I'm surprised they didn't interrupt him and talk over him.

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I wish he sounded more like that on Bill Maher...

I've heard him mention his sons repeatedly but never any daughters. Does he not have any? Is that why he is trained on issues of masculinity so tightly?

is because he is talking about Musk, not a woman.
I did look him up, and he does indeed have two sons, no daughters.

I don't agree with him on that. He says Mothers contact him about their basement dwelling sons playing video games endlessly and are lost.

Part of that is because of the lousy parenting and letting them. I could have been a couch potato too but my mother wouldn't have that at all. "You want new clothes, get a job. You want to go out with friends, they have to pick you up. I couldn't have the car. I had chores to do before I left the house for school or work." I made my bed everyday and still do. If I wanted a college education, I had to pay for it. etc etc

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I grew up in a house with no traditional father figure. My parents got divorced when I not long after I started grade school, so it was me, my younger sister and my mother. Mom only had a high school diploma and was trying to raise kids in an era not long after women were first allowed to get their own credit cards. She was also mentally ill.

I had a mix of traditionally masculine and non-masculine interests. I liked to play sports and romp in the woods, just as much as I liked to read or draw. I saw through a lot of social standards about gender roles, what made someone a "man" and what doesn't. A lot of it is complete garbage.

I figured out that being a good person should be paramount, regardless of gender. Honesty, empathy, community welfare, taking care of your responsibilities, that has nothing to do with being "a man" specifically.

The "war on masculinity" is a diversionary tactic so those at the tip-top of society can make people easier to manipulate and fleece.

I have yet to hear him present any hard data to support his belief or demonstrate how this failure has occurred. Seems to believe that somehow in helping girls we have facile boys. Believes boys do not have enough male role models, but I haven’t heard him tell males how to be a role model.

but he loses me in his presentation probably because he was never poor. He doesn’t know how expensive it is to be poor. He needs to read “Nickel and Dimed.”

My mother didn’t fail me but her “silent generation” was watching things happen that they never had. For example, women working and not needing a family. Not being the property of men was the true definition of freedom.

What rights have men lost? Ever. ?

Women are finally growing up free like men but apparently, men don’t like the competition or are jealous that they don’t have that privilege served on a silver platter anymore.

He is ignorant of the history of working people and what they do to support their children.

Rich or poor, black or white, men were always the top of the heap. Or so the modern world thinks. Men are large and in charge, and no woman can tell them what to do.

So, why do they blame the mothers for all that goes wrong in their lives? Is their mother to blame for them being an incel? Or not being the CEO of something without ever having worked for it? Or whatever they think is all our fault?

I raised three boys, on my own. My ex was a total shit. My youngest didn't have his father in his life at all (the dumb ass's choice, not mine, he dumped me for a drunk just like his ex wife). My sons turned out just fine. The youngest married a woman who had been raising her son by herself, with a shitty ex who couldn't step up and "be a man". My grandson is growing up just fine, with a strong mother and a man who loves him like his own.

I'm tired of this all being the woman's fault, for wanting to have a job, or her own credit, or an education, or freedom from being abused, or anything else any human being should have. It's not us, it's you, shitty men. YOU failed, take the blame. Stop looking for it being a woman, or an immigrant, or a liberal president, or your own laziness.

Far too much unearned privilege.

...he is just highlighting that in his arguments to counter those -- including those talking heads to the right of him on screen -- that actually are hyper-focused on masculinity.

And Wikipedia says that, yes, he has just the two sons.

There's a lot tech bro/macho crap going around in the tech community and on social media. Tech is where he's made most of his money and spends a lot of his time/energy.

He's trying to allow men have real emotions, be caring, considerate, strong, responsible.

Nothing wrong with that. Tamping down toxic masculinity benefits everyone, including women.

I’m just spitballing though.

Musk is a terrible role model for ALL kids, not just the male ones

reading the room. The right today is focused on masculinity (aand authoritarians always are) so it ccame through to me is "You peole arefocused on masculinity but you don't even have a clue what that means, or should mean."

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What a loudmouth and completely stereotypical vulture capitalist he is.

His "wow" response was likely because his Neanderthal mind couldn't comprehend anything that was just directed towards him.

and Morgan. They are both rich assholes that have no substance at all.

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...and Mr Wonderful for respectfully keeping their traps shut.

I don't like giving Piers points, but I found that very refreshing and respectful.

weird half smile/smirk and constant eye blinking... It looked like he wished he were somewhere else.

I would change the line "That's not what it means to be a man" to "That's not what it means to be a human, but what he said about Musk's "legacy" is right on the money.

My view of Musk has changed considerably in the last few days. I used to think he was just a spoiled, overconfident, rich kid who thinks he's better than anybody else just because he has a lot of money and has too high of an opinion of his own abilities because he's heard too many people call him a genius and let it go to his head. I still believe all of that, but I also see that he's a fake, a fraud, and a failure who has let drugs take over his life.

I also see that he has a lot more in common with Donald Trump than I realized until recently. They both had too much too young, were allowed to do whatever they wanted with too little discipline, and grew up to be hollow shells of bluster and bravado with very little actualpathetic.

So yeah, i still think Eloon is obnoxious, but also deeply, profoundly pathetic. He seems to be headed in a bad direction right now with his reliance on multiple drugs, and at the rate he's going, he may crash and burn soon, unless he gets into rehab and actually works on his recovery. He's more than 25 years younger than Trump, but all the drugs are really taking a toll. If his dependence on ketamine is as severe as it sounds, he could end up on dialysis before he reaches 60. None of this excuses any of the terrible things he's done, of course, but knowing he's evidently been living in a drug induced fog for a while now makes it easier to see why he's done so many things that made absolutely NO damned sense.

The saddest part of the whole story is not that these two men are both going downhill, each on a trajectory of his own making, but that they have harmed vast numbers of people in so many terrible ways and done so much dange to this country, and will almost certainly continue to do so if nothing happens to stop them.

“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.”

― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

Does spectacular wealth excuse depravity? Some thoughts on Elon Musk and moral character.

— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway.com) 2025-06-05T13:45:21.598Z

Anyone that can shut Morgan up is a winner. He did it with the truth, beautifully.