Elon Musk

https://i.imgur.com/szO8Aru.png

one small step for him

It’s pretty clearly an egocentric illustration, where he is the unchanging center of the universe, and the only way he can explain away his rightward lurch is to claim the left is going further left. Which is complete fucking bullshit, it’s plain as day that the right is going far right and trying to shift the center further to the right. Elon has shifted right as his wealth skyrockets and he stops wanting to use his wealth for the greater good. Maybe he likes to think of his stance as unchanging, but he is deluded.

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FT_22.02.22_CongressPolarization_chamber_party_new1.png?w=640

well yeah as soon as I saw that tweet I thought "I bet this was actually researched and he's completely wrong"

Anyone not caught trying to bring a loaded pistol onto a plane is now a bleeding heart RINO

The hundreds of people trying to correct Musk on Twitter were really missing the point.

Yeah you can argue with him all you want, he's telling you where he is: on the right. (Not that this is some big revelation obv)

Love how 'woke' is now considered some kind of insult in the right-o-sphere

Y'know what would really throw them? If the left claimed "born again" as its jargon term for having arrived at a deeper personal understanding of structural racism, class warfare and the marginalization of vulnerable people... and then doggedly stuck with it in the face of the aghast outcry from the white evangelicals. I don't think the Black church be all that bothered.

I strongly supported Obama for President, but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2022

I'd rather have Frank Zappa move into my house than spend a single minute around this guy

this is very much “name one elected official and what they’ve done you dislike”

several said mean things about Elon, I guess

His assimilation won't be complete until he starts saying Democrat Party instead of Democratic.

Oh cool, all cool then...

But I’m no fan of the far right either.

Let’s have less hate and more love.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2022

- Bob Marley, famous center-right musician

get up stand up
stand up for the (center)-right

this guy's just like every other "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" george w bush, backward-baseball-hat, co-ed naked lacross, marquette attending, son of a property developer, douchebag stoner bro motherfucker out there, absolutely nothing special about him much less his tweets

Oh, I see, “strongly” supported. You supported him very strongly. Who have you been talking to lately?

Isn't it weird that Musk perceives the left as becoming more radical at roughly the pace that more people have discovered he's a giant shithead.

🤔

I wonder where he puts cryptofucks on his political line. Probably just where he places himself - the happy face in the middle

The thing that I'm losing my mind over is the simplistic idea that the ideological spectrum is a line where specific views and positions are objectively fixed in place as "center," "left," "far-left," etc., as though those classifications aren't constantly being shaped by political actors and institutions.

this guy's just like every other "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" george w bush, backward-baseball-hat, co-ed naked lacross, marquette attending, son of a property developer, douchebag stoner bro motherfucker out there, absolutely nothing special about him much less his tweets

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 April 2022 13:48 (one hour ago) link

except he definitely doesn't lift

i feel like there's a whiff of old money to him too but yeah the way to the top in the u.s. is to fully become its bourgeoisie.

His assimilation won't be complete until he starts saying Democrat Party instead of Democratic.

which is just a logical hop/skip/jump to Demon-crat

Yeah this is just standard ‘abused centrist’ bullshit, I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if Elon forms most of his opinions by using a sockpuppet to circlejerk in the most techbro corners of Reddit. This abused centrist mindset seems to be a reaction against having one’s biases called out publicly.

i'm a little confused because they are all at different scales?

― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, April 28, 2022 2:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, if you make the "center" the zero / index point, he seems to be saying that both "woke" democrats and "lol" republicans have moved further away from the center, are both at the very edge, and that he himself used to be left of center but has now moved to the right?

https://i.imgur.com/a2NB0ag.png

damn, he IS a scientist

It says the view of "center" and "right" are skewed by the "left" moving further left. It's a coherent lie.

better to focus on how it is embarrassing that he posted it

oh, i know what he was intending. i'm just saying, he did such a bad job with the chart that it doesn't actually show what he's implying.

want to see the worst annotated visualization of all time?

https://i.imgur.com/cEohjb1.png

loooool

So frustrating and dumb.

uh the Overton window has moved right.

We were asking for universal health care, unions and racial equality in 2008. As the crazies get crazier, the left just seems that further left when you move right.

xxp In the visualization, only the "left" guy is moving (dust cloud). The rest is supposed to indicate perception only. So it doesn't matter that "right" guy is more right in the end. Or same for "center" guy. The point is that only "left" guy moved.

It is a dumb lie, but it isn't failing so hard at it's intended meaning.

I am failing so hard at using correct "its"

you make an interesting observation. none of us had considered the doppler effect and consequent distortion of perception. red shift indeed

One thing to note is that the conservative always seems smugly pleased with his stubborn stasis

i'm going to need to annotate my annotation

truly we have found the santorum.jpg of our age

i recently updated wallogina and it was received with incredibly bad reviews. some things are just best left as they were

Van Halen put "update wallogina" at the end of their tour rider. If the manager found the same old wallogina in the dressing room, the band wouldn't show.

that's showbiz

i updated it, i added new frames of animation, i zoomed in. it was made for 2022. and yet, things had changed. some said that it would have been better if wallogina had never existed at all, but the following day they were on the same page as everyone else - wallogina needed to stay where it was. it didn't need to move like that

"What's he updaaaating in there?" -Tom Waits

I'll tell you one thing: he's not building a playhouse for the children.

or even updating a playhouse for the children...

no new laminate plank floors for the children.

ELON QUIT F'ING AROUND GET BACK TO YER ROCKETS SO YOU CHOADS CAN GET THE HELL OFF THIS PLANET.

now we're on nextdoor

I suppose most of this thread has reached this conclusion long ago, but is it possible this guy is just not good at anything? I'd always believed that if nothing else he was a tireless worker who knew some technical things but I'm starting to suspect he doesn't know jack shit about anything. His public statements are starting to sound like Trump any time he brings up windmills. Like remember how a lot of people were like "Trump isn't that dumb, he just knows how to provoke" and then it turns out he absolutely IS that dumb? Not only that but he's so fucking online in a way that suggests he's spending a shitload of time on Twitter/Reddit/4chan, plus he also seems to be way into several anime series with 7000 episodes, so where does he find the time to actually do like, CEO stuff? Is there any evidence of him being a better engineer than say, any random undergrad?

one could almost take the next step and realize meritocracy isn't real