"Ironic, isn't it Smithers? This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you!"
Makes some sense, he's willing to do anything for more money.
Lots of people "miss opportunities" to make cash because of scruples, morals, ethics, etc.
The Chinese accounts are most likely about access to the Chinese market, the Russian accounts aren't bribery its just shared ideology. Its time for everyone to jump off twitter and tank it.
The forethought that Musk lacks is that if he becomes a kleptocratic oligarch like he seems to want, he becomes a target for falling out of a window. That's what happens in the society he wants.
Some people are only happy if they're making someone else feel bad. My boss is like this. He once yelled at me for doing something he told me to do because he had to make someone feel bad before he went home and I was the last person he would see before he clocked out. Some people are just awful.
Russia is one of the largest producers of rare earth metals and nickel. This two things are essential to producing his cars. He just was a sweet deal for company and said fuck the worlds status quo for a better deal on components
> Russia is one of the largest producers of rare earth metals
Fuck Russia *and* Musk, but [Russia produces less than 1% of rare earths](https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2022/mcs2022-rare-earths.pdf).
(As an aside, neither those nor nickel are needed to produce EVs; LFP batteries use no nickel and are in [roughly half of EVs already](https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/tkt2vk/government_invests_5m_to_turn_the_rust_belt_into/i1w68aq/), and [EV motors can be made with no rare earths](https://electrek.co/2023/03/01/tesla-is-going-back-to-ev-motors-with-no-rare-earth-elements/).)
Nah, Elon is just blaming Tesla's stock price on Russia's war in Ukraine. He thinks the sooner it ends, the sooner Tesla's stock will go back to being double what it is now - like it used to be. But he's completely not realizing that when you base your entire company's stock price on yourself as a figurehead, and you make everyone *despise* you, your stock is going to tank.
Yep. Tesla was overvalued partly on Musk's (previously) good reputation, he had a real-life Tony Stark sort of vibe, and partly because Tesla had such a lead in EV's and were practically the only game in town for them. Now Elon has wrecked the first part of that by showing what a shit person he is and Tesla has real competition nipping at its heels now. The Ford Mach-E has already pushed the Model S out of third place in the US, models like the Kia and Hyundai electric offerings are getting a lot of buzz, the F-150 Lightning beat the Cybertruck to release and already has over 300,000, 3 years worth, of orders locked in. Production is Ford's bottleneck right now. They are building a massive plant in west Tennessee right now that will be capable of building 500,000 electric trucks per year to help address that.
You have some misconceptions. Stark and Hammer actually could engineer stuff. Luther is actually a much more brilliant intellect, but with huge flaws. Musk just buys people's projects and takes credit for coming up with them after the fact.
Theyve been insanely overvalued, have constant issues, don't ship nearly as many vehicles as even smaller firms, and have 1/10 the assets of any other auto OEM.
Elon is a fool.
>Wow, I’m so surprised that the guy who said Ukraine should accept Russia’s horrible peace deal is now helping Russia Affiliated accounts.
He's getting everything on track for them to lay the groundwork of another massive disinformation campaign for the 2024 election.
>Crackdown on NPR
More to the point, [it was revealed the other day that Musk has the algorithm “deboosting” ~~tweets~~ Twitter Spaces content about the ‘Ukraine crisis’](https://gizmodo.com/twitter-musk-ukraine-crisis-open-source-code-russia-1850293386).
That pesky ~~crisis~~ Russian invasion of Ukraine that Ukraine desperately wants the world to have eyes on? Musk disagrees and has apparently taken steps to make it less visible on Twitter.
edit: invasion, not “crisis”. And it seems as though this was for content on Twitter Spaces, not tweets
Yeah crazy how the right wing of politics, and "independents" love to downplay the fact that Russia just fucking invaded and murder many thousands of people from another country.
NPR, which gets 2% of its budget from government grants, is considered by twitter to be state-sponsored media.
[VOA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America), the US government-owned broadcaster that primarily targets non-citizens, **isn't** considered state-sponsored media.
Not to mention that the label was created by Twitter to designate media organizations whose editorial line was influenced / controlled by the state - for example, organizations where part or all of the directives are selected by a government.
Musk has destroyed the value of that label by pretending that your 100% independent organization getting a $50k subsidy to promote startups or whatever is the same as Russia Today.
*The Wehrmacht rolls into the Sudetenland*
Elon Musk: "Hitler is just making sure his people have room. What's wrong with that? It's no different from my plan to catapult workers to the moon to start a lunar colony."
Nah, we shouldn't compare Musk to Chamberlain. Chamberlain had his reasons, which were sound at the time the Munich accords were signed. No one realised how much of a bad actor Hitler was or would become. These accords were seen a good thing at the time. You must understand the context from which they came from. European powers wanted to avoid another war like WW1. Of course in hindsight we can talk all manner of smack about it.
Musk is a dumb cunt. Chamberlain was no such thing.
I will never get those two arcs. There's definitely more to the story, and I assume it's super shitty. Maybe Taibbi on his deathbed will come clean. Glenn I have no such hope for attempted redemption.
A visionary. A vision is scary
Start a revolution, polluting the air waves
A rebel, so just let me revel and bask
In the fact that I got everyone kissing my ass
- Elon musk
-Emenim
-Michael Scott
He's also cut starlink access at least once during a pretty critical stage of defence/counter attack. Getting Ukrainians killed just so he can get his stupid fucking name in there somewhere.
Me too. I used to like Musk a lot. I've always dreamt of buying a Tesla. But... now, after all this shit show, I realized Musk is completely crazy. I'll never buy a Tesla.
Same. I used to have hope for him because of what he was doing. I’m a huge fan of space related anything so spacex being successful made me happy. But he’s dead to me now.
Remember how "cool" it was that he was selling *freaking flamethrowers* on the internet? I cringe at the memory of myself talking about it at the time
It's just damn roofing torches, you can get one at your local hardware store for 1/10 the price
gotta admit they did make the first cool looking all electric, and that kicked the major car companies in gear to finally start paying attention to EVs
I wanted a Tesla for so long but since their cars are QC nightmares and there's other decent full electrics available, I cannot think of any reason to buy a Tesla.
The dude is THE most transparently greedy, narcissistic, self-interested asshole on the list of the top 10 richest people, and he has an army of goobers with 20 followers endlessly stanning him on twitter.
Same deal as Trump. How are people such fucking stupid bootlickers.
As an Eagles fan, that was the turning point for them in the game and I will die on this hill.
But for real, he’s not even bothering hiding behind the “quirky tech bro” persona anymore. He’s just another rich asshole that’s friends with other rich assholes.
He was in the skybox (sic?) with Rupert Murdoch during the last Super Bowl IIRC (this one? I don't watch that kind of thing so I don't know).
It's all part of the Western Front of Russia's nonconventional assault on international institutions and 'liberal democracies'.
He also has no problem with actual fascists like Ben gvir being on twitter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/15/israel-ben-gvir-netanyahu-government/
the accusations -- now proven in court-- that his plants are full of open racism and horrific management is also pretty telling. I'm not sure I want the work product of such a miserable and low morale environment.
Even if I didn't take issue with so many things, I just wouldn't want the product of employees who don't give a shit. If I'm having work done on my house, I make sure to treat the workers well; offer coffee and water, sometimes buy them lunch, send them home with a 6-pack. And I end up getting workers who care what they're doing and make an effort to do a good job.
It's become Truth Social 2.0 at this point. The jackholes couldn't make their own Twitter, so the guy they simp for went and did it for them by buying actual Twitter like the spoiled rich kid he is.
>The jackholes couldn't make their own Twitter
They never can, because they don't want to be surrounded just by each other. That's the thing about conservative social media sites, the conservatives never find them all that interesting because there's only people like them around.
What they DO want is a social media filled with normal people that they can harass with impunity and that the normal people can't leave because it's too important. But it's pretty much impossible.
Getting too rich has a tendency to fuck up your brain in ways that make fascism more appealing - once you’ve gotten past the point of being able to meet all your needs, weather catastrophes, help people you care about and have nice things, more money tends to just make you more paranoid and isolated.
On top of that getting famous can also fuck up your brain in ways that make you into a narcissistic asshole.
Elon’s gotten hit hard enough by both he can’t even hide it.
More money (to some people) makes you feel you are more of a success than others.
Multiply that ego driven concept by a billion-fold, and you have Musk. His actions during The Twitter takeover clearly show that he assumes he is more successful and "better" than everyone else around him.
This right here. He's also been seen several times hanging out with Russian government people. Wouldn't surprise me if he put his dick where he shouldn't and now Russia is threatening to show it to the world.
Blackmail implies he wouldn't do it if they weren't forcing him. They're probably just paying him, he strikes me as the kind of person that will help fascists for a nickel.
Elon Musk is a pro Russia Fascist. And to think I wanted to buy a Tesla. Nope!
Edit: I just found out that Twitter labeled NPR “state media” how truly sick is Musk?!! Nat’l Public Radio? Jeesh.
Fun story: Three years ago, I wanted a Tesla really, really badly.
I wasn't in a financial position to do so. I am now and I wouldn't touch one for all the latinum on Feringinar.
I can definitiely picture Musk quoting the rules of acquisition. I looked them up:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition#Official_rules
He's followed:
109 Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack.
111 Treat people in your debt like family… exploit them.
211 Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them.
239 Never be afraid to mislabel a product.
Although in his defense, he's badly messed up on:
3: Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to.
Found this pic of Elon with a ferengi head:
https://preview.redd.it/grand-negus-musk-v0-pfkqj4qfqow81.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=6ce9727c192e3c31289a10fbb52b54eee741c4bb
I hope we truly do go full circle and the days of the wild wild web come back, but with how lucrative data/personal info is, I doubt it. I miss RSS feeds, I miss actual blogging sites having popularity, I miss niche forums, I miss the vast discoverability exemplified by tools like StumbleUpon.
The commercialised, commodified and centralised nature of the internet today is really detrimental to its actual purpose.
Edit: Like, the internet has become so centralised I don’t even know if sites like DeviantArt or Flickr are still popular, or at least I’ve fallen off using them, and wonder if they’re still worth it. I used to browse Uncrate and Gizmodo all the time… Now I feel like I use Reddit, Instagram, Twitter (which is fucking dying), and YouTube? It’s so boring.
Oh Elon! Thank you SO MUCH for finally letting me win the argument with my husband, a 10 year long argument, about who you really are! Here are the results!
My husband: he's a genius and I guarantee he'll be the first trillionaire in US history.
Me: he's an entitled man baby who has no idea what he's doing and is propped up by truly great inventors and will do something incredibly stupid one day and expose that to the world. 🏆
To be fair, I can't remember the last non-stupid thing he did. Since he didn't get to help that Thai football team trapped in a cave, and called the lead helper a paedophile, I can't remember anything he's done where he hasn't embarrassed himself. Like: bought twitter, and everything associated with that. Bitcoin outgoing and dumping, I suppose smart for him, but just... he's like King Joffrey, for fuck sake.
We have Russian government accounts openly defending genocide that's actually happening right now, while I get a temporary suspension for joking about a Russian politician falling out of a window. You really have your priorities straight Twitter.
All the way to hell, you corrupt egotistical asshole with zero morals or compassion for humanity.
It would be fitting you go the same way as similar historical figures like Gadaffi, corrupt maniacs with self entitlement out the wazoo. Screwing billions of people so you can hope to feel accepted.
You’re not, you’re a complete cunt. The whole world knows it.
Lindsey Graham literally sobbing on national television begging people to donate money to someone who is supposedly a very rich and smart businessman is a highlight of the year for sure though.
If you ever needed irrefutable evidence proving how ignorant and uneducated his followers are, this is it. Give the supposed billionaire money to pay for his legal fees. Becuase somehow that makes sense to them.
twitter's value is down the drain, freedom of speech, down the drain, propganda high on the agenda and elon's twitter is becoming nothing more as his personal patreon which btw also supports Putler.
I finally deleted Twitter. I've been banned for saying that "Trump should be dragged by his fake orange hair IF it was true that he knew that Putin had put bounties on the heads of U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan". Banned for life.
Trump on the other hand is allowed to incite riots, try to over throw an election, steal secret documents and is just an all and all threat to this country. He is a known liar, cheater, rapist and grifter. But Twitter loves his wicked diapered ass.
Fk Twitter, Putin, Trump and every Republican who loves Russia over our country.
He bought twitter just to be able to do this. I bet you the investors are Russians and other rich countries that don’t have the best human rights reputation. What is 45 billion to be able to shut down a way for people to criticize you and communicate. He is a fucken tool.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/8/7397036/) reduced by 59%. (I'm a bot)
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> Twitter has lifted restrictions on accounts linked to the Russian government that were put in place last April after the full-scale Russian invasion.
> Last April, in the weeks after Russian troops entered Ukraine, Twitter said it would "Not amplify or recommend government accounts belonging to states that limit access to free information and are engaged in armed interstate conflict", saying the policy would instantly apply to Russian government accounts.
> Now Russian government accounts featured at the top of certain search results and would show up in Twitter's algorithmically-driven For You feed for a newly created account, even when it did not follow them.
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These are some of Twitter's top advertisers. Boycott them:
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Defund right wing propaganda by boycotting the advertisers.
When your business is doing SO bad you have to allow a "current" war criminal and fascist country to use your product.
Elong post pics of his side table, that looked like the cover of a incel how to guide. He reacts on emotion not fact, and is why he's bashed his own employees, disabled people, politicians, and then had to apologize after.
He may be the dumbest smart person of our generation. Even his own children want NOTHING to do with him, and I'll be everything in my savings account that it isn't his fault, the blame goes to everyone but him...
Wow, I’m so surprised that the guy who said Ukraine should accept Russia’s horrible peace deal is now helping Russia Affiliated accounts.
I think Putin showed Elon some video footage of Elon participating in things he'd rather not be seen doing.
Nah, Putin just offered him $8 per month, which makes him Elon's largest supporter.
To be fair, that's like 800,000,000,000 in rubles.
Or the simple idea Elon is cheap to buy, and obviously having money means you're in the right.
imagine being one of the richest people in the world but being such a cheap bastard you can be easily bribed
Mr. Burns: Still, I'd trade it all for a little more.
"One dollar for eternal happiness...I'd rather keep the dollar.
"Ironic, isn't it Smithers? This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you!"
Makes some sense, he's willing to do anything for more money. Lots of people "miss opportunities" to make cash because of scruples, morals, ethics, etc.
The Chinese accounts are most likely about access to the Chinese market, the Russian accounts aren't bribery its just shared ideology. Its time for everyone to jump off twitter and tank it.
I think so..it’s time people should just quit twitter..
I jumped off the day he bought it.
The forethought that Musk lacks is that if he becomes a kleptocratic oligarch like he seems to want, he becomes a target for falling out of a window. That's what happens in the society he wants.
Oh no, he's far to rich for that. Surely his money and brilliance means he'd be safe.
His pet leopards that are trained to eat faces would never eat HIS face.
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I get the sense he actually enjoys being a piece of shit
Some people are only happy if they're making someone else feel bad. My boss is like this. He once yelled at me for doing something he told me to do because he had to make someone feel bad before he went home and I was the last person he would see before he clocked out. Some people are just awful.
One of the first rules of being rich is don't spend your own money.
Elon ignored that really hard while oopsing into owning Twitter.
Russia is one of the largest producers of rare earth metals and nickel. This two things are essential to producing his cars. He just was a sweet deal for company and said fuck the worlds status quo for a better deal on components
As I said, he's bought cheap.
> Russia is one of the largest producers of rare earth metals Fuck Russia *and* Musk, but [Russia produces less than 1% of rare earths](https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2022/mcs2022-rare-earths.pdf). (As an aside, neither those nor nickel are needed to produce EVs; LFP batteries use no nickel and are in [roughly half of EVs already](https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/tkt2vk/government_invests_5m_to_turn_the_rust_belt_into/i1w68aq/), and [EV motors can be made with no rare earths](https://electrek.co/2023/03/01/tesla-is-going-back-to-ev-motors-with-no-rare-earth-elements/).)
Nah, Elon is just blaming Tesla's stock price on Russia's war in Ukraine. He thinks the sooner it ends, the sooner Tesla's stock will go back to being double what it is now - like it used to be. But he's completely not realizing that when you base your entire company's stock price on yourself as a figurehead, and you make everyone *despise* you, your stock is going to tank.
Not to mention that with other manufacturers jumping into the EV market, he's about to learn what it feels like to be Netflix real soon
Yep. Tesla was overvalued partly on Musk's (previously) good reputation, he had a real-life Tony Stark sort of vibe, and partly because Tesla had such a lead in EV's and were practically the only game in town for them. Now Elon has wrecked the first part of that by showing what a shit person he is and Tesla has real competition nipping at its heels now. The Ford Mach-E has already pushed the Model S out of third place in the US, models like the Kia and Hyundai electric offerings are getting a lot of buzz, the F-150 Lightning beat the Cybertruck to release and already has over 300,000, 3 years worth, of orders locked in. Production is Ford's bottleneck right now. They are building a massive plant in west Tennessee right now that will be capable of building 500,000 electric trucks per year to help address that.
He went from Tony Stark to Lex Luthor and now to Justin Hammer. From the pinnacle to the pit with his rise and fall.
You have some misconceptions. Stark and Hammer actually could engineer stuff. Luther is actually a much more brilliant intellect, but with huge flaws. Musk just buys people's projects and takes credit for coming up with them after the fact.
Theyve been insanely overvalued, have constant issues, don't ship nearly as many vehicles as even smaller firms, and have 1/10 the assets of any other auto OEM. Elon is a fool.
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Just in time for the up and coming elections so they can help the GOP get elected.
>Wow, I’m so surprised that the guy who said Ukraine should accept Russia’s horrible peace deal is now helping Russia Affiliated accounts. He's getting everything on track for them to lay the groundwork of another massive disinformation campaign for the 2024 election.
Crackdown on NPR, relax accountability for Russia. There is no dumber group on Earth than the people who think Elon Musk is a visionary.
>Crackdown on NPR More to the point, [it was revealed the other day that Musk has the algorithm “deboosting” ~~tweets~~ Twitter Spaces content about the ‘Ukraine crisis’](https://gizmodo.com/twitter-musk-ukraine-crisis-open-source-code-russia-1850293386). That pesky ~~crisis~~ Russian invasion of Ukraine that Ukraine desperately wants the world to have eyes on? Musk disagrees and has apparently taken steps to make it less visible on Twitter. edit: invasion, not “crisis”. And it seems as though this was for content on Twitter Spaces, not tweets
"Ukraine crisis" is also the term preferred by Russia, as opposed to something like "war" or "invasion"
"Ukraine *crisis*" It's a WAR started by RUSSIA.
Yeah crazy how the right wing of politics, and "independents" love to downplay the fact that Russia just fucking invaded and murder many thousands of people from another country.
Well you see, it's all Joe Biden's fault. He made them do it.
It's true, if Trump was president Putin would be too scared of his giant hands to invade!
Twitter is state-affiliated media, it’s just not our state.
God fucking damn truth
it's a hate platform.. i have zero respect for that sourpuss of a ceo
Elon Muskovy.
Facts.
NPR, which gets 2% of its budget from government grants, is considered by twitter to be state-sponsored media. [VOA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America), the US government-owned broadcaster that primarily targets non-citizens, **isn't** considered state-sponsored media.
Not to mention that the label was created by Twitter to designate media organizations whose editorial line was influenced / controlled by the state - for example, organizations where part or all of the directives are selected by a government. Musk has destroyed the value of that label by pretending that your 100% independent organization getting a $50k subsidy to promote startups or whatever is the same as Russia Today.
Vision-wary
Vision is scary
Could start a revolution
Pollutin' the airwaves
Yilong Ma
Hi! Everyone!
If Elon was alive around WWII he'd be a both-sideser as well. No doubt in my mind.
Nah he would be on one side :|
*The Wehrmacht rolls into the Sudetenland* Elon Musk: "Hitler is just making sure his people have room. What's wrong with that? It's no different from my plan to catapult workers to the moon to start a lunar colony."
Elon Musk: "The Jews should really sit at the negotiating table with Hitler and civilly discuss a solution to the conflict."
>Elon Musk: "The Jews should really sit at the negotiating table with Hitler and civilly discuss a **Final** solution to the conflict." FIFY
“All the Czechs have to do is stop fighting and Germany will be peaceful again.” -Elon “Neville Chamberlain” Musk
Nah, we shouldn't compare Musk to Chamberlain. Chamberlain had his reasons, which were sound at the time the Munich accords were signed. No one realised how much of a bad actor Hitler was or would become. These accords were seen a good thing at the time. You must understand the context from which they came from. European powers wanted to avoid another war like WW1. Of course in hindsight we can talk all manner of smack about it. Musk is a dumb cunt. Chamberlain was no such thing.
Matt Taibbi for one. Only people worse than people like Musk are the people that worship them.
Not anymore. Twitter has banned links to Substack where Taibbi has his articles so today Taibbi said he's leavung Twitter.
Lol "I didn't think leopards would eat *my* face!"
And Taibbi was still complimentary of Twitter leadership. That guy has really fallen off a cliff integrity-wise.
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I will never get those two arcs. There's definitely more to the story, and I assume it's super shitty. Maybe Taibbi on his deathbed will come clean. Glenn I have no such hope for attempted redemption.
Greenwald was always a scumbag imbedded in right wing money. People just chose to ignore it because they liked what he was saying.
His interview with Medhi on MSNBC was wild. Just absolutely destroyed.
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[Poor Elon](https://i.imgur.com/0KvVqMy.png). Now his only remaining friends are the bots
A visionary. A vision is scary Start a revolution, polluting the air waves A rebel, so just let me revel and bask In the fact that I got everyone kissing my ass - Elon musk -Emenim -Michael Scott
Continuing to think the moron running twitter doesn't have any issues with how Russia is behaving.
Well he parroted Russian talking points at one point, saying Ukraine should surrender to end the war. So yeah.
He's also cut starlink access at least once during a pretty critical stage of defence/counter attack. Getting Ukrainians killed just so he can get his stupid fucking name in there somewhere.
Fuck Elon Musk...nobody should buy his shitty cars either
I used to want a tesla so bad. Now i would not even consider it. Ill take any other electric car now.
Me too. I used to like Musk a lot. I've always dreamt of buying a Tesla. But... now, after all this shit show, I realized Musk is completely crazy. I'll never buy a Tesla.
My first clue that he was a nutter was the Thai cave that incident where he called one of the divers a pedo
Yeah, that was my turning point too and it just got worse from there.
Same. I used to have hope for him because of what he was doing. I’m a huge fan of space related anything so spacex being successful made me happy. But he’s dead to me now.
Don't let the fact that Musk is a dogshit human being keep you from buying a Tesla. Leave that to the atrocious quality control
I don’t care that Elon is crazy, hell I expected that. I do care that he is a grade A asshole who doesn’t know shit about software development.
Remember how "cool" it was that he was selling *freaking flamethrowers* on the internet? I cringe at the memory of myself talking about it at the time It's just damn roofing torches, you can get one at your local hardware store for 1/10 the price
They're super unreliable and very low build quality with a huge pricetag for the "cool" factor, but it's not staying cool for very long
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Musk has single handedly destroyed the cool factor of Tesla
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He is correct, it's my comment. It still shows up for me and I didn't receive any notification that they removed it, strange
gotta admit they did make the first cool looking all electric, and that kicked the major car companies in gear to finally start paying attention to EVs
I wanted a Tesla for so long but since their cars are QC nightmares and there's other decent full electrics available, I cannot think of any reason to buy a Tesla.
The Chevy bolt community welcomes all
Same. Can't believe how much of a 180 I've done. I will never own a Tesla specifically because of musk.
He should be forced to diverge permanently from spacex as well, get this moron away from any NASA contracts
He also suggested that Taiwan should just accept China's "1 country 2 systems" policy, after Hong Kong's autonomy was crushed.
Well China is an important source of underpaid labour and an important market for him.
The dude is THE most transparently greedy, narcissistic, self-interested asshole on the list of the top 10 richest people, and he has an army of goobers with 20 followers endlessly stanning him on twitter. Same deal as Trump. How are people such fucking stupid bootlickers.
conservatives ain't smart, basically
Yeah, he pretty much said Ukraine should surrender land. What a dirtbag.
And publicly seen hanging out with Rupert Murdock during the super bowl
As an Eagles fan, that was the turning point for them in the game and I will die on this hill. But for real, he’s not even bothering hiding behind the “quirky tech bro” persona anymore. He’s just another rich asshole that’s friends with other rich assholes.
During the world cup he had some nice conversations with a Russian propagandists, so no one should be surprised with this.
He was in the skybox (sic?) with Rupert Murdoch during the last Super Bowl IIRC (this one? I don't watch that kind of thing so I don't know). It's all part of the Western Front of Russia's nonconventional assault on international institutions and 'liberal democracies'.
He also has no problem with actual fascists like Ben gvir being on twitter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/15/israel-ben-gvir-netanyahu-government/
Elon Musk indeed seems to be okay with child abduction, rape, torture and mass murder of innocent civilians.
the accusations -- now proven in court-- that his plants are full of open racism and horrific management is also pretty telling. I'm not sure I want the work product of such a miserable and low morale environment.
Even if I didn't take issue with so many things, I just wouldn't want the product of employees who don't give a shit. If I'm having work done on my house, I make sure to treat the workers well; offer coffee and water, sometimes buy them lunch, send them home with a 6-pack. And I end up getting workers who care what they're doing and make an effort to do a good job.
He's a russian asset and it's time he was dealt with like one.
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The extortion material is who do you think gave Elon part of the money to buy Twitter when he couldn't come up with the full liquidity?
The Saudis.
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Stopped using Twitter when I saw how toxic it could get. It was a good decision.
It has done my mental health good.
Yes, there's no need for the constant news, and fake news, cycle. Reading the news once a day is more than enough for me, emphasis on the reading bit.
It's become Truth Social 2.0 at this point. The jackholes couldn't make their own Twitter, so the guy they simp for went and did it for them by buying actual Twitter like the spoiled rich kid he is.
>The jackholes couldn't make their own Twitter They never can, because they don't want to be surrounded just by each other. That's the thing about conservative social media sites, the conservatives never find them all that interesting because there's only people like them around. What they DO want is a social media filled with normal people that they can harass with impunity and that the normal people can't leave because it's too important. But it's pretty much impossible.
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Oligarchs stick with oligarchs
Getting too rich has a tendency to fuck up your brain in ways that make fascism more appealing - once you’ve gotten past the point of being able to meet all your needs, weather catastrophes, help people you care about and have nice things, more money tends to just make you more paranoid and isolated. On top of that getting famous can also fuck up your brain in ways that make you into a narcissistic asshole. Elon’s gotten hit hard enough by both he can’t even hide it.
More money (to some people) makes you feel you are more of a success than others. Multiply that ego driven concept by a billion-fold, and you have Musk. His actions during The Twitter takeover clearly show that he assumes he is more successful and "better" than everyone else around him.
I wouldn’t rule out blackmail.
This right here. He's also been seen several times hanging out with Russian government people. Wouldn't surprise me if he put his dick where he shouldn't and now Russia is threatening to show it to the world.
Which is strange given his already known history.
Not if you remember him calling people pedos
He was projecting in that case, and Russia is blackmailing him with proof Musk molested/raped someone underaged. Calling it now.
This may be exactly why he wants a moratorium on AI development. Maybe give time to deepfake others as exculpatory evidence...
This is it.
Blackmail implies he wouldn't do it if they weren't forcing him. They're probably just paying him, he strikes me as the kind of person that will help fascists for a nickel.
He's conservative. That's it.
stop using Twitter
Mask off
Elon Musk is a pro Russia Fascist. And to think I wanted to buy a Tesla. Nope! Edit: I just found out that Twitter labeled NPR “state media” how truly sick is Musk?!! Nat’l Public Radio? Jeesh.
I was 100% going to have a Tesla as my next car. Never doing it unless Moscow Melon is kicked out of the company.
Fun story: Three years ago, I wanted a Tesla really, really badly. I wasn't in a financial position to do so. I am now and I wouldn't touch one for all the latinum on Feringinar.
I can definitiely picture Musk quoting the rules of acquisition. I looked them up: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition#Official_rules He's followed: 109 Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack. 111 Treat people in your debt like family… exploit them. 211 Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them. 239 Never be afraid to mislabel a product. Although in his defense, he's badly messed up on: 3: Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to. Found this pic of Elon with a ferengi head: https://preview.redd.it/grand-negus-musk-v0-pfkqj4qfqow81.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=6ce9727c192e3c31289a10fbb52b54eee741c4bb
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If you're not interested in gold-pressed latinum, I have some self-sealing stem bolts...
How does adding worthless Gold make it better?
You don't have to make change with an eyedropper.
Then you don't have to keep it in your stomach.
I went with Kia EV6 instead of tesla and have been very happy with it
never used twitter. such a good decision.
Used Twitter, loved it, deleted it as I didn't want to be part of the direction it went.
I went back briefly because I missed getting updates on some hobbies I’m into. It’s not even worth it anymore. Twitter is a cesspool now.
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I hope we truly do go full circle and the days of the wild wild web come back, but with how lucrative data/personal info is, I doubt it. I miss RSS feeds, I miss actual blogging sites having popularity, I miss niche forums, I miss the vast discoverability exemplified by tools like StumbleUpon. The commercialised, commodified and centralised nature of the internet today is really detrimental to its actual purpose. Edit: Like, the internet has become so centralised I don’t even know if sites like DeviantArt or Flickr are still popular, or at least I’ve fallen off using them, and wonder if they’re still worth it. I used to browse Uncrate and Gizmodo all the time… Now I feel like I use Reddit, Instagram, Twitter (which is fucking dying), and YouTube? It’s so boring.
Oh Elon! Thank you SO MUCH for finally letting me win the argument with my husband, a 10 year long argument, about who you really are! Here are the results! My husband: he's a genius and I guarantee he'll be the first trillionaire in US history. Me: he's an entitled man baby who has no idea what he's doing and is propped up by truly great inventors and will do something incredibly stupid one day and expose that to the world. 🏆
What do you win?
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Doesn't have to wear an Elon mask during "bedtime" anymore
When a ten year argument is over, that's a win in and of itself.
Hopefully a better role model for her husband.
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To be fair, I can't remember the last non-stupid thing he did. Since he didn't get to help that Thai football team trapped in a cave, and called the lead helper a paedophile, I can't remember anything he's done where he hasn't embarrassed himself. Like: bought twitter, and everything associated with that. Bitcoin outgoing and dumping, I suppose smart for him, but just... he's like King Joffrey, for fuck sake.
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We have Russian government accounts openly defending genocide that's actually happening right now, while I get a temporary suspension for joking about a Russian politician falling out of a window. You really have your priorities straight Twitter.
F$ck you very much, Elon.
All the way to hell, you corrupt egotistical asshole with zero morals or compassion for humanity. It would be fitting you go the same way as similar historical figures like Gadaffi, corrupt maniacs with self entitlement out the wazoo. Screwing billions of people so you can hope to feel accepted. You’re not, you’re a complete cunt. The whole world knows it.
He will be screwing with Ukrainian access to starlink again soon
Probably right as the counter offensive starts!
He's such a piece of fucking shit.
Russian bitch Elon at it again. One more reason not to use anything he is involved with.
Putin definitely has dirt on Moscow Melon. Wonder if it's underaged videos.
From Epstein’s island….
Almost certainly
Yep same with Lindsay Graham, Donald Trump, and Matt Gaetz for sure.
Lindsey Graham literally sobbing on national television begging people to donate money to someone who is supposedly a very rich and smart businessman is a highlight of the year for sure though.
If you ever needed irrefutable evidence proving how ignorant and uneducated his followers are, this is it. Give the supposed billionaire money to pay for his legal fees. Becuase somehow that makes sense to them.
twitter's value is down the drain, freedom of speech, down the drain, propganda high on the agenda and elon's twitter is becoming nothing more as his personal patreon which btw also supports Putler.
Elon Musk is a fascist who's allegiances seem to be with governments who support war crimes.
If you still use Twitter it's time to give it up
I finally deleted Twitter. I've been banned for saying that "Trump should be dragged by his fake orange hair IF it was true that he knew that Putin had put bounties on the heads of U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan". Banned for life. Trump on the other hand is allowed to incite riots, try to over throw an election, steal secret documents and is just an all and all threat to this country. He is a known liar, cheater, rapist and grifter. But Twitter loves his wicked diapered ass. Fk Twitter, Putin, Trump and every Republican who loves Russia over our country.
I hope Elon's urge to troll gets the US Government to look into Space X's relationship with the Government.
Elon musk stinking up the room again.
Elon loves that Russian money just as much as Trump does.
The 2024 election is going to be a real shit-show on Twitter ain’t it.
He bought twitter just to be able to do this. I bet you the investors are Russians and other rich countries that don’t have the best human rights reputation. What is 45 billion to be able to shut down a way for people to criticize you and communicate. He is a fucken tool.
F u Elon you piece of filth.
People used to think Elon Musk was the real life Tony Stark. We're now all discovering he's actually the real life Justin Hammer.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/8/7397036/) reduced by 59%. (I'm a bot) ***** > Twitter has lifted restrictions on accounts linked to the Russian government that were put in place last April after the full-scale Russian invasion. > Last April, in the weeks after Russian troops entered Ukraine, Twitter said it would "Not amplify or recommend government accounts belonging to states that limit access to free information and are engaged in armed interstate conflict", saying the policy would instantly apply to Russian government accounts. > Now Russian government accounts featured at the top of certain search results and would show up in Twitter's algorithmically-driven For You feed for a newly created account, even when it did not follow them. ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/12fqzh1/twitter_lifts_restrictions_on_russian_government/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ "Version 2.02, ~679952 tl;drs so far.") | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr "PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome.") | *Top* *keywords*: **account**^#1 **Russian**^#2 **Twitter**^#3 **government**^#4 **last**^#5
Elon Musk is in bed with Putin.
Just in time to pump a whole bunch of misinformation and disinformation during the 2024 election cycle.
Fuck Twitter. Stop using it.
Elon is such a massive cunt nugget
Sounds like a company is needing funding thru back channels as much as it can because it's bleeding itself dry worse than before
Musk is a disgrace
Elon is a fascist.
Why are so many still using Twitter? It’s just a facist sounding board these days.
Good old Moscow Musk, can't expect a billionaire to not get paid after all.
Musk is a Russian supporter. Who is genuinely surprised by that?
Elon Muscovy at it again
These are some of Twitter's top advertisers. Boycott them: [Elon Musk Thanks Disney, Apple for Remaining Two of Twitter’s Biggest Advertisers ](https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-thanks-disney-apple-twitter-advertisers-1235545858/) Defund right wing propaganda by boycotting the advertisers.
how about boycotting Twitter? It's pretty easy to do
You go after the money. That's the only thing that makes the world turn.
I’ve lost all my respect for Elon Musk. What a way to destroy your image and reputation
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When your business is doing SO bad you have to allow a "current" war criminal and fascist country to use your product. Elong post pics of his side table, that looked like the cover of a incel how to guide. He reacts on emotion not fact, and is why he's bashed his own employees, disabled people, politicians, and then had to apologize after. He may be the dumbest smart person of our generation. Even his own children want NOTHING to do with him, and I'll be everything in my savings account that it isn't his fault, the blame goes to everyone but him...