Elon Musk

and who will own the NFT for that tweet?

who taught him to talk like this

“Government is simply the biggest corporation, with the sole monopoly on violence.” — @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/1SqS8qMs3F

— Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) October 15, 2022

the state's monopoly on violence should rightfully be his because he could discipline & extract value from workers more effectively without government regulation, better than a government itself can? (capital allocation as the financial abstraction of this?)

the antistatism is of course totally opportunistic and hypocritical and feels like something between a pose and a threat

feel like this might be evidence of exposure to anarcho capitalism, which which would stand to reason i guess what with being into crypto

feel like thiel and andreessen probably also often talk this way, and with a somewhat firmer intellectual grounding?

i mean i don't think they're advanced political thinkers or anything but musk by comparison is a mid stoner dunce with far too much time and money on his hands

sub-mid in fact

^^^speaking truth to power here

how long until the helicopter memes or has he gone there already

feel like Twitter would be better if in addition to followers, it gave a complete list of people that also hate you. but that would probably just egg Elon Musk on.

this feels more like him intentionally trying to say something that winds up being a decades-enduring quote and failing miserably.

given how much govt capital Musk has gotten, I have to agree with him here

he is prime ancap material - born into money, sexually predatory, racist, utterly convinced of own brilliance, resentful of meagre protections his workers have won from the state and jealous of the violent forces the state is able to marshall (partly) independent of his whims (for now)... but he's not fussy - he also called himself an anarcho-syndicalist once didn't he? although I suspect was thinking of something more like fascist corporatism, if he was thinking

No private citizen should be so powerful in a governed society. Bu there he is with his money and power and toys like a super villian

ancap is the most ridiculous name, what if we combined these two oppositional ideas to form... libertarianism?

capitalists and fascists stole libertarian from the left and are in the process of stealing anarchist too (thanks hbo)

lol remember the story from a few years ago where an american ancap reddit user was visiting greece and decided to check out an anarchist squat and they ended up beating him up

god that fuckin rules

musk by comparison is a mid stoner dunce

― mark s, Sunday, October 23, 2022 11:12 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

the saddest part about this is its a new affectation, he was just a square before, he got into dorm room philosophy as a midlife crisis

lol remember the story from a few years ago where an american ancap reddit user was visiting greece and decided to check out an anarchist squat and they ended up beating him up

it's still up I hope it's real

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/3ucp8y/i_was_beat_up_by_left_anarchists_in_greece/

I remember yelling "you're breaking the NAP" and things like that. "Stop initiating force against me."

tfw force is initiated

Hate when someone disturbs my NAP

such as a basic douche, such a basic play, so depressing.

not to assume the veracity of the story but

“I’m just taking pictures of an anti-authoritarian group’s headquarters, why would they be mad?” is really something

elon said something true then compensated by following up with the most reddit thing anyone has ever said pic.twitter.com/lwB6MEE5Yo

— Lena (@banalplay) October 24, 2022

"polytopia addresses these limitations"

perfect post

lmao I assumed polytopia was some weird philosophy thing but it turns out it's just a mobile game for kids

it's literally a version of civ that has been simplified for mobile play and has brightly colored graphics. it's pretty good?

he talks like a deep fake of himself

xp maybe a friend of his owns the game

(that is rampant speculation, sorry. but at any rate, i'm glad the limitations of chess have been addressed

lol I was briefly obsessed with Polytopia a few years back; caek's right, it's a simplified Civilization with cute icons, pretty addictive ime. I definitely liked it more than chess, but that's because it's much easier

one game lasted exactly as long as my commute when i lived in munich.

yeah that's an ideal use case

one of the limitations of chess is that it doesn't last as long as a hungover person's commute, and polytopia addresses this.

https://odditymall.com/includes/content/upload/star-trek-tridimensional-chess-set-4453.jpg

The design of Polytopia does look neat

Tetris addresses these limitations as well.

it's a great iphone game!

three more days until it becomes musk brand twitter

It's all (????) happening (????) https://t.co/TndbF00O6C

— Silvia Killingsworth (@silviakillings) October 25, 2022

lmao stock still stuck at $53. he's obviously going through with it and still nobody trusts this guy.

No idea why they wouldn't.

it would be nice if he tried one last minute gambit

he's gonna demand they split the stock on Friday morning, before he signs the check

I kinda agree with some less-panicked commentary I’ve heard that there’s not much he can do to change the platform and retain the particular userbase that makes it relevant. There’s a lot of professional media person panic about this kinda thing that might just skew their perception just a lil’

the professional media person demo is absoulutely essential to the product's value though

they're addicted, so i doubt they leave, but if they ever do then it's over.

yeah twitter is really more a broadcast system than a social network, and the high profile users are what makes it work

entire communities exist now because they've found each other being haters in the replies of high profile accounts

one thing a technical person said on twitter the other day is that twitter is somewhat protected from someone stealing their users by the fact that twitter is hard to build, which i think is somewhat true, like you cant just build a twitter clone and be like everyone come over here unless you have a lot of money and expertise at your disposal, you could have some new thing that slowly attracts users tho, and then eventual the media people come over