Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.

367 points

I’m so, so sick of seeing his face every time I browse the internet

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same. i’ve been downvoting any posts about him because it’s always some bullshit. it’s never anything good.

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This is him getting loudly and publicly booed, which I personally consider good.

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The sad part is, I think that’s what he wants. He seems to be a believer in the whole any attention is good attention.

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I agree that I like him getting booed, but my preference with narcissists is to completely ignore them. They like attention, good or bad, but cannot stand being irrelevant. Since I can’t stand narcissists, I make them irrelevant to my life.

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Wow. I did not know about that. I understand that 1984 was a major contribution to society, but I have trouble reading because it’s so depressing. I even tried to watch the movie, but couldn’t pay attention for long.

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2 points

thanks

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2 points

you got it, dude 👶👍

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0 points

Yeah, same here, I downvote Musk, Zuckerberg and Trump posts.

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52 points

Yeah him and that orange one. So so tired.

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29 points

This addon helps a little bit but it’s not perfect yet, it still shows some pictures https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-the-rich/

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17 points

I can filter his name as a keyword on Sync for Lemmy.

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2 points

Would be nice if there was a way to “spoiler tag” pictures for other reasons than nsfw

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Hes a famous billionaire. Get used to it or media will shove it up yo ass.

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11 points

that doesn’t make any sense

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8 points

Yup. He just generates too many clicks.

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148 points

Don’t let this clown go anywhere without letting him know how much everyone hates his ass.

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42 points

If we can’t take his money, this is the next best thing

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19 points

Let’s just hope he doesn’t have a humiliation/degradation kink.

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4 points

We should take everything.

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15 points

Bring back the classics. Not sure when/ why rotten tomatoes went out of style. Rotting onions could be a good remix/ update.

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10 points

Tomatoes splat really well, especially rotten ones. Maybe eggs would be good, but tomatoes are cheaper. I think an open source easy to make at home slimy and smelly (preferably also something that stains) water balloon solution could do the job for a modern consumer base. Who wants to carry around smelly rotten tomatoes?

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5 points

Definitely rotten veggies over eggs. Have you seen how much eggs cost these days?

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2 points

The cheapest dishwashing soap you can find mixed with water, maybe?

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134 points

Why chant bring back Twitter, I mean if it was rebranded back to Twitter, it’s still owned by Elon and it’s still shit.

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71 points

The new name alone isn’t what made Twitter crap, but it is symbolic of the massive changes made to the site by the new management. I like to think of it this way: Twitter is dead. X is the reanimated corpse.

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31 points

X is modern New Coke. At this point, I’m not even sure which of the worst CEOs I’d compare musk to. He’s like all of their worst traits rolled into one. I have no doubt there’s some weird financial accounting going on at Tesla, just that they haven’t been found out just yet. His involvement into the crypto sphere and with doge should have thrown up regulatory alarm bells already.

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51 points

There’s only so much you can say in a chant. Not a lot of room for nuance…

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9 points

A chant with more words becomes a song.

Now a song about how shitty x is, sang by hundreds, like what football fans do, that would be great to hear.

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Yeah and the key part would be to get up his nose which “Bring back Twitter” + boos certainly achieves.

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22 points

At this moment, I’m staying with my fediverse accounts.

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9 points

Watching Twitter crash and burn under musk has been so much fun. It being a haven for all the worst dregs of humanity and an advertiser’s worst nightmare is just the cherry on top. Old Twitter before mush for brains musk was still salvageable. He’s somehow done everything to make it worse.

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I’m not sure I’d call it fun, but there’s definitely something soothing in the thought that no matter how much I fuck my life up, there’s no way I can ever make a 44 billion dollar mistake. So there’s that.

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I would say specifically because he loves his precious X so much, thinks it’s such a great idea, that it’s a good chant.

Twitter was shit before Musk bought it. It’s just even worse now.

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I think what we really want is to have it restored to pre-musk-ownership level of functionality. But that doesn’t make for a nice four syllable group chant. Also I doubt the douche is capable of ever admitting how wrong he was.

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2 points

Definitely, that’s the best outcome, and also that’s the least possible one also.

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3 points

Why they care about twitter

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18 points

They probably don’t care about Twitter - it’s just a way to insult Musk because he is obviously invested in the"X" rebranding

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115 points

I hate Elon Musk as much as anyone else with a working brain but let’s be honest, the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died lol

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Maybe. But the fact is that it was used by people in uprisings. It is a powerful tool for the people. There is a reason why wealthy people from the middle east backed and funded musk taking it over. They wanted to take away a tool used by the people in revolution.

It probably contributed to a lot of stupidity and human suffering, but it also could have been used to great effect if us common folk could have learned to wield it appropriately. The rich and powerful were afraid of it, that alone should tell you that it’s death is a bad thing.

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18 points

Exactly it was allowing us lower class a place to try hold large corporations liable.

I remember using it to call out large corporations when some franchise fucked up. 9 out 10 times the issue was addressed.

But a lot of people use it to organize.

Musk wants to destroy any tool that would aid people to rise up.

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Musk wants to destroy any tool that would aid people to rise up.

What about Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon?

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27 points

Nothing > Twitter > X

Let’s bring back Twitter then work on deleting Twitter.

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9 points

Having X is the fastest way to deleting it. Let it die

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But not the best way, since it gives unrestricted voices to horrible people.

I’d rather it has a slow capitalist enshittification, than a fast fascist one.

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8 points

Let’s keep X unsolved

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5 points

It’s big brain time

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0 points

X is more likely to become nothing than Twitter was.

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16 points

It was awful. This is worse.

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4 points

Is it worse than tiktok?

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TikTok isn’t even that bad

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the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died

I think that Twitter is good for footage of emergency-type situations.

All sorts of people who don’t know each other put images or video up, and the community is pretty good at associating it.

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I think that Twitter is good for footage of emergency-type situations.

All that is happening is why Twitter was never the right place for this type of information.

Lazy journalism dictated by corporate bean counters and now we have whatever x is.

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Imo the biggest problem is that it’s way too easy to use. Something as simple as an 8th grade math question or hiding the tweet button in a menu would make it so much better

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105 points

Fuck Musk. He built an entire automotive platform on the concept of “sustainable transportation” and took those on the right to task for denying climate change. NOW he’s supporting the POS GOP candidate that had the audacity to call climate change a “hoax” repeatedly at the debate. Fuck you Elon!

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69 points

Dude Elon never did anything. Only people he paid with emerald slave money did.

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I’ll call him apartheid boy faster than anything, but this claim is largely inaccurate and needs to stop being repeated, because the truth is bad enough.

He got rich by scamming Compaq and thanks to Peter Thiel, gay fascist, kicking him out of control at PayPal.

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Bennett Tomlin investigated the emerald mine claims. It’s really interesting: https://youtu.be/4oNoy7Ay-yU?si=Y4-2_nCk73sWHmhW

Not only did Musk’s father own part of an emerald mine, but he was given that part of ownership after allowing shady people to use the family plane to transport things without asking any difficult questions.

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Not only did his own father call Elmo out on his fake “rags to riches” story, by throwing a bag of unrefined emeralds on the table.

Elmo even went as far as to state his father had a stake in an apartheid emerald mine in an interview in Forbes of 2014.

He tried to get the interview removed of course, but it still is on the Wayback Machine.

Excerpt:

JC: How do you handle fear?

EM: Company death – not succeeding with the company – causes me a lot more stress than physical danger. But I’ve been in physical danger before. The funny thing is I’ve not actually been that nervous. In South Africa, my father had a private plane we’d fly in incredibly dangerous weather and barely make it back. This is going to sound slightly crazy, but my father also had a share in an Emerald mine in Zambia. I was 15 and really wanted to go with him but didn’t realize how dangerous it was. I couldn’t find my passport so I ended up grabbing my brother’s – which turned out to be six months overdue! So we had this planeload of contraband and an overdue passport from another person. There were AK-47s all over the place and I’m thinking, “Man, this could really go bad.”

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Ehz he didn’t built an automotive platform. Other people did that, he bought it and green it mostly through controversy and by now it’s quite clear that Tesla’s are quite shit to own and drive.

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…I mean, I love my Tesla, and most people I know with one feel similarly. I’m not a fan of the way the company is run, and association with Elon makes me want to hurl these days, but I have no qualms with the cars themselves.

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I don’t love your Tesla, because they keep almost running me down because their self-driving bullshit doesn’t know what a zebra crossing is.

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Teslas are awesome to own and drive. It’s an annoying checklist that takes an hour when you first get the car to make sure your car isn’t one of the ones with the bad panels, doors that don’t close nicely, etc., But you can decline the car if it has any of those things, or they fix it right away. Once you are through that part it’s really a great vehicle, especially if you have a charger at home. Gad stations are super inconvenient if you think about it.

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Until you get into a fender bender. I’ve seen a few too many reports of people having to spend thousands for spare parts that should be hundreds top.

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now it’s quite clear that Tesla’s are quite shit to own and drive

By whose metric? Tesla owners have a 97% approval rating. I know tons of people that drive Teslas and they have zero maintenance other than tires and windshield wiper fluid. Hate on Elon all you want, but to assume the cars are shit because he is shit is just juvenile.

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Would love to know where you got the 97% approval rating.

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I mean I will readily accept that the internet is a fickle place and nothing is ever as black and white as it would seem but there has been a metric fucktonne of examples lately for why Teslas are just straight up bad cars. Cheap materials, poorly wired electronics, broken features, etc.

Like just casually scroll through any car subreddit or other online forum and you’ll see people recording their Teslas just breaking down.

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I assume the cars are shit because they spontaneously combust.

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Also, anytime when “97%” of people agree on something it’s the same as “97% of people voted for Putin, they all love him!” and you know it’s pulled out of some ass or another

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hilarious you’re so heavily downvoted for this. there are some rabid people on here who can only see negatives. I agree Tesla’s are great to drive and I know plenty of peple who own them and love them and have had zero issues, and also saved a tonne on fuel, and maintance. trying to dismiss all Teslas as garbage is just utter stupidity and honestly sounds like sour grapes to me.

Elon is a awful human and I wish with all my heart he’d have a sudden TIA. but tesla cars are not Elon musk.

ps your downvotes just serve to make my point 💪 stronger.

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Sued the owners to force them into calling Elon a founder.

Elon didn’t even found the company. He just sick’d his lawyers on the founders and bought his way into the “founder” title.

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Keep your friends close.

Keep your enemies closer. Where do you think GOP Republicans live? Texas. What vehicles do they drive? Gas/diesel.

Call him everything he is. But he is a fantastic businessman for going to the place of most resistance and turning his worst demographic to his biggest group of followers.

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He moved production to Texas for tax reasons. That’s it. He’s not a fantastic businessman; he just hates paying his fair share.

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How many of them are actually buying Teslas?

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I don’t have access to that data. And I don’t won’t to be misconstrued as promoting Elon or his activities (not that you’re doing that but I see the downvotes).

I’m just explaining what I think he’s doing. It’s what I’d pitch personally if I noticed red voters trend and visibly meme anti EV and I had obligations to shareholders I had to keep.

People are better off buying EV anyways. ICE vehicles are disgusting. I think people just like to assign large structures like businesses and folks like Elon to their political idealogies. Businesses and governments have to be larger than that because they need to serve people at the end of the day with either product or policy.

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