Elon Musk

Trump is a narcissist who can pass as sort of normal if he really has to.

citation needed

I’m not expressing any love for Trump but he seems to have some ability at social manipulation that Elmo lacks. Trump could shitpost effectively on Twitter. Elmo cannot. Trump is a guy bikers could have a beer with. Elmo is not.

You're talking about ex-president, Donald J Trump, correct?

Wait, people post personal non-work related stuff on LinkedIn?

Trump telling the Phoenix Hells Angels about his favorite Andrew Lloyd Webber nber would be a sight.

all while wiping down counters over and over and refusing to drink a (1) beer

Donald could kid some bikers along for a while using his tiny bag of 'regular guy' tricks, but they'd be sick of him in about half an hour.

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Substitute Big Mac for beer. I know there’s plenty of reflexive Trump hate but he was effective at messaging and he has some kind of evil narcissist charisma. Elon is completely without any social appeal that I can see. What’s lefts of his fanbase is entirely maladjusted and overprivileged nerds.

xpost They would give him an honorary membership jacket and he would pose on a bike. Then he would claim to be president of the club.

And yeah I guess Trump’s handlers were usually wise enough to wheel him off before his 30 minute socially acceptable shelf life is expired.

honestly one of the funniest things about Trump is him doing these rallies where people will spend hours listening to the MyPillow guy and some drunk lunatic on the county board, Trump will show up an hour late, and then 30 minutes into his speech people say "fuck it" and start leaving

there was a good John Oliver episode about Infowars, where he talked about the stuff that doesn't go viral - the other 3 hours and 55 minutes of the broadcast, and how incredibly strange and desperate it all was. I wonder if Trump rallies are the same way. there's always one truly insane clip but I have to assume the majority of these 2 hour speeches are just him rambling about random things out of context

Trump was so much better at Twitter than Musk is, not close

elon is not a poster and never will be

yea as a number of people have observed, Trump is a poster, Elon is a reply guy. I hate his guts but Trump can be funny. Elon seems to be incapable of having an original thought. all the stupid memes he's posting are just things he finds when he namesearches himself. he's that kid in middle school who tries to emulate what the popular kids are doing and then gets pissed that nobody gets his anime references.

Trump's narcissism has a definite goal of self-aggrandizement, enrichment and punishing his enemies. Elon's narcissism is less insecure so his goal is just to exhibit his wonderfulness to the world for its edification and to garner the adulation he deserves.

Elon would never tweet something as funny as the Diet Coke thing or even a lesser-ranking classic like this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIY2Xh2WYAEmbbg?format=jpg&name=medium

otm

frogs is right about Trump, though. reporters looking for particular points to publish as interesting or controversial have finally started saying that he rambled for two hours about not much at all before dropping a couple pointed barbs at whoever

really they should stop that and just say "he spoke and just rambled and a handful of old people fell asleep or left"

Elon's realizing that people are publishing the stupid shit since you can just embed tweets or screenshot them. you can't ramble or post about master baiting or whatever and rely on other people to figure out which posts are the bangers (he posts no bangers)

Aside from the "haters and losers" tweet (maybe the best Tweet ever), Trump's relationship advice to Robert Pattinson was his peak IMO.

There was that New Yorker article a few years back that (correctly) likened Trump to a stand-up comic.

Like that of any stadium comic, Trump’s brand was control. He was superficially loose, the wild man who might say anything, yet his off-the-cuff monologues were always being tweaked as he tested catchphrases (“Lock her up!”; “Build the wall!”) for crowd response. On TV and on Twitter, his jokes let him say the unspeakable and get away with it. “I will tell you this, Russia, if you’re listening—I hope you’re able to find the thirty thousand e-mails that are missing,” he told reporters in July, at the last press conference he gave before he was elected. Then he swept his fat palm back and forth, adding a kicker: “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

It was a classically structured joke. There was a rumor at the time that Russia had hacked the D.N.C. At the same time, Hillary Clinton’s e-mails from when she was Secretary of State—which were stored on a private server—were under scrutiny. Take two stories, then combine them: as any late-night writer knows, that’s the go-to algorithm when you’re on deadline. When asked about the remark, on Fox News, Trump said that he was being “sarcastic,” which didn’t make sense. His delivery was deadpan, maybe, but not precisely sarcastic.

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The Big Lie is a propaganda technique: state false facts so outlandish that they must be true, because who would make up something so crazy? (“I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.”) But a joke can be another kind of Big Lie, shrunk to look like a toy. It’s the thrill of hyperbole, of treating the extreme as normal, the shock (and the joy) of seeing the normal get violated, fast. “Buh-leeve me, buh-leeve me!” Trump said in his act, again and again. Lying about telling the truth is part of the joke. Saying “This really happened!” creates trust, even if what the audience trusts you to do is to keep on tricking them, like a magician reassuring you that while his other jokes are tricks, this one is magic.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/how-jokes-won-the-election

Elon is like a bad aspiring comic at open mic night, who has been told he's funny but who is most certainly not.

who was that right-wing "meme warrior" who gave a TED talk where he just showed a bunch of really cringey memes? that's what Elon would be like

still think about that ILX post that said something like "Biden telling Trump to shut up on live TV is probably gonna win him the election"

Rupert Pupkin, ladies and gentlemen.

LinkedIn has become infested with right-wing political posters. Many of them have probably been kicked off other sites.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

From the little I see a lot of the Indian IT guys on LinkedIn are Hindutva. See more of that on there than Indian twitter but I'm sure that's fucked too.

still think about that ILX post that said something like "Biden telling Trump to shut up on live TV is probably gonna win him the election"

was actually talking about that moment a few days ago, good stuff

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/08/elon-musk-sells-at-least-3point95-billion-worth-of-tesla-shares.html

TSLA bagholders are in shambles. I should feel sorry for them but honestly fuck them.

August 9th lmao

Yes.

In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close *and* some equity partners don’t come through, it is important to avoid an emergency sale of Tesla stock.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 10, 2022

https://i.ibb.co/X5d1B39/image.png

it's starting

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/to-succeed-in-musks-twitter-embrace-the-chaos

paywall'd but the lede suggests that crawford is a "the chinese word for 'crisis'" kind of person

tbf if half your company is getting fired there is no doubt room for advancement for people who are willing to be dogs for the new management

for sure

the most brazen are the "I'm the thought leader now!" type she seems to be aspiring to

the funnier one is "well, you can't _completely_ dispense with managers" and they end up managing something like 30 people after the organization is flattened

Seeing quite a few folks in my timeline specifically deleting their accounts today. Is this just because of the new verification thing going live?

who even knows? the migration urge or decision to stop using twitter seems like it's gotten more momentum and it's maybe incrementally building

Didn’t take long for the first blue tick scam to appear. Almost 27,000 retweets on this one. pic.twitter.com/RqLyQ2cPqC

— Angus Duncan (@Angus_Duncan) November 9, 2022

cant believe people are leaving right in the middle of the biggest ever board mod drama lol

Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months.

We will keep what works & change what doesn’t.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2022

tbf that's pretty much how twitter worked for years, so maybe the glory days are back

there were a bit fewer users then, though lol

https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-let-a-hundred-flowers-bloom-let-a-hundred-schools-of-thought-contend-mao-zedong-32-45-53.jpg

Did he get rid of “official” the day it launched?

I just killed it

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2022

Can’t tell if he’s talking about that one account or the entire feature.

check around a bit, it's gone

https://media2.giphy.com/media/weATfOb625cIM/200w.gif?cid=6c09b952dongs9ps3fi7szqh911i263c6g79sq52jggztyyx&rid=200w.gif&ct=g

amazing, poor Esther

I think you can still buy yourself a blue check, right? idk

Tesla shares still falling

down down down

the stock is down because Elon is unloading a chunk into the market

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/08/elon-musk-sells-at-least-3point95-billion-worth-of-tesla-shares.html

is that bad

Didn’t that happen a week and a half ago?

i also unloaded 3.95 billion worth… of poop

if you want to short tesla then this is one way to do it

I'm sorry, some clown launched an ETF that was just 7 different short TSLA positions? Short equity, long bear put spreads, short QQQ, long an inverse QQQ ETF, QQQ puts, short ARKK, long an inverse ARK ETF? https://t.co/IOTFSBqQtX

— Quantian (@quantian1) October 31, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhA8GhFXkAATsrt?format=jpg&name=900x900

i like how little sleep he's getting