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Old 01-15-2025, 07:54 PM   #5141
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Elon Musk’s potential $56 billion pay package was the reason Europe’s largest pension fund sold its entire Tesla $TSLA stake recently, as the firm sold all of its $585 million worth of shares.

https://www.teslarati.com/musk-pay-p...la-tsla-stake/
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Musk is deleting the check marks for all of the Premiers except for Danielle Smith. Now would be a good time for Ford to send a message back by cancelling that Starlink deal.
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Lol Musk playing a high level character in POE2 that he bought/paid someone to level up for him is hilarious.

The streamer Asmongold was one of the ones that easily pointed it out then Musk removed Asmongold's blue check and then posted private DMs with Asmongold (something against the ToS). Doubly funny because Musk thinks that Asmongold hiring editors to edit his YouTube content means Asmongold is somehow working for the editors.

That tantrum gif is most appropriate.
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Old 01-20-2025, 08:34 PM   #5144
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Pretty sure he is going to turn all those checkmarks into swastikas in the next month.
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So thats why he renamed it to X, he can just add some little marks at all the ends...
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So thats why he renamed it to X, he can just add some little marks at all the ends...

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Well.

I didn't have a genuine 'Zig Heil' to the American Flag at the Presidential Inauguration on my 'Crazy Musk Bingo Card' and yet here we are.

I did Nazi that coming.

Its a little 'on the nose' dont you think Elon?
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How does someone running Tesla, Space X, a government office, twitter, and with 12 children, possibly have time to play video games?
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Interesting to see most of the premier league soccer reddits discussing moving from Twitter links to Bluesky.

They are doing this as a direct protest against Musk's Nazi salute.

The goal is to reduce Twitter traffic, but also to reward insiders who are on Bluesky with more views, and ideally incentivize more premier league insiders to create bluesky accounts.
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Interesting to see most of the premier league soccer reddits discussing moving from Twitter links to Bluesky.

They are doing this as a direct protest against Musk's Nazi salute.

The goal is to reduce Twitter traffic, but also to reward insiders who are on Bluesky with more views, and ideally incentivize more premier league insiders to create bluesky accounts.
Good. I hope NHL insiders follow suit.

As far as I know the NHL and Flames don't even have Bluesky accounts yet. Gord Miller is the only national hockey media person who regularly posts on Bluesky that I know of, and he doesn't usually post any insider news.
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Old 01-21-2025, 09:37 AM   #5152
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lol. the richest man in the world just did 2 nazi salutes and it's barely a blip....
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What an absolute shameful time, this reality and the downward spiral is like fever dream.


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The rise of the extreme right, their majority control of social media and the force-fed discourse on the platforms, and the owners' slowly-building acceptance of nazism is downright scary. America is falling for this #### too.

I'm in the process of closing up my Instagram and other Meta accounts, and using Bluesky and Signal instead. I can no longer support any Meta or Elon product. #### these right-wing tech bros and their disgusting propaganda-based agendas.
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So, apparently the salute that Musk did was him motioning, "my heart goes out here", which he was saying regarding their support for him and Trump.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1881443161458831760
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So, apparently the salute that Musk did was him motioning, "my heart goes out here", which he was saying regarding their support for him and Trump.
Sure. Thats a hard sell though...cuz thats not what it looked like from the cheap seats.
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Suck it Zuck!
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The rise of the extreme right, their majority control of social media and the force-fed discourse on the platforms, and the owners' slowly-building acceptance of nazism is downright scary. America is falling for this #### too.

I'm in the process of closing up my Instagram and other Meta accounts, and using Bluesky and Signal instead. I can no longer support any Meta or Elon product. #### these right-wing tech bros and their disgusting propaganda-based agendas.
I think the reality is that half the population in that backwater cesspool of a country has been pining for it. All Musk and Trump have done is put it out into the open, emboldening the people and themselves.
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So, apparently the salute that Musk did was him motioning, "my heart goes out here", which he was saying regarding their support for him and Trump.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1881443161458831760
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