Elon Musk

"near infinite mass" surely video games bear some responsibility for this

― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 4:16 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

The only way to understand Musk is as a video game messages board troll circa 2000

his whole thing reminds me of how Michael Jackson "lost" his childhood, and so he spent his 40s trying to recreate it. in Elon's case I guess he never had the chance to be a cringey teenage shitposter so he's trying to live it now.

Ricardo is real!

more funny graphs from the poster's poster:

https://i.imgur.com/O5A8A9M.png

Cybertruckesque

lol

Elon Musk should

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 5, 2023

i think we all know how to vote here, folks

He should aim higher imo

its so funny this is the thing he wants to do, a man with all the resources to actually do politics is totally gassed up on the power of memes

It's because he's a moronic nepo baby

these nepos effin everything up

Boebert starts grandstanding, gets told "VOTE!", and then votes for "a consensus candidate"...Hern. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma.

another vote for Hern, just now.

wait, i thought Donalds was the consensus candidate

a couple hundred representatives are googling "who the fuck is kevin hern" right now

wrong thread Karl

gentlemen you can't talk about incompetent morons in here this is the Elon Musk thread

smdh #onethread ofc

#elonethread

lol oops sorry!

Gaetz should nominate Musk next time.

if it goes long enough, there is a non-zero chance that elon musk does get nominated.

we need outside of the box solutions

complete the triumvirate, nominate Kanye

https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-560w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2022-12/221201-gop-kanye-tweet-mn-1415-5d8d24.jpg

Vox Populi, Vox Dei. pic.twitter.com/I14fKiIh0f

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) January 5, 2023

lmao

$200/month for an AI that thinks a daycare parking lot has the same speed limit as the adjoining street pic.twitter.com/9tB3MFcViG

— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) January 6, 2023

Per @josephmenn Elon Musk ordered Twitter to ban antifascist researcher Chad Loder https://t.co/tPBKAvWsbv As I reported, Loder's open-source investigations ID'd Capitol rioters but infuriated 2 far-right activists Musk admires, Andy Ngo and Chaya Raichik https://t.co/TagSTpsNkT https://t.co/7lDSJlq8c4 pic.twitter.com/tlGsiPCgKe

— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) January 5, 2023

elon is broing down with some of the absolute shittiest people, and also hes one of them

feel like any self-proclaimed "centrist" who is also obsessed with being the smartest guy in the room goes down that path

also holy shit at that Dan Nguyen tweet, how is this even legal

so I totaled your car
you was using it wrong

Is the Whole Mars catalog guy employed by Elon?

He has similar brainworms

I cannot even imagine the life of someone who stans a billionaire that hard without being paid or in a romantic relationship.

even Grimes has more dignity

Lmao how had I not heard he got this incredibly cringe photo removed https://t.co/HQ0PCBX77a pic.twitter.com/onO6gKiNqh

— K. Thor Jensen 🐀 (@kthorjensen) January 6, 2023

narrator's voice: it was not popular with anyone

Rich guys who are into S&M should be an exception to the "don't kinkshame" rule.

The only way to understand Musk is as a video game messages board troll circa 2000

And in particular, he has become Lowtax. We’ll see if things end the same way of not

Rich guys who are into S&M should be an exception to the "don't kinkshame" rule.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, January 7, 2023 9:16 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

can they really be into s&m if they've never experienced full consent in their lives though

I cannot even imagine the life of someone who stans a billionaire that hard without being paid or in a romantic relationship

I think a lot of it comes from the immediately Great Recession crash era, where you had a combination of social and political-economic factors colliding:

-tech interests coming into to start gobbling up all the capital spending that real estate couldn’t reliably generate profits from.
- tech guys becoming savior-gurus to the level beyond the hype that guys like Bill Gates had in the 90s
-the Obama Admin openly embracing and incorporating tech guys has the cool smart saavy technocratic leaders who will lead civilization into the next era because mass politics sure as shit wasn’t going to be allowed to do that
-Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark being a bit hit and a useful fantasy of what a tech guy is and how this superhero was going to save us, and guys like Elon, Jobs, or Zuck paying a lot to promote that kind of branding for themselves
-the western(or at least American) conflation of tech-progress with social progress, since that’s how a lot the second half of the 20th Century/Cold War was both marketed and perceived

So yeah, you have a certain kind of person who swallowed every bit of the STEM hype of the last 15 years and existing in a culture where the personal advancement of tech billionaires is conceived as Progress(and/or America) Marching Forward. I don’t think it’s surprising that this kind of parasocial relationship would form. Our culture is great at generating those

Relatedly, because every other institution and metric of modern life(or at least the perception of it) is getting worse, I think plenty of folks put all their hopes into one of those tech moguls innovating/disrupting/conjuring the genius solution to everything. Electoral politics has been deliberately drained of any ability to address the problem, so without those tech superhero figures to believe in, there’s be nothing but despair.

death/murder/suicide/dissolution of the labour movement seems to be lurking in the background here

but it still seems to keep him up at night which is something to hold on to

everyone love the rocketman who will save us from the environment, tho tbf a many of his online boosters are prob paid or at least financially aligned in some way

I hope so

vaguely recall someone trying to untangle it all at some point, pr firms def offer the service of people liking you online, and then the tesla investor community is extremely active too

think tesla gives perks/access to big accounts too

does that explain the absurdly credulous media coverage until a minute ago or is that its own problem

i mean it cant hurt but i think that was mostly just good tradidtional pr work, pitching the business press with a story about how a business man is going to save the world by doing business is a winner every time, musk really shouldve stuck to that instead of doing whatever it is hes doing now