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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%
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Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.


Elon Musk joins the hallowed halls of people like Ben Sharpio, LibsofTikTok, and Dave Chapelle who have self-immolated/made careers out of being confrontationally wrong and annoying.

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kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

Elon and the very small group of people he replies to all post a bunch of racism, I'm not sure we need more examples of random accounts on twitter posting more.

Sockser
Jun 28, 2007

This world only remembers the results!




Kit Walker posted:

The comments are a combination of higher level racists calling the OP Jewish or saying they don’t want foreigners in America. Plus a handful of people calling this out as naked racism. Elon’s done a great job alright

on both sides of the aisle, posting is way up on X! #sports

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

kazil posted:

Elon and the very small group of people he replies to all post a bunch of racism, I'm not sure we need more examples of random accounts on twitter posting more.

Offler
Mar 27, 2010

A Strange Aeon posted:

"And yet all the while, at the bottom of his heart, every-one knows
that this is humbug. We all rail against class-distinctions, but very few
people seriously want to abolish them. Here you come upon the important
fact that every revolutionary opinion draws part of its strength from a
secret conviction that nothing can be changed. “
–George Orwell, Road to Wigan Pier

Orwell is a personal hero of mine and the above quote one of my favorites because it's such an honest expression. I don't think it's self-defeating, just honest, and obviously he himself was convinced enough to voluntarily go to Spain to fight when he certainly could have stayed put instead.

Everyone should read Down and Out in London and Paris, his non fiction is excellent and should be better known.

I really should read that one again, I only remember some random snippets now, some of them are likely from other books or misremembered. He's got a homie in Paris, the two of them working as plongeurs on and off, making less money than they need to survive. Wearing several layers of clothes so they can skip on an impossible hotel bill, and the front desk guy would know they were skipping out if they took their suitcases. He describes the effects on your body if you eat only bread and margarine for weeks. Constant stress of starvation in Paris, but at least they're hustling and can at least dream that things can change.

England is much more miserable, even though there's no risk of starvation. For some sadistic reason everyone that gets government-paid food needs to walk in a constant loop around the entire loving country, so it's just a bunch of homeless dudes shuffling along the roads and everyone's feet are swollen or bleeding. One night his bunk mate propositions him for sex, something Orwell thinks must happen fairly often since it's all dudes. Neither Orwell or I can understand why everyone is forced to walk all the time, since it solves nothing and just makes everyone miserable.

Then the book ends with a story of some attempted cocaine smuggling, where everyone in a slum dwelling works together to keep some jars of Austrian coke away from the French police who is there looking for it. It sounds like something from a farce, and I think Orwell wasn't there and admits that this is just what he heard. The cops finds the jars, but the guy who was about to smuggle it avoids jail since he had already been duped into buying face powder instead of coke.

SatansOnion
Dec 12, 2011

Time_pants posted:

Because he's young and cute enough to make people shut off their rational brains and be like, "Well, maybe Elon Musk isn't that bad..." without realizing that, yes, false expressions of love purely for the benefit of the camera and one's own public perception is, in fact, that bad.

also he's too young yet to gainsay his father, or cause his father to feel foolish. you can rest assured that the second this happens, little Butt-dial Musk will be cast aside just like the others, in favor of a fresh one too young to know better

poisonpill
Nov 8, 2009

The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.


Musk will continue having children for at least a decade

Time_pants
Jun 25, 2012

Now sauntering to the ring, please welcome the lackadaisical style of the man who is always doing something...


This poo poo fuckin tires me out.

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

no need to post this dumbass (re: op)

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

hey everyone look hey everyone everyone look look look its the reason you deleted twitter Lol

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.
If there is an urge to post some egregious twitter take at least screenshot it so it doesn’t add one iota of engagement by having it flash up on everyone’s SA page. Those are a rich vein of engagement seconds!!

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

hey guys check it out I found a guy being racist on Stormfront

btw please buy my art

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


priznat posted:

If there is an urge to post some egregious twitter take at least screenshot it so it doesn’t add one iota of engagement by having it flash up on everyone’s SA page. Those are a rich vein of engagement seconds!!

Elon doesn't get a red cent for embeds, only costs.

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


cumpantry posted:

hey everyone look hey everyone everyone look look look its the reason you deleted twitter Lol

I'm up to something like 20 people deleting their accounts and about half those were small businesses / artists who have succeeded subsequently on other platforms

idk I vote we keep the "holy poo poo look at this actual neonazi" content coming

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

imo it’s only funny when it’s adjacent to brands and thus can theoretically result in a seven-second suspension of ad revenue before everyone looks the other way

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

Potato Salad posted:

I'm up to something like 20 people deleting their accounts and about half those were small businesses / artists who have succeeded subsequently on other platforms

idk I vote we keep the "holy poo poo look at this actual neonazi" content coming

i vote you keep to pestering your friends with it instead of us even if you have good intentions

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

i didnt delete cuz someone showed me that kind of poo poo, i deleted cuz twitter dropped it at my front door (among other concerns)

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
maybe but its still giving views or some BS metric.

also nitter seems to be crappying the bed for the last few days, it would be nice if goons screencap or copypaste posts.

E the Shaggy
Mar 29, 2010

Waffle House posted:

Elon Musk joins the hallowed halls of people like Ben Sharpio, LibsofTikTok, and Dave Chapelle who have self-immolated/made careers out of being confrontationally wrong and annoying.

What's amazing about Chapelle is that he left Comedy Central because one of the white crew members on the Chapelle Show laughed a little TOO hard at his "N Word Family" skit.

Now he's best friends with Musk, a guy who would have pissed his pants laughing and yelling "N WORD FAMILY N WORD FAMILY" on repeat.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

E the Shaggy posted:

What's amazing about Chapelle is that he left Comedy Central because one of the white crew members on the Chapelle Show laughed a little TOO hard at his "N Word Family" skit.

Now he's best friends with Musk, a guy who would have pissed his pants laughing and yelling "N WORD FAMILY N WORD FAMILY" on repeat.

money poisons all brains

Seven Force
Nov 9, 2005

WARNING!

BOSS IS APPROACHING!!!

SEVEN FORCE

--ACTIONS--

SHITPOSTING

LOVE LOVE DANCING

Look, racism happens on X. It just does.

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

Seven Force posted:

Look, racism happens on X. It just does.

It is the everything dogshit app, after all.

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Potato Salad posted:

Elon doesn't get a red cent for embeds, only costs.

Does it not add to the view counts? I mean those numbers are bullshit anyway.. ok if it costs him then I’m all for it

Kit Walker
Jul 10, 2010
"The Man Who Cannot Deadlift"

priznat posted:

Does it not add to the view counts? I mean those numbers are bullshit anyway.. ok if it costs him then I’m all for it

Only impressions from other blue checks count for monetization. Though that's for other users not Elon. But it kind of doesn't matter since bots apparently make up the majority of impressions/interactions at this point anyway

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

Elon threw a like on this turd
https://twitter.com/StreetLord25/status/1759072937603203432

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

epic, sir, you've really owned them this time

Barometer
Sep 23, 2007

You travelled a long way for
"I don't know", sonny.
:whip: :cthulhu: :shivdurf:

All the powerful imaginary characters I love bow to you, good sir!

*tips fedora*

EXCELSIOR!

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Orwell was a dumbass and 1984 was a lovely book. Here's a review by an actual leftist, Isaac Asimov, as to why it's bad satire and Orwell does not understand leftism: https://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm

Once a pig always a pig, apparently

Isaac Asimov posted:

He also turned left wing and became a socialist, fighting with the loyalists in Spain in the 1930s. There he found himself caught up in the sectarian struggles between the various left-wing factions, and since he believed in a gentlemanly English form of socialism, he was inevitably on the losing side. Opposed to him were passionate Spanish anarchists, syndicalists, and communists, who bitterly resented the fact that the necessities of fighting the Franco fascists got in the way of their fighting each other.

Cup Runneth Over fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Feb 18, 2024

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Orwell was a dumbass and 1984 was a lovely book. Here's a review by an actual leftist, Isaac Asimov, as to why it's bad satire and Orwell does not understand leftism: https://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm

quote:

The Soviet Union is still the Soviet Union, but it is not Stalinist, and the enemies of the state are no longer liquidated

:thunk:

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate



He goes on to say that China isn't Maoist any longer, which is pretty lol in retrospect

staberind
Feb 20, 2008

but i dont wanna be a spaceship
Fun Shoe
What other interesting tidbits do we have about Dr. “the man with a hundred hands.” Asimov?

Mywhatacleanturtle
Jul 23, 2006

staberind posted:

What other interesting tidbits do we have about Dr. “the man with a hundred hands.” Asimov?

Yeah, not sure Asimov is the guy you want to use as an example of someone of moral standing.

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

staberind
Feb 20, 2008

but i dont wanna be a spaceship
Fun Shoe
I'd play GTA Kansas.

Total Party Kill
Aug 25, 2005

Elon, please make a dating sim where I have to maintain an inventory of horses that I award to women I expose myself to. When I run low on horses, I can steal women's Adderall/SSRIs to buy more horses.

Songbearer
Jul 12, 2007




Fuck you say?
Please, there's enough sexual, racial, class and labor abuse in the game industry without Elon getting involved

THE AWESOME GHOST
Oct 21, 2005

Alan Smithee posted:

"wow cool robot!"
-George Orwell

“Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated. Her body gleamed white in the sun. But for a moment he did not look at her body; his eyes were anchored by the freckled face with its faint, bold smile. He knelt down before her and took her hands in his.”

Also a George Orwell quote. We’re just posting those right

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



IBroughttheFunk posted:

He has eleven children in total. One is his trans daughter who rightfully hates his guts, but that leaves nine other children whom we never see, ever. For some reason, that one specific son is his photo prop of choice.
fact check: he's had eleven children. he only has ten right now because one of them died in his arms and that's why he'll never let alex jones back on twitter

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
"make a game" - some person that has never played a game. (like a bunch of dumbasses during the NFT bubble, also you should check out the NFT """"""""game"""""""" sqaureenix recently released )

"what kind of game?"

Also can I just say musk is such a pathetic idea stealing man. he just hears "make _________" and instantly lies and spins a yarn how TeslaSpace has been working on ________ and it should be out soon. like this is cute for a toddler thats new to the whole existence thing, but a 50 year old man not so much

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Renfield
Feb 29, 2008

Ghostlight posted:

fact check: he's had eleven children. he only has ten right now because one of them died in his arms and that's why he'll never let alex jones back on twitter

The childs mothers arms.

He lies about Everything.

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