Elon Musk

Be hilarious if Musk tried to back out of fighting Zuckerberg and Zuckerberg took him to court and forced him to fight.

Delaware Court of Chancery governs merger disputes and the MMA I believe

tbh I’m not surprised he needs work on his neck. Looks pretty messed up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rck4PQXVDA

one can only hope they have to completely remove his head to do this surgery

he needs to let zuck give him a chiropractic adjustment

So is this neck thing just a dodge to get out of fighting Zuckerberg?

Failed self-suck attempt

head up own ass injury

So today he's pretending he didn't back out of the fight last month?

Here's an unusual situation. I had a Tesla, crashed it, it was totaled. And now it's ... in Ukraine? And someone there is listening to Drake on my, still logged in, Spotify account. pic.twitter.com/ymW2psyvz6

— Jay Yarow (@jyarow) August 10, 2023

I've heard about this from someone irl like last year lol, their old car was driving around the black sea area

it was 'totally' exported to eastern europe

This is the mind-blowingly racist neo-Nazi account that Elon Musk just followed. Literally one of the most racist accounts on this entire website: https://t.co/zzwwD95uxl pic.twitter.com/5JH2OkXsA1

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) August 9, 2023

Eugenics and IQ score-pseudoscience are hot again on the right (if they ever weren't).

Reminds him of dear old Dad

I'll just say this, if you want a terrifying insight into just how dire his app is right now, spend even 90 seconds scrolling through the replies to Stancil's tweet and see exactly how many verified accounts are loudly defending the racist for "simply stating the truth". Spoiler alert, it's a fucking lot of them. And, even expecting it going in, a lot of those are tech bros.

Yeah, it's extremely bad and disheartening, stomach-turning, among other things. In the early years of Twitter, before Jack I guess realized that "absolute free speech" didn't really work in practice, there were plenty of groups of the sort monitored by SPLC who had Twitter accounts and would post whatever gross stuff. But, you had to actually be searching for that type of content. Now, even if you only look at your "Following" feed, it is impossible to avoid that stuff, because clicking on any popular post will reveal dozens and dozens of outright nazi or nazi-ish posts by blue check accounts. That is all Elon's doing. He designed it that way. He thinks it's important for people to see that stuff. Some of those same people he retweets, some of them he rewards financially.

There was an interview with Yaccarino on CNBC earlier today that was awful. She kept retreating into drivel about how wonderful a platform it is for debating ideas, even or especially ones we may not agree with... ohh, yeah. Well, I thought I had made up my mind about the whole nazi thing but, I probably should give the other side a fair hearing. We could have a healthy, vibrant exchange of ideas!

John Cusack tweeted some scathing, perhaps slightly over the top thing about DeSantis today to the effect that he's a nazi ghoul who should he locked up in some kind of institution, and at first I kind of rolled my eyes a bit, thinking how this is a good example of why people get irritated by or at least don't take seriously "hollywood liberals" opining on political shit. But then I was like "wait, no! Basically everything he's saying is completely right!" It's insane that DeSantis, Trump, Abbott, MTG -- all these fucks, were not drummed out of polite society a long time ago, much less ever entertained as being legitimate candidates in the realm of public service.

They are monsters, and in the same way that people who are not great at math have trouble conceiving how much bigger a billion is than a few million, the average flawed person who is basically decent at heart and trying in good faith to do the right thing as they live their life I think has trouble understanding how sociopathic and truly monstrous these people are. If you are a "oh gosh, was I rude to that cab driver, and did I tip them enough?" person, how can you even begin to approach an understanding of the moral void that is at the heart of these people?

That is what worries me about Elon. Obviously a total shitbag with an execrable worldview and kinda dumb to boot, but people positively worship the wealth and power he wields or represents to such a degree that they will happily ignore him torturing monkeys or doing the equivalent of trump's "shooting someone on fifth avenue". One often gets the feeling that even diehard MAGA people think on some level that Trump is a bit of a buffoon, but Musk's fans see him as a Visionary. I just have a ~bad feeling~, apart from simply "this guy sucks". That much wealth alone can very easily turn someone into something of a monster. But if they were already a shitty person? And tons of people think that the person is a genius who is going to solve so many of humanity's most pressing problems? And the same person is trying to give creepy eugenics and nazi shit maximal exposure on his giant social media site?

I legitimately have TDS. I feel it's like how in the years since 9-11 when people look at the economic waste and the forever wars and the security theater that has made air travel hell and then they will glumly admit yeah, the terrorists/Osama won. Like, 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 Good post

yeah. it really sucks. that's a big part of what killed me the night of the election, the knowledge that Trump is now forever a part of American history. that one day my grandchildren will learn about this guy and he will perhaps be described as an "eccentric straight shooter". he may get humiliated again in 2024, he may get charged and convicted and eventually sentenced to jail time, but it doesn't matter. he still won, he still triggered the libs, he still completely reshaped an entire political party in his image, in a way that I don't think really's ever been done in our country's history. for the rest of my life if there's a single person in power who continues to support him or his "ideology" (whatever the fuck that is) I cannot say I'm proud to be American.

i’m just going to write, not judgmentally, that if you were proud to be an American before Trump, you just weren’t paying attention.

(that said, I agree with del’s post— but I would focus more on the sheer force of the nihilism and meanness which he brought and which has now seeped into all corners and ideologies)

if this video were made today hed be no scoping sex traffickers from 400 yards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KoXt9pZLGM

all I can say is I've spent far too long giving conservative ideology the benefit of the doubt - I watch/read liberal media, I hang out with liberals, I'm aware we talk about them the same way they talk about us, I assumed maybe there was *something* to at least their economic ideas, but nah, turns out it's literally all about them having hurt feelings

proud to say as an american that i never gave those fuckers the time of day, i do regret humoring and harboring centrist-dem politics tho

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F3SoAUhWwAEnYaG?format=jpg&name=900x900

del's post is OTM. I got tired of hearing people say 'don't normalize racism' shit but it was true, and now it seems to have been completely normalized, and race science tech bro nutjobs are proliferating.

Ive seen that post a couple of times, WTF is Elmo saying there, "If Zuck my"... tongue? Heart? I dont know what that emoji is doing.

I assume it's a pussy emoji, but that requires your brain to contemplate for even one microsecond the thought of Elon Musk eating pussy

While listening to Dan Carlin

spelling Sméagol on Grimes’s upper thigh

they should fight to the death

I got this text message from Elon Musk at 4:44am CT showing a screenshot of some text messages in which he tells Mark Zuckerberg they should fight this Monday at Zuckerberg’s home in Palo Alto. pic.twitter.com/krgRsH5P5G

— Walter Isaacson (@WalterIsaacson) August 13, 2023

What about the neck surgery?

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