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Elon Musk vows ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers flee X over antisemitism::Tesla founder threatens to take action against media watchdog ‘the split second court opens on Monday’

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is wrong with him? I think he legit needs psychiatric help.

He is a Narcissist. Yes, that is a medical condition. He is thoroughly unable to recognize other people as equal. They are mere nuisances.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are mere nuisances.

Until they are in power.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it makes no difference. The disability is in him. Their power or any other of their features cannot change it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought "narcissist" was legitimately confused with "sociopath" in this thread for a second.

After looking over the definitions again for the distinctions, my immediate thought was "why not both?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know, really: is "sociopath" also a condition or just a bad habit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s also in the DSM, but there’s probably ranges of both and I don’t think either one precludes or excludes the other. Narcissism also shares a lot of symptoms with bipolar disorder, which the recent interviews with the biographer Walter Isaacson about Musk seems pretty clearly to be a problem. (See ‘demon mode’)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"why not both?"

Indeed.