• elliot_crane@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Damn I didn’t realize there were people who still didn’t know the infamous pony story. Yes, Elon is a weirdo, and like many a rich asshole, believes he can coerce, purchase, or is otherwise entitled to, consent from random women.

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      18 days ago

      Truth is, it works often enough that they’ll keep trying.

      Whether it’s fear, greed, or actual attraction doesn’t matter to them, in their world they scored a win.

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        18 days ago

        I remember when I needed the constant validation of getting sex from women in order to feel like a winner. Then I stopped being 20 years old.

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          18 days ago

          I don’t think it’s validation in the sense we normies felt. For regular, sane men it’s more of a fitting in and being desirable kind of validation, women do the same in that age.

          For him and other powerful people (but also some regular men) it’s a power thing. Many powerful people are narcissists, and they live constantly under the dissonance of illusion of grandeur and inferiority complex. Essentially forcing their will onto others is a way to mitigate the latter.

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            18 days ago

            Sure but that’s still validation right? “I’m powerful because I can get people to do what I want them to do”.

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              It’s the same phenomenon, but most people age out of it.

              To paraphrase Bojack Horseman: you stop maturing emotionally as soon as you no longer feel that you need to depend on other people.

              Or, to quote Ron Howard: “It’s Arrested Development”