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White Fragility in action: the Elon Musk story

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  • MuzzmuzzMuzzmuzz Registered User regular
    This is the worst reboot of Scarface I've ever seen.

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  • AzraithAzraith DON'T Registered User regular
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    Couscous wrote: »

    How is it possible for someone to be that bad of a poster

    What blows me away is that he is more than rich enough to find a nice Mateba, which is what all those doofy looking cyberpunk revolvers are based on anyways, but instead he has that completely fake, 50 dollar looking prop gun with no trigger and off-kilter chamber. Just always and forever the worst goddamn poster.

    (Mateba, for comparison)
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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular


    Glad to see he is already at the "people talking shit about me is a psyop" phase of being an awful poster

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Ah yes, I too know that everyone who doesn't think I'm a hilarious genius is a fake bot run by a sad jealous person who probably divorced me.

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  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    Elon Musk's financial solvency
    What a perfectly great example that money can't buy you taste a personality

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  • AzraithAzraith DON'T Registered User regular
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    He'd like to re-iterate, for the record, that he is definitely not mad. He wants to make sure everyone is clear on that fact. He might post something about it two or three more times in the next hour hammering home that he's 100 percent absolutely not upset. He'll do that by posting a meme frog smoking a cigar, the universal symbol of tranquility.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    brb going to tweet at Stephen King again to make sure he knows I'm not mad and thinks I'm cool

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Elon has now made shitposting about psyops uncool now soz

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    I'm not sure he understands that $8 is worth the cavalcade of lolz it can buy

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Elon Musk's financial solvency
    I just hope that $8 keeps fucking under companies like Eli Lilly.

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
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    Imagine being the richest person to ever exist. And you spend the equivalent of the GNP of Tunisia to buy a social media service. Which nets you the the neverending friendship of

    *checks notes*

    Ian Miles Cheong and a guy named cat turd.

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  • mcpmcp Registered User regular
    caffeine free diet coke is such a bizarre thing

    also extra weird thing to have on the nightstand

    like you wake up in the middle of the night thirsty, and you slug some coke like a psycho

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  • AlexandierAlexandier Registered User regular
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    I got eight dollars and all it cost me was millions in ad revenue.

    I'm totally not owned.

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Solar wrote: »
    Elon has now made shitposting about psyops uncool now soz

    Oh fuck hes a psyop

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  • AlexandierAlexandier Registered User regular
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    Twelve hours later:

    It's great how I'm not owned by this, not one bit.

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  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
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    I cannot conceive as to why anyone would want to pay the 8 bucks unless their employer paid for it.

    Or to shitpost, I guess, but 8 bucks is awfully expensive to shitpost.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    I cannot conceive as to why anyone would want to pay the 8 bucks unless their employer paid for it.

    Or to shitpost, I guess, but 8 bucks is awfully expensive to shitpost.

    The insulin shitpost was well worth the money

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    8 bucks is definitely worth it for scam-bots to scoop up the dumdums

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    mcp wrote: »
    caffeine free diet coke is such a bizarre thing

    also extra weird thing to have on the nightstand

    like you wake up in the middle of the night thirsty, and you slug some coke like a psycho

    So, I drink caffeine free diet coke but that's because I just need something carbonated which feels "coke-like."

    But I don't have my bed-table littered with empty cans because I'm not a goblin!

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  • CelloCello Registered User regular
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    God, he's so incredibly rich and he can't kick a pro-tier cosplayer 200 bucks to make him a better Deus Ex gun

    He's that rich and he doesn't just pay somebody to custom build him a functioning Deus Ex gun

    I truly do not understand rich people

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
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    Rich people aren't real people.

    There's nothing to understand they just have a series of nerve bundles that go "bleep bloop tax incentives" and then they wriggle towards off shore bank accounts using evolutionary instinct and possibly the UV light from stars as a sort of crude navigational chart.

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  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
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    Freedom of [his] speech

    Freedom to not hear speech he doesn't like
    I cannot conceive as to why anyone would want to pay the 8 bucks unless their employer paid for it.

    Or to shitpost, I guess, but 8 bucks is awfully expensive to shitpost.

    8 bucks a month, remember

  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    edited November 2022
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    Cello wrote: »
    God, he's so incredibly rich and he can't kick a pro-tier cosplayer 200 bucks to make him a better Deus Ex gun

    He's that rich and he doesn't just pay somebody to custom build him a functioning Deus Ex gun

    I truly do not understand rich people

    It's not complicated

    Imagine you live in an environment where if you were to say, actually shit yourself in front of a group of people, I don't mean just a little leak, but a large noisy visible wet splattery self-shitting that instantly stank out the place and ruined a valuable carpet, not only would they not say anything but one or more of them would actively praise your self-shitting skills and suggest that we would all do well to learn how to shit ourselves even a tenth as well as that.

    Because rich people publicly shit themselves, V1ms want to be rich, therefore V1m publicly shitting himself will is necessary (but possibly not sufficent, because I'm just not as good at it as really rich people) for a richer V1m

    And we all want that don't we, fellow self-shitters?

    V1m on
  • EtheaEthea Registered User regular
    Elon Musk's financial solvency
    Cello wrote: »
    God, he's so incredibly rich and he can't kick a pro-tier cosplayer 200 bucks to make him a better Deus Ex gun

    He's that rich and he doesn't just pay somebody to custom build him a functioning Deus Ex gun

    I truly do not understand rich people

    Somebody scammed him this gun. They messaged saying they are in charge of a very private official limited run reproduction for true fans, and Elon was top of the list. For only 25k he could get model 00 of 10 with a certificate of authenticity.

    He grabbed this and the other gun from his vault of `authentic` items, and carefully staged the nightstand to show his true cred

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  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
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    I appreciate you all pointing out his gun is a fake videogame thing, because I thought it was one of those souped up handguns and he was trying to show off for a particular audience.

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
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    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    I appreciate you all pointing out his gun is a fake videogame thing, because I thought it was one of those souped up handguns and he was trying to show off for a particular audience.

    I mean, I think he is trying to show off a souped up handgun for that particular audience… just without actually owning one.

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    I'm trying to imagine Elon Musk shooting an actual gun and the only outcome I can conceive of is the recoil scares him and then the gun flies back and beans him in the face, instantly knocking him unconscious, Family Guy style.

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
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    I could see Elon attempting to get into those, like, tactical shooting courses that people do, but being fucking shit at it so he just like rents out entire facilities so no one sees him fail at breaching a door four times in a row or whatever

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  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    My assumption was that the goal was to get people who don't like guns to react strongly and then be able to make fun of them for not realizing that it's a toy video game gun (while also showing off his nerd cred or whatever)

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  • TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
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    Juggernut wrote: »
    I'm trying to imagine Elon Musk shooting an actual gun and the only outcome I can conceive of is the recoil scares him and then the gun flies back and beans him in the face, instantly knocking him unconscious, Family Guy style.

    And then his dick falls off and he slips on it

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  • EinzelEinzel Registered User regular
    It's mad how he thinks that photo makes him look cool, when it just makes me think of a rich edgelord teenager

    The caffeine free diet cokes have so much old dad falling asleep on the couch at 5pm energy for me.

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  • EinzelEinzel Registered User regular
    Cello wrote: »
    God, he's so incredibly rich and he can't kick a pro-tier cosplayer 200 bucks to make him a better Deus Ex gun

    He's that rich and he doesn't just pay somebody to custom build him a functioning Deus Ex gun

    I truly do not understand rich people

    A functioning one off with no reused parts would probably only be like 50k tops, if my estimates are right?

    but

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    If I was Elon Musk rich I'd have a division of one of my companies build me a tricorder prop. But it would be fully functional with all the scanning stuff really working.

    Obviously he would not do this because having a portable scanning device like that would better all of humanity and he's too shallow to do that.

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
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    If I was Elon Musk rich I'd have a division of one of my companies build me a tricorder prop. But it would be fully functional with all the scanning stuff really working.

    Obviously he would not do this because having a portable scanning device like that would better all of humanity and he's too shallow to do that.

    Do you think Elon finds Star Trek too “socialist” so he never liked it, or do you think he used to like it but now he just complains that it’s “too woke”?

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  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    V1m wrote: »
    I cannot conceive as to why anyone would want to pay the 8 bucks unless their employer paid for it.

    Or to shitpost, I guess, but 8 bucks is awfully expensive to shitpost.

    8 bucks a month, remember

    This actually is kinda funny, because someone who 'paid $8 once and got banned,' multiple times, is going to be far more acceptable than someone who paid $8 and re-subbed even once.

    Standard exception for most folks who use Twitter as their ad/client base applies here - but that exception is gonna get less valuable over time, imo. Eventually it just won't be worth what you're getting and anyone using Twitter like that is hopefully looking at other options

  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
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    The only good thing Elon Musk ever did was remind everyone that flamethrowers are legal.

  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    If I was Elon Musk rich I'd have a division of one of my companies build me a tricorder prop. But it would be fully functional with all the scanning stuff really working.

    Obviously he would not do this because having a portable scanning device like that would better all of humanity and he's too shallow to do that.

    Do you think Elon finds Star Trek too “socialist” so he never liked it, or do you think he used to like it but now he just complains that it’s “too woke”?

    Star Trek named dropped Musk as a genius inventor that one time and that sort of attention is basically the only thing Musk lives for

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular

    Free speech is when advertisers have to advertise on your website

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  • TomantaTomanta Registered User regular
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    I want Tim Cook to take out Twitter ads saying Musk is a whiny brat who drinks his own pee, then when he gets banned and the ads don't run ask Musk why he doesn't like free speech.

    And then delist Twitter from the apple store.

    Actually, just that last thing would be good enough.

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