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"In retrospect, it lacked empathy."

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Tesla stock ready to sink again as Musk-Trump feud heats up and president targets first buddy's subsidies

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-- The Independent (@the-independent.com) Jul 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM

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On the one hand, Musk is probably trying to distance himself from his work at DOGE now that his bromance with president Donald Trump has devolved into a bitter feud.

But it also smacks of hypocrisy, considering that he previously complained that empathy is destroying society.

In late February, roughly a week after wielding the chainsaw on stage, Musk told podcaster Joe Rogan that "we've got civilizational suicidal empathy going on."

"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit," he said at the time. "They're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response."

The wake of chaos and destruction DOGE has left behind certainly underlines Musk's capacity to disregard the feelings of others " almost as if "cruelty is the point," as The Atlantic's Adam Serwer put it in a 2018 essay about Trump's first term.

But now that his once rosy relationship with Trump has exploded into a million pieces, metastasizing into an ugly feud rife with threats and personal attacks, Musk is trying to distance himself from his ruthless and ultimately fruitless endeavor to save the government money."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-02 10:43 PM | Reply

This is what happens when government is run by people and not a system. People are erratic and emotional. The whole point of the "deep state" is to keep things on an even keel. Instead we have chaos.

#2 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-07-02 11:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Maybe he means it, maybe not. The boy who cried wolf too many times? Maybe Pinocchio? Old Grimm could spin a tale about this mess we are in.

#3 | Posted by shoeless at 2025-07-03 08:03 AM | Reply

So the richest man in the world hasn't enough intelligence to know when he's behaving like a horses's rear end?

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-03 09:58 AM | Reply

Republicans are spending trillions of dollars, but not to help Americans.

Republicans are spending trillions of dollars to hurt foreigners living in America.

The cruelty is the point.

And Republican voters are happy to pay the bill.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-03 10:42 AM | Reply

In retrospect, Musk lacks any semblance of humanity.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-03 11:11 AM | Reply

... it lacked empathy ...

But, wasn't that the reason MAGA was cheering him on?

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-03 11:50 AM | Reply

The whole point of the "deep state" is to keep things on an even keel. Instead we have chaos.

"Chaos is a ladder." Except for when it isn't.

#8 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-07-03 12:47 PM | Reply

Narcissists always apologize when they find themselves alone.

They sound genuine, even heartfelt.

But the apology is just another lie, and they're back to the same behavior in no time.

#9 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-07-03 01:00 PM | Reply

No one is buying his apology or his cars. I hope he goes bankrupt.

#10 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-07-03 01:04 PM | Reply

Many Tesla drivers where I live, about a quarter of them with apologetic bumper stickers. I want to say, "He was a Nazi before he was a Trumper, fool."

#11 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-07-03 01:47 PM | Reply

Nobody even remotely associated with this gang "does" empathy.

#12 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-03 02:20 PM | Reply

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