It's objectively funny to be this sensitive when you're so rich. Brother you can hire your favourite band to serenade you as you eat your favourite food made by your favourite chef. You could get them to make another Them Crooked Vultures album, what're you doing - ThreadSky

edzitron.com • 58 days ago

It's objectively funny to be this sensitive when you're so rich. Brother you can hire your favourite band to serenade you as you eat your favourite food made by your favourite chef. You could get them to make another Them Crooked Vultures album, what're you doing

Reposted from Molly Jong-Fast

Elon seems perturbed

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johnnyroadkill.bsky.social•58 days ago

roterote.bsky.social•58 days ago

Elon is Bojack without the Charisma.

greyboar.bsky.social•57 days ago

Wooooo! Them crooked vultures mentioned !!!

spacedoutspaceman.bsky.social•58 days ago

Maybe even a Kyuss album.

bonejob.bsky.social•58 days ago

He should do that, though. I’m not sure how many years JPJ has left

sadmazov.bsky.social•58 days ago

The only thing he can't buy is respect, and it's driven him mad

isobelstarling.bsky.social•58 days ago

He can't buy real love, friendship, happiness, trust, empathy, peace...you know, the stuff that makes us human.

lotusprince.bsky.social•58 days ago

That would involve paying people.

stressydepressy.bsky.social•58 days ago

The lack of billionaires willing to put money up for a new Them Crooked Vultures album shows why they don't deserve their money

mentoch.bsky.social•58 days ago

He should get the Vultures to make a new album. I'd give him credit if he got that done.

itsnotbread.bsky.social•58 days ago

He's so detached he's never even heard of TCV. Sad

burlykino.bsky.social•58 days ago

Is he unironically quoting the Tom Cruise character from Tropic Thunder? It's just sad at this point.

poofbirb.bsky.social•58 days ago

if it was me i would definitely take a step back and FUCK MYSELF in the face. id have to respect it

anubisthejackal.bsky.social•58 days ago

But Ed, that just ignores that Musk is discovering, at an increasingly faster rate and with more insistence, that he is deeply, existentially unhappy, and wealth doesn't actually fix that, despite the propaganda of "The American Dream".

upine.bsky.social•58 days ago

He's acting like addicts act, especially those who surround themselves w worshipers/sycophants
To be secure enough to enjoy normal things he'd have to go to psychotherapy. But he thinks he doesn't need to, bc his sycophants assure him his behavior is normal

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/evolution-of-the-self/201210/greed-the-ultimate-addiction

toasty.cx•58 days ago

I know it won't happen but it would be ludicrously funny if this man singlehandedly destroyed the H1B program

layer8problem.bsky.social•58 days ago

This is what happens to anyone who is exposed to an environment where disagreement or pushback is basically non-existent. It makes it intolerable.

elkmovie.bsky.social•58 days ago

You could build a fake temple to yourself and have 10,000 hired actors there 24/7 so that at a moment’s notice you can show up and have a crowd of people worship you

gmik.bsky.social•58 days ago

God I need a Them Crooked Vultures album. Shkrelli hoarder that Wu Tang Elon could buy the opposite anount of good will by getting another Vultures made.

edwoodk.bsky.social•58 days ago

He's covered in flimsy delicate onionskin.

p-no-nwa.bsky.social•58 days ago

I would begrudgingly have to thank him, so I hope he doesn't?
Well that was confusing.

yotemcyoteface.bsky.social•58 days ago

The Most Divorced Man in the World cannot stop getting hit by blue shells.

stonecrusher.bsky.social•58 days ago

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: if I get even 1 (One) Billion Dollars I promise you will never hear from me again, I’ll simply fuck off quietly and live my best life and do random acts of anonymous charity while living a very comfortable yet not ostentatious life. Why do anything else?

davematson.bsky.social•58 days ago

Everyday we rerun the experiment that proves Billionaires should not exist, yet we learn nothing from it and people continue to give respect and deference to these geniuses.

There are a million things a well-meaning powerful super rich dude could do for society yet they never do.

heteromeles.bsky.social•58 days ago

Looks like he’s been pwned by his wealth and power.

leo-atreides.bsky.social•58 days ago

Sometimes the tinman and the scarecrow are one in the same.❤️‍🔥Thanks for posting🐝

iamtherog.com•58 days ago

The only solace I find in thinking about this loser is knowing how miserable he is

edzitron.com•58 days ago

Oh someone offended you? Why don’t you go and buy an entire company or something. Oh you did that? Shit

fourredshoes.bsky.social•58 days ago

I like Alex's summary of his problems - https://bsky.app/profile/alexvont.bsky.social/post/3lehgu74zgs24

spaghootighost.bsky.social•58 days ago

"Normal" billionaire: buy the company that offends you and prevent it from doing that. Slowly weaponize it against everyone.

Musk: also get super hands on, run it into the ground, and still get upset about everything the company does.

thelionseye.bsky.social•58 days ago

it doesn't matter, he can't buy a real friend

itsnotbread.bsky.social•58 days ago

He just bought his new First Buddy!

nabalkattu.bsky.social•58 days ago

shut up or I will go to war on this issue the likes and retweets of which you cannot begin to comprehend

guycole.bsky.social•58 days ago

Big, strong men straight from central casting when thumbs like cantaloupes from long hours of pressing "like" buttons come up to me and say "sir, you are the diablo wizard and Tony Stark of our time". All the best people say so. Like you've never seen.

nabalkattu.bsky.social•58 days ago

this is fucked

alphabet-hotel.bsky.social•58 days ago

He hates the world and all the people in it

bennjeff.bsky.social•58 days ago

I’m not sure there’s ever been a bigger loser than Elon. At least Bezos is doing shit tons of hgh and getting jacked. Elon is doing Ketamine and looks like total shit while posting like a sad sack all day

thehambourgeois.bsky.social•58 days ago

honestly i think buying twitter amplified the problem lol

bdarbs.bsky.social•58 days ago

Bro you don’t need to be logging into a twitter space under an alt to defend yourself to LAURA FUCKING LOOMER

caliglow.bsky.social•58 days ago

I can’t imagine how sad someone’s life has to be to do this even if they didn’t have billions.

magimura.bsky.social•58 days ago

...aaaand he's still a miserable grub w/ a gaping maw of need & very little imagination

Men get 500mill & either go full Gollum, full nutjob, or full Pitbull cosplay

No exceptions.

ebharrington.bsky.social•58 days ago

The single most surprising thing I've learned in 17 years of social scientific study of the super-rich is how *exquisitely* sensitive they remain to any perceived slights or status threats. They're like middle schoolers, but armed with the means to prosecute their grievances on an epic scale.

wowbaggert.bsky.social•58 days ago

What is weird is their enormous wealth and power appear to mean nothing to them, in and of themselves. The thing they truly seem to *want* is for everyone else to worship them, and without that nothing is enough for them.

ebharrington.bsky.social•58 days ago

They're engaged in status competition with their peer group--other billionaires--and thus the stakes of competition are constantly ratcheting upwards. A recipe for misery and insecurity.

wowbaggert.bsky.social•58 days ago

The saying used to be "they use money for keeping score" but it seems to be much darker than that. Like, now they're keeping score by how many humans on the planet can they display dominance over.

ebharrington.bsky.social•58 days ago

Yes. They used to have trophy wives. Now they have trophy colonies. Literally, in the case of Thiel, Andreesen et al. Musk and Bezos are trying to expand the competition to include outer space.

heteromeles.bsky.social•58 days ago

They’re like social parasites, the species that mimic ant larvae so that ants care for them instead of their children. It seems that the childishness is an essential part of their schtick, not a side effect. It’s the same for aristocrats.

ebharrington.bsky.social•58 days ago

I wrote an article for @theguardian.com on this very topic a few years ago:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/19/billionaires-wealth-richest-income-inequality

heteromeles.bsky.social•58 days ago

We’re thinking along parallel tracks. I published a similar idea in Hot Earth Dreams. The creepy thing about the ant version is that the social parasites evolve because their ant hosts select them. I’m a biologist, so the parallels with human fur babies and aristocrats jumped out at me.

samuraipizzarob.bsky.social•58 days ago

📌

peterdebode.bsky.social•58 days ago

The Al-Fayed syndrome

ebharrington.bsky.social•58 days ago

God, he was monstrous. All those scores of women he tormented over decades.

peterdebode.bsky.social•58 days ago

Ugly

johndaledalton.bsky.social•58 days ago

Here is sissy Space Karen.

thesamedevice.bsky.social•56 days ago

is homo/transphobia funny

jamspoon.net•58 days ago

fuck off with this shit

tallsprucetree.bsky.social•58 days ago

No ai crap

teknomantik.old-home.net•58 days ago

And homophobia/transphobia/misogyny doesn't magically become funny just because it's targeted at someone we don't like.

segm09.bsky.social•58 days ago

Could literally do the scene from Batman Begins where he buys the hotel, instead he's screaming at the Maitre D

zachcoffin.bsky.social•58 days ago

Extreme wealth+extreme ketamine = Black hole of need.

aotearoa-nz.bsky.social•58 days ago

Buy a company and pretend he founded it.

noculottes.bsky.social•58 days ago

You can hire the band, but you can't make them like you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9cAbzGiN0

verafang.bsky.social•58 days ago

Dude - he could fund (not make, he has zero creativity) another series of Freaks and Geeks. What the fuck is WRONG with him?

bigmaki.bsky.social•58 days ago

We all strive so hard for the happiness and serenity no longer having to worry about money would bring, and these guys run screaming from it because they have to be angry about something constantly

nightmarewaffle.bsky.social•58 days ago

If I were a billionaire, I'd adopt about a dozen homeless dogs and then fund a talented but struggling independent game studio so they can keep making games. I don't understand why so many just sit on their wealth and do nothing with it.

hollykins.bsky.social•58 days ago

Right? I can think of endless things I’d do, none of which would be to just be a colossal meanie

zemyla.bsky.social•57 days ago

That's the sort of mindset that keeps you from becoming a billionaire. You have to be a colossal meanie to get a billion dollars in the first place.

donoteat.bsky.social•58 days ago

i would have to reconsider a bunch of things about elon if he got another them crooked vultures album produced though

hollykins.bsky.social•58 days ago

Have no fear- this appears to also be a not going to happen item. 😂

interrodanger.bsky.social•58 days ago

Like Josh said, it’s up to Dave.
https://metalinjection.net/news/josh-homme-on-a-them-crooked-vultures-reunion-thats-dave-grohls-job

concoloris.bsky.social•58 days ago

people who are emotionally healthy do not become billionaires

queenemerald.bsky.social•58 days ago

Thank you.

tumescentnumpty.bsky.social•58 days ago

Hell, he could buy his way into a Chappelle stand up set to yell "I'm rich biotch!!"

I'm sure like 90% of the crowd would cheer for him.

supertalisman.bsky.social•58 days ago

If I remember right, he actually did exactly that and got crickets.

folderalconspiracy.bsky.social•54 days ago

Yes, but that's because he already made himself known as a jerk.

Absolutely nothing stopped him from just being a generic famous rich guy who buys his way onto stages as a joke. It wouldn't be super funny as a bit, but it at least would be something.

shirley0401.bsky.social•58 days ago

He could get any band (except maybe Fugazi now that Albini is dead) to reunite, make an album, and go on a worldwide arena tour playing every show only to him and whoever else he might choose to invite.
But instead he has online temper tantrums that are all basically about what a special boy he is.

jodami.bsky.social•58 days ago

If I was a billionaire, the only time you’d hear about me is when either:

A) My horse won a classic

B) I was found dead coked off my tits in the company of £1000 an hour escorts.

Of course, I wouldn’t give a shit about the latter.

beefterrorloin.bsky.social•58 days ago

Totally. One of my bigger qualms with billionaires is how utterly boring. They have all the resources in the world to make interesting & creative things and they just sort of do nothing, maybe make a crappy spaceship, spend money on useless vanity things...just absolutely aggressively mediocre ppl.

hollykins.bsky.social•58 days ago

The interesting thing is- I read a bunch on non fiction and have found multiple very grossly wealthy ppl doing all sorts of hobbies and even though they are not using their $ to better the world- they are also not being colossal jerks. They seem happier

beefterrorloin.bsky.social•58 days ago

Up to a certain level, money does buy happiness b/c if the security & comfort it buys. Billionaires shouldn’t even exist but since we have ‘em, I wish they’d be more interesting about it.

hollykins.bsky.social•58 days ago

Read The Underworld by Susan Casey it details multiple jaunts to the deepest Ocean Trenches by many wealthy enthusiasts who were not (as far as I can tell) involved in OceanGate- but of course they might have been… still far more interesting than…

mellunnwriting.bsky.social•58 days ago

I've said a few times that the idiom "Money doesn't buy happiness" is bullshit and should really be "Money's ability to buy happiness has diminishing returns."

hollykins.bsky.social•58 days ago

I think “Money can’t make you a better more interesting person” might be the thing… because having a roof over one’s head and comfortable situations generally leads to some small satisfaction.

brunhilde2525.bsky.social•58 days ago

If the ultra wealthy aren’t each supporting a few thousand artists, just paying their way and staying out of their lives, what good are they? At least the deMedicis did that.

thecosmographer.bsky.social•57 days ago

But it’s still fuck Haitians, apparently 🙄

gilliancarrin.bsky.social•58 days ago

His advice seems anatomically impossible.

majorarlene.net•58 days ago

quite literally the convo I was having this morning with someone. they say money can't buy happiness but damn I thought that was just a thing rich people said to poor people who want living wages

keynesaddiction.bsky.social•58 days ago

Both things are true.

tubbles.bsky.social•58 days ago

At this point there's a small hateful part of me that just wants the H1B program to go away because it would spite every single one of these techbros.

urbiznez.bsky.social•58 days ago

I'd be so pissed if I was Warren Buffet. I've been richer than God for longer than these (Bezos & Musk) dumbasses have been alive. In less than a decade they've made Billionaires look pathetic and evil. How do they not realise you need to look kindly and fly under the radar?

chisshansen.bsky.social•58 days ago

Is he literally quoting Tom Cruise's unhinged movie executive from Tropic Thunder? https://youtu.be/KleseAAmUKw

wblakekimber.bsky.social•58 days ago

For real, could someone bankroll another Them Crooked Vultures album? I need another one before John Paul Jones dies.

salinkis.bsky.social•58 days ago

When people use regularly it gets harder and harder to stay regulated. The guy is a real mess now.

samuraipizzarob.bsky.social•58 days ago

Is there an equivalent to ‘posters madness’ for the rich?

(And is it always the ‘newly rich’? Or do the Rockerfellers of today just moan elsewhere about how no-one respects their bad jokes?)

folderalconspiracy.bsky.social•54 days ago

The old money rich know how bad this looks, and when they do it they keep it out of the public eye.

kraniumkracka.bsky.social•58 days ago

I would simply hire that buzzfeed guy to sing that own worst enemy song.

zerocard.bsky.social•58 days ago

Nope, I’m out of sarcasm for this apartheid asshole.

holochromatic.bsky.social•58 days ago

JPJ isn't getting any younger!

weakcookies.bsky.social•58 days ago

You’re cooking with this TCV idea!!

witchequine.bsky.social•58 days ago

I'm sorry but ahahahahahahahahahahaha

wildlee.bsky.social•58 days ago

He could be living every goddamned day like a Make-A-Wish child getting their wish. But instead, he’s a fascist jerk.

mayormccheese.bsky.social•58 days ago

damn we only got one them crooked vultures album didn’t we.

ragnvaldr1.bsky.social•58 days ago

Does Ketamine always lead to God Complex or just when combined with excessive wealth?

kantyash.bsky.social•58 days ago

I can't comprehend it cause if I won the lottery people would think I died cause I'd just sit in my room building gundams all day

andneitherdoi.bsky.social•57 days ago

It’s funny because you know in private he mutters to himself in the mirror, “No one loves me and neither do I.”

carls-puli.bsky.social•58 days ago

🎶 I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I'm miserable now 🎶

davemck.bsky.social•58 days ago

Didn't he get in on a student visa, then break the terms of the student visa by setting up a business and basically dropped out?

bigworker.bsky.social•58 days ago

germannukes.de•58 days ago

“money doesnt buy happiness” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person is happy with money. Twitter Elon, who bought a website full of people who hate him, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

lurkymclurk.bsky.social•58 days ago

Or at least another Desert Sessions

bonejob.bsky.social•58 days ago

The last one was sooo good. I need another one

interrodanger.bsky.social•58 days ago

But really he should do that. The world needs more Them Crooked Vultures.

jdemartino.bsky.social•58 days ago

The one really relatable thing Bezos did was buy his favorite show (The Expanse) after it was cancelled and give it three more seasons on Prime. Shocked that sort of thing doesn’t happen more often

otternaut.bsky.social•58 days ago

Aren't all SpaceX employees supposed to be American-born for national security reasons?

davejac.bsky.social•58 days ago

Probot II

hutchybear.bsky.social•58 days ago

I Am the Warlock, expanded to an entire concept album

davejac.bsky.social•58 days ago

I never knew I needed something so much in my life

souper-deluxe.bsky.social•58 days ago

hanssolo4love.bsky.social•58 days ago

Lol, what will he do when America kicks him out, takes his assets, and his citizenship back? We are good at telling people to go back to Africa.

theangelremiel.bsky.social•58 days ago

There are so many people who are willing to pretend to be charmed by a very rich person. The fact that Musk is this obviously lonely shows he must be jawdroppingly terrible to be around.

yotemcyoteface.bsky.social•58 days ago

Mind boggling.

He could give ANYBODY a literal million dollars to be his friend for a day and it would be nothing in his pocketbook.

But he wont part with his money, and hes got such a stank to him that most folks he genuinely wants to be arpund wouldnt do it for the million.

cedricblindfold.bsky.social•58 days ago

So true, yet those things probably wouldn’t give a dopamine hit anymore. Being able to do absolutely anything anytime might kinda suck, weirdly

therealkeninmn.bsky.social•58 days ago

He's haunted by the two things one can never really buy: True love and a soul...

verafang.bsky.social•58 days ago

AND a sense of humour. He's as dull as a used teabag

bluebaronbbb.bsky.social•58 days ago

Why aren't they spending time with their children?

itsnotbread.bsky.social•58 days ago

The children don't like them either

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