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
― frogbs, Friday, 11 August 2023 13:49 (eight months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 August 2023 14:07 (eight months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F3SoAUhWwAEnYaG?format=jpg&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Saturday, 12 August 2023 22:39 (eight months ago) link
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.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 12 August 2023 22:48 (eight months ago) link
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.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 13 August 2023 01:36 (eight months ago) link
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
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 13 August 2023 01:37 (eight months ago) link
While listening to Dan Carlin
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Sunday, 13 August 2023 01:45 (eight months ago) link
spelling Sméagol on Grimes’s upper thigh
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 13 August 2023 01:48 (eight months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 August 2023 12:55 (eight months ago) link
What about the neck surgery?
― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 13 August 2023 13:19 (eight months ago) link
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.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 13 August 2023 13:50 (eight months ago) link
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.
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:42 (eight months ago) link
(truly tho, i do agree it is doable and it is lol--what is to be done)
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:44 (eight months ago) link
sad
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F3bLG4vXAAAJ_Q2?format=jpg&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 August 2023 16:35 (eight months ago) link
could have gone out like a legend
― mh, Sunday, 13 August 2023 16:42 (eight months ago) link
I'm kind of relieved that I won't have to be embarrassingly emotionally invested in Mark Zuckerberg winning an MMA match
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 13 August 2023 17:05 (eight months ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:07 (eight months ago) link
From the beginning I figured there was a 0% chance it was actually gonna happen and it wasn’t because of Zuck
― frogbs, Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:08 (eight months ago) link
does zuck have the juice to goad musk into this
― mark s, Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:19 (eight months ago) link
did you guys hear that zuck rizzed up elon
― mh, Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:21 (eight months ago) link
Elon trying to make his paunch a feature rather than a bug.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 13 August 2023 21:33 (eight months ago) link
In other words, roll with the paunches.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 August 2023 21:35 (eight months ago) link
Sancho Panzón
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 13 August 2023 21:36 (eight months ago) link
A Paunch and Judy Show.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 August 2023 21:41 (eight months ago) link
Is that a real paunch or a Sears paunch?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 13 August 2023 21:43 (eight months ago) link
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?
― serving aunt (stevie), Sunday, 13 August 2023 22:00 (eight months ago) link
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...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 13 August 2023 22:01 (eight months ago) link
this meme return when
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aydOe4W_460s.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 14 August 2023 10:26 (eight months ago) link
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
― Vinnie, Monday, 14 August 2023 11:33 (eight months ago) link
ronan farrow on musks influence on the us government, not a great sitch
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
no paywall https://archive.ph/GEjpZ
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 August 2023 15:50 (eight months ago) link
Again, we have an emasculated government, unable to even to even conduct foreign policy without relying on a billionaire.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 21 August 2023 16:35 (eight months ago) link
You might want to reconsider your metaphor. Seems to me more of a tension between a weak democracy and an ascendant oligarchy than one of insufficient power at the disposal of the government.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 21 August 2023 17:26 (eight months ago) link
Lol pic.twitter.com/nsqmhFXIOH— Brooks Otterlake (@i_zzzzzz) August 21, 2023
― 龜, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 13:44 (eight months ago) link
we were so close to a better world
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 13:49 (eight months ago) link
just remembered this
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnJBx_QagAQO8kQ?format=jpg&name=large
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 14:56 (eight months ago) link
the cool friends gang
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 15:04 (eight months ago) link
the extent to which people kiss his ass is truly disgusting
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 15:08 (eight months ago) link
I can't read "I made the clutch move of ordering us pizza" without picturing Kendall Roy
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 15:18 (eight months ago) link
the clutch move of telling ronan farrow yr billionaire pal's life just sucks
― mark s, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:10 (eight months ago) link
do I have to read that Farrow piece?
― rob, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:11 (eight months ago) link
not really
― mark s, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:13 (eight months ago) link
you have to sorry
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:14 (eight months ago) link
It's not particularly revelatory. My big takeaway was that in a better country a government sniper would put a bullet through his head.
― read-only (unperson), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:24 (eight months ago) link
"honey badger drinks when he wants"
― omar little, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:34 (eight months ago) link
― lag∞n
we could have had it so good. maybe that incident explains his weird posture.
― omar little, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:35 (eight months ago) link
It's not particularly revelatory.
― read-only (unperson), Tuesday, August 22, 2023 12:24 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
the meat of the article, the mechanisms of musk influence over the government, hasnt really been reported before at least not in this detail, and its important imho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:48 (eight months ago) link
damn
― rob, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:50 (eight months ago) link
but on the other hand if you just assume rich guy has too much power you wouldnt be wrong
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 17:03 (eight months ago) link
stuff like
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration told me that Musk’s influence had become inescapable in their work, and several of them said that they now treat him like a sort of unelected official. One Pentagon spokesman said that he was keeping Musk apprised of my inquiries about his role in Ukraine and would grant an interview with an official about the matter only with Musk’s permission. “We’ll talk to you if Elon wants us to,” he told me.
is pretty strong
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 17:08 (eight months ago) link
then you mix in musks instability and ambiguous/bad politics and its not that good
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 17:10 (eight months ago) link