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As Kurt Vonnegut wrote in his poem “Joe Heller”:
True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.
I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!

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[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago

Stay miserable you fucking Nazi loser.

[–] dipcart@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

This has always bothered me. Capitalism won. They control the world. Every death in most of the world feed the machine. From Palestinians to Cambodians, some are bombed, some are worked, but their death is to spin the wheel. The environment is on fire. To spin the wheel. The world is filled with hate. To spin the wheel. Apparently every single fucking billionaire is a pedophile. To spin their wheel.

All of that suffering, all of that pain, to get your rocks off, AND YOU'RE NOT EVEN HAPPY?

Nobody else in the world gets to have a good time so that you can have everything, and you're still not having a good time?

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Hey dude. You know what can buy happiness? Compassion, generosity, being of service, creativity, a healthy lifestyle, and staying far away from toxic people like your Trumps, Epsteins, etc. Your conquests and financial success are empty. You see that. Divest. You will live comfortably for the rest of your life now, or pursue endeavors purely for the love of it, or the creative outlet. And you can use that time and money making amends, bettering the lives of everyone around you. Feed the hungry, house the poor, pay for the education and betterment of others, use your influence to benefits those without influence. Empower others to be comfortable too. I promise you that you will feel 10000 times better about yourself, and the people around you will love you for it.

[–] bestelbus22@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Elon could've done this and make Tesla the biggest company ever. I remember when he was awesome future guy and everyone liked him. I think he got super drunk on this success and has been "chasing the high" in all the wrong ways ever since.

[–] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The difference was that he fired his PR agents in 2020 who stopped him from ruining their carefully created advertising. He never was that person.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 5 days ago

Absotively.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago

dude just had to hang onto the ball and run out the clock

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

This fucker could use his money to actually help people. Everyone would love him. He could be the most popular person in the world. He could be so happy doing good.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago

Motherfucker, Dickens told you exactly the answer 200 years ago. Here's the fucking Muppet version: https://youtu.be/UIaJcjJReCU

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Musk is so creepy Epstien put him on "read," and ghosted him.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He could have started a peaceful revolution, helping millions of people.

Instead, he's knocked up a bunch of women, hates them all (and his children), and spends his days bitching on "Twitter".

GOOD JOB

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

That's always the idea though isn't it.

You simply do not become a multi-billionaire and have charity and empathy, just to get to the point of having digested so many companies and burned through so many businesses and using people like capital and collateral, you need to be some kind of solipsistic, self-deluded psychopath, but also be stupid enough about humanity and life that you convince yourself you're deserving of taking the hard work of millions of people for yourself.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

I guess his narcissism and hoarding disorder makes him sad. Good

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 days ago

No money can’t buy taste.

Not worrying about money can make you happy. Billionaires seem to be only worrying about money.

Not having to worry about money and not worrying about it can make you happy and healthy.

Musk is that edgelord from middle school who never stopped being an edgelord or acting like an idiot pre-teen. He's desperate to see, hip and cool but he's just a petty little snowflake of a human being.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This so angers me

The richest person in the world, who single handedly could do something like end world hunger if he wanted to

The richest person in the world, who got there by exclusively lying his ass off about literally everything

The richest man in the world who went now full Nazi

The richest man in the world now buuwuuu complains that his life is so hard.

I hope you get a fucking paper cut on your dick head.

I can't wait for your kind to die out and disappear. We need to rid the world of millionaires. Wealth caps, now!

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think he's trying to iritate people on purpose with this. I wish people would just stop using his products all together. Then we could stop talking about him entirely.

[–] basketugly@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Take a small example, a tip from me, take all of your money give it up to charity.

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Life a'lovin, life a'lovin, come back to me..

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

All the money in the world and he just had to go fucking around in politics and then our government.

I swear people like this just do not have good real friends in their life to ground them.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 6 days ago

That's Trump's problem. And Biden, Clinton, Bush (1&2), Obama, Reagan Nixon... All the way back. For the elderly, I would argue elder abuse, additionally.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago

Of course not, the dumb fucks have detached themselves from every single meaningful human connection possible

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Money actually has a strong diminishing return on happiness. A lack of money can definitely make you unhappy. More money also makes it easier to be happy, but does make it easy.

That's actually the hole that the rich can get into. They (subconsciously) assume they would be happy with just a bit more money. They delay or ignore the things that would make them happy in trade for more money/power.

It would actually be quite sad, if it didn't fuck the rest of us over completely.

[–] metallic_z3r0 2 points 6 days ago

I do pity them. I long for a world in which such hoarding, deleterious tendencies were treated as the mental health crisis they are, and that such a thing were made impossible to occur.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's not called "retail therapy" for nothing!

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

That's a dopamine hit

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

‘Tell him we will pray for him.’ ‘He needs your prayers.’ ‘Is he, then, an unhappy man?’ Poirot said, ‘So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.’ The nun said softly, ‘Ah, a rich man…’ Poirot said nothing—for he knew there was nothing to say…

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 6 days ago

The Apples of Hesperides

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 6 days ago

There actually are a few rich folks that see the need for more taxation at the high level and such. They sorta get there is only so nice money can make their lives before you get to the point where the earth in general has to get better to improve their quality of life. Many though seem caught up in some sorta game to have the most. Stan ridgeway has a great line in his I want to be the boss song about that. I have said before that I could only get so rich because if I got to a certain point im not going to be chasing that stuff and would chill like the my space guy.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Well if the money isn't helping you I'm sure there's many others it would WOULD help...

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I get it. All that money, and he still has to pay women to be surrogates to breed his organ donor offspring. They certainly won't have sex with him under any circumstances, no matter how much money he throws around.

Not that it matters, because even if he could get a woman to put down her 10 foot pole and consider actual coitus, he couldn't perform anyway, reportedly due to his wang won't work due to botched enlargement surgery.

You just know he is funding cutting edge research into penis transplant surgery in some weird lab somewhere. Watching a lot of porn, probably got his eye on a couple of candidates right now.

Don't you feel sorry for him?

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

With a working penis a rich guy like that could certainly buy a lot of temporary happiness, getting BJs from sexy whores and stuff. But since he says he can't we can assume he doesn't have one.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

He should Marie Kondo his Wall Street portfolio. If the stocks don't spark joy, he should let them go.

[–] compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have some ideas about how to make them enjoy themselves less

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 days ago

I have some ideas about how to make them enjoy themselves more.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh boo fucking hoo. You could have taken your daddy's stolen blood money and done a whole lot of good on the world. Instead you made yourself a fat rich old hated piece of shit who creeps about trying to sell his jizz to his mates. Money can't buy you a sense of fucking shame.

"I shat in the pool and now the pool is all full of my shit and everyone else at the pool party hates me waaaaa!"

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Want to make a lot of people happy, Elon?

KILL YOURSELF

[–] PillowD@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I don't know how Elon is going to die.

But I'm rooting for it.

[–] DistrictSIX@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Go look at a recent photo of the top 10 richest men in the world and tell me if any of them look like they are having a good life. I mean, Bezos is the only one of them who has any type of emotional reaction to things resembling a normal human reaction. Not a good human, but still, human. The rest of them just look like soulless husks most of the time. I wouldn't wanna trade places with any of them for even a millisecond. I imagine that the overwhelming feeling of loneliness and detachment from humanity would scar me for life.

[–] Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

The Apartheid-Pedo shall eat shit.

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 95 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is a man who feels compelled to lie about being good at video games. He's one of the most pathetic human beings on the face of the planet.

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