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bigstupidjellyfish
Oct 25, 2010
I was gonna say "he's barrel-chested, but its one of those spiked barrels from an old platformer game," but then I googled it and I can find no examples of what I'm talking about. Were there really no spiked barrels in video games? Well anyway I thought about it and decided it didn't even really make sense as a joke in the first place and I was better off not posting it.

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Rynn
Jul 23, 2003

How long until Elon starts posting that 13/52 horseshit

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Rynn posted:

13/52 horseshit

what is that

hailthefish
Oct 24, 2010

Beeftweeter posted:

what is that

More ~it's statistics, the numbers don't lie, I'm not racist I'm a race realist~ anti-Black racism poo poo

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

hailthefish posted:

More ~it's statistics, the numbers don't lie, I'm not racist I'm a race realist~ anti-Black racism poo poo

oh

well if he subscribes to that end wokeness idiot then probably pretty soon

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


christ he really flew off today

hailthefish
Oct 24, 2010

Specifically it's the assertion that Black people comprise 13% of the US population but are 53% or whatever of arrests or charges, the exact numbers and claims very but the crux is insinuating that it's some inherent criminality of Black people and not, you know, anything at all to do with overpolicing, systemic racism, and cycles of poverty induced by both those things.

Anytime someone starts down this road you can safely assume they're a huge piece of poo poo.

edit: specifically it's the implication that this is some inherent criminality that's the bad part, someone pointing out disproportionate racial disparities in arrests or w/e isn't necessarily being racist if they're using it to talk about how the cops are bastards and the US prison system is slavery in a hat and sunglasses, but the way This Kind of Guy does it is immediately obvious as not being that, they're using the statistics to claim that actually overpolicing Black neighborhoods is good and justified by that statistic (rather than in large part the cause of that statistic) and usually festooned with lots of "I'm not racist but..." and "I'm just a race realist!" stuff

hailthefish has issued a correction as of 01:26 on May 7, 2023

Rynn
Jul 23, 2003

hailthefish posted:

Specifically it's the assertion that Black people comprise 13% of the US population but are 53% or whatever of arrests or charges, the exact numbers and claims very but the crux is insinuating that it's some inherent criminality of Black people and not, you know, anything at all to do with overpolicing, systemic racism, and cycles of poverty induced by both those things.

Anytime someone starts down this road you can safely assume they're a huge piece of poo poo.

I feel like his tweet with that telescope on the white on black crime or whatever was dipping his toes in going down that road. He absolutely thinks it though

hailthefish
Oct 24, 2010

Rynn posted:

I feel like his tweet with that telescope on the white on black crime or whatever was dipping his toes in going down that road. He absolutely thinks it though

he's a white south african who left south africa with the end of apartheid he 100% believes it with his whole grossly swollen, sclerotic heart

DAD LOST MY IPOD
Feb 3, 2012

Fats Dominar is on the case


I think a lot of Elon’s crassest and stupidest far right posturing is a transparent attempt to ingratiate himself with the party that will let him grift and scam and cut his taxes/eviscerate labor laws for him. But the racial stuff is 100% a core belief, there’s no way he grew up with the background he did without being tremendously racist.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

I think a lot of Elon’s crassest and stupidest far right posturing is a transparent attempt to ingratiate himself with the party that will let him grift and scam and cut his taxes/eviscerate labor laws for him. But the racial stuff is 100% a core belief, there’s no way he grew up with the background he did without being tremendously racist.

Does playing grabass with catturd and ian miles chong actually ingratiate him with anyone that's responsible for policy though? Most republican senate committee members don't give a gently caress about these people or actively dislike them, the only explanation is that it's a core belief.

CubanMissile
Apr 22, 2003

Of Hulks and Spider-Men
He 100% seems like the type that thinks there’s black people, and then there’s racist thing, and the only difference between the two is if he likes the person or they entertain him in some way.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1654971702571331584


still mad about the mine thing. the community note has now been removed, by the way. (screenshot of it wasn't taken by me)

Cool NIN Shirt
Nov 26, 2007

by vyelkin

i am harry posted:

seriously what’s up with the rib cage is that a birth defect or something?

He’s 50, overweight, and doesn’t exercise much, that’s just abdominal fat

War and Pieces
Apr 24, 2022

DID NOT VOTE FOR FETTERMAN
Is the canard about Korn Freaks Unleashed true?

Rudeboy Detective
Apr 28, 2011


AreWeDrunkYet posted:

He's very lumpy



is that joey from friends???

Panfilo
Aug 27, 2011

EXISTENCE IS PAIN😬
So the emerald mine is just Errol's word over Elon? People are demanding proof it exists.

Cool NIN Shirt
Nov 26, 2007

by vyelkin
The “emerald mine” was a hole in the ground Errol would gently caress. Elon denies it because he’s embarrassed

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

Panfilo posted:

So the emerald mine is just Errol's word over Elon? People are demanding proof it exists.
yeah
and Errol said that it was all under-the-table, so there wouldn't be any actual records

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
loling at him furiously denying the emerald mine existed only for his dad to go yeah i owned an emerald mine what of it

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014

bigstupidjellyfish posted:

I was gonna say "he's barrel-chested, but its one of those spiked barrels from an old platformer game," but then I googled it and I can find no examples of what I'm talking about. Were there really no spiked barrels in video games? Well anyway I thought about it and decided it didn't even really make sense as a joke in the first place and I was better off not posting it.

how is a barrel with spikes supposed to roll? stupid noob

Coolness Averted
Feb 20, 2007

oh don't worry, I can't smell asparagus piss, it's in my DNA

GO HOGG WILD!
🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗

Panfilo posted:

So the emerald mine is just Errol's word over Elon? People are demanding proof it exists.

It's Elon's word against Errol and Elon's word, with Elon now backpedaling and saying he was wrong abd offering the most pathetic "Oh yeah? Well until I see a notarized deed I won't believe colonists ever engaged in resource extraction"

Now that it's also more in the public consciousness that his rags to riches story is BS, he's also trying to reframe his family's wealth as past tense, and not connected to his life at all.

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

lol Elon is going to tweet back the most epic burn in another 4 hours after he thinks of one

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1654899298830540801

Coolness Averted
Feb 20, 2007

oh don't worry, I can't smell asparagus piss, it's in my DNA

GO HOGG WILD!
🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗

WhyteRyce posted:

lol Elon is going to tweet back the most epic burn in another 4 hours after he thinks of one

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1654899298830540801

he's going to give her twitter account to American Occidental College 🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

leftist heap posted:

goddamn his replies really are the worst fuckers lmao
interesting

lumpentroll
Mar 4, 2020

Coolness Averted posted:

he's going to give her twitter account to American Occidental College 🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥

musk ftw

Niwrad
Jul 1, 2008

Panfilo posted:

So the emerald mine is just Errol's word over Elon? People are demanding proof it exists.

Elon used to talk about it.

https://web.archive.org/web/2014090...bout-the-money/

He grew up white in one of the nicest parts of South Africa and went to one of the nicest high schools in the country. The idea he was some poor struggling immigrant is comical.

Hashy
Nov 20, 2005

perfectly possible he grew up rich but had very little when he came to the us

It doesn't really impact the fact that he's rich now because he was one of the few lucky outcomes (right place right time) from the dot com bubble and they had to oust him because he was running the company into the ground, then he used all his money to buy into Tesla when they were already onto something and wormed his way into leadership and took credit for engineering successes. That poo poo is way funnier and more pathetic

kalensc
Sep 10, 2003

Only Trust Your Respirator, kupo!
Art/Quote by: Rubby

Malloc Voidstar posted:


https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1654971702571331584


still mad about the mine thing. the community note has now been removed, by the way. (screenshot of it wasn't taken by me)

This fucker mentions transitioning even when discussing his own adolescence.

Dr. VooDoo
May 4, 2006


Yeah his dad came out and said “The mine? Yeah it existed but it was all an illegal operation that was all under the table to make even more money” and considering this was an illegal mining operation in apartheid era South Africa you know they were doing some balls out massive human rights violation and there’s more than one unmarked collection of graves tied to Musk’s family. If he had just admitted to the mine thing instead people wouldn’t have turned to his dad to find out the mine existed but was actually much worse than anyone thought somehow

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


Dr. VooDoo posted:

Yeah his dad came out and said “The mine? Yeah it existed but it was all an illegal operation that was all under the table to make even more money” and considering this was an illegal mining operation in apartheid era South Africa you know they were doing some balls out massive human rights violation and there’s more than one unmarked collection of graves tied to Musk’s family. If he had just admitted to the mine thing instead people wouldn’t have turned to his dad to find out the mine existed but was actually much worse than anyone thought somehow

And yet there are people out there who think he's the brightest mind of our generation

Very stupid, sometimes surprisingly wealthy people

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable

Hashy posted:

perfectly possible he grew up rich but had very little when he came to the us

It doesn't really impact the fact that he's rich now because he was one of the few lucky outcomes (right place right time) from the dot com bubble and they had to oust him because he was running the company into the ground, then he used all his money to buy into Tesla when they were already onto something and wormed his way into leadership and took credit for engineering successes. That poo poo is way funnier and more pathetic

My understanding is that his involvement with PayPal was exclusively just investment funds from daddies chaos emerald mines.

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
he wanted to name paypal X and all the investors thought he was trying to start a porn business

Utz
Aug 1, 2008

by vyelkin
i thought "ftw" meant "gently caress the world" until yesterday

but in the elon context i guess it does

shackleford
Sep 4, 2006

Dr. VooDoo posted:

Yeah his dad came out and said “The mine? Yeah it existed but it was all an illegal operation that was all under the table to make even more money” and considering this was an illegal mining operation in apartheid era South Africa you know they were doing some balls out massive human rights violation and there’s more than one unmarked collection of graves tied to Musk’s family. If he had just admitted to the mine thing instead people wouldn’t have turned to his dad to find out the mine existed but was actually much worse than anyone thought somehow

:actually: it was an illegal mining operation in zambia conducted by apartheid era south africans

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Malloc Voidstar posted:


https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1654971702571331584


still mad about the mine thing. the community note has now been removed, by the way. (screenshot of it wasn't taken by me)

spanky the dolphin
Sep 3, 2006

https://twitter.com/_VelezKevin/status/1653940359758479362?s=20

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

Malloc Voidstar posted:


https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1654971702571331584


still mad about the mine thing. the community note has now been removed, by the way. (screenshot of it wasn't taken by me)

why he look like jeffkkk

Martian
May 29, 2005

Grimey Drawer

shyduck posted:

Yeah but this version gives Elon money, so it's better

I don't think it does, though

Which makes it funnier

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ben shapino
Nov 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1655048884723261442

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