The ongoing X and Elon Musk Transgressions Thread

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Musk effectively paid 44b to LARP as a customer service rep for the absolute dumbest people alive.

Every pseudo-intellectual, discount-store self-styled provocateur: “He wOn ThE dAy!!!”

Nevermind facts, actual money, actual statistics, or anything real. These guys are all just idiots simping for their billionaire idols while praising guys like Jordan Peterson for telling the truth about government-run man-milking operations.

There was a time when these people annoyed me, but the entertainment quality of their dumbness is valuable, I think. It will never not be funny seeing them boast about some accomplishment or put up red flags over some danger just for the immediate introduction of easily discoverable facts to make them look stupid.

Glad we have a few winners on the board to keep the laughs coming.

[Just a guy]

Originally Posted by jayswin

You need to learn about this and understand it, justaguy. "People look at the outside and think they understand", as you said yourself. It seems you just don't understand the political climate that has allowed the rich to conquer those beneath them in a way they historically couldn't.

Please read my posts and specify where I said otherwise. My entire point is that the ultra rich/successful people I have had close interactions with work basically every waking moment.

I have commented that they are a consequence of capitalism and that a lot of people have benefited from the rise of their companies. All that is true.

I also understand that over taxation will drive money away from Canada and has in the past. There will always be countries/states/provinces that will allow tax havens and companies will always take advantage.

[opendoor]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Every pseudo-intellectual, discount-store self-styled provocateur: “He wOn ThE dAy!!!”

Nevermind facts, actual money, actual statistics, or anything real. These guys are all just idiots simping for their billionaire idols while praising guys like Jordan Peterson for telling the truth about government-run man-milking operations.

There was a time when these people annoyed me, but the entertainment quality of their dumbness is valuable, I think. It will never not be funny seeing them boast about some accomplishment or put up red flags over some danger just for the immediate introduction of easily discoverable facts to make them look stupid.

Glad we have a few winners on the board to keep the laughs coming.

Yeah, when people say Twitter is better than ever, in a way they're right. Seeing a bunch of tech bros and right wing grifters being baffled at how famous people (even totally non-political ones) are going out of their way to not be associated with those who are paying for Twitter has been hilarious. I think they're finally close to realizing how little cultural cachet they actually have.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by opendoor

Yeah, when people say Twitter is better than ever, in a way they're right. Seeing a bunch of tech bros and right wing grifters being baffled at how famous people (even totally non-political ones) are going out of their way to not be associated with those who are paying for Twitter has been hilarious. I think they're finally close to realizing how little cultural cachet they actually have.

The constant chiding of celebrities who have said little more than “I don’t want this” when it comes to verification is a hilariously bleak view into the minds of these people.

They spent all this time begging for verification to mean nothing and to be non-exclusive, and as soon as the only people who made verification mean anything say, “Ok, you win, I don’t care about it or want it,” they lose their mind about how it’s a “gift” or how awful they are for not wanting to pay $8 for something that has become meaningless.

The Twitter verification thing is like a real life production of Dr Seuss’s The Sneetches. Everyone wants a star, but as soon as everyone can have a star then the people who had them in the first place don’t want them, effectively making the star a negative symbol instead of positive one. And that’s just one of a countless list of hilarious things on that app. Love it.

[Matata]

If it costs Elon $20B to fix twitter, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Wow, Matata has an interesting take on the meaning of the words "Win", and "Fix".

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

Wow, Matata has an interesting take on the meaning of the words "Win", and "Fix".

They've got an interesting definition of many words, like reality, fake, facts, news, etc...

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

Wow, Matata has an interesting take on the meaning of the words "Win", and "Fix".

I'm still amazed at how far people on the right are willing to hurt themselves and their future just to spite the left. Truly amazing. Losing $20b? No problem. Loss of freedoms? No problem. Increase your taxes? No problem. Loss of social programs? No problem. Difficult and more expensive health care? No problem.

As long as those damn lefties and woke people can't do what they want and talk about it, that's all that matters. In their mind, if they truly do that, it's won/fixed.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

The constant chiding of celebrities who have said little more than “I don’t want this” when it comes to verification is a hilariously bleak view into the minds of these people.

They spent all this time begging for verification to mean nothing and to be non-exclusive, and as soon as the only people who made verification mean anything say, “Ok, you win, I don’t care about it or want it,” they lose their mind about how it’s a “gift” or how awful they are for not wanting to pay $8 for something that has become meaningless.

The Twitter verification thing is like a real life production of Dr Seuss’s The Sneetches. Everyone wants a star, but as soon as everyone can have a star then the people who had them in the first place don’t want them, effectively making the star a negative symbol instead of positive one. And that’s just one of a countless list of hilarious things on that app. Love it.

Perfect example, Musk should continue to follow the Dr Seuss model and charge Lebron for the removal of his check mark

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by GGG

Perfect example, Musk should continue to follow the Dr Seuss model and charge Lebron for the removal of his check mark

They could have a blue check activation/deactivation checkbox, whereby changing the check box charges you $8 per change.

[Looch City]

LOL imagine being an Elon simp after all this time.

What a sad life that must be.

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by Looch City

LOL imagine being an Elon simp after all this time.

What a sad life that must be.

Well he won the day so who else can we even simp for, if not him?

[marsplasticeraser]

Originally Posted by Matata

If it costs Elon $20B to fix twitter, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

He's also made the product almost unusable for a lot of people that don't use Twitter for political purposes.

As somebody who used twitter in a non-political way to follow interesting people in hobbies I like, I've gone from daily user to not using it at all. My feed became full of US politics and extreme viewpoints from people who are idiots (on both sides, but mostly US right-wing). I never subscribed to any of these tweets, they were just thrust on my feed.

I am neither pro nor con Elon, but from the outside it's been an unmitigated disaster, and I can think of no 'wins' that have come up.

In fact, his work at twitter has severely harmed Elon's reputation as a genius amongst people that didn't really know or care about him.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

He inadvertently revealed his alt/burner account and ummm.....yeah....

https://twitter.com/user/status/1650616986227843077

https://twitter.com/user/status/1650655739608969217

Didn’t want this to get lost but man… going through those tweets and there is some super weird stuff if that’s his account.

[nik-]

There's super weird stuff on his main account

[SutterBrother]

Originally Posted by nik-

There's super weird stuff on his main account

Twitter is nothing but super weird stuff at this point.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

They could have a blue check activation/deactivation checkbox, whereby changing the check box charges you $8 per change.

You can be one of the special people by paying to have a checkbox. Different coloured checkboxes too!

[Matata]

Originally Posted by Looch City

LOL imagine being an Elon simp after all this time.

What a sad life that must be.

Elon put $20B on a cross to die for our social media sins, to deliver us from the ever-narrowing social parameters set upon us by an ammoral oligarchy class. Yet here you weebs are fighting to provide a safe space for advertisers, wishing for the silence of dissenting opinions and pining for twitter to return to being run by military intelligence. The subversion of the far-left into a pro-establishment, pro-war and pro-censorship entity seems to be near it's completion.

[ResAlien]

*exaggerated wanking motion and eye roll*

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Matata

Elon put $20B on a cross to die for our social media sins, to deliver us from the ever-narrowing social parameters set upon us by an ammoral oligarchy class. Yet here you weebs are fighting to provide a safe space for advertisers, wishing for the silence of dissenting opinions and pining for twitter to return to being run by military intelligence. The subversion of the far-left into a pro-establishment, pro-war and pro-censorship entity seems to be near it's completion.

That's a hell of an imagination you have, I'll give you that.