Elon Musk

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; repairing that damage would be a slow and patient but doable process if the organizational will were there for it, but probably nah.

it is doable, i agree. it will take a new religion, let's go

isn't this how the early russian socialists did stuff? imagine if they had social media.

(truly tho, i do agree it is doable and it is lol--what is to be done)

sad

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F3bLG4vXAAAJ_Q2?format=jpg&name=900x900

could have gone out like a legend

I'm kind of relieved that I won't have to be embarrassingly emotionally invested in Mark Zuckerberg winning an MMA match

Oh Zuckerberg would obviously kick his ass, which, like, of course he would, he's actually an MMA fighter. It's not really any shade on Musk that he would lose an MMA fight to somebody who trains and fights as an MMA fighter. But it would have been pretty fun to see him get his ass kicked, so I'm sorry we're robbed of that.

From the beginning I figured there was a 0% chance it was actually gonna happen and it wasn’t because of Zuck

does zuck have the juice to goad musk into this

did you guys hear that zuck rizzed up elon

Elon trying to make his paunch a feature rather than a bug.

In other words, roll with the paunches.

Sancho Panzón

A Paunch and Judy Show.

Is that a real paunch or a Sears paunch?

am i going crazy or wasn't a rich dude getting obsessed with becoming an MMA fighter a subplot in a lesser season of Friends?

Look, any two knuckleheads can climb in a cage together... they should have it out like a couple of real billionaires; see who can hire the best team of assassins versus the other guy's private security detail...

this meme return when

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aydOe4W_460s.jpg

xp not so weird that Friends did it. there's only so many frontiers these rich guys can help mankind get a better understanding of: space, AI, and *checks notes* full-contact combat

ronan farrow on musks influence on the us government, not a great sitch

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

no paywall https://archive.ph/GEjpZ

Again, we have an emasculated government, unable to even to even conduct foreign policy without relying on a billionaire.

You might want to reconsider your metaphor. Seems to me more of a tension between a weak democracy and an ascendant oligarchy than one of insufficient power at the disposal of the government.

Lol pic.twitter.com/nsqmhFXIOH

— Brooks Otterlake (@i_zzzzzz) August 21, 2023

we were so close to a better world

just remembered this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnJBx_QagAQO8kQ?format=jpg&name=large

the cool friends gang

the extent to which people kiss his ass is truly disgusting

I can't read "I made the clutch move of ordering us pizza" without picturing Kendall Roy

the clutch move of telling ronan farrow yr billionaire pal's life just sucks

do I have to read that Farrow piece?

not really

you have to sorry

It's not particularly revelatory. My big takeaway was that in a better country a government sniper would put a bullet through his head.

"honey badger drinks when he wants"

we were so close to a better world

― lag∞n

we could have had it so good. maybe that incident explains his weird posture.

It's not particularly revelatory.

― read-only (unperson), Tuesday, August 22, 2023 12:24 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the meat of the article, the mechanisms of musk influence over the government, hasnt really been reported before at least not in this detail, and its important imho

damn

but on the other hand if you just assume rich guy has too much power you wouldnt be wrong

stuff like

the Occupational Safety and Health Administration told me that Musk’s influence had become inescapable in their work, and several of them said that they now treat him like a sort of unelected official. One Pentagon spokesman said that he was keeping Musk apprised of my inquiries about his role in Ukraine and would grant an interview with an official about the matter only with Musk’s permission. “We’ll talk to you if Elon wants us to,” he told me.

is pretty strong

then you mix in musks instability and ambiguous/bad politics and its not that good

xp That sounds made up.

dumbest possible timeline type scenario

In the past twenty years, against a backdrop of crumbling infrastructure and declining trust in institutions, Musk has sought out business opportunities in crucial areas where, after decades of privatization, the state has receded.

its that famous neoliberalism that we all know and love

oof yeah "thanks" for posting that OSHA bit

god i forgot that she laughs in his face and hes like on the verge of tears the entire time https://t.co/ZTkoF9COMN

— teen vampire, aged 40 (@starswheeled) August 23, 2023

so moist

"look at you"

so mean lol

that's the most Afrikaner sounding I've heard from him, she must've got under his skin