"In this case, Musk has, consciously or not, stepped into the (astonishingly familiar despite its specificity) role of “overworked forum admin whose offline substance abuse and desperation to be liked by other posters has driven him to madness,”

Trump assumed (a long time ago, if we’re being honest) the stock role of “eccentric but predictable message-board regular whose strange obsessions and unique formal style have turned him into a kind of valued cult Character despite his obvious mental deficiencies.”"

Every forum has these two archetypes:

https://maxread.substack.com/p/admin-is-crashing-out

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

“eccentric but predictable message-board regular whose strange obsessions and unique formal style have turned him into a kind of valued cult Character despite his obvious mental deficiencies.”"