The thing they all share is that they are deeply unloved. Trump, musk, bezos, zuck, none of them have healthy loving families. They have noons they can genuinely connect with. And they all think by having more money and being more popular will fulfill that human need. But it never does, so they just keep going not realizing the path they chose doesn't end anywhere near what they desire. Money will never buy love and peace.
And they all think by having more money and being more popular will fulfill that human need.
If that was all it was, then I'd feel sorry for them. No, they're trying to fulfill that need by being Great Men of History with Mighty Plans, but their Mighty Plans are all terrible, because they're horrible people.
Yeah, I think it's a mistake to imagine that these are good people who just need a little love. There are literally hundreds of millions of people who aren't getting enough love for proper human flourishing and it's not like that turned them all into fascists. The kind of evil exhibited by these people must be attributed to a fundamental enjoyment of the suffering of others.
Well statistically about 30% of people worldwide don't mind fascism so that's hundreds of millions of people too. I'm not sure I'd be willing to say a lack of loving relationships is the primary cause of that but I doubt solving that problem would hurt.
I read some books by Alice Miller that discussed some childhoods of authoritarian rulers and they were all of unloved. They had not one adult stick up for them, be their advocate or helper, during their childhood years.
Many of us as children have been unwanted or unloved by our caregivers. Most of us had at least one adult: an uncle, grandmother, teacher etc, who truly tried to help at least once.
What the monsters in history had in common is an absence of evidence of even that happening for them. And their revenge as adults was terrible.
Man, I should have became an authoritarian ruler.
Instead I became isolated and I haven’t had a visitor in over a decade.
Fuck it. Vote for theangryseal!
For real though, maybe if I hadn’t ever used drugs haha. I had a lot of “friends” when I was living in that world. Might have stopped me. :p
Money will never buy love and peace.
True enough.
But, in the broken psyches of the ones you've mentioned, it buys perfectly serviceable alternatives which they can convince themselves actually does make them happy.
They are so broken that broken solutions actually work for them...
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I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers.
This. This is what I feel like
I felt like this in January when this was first published and I still feel like it today. I'm not really sure what it will take for things to change but I get the feeling that powerful and wealthy people do not want things to change.
I just started reading this book about Facebook and I am amazed how little they cared about how much power they had, and how oblivious they were of it.
These are companies that rule the world, but don't know what they want with it, other than for it to generate profit
If I had as much power as them I'd at least make dogs that can speak esperanto.
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Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos-- you can tell they are insecure. They became rich and powerful and now want to stomp on people.
It's like the meme of the nerd.
Who did Zuck stomp on?
The world? Dudes done more harm than any of the other two.
He's been implicated in the recent genocide in Myanmar. Facebook cultivated the spread of the racist lies, allowed it to proliferate, spread in the region and then shorted companies operating there. If you know there's going to be ethnic cleansing in the region, causing outrage and destabilisation, business takes a hit and the options pay off massively. All it takes was the deaths of thousands, but hey Mark has the capital to burn on his AR pet project that nobody wants.
Zuckerburg and Facebook enable lies to spread because that's how he makes money.
Because it's so much better when they're charismatic assholes?
I think it's much sadder (more sad? saddest) that people fall for such absurd douche bags. If they would at least be sexy and seem smart you could understand how people could be fooled but this is just too hard to watch.
Yeah like, they have negative charisma, so it's extra baffling. I cannot imagine a world in which I'd support Donald Trump, but definitely not in this one where he routinely shits his own diaper. If he was only disgusting mentally but was a good speaker or handsome or whatever, it would make at least a little more sense
I think they relate better to douchey, stupid people which allows them to more easily imagine themselves being rich one day.
So like, if instead of musk and zuckerburg, it were a 1990s George Clooney? The smug bastard....
I'll hate him just as much… but damn does he look good doing it.
Propoganda fucking works, simple as that
Billionaires just buy good press and publicists to manage their image, it's so effective they believe it themselves
People will kiss anyone's ass for enough money.
A charismatic tyrant at least provides SOME excuse. People aren't necessarily monsters, they are just gullible.
When you have someone as decrepit and incompetent as trump who ALSO has a visible diaper bulge at his hips and who can't speak a coherent sentence? There is no argument other than people truly choosing hate above all else.
Yeah, I don't get this. If it was George Clooney or some other charismatic/likeable person, they'd still be fucking us over.
Yeah but at least they’d have style. Their popularity would at least make sense. It would feel a little less horrifyingly alienating.
The sad thing is that the bar is so low. If it was a once in a century charismatic leader you could say "I get how people fell for this!". But the fact it's Trump and Musk just exposes how utterly flawed human society is, and how easy it is to slide backwards. Humanity has no excuse for this one.
I don't know about Clooney. His wife is one of the good eggs in this world and I'd think she would kick him in the grapes if he was a shithead loser like these fucks.
Agreed. Tom Brady being the football goat doesn’t make him being MAGA any more palatable.
The smug bastard....
Why wouldn't you? Only losers seek power, and only losers could and would fuck up this badly.
Little Dick Energy. That's what I think every single time I see any of these folks in the news. But apparently there are enough weird little aspirants out there that they do alright?
Fuck 90% of this species. 👍
We really gotta stop shaming people with little dicks like this. They’ve done nothing to deserve to be compared to these clowns.
Most people with little dicks are decent people and aren't sadistic and evil cunts, so the little dick isn't the issue.
Well we know elons is really small, every kids been IVF
Living your life to impress other men by hating women is one of the most embarrassing things I can imagine. Looking up to any of these men for how to live your life is even sadder.
I’ve worked hard to keep these kinds of men out of my personal life, to keep them away from me, out of my goddamn sight. Now they are in my face daily, not only influencing the world for the worse but making me nauseous at how uncool and pathetic they are, on top of their other sins. It’s too much, I can’t take it, there needs to be a change.
It’s time for us to start getting revenge on the nerds.
Sounds to me like they crave attention more than anything, poor insecure past-neglected angsty man-agers they are. Depopulating their various platforms and reducing their viewership would be nice. Sucks that anyone at all would feel inclined to lend them their ears and eyes when there are far better alternatives out there.
Man when I think of living it up with wealth and power I think of Sal Maroni in The Dark Knight.
These guys don't need a criminal underworld to have a cigar, dress in a tailored designer suit, get a drink and a couple of girls to pretend to like you while you drown your thoughts in excessively loud music and exotic dancers on stage.
I think these elite are afraid of what they are: flawed humans. They can't get everything they demand, and they'd rather destroy humanity than admit they were wrong or made a mistake, or felt bad about something. So they have to pump the fascists up and make damn sure the people have someone other that just you to get angry about.
Huh, it's almost like people who try to destroy the world are weird and shitty. I'm mostly surprised that anyone else is surprised.
People expect the villains to be cool, because that's how they're portrayed in movies.
Seriously, it's like nobody else ever had to deal with a pathological narcissist or someone with BPD before in their lives.
Come on, who wouldn't want this?
The pic won't embed, weird.
Embedding that pic would be a crime.
It is indeed pathetic how Musk, Zuckerberg and even Trump don't actually have any friends.
Can’t they wear suits at least?
Stupid and ugly af too...
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