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Should I step down as head of twitter
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Yes 420 4.43%
No 69 0.73%
Goku 9001 94.85%
Total: 9490 votes
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GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

I'm tired of all these musks

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ben shapino
Nov 22, 2020

Kingo Ligma posted:

There are an infinite number of examples you could have chosen for why this is bad that aren't "unlicensed incest porn may be negatively affected". Please log off and put your feet on some grass for a good ten minutes.

Shut up

Decon
Nov 22, 2015


Flowers for QAnon posted:

You pretty much could of chosen any topic as an example, and you went with incest art. Curious choice.

I mean... The incest fanart/fanfic stuff on queer fandom Twitter is loving wild. I don't know the whole story, but Tamsyn Muir (writer of the Locked Tomb series) got chased off Twitter with death threats because of some fanfic that involved second cousins loving.

No, really, an author of modest success gave up her online presence because she got death threats over poo poo she didn't write and didn't even seem to know about. Because fandom Twitter is uber toxic.

I only know about this because I went looking for why my new favorite writer stopped posting about her RimWorld shenanigans. Yes, knowing about this series of events does make me feel like going outside and putting toes in grass.

Btw, since there was 40k talk here; if you like 40k, do yourself a favor and go get a copy of Gideon the Ninth. It's not the same and not trying to be but there's undeniable commonality and it's a good, new series.

Doctor Butts
May 21, 2002

Sylvian Wastes posted:

I wasn't talking about porn at all.

Oh, well in that case

MasterSitsu
Nov 23, 2013

Terminally Bored posted:

A billionaire doesn't know or care that the results of this loving poll won't indicate what twitter users really want but rather how many nazis the platform already has lmao

Congrat's to my best friend's rapist on getting unsuspended from Twitter I guess. I kept an account around to watch the poo poo go down but I think that's about it for me. Jesus Christ.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
Why are we talking about incest

tak
Jan 31, 2003

lol demowned
Grimey Drawer

Decon posted:

do yourself a favor and go get a copy of Gideon the Ninth

it's quite good. by far the best space necromancer bone magic fantasy-scifi book series I've ever read

pixaal
Jan 8, 2004

All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.


CharlestheHammer posted:

Why are we talking about incest

internet I guess

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017




Really telling on himself that he views himself as the Sole Arbiter of the quality of all things, that he runs his companies as his own glory Wish lists and sweat shop/ cults, and he can't fathom the idea anyone would ever let the plebes just run things for themselves without the iron fist of leadership guiding them.

...How could anyone think this guy is a fascist? I just don't get it! :rolleyes:

Sydney Bottocks
Oct 15, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 5 days!

pixaal posted:

internet I guess

Musk's dad impregnated Musk's (step)sister so it sort of fits I guess

A farting mink
Nov 6, 2022

by Pragmatica
Mr. Musk

Kingo Ligma
Aug 24, 2019

Ask me about calling people racist because I failed geography.

Sorry, please continue enjoying your incest porn.

waffle iron
Jan 16, 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVj4kZF-Fgk

The People's Champion Adam Conover

FirstnameLastname
Jul 10, 2022

Castor Poe posted:

It all makes sense now. He wants to be Dril so loving bad.

this is definitely a huge part of it

he's desperate for that validation and respect and i think fundamentally misunderstands where it comes from. good posts aren't good because lots of people hit like and said they're good, they're just good. it's not something purchasable

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

Roose is loose.
🐓🐓🐓✊🪧

https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1595508339890274304?s=46&t=n4ZSopGfOOgIHuD5uC8n3Q

Contra Duck
Nov 4, 2004

#1 DAD
lmao elon musk paid 44 billion dollars to make gab

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017




This Guy Blows

Like holy poo poo, how is anyone this bad at humor? Data would tell him to get off the stage

Decon
Nov 22, 2015


FirstnameLastname posted:

this is definitely a huge part of it

he's desperate for that validation and respect and i think fundamentally misunderstands where it comes from. good posts aren't good because lots of people hit like and said they're good, they're just good. it's not something purchasable

That's unfathomable to Trump and Elon types.

When you're born with an entire silver dining set jammed up your rear end, the concept of not being able to buy literally anything, and I mean literally anything, you want seems to escape you. Those two dickheads have bought fame, further wealth, degrees (or at least vague affiliation in Elon's case) from universities, and entire mythologies about their personal stories and aptitudes. Trump spent millions to build his savvy businessman myth, and Elon spent millions on his eccentric engineer myth.

And both flushed all that right down the toilet by getting sucked down the alt right radicalization pipeline like the sad, lonely teenagers they'll always been deep inside because they're the broken products of sociopathic fathers.

vaginite
Feb 8, 2006

I'm comin' for you, colonel.



Why doesn’t Elon just hire some comedy writers to ghost write his tweets like a normal rich person

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



FirstnameLastname posted:

this is definitely a huge part of it

he's desperate for that validation and respect and i think fundamentally misunderstands where it comes from. good posts aren't good because lots of people hit like and said they're good, they're just good. it's not something purchasable

When you have bought literally everything else in your life, including friends, the idea that people would just be good at something without money being involved, and having a quality you just can't buy must be infuriating.

Good

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

Decon posted:

That's unfathomable to Trump and Elon types.

When you're born with an entire silver dining set jammed up your rear end, the concept of not being able to buy literally anything, and I mean literally anything, you want seems to escape you. Those two dickheads have bought fame, further wealth, degrees (or at least vague affiliation in Elon's case) from universities, and entire mythologies about their personal stories and aptitudes. Trump spent millions to build his savvy businessman myth, and Elon spent millions on his eccentric engineer myth.

And both flushed all that right down the toilet by getting sucked down the alt right radicalization pipeline like the sad, lonely teenagers they'll always been deep inside because they're the broken products of sociopathic fathers.

Trump is a poo poo human being but he can at least post.

Elon cannot.

Clouseau
Aug 3, 2003

My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

vaginite posted:

Why doesn’t Elon just hire some comedy writers to ghost write his tweets like a normal rich person

He tried that once actually (well, not to write his tweets.)

confused
Oct 3, 2003

It's just business.
Now he's so far up his own rear end that he's attacking Kara Swisher.

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1595498857256914947

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



kazil posted:

Trump is a poo poo human being but he can at least post.

Elon cannot.

Yeah Trump sucks poo poo in all kinds of ways but even he can at least be clever in a post in a lizard-brain way: Musk is just...Horrifically unfunny. It's like Greg Gutfeld but somehow delivered with anti-charisma.

Also lmao at the Twitter King with "millions of real followers guyz! EPIC MEME" getting barely sub 200k likes on his first post with loving Stephen King, and then like 1.5k on the next ones.

At least turn your bots on so you look less pathetic

Ups_rail
Dec 8, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Chernobyl baby posted:

I know this is getting off-topic and I am not trying to defend fashy idiots who don't get the satire but imo 40k is also just a bad satire. The amount of hand-wringing done in that setting by the writers over how "the humans are bad but all the aliens are worse, and at least the trains run on time on the hiveworlds" annoys the hell out of me. Because of the grand scale it doesn't convey very well just how bad and hosed up living in the imperium actually is

The issue with satire is that stupid people wont get it.

Take Chapple Show how many people were laughing at Dave screaming the N word for satire vs other reasons.

Decon
Nov 22, 2015


Ups_rail posted:

The issue with satire is that stupid people wont get it.

Take Chapple Show how many people were laughing at Dave screaming the N word for satire vs other reasons.

Or the Colbert Report being taken as an actual conservative counterpart to the Daily Show.

Dipshits not realizing they're being mocked is almost safer to bet on than whether the sun will rise tomorrow morning.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Elon wants to populate the earth with his offspring.

He wants to recreate the Hapsburgs


Elon Muskcest the IVth being wheeled up to the crowd of neck collared people being required to bow to this man or their collar explodes.

Ups_rail
Dec 8, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
I will amend my remark about satire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whyJCcjf6to

no one is stupid enough to go ahead with swifts modest proposal

waffle iron
Jan 16, 2004

confused posted:

Now he's so far up his own rear end that he's attacking Kara Swisher.

Kara Swisher is a garbage tech reporter that mostly functions as a courtier to the VC class. Even a couple weeks ago she was positive to bullish on the potential of Musk's ownership. She's happy to say that cryptocurrency is the future. I have no idea what flipped her when even a week ago she was really dug in on dumb opinions and retorted that now she's an opinion journalist/writer, not an actual journalist. I have to think it's the Colorado shooting and twitter being essential to the demonization of LGBT+ people and her being a lesbian.

Edit: This god awful tweet: https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1594019142410960897

waffle iron fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Nov 23, 2022

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



Decon posted:

Or the Colbert Report being taken as an actual conservative counterpart to the Daily Show.

Dipshits not realizing they're being mocked is almost safer to bet on than whether the sun will rise tomorrow morning.

Even if it's not satire but open criticism and critique of their values they still don't loving get it.

Look at how many of these dipshits unironically think TNG or DS9 is loving favor of Capitalism and their warped concept of free speech.

How anyone can watch DS9's Bell Riots or TNG's the Drumhead and not realize that Star Trek is directly loving critiquing Capitalism and Fascism/ regressive ideals I have no goddamn clue.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


Flowers for QAnon posted:

You pretty much could of chosen any topic as an example, and you went with incest art. Curious choice.

Kingo Ligma posted:

There are an infinite number of examples you could have chosen for why this is bad that aren't "unlicensed incest porn may be negatively affected". Please log off and put your feet on some grass for a good ten minutes.

Interesting how both of you, when presented with family members kissing, immediately jump to incest porn.


Sylvian Wastes posted:

I wasn't talking about porn at all.

confused
Oct 3, 2003

It's just business.

waffle iron posted:

Kara Swisher is a garbage tech reporter that mostly functions as a courtier to the VC class. Even a couple weeks ago she was positive to bullish on the potential of Musk's ownership. She's happy to say that cryptocurrency is the future. I have no idea what flipped her when even a week ago she was really dug in on dumb opinions and retorted that now she's an opinion journalist/writer, not an actual journalist. I have to think it's the Colorado shooting and twitter being essential to the demonization of LGBT+ people and her being a lesbian.

Did she run over your cat or something?

In my experience, she's a smart, talented interviewer who is willing to ask hard questions.

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
If you haven’t seen the second series of Picard then you should do, it’s essentially a very long TNG episode.

Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxCRRcWSt4I

Ups_rail
Dec 8, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

TulliusCicero posted:

Look at how many of these dipshits unironically think TNG or DS9 is loving favor of Capitalism and their warped concept of free speech.

The firangi are coded in a problematic way.

They ve had some really racist episodes.

Tom Paris is a racist chud.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

Darchangel posted:

Interesting how both of you, when presented with family members kissing, immediately jump to incest porn.

Oh my god no one cares about stupid incest poo poo stop digging

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Ups_rail posted:

The issue with satire is that stupid people wont get it.

Take Chapple Show how many people were laughing at Dave screaming the N word for satire vs other reasons.

steve earle (country singer) was very anti bush/war and eventually just put up a hammer and sickle behind him on stage because lyrics like "just another poor boy off to fight a rich man's war" didn't get his point across

Lowen SoDium
Jun 5, 2003

Highen Fiber
Clapping Larry

learnincurve posted:

If you haven’t seen the second series of Picard then you should do, it’s essentially a very long TNG episode.

A very long lovely TNG episode.

rotinaj
Sep 5, 2008

Fun Shoe

Darchangel posted:

Interesting how both of you, when presented with family members kissing, immediately jump to incest porn.

There are a lot of puriteens in various fandoms who rage out at one another for shipping characters, even only something like thinking “i wish mercutio and romeo would get together”

Some of that is due to incest or age or it being a power imbalance

Those freakouts and weird bandwagoning campaigns are bad

Any deeper analysis of the situation gets into a whole discussion that GBS is probably not gonna be the best place for, and is gonna get poo poo on by the gbs lol crew

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Rebel Blob
Mar 1, 2008

Extinction for our time

I don't know why Musk deleted this, because he's just continued to dig that hole for himself.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595466497836843009
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595464142147624960

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