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I'm sorry, but loosi sent me to Twitter. Is this really Elon Musk? Is this really someone the nation is supposed to take seriously? -- (link)

Posted by crash davis 😺 (aka crash davis) Jun 12 '23, 06:26

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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1668003032259260422 (twitter.com)

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he lost mainstream appeal, and is focused on being popular to a segment now. B/c he thinks twitter represents real life -- nm - MDH Jun 12, 06:50 4
- and I believe the Dave Chapelle show where he got booed on stage was shocking to him. Up till that moment, I believe he thought he still had it. -- nm - Jovian Jun 12, 06:54 3
  - I suspect that you are correct, but I further think that he thinks that that's an anomaly. "it's just chappelle fans. not everyone." - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 12, 07:30 1
    - oh yea his massive ridiculous ego makes him probably think that. - Jovian Jun 12, 07:33
  - nm -- nm* - Jovian Jun 12, 06:57
now imagine buying a car from that guy -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 12, 06:42 12
- Tbf, I've probably bought a lot of cars from people like that. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 06:42 11
  - And many other things. The tweet doesn’t seem exactly unusual, just unwisely frank. Didn’t STers used to post group photos of women and pick their preferred one? -- nm* - mara Jun 12, 06:50 10
    - It’s a little false equivocal, but I do get your point. Musk’s post is full on Man Show, whereas Hot or Not feels a little less benign. However… - Qale Jun 12, 08:24
    - The Kochs are objectively worse and most of us probably buy products from one or more of the companies they own. - TWuG Jun 12, 07:23 6
      - other than rockets and nazi tweets, he only has one product -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 12, 07:39
      - Elon Musk is 10x more dangerous then the one surviving Koch brother imo. Hes quite literally Henry Ford / Charles Lindbergh reborn. -- nm* - Jovian Jun 12, 07:39 1
        
        I'm not sure either's political influence lasted as long as their lives. - TWuG Jun 12, 07:51
      - this is fair-ish, though musk does a lot more press (and is covered a lot more in the press) than are the koches. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 12, 07:32
      - Heck, I still buy plastic and I think it’s basically poison. As a wise man once said, “Don’t you love what you got used to.” (Billy Strings) -- nm - mara Jun 12, 07:28 1
        
        It's definitely a bit of an illusion of action. That individual choices are the best way to address large problems. - TWuG Jun 12, 07:33
    - mara, you are not supposed to bring up my past bad behavior when I am busy chastising someone else. Don't you know anything? :) -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:57 1
      - Everyone starts where they are. :-) -- nm - mara Jun 12, 07:02
Yes. That pioneer who many thought was the next Steve Jobs is nothing but a childish tech bro -- nm - Jovian Jun 12, 06:31 1
- addendum: this above understates how dangerous he is though. Hes antisemitic and his purchase of Twitter was to undermine the media and the government -- nm - Jovian Jun 12, 06:58
He is the world's most divorced man. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 06:28
That's definitely him. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 06:28 8
- Is he 12 years old? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:28 7
  - He’s also a counter-elite playing to the emotional maturity level of his audience. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jun 12, 06:46 2
    - I like "counter-elite" -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 12, 07:21 1
      - I need to read the book referenced in the article I linked here yesterday. -- (link*) - znufrii 🦄 Jun 12, 07:27 [Backboard]
  - That’s the tell. He’s got the emotional stunting of a teenage boy discovering all these things for the first time. -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 12, 06:44 1
    - Yeah, he has the social skills of a 12 year old and enough money that his cohort won't call him out. - TWuG Jun 12, 07:29
  - That's how you know it's him. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 06:29 1
    - Thanks everyone. I'm going back to totally ignoring the dude -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:50

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