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“I have been in the same room with Elon, and he always tries to be funny. And he’s not funny. Like, at all,” a senior Trump administration official told Rolling Stone. “He makes these jokes and little asides and smiles and then looks almost hurt if you don’t lap up his humor. I keep using the word ‘annoying’; a lot of people who have to deal with him do.”

Musk’s insufferable behavior has caused several high-ranking officials to walk out of important meetings and sincerely question if he was high on drugs, the publication reports, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio is said to be barely able to hide his immense dislike of the DOGE chief and State Department officials routinely call him “Crazy Uncle Elon” behind his back.

Other officials have suggested subjecting Musk to a mandatory drug test, which he has said is a “great idea” for federal employees, as a way to push him out of the door. The Tesla CEO has denied taking any illegal drugs, although numerous people claim to have witnessed him use LSD, cocaine, Ecstasy, and mushrooms behind closed doors, the Wall Street Journal reports.

    • 𝔗𝔢𝔯 𝔐𝔞𝔵𝔦𝔪𝔞@jlai.lu
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      Those substances are empathy multipliers, unfortunately multiplying 0 always yields 0…

      If his brain doesn’t possess the ability to empathize, there’s nothing for those substances to enhance.

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        Yeah but 0^0 = 1, maybe we just need to inject him with heaps of meth first or something. It’s not like we could make the situation worse

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      Yeah, that was my first thought that he really hadn’t because unless he micro-microdosed or just said he did to be “cool”, which is on brand for him, there’s no way he did hallucinogins and still came out the other side like that.

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        From my understanding he’s a big proponent of the simulation theory, so he’s probably cool with being a shit person because it’s all a simulation anyways. I’d wager that he sees himself as a player in a video game and he’s going for high scores.

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            gestures generally around

            But his idea of simulation theory and most of our ideas of simulation theory are not the same.

            He thinks it means there are no consequences.

            We all know it’s means the consequences might be simulated but they still suck.

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              Which is asinine. As currently, there is no way out of the simulation if that is even true, so you’re stuck with the simulation consequences no matter what. Which means you might as well treat them as real because they are to you. We should have cleaned up better after WW2 somehow.

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                Yeah. I think it would have involved nuclear annihilation at some point, and not because of USA vs Russia, but because the USA was pro nationalism-racism-authorotarianism-eugeniscm long before WW2.

                Why do you think they happily looked the other way for so many scientists.

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      I’m surprised Ketamine isn’t in this list, I thought it was his drug of choice this past year?

      I really doubt Elon is who he is and uses acid or shrooms. That just sounds like reefer madness nonsense to me.

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      Someone please go spike his coffee with whatever dosage is needed to trigger ego death