• killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I think it’s fair to say that ketamine may be affecting his faculties, but this is dipping it’s toe into “the drugs make him do it!” sanewashing.

    Drugs don’t make people assholes. They were assholes before they took the drugs, and the drugs emphasise what an asshole they are.

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    22 days ago

    Growing up the son of a wealthy emerald-mine owning dysfunctional family in apartheid South Africa explains a lot of his behavior too.

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    22 days ago

    They gave my cat ket before they euthanized her. She looked absolutely blissful, but certainly in no fit state to run a government.

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      22 days ago

      I mean this in the nicest way, but your cat would make an excellent replacement for the current governor.

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    21 days ago

    Who cares what the cause of the behavior is? It is unacceptable.

    That should be enough. No need to even try to explain of empathize with it.

    But it is telling that the richest man in the history of mankind acts like this. People should see that wealth does not equate to strength, intelligence, good politics, etc. But instead people see wealth as a way to get away with anything they want, even if it is completely embarrassing stuff that no one with self respect would even think about.

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    21 days ago

    I have a lot of ketamine users in my town and many highly functioning ones and it’s very clear that the drug has long tail disassociative effects. They are so disconnected and zombie like despite seemingly functional.

    I say this as a psychonaut myself - long term K use is pretty scary but people are afraid to shit on K because if not abused it’s seems to have a lot of powerful positive effects on many.

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    21 days ago

    I’m currently taking 80mg ketamine troches and can verify that I am not a sociopathic Nazi.

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    21 days ago

    Or him having been an entitled narcissist surrounded by sycophants for his entire life.

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    21 days ago

    Who is giving him this shit?

    Catch me on the street with whatever pharmacy of dugs Musk is taking and I’d probably be sitting in front of a judge pretty quickly. Just another example of the rich doing whatever the F they want with no consequences.

    • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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      20 days ago

      Thinking about it, whoever Elon’s dealer is probably has a pretty sweet gig as far as drug dealing goes. They’ve got someone on the hook who is the magical combination of being an addict, has infinite wealth, doesn’t know the value of anything, and is a huge asshole so they probably don’t even feel bad about exploiting them lol.

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    21 days ago

    Along with those unsettling side effects, the psychopharmacology researcher and her team also found that regular users scored very high on delusional thinking scales and seemed to be convinced that they were receiving secret messages sent to them alone

    Sounds like him but honestly money and power is probably enough to explain his delusional behaviour