Note that my-hero didn’t unfollow Grimes until this specific chosen moment. I hope he dies mad. Very mad. bridget-pride-stay-mad

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      I wish it was more apparent and obvious to more people that when someone is the richest man in the world and so many of his offspring want nothing to do with him the moment they find a way out, family luxury and inheritance be damned, that’s a massive fucking indicator of what a monster he is and always was.

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          The “he’s just like Tony Stark from my treats!” Schtick lasted far too long

          Damn right it did, and I hated it from the start. I’m just bittersweetly relieved that he’s managed to gradually destroy his own once-unassailable public image, one hubris-laden narcissistic tantrum after another.

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              I was a credulous bazinga brained “futurologist” myself, and even believed in the Singularity™. I am grateful that when I started to lose faith in the cult and walked away that my-hero was only starting to become DAE LE EPIC REAL LIFE TONY STARK in pop culture so I never actually prayed at his altars.

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                  I’m sure libs of today will look back on their views now and cringe as well. It’s the cycle of life

                  Some may hold tight until the end.

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              Hey at least you’re cool enough that you can admit it here, comrade. And at least you didn’t buy into his worse scams.

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                  I remember customizing a dream te$la on my work computer almost a decade ago. Imagine being someone who invested money into his company and believing he would colonize mars.

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                    Captures the energy of much more benign dreams of transitioning to a spacefaring species and turns it into grift. thurston