Was he lying back then and is truthful now, or did the pandemic just break him?

  • tabris@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    According to his trans daughter, he was treating her like shit long before this, so he’s always been an asshole.

    • takeda@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Yeah it looks like anyone close to him (including his business partners) says he was an asshole.

      It looks like he had a great PR firm until then, which he stopped using, because he thought he can do better on his own.

      • rsuri@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        He used to care enough about money to not say these things publicly. Now he’s got so much money that it really doesn’t matter if it costs him a billion dollars to tweet something stupid.

        Either that or all the ketamine over the long term fucked up his brain somehow.

  • Stern@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    He got rid of his PR team at some point, his trans daughter disowned him, and Grimes left him and started going out with Chelsea Manning. I think he got broken. Add wanting to be cool on top of that and you’ve got a recipe for a billionaire “pick me”

    • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      Wasn’t there also the thing where he offered a horse to a masseuse if they’d give him a happy ending? A couple days before the story broke he made some statements supporting Republicans then said “watch the left come up with a story to take me down now that I’m a Republican,” or something like that. All his political shit has been downhill and ever more unhinged since.

      He was always saying side-eye worthy shit, but in a generic rich guy way. His political stuff, before the horse thing, was always progressive-ish. Whether that was what he ready thought, or as the biggest shareholder of an electric car company he knew which side his bread was buttered on, I’m sure I don’t know. But it seems like trying to preempt the horse story was the turning point for his public persona.