O Henry to your list.
I have a complete collection of his short stories, it is the only fiction I own.
valleyrogue
(1,931 posts)In interviews, something clearly wasn't right with her mentally. Something was missing, and that something was the inability to see the world through the point of view of others. She simply wasn't capable of putting herself in somebody else's shoes and trying to see things from their perspective. It isn't that she didn't want to--she couldn't.
She could have had full blown mental illness, but the "autism" explanation has been out there about her.
"Autism" wasn't a "thing" during her lifetime.
Abolishinist
(2,347 posts)
TommieMommy
(1,730 posts)IcyPeas
(23,384 posts)ShazzieB
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ShazzieB
(20,013 posts)I can't stand his smirky, smarmy, supercilious smugness. People complain about seeing Schlump's face everywhere, but that doesn't bother me nearly as much Eloon's self-satisfied sneer popping up all over the place.
If there's a more punchable face on the planet, I have yet to encounter it.
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Ol Janx Spirit
(93 posts)ShazzieB
(20,013 posts)But he hasn't been all up in our faces for a while, thank God.
I'm pretty sure my perception of punchableness is greatly affected by how much I'm forced to look at particular faces.
Also there are aspects of Musk's personality that I find particularly enraging. The attitude of superiority and being SOOOO pleased with himself while he's busy trying to destroy the.country sets me off like nothing else. Gaetz is a snake in the grass, but he doesn't emit the kind of "look how clever I am!" vibes that Musk does.
CanonRay
(15,168 posts)I hope I never see him in person.
ShazzieB
(20,013 posts)Miller is a disgusting, slimy, little toad. But he doesn't act like he thinks he's adorable and everything he does is adorable, like Musk. That makes Eloon more punchable to me.

kimbutgar
(24,646 posts)GulfofMexico
(5 posts)Research by psychologists has long shown that one trait all serial killers share is a lack of empathy. That inability to connect with their victims, that inability to feel any normal human compassion is what allows them to kill and keep on killing without a shred of remorse. And that lack of empathy is what allows Musk and Trump to steal food from kids' school lunch programs, from those on Medicaid, from those who rely on food banks . . .
There may be no single human trait more fundamental than empathy. Without it, people are monsters. With it, we can relate to one another on the most basic levels of human existence and realize that skin color, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation--none of those differences matter because we're all just flesh and bones.
But lack of empathy is the cornerstone of MAGA. The entire cabinet and most of MAGA members of Congress are without a modicum of empathy, which allows them to be so cruel, so hateful, so disconnected from reality. A rock, a doorknob, a broom stick has more empathy than Musk and Trump combined.
That lack of empathy is also why it's impossible to find any logic, any path to sway their entrenched fantasies. And it's why blaming Democrats for failing to appease them is a false narrative. If America had enough decent people who possessed the trait of empathy, it wouldn't have mattered who was running against Trump. That ticket would have won in a landslide. There is a fundamental human problem in this country when even a slight majority continues to support the human scum that are Musk and Trump and MAGA in general.
rasputin1952
(83,497 posts)based just outside of Boston.
When I was live in the studio, I would occasionally play "We All Bleed Red" by Ronnie Dunn.
I would get calls asking where it could be found for a download.
I can't count the number of people I've never stepped over who needed a helping hand, a pair of ears to listen, or compassion for those who have even less than I.
Every show ends with, "No matter where you are, always leave room for a Random Act of Kindness."
vanlassie
(5,925 posts)It is generally the result of failure to meet basic needs in babies and children under three.
turbinetree
(25,963 posts)


I can't wait to march on April 5th against this asshole and his partners in crime.............


JI7
(91,643 posts)AntiFascist
(13,176 posts)
pansypoo53219
(22,072 posts)try being a better human asshole.
Rebl2
(15,975 posts)empathy is a weakness, maybe even a mental problem when its extreme.
rasputin1952
(83,497 posts)is one of the Hallmarks of being a psychopath.
Edited: Grammatical error.
applegrove
(125,326 posts)or missing. Terrifying.
TommieMommy
(1,730 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(160,733 posts)delisen
(6,857 posts)It is what drives us to care about and to cooperate with each other, to build a just and merciful government that works for us,and to design an economy that allows us to live well and to thrive.
The Billionaire Exploiters intent now on mentally enslaving and killing us are just thieves who want something for nothing.
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Grammy23
(5,967 posts)Intelligence seem to have gotten a life of their own, Methinks Musky (yes, he does appear to exude a certain musk) is having a moment of revelation as his cover gets blown about his vast intelligence. The more we get to know about this stinker, the more we know something aint right about him. Whether it is his intelligence, his morals, his ethics
whatever. He is lacking in common decency, too.
We just might get to see him dissolve into a steaming puddle of goo
kind of like the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz. Now theres a satisfying image. Bwahaha.
Be gone, ye steaming pile of excrement!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(120,811 posts)
LetMyPeopleVote
(160,733 posts)
