Elon Musk

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

Source for that, sorry

coming to a realization pic.twitter.com/s6eSJheWpC

— MJ (@amorgus_) November 8, 2022

lmao

I just listened to Elon Musk on a Twitter Space that was intended for advertising partners. This is what he said at the outset. It's hard to come to any other conclusion that he has little understanding of human communication, or indeed behavior on the platform he owns. pic.twitter.com/ZiYtLNLd0a

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) November 9, 2022

he really is doing a lowtax

Elon in a Twitter space right now: "If someone tries to impersonate a brand, we will get rid of them and we will keep their $8. And they can keep doing that and we will do it again."

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 9, 2022

xp

“Now truth can be a somewhat nebulous concept”…it’s like trying to discuss science on ILX, ha!

Dude would be a much more convincing idealist if he weren't such an aggressively shit-posting asshole.

I wonder how many people would believe Chairman Mao quotes attributed to Buddha

He’s out of his mind

https://t.co/VWo3MvENej pic.twitter.com/sAvE1DlTrO

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) November 9, 2022

Lol I ain't giving Twitter access to anything but my shitposts

Tesla’s stock selloff intensifies, on track for lowest close in nearly 2 years

oh yes please, let me link my bank account to this flaming pile of dog shit that is soon to be even more rampant with grifters and crypto hackers

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

― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, November 9, 2022 2:07 PM (one hour ago)

well if it did, elon would be in violation for not timely reporting it to the SEC (he's been in trouble with the SEC before but not for that)

Musk right now casually walking through his grand payments vision for Twitter:

Users could link their online bank account to Twitter, he says. Then the company will offer "extremely compelling money market account to get extremely high yield on your balance". Add debit cards etc

— Hannah Murphy (@MsHannahMurphy) November 9, 2022

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?

would be cool if elon announced twitter was getting into crypto like facebook/libra lol

The fanboys acting like this is some cunning plan... he didn't need to spend $44bn on Twitter to turn it into Venmobook.

he's re-founding Paypal