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I’m also noticing a lack of Elon Musk assassination attempts.

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Would creating the cyber truck be considered as a suicide attempt?

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More like opening his big stupid mouth to opine on Russia / Ukraine, or Palestine / Israel, or European civil war or other such examples would be.

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How the fuck has he not been visited by the feds?

I guess to be fair they’re still getting a headcount on the people who were stupid enough to fall for the “Chase Infinite Money Glitch”

(For those who haven’t heard what that is, TikTok tricked a bunch of people into committing Check Fraud by describing it as a “Free Money Glitch” and a bunch of 20 somethings who’ve never seen Catch Me If You Can or even heard of a check fell for it…)

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So only free speech for the moment?

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“Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on X,” he wrote Monday, adding later, “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”

The owner of Twitter is learning how text-based communication works in realtime before our eyes.

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“I wAs JoKiNg!”

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You think the Secret Service got the joke?

I wouldn’t be surprised if he got a visit. Any of the rest of us might have for statements like that.

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Any of the rest of us …

I think you have answered your own question.

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  • lots of negative blowback: “it was a joke!”
  • not that much negative blowback, at least initially: “yeah I meant that”
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aka Schrodinger’s douchebag.

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That’s always the lame cover up.

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If only the Bible said something about this.

Now we need people to read and remember what their book actually says.

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Is Elon a Christian?

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IDGAF what the bible says

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Thanks. A handy verse to throw in the face of those who claim to be Christians.

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4 points

At 53 years old

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Slash he surrounded himself with people absolutely willing to step on one another to gain power and wealth so of course they’re going to laugh at all of his “jokes”

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probably one of the lawyers told him to cool it.

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He’s incredibly paranoid and conspiracy minded. He probably realized after “just asking questions / joking” that “they” might send a few of these guys for him next! 2spooky4him

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And being surrounded by yes men. And by right wing nutjobs.

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Lol at “the context”. Bitch, WHAT context would make it any better?

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Being in a room full of nazis would make that “joke” a total thigh-slapper.

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I’m sure the yes men he surrounds himself with was “the context”.

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I can just see him making his “joke” then doing that annoying over the top laugh with all his sycophants grinning along.

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Turns out some things simply aren’t funny. Not posting a thought right when it comes to your head also helps.

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Lots of regular people know thats its risky to send a sarcastic text

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Sometimes I’m feeling bold and leave out the /s. You gotta keep it spicy.

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Elon Musk after somebody invents time travel: “why is everybody only going back in time to assasinate Hitler???”

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Exactly.

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