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DeathSandwich
Apr 24, 2008

I fucking hate puzzles.

FlamingLiberal posted:

Ah yes, I will definitely be giving my bank account numbers to Elon, that can't possibly end well

You mean you don't trust his ability to self authorize himself to take a microloan out of your bank account with no notice or authorization?

I'm sure it'll be completely bug free and won't, say, accidentally draft you for thousands of dollars with no logs because someone misplaced a decimal place in a function call. The system also won't be co-opted by hackers the moment they breach the system either because people are good (Elon even said so himself).

It was made by the same team that programed Tesla and its not like they would program a car that runs over children and swerves into barricades on purpose.

What's the worst that could happen?

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Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010
https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1590427673582764032

I'm glad Musk doesn't believe in PR departments and insists on handling corporate communications personally, because very few execs could drive off advertisers as thoroughly as this guy does.

Half of these advertisers would be perfectly satisfied with a boring corporate-speak memo about brand safety, and instead the white South African billionaire is going off on tangents about how hate speech doesn't happen at parties.

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

DeathSandwich posted:

You mean you don't trust his ability to self authorize himself to take a microloan out of your bank account with no notice or authorization?

For those who don't know: Tesla has a history of "mistaken" withdrawals from customer accounts whenever it needs to make its end of quarter numbers.

Captain_Maclaine fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Nov 9, 2022

Carew
Jun 22, 2006

This is incredible because he just posted that meme about how people are willing to pay $8 for 30 minutes of enjoyment in the form of a measly cup of coffee.

davecrazy
Nov 25, 2004

I'm an insufferable shitposter who does not deserve to root for such a good team. Also, this is what Matt Harvey thinks of me and my garbage posting.
https://twitter.com/ReallyActivist/status/1590449131432341504?s=20&t=alKTIQMNLKJbkZmtEFzRsw

Unban him, Elon you coward!

Kibayasu
Mar 28, 2010

Main Paineframe posted:

https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1590427673582764032

I'm glad Musk doesn't believe in PR departments and insists on handling corporate communications personally, because very few execs could drive off advertisers as thoroughly as this guy does.

Half of these advertisers would be perfectly satisfied with a boring corporate-speak memo about brand safety, and instead the white South African billionaire is going off on tangents about how hate speech doesn't happen at parties.

I fully believe that a white South African man from an emerald mining family who made a fortune during apartheid does not encounter much speech he would consider hateful.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008


Ron (D)

Randalor
Sep 4, 2011



Part of me would love to know his thought process behind that tweet thing. The same part that wants to break out the popcorn, stare into the abyss and wave when it stares back.

Jaxyon
Mar 7, 2016
I’m just saying I would like to see a man beat a woman in a cage. Just to be sure.

Randalor posted:

Part of me would love to know his thought process behind that tweet thing. The same part that wants to break out the popcorn, stare into the abyss and wave when it stares back.

You think there's a thought process?

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

DEEP STATE PLOT posted:

this is legitimately the best idea he has had because horny sells, however onlyfans is already well-established in that space so while this might be the most 'successful' thing he does it also will still be a flop


There's a problem that he doesn't realize. Yet.

I've seen some adult performers already talking about OnlyTwitter and it's not just the payment processors. There's a helluva a lot of record-keeping behind the scenes that is involved with adult entertainment, namely with verification of age, identity, and contact-tracing in case of a veneral disease outbreak. Adult sites are purpose-built for that, whatever Twitter comes up with won't.

superjew
Sep 5, 2007

No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!
If people can't be trusted to spend $44,000,000,000 they sure as poo poo can't be trusted with $8.

Randalor
Sep 4, 2011



Jaxyon posted:

You think there's a thought process?

There is a process that involves thought. What we call "logic" and "reason" may have long ago abandoned whatever piece of meat is left inside his skull, but there is some sort of thought process. I'm just curious how he got "DeSantis won, therefore I should have won by 1.1 million votes 2 years ago".

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Randalor posted:

Part of me would love to know his thought process behind that tweet thing. The same part that wants to break out the popcorn, stare into the abyss and wave when it stares back.

That is not a tweet, that is a truth

Randalor
Sep 4, 2011



I refuse to refer to anything posted, said, tweeted, or skywrote by Trump as "Truth". :colbert:

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



There's been an outbreak of fake accounts with the new 'Verified badge' posting all sorts of literal fake news. Some of it was sports related stuff, but at least in once case someone tried to impersonate the official Twitter account

https://twitter.com/AGoldmund/status/1590386510003867648?s=20&t=iGCNZfHlxhqsAeordH16NQ

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

FlamingLiberal posted:

There's been an outbreak of fake accounts with the new 'Verified badge' posting all sorts of literal fake news. Some of it was sports related stuff, but at least in once case someone tried to impersonate the official Twitter account

https://twitter.com/AGoldmund/status/1590386510003867648?s=20&t=iGCNZfHlxhqsAeordH16NQ

It begiiiiiiiiiins

Madkal
Feb 11, 2008

Fallen Rib

FlamingLiberal posted:

There's been an outbreak of fake accounts with the new 'Verified badge' posting all sorts of literal fake news. Some of it was sports related stuff, but at least in once case someone tried to impersonate the official Twitter account

https://twitter.com/AGoldmund/status/1590386510003867648?s=20&t=iGCNZfHlxhqsAeordH16NQ

If only someone could have predicted this

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Oracle posted:

holy gently caress go Michigan.

Also lol:


Perfect example of why the Americans need managed authoritarianism. They have no sense of communal existence outside of their cars, one of the reasons they don't have a meaningful political existence outside of support for things like school shootings. It's an unfortunate reality that must be defeated, not reformed.

Meatball
Mar 2, 2003

That's a Spicy Meatball

Pillbug

haveblue posted:

Let people pay $10 to change other user's display names. I dare you

Everyone is going to be Elon Musk within a week.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Madkal posted:

If only someone could have predicted this
An actual verified account and a Twitter Blue 'verified' account display the same unless you click on the profile, then it will tell you. But nobody's going to do that so this is just a recipe for disaster.

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1590429532401840129?s=20&t=6k8BS1MLMjFf7H9zSAwKVQ

Charliegrs
Aug 10, 2009
I wonder if the red wave would have happened if chuds would have just worn masks and got vaccinated. Like how many votes did they lose because so many died the last 2 years.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Charliegrs posted:

I wonder if the red wave would have happened if chuds would have just worn masks and got vaccinated. Like how many votes did they lose because so many died the last 2 years.

All trump had to do was say it was a chinese bioweapon and chuds would still be walking around in p100 full face respirators

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Doubtful. Florida has one of the highest concentrations of vulnerable chuds and one of the worst covid responses and it went redder than ever

Bel Shazar
Sep 14, 2012

Randalor posted:

"DeSantis won, therefore I should have won by 1.1 million votes 2 years ago".

I think he meant 'I am a million votes better to be your presidential candidate in 2024"

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



I think we've put more thought into why he'd say something like that than he did.

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Charliegrs posted:

I wonder if the red wave would have happened if chuds would have just worn masks and got vaccinated. Like how many votes did they lose because so many died the last 2 years.

Not that many, honestly. The official COVID death count nationwide is ~1 million. Even if that's a big undercount, it's still a tiny percentage of the electorate.

BiggerBoat
Sep 26, 2007

Don't you tell me my business again.

Sir Lemming posted:

Anecdotally (NC/NY), I've heard my very Trumpy relatives speak fondly of DeSantis pretty often, and my less-Trumpy-but-still-Republican relatives even moreso. I mean, Fox News loves him and talk show hosts hate him, so that's basically all you need to know. The rest usually flows pretty predictably out of that.

Of course that still tells us relatively little about "undecided voters" but I'm not convinced there's really any way to know that ahead of time at this point.

From skimming the news this morning, it certainly seems like the narrative is solidifying around "GOP didn't do great, Trumpy candidates failed, DeSantis excelled." Including Fox News.

Are you talking about talk radio? Because this is not remotely close to being true. They loving love the dude and one guy I caught today was actually ragging on DOnald for loving this Red Wave up for the GOP, much to my suprise.

Epic High Five posted:

I think we've put more thought into why he'd say something like that than he did.

Truth. Trump said it because everything has to be about him, plain and simple. No one else, especially another MAGA weirdo, is permitted to be popular or well like without his permission and anyone who is is because of him or something he said/did.

BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Nov 10, 2022

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>
I think she's not wrong

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1590417131182895104?s=20&t=KsKgj8ZjUPQ0cwGxuwHWxw

Jaxyon
Mar 7, 2016
I’m just saying I would like to see a man beat a woman in a cage. Just to be sure.

I'd say I hope that this election made it clear that the "lets overturn the election" poo poo was a political loser, but I know in my heart it's not going to.

Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster
Trump might cancel his 2024 campaign announcement next week because his aides are telling him that announcing too close to the midterms will taint him with their stink.

https://twitter.com/iarnsdorf/status/1590491655224045569

quote:

Trump team pushes to delay 2024 launch as DeSantis star rises in GOP

Former president Donald Trump’s standing as the dominant figure in the Republican Party was challenged Tuesday night by a string of election results that even some of his advisers viewed as wounding to his political future.

Trump is taking blame from Republicans for disappointing performances by many of the candidates he backed, at the same time that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won a landslide reelection, instantly elevating his profile as a serious 2024 presidential contender.

In a sign of Trump’s diminished and newly uncertain footing, some longtime allies are now encouraging Trump to delay a presidential announcement he had planned for next week as a victory lap for a red wave that didn’t materialize.

One person familiar with the discussions, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect private conversations, said Trump was polling advisers for their opinions but had not made up his mind. But in a Fox News interview Wednesday evening, he cast doubt on a delay, saying, “We had tremendous success. Why would anything change?”

“Republican chairmen across a wide spectrum of states were counting on Donald Trump to deliver victory for them last night and he didn’t, they are let down,” David Urban, a top adviser to Trump’s winning 2016 campaign in Pennsylvania and a longtime ally, said Wednesday. “It is clear the center of gravity of the Republican Party is in the state of Florida, and I don’t mean Mar-a-Lago.”

The immediate cause for Trump advisers to discuss delaying his promised “very big announcement” scheduled for Tuesday at Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach, Fla., resort, was a Senate runoff in Georgia. Trump’s handpicked Senate candidate, football legend Herschel Walker, trailed incumbent Democrat Raphael G. Warnock by about 1 point as of Wednesday afternoon, with neither candidate clearing 50%, leading to a runoff on Dec. 6.

“Everything is about Herschel. I’ll be advising him to put it off until after the runoff,” said Jason Miller, a longtime adviser and sometime spokesman for Trump. “I’m not alone when I say President Trump’s best moves are to put all his efforts to get Herschel Walker elected.”

Miller said Trump would decide soon, and that he was not aware of anyone in his orbit who wanted him to stick with the original plan. Five advisers in regular touch with Trump said they hoped he would wait until after the runoff.

A Trump spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.

For Republicans, the upcoming Georgia Senate runoff posed an uncomfortable replay of twin Senate races in January of 2021, when Trump largely focused on his own grievances about the 2020 election rather than pulling the Republican candidates over the finish line. They ultimately lost, one of them to Warnock.

Trump has been eager to jump into the 2024 race, to the point that he kicked off a last-ditch scramble by aides and Republican leaders to stop him from announcing his candidacy on Monday night, on the eve of the election. Instead, Trump said he would make an announcement next Tuesday.

But the election returns so far have failed to add up to the blowout Trump was hoping to capitalize on, and he gave only brief, subdued remarks Tuesday night from a watch party at Mar-a-Lago, in the path of a hurricane and subject to an evacuation order.

Two people present with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night said he was in happy spirits, but one of these people said he spent time on Wednesday fuming about the loss by his endorsed candidate, Mehmet Oz, in the Pennsylvania Senate race and the Republican adulation of DeSantis.

By contrast, DeSantis spent election night celebrating a whopping, nearly 20-point victory with supporters chanting for him to run for president. A person close to the governor described his team as “euphoric” and called Tuesday’s results “disastrous” for Trump.

“I have never seen anything like it, and I don’t think any Republican has in Florida,” said Brian Ballard, a longtime powerful lobbyist in Florida. “He has realigned voting coalitions in Florida that I think will benefit the party for generations. After the election yesterday, he is even more so a leader in the Republican Party.”

Two DeSantis allies predicted the governor would wait until Florida’s legislative session ends in May to announce a White House bid, and in the meantime would campaign for Walker in the Georgia Senate runoff. A spokesman did not immediately respond to questions about DeSantis’ plans for the Georgia runoff or the 2024 race.

People who’ve worked with DeSantis say gaming out his moves is difficult because he keeps decision-making to himself, his wife and his chief of staff. A longtime legislative aide in Tallahassee said Tuesday’s results showed that DeSantis is a viable alternative to Trump, but that may not matter if Trump barrels ahead anyway.

“Nobody thinks the path for DeSantis is taking Trump head-on at this point,” the aide said, expecting Trump would “run the party to the ground.”

Even before Tuesday’s election results, Trump viewed DeSantis as a threat, according to the former president’s advisers, and Trump did not wait for polls to close to start attacking him. He mocked him last week as “Ron DeSanctimonious.” On Monday, he threatened to release damaging information about DeSantis should he run, according to the Wall Street Journal.

DeSantis did not return fire, other than holding his own campaign event on Saturday, competing with a Trump rally in Miami. DeSantis’s crowds and positive news coverage further irked Trump, who called him ungrateful for his support in 2018, according to people close to him.

On Wednesday Trump, marooned at his closed oceanfront club as the hurricane came ashore in Palm Beach and his advisers scrambled to go home, resumed the swipes, posting to his Truth Social website that he won more votes in Florida in 2020 than DeSantis did on Tuesday. In percentage terms, DeSantis won by about 20 points, whereas Trump carried the state by less than 4 points, and ran in a presidential year with higher turnout.

DeSantis was not the only Republican who appeared unintimidated to challenge Trump for the 2024 nomination. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) in his victory speech said he wished his grandfather had “lived long enough to see perhaps another man of color elected president of the United States.” Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin appeared on Fox News discussing his own White House aspirations, saying, “I appreciate it. I am always humbled on this discussion.”

Trump’s estranged vice president, Mike Pence, is also planning a 2024 run, with a book launch next week. “It was a year when we had all the wind behind our backs, and it should have been a better night,” Marc Short, a top adviser to Pence, said of Tuesday’s results. “But at the end of the day, we’re going to win the House and quite possibly the Senate. Elections are about the future, and a lot of Republicans are talking about the past. I think we can win on the issues. We have to just get better candidates.”

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), who won reelection by 15 points while the Trump-endorsed Senate candidate Don Bolduc lost, urged Trump not to declare his candidacy before the Georgia runoff. “It’s a terrible idea,” he said in a Fox News interview on Wednesday. “I don’t know who is advising the former president to make an announcement next week. They should be fired.”

The close adviser said Trump thinks he’s getting blamed for Republicans’ underperformance without ever get any credit for boosting candidates. In an interview posted ahead of the results on Tuesday with the network NewsNation, Trump said, “Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit. If they lose, I should not be blamed at all.”

Many Republicans are especially sensitive about Trump in Georgia because they blame his fraud claims for suppressing turnout in the 2021 Senate runoffs. Then Trump put up unsuccessful primary challenges against incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who refused to cooperate with his efforts to overturn the election results. Both were reelected Tuesday, and Trump-endorsed Walker ran about 5 points behind Kemp.

“Past evidence is we lose elections recently where Trump gets involved in our state,” said a Georgia Republican strategist who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak frankly about the runoff. In four elections in the state since November of 2020 — the presidential race, 2021 Senate runoffs, the 2022 Republican primary, and Tuesday’s election — the candidates Trump supported failed.

“We have had answers,” the strategist said of the impact Trump could have in the state, if he campaigns heavily for Walker in the runoff. “It would be a disaster.”

Republican Party officials were preparing to marshal a huge operation in Georgia and were talking to top donors on Wednesday about helping fund the effort, according to people familiar with the matter.

Races that have yet to be called in Arizona and Nevada will determine whether the Georgia runoff decides control of the Senate or pads either party’s majority. Even if Republicans eke out victories in those races, Tuesday’s split-screen between Trump and DeSantis is leading many Republicans to blame Trump and his endorsed candidates, with their allegiance to his election denial, for dragging down Republican prospects.

Even where Trump’s picks won, they often trailed other Republicans. In Ohio, for instance, Trump-endorsed J.D. Vance beat Democrat Tim Ryan for a Senate seat but underperformed Gov. Mike DeWine by 9.5 points and relied on about $40 million of help from outside groups — money that then wasn’t available to help Republicans in other close Senate races. Vance did not thank Trump in remarks Tuesday.

“In Pennsylvania, as in places around the country, the biggest takeaway has to be the toxic effect that Donald Trump had on completely winnable races,” said Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, who is retiring and whose seat Oz lost to Democrat John Fetterman on Tuesday. “His support for candidates whose primary attribute apparently was their loyalty to Donald Trump became a huge problem. And it seems that the more ultra MAGA a candidate was the more that candidate underperformed.”

Toomey, who voted to convict Trump at his impeachment trial after the Jan. 6 insurrection, said he did not classify Oz as “ultra MAGA,” but that his chances were dragged down by gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano and other extreme candidates also backed by Trump.

“I’m increasingly of the view that his influence is going to wane,” he said. “I suspect last night’s elections are going to accelerate that process because it’s unavoidable that his influence is so unhelpful to the party and to the prospects and that certainly should weigh on people’s considerations for 2024.”

Automata 10 Pack
Jun 21, 2007

Ten games published by Automata, on one cassette
Please for the love of god Trump should run. Please please. Continue the disaster hurricane.

Spiffster
Oct 7, 2009

I'm good... I Haven't slept for a solid 83 hours, but yeah... I'm good...


Lipstick Apathy
I want comedy option of him getting so vain if he loses the primary he runs a third party out of spite.

alf_pogs
Feb 15, 2012


like surely directly telling Trump "don't run" only increases the chance that he will

IPlayVideoGames
Nov 28, 2004

I unironically like Anders as a character.

alf_pogs posted:

like surely directly telling Trump "don't run" only increases the chance that he will

If I remember, trump usually does what the last person told him to do. So you have to rush to get that last word in.

cat botherer
Jan 6, 2022

I am interested in most phases of data processing.

Automata 10 Pack posted:

Please for the love of god Trump should run. Please please. Continue the disaster hurricane.
That worked out great in 2016.

Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi
Mar 26, 2005

I mean, he has to run, surely. His legal woes are only going to get worse and he’ll need an increasingly steady stream of cash coming in to deal with that. Add in his narcissistic tendencies and the not-insignificant amount of people out there who have been like, “2024 THE REVENGE TOUR, BABY! TAKE AMERICA BACK!” since Jan 20, 2021, and it just doesn’t make any sense to me that he’d sit it out.

Kalit
Nov 6, 2006

The great thing about the thousands of slaughtered Palestinian children is that they can't pull away when you fondle them or sniff their hair.

That's a Biden success story.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Trump might cancel his 2024 campaign announcement next week because his aides are telling him that announcing too close to the midterms will taint him with their stink.

https://twitter.com/iarnsdorf/status/1590491655224045569

If this is true, I bet he's pissed that he didn't announce it the eve of election night

Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012

Jaxyon posted:

I'd say I hope that this election made it clear that the "lets overturn the election" poo poo was a political loser, but I know in my heart it's not going to.

Yeah, I think it will only be clear to them that "let's overturn the elections this way" was a loser.

Timeless Appeal
May 28, 2006

Gumball Gumption posted:

Yeah, I think it will only be clear to them that "let's overturn the elections this way" was a loser.
They're not going to overturn elections, but they are going to continue to make elections lovely.

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Sir Lemming
Jan 27, 2009

It's a piece of JUNK!

BiggerBoat posted:

Are you talking about talk radio? Because this is not remotely close to being true.

No I meant Colbert, Kimmel, etc.

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