Elon Musk | Doer of things on X and sad little man

He’s done a lot of stupid shit but the replies being filled with blue tick morons is the worst and is genuinely starting to ruin Twitter for me.
 
Solius said:
He’s done a lot of stupid shit but the replies being filled with blue tick morons is the worst and is genuinely starting to ruin Twitter for me.
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I haven't ventured out of my 'Following' tab in weeks. It helps a little bit with the blue *****, but they are unfortunately everywhere.
 
This thing needs to die before the '24 elections ideally. Still a severe lack of an adequate replacement however.
 
So many people like this are so fecking obvious in who they are but so many give them the benefit of the doubt, and they always shift further and more overt as time goes on.
 
Raoul said:
He's clearly lost the plot. Moving towards mental health territory here.
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Nah, he's just a prick and a bigot who has increasingly felt less need to be coy about being bigoted because he's found (and later curated) a like-minded community who love him for it.

I feel like the rush to pathologise people like Musk isn't helpful. A lot of the time it feels like a comforting story people tell themselves so they don't have to examine what actually happened and think about why they didn't see it earlier.
 
jeff_goldblum said:
Nah, he's just a prick and a bigot who has increasingly felt less need to be coy about being bigoted because he's found (and later curated) a like-minded community who love him for it.

I feel like the rush to pathologise people like Musk isn't helpful. A lot of the time it feels like a comforting story people tell themselves so they don't have to examine what actually happened and think about why they didn't see it earlier.
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Clearly this wasn't the perception years ago though, when he was viewed as strictly from a tech/business lens. Social media and more recently his actual acquisition of Twitter seems to have sent him down a pretty dark path.
 
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Raoul said:
Clearly this wasn't the perception years ago though, when he was viewed as strictly from a tech/business lens. Social media and more recently has actual acquisition of Twitter seems to have sent him down a pretty dark path.
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Or else social media just exposed who he is. The first time I took any notice of him was when he called that Thai cave rescuer guy a peadophile simply because he was told his dumb robot thing wasn’t needed. Pretty clear to me straight away the kind of dickhead he is.
 
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2cents said:
Or else social media just exposed who he is. The first time I took any notice of him was when he called that Thai cave rescuer guy a peadophile simply because he was told his dumb robot thing wasn’t needed. Pretty clear to me straight away the kind of dickhead he is.
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He's been on the scene for 25 years, beginning with his dot com companies prior to Y2K. Much of that time he was viewed as a fairly normal tech guy, perhaps a bit eccentric at times. The Thai cave situation was definitely of the first times I noticed his social media antics.
 
Raoul said:
He's been on the scene for 25 years, beginning with his dot com companies prior to Y2K. Much of that time he was viewed as a fairly normal tech guy, perhaps a bit eccentric at times. The Thai cave situation was definitely of the first times I noticed his social media antics.
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Anyone who watched the video of him having a supercar delivered should have been aware tbh.
 
2cents said:
Or else social media just exposed who he is. The first time I took any notice of him was when he called that Thai cave rescuer guy a peadophile simply because he was told his dumb robot thing wasn’t needed. Pretty clear to me straight away the kind of dickhead he is.
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Wild that that was half a decade ago.
 
sebsheep said:
Anyone who watched the video of him having a supercar delivered should have been aware tbh.
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Yeah, saw that after the thai cave. Unfortunately it was a fringe video before

And it all makes sense. Before that i got caught up also with the tech guy advancing humanity.
 
Underrated subplot in all this is the increasingly unhinged things Jack Dorsey's coming out with.



 
langster said:


What the actual feck? If anyone still had any doubt about where Elon stands....
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I watched it. Someone needs to pull out the science of the points made. Seemed to come down to a few main issues when ignoring the silly 'what is a woman' question -

1. There isn't good long term studies on the impact of gender affirming treatment on minors

2. It's unclear what the current social impact on children wanting to transition is

3. Is big Pharma attempting to profit off this new trend?

I think there's legitimate concern about this stuff relating to minors. Anyone watching will have to kind of ignore the Matt Walsh bating, but pick out the points made and it's sensible to at least consider some of these things!
 
'Discover more' in the replies now. Another thing nobody asked for.
 
fergieisold said:
I watched it. Someone needs to pull out the science of the points made. Seemed to come down to a few main issues when ignoring the silly 'what is a woman' question -

1. There isn't good long term studies on the impact of gender affirming treatment on minors

2. It's unclear what the current social impact on children wanting to transition is

3. Is big Pharma attempting to profit off this new trend?

I think there's legitimate concern about this stuff relating to minors. Anyone watching will have to kind of ignore the Matt Walsh bating, but pick out the points made and it's sensible to at least consider some of these things!
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I haven't watched it but I'm sure coming from that scumbag it was very balanced. and you can definitely believe that claims made in it.
 
DOTA said:
Underrated subplot in all this is the increasingly unhinged things Jack Dorsey's coming out with.



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Jack also thought Elon was the only person who could save Twitter, which he has since retracted after quickly realizing Elon was the only person who could destroy it.
 
Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue
Elon Musk recently said Twitter’s advertising business was on the upswing. “Almost all advertisers have come back,” he asserted, adding that the social media company could soon become profitable.

But Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 percent from a year earlier, according to an internal presentation obtained by The New York Times. The company has regularly fallen short of its U.S. weekly sales projections, sometimes by as much as 30 percent, the document said.

That performance is unlikely to improve anytime soon, according to the documents and seven current and former Twitter employees.

Twitter’s ad sales staff is concerned that advertisers may be spooked by a rise in hate speech and pornography on the social network, as well as more ads featuring online gambling and marijuana products, the people said. The company has forecast that its U.S. ad revenue this month will be down at least 56 percent each week compared with a year ago, according to one internal document.
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