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?”
This sums it up
I know a MAGA like this. Constantly tells people their feelings are just made up mental things and not physical facts.
But then when he talks about how something is affecting him that isn’t a physical fact, he gets animated and literally says he is upset that people don’t listen to his feelings and that makes him feel bad.
These people are lost in their own worlds. They are the main and most important character and other people are simply NPCs to them. They haven’t learned to relate their own experience with the experience of others. They don’t consider there other genuine experiences outside of their own. Empathy is an abstract concept that means nothing but weakness to them.
They can learn to see the world and the people within it differently but it takes an inner awakening and personal effort that they are unlikely to muster the longer they exist as an isolated entity.
OMG, yes. I’m glad someone else understands.
The way I describe it is this person sees the world as a stage that was put there to entertain them. Like the world is their personal TV.
When they talk about other people, they use phrases like they were entertained watching so and so. Or there was something happening they didn’t agree with so they closed their eyes. Or it makes them happy to watch some people do something.
And whenever they see something bad happen or about to happen to someone, they just watch and turn away once they are bored. They never warn or help anyone. To them, it’s just a blooper real or a slapstick TV show episode.
I’d be surprised if any MAGA isn’t like this …
Please tell me you mock him roundly for it.
Wouldn’t matter, that kind of person is incapable of self-reflection.
But they ARE capable of misery, and that my friend is worth something
Please tell him his feels make him gay
(But only if that hurts his previous feels)
Not anymore. That just turns into a long diatribe about how it is different and they are actually smarter, so their feelings really do matter.
I do have to see this person often, and I now just want that interaction as short as possible.
Could you help me understand something? Is this person also… dumb? I don’t mean to be disparaging or judgemental, but I’m trying to navigate all this and I’m having a hard time understanding how someone can lack this much self-awareness and still function in society. Unless, they can’t do that either? Thanks.
Unfortunately this person reasons just fine. Lives normally. Just has a warped view of the world. It doesn’t make sense how people can be so blind to themselves.