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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] 6 points 1 year ago

They get this way partly because they’re surrounded by yes men.

To take an example of someone like Harvey Weinstein. They don’t typically come out of the gate asking people to get naked for a movie role.

But they might first just be handsy with people and nobody says anything so it becomes normal, then they start caressing people and this becomes the new normal. Before you know it you’re fucking insane.

To put it simply, people don’t normally notice incremental changes in people and over time these can become pretty outlandish.

With Elon it’s that nobody ever tells him he’s wrong and before you know it you think you know everything.