Elon Musk

Judah Ross, a Bastrop real estate agent, said afterward that he went into the meeting feeling neutral about the issue but left opposed because he found the Boring consultant’s answers “evasive.”

Musk, he said, is building products that are “changing the world.”

“I love Elon, and we need more industry here,” Ross said. “I just don’t want him to dump his poop in the river.”

Again, it blows my mind that capitalist billionaires have “fans”.

I want to preface by saying that I love Elon and think he's a total sweetheart. I guess I just wish he'd stop systematically torturing and murdering my family members and subjecting me to an endless series of punishing medical experiments. Great guy otherwise, though, A+.

gotta say the man has a talent for making me hate him just a little bit more each day

🔥

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 29, 2023

even by his standards this is insane pic.twitter.com/6H2GZ4kJix

— effortful grunter (@lib_crusher) June 7, 2023

"hate the js"

twitter is going to buy the daily wire, isn't it

Daily Wire already moved their podcasts to Twitter. Whatever that means.

Elon either doesn't know that twitter is accessible on the web, and/or is about to demand his engineers revoke the API keys of the World Wide Web pic.twitter.com/rVPy2cbafi

— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) June 14, 2023

please let Elon get into a fight with ChatGPT

How is “cis” or “cisgender” a slur? In which direction? https://t.co/9VQby0tqhm

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) June 21, 2023

fite!

https://frinkiac.com/img/S05E03/985333.jpg

so not gonna happen

If this is for real, I will do it 🔥🔥

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 22, 2023

we can bully him into doing it, zuck is on board hes been special forces larping

I 100% believe Zuck is willing to do this, Elon is obviously gonna back out and blame it on trans people somehow

which is why we must bully him, hes vulnerable to it

gotta give credit where its due here, flawless execution

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzMShjAaAAARZGJ?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

I've been laughing at this for over a week now. Absolutely perfect. pic.twitter.com/oAmgJ1EbKh

— Ben Jenkins (@bencjenkins) July 18, 2023

The richest man in the world stole a meme from a 16-year-old kid and cropped him off pic.twitter.com/wtDLEeO8FP

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) July 23, 2023

he's a founder/investor tho, he knew what he signed up for

lmao pic.twitter.com/FMWLjZGz2y

— huffy (@sulkingtime) July 27, 2023

lol, "chicken wings and cigarettes"

I love the punchline.

Equal parts eye opening and terrifying

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/28/business/starlink.html

Tesla cfo stepping down effective immediately, replaced by someone from solarcity 🤔

lol

Am lifting weights throughout the day, preparing for the fight.

Don’t have time to work out, so I just bring them to work.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2023

NEW: Elon Musk says he will receive an MRI of his neck and upper back and may require surgery https://t.co/vbWv0r8hlb

— Bloomberg (@business) August 7, 2023

needs a a spine implant amirite

Everybody’s so down on themselves!

Tesla cfo stepping down effective immediately, replaced by someone from solarcity 🤔

https://www.threads.net/@bestofdyingtwitter/post/CvnGNyfR0ch/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D

Musk: I am training to fight
Musk (a minute later): I am getting my spine replaced.

Be hilarious if Musk tried to back out of fighting Zuckerberg and Zuckerberg took him to court and forced him to fight.

Delaware Court of Chancery governs merger disputes and the MMA I believe

tbh I’m not surprised he needs work on his neck. Looks pretty messed up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rck4PQXVDA

one can only hope they have to completely remove his head to do this surgery

he needs to let zuck give him a chiropractic adjustment

So is this neck thing just a dodge to get out of fighting Zuckerberg?

Failed self-suck attempt

head up own ass injury

So today he's pretending he didn't back out of the fight last month?

Here's an unusual situation. I had a Tesla, crashed it, it was totaled. And now it's ... in Ukraine? And someone there is listening to Drake on my, still logged in, Spotify account. pic.twitter.com/ymW2psyvz6

— Jay Yarow (@jyarow) August 10, 2023

I've heard about this from someone irl like last year lol, their old car was driving around the black sea area

it was 'totally' exported to eastern europe

This is the mind-blowingly racist neo-Nazi account that Elon Musk just followed. Literally one of the most racist accounts on this entire website: https://t.co/zzwwD95uxl pic.twitter.com/5JH2OkXsA1

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) August 9, 2023

Eugenics and IQ score-pseudoscience are hot again on the right (if they ever weren't).

Reminds him of dear old Dad

I'll just say this, if you want a terrifying insight into just how dire his app is right now, spend even 90 seconds scrolling through the replies to Stancil's tweet and see exactly how many verified accounts are loudly defending the racist for "simply stating the truth". Spoiler alert, it's a fucking lot of them. And, even expecting it going in, a lot of those are tech bros.

Yeah, it's extremely bad and disheartening, stomach-turning, among other things. In the early years of Twitter, before Jack I guess realized that "absolute free speech" didn't really work in practice, there were plenty of groups of the sort monitored by SPLC who had Twitter accounts and would post whatever gross stuff. But, you had to actually be searching for that type of content. Now, even if you only look at your "Following" feed, it is impossible to avoid that stuff, because clicking on any popular post will reveal dozens and dozens of outright nazi or nazi-ish posts by blue check accounts. That is all Elon's doing. He designed it that way. He thinks it's important for people to see that stuff. Some of those same people he retweets, some of them he rewards financially.

There was an interview with Yaccarino on CNBC earlier today that was awful. She kept retreating into drivel about how wonderful a platform it is for debating ideas, even or especially ones we may not agree with... ohh, yeah. Well, I thought I had made up my mind about the whole nazi thing but, I probably should give the other side a fair hearing. We could have a healthy, vibrant exchange of ideas!

John Cusack tweeted some scathing, perhaps slightly over the top thing about DeSantis today to the effect that he's a nazi ghoul who should he locked up in some kind of institution, and at first I kind of rolled my eyes a bit, thinking how this is a good example of why people get irritated by or at least don't take seriously "hollywood liberals" opining on political shit. But then I was like "wait, no! Basically everything he's saying is completely right!" It's insane that DeSantis, Trump, Abbott, MTG -- all these fucks, were not drummed out of polite society a long time ago, much less ever entertained as being legitimate candidates in the realm of public service.

They are monsters, and in the same way that people who are not great at math have trouble conceiving how much bigger a billion is than a few million, the average flawed person who is basically decent at heart and trying in good faith to do the right thing as they live their life I think has trouble understanding how sociopathic and truly monstrous these people are. If you are a "oh gosh, was I rude to that cab driver, and did I tip them enough?" person, how can you even begin to approach an understanding of the moral void that is at the heart of these people?

That is what worries me about Elon. Obviously a total shitbag with an execrable worldview and kinda dumb to boot, but people positively worship the wealth and power he wields or represents to such a degree that they will happily ignore him torturing monkeys or doing the equivalent of trump's "shooting someone on fifth avenue". One often gets the feeling that even diehard MAGA people think on some level that Trump is a bit of a buffoon, but Musk's fans see him as a Visionary. I just have a ~bad feeling~, apart from simply "this guy sucks". That much wealth alone can very easily turn someone into something of a monster. But if they were already a shitty person? And tons of people think that the person is a genius who is going to solve so many of humanity's most pressing problems? And the same person is trying to give creepy eugenics and nazi shit maximal exposure on his giant social media site?

I legitimately have TDS. I feel it's like how in the years since 9-11 when people look at the economic waste and the forever wars and the security theater that has made air travel hell and then they will glumly admit yeah, the terrorists/Osama won. Like, even if Trump gets locked up tomorrow, or dies a spectacularly humiliating death while conducting one of his hate events, for all practical purposes, he won! He has done so much damage, legitimized and emboldened the worst behaviors and attitudes in so many people on such a large scale, has unleashed so much profoundly unwholesome energy, etc.

^^^^OTM Good post

yeah. it really sucks. that's a big part of what killed me the night of the election, the knowledge that Trump is now forever a part of American history. that one day my grandchildren will learn about this guy and he will perhaps be described as an "eccentric straight shooter". he may get humiliated again in 2024, he may get charged and convicted and eventually sentenced to jail time, but it doesn't matter. he still won, he still triggered the libs, he still completely reshaped an entire political party in his image, in a way that I don't think really's ever been done in our country's history. for the rest of my life if there's a single person in power who continues to support him or his "ideology" (whatever the fuck that is) I cannot say I'm proud to be American.

i’m just going to write, not judgmentally, that if you were proud to be an American before Trump, you just weren’t paying attention.

(that said, I agree with del’s post— but I would focus more on the sheer force of the nihilism and meanness which he brought and which has now seeped into all corners and ideologies)

if this video were made today hed be no scoping sex traffickers from 400 yards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KoXt9pZLGM