• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    People who agree with defunding the ACLU probably don’t contribute to the ACLU anyway, so they have no power to defund it. It receives no government money. I’m no psychologist but at this point Musk really seems like he’s in the late stages of some tragic mental syndrome, which is really a shame - he had the potential to accomplish so much - but I just wish he would STFU and stop sucking oxygen out of the room.

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      8 days ago

      he had the potential to accomplish so much

      No, not really. Everything he promises is either overhyped and underbaked, “ready in 3 years” every year, only viable in fiction, or some combination of all of them.

      The people he pays had and still have the potential to do so much, though.

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      Experts in drug use and addiction told Business Insider, however, that taking some of the specific hard drugs mentioned in the Journal story would be risky for someone of Musk’s age, particularly if they have undiagnosed bipolar disorder, as he has previously suggested he does.

      The Journal reported that the 52-year-old had taken cocaine, LSD, ecstasy, and magic mushrooms over the years, including at parties, citing unnamed sources who said they’d witnessed his behavior or had knowledge of it.

      https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-use-ketamine-microdosing-risks-2024-1?op=1

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      Late stages? You weren’t thinking this like eight years ago when started with the pedo tweets?

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        I mean… Who hasn’t tried to undermine actual professionals saving real lives by making up hypothetical solutions and when they do it successfully, call them a pedophile for weeks on end and get real butthurt?

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      8 days ago

      Lead poisoning is a bitch. I’m grateful that my parents managed to keep me away from the worst of it in the early '80s. Musk is almost a decade older than me, so he’s still a prime victim of lead poisoning. His parents didn’t avoid large cities.

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        The lead thing is mostly in America. Most places banned it LONG before the US did. So no, it is highly unlikely that Elon Musk, born and raised outside the US, has been exposed to lead as a child.