Elon Musk

they don't bounce, they have collision detection

*manical 1989 Joker laughing*

alert the UN

i do think the chances of elon musk consolidating a bunch of "essential services" (aka, everyone who agrees with him that twitter is THE digital "public square") and then doing a rug pull and flying off into space with a quadrillion stolen US dollars is > 2.5%

even those that got especially burned would just be like "well we always knew elon was a trickster at heart"

he has the technology to colonise mars he should go do it NOW and take his fanboys with him as space-minions, i wd applaud that

https://i.imgur.com/7eV7te6.png

we really are just fulfilling versions of the future that were delivered in the form of popular films from the 1980s, including spaceballs ('87), batman (1989), and back to the future 2 (1989)

what the fuck is this

pic.twitter.com/Q9OjlJhi7f

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022

I don't really see how "the left has moved further left" outside of demanding more action on issues which have only gotten progressively worse since 2008. as I recall the right literally tried to overthrow the government just 15 months ago and are currently booting out anyone who doesn't believe the election was stolen. this fucking guy.

he's such a scientist

its the standard way to justify going fash

Does he have people creating these tweets for him? He must.

Yeah, for instance I was screaming for marriage equality since basically I was of voting age, and back then, it was a conversation that never went beyond the hypothetical because it seemed like it was forever away.

I and other like-minded screamed louder about it when it started to gain momentum on a state and national level. Yeah I'm sure there were plenty of center-lefts who were either "pro-civil union" or anti-gay marriage that eventually gravitated towards the position, but there were a large chunk of people who were merely expressing what they always believed.

i'm a little confused because they are all at different scales?

i mean democrats have def moved left as a group but thats not really the point of the drawing

I'm embarrassed that it only just occurred to me that he's going to make a run in 2024.

I think the idea that you'd be center-left in 2008, change none of your stances, and now be center-right is what people on the online left would call a "shitlib?"

basically, you are progressive about some issues but don't really reevaluate your stances over time, so your snapshot of what the world is like fossilizes when you reach some level of disconnect in life and anyone who challenges the status quo in a progressive way after that just seems too far left

why would you want anything to change when your world is great? maybe things have gone too far!!

I'm embarrassed that it only just occurred to me that he's going to make a run in 2024.

A run for what? He's ineligible to run for president.

Shh, let him try and waste his money.

also it's not really *his* money, it mostly belongs to banks and such

not that that stopped trump

that he's going to make a run in 2024

He'll have to buy the nation and change the constitution, but that ain't no big thang

Love how 'woke' is now considered some kind of insult in the right-o-sphere, like 'snowflake' was a few years back

Does he have people creating these tweets for him? He must.

He generally just steals other people's tweets and uses them without attribution. Someone named Colin Wright tweeted this cartoon. Its at least several months old.

Rules mean nothing. He will run.

i'm a little confused because they are all at different scales?

― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, April 28, 2022 3:53 PM bookmarkflaglink

lol yes i enjoyed that aspect of his shitty comic as well

He generally just steals other people's tweets and uses them without attribution. Someone named Colin Wright tweeted this cartoon. Its at least several months old.

― o. nate, Thursday, April 28, 2022 3:10 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

iirc he made a big deal out of this a couple years ago, he stole someone's meme and got a ton of likes on it and when the original artist asked to be credited he threw a tantrum over it, like "this is ruining the internet" type bullshit

im tired of this guy lets release him into space

https://i.imgur.com/szO8Aru.png

one small step for him

It’s pretty clearly an egocentric illustration, where he is the unchanging center of the universe, and the only way he can explain away his rightward lurch is to claim the left is going further left. Which is complete fucking bullshit, it’s plain as day that the right is going far right and trying to shift the center further to the right. Elon has shifted right as his wealth skyrockets and he stops wanting to use his wealth for the greater good. Maybe he likes to think of his stance as unchanging, but he is deluded.

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FT_22.02.22_CongressPolarization_chamber_party_new1.png?w=640

well yeah as soon as I saw that tweet I thought "I bet this was actually researched and he's completely wrong"

Anyone not caught trying to bring a loaded pistol onto a plane is now a bleeding heart RINO

The hundreds of people trying to correct Musk on Twitter were really missing the point.

Yeah you can argue with him all you want, he's telling you where he is: on the right. (Not that this is some big revelation obv)

Love how 'woke' is now considered some kind of insult in the right-o-sphere

Y'know what would really throw them? If the left claimed "born again" as its jargon term for having arrived at a deeper personal understanding of structural racism, class warfare and the marginalization of vulnerable people... and then doggedly stuck with it in the face of the aghast outcry from the white evangelicals. I don't think the Black church be all that bothered.

I strongly supported Obama for President, but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2022

I'd rather have Frank Zappa move into my house than spend a single minute around this guy

this is very much “name one elected official and what they’ve done you dislike”

several said mean things about Elon, I guess

His assimilation won't be complete until he starts saying Democrat Party instead of Democratic.

Oh cool, all cool then...

But I’m no fan of the far right either.

Let’s have less hate and more love.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2022

- Bob Marley, famous center-right musician

get up stand up
stand up for the (center)-right

this guy's just like every other "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" george w bush, backward-baseball-hat, co-ed naked lacross, marquette attending, son of a property developer, douchebag stoner bro motherfucker out there, absolutely nothing special about him much less his tweets

Oh, I see, “strongly” supported. You supported him very strongly. Who have you been talking to lately?

Isn't it weird that Musk perceives the left as becoming more radical at roughly the pace that more people have discovered he's a giant shithead.

🤔

I wonder where he puts cryptofucks on his political line. Probably just where he places himself - the happy face in the middle

The thing that I'm losing my mind over is the simplistic idea that the ideological spectrum is a line where specific views and positions are objectively fixed in place as "center," "left," "far-left," etc., as though those classifications aren't constantly being shaped by political actors and institutions.

this guy's just like every other "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" george w bush, backward-baseball-hat, co-ed naked lacross, marquette attending, son of a property developer, douchebag stoner bro motherfucker out there, absolutely nothing special about him much less his tweets

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 April 2022 13:48 (one hour ago) link

except he definitely doesn't lift

i feel like there's a whiff of old money to him too but yeah the way to the top in the u.s. is to fully become its bourgeoisie.