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Please don't call names on HN and especially please don't do psychiatric name-calling.

You may not owe billionaire CEOs who you feel are psychopathic better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please look up the definition of psychopathy.

I can see that you are impressed by his wealth and title, but I owe this community a voice to balance yours.

Tossing pejoratives like 'psychopath' around in information-free ways is a marker of a bad HN comment, regardless of who it is you're putting down—although the celebrity aspect makes it worse because it adds sensationalism. If you've read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, it should be obvious that this isn't in the intended spirit of the site. In fact, if that isn't obvious of your comment, of which comment would it be obvious?

It's common for people to conclude that the mods secretly hold the opposing view to theirs*. I suppose the logic goes like this: (1) I can't possibly have broken the rules; (2) yet the moderator has scolded me; (3) why? there must be some other reason; (4) it must be that they disagree with me. The mistake is at step (1). The truth is, we don't care—we just want commenters to use the site as intended.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

And with any luck this charade will clue the previously clueless into this man's irrational, unstable nature, permanently removing the veneer of credibility and "coolness" that has been instrumental in his success thus far.

The legions of neckbeards who worship him as a real life Stark will follow him to their graves.

_everyone_ loved Elon when he stuck to EVs, spaceX, solar panels, and boring companies.

Yeah, that was when he was useful enough to outweigh his jackassery.

And hey, maybe if he kills twitter, he'll still be doing humanity a service.

people will just flee to other social media. Twitter dying changes nothing

N social networks with M/N people each are not remotely the same as a single network with M people.

The submarine/rescue situation should've clued many more people into his capricious, reckless nature, but yet many persisted.

This country has a serious problem with platforming and idolizing narcissists and non-violent psychopaths and it needs to stop. Sh*t-shows like this hopefully have a chance of showing everyone that these monsters don't deserve our adulation.

Boring Company and the absurd outcome of the Tesla tunnel in Las Vegas were other clear warning signs.

I'd rate orchestrating a coup in Bolivia and tweeting "We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it." an act of violence.

I hope that was _sarcasm_... This man is singlehandedly causing more polution, social unrest, and fraud than anyone I've seen in my lifetime. Each of his enterprises is bankrupt without government money and very creative accounting. His behavior is reprehensible and criminal. I can't believe he is not in prison.

The comment you're responding to is a prescription: what people ought to do.

Yours is a description: what people in fact do.

Yet, you phrased it in the same way, with the same emphasis. It might be a world view shifting shock to you. But I have always thought Elon was an asshole, from the very beginning of his self image marketing campaign.

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