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FlamingLiberal posted:I just don’t understand how he can think the Babylon Bee is funny They're making jokes about his critics instead of making jokes about him. That's all it really takes. The Onion and Hard Drive both regularly mocked the hell out of him, even before the Twitter purchase. Meanwhile, the Babylon Bee have been giant Musk fanboys for years. While the Onion was joking about Teslas catching fire, the Babylon Bee was writing fanfiction about Musk sending "bulletproof flamethrower tanks from the future that can go 500 miles on a single charge" to Ukraine just to prove that he could do things way better than any government could. Wasn't actually funny in the slightest, because they were so busy praising him they forgot to tell a joke, but I suspect Musk's happy with it anyway! https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1438939019925151746 https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1500154176524881920
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FlamingLiberal posted:I just don’t understand how he can think the Babylon Bee is funny Have you seen the conservative comedy scene? It's pretty dire.
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Main Paineframe posted:They're making jokes about his critics instead of making jokes about him. That's all it really takes. (Meanwhile Twitter has broken phone 2-FA for people with Ukrainian phone numbers)
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Dec 20, 2022 19:23
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Oh, hey, I guess the Bee does have more than the one joke.
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The Bee used to be an fairly innocuous "The Onion but specifically for church-goers" and apparently had some good ones in that regard, they're definitely "The Onion but Ben Shapiro" now tho
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Yeah, I remember it being funny because it was making fun of known material. Like the really specific Onion articles making fun of a place where it's 100% clear it was written by someone who's actually been there.
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you know i really thought elon was doing that poll as cover for what he actually planned on doing, but the incredible levels of Not Mad that have been erupting from his tweets since then have me convinced that he actually expected to win the poll, probably overwhelmingly which just owns, poor baby went to twitter for affirmation and it utterly shat on him and now tesla stock continues tumbling
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Again, we really need to be clear that Musk is a pathological narcissist. There's not actually a person in there, just a bottomless pit sucking in attention and praise. When people say 'billionaires aren't people', it's because there genuinely does need to be something deeply, badly wrong with you for you to spend your life engaging in the sort of deeply antisocial behaviour that a fortune that gigantic is founded on.
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I hope this was all worth it for the lulz Elon https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1605324741086023682?s=20&t=j-GIXDP53aB7G4SszT58Yw
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FlamingLiberal posted:I hope this was all worth it for the lulz Elon Owning the libs by no longer owning at least $5 billion that I woke up with this morning.
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Looks like Hotz is out. https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1605341207109939201 A little perspective before he hopped on. https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1592955427179765760
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/freddurst/status/1605230741826129920?s=20&t=AXIXu1x-MQy8eqiujaOcVw I...What is he trying to say here? Is he being sarcastic? Is this ironic respect? Or is he serious? Also, what the gently caress does Fred Durst think he's gonna do for Elon if this is serious? Is he gonna play old Limp Bizkit songs in the elevators to replace the elevator music? Like, what the gently caress?
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Archonex posted:I...What is he trying to say here? Is he being sarcastic? Is this ironic respect? Or is he serious? His feed's full of NFT stuff so I'd guess he's just brainpoisoned about Doge Lord
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Teratrain posted:His feed's full of NFT stuff so I'd guess he's just brainpoisoned about Doge Lord Man, if this is how he is nowadays then it's no wonder Wes Borland booked it to start his own band.
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Durst has actually directed a bunch of TV episodes of different shows over the last 10-15 years. A lot of B/C grade celebrities got very into NFT poo poo so that part doesn't shock me.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Durst has actually directed a bunch of TV episodes of different shows over the last 10-15 years. A lot of B/C grade celebrities got very into NFT poo poo so that part doesn't shock me. A lot of them were paid pretty well to promote it. He could just be cashing in.
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Lemon King posted:Looks like Hotz is out. This comes after pressing Elon for technical details of his plans on a chat and getting called a "Jackass" when Elon couldn't follow along. https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/zrra0z/elon_musk_calls_an_engineer_a_jackass_and_a_moron/
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The folks Musk was posing with at the world cup final were basically a who's who of evil. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/12/20/elon-musk-spotted-world-cup-final/
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Archonex posted:Also, what the gently caress does Fred Durst think he's gonna do for Elon if this is serious? He's going to provide the new Twitter corporate spirit anthem
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https://twitter.com/iamraisini/status/1605538033612177408?s=20&t=aHIYoSLqAJC1op5pMf7xaQ this dude is completely clueless and his wealth is built entirely on cultivating a phony tony stark image. he crumples at the tiniest amount of scrutiny, jesus christ "hey can you explain what you mean?" "uhhh umm.... gently caress YOU!"
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High velocity features is peak upper management talk that means nothing.
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Looking increasingly likely he is just going to ignore the poll.
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Didn't count because people who don't like him were allowed to vote.
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That just makes it funnier because I think a lot of people assumed this was just a way for him to save face well he slinked away and had already wanted to appoint someone else to man the sinking ship. If this was a genuine attempt to get people to boost his ego and it back fired that's hilarious.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Looking increasingly likely he is just going to ignore the poll. It was literally just a "Will you go out with me? [ ] YES [ ] NO" note on lined paper only to the entire internet instead of just the pretty girl in the seat in front of him in class. And he's handling the "No" response by picking up his desk and throwing it at the teacher's head.
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Starting to think it's the latter considering he has mostly ignored the whole thing since he lost, other than to say he'll stay on until further notice. There have been a few Tweets he's replied to that are claiming that bots influenced the outcome, which also makes me think that he's choosing to ignore the entire thing
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Yeah, he'd had his ego wounded and wanted proof that all his users still loved him, simple as that. No plan, just an addict in sudden need of a fix.
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I just really enjoy how insecure he is about Twitter. He's clearly embarrassed that he had to buy it because he doesn't know how to make it successful. He won't go hands off and let it just exist because it's not profitable enough (and was never going to be) and everything he tries just seems to make everyone angrier at him. Has anyone else checked out Tumblr lately? It's kinda chill after so much exposure to the systemic hatred that embodies Twitter nowadays.
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I get that internet ads are a scam in general, but if you're paying $44bn for an ad-supported business, you should at least know how the scam works: https://twitter.com/calebgamman/status/1605500174066806784
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Teratrain posted:Has anyone else checked out Tumblr lately? It's kinda chill after so much exposure to the systemic hatred that embodies Twitter nowadays. The general reactions over there seems to be: A) "lol. lmao." B) "We welcome all the Twitter refugees but don't gently caress this place up like you did back there." C) "Why didn't Musk ban links to Tumblr too?! I feel so left out..."
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Teratrain posted:I just really enjoy how insecure he is about Twitter. He's clearly embarrassed that he had to buy it because he doesn't know how to make it successful. He won't go hands off and let it just exist because it's not profitable enough (and was never going to be) and everything he tries just seems to make everyone angrier at him. Yeah seems like former twitter addicts, or whoever really needed to use a microblogging site for.. whatever reason that might be.. headed over to Mastodon, and everyone who was only using Twitter as the "popular social media thing" of the moment headed back Tumblr.
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Not that I'm happy for people losing their jobs, but it's somewhat satisfying to see all of these pro-Elon 'hardcore' staff who should have seen warning signs miles away and yet decided to stay on either be cut or disillusioned. Real voting for the face-eating panthers stuff.
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So is there a Mastodon server that's decent enough about shitposting, cursing, and also not letting Nazis scoot across the whole floor everywhere? The mastodon.social server is never accepting new members and I am not looking forward to inferring which server to try and having to make multiple attempts at it.
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Original_Z posted:Not that I'm happy for people losing their jobs, but it's somewhat satisfying to see all of these pro-Elon 'hardcore' staff who should have seen warning signs miles away and yet decided to stay on either be cut or disillusioned. Real voting for the face-eating panthers stuff. A good chunk of them are on Visa's and have no choice.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:So is there a Mastodon server that's decent enough about shitposting, cursing, and also not letting Nazis scoot across the whole floor everywhere? The mastodon.social server is never accepting new members and I am not looking forward to inferring which server to try and having to make multiple attempts at it. I could probably just invite you to mastodon.social if that's what you really want~
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Depends--do I get in trouble if I drop gently caress bombs on mastodon.social? Gonna say no as it's not in the server rules~
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