Wow. Great rant about Elon Musk from Star Trek star Wil Wheaton.

[highplainsdem]

This was posted on Facebook, and copied to Twitter by Tribel. It can also be found at Alternativenation.com if you want to share this but don't want to share the Tribel tweet. (I am not recommending Tribel. I'm not sure which of the newer alternative platforms to recommend.)

Link to tweet

BREAKING: Actor Will Wheaton just said it ALL about MAGA Twitter chief Elon Musk. If you agree with Will, please consider joining @TribelSocial, our new pro-democracy Twitter alternate that isn’t owned by a petulant, narcissistic billionaire — and has a free edit button!💙

Alternativenation.com article: https://www.alternativenation.net/star-trek-star-attacks-elon-musk-with-trent-reznor/

That has the full five-paragraph rant from Wheaton, which is over the four-paragraph excerpt limit here. But you can see the entire rant in the image posted on Twitter, which I copied above so the print is larger.

[Cha]

1. TY.. Will Wheaton describes him

well!

[sarcasmo]

2. Wil Wheaton has a really good Twitter account.

[Rebl2]

3. Bazinga!

[SCantiGOP]

4. I had never heard that phrase

‘Hurt people hurt people.’

A lot of truth in those 4 words.

[canuckledragger]

10. It's the kind of phrase you hear a lot in groups like AA, NA, etc.

And it's very true. It's very subtle in meaning too, as to me it describes learned behaviour, reasons why people recreate bad situations for themselves (because it's familiar) and so on.

It's well worth it to go to one of those meetings, especially the speaker oriented ones and hear that term expanded on with personal stories. For me it's helped to confront my luggage so I don't go creating my own problems out of ignorance as much.

[Stuart G]

12. The meetings do a lot of good. "Just Listen" it is often said.

OA (Overeaters Anonymous) saved my life. (went from 215 pounds down to 150 pounds) Kept the weight off for
over 35 years. Yes, I had medical issues. But without the program (OA), I would not be writing these words. ....
........I would have .............passed away long ago!

[Delphinus]

27. Glad

You are still here.

[xmas74]

47. Wheaton has had years of therapy

For CPTSD and dealing with going no contact over his narcissistic, abusive parents.
You should read up about how they treated him growing up and even as an adult.

[djacq]

5. That's two former actors from Star Trek thus far.

Can't wait for George Takei's rant.

Make it so.

[ShazzieB]

7. Well, George already made a mastodon account and invited people to join him there.

Hasn't posted an outright rant that I know of, but I don't follow that closely.

[AnrothElf]

30. George is on Mastodon yup. So are ...

Jeri Ryan (Seven): @[e-mail]

Robert McNeill (Paris): @[e-mail]

Anthony Rapp (Stamets): @[e-mail]

And... Will Wheaton WAS on there, but some knee jerks got him banned from an instance, so he's not coming back.

[barbtries]

42. what is an instance?

I'm considering going to Mastodon but only visited the site once thus far. thanks

[AnrothElf]

49. It's just a server running the Mastodon software

Mastodon is part of a decentralized, federated network called the Fediverse. For example George is on universeodon.com

[barbtries]

50. okay,

so that particular server banned the person? this was a few hours ago i can't recall who it was to be embarrassingly honest. Thank you - I may sign up there, it would be good to have a clue how it works and the vocabulary and all.

[Solly Mack]

6. OK. I just have to say it.

He crushed that.

[BlackSkimmer]

23. I see what you did there.

[Solly Mack]

37. I couldn't help myself.

I couldn't resist the sound of the drumroll.

[Aussie105]

8. It's not a mid-life crisis.

It's a whole of lifetime crisis.

Elon reminds me of someone who used to live in the White House.
Don't know why, but he does.

As soon as people say Elon is a genius and the richest person on the planet, they are giving him undeserved credit and power, and undeserved defense against criticisms.

Once again, very TFG like.

And I wish people wouldn't do that.

[LittleGirl]

19. exactly. He's 45 with more money. eom

[Arthur_Frain]

9. Take my angry upvote Will

Now. Do tfg.

[Stuart G]

11. Yes, Elon Musk is a "hurt person who hurt people"

[calimary]

13. Wil Wheaton. He's turned into quite the bright light.

Thought he was a brat in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," maybe because he played one. Most annoying. We are longtime "Star Trek" buffs, and we were glad when his pre-teen character, Wesley Crusher, was "graduated off" the series after, I think, three seasons. Cuz his character was always the kid who wound up being smarter than the grown-ups and the one they should have listened to and taken seriously from the beginning, and it just really got to be extremely tiresome! As my husband often griped, sarcastically: "Wesley saves the universe again..."

But Wil Wheaton has grown up. And he's really smart and articulate and he makes a lot of sense. Seriously impressive dude! He's well worth reading and listening to. I love the clever, catchy point he makes: that "hurt people hurt people." They sure do.

Btw - when I reread what he wrote here, for a moment I imagined he was describing not Elon Musk, but the donald.

[Stuart G]

14. Not only is Wil Wheaton Sensitive and Intelligent, he is also Intuitive and an outstanding writer.

He is also a "bright light" as you just said.

[OldBaldy1701E]

40. Which, I am sure

Is not the complaint you had when you were the smart kid, now was it?



(Wesley Crusher was on board the Enterprise for the first four seasons. He then went to Starfleet Academy for Season Five until he was approached by the Traveller to study their science. Wes agreed and left with him in that episode. He then returned to Starfleet and graduated with honors, etc.)

[calimary]

43. Awwwww...

Besides, I mostly laid low. All I did was study!

[Salviati]

15. Wil is a good egg.

He's got a good tumblr site at:
https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. K&R

[ms liberty]

17. Wil is awesome. One of my favorites to follow. n/t

[Richard D]

18. PERFECT

K & R

[blogslug]

20. Here's the link to Mr. Wheaton's post on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/itswilwheaton/posts/pfbid0sVJceV3JVCsSbmKQNfDDZoD74k2V1ozbM8sB1U75rxyEnEJ29rbzZHZJaTrVRfNcl

[dalton99a]

21. Kick

[Ferrets are Cool]

22. Perfect

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Tremendous. . . nt

[SouthernDem4ever]

25. Sounds like Elon and trump are twins

in the way the act.

[area51]

28. +1 n/t

[DownriverDem]

26. Follow Will

on Facebook. Great guy!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

29. No, he is the Stand By Me Star.

[kgray96057]

31. Per Anne Wheaton

Anne Wheaton has warned people not to follow this to Tribal. They seem to have cross posted in a way that suggested Wil is on Tribal, which she says he is not. The original post was to Facebook.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

44. Par for Tribel's founder

He’s the guy behind Occupy Democrats, who built their following with unattributed quotes and shares. They were clearly trying to use Wil’s FB post (he’s not on Twitter) to build users .
Retweet if you agree!

[AZSkiffyGeek]

45. Wil's response from FB...

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02WiHAkG31GJCporBEgmoY7XFFdTsqVwigcT9qGJvGxAepeQWXUZFHWsB1gssqbbQHl&id=100003496539869&mibextid=qC1gEa

[yardwork]

32. The tweet is now deleted.

[DetlefK]

35. Weird, isn't it?

[Caliman73]

33. Wealth does not produce happiness or health.

It can certainly help to pay for the tools needed to develop a positive personality and balance in life, but that takes effort from the person as well.

Often times people with great wealth, instead of pursuing self actualization, will gather people around them that validate their distorted view of the world. They use their money to hide behind, so that they do not have to face the ugly truths that lay within each of our lives.

This is almost cliché but I would suspect that Musk's parents were not very attentive to his emotional needs and development and rather gave him gifts and money to occupy his time rather than to actually take an interest in his life. That seems to be a large driver in the development of the Trumps and the Musks of the world.

They have and/or gain large fortunes, but they are never whole as a person. They surround themselves with the trappings of what people might call "happiness" (women, cars, homes, jet setting, and power) but there is a deep unhappiness and pain that will never be healed because they do not work on that pain. They run from it, they project it onto others, and they try to buy it away.

I have said before that I really dislike the phrase, "Time heals all wounds". Even typing it got me irritated just now. Time does nothing except pass by. If we work on our problems, then in time, they can diminish and our emotional and/or physical wounds heal. Time does nothing except exist and move forward. WE heal, we work to heal ourselves, with professionals, with friends and supporters, or by our own efforts. What you have in Trump and Musk are two grown men, who have not used the TIME they have, like the rest of us, to explore their trauma and try to heal them so as to be decent human beings. Instead they have allowed and exacerbated their problems into narcissism that as Wheaton said, hurts society.

[Marthe48]

34. We cannot feed the hungry

because we cannot satisfy the rich.

Just read that quote on fb. Seems appropriate.

But I don't pity musk. Don't pity any of the people who made it big. They have made choices, and have decided they like going to the dark side. None of them can buy love, but they can bask in misery.

[GreenWave]

36. You have the helm Wil!

Engage!

[BadGimp]

38. I am quickly growing tired of all the Elon Hating.

I get it, I'm just tired of it.

[Tommymac]

51. Not me. He needs to be SHAMED until he is a quivering piece of flesh.

He is a childish monster in the making and needs to be influenced to become an adult in the worst way possible.

Because he has such obscene wealth at his finger tips, his childish, boorish tantrums can and do damage society and other human beings.

He will never let legalities deter him, but universal shame and laughter will eventually bring him down.

Hell, just make public fun of the over rated Tesla or his ridiculous "Mars" rocket ship project and it hurts his wallet every time one does it.

[machoneman]

39. Replace "richest" with wealthy and Musk with "Trump" and the description fits the biggest loser!

[CitizenZero]

41. Will Wheaton Is On Target

Musk has definite personality problems. I think that Twitter will be his Waterloo. It has just been a big debacle. The company is collapsing and I expect that Musk will lose his money. Arrogant and a poor sense of judgement on Musk's part. Big mistake.

[patricia92243]

46. Replace the word Elon with the word Trump, and it is even more accurate.

[Evolve Dammit]

48. That's exactly what I was thinking, not to detract from Will's righteous truth.