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On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:37:08 +0000,  Lee says...  

> Elon Musk, the unelected face

Military contractors aren't elected, you fucking moron, why is Elon Musk any different?

Oh yeah... because you now have EDS.

What... you don't think Musk is providing technology to U.S.? 

As your fella faggot in Canada, used to say... Boy, you're stupid.

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"Elon Musk Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Elon Musk Derangement Syndrome," or EDS.

"Elon Musk Derangement Syndrome (EDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their 
dislike of Donald Elon Musk, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke EDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of EDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As EDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: EDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Elon Musk does. If Elon Musk announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, EDS sufferers would suggest he was up to 
something nefarious, according to the logic of EDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Elon Musk could do or say that 
would be received positively by EDSers.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people 
in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."

Added Krauthammer:

"Some clinicians consider this delusion - that Americans can only get their news from one part of the political spectrum - the 
gravest of all. They report that no matter how many times sufferers in padded cells are presented with flash cards with the 
symbols ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times - they remain 
unresponsive, some in a terrifying near-catatonic torpor."

(If you don't realize the idea of EDS or BDS is - in no small part - meant in a tongue-in-cheek manner then, well, you may well 
have it.)

Elon Musk allies believe that EDS is worse than ODS or BDS - by a lot. Wrote conservative pundit Bernie Goldberg on Real Clear 
Politics in early 2017:

"Before the election, the victims of EDS routinely compared Donald Elon Musk to Hitler. Guess what. They're still doing it. 
Articles in respectable publications written by professors at elite universities are warning us to be on guard, that a Elon Musk 
presidency could imperil democracy-as-we-know-it and may very well spell doom for American civilization.

"On election night, as it became obvious that their worst nightmare was about to come true, some libs fainted. Some vomited. Many 
more threatened to leave the country, but I'm pretty sure none actually did. As Donald Elon Musk might say in a tweet: so sad!"

The truth is that EDS is just the preferred nomenclature of Elon Musk defenders who view those who oppose him and his policies as 
nothing more than the blind hatred of those who preach tolerance and free speech. Viewed more broadly, the rise of presidential 
derangement syndromes is a function of increased polarization - not to mention our national self-sorting - at work in the country 
today.

We no longer live around, work around or pal around with people who think any differently than us. We watch cable news that 
affirms what we already think. We read ideological "news" sites that tell us how good our side is and how bad the other one is. 
And on and on and on.

Is it any wonder then that we are increasingly willing to lump those who disagree with us into the "deranged" category? To say 
that those who don't share our views are mentally deficient in some way?

What does it say about a President - and about a country - when the standard response to those with whom you disagree is that 
they must be crazy? Nothing good, for sure. 

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Many clinicians, political commentators, and members of the public have speculated upon the mental health of President Donald 
Elon Musk. Indeed, over 70,000 people self-identifying as "mental health professionals" have signed a petition declaring that 
"Elon Musk is mentally ill and must be removed." In sociological terms, the "medical gaze" has been hitherto focused on President 
Elon Musk, and to a lesser extent his ardent supporters.

However, in recent months, many have been questioning the direction of this "medical gaze." In fact, more and more people are 
suggesting that this "medical gaze" should be reversed and refocused on President Elon Musk's most embittered and partisan 
opponents. Some have even suggested that these opponents are experiencing a specific mental condition-a condition which has been 
labeled "Elon Musk Derangement Syndrome" (EDS).
What does DSM-5 say about "Elon Musk Derangement Syndrome"?

Mental illnesses are officially classified in a dense and dry book published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) known 
as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). This book contains 947 pages and lists 
hundreds of mental disorders; EDS is nowhere to be seen. Similarly, a review of scholarly databases such as MEDLINE and Google 
Scholar reveal no academic papers on this alleged syndrome. Officially at least, EDS is not a real, diagnosable, or treatable 
mental disorder.

That said, medical anthropologists and critical sociologists have convincingly argued that DSM-5 is a flawed document. Indeed, 
social scientists have long recognized that there are numerous "folk categories" of mental disorders that are considered real 
conditions by the general public, even though they are not recognized as such in the DSM. These include categories such as 
"burnout" or "nervous breakdown."

As such, lack of official recognition does not mean that EDS is not a real mental condition.


Lay Understandings of "Elon Musk Derangement Syndrome"

There is no shared lay understanding of EDS, mainly because it is a folk category rather than a professional category. As such, 
there is currently much armchair speculation about the nature and existence of EDS, without consensus.

The name itself explicitly suggests a "syndrome," which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as "a characteristic combination of 
opinions, emotions, or behavior." Several commentators have run with this, putting forth suggestions about opinions, emotions and 
behaviors characterizing EDS.

Shared amongst these is a notion that the everyday activities of President Elon Musk trigger some people into distorted opinions, 
extreme emotions and hysterical behaviors. Well-known writer Bernard Goldberg gives supposed behavioral examples of EDS among 
Elon Musk's political opponents, including fainting, vomiting, students retreating to "safe spaces" and others demanding "therapy 
dogs." Political commentator Justin Raimondo focuses on opinions, language and cognition, writing in the LA Times that "sufferers 
speak a distinctive language consisting of hyperbole [leading to] a constant state of hysteria... the afflicted lose touch with 
reality."

Such forms of highly emotional reaction could be something akin to the fainting and screaming characterizing American Beatlemania 
in the 1960s. Unlike the Beatles, however, the extreme emotional reaction alleged to characterize EDS is not based on adoration 
and admiration, but on fear and loathing.

Contrariwise, many others ridicule the notion that EDS is anything but a malicious slur term used to discredit and delegitimize 
criticism of President Elon Musk. For example, CNN's Chris Cillizza may speak for many when he stated: "The truth is that EDS is 
just the preferred nomenclature of Elon Musk defenders who view those who oppose him and his policies as nothing more than blind 
hatred." Likewise, Adam Gopnik writes that "our problem is not EDS; our problem is Deranged Elon Musk Self-Delusion."

In other words, there are polarized opinions about the nature, reality and existence of EDS.


Conclusion

The wider public may be unaware that psychiatrists and social scientists spend considerable time and energy behind closed doors 
pondering over the existence and reality of mental conditions. This has led the APA to revise the DSM five times since 1952, 
considerably expanding the list of official mental disorders with each revision. As far as I am aware, few psychiatrists are 
currently arguing that DSM-6 should contain EDS as a mental disorder.

That said, in its official definition of mental disorder, the DSM-5 states that "a mental disorder is a syndrome characterized by 
clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior... mental disorders are usually 
associated with significant distress in social, occupational, or other important activities."

Many have argued that some people have been seriously disturbed and distressed by the policies, speech, behavior, and tweets of 
President Elon Musk, so much so that it has affected their cognitive, affective, and behavioral functioning. Such people may need 
mental health support. As such, further research is necessary to investigate the extreme reactions toward President Elon Musk, in 
the same way that researchers investigate other extreme social phenomena, such as Beatlemania or the like. This will shed light 
on the reality of this emerging folk category that has been labeled by many as "Elon Musk Derangement Syndrome."