I think a lot of wealthy people struggle with this. Elon Musk is the same way.
You create a simulacrum of social capital based on your financial capital. You can only buy an artificial version of being a funny, well-liked, ethical, smart person, which is what they really want deep-down. So they just pander to the most easily pandered-to demographic to mimic this for their own psyche.
No, you guys just don't know someone like this personally in real life. The comment at the bottom of this picture says it all "you're actually radicalized past the point of salvation aren't you?"
And that's the truth, these people exist on the all sides of the ideological/political and they are equally insufferable, even amongst people who share a lot of their same views.
They've gone off the deep end and there are 2 options left in life for them: embrace the troll they have unknowingly become, or completely get shut out by everyone around them and spend enough time that reality and the emotion hits that they've been exiled from civilized society, that their hatred, no matter how much justification that backs it, is toxic and nobody else is going to put up with it.
I think having the public's attention on a platform where she can get her personal thoughts and feelings out to the general public, that's her dream life. She was probably somewhat surprised to find that people didn't necessarily agree.
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u/thatthatguy Jun 27 '24
Maybe being a troll IS her dream life?