birdsite, muskrat, relation to bullying
In which Popehat points out Elon is really just a very rich high school bully: https://post.news/@/popehat/2Mhvz30rv7RfDGhgCRKNsThYLb5
So fun story. I was bullied all the way through middle and early high school by a kid named Eli. One day, he finally got the courage to jump me after school, and I fought back. Hard.
The bullying immediately ceased. Permanently. Saw him again one time: the day he transferred out of my math class.
I think about that a lot.
birdsite, muskrat, relation to bullying
The thing is, I never faulted Eli for existing that way. The kid was hurting, his friends clearly put him up to it, and he was bullying to fill a hole in his life where care should have been. I hope he found a way out of it and ended up okay.
I've since had other bullies, and the story is usually the same: they hurt people because they're hurting badly themselves. And the only corrective they respond to is the power to fight back.
So too with Elon.
birdsite, muskrat, relation to bullying
The thing is with him, no dunk, no hot take, no appeal to reason is ever going to work. Not for as long as he's using the misery of others to fuel his own narcissistic supply.
Separate that fucker from power, though, and the results will be immediate. Can see this in microcosm once he realized firing a disabled worker would cost $100 mill.
At the small, that's meant drawing down my accounts on birdsite. At the large: tax the rich.