302 Comments
User's avatar
George Peterson's avatar

If the choice is living with Musk's ideology or the meteor. Well, good to know ya'.

Expand full comment
Atrele Kasha's avatar

Is this moron trying to be the face of the "Dark Triad" assholes love so much?

Expand full comment
LincolnX's avatar

Good grief the wave of cringe I feel whenever I read about this guy.

Expand full comment
Spleen Victoria's avatar

Hands up all my peeps who are autistic, Asperger’s, on the spectrum, etc., and are NOT a giant asshole tool who picks fights with his grown kids, hides and keeps at arms length his younger kids and copious baby mamas, and does mean shit for lulz.

🖖

Yes, yes, I see we all have our hands up EXCEPT Elon! Good job on not being an asshole, all non-Musk autistics!

Expand full comment
Mx.le Maerin's Luxury Comedy's avatar

The notion that Melon Rind sees basic human empathy as a mind virus sounds like it would be the defining characteristic of an evil alien race's view of Earth on the original Star Trek.

Expand full comment
Fog of Jen's avatar

Ahhhh so it was never about free speech at all! It was pay back for the child he for sure tried to get along with even though he dead names them

Expand full comment
Bob Moler's avatar

Hmm, like Columbus, who was a daring explorer, turned out to be a crappy governor.

Expand full comment
Fog of Jen's avatar

this choad ain't even a daring explorer

He buys other people's work and slaps his name on it

Expand full comment
Wookiee Monster's avatar

How much power are we ceding to this flaky billionaire? Not just through Twitter, but also through his dominance in space travel and communications. The man literally shut down a Ukrainian offensive by refusing to let them use his Starlink network. It’s possible he could decide the outcome of a war.

Expand full comment
Don'tBlameTheDog's avatar

MAGA. Pity the children.

Expand full comment
Owlftr13's avatar

He should build a ship and pick some colonists. Stop being a PAB and do it bitch! If not, STFU.

Expand full comment
Don'tBlameTheDog's avatar

Right? Like GTFOOH! Like yesterday, please.

Expand full comment
So Very Tired's avatar

I hate that he hides behind autism to excuse his total lack of empathy. Autists don’t lack empathy; we feel things acutely and have an incredible amount of empathy and compassion. We may express it differently due to our neurodivergence, though, and that helped create the myth that autistic people are somehow unfeeling.

Elon Musk is simply an entitled rich brat who can’t fathom a world that doesn’t revolve around him.

Expand full comment
Fog of Jen's avatar

We only have his word for it that he has that diagnosis

Expand full comment
So Very Tired's avatar

And that diagnosis is, itself, intensely problematic. It’s named after an Austrian pediatrician who collaborated with the Nazis in their extermination of people with physical, developmental, or intellectual disabilities, and ties into all sorts of icky and ableist “functioning” labels. Basically, Asperger patients were considered “high functioning” enough to be useful to the Nazi regime so they weren’t killed.

Expand full comment
Don'tBlameTheDog's avatar

Sociopaths are the ones that lack empathy.

Expand full comment
bt890's avatar

I hope more psychologists and experts come out and explain this to the public (on news forums) because he's controlling the narrative and creating this misunderstanding about neuroatypical people.

Expand full comment
pstumba's avatar

to be honest elon may actually be correct. if we focus on fixing this planet(you know woke things like acceptance of others, making the world more livable for everyone, fighting climate change) we may never actually move to a currently completely inhospitable to life planet.

Expand full comment
Sarah Smile's avatar

“Unless the woke-mind virus, which is fundamentally anti-science, anti-merit and anti-human in general, is stopped,” he declares, “civilization will never become multiplanetary.”

This is indistinguishable from the kind of shit Alex Jones will barf out whenever he's drunk on InfoWars. There's footage of him on election night 2016 absolutely housed and slurring into his phone about how Trump's election is step 1 that ends in an intergalactic empire.

Expand full comment
Pillbox Hat's avatar

Aspergers my ass. He is a narcissistic psychopath, also known as a narcopath. The neurodivergent community should disavow him and publicly tell him to fuck all the way off.

Expand full comment
Spleen Victoria's avatar

☝️

Expand full comment
Mike Conley's avatar

Au contraire, Elon - Star Trek is about as woke-ass as you can get.

Expand full comment
Pillbox Hat's avatar

I thought the photo at the top of this article was Star Trek at first glance. The guy on the left kind of looks like Odo from DS9.

Expand full comment