Fucking savage, I love AOC!
America needs more radical left candidates, not just AOC, Tlaib and Caraballo.
AOC is a breath of fresh air in the extreme right political climate of the US, but calling her “radical left” is just hilarious. She’s slightly left of centre at best.
Owning two billionaires for the price of one. !
I bet that toasted his buns. His ego is at critical mass.
Once someone explained it to him.
I’m sure just seeing his name is triggering
No way this upset him. His ego has reached the point where he doesn’t even entertain being wrong. He knows she’s lying when she said that, and she definitely has a crush, that’s why she keeps flirting.
I dunno. Did you see that interview he did recently? Dude is desperate for approval. It’s pathetic.
Fuck, you got me. He is desperate to seem “edgy and cool”.
No way. He’s way too vain not to take this personally.
I dunno, I’ve met people with heads so far up their ass that they think everyone else is wrong. I mean look at Trump, that guy never thinks he’s made a mistake.
Yep, and any time someone mentions one of his flaws in the news, you just know it ruins his whole day.
Look how much he obsessed over the fact that he had such a small turnout at his inauguration. Any time he boasts he’s trying to cover up his insecurity.
Recently the news has been blowing up about the fact that Trump smells bad, and once he has the bit between his teeth, he just can’t let it go.
So vain he probably thinnks this xeet is about him.
I assume xeet is the new word for tweet.
I prefer 𝕏creetion
I prefer the term kiss / kissing (in x’s and o’s)
That’s fucked up. We’re not giving him a whole English word, he already bought a letter.
“it’s an x! You send X’s on X!”
-Elon, probably.
In a recent interview this came up, and the best word be said he could come up with was post, but he was hoping for something better.
I don’t think they’ll ever get something good like tweeting on twitter. X is terrible for that.
By every metric it’s horrible. Searching for the term, using it as a verb and noun, ease of saying it in a sentence, recognition, as a logo, color scheme, the fact that X sounds a lot like ex as in something I previously engaged in but no longer do (irony) . I mean I could go on and on.
I refuse to believe no one told him how poor of an idea it is, I think he just has too much money to be able to listen to others.
I like to make jokes about how people might say X fucked them, and their current partner leaving them for cheating.
The company redefined a word in the space of less than a decade. Huge marketing success when you pull that off. Elon just couldn’t let go of his old idea from the PayPal days that the rest of the board back then told him was a bad idea.
Elon just really likes naming things X. Including his son.
It’s a bit of a forced joke, but whenever possible, I like to use “X-crete” as the verb to replace “tweet”.
I bet you think this xeet is about you
Don’t you
Don’t you
He is so vain
My people are calling it Xitter (sounds like shitter) so that would make each more like a little Xhit.
Coincidentally, that’s what I call people on that platform
I heard “xeet” in gmanlives’s voice.
You know, now I’m thinking Carly Simon is a psychic and the answer to who that song is about is Elon Musk.
Also, she totally sings “clowns in my coffee.” I will fight anyone who challenges me on this.
Nah, I’ll leave that to your morning clown brigade while I busy myself punching clouds. 🤷🏼♂️
All Xeet Xeet Muthafucker! All Xeet Xeet Goddamn!!
Is there a place to verify these posts are real without actually touching Twitter (currently known as Elon Musk’s X)? I see there’s blue checkmarks on them but I have a feeling a really cleaver hacker could fake those in an image.
Here’s my Nitter search with some filters:
The iPhone let me copy that text out of the image (fastest way was to screenshot and then hold my finger on the text in the screenshot preview). I then tapped “look up” and DuckDuckGo found articles about the exchange. But for less popular Tweets, Nitter should work.
I don’t know of any service that verifies tweets, but this one is real: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-aoc-stop-hitting-on-me-tweet-mark-zuckerberg-2022-4
Business Insider is basically a tabliod shitrag nowadays
Ok, so the tweet is a hoax everyone.
I was curious so I went to the top stories on their site. I don’t see it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/news
Why/how is it a “tabliod shitrag”?
You don’t need to be a hacker to edit an image…
Or just use inspect element on a Twitter post and change it.
Shut up let me live my dream as a Photoshop hacker!!
[selects the text tool] “I’m in”
I think that was the joke
Seconding nitter. You can take any twitter link and just replace the front with nitter.net
You can just edit with inspect element pretty easily. I imagine there are fake twitter generators out there too
This specific one sounds familiar, I think I saw it some time ago
It’s honestly really gross that he immediately jumps to thinking she’s hitting on him. Like, him freaking out and going into a fit of rage might have been a less terrible response.
I assume he doesn’t really think that, but thinks he’s being a cute troll. Like picking 420.69 for everything.
Trying to deflect assumed criticism about him by being “funny”.
Musk sent the funniest response he could possibly think of.
Remember middle school?
NO I WON’T MAKE OUT WITH YOU!
Or was that elementary?
He desperately needs people to like him.
Idk why but I feel like he does think that, like he’s the king of the crop
Cream
King of the cream?
I said king of the crop not cream
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That’s a weird way to spell sexually harassing
Calling Musk’s tweet sexual harassment is really grasping at straws here.
On a scale of 1 to the kind of unhinged messages ladies regularly get from men on social media apps, this was probably a 1.2.
I say this as someone with a good friend who constantly gets perverted and sexually explicit messages from random guys on Facebook.
I am not sure that harassment is measured on a relative scale though. “There’s way worse out there” does not remove from how objectively bad this is
Stop hitting on me!
(Do you feel harassed? No? Case closed.)
Note that my point was that “this is not as bad as this awful other thing I know about” is not really how I would go about qualifying sexual harassment. You have zero clue of my opinion about if musk sexually harassed AOC or not. I, on the other hand, am quite certain you’re an entitled asshole lol
I doubt even AOC thought that was sexual harassment. Just complete imbecility.
That was the line she used a while back.
Clearly you’ve never heard of banter before.
Does Zuck hang out with Tucker & Thiel also? It wouldn’t surprise me, but I hadn’t heard about it…not to the extent that Elon does, anyway.
I assume anyone in silicon valley with two commas has hung out with Thiel at some point. He was one of the earliest investors in FB
Any armchair psychologists care to weigh in on Elmo?
Money rots brains
Honestly, I think it’s that simple.
Radix malorum est cupiditas: the root of evil is greed. Or more colloquially, the love of money is the root of all evil.
One of the few things I’ll hang on to from my religious childhood.
Plus, hell hath no wrath like a nerd who stumbles into power.
My reductive opinion is that nerds come in two main flavors. Ones that are upset that the world is unfair, and are empathically motivated to change it for the better.
And then there’s ones like Benzos or Elon, the nerds who see the world as a totem poll. Totem poles where they have been placed below their true position in life. They don’t want to get rid of the totem pole, they want to make it bigger, and they want to be at the top, so they may punish those who got in their way.
No amount of money can hide the void inside of them where they’ll never be the star athlete. Never get the girl. It’s all a sham. None of their relationships are deep, meaningful or “real”. They may show a vaneer of confidence on the outside but inside they’re rotting as they seethe.
In a way it’s like, despite all the wealth and power, they still have nothing.
I actually don’t put Zuck in this group because
A. He’s a robot B. I actually think he’content despite being a douche
Tl’dr: don’t be rich pls. Be happy with your small lives like I am.
Stop attributing the name of one of the most beloved, friendly and wonderful muppets to ever exist, and who provided countless people decades of joy to that fucking shit stain Elongated Muskrat.
No. Fuck Elmo. Sesame Street was better when it was about Big Bird.
Also Elmos favorite “food” is wasabi… what kind of masochist is he?
Grover all the way
AMEN!
Many issues, will never change.
Brother, you don’t need to be a psychologist to call narcissism
I’d ask for the number but I’m afraid I already have it.
You technically do need to be
Elon does not have an NPD diagnosis. You’re accusing him of having NPD because you hate him, and you hate people with NPD, so you think they must be the same. You’re right to hate Elon, but you’re a bigot to hate people with mental disorders.
What?
World praised him as a savior with Tesla and starlink. His ego ballooned and now he can’t control it
It also works in favor of other billionaires and corporate entities like BlackRock and The Vanguard Group (among countless others). He gets to publicly be a jabroni, and they get to carry on with fewer eyes on them and their practices
Remember his cameo in Iron Man 2? Back when he was considered the real-life Tony Stark? I recently re-watched that movie and the cringe I felt from that scene physically hurt.
Melon Husk got brain rot
Accusing Elon of mental illness doesn’t do any good. It implicitly absolves him off responsibility for his actions, while encouraging harmful stereotypes about mental illnesses.
Weird take. Having a mental illness doesn’t absolve you from responsibility. Where do you get this bullshit from?
Not in the personal sense of guilt, but in the sense of personhood. When you say Elon’s actions are the result of an illness rather than a free unbiased choice, you’re saying that such actions, such evil if you’ll excuse the evocative language, cannot be the result of a person but must be the doing of an illness
Illness or not he’s a fucking asshole who deserves to eat shit
Yes, that was the position I started my argument from. Why are you saying it like it’s an argument?
Because you think having a mental disease absolves you from your actions. Wrong.
No I don’t. You don’t really understand what this conversation is about, do you?
Wait is this real?
😂
But why are they still supporting platforms run by billionaires? It’s so easy to talk, theorize and posture as this revolutionary figure. But when it comes down to giving up one single convenience, people freak out. I don’t know if I can take these people seriously.
She was one of the first high profile people on blue sky so it’s not for not trying. Even this criticism though reads a bit like “You dislike capitalism and yet you participate in it.” You can criticise what you partake in, why not?
That’s not the same though? We can’t stop participating in Capitalism right now. But we can easily stop using Twitter as far as I’m aware. You will not die if you stop using a website. I am not saying don’t participate in social media of any kind. I am saying if you can’t even stop using a website because it clashes with every value you have, then what chance is there that you’ll give up something even greater for the sake of the greater good? Your analogy can be used to justify not making any kind of change ever because it inconveniences us.
As someone who does grassroots campaigning, I’m not sure she can. She needs to reach out wherever her audience is.
Yeah really. I can stop using Twitter because nobody gives a shit about me. My thoughts have 0 impact.
Companies and figures can’t simply ignore the platform and remain competitive.
Ok I can accept that. I am not speaking about her personally but about many people on the revolutionary left who stay on there and spend 90 percent of the time complaining about what Elon Musk did or said. There’s something wrong with this “politics of negativity”, where the very apparent opposition you have to something is what ultimately fuels it. It’s ironic in a sense. A post complaining about Elon Musk is ultimately creating money for Elon Musk. The apparent discourse and the latent effect are diametrically opposed.
You’re correct in a moral sense although I agree entirely with other posters that politicians need to spread their message far and wide regardless of platform. I do not personally use Facebook or Twitter because I find them to be toxic, predatory, and privacy red flags in the case of Facebook. I rarely use Reddit out of principle when they screwed over Boost devs. The issue though is similar to why boycotts really just don’t work for the left. Our power is in changing the systems at the government level, not at the endpoint or point of sale because almost definitionally we’re not part of the 1% who make or break companies financially. Increasingly even together in unity that’s still the case that our financial incentive offering is relatively minimal to the biggest companies if you ignore mass indignation as a stock value factor.
Twitter doesn’t comply with hate speech laws on social media companies and is used as a tool by Elon to manipulate markets. These are problems addressed through giving teeth to the agencies and that’s always going to be far more meaningful than the 4 cents you contribute in ad revenue before you max out views for the day.
Let’s be honest though, with Twitter it’s going to fail with or without government teeth around it. Elon has already started prepping the narrative to why his white nationalist pickme project is death spiraling.
It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it
It’s actually a pretty small and exclusive club, it just has a big impact.
Elin is the biggest beta simp I’ve ever seen.
Either I need to get out more, or I’m doing something right.
Making it funnier is that this was from Apr 2022, when Elon didn’t even control Twitter yet, so her comment couldn’t actually apply to him. His offer had been accepted 4 days prior, but he would soon try to back out of it until Oct 2022.
So those saying in the comments here that she was lying in her reply have some crow to eat.
Walked right into this one, didn’t he?
In fairness the setup was absolutely beautiful. She’s some woman for the zingers.
Well, the setup worked for whichever side chimed in. Elon never stood a chance. The fact that she was describing multiple people is truely terrifying. But I guess that’s her point.
