• @cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Does anyone else pick up on the subtle humor of X being the means by which illiterate people can put pen to paper and “have their say

    • Demosthememes
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      147 months ago

      I doubt this is lost on Elon, as much of Africa was sold off to colonisers on treaties signed with an X.

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        7 months ago

        K you better not have just unearthed the REAL genesis and hidden meaning behind all this X bullshit…👆

        Edit: sort of makes some sick kinda sense given his autocrat state-level investors… :/

            • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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              37 months ago

              He named the 4 models of Tesla cars Model S, Model 3, Model X, and Model Y. This makes him appear to be juvenilly obsessed with X because of XXX meaning Porn. If it was indeed to hide the intent of him being obsessed with X because that’s the symbol that was used to sell Africa to the colonizers, it worked because I was under the impression he was just sex obsessed, until I read the previous posters theory