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nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

projecthalaxy posted:

https://twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny/...ingawful.com%2F

I don't know what I was expecting but Jones seems pretty chipper for someone just charged a billion dollars

He is going to go the Lowtax route of blowing or otherwise burning through all his money and assets so that there will be nothing to collect and then violently repaint one lucky ceiling with the inside contents of his skull to escape any and all responsibility for it.

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nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Freakazoid_ posted:

It's kinda sad, the only real historical record of the Ballard area are from Almost Live skits.

And with good reason too...

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Youth Decay posted:

When does the re-Trumpening of Twitter happen? Sure was a nice time without him for a while.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013
Again, it's absolutely nutty to think that this all happened because Musk was mad that his spacey elf girlfriend left him for a trans woman and the unfunny transphobic satire account he was following to cope with that got banned, so put Telsa on the roulette wheel in order to buy all of Twitter in order to personally turn the transphobia tap back on.

Like I said months ago, I hope Twitter and Elonk mutually destroy one another, and fast.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Kaboobi posted:

Here's a thread that's exactly what you expect:
https://twitter.com/debdrens/status/1586051198641377280

Holocaust denial, woke-ism, complaining about the last jedi, all the hits

Love that "being mad about The Last Jedi" is now one of the most surefire indicators of potentially being a violent right wing psychopath there is. Holy poo poo.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

I AM GRANDO posted:

Was it ever definitively proven? Wiki just says he was attacked by two guys who knew him who had a check for $3500 from him, but the article title calls it a hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jussie_Smollett_hate_crime_hoax

Their claim that he told them to do it has never been substantiated so far as I can tell.

A judge and/or jury decided it was, but given the US Justice System's long rear end history of whiffing cases involving black people, it's literally a "well, what do YOU think?" matter. There was enough legitimate evidence in both direction and it was a hard call to make because both Smollett and the Chicago PD as an entity were equally massive lying pieces of poo poo.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Staluigi posted:

Smollet hosed up his fake crime bullshit so bad that I still gotta hear about that fuckhead every time the right needs a lazy whatabout about political violence or hate crimes

Mostly I remember the noose

It was a watershed case for chuds being able to discredit legitimate hate crimes because the victim was a dirty scumbag himself, like how they used Amber Heard to destroy the Me Too movement and how they're going to use Helena Taylor and the ongoing fallout from the Bayonetta 3 pay dispute debacle to smother any further pushes for fair compensation for video game voice over work (and fair treatment of people in the video game industry across the board while we're at it).

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Bugsy posted:

They all are failures because there aren’t any libs to own in any of the echo chambers. That’s why the chuds always come back to twitter no matter how many times their accounts get banned, because if there isn’t any libs getting owned it isn’t any fun for them.

Also all the fetish porn they get flooded with by trolls who use their lax moderation ethos against them :v:

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Sodomy Hussein posted:

Years of ad revenue will entirely come from a resume-writing service, and uh, a WinAmp TV channel or something

If folks like Seraph84 and avshalom are any indication, there's an absolute bangzillion crazy as rear end motherfuckers out there who will repeatedly pour their own and several family members' entire paychecks into lovely websites purely for the dopamine hit of hitting that button, even if they only get to do it once before they get banned again and reach for the nearest available credit card to start the cycle again.

Musk is sitting on a whale goldmine and he's too loving stupid to realize it. Because he's an idiot.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Professor Beetus posted:

tbh we should be paying avshalom for the privilege of seeing their posts.

I mean yes, but also she has a serious problem :smith:

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Musk moving rapidly to cut costs and raise more money from Twitter.

Moving up the subscription plan release date and firing half of all Twitter staff after they already fired 25% earlier.

Not sure how ending work from home is going to save costs, but :shrug:

https://twitter.com/sarahfrier/status/1587967043604602880

And here I thought David Zaslav and Warner Bros. was going to claim the crown of "Quickest, most disastrous series of business decisions of 2022", but here comes Elon Musk hot on Zaslav's heels with a pair of rocket boots manufactured by his Tesla staff who've assured him they're completely saf--OH NO THEY EXPLODED!

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Shooting Blanks posted:

It's worth remembering that the initial announcement was that he was going to fire 75% of Twitter's workforce, but that got walked back pretty quickly. I think we're still in "Musk doesn't have a plan" mode and is just throwing poo poo at the wall until something sticks.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) "Musk doesn't have a plan" mode is a permanent state when it comes to Elon Musk. This is the man who once said "I will put a human on Mars in 10 years" 11 years ago, after all...

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Blind Rasputin posted:

Is it all a ploy just to coerce everyone to migrate Truth Social? Is that the reason Trump says he’s staying on there?

Hell furure: Elon kills Twitter, Truth Social becomes the default social media site. Trump uses proceeds to pay all his legal bills.

No one who's not already an Nth level chud is ever going to migrate to Truther, by choice or by force. People would just strait up stop participating if that was the only game in town. Like how a whole swath of NSFW artists and content creators just packed it in after Tumblr outlawed porn rather than migrate over to Twitter or elsewhere. And Musk is too much of a wildcard mercenary to ever possible collude with anyone at a task as monumental as destroying Twitter from the inside to soothe Donald Trump's eternally bruised ego. You honestly think Elon Musk is the type of person who'd ever take orders from another human being, particularly a human being shaped glob of cellulite like Donald Trump?

I think if there's any sort of detectable user bleed from Musk's ADHD "help me, how do I run business?" antics, Jack Dorsey is going to rush whatever the gently caress Bluesky is out the door to act as a sponge to try and soak as much of it up as possible at Elonk's expense.

nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Nov 3, 2022

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

evilweasel posted:

going back to more happy topics:

https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1588287341554458624

you can save a billion dollars a year by using less hard drive space, right?

Maybe he can take a page out of Warner Bros. book and find a way to ban like 2 million accounts all at once and try to call it a tax write off.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013
Found this today just randomly re: Elonk and it made me lol

https://twitter.com/fyrescotch/status/1588314179320287233

https://twitter.com/Ballaban/status/1533208531670863872

He mocked a classmate in school whose father had recently committed suicide and the kid pushed him down a flight of stairs and landed his rear end in the hospital, and his father (the owner of the apartheid blood emerald mine and the one who impregnated his step-daughter multiple times) went "Ehhh, my son totally deserved it. He's a little poo poo."

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

I'll have you know that that no longer matters on Twitter, so gently caress you, it's as real as you want it to be now baby :buddy:

Elon Musk spent $44 billion to sit around and plagiarize Trump parody accounts for content, spread the word far.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Seems like picking 50% as an arbitrary number and then making 3,700 decisions in a week wasn't a smart move.

https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/status/1589345067013378048

The comedy theory that Elon is speedrunning the Lowtax business model is becoming more true by the day. He just announced that if your account is banned from Twitter, then you can buy it back for $8.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589450301916213248
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589451026981335040

Apropos of absolutely nothing, we're just two days shy of the one year anniversary of Lowtax's suicide after he spitefully spent himself into insolvency in order to screw over his ex-wives and multiple children.

Not that I'm implying Elon would do anything as loathsome as run a comedy website.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Sephyr posted:

Great, now I'm a member of TWO dead comedy sites?

What's next, Peter Thiel buying Steam and deleting all of everyone's games except for 'HATRED' , which will be mandatory, just to rile the libs.

Thiel, like his old friend Elon, only goes after things that hurt his fee fees. Did someone or something nebulously tied to Steam recently say that Peter Thiel was a literal vampire who harvests and imbibes van loads of children and teenagers' blood in order to gain eternal youth? Because the way you get a literal vampirish ghoul like Thiel to come after you is to publicly insult him enough that he dedicates his life to destroying you, like he did to Gawker.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Madkal posted:

Yea this is probably just to get more than usual amount of people to watch his bullshit rally expecting something. Basically giving him free air time just like what happened in 2015.

Speculation has it that Trump is going to be indicted or charged with something by the DOJ as soon as Wednesday. He still thinks declaring he's running for president again throws up a magical invincibility shield around him and he can't be charged with anything while he's a declared candidate and/or president once again. So that's why he's probably in a hurry to announce it tonight, if he's gonna, because it will be drowned out in noise tomorrow.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

:rip: to all the D&D posters who craved up that picture and made avatars out of it and then got banned for being shitheads. Lookin' at you, peenworm

E: wait, did peenworm get banned? Was he a shithead? The late 00s on SA are a blur to me.

nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Nov 8, 2022

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

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Kalit posted:

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

And you have to wonder, if he'd said he was running on Monday, would that have driven even MORE people out to the polls to vote against all his shitbird candidates or what?

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Youth Decay posted:

DeSantis using his weather machine to go after Trump.

https://twitter.com/capitalweather/status/1590469987806109696

Is this that "red wave" they're talking about?

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

FizFashizzle posted:

Alex Jones just ordered to pay another 473 million to Sandy Hook families, breaking on WaPo.

u luv 2 c it

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Lemming posted:

It's really, really loving funny how abjectly stupid Elon Musk is

I had certain expectations going into this debacle, and he had exceeded all of them by lightyears, and it's only, what, Day 6? Not even a week yet? Or has it been longer?

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

"Maybe I shouldn't have put crazy fuckers like Kavanaugh and Coney-Barret on the court.... Naaaaaaaah."

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Yvonmukluk posted:

Because the owner of the account that tracks his plane refused to sell.

There's also an extremely long and hilarious through line that starts with Grimes dumping him for Chelsea Manning and ends with the ever-moving target of where "here" is in his ongoing real life Twitter meltdown, but I'm too tired to explain it.

tl;dr: Elonk got mad his elf wife left him for a trans woman so he paid $44 billion dollars to create a transphobia machine and it's currently in the process of devouring his kneecaps somehow.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

https://twitter.com/rj_gallagher/status/1591147571996921856

Well from the sound of it, Elon could be going to jail for this, so uh...

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Shooting Blanks posted:

I'm laughing harder at all the stocks tanking because of the parody accounts on Twitter. You know he's getting calls from various companies asking him what the hell he's doing to control it because their investors are freaking out.

This is the thing that tells me Elon is toast no matter what: he messed with other rich people's money and that is the one crime for which there is actual consequences in the world people like Elon Musk live in.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

FlamingLiberal posted:

I don't really see what the motivation for Republicans to show up for this would be

For the Dems you can at least look to increase your majority

Yeah, the only reason people were showing up to vote for Walker wasn't because he was an inspiring candidate or because he was going to be a good senator, it was because he was going to make Mitch McConnell Majority Leader again, and that has officially gone kaput. Warnock's voters, conversely, seem like they're fired up to get out again and send him back to DC to be #51.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

haveblue posted:

51 would be a huge upgrade considering that you’d only have to turn one of them, not both of them at the same time

And Manchin has proven he knows the meaning of the word "Yes" every now and then. A vote for Raphael Warnock is a vote to erase Kyrsten Sinema in everything but physical existence. If I were American and Georgian, I would already be lined up outside the polling place and we've got a loving month left to go yet.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

FlamingLiberal posted:

One of them, yes. Sinema is less important at least. We still have to deal with Manchin.

Mandela Barnes, Cheri Beasley or Tim Ryan would have been the knockout blow to Manchin, but alas none of them panned out.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

evilweasel posted:

She IS getting primaried. It's far too late to change that.

The AZ Dems need to run Scott Kelly against her. Give the United States the first twin senators.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Charlz Guybon posted:

Is this something you made up on the spot, or is it actually a reference to something?

There's been a long running conspiracy that there's a massive underground complex of nefarious purposes that was built beneath Denver International Airport during it's construction in 1995. The airport is also home to a massive blue horse statue known as the Blue Mustang, which has been nicknamed Blucifer, because, well, it looks like loving THIS

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

PhazonLink posted:

I want to be in the timeline where Dark Biden adds a massive erection to Blucifer.

Dark Brandon will be added to Blucipher and his erection will be larger than the horse's :dong:

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Eric Cantonese posted:

God, do we really have to go through all of this again?

I guess everyone in the media sector will be thrilled since he's such a good ratings generator.

Donald Trump 20-Until-Either-You-Or-He-Dies

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

So the magic key to ending the inflation crisis is on Hunter Biden's laptop then?

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

K-Mack: "Today we're going to talking about bringing down gas--"

MTG: "HUNTER BIDEN'S LAPTOP AND ANTONY FAUCI'S PUPPY MILL! EMAILS EMAILS EMAILS! WOOO! *fires her gun on the House floor*"

McCarthy's pain will be amazing.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Gerund posted:

Bipartisan Speaker of the House is the most poisoned chalice I can imagine. I think this is a plurality realizing that Kevin McCarthy is a spineless turd who has promosed 15 investigations going 24/7 to anyone who will listen to his offers. Someone who tells people no is what they need / want.


Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

There is never going to be a compromise Speaker candidate. People will absolutely extract concessions and fall in line. Nobody actually thinks Andy Biggs is going to win the Speakership and Andy Biggs has every incentive in the world to claim that the race isn't decided.

We will yearn for the halcyon days of competence that was Paul Ryan's depressing slip-and-slide shitshow of misfires of a speakership.

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nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

rscott posted:

I know this is D&D and I will eat the probe if necessary but ahahahahahaha

https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/1593396857111302145?t=InEX7EU38_lR3pGOM85tUg&s=19

Any mod who probates you for this is a terrible, soulless person. Oh and the probation would be kinda lovely too :haw:

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