That said, I'm really trying to live with radical empathy and intersectionality, and as a cis*het* autistic white dude, I CAN hold space to MAYBE find a way where I could dialogue with Elon and try to crack him out of his entropic nihilism in a way that can at least let him rest slightly softer

He's supervillain level evil right now, but I can see how you give a nerdy autistic kid in apartheid south africa literal infinite money, an evil emerald baron father, and no diagnosis or support structures, sure, he comes out like he did.

There's an AU verison of that dude who just got to treat heading to iD software like going to Disneyland and came out making little dorky sci fi space plane shooter games who ended up kinda dope, y'know? But he got dealt the Turbonihilist With A Blank Cheque hand, and, *gestures existentially*