Elon Musk: Officially a fraud and piece of shit. Official or unofficial war criminal?

[Parliament 14068]

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[wildcat09 29129]

11 hours ago, Maestro della Moneta said:

What do you mean?

He's had multiple government agencies targeting him as well as prominent Tv hosts calling for the Us DoD to cut off contracts with his companies. 
 

What’s funny is this dumbass doesn't realize he’s really one of the biggest national security assets we have. These are not serious people. Just vindictive people who want their enemies crushed even if it keeps America from fluorishing. 

The possible russian asset poster, who keeps making new names every time he gets crowdsourced so he can keep promoting Russian interests, promoting an illegal alien with direct ties to Putin as our biggest national security asset doesn’t raise any suspicions whatsoever.

[Maestro della Moneta 76]

20 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

The possible russian asset poster, who keeps making new names every time he gets crowdsourced so he can keep promoting Russian interests, promoting an illegal alien with direct ties to Putin as our biggest national security asset doesn’t raise any suspicions whatsoever.

I'm old enough to remember when his private company rescued two of our stranded astronauts from the space station.

Our expansion into space is almost solely dependent on his company.

Also,

 

 

[Captain Ron 12758]

Two year old tweet doesn’t mean crap. 

[Braff Zacklin 13333]

Pretty sure the Pentagon started picking up the tab in late 2022 or '23, so once again, Elon thrives off the gubmint tit.

Which would be fine so long as he didn't rail against others who profit from federal subsidies or get credited with some sort of altruistic donation.

[Brisketexan 104201]

19 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Pretty sure the Pentagon started picking up the tab in late 2022 or '23, so once again, Elon thrives off the gubmint tit.

Which would be fine so long as he didn't rail against others who profit from federal subsidies or get credited with some sort of altruistic donation.

This.  Let's write the truthful headline:

"One of world's leading beneficiaries of a government's subsidies is going to be put in charge of reducing that government's spending."

It's literally one of the most insane sentences ever written, yet it is the actual plan for Elon Musk.  And there are tens of millions of people who think that's awesome.

[Captain Ron 12758]

I’ll bet a $1 that trump and Leon have a falling out before anything ever happens. 

[atomheartbevo 89294]

12 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

I’ll bet a $1 that trump and Leon have a falling out before anything ever happens. 

I’d like to know how Leon believes that Trump ditching the EV credit is going to help Tesla sales.

[royiv 9122]

4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I’d like to know how Leon believes that Trump ditching the EV credit is going to help Tesla sales.

Isn’t Trump also scared of autonomous vehicles?

[Captain Ron 12758]

The thing is that Peter Thiel has more influence with trump than Leon could ever hope. Thiel doesn’t like Musk. He won’t let Musk get enough influence.

Leon’s thirst for attention will put him at odds with trump, who is more thirsty. On top of that Leon basically thinks he can play trump to run things, which will piss off trump more.

You combine those things, you have a recipe for Leon losing favor with the Donald pretty quick. 

[royiv 9122]

54 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

The thing is that Peter Thiel has more influence with trump than Leon could ever hope. Thiel doesn’t like Musk. He won’t let Musk get enough influence.

Leon’s thirst for attention will put him at odds with trump, who is more thirsty. On top of that Leon basically thinks he can play trump to run things, which will piss off trump more.

You combine those things, you have a recipe for Leon losing favor with the Donald pretty quick. 

Elon was a useful idiot for Trump. 

[pacman 7275]

And Putin....

 

[PenelopeWitherspoon 18994]

Ole @Maestro della Moneta is Elmo, right? I mean, Master of Coin? You have to be fucking kidding me.

[Hornius Emeritus 12353]

I've lost almost 500 followers on X since the election. On the other hand, I've gained about 140 on Threads and 45-50 on Blue Sky, so it's not a total loss.

Our social media will become even more bifurcated, I'm thinking.

Threads is gaining a huge number of new followers every day. Zuckerburg indicated roughly one million per day in his conference call. Now up to 275 million.  I wish it would gain some of X's functionality.

[Frank Drebin 5571]

 

[NoName 16257]

So, it turns out the cyber truck somehow gets shittier as the seasons change lol

Is ice build up that covers up your headlights completely while driving a bad thing?

 

 

[The Royal We 3058]

17 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

The thing is that Peter Thiel has more influence with trump than Leon could ever hope. Thiel doesn’t like Musk. He won’t let Musk get enough influence.

Leon’s thirst for attention will put him at odds with trump, who is more thirsty. On top of that Leon basically thinks he can play trump to run things, which will piss off trump more.

You combine those things, you have a recipe for Leon losing favor with the Donald pretty quick. 

Thiel is the real bond villain here and he has been playing the long game backing JD and he's playing for keeps. I don't know that Elmo is going to have the influence that he thinks he is. I do hope he keeps bumping his gums about being the shadow president.

[atomheartbevo 89294]

18 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

The thing is that Peter Thiel has more influence with trump than Leon could ever hope. Thiel doesn’t like Musk. He won’t let Musk get enough influence.

23 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

Thiel is the real bond villain here and he has been playing the long game backing JD and he's playing for keeps. I don't know that Elmo is going to have the influence that he thinks he is. I do hope he keeps bumping his gums about being the shadow president.

Yeah, in a contest between Thiel and Leon, Leon is going down.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Thiel pushes through an executive order or legislation that gets rid of the EV tax break as well as the carbon credit stuff (which Tesla relies on for a huge chunk of its profits). If he got rid of the tax break and the carbon credit stuff, would Tesla even survive?

[Firemans4Horn 17675]

11 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

I've lost almost 500 followers on X since the election. On the other hand, I've gained about 140 on Threads and 45-50 on Blue Sky, so it's not a total loss.

Our social media will become even more bifurcated, I'm thinking.

Threads is gaining a huge number of new followers every day. Zuckerburg indicated roughly one million per day in his conference call. Now up to 275 million.  I wish it would gain some of X's functionality.

yay. We get to trade in Elon for zuck. 
 

[atomheartbevo 89294]

11 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

I've lost almost 500 followers on X since the election. On the other hand, I've gained about 140 on Threads and 45-50 on Blue Sky, so it's not a total loss.

Our social media will become even more bifurcated, I'm thinking.

Threads is gaining a huge number of new followers every day. Zuckerburg indicated roughly one million per day in his conference call. Now up to 275 million.  I wish it would gain some of X's functionality.

Yeah, I'm gaining steadily on Threads and Blue Sky. Mastodon is kind of a wash for me - it had a lot of potential, but it's more intimidating for new users who can't figure out what server to go with.

I wish the Facebook management would drop their opposition to Threads having DMs and instead forcing people to Instagram, because a lot of us using Threads rarely use Instagram. If you want to offer an alternative to twitter, better have most of its functionality.

[Hank Kingsley 20557]

11 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

I've lost almost 500 followers on X since the election. On the other hand, I've gained about 140 on Threads and 45-50 on Blue Sky, so it's not a total loss.

Our social media will become even more bifurcated, I'm thinking.

Threads is gaining a huge number of new followers every day. Zuckerburg indicated roughly one million per day in his conference call. Now up to 275 million.  I wish it would gain some of X's functionality.

Yep, I deactivated my Twitter account Tuesday night. So I'm one of the followers you lost. Sorry. 

I can't do Threads or BlueSky. It feels like those were both created in response to the political climate on Twitter. We need someone to develop an app that can properly mimic what moderated and demonetized Twitter used to be 10 years ago, which had more of a focus on entertainment and laughs while also being a news feed. 

Edited 6 hours ago by Hank Kingsley

[wildcat09 29129]

I honestly have no idea why so many people left twitter for another shittier platform run by another shitty billionaire. Fuck Threads.

[Firemans4Horn 17675]

7 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

I honestly have no idea why so many people left twitter for another shittier platform run by another shitty billionaire. Fuck Threads.

I don’t know why anyone wants to read the news the next 4-6 years. 
 

[Captainant 27228]

 

 

[MonkeyDoughnut 10061]

19 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I’d like to know how Leon believes that Trump ditching the EV credit is going to help Tesla sales.

Besides making sure the foreign EV tarriff is kept and/or raise, he'll just have the government start buying all his vehicles directly. USPS about to put in a large order followed by GSA fleet... oh and they will need charging stations everywhere suddenly.  It will be a fair and open bidding process, wink wink.

 

[HornOnTheBayou 8865]

Does bluesky have the option to see the oldest posts first and then scroll up to the newest ones? Ridiculous that it didnt for a long time. 

[Hornius Emeritus 12353]

3 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Yep, I deactivated my Twitter account Tuesday night. So I'm one of the followers you lost. Sorry. 

I can't do Threads or BlueSky. It feels like those were both created in response to the political climate on Twitter. We need someone to develop an app that can properly mimic what moderated and demonetized Twitter used to be 10 years ago, which had more of a focus on entertainment and laughs while also being a news feed. 

I feel like Blue Sky is that. It's just going to take some time to hit its stride.

[Laxtonto 11890]

 

[The Royal We 3058]

26 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

I feel like Blue Sky is that. It's just going to take some time to hit its stride.

This. It's still early, but no algo, no billionaire owner, and it's highly customizable from a moderation/auto blocking/labeling standpoint.

But at the same time I don't know that I want to be as plugged in to the day-to-day fuckery that is going to kick off in the new year.

[Firemans4Horn 17675]

6 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

 

like the end of a sci fi movie. Nobody wants to be his friend even with all the tech and all the money. 

[Laxtonto 11890]

The problem with leaving Twitter is the election just showed that twitter, if you can sift through the shit, is always hours and hours ahead of the news. Especially when it is local. The problem with the current view of modern media is that their own information silos hurt them in providing real timely news..

In many ways TMZ in the 2000s was the harbinger of what Twitter is now.. There is a ton of weird shit, but they are all over breaking news that others are afraid/unwilling to report.

[Leeroy Jenkins 2355]

4 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

I honestly have no idea why so many people left twitter for another shittier platform run by another shitty billionaire. Fuck Threads.

I left because of Elon and what Twitter was pushing to me.  It was a complete cesspool of idiots.  

[wildcat09 29129]

1 minute ago, Leeroy Jenkins said:

I left because of Elon and what Twitter was pushing to me.  It was a complete cesspool of idiots.  

Yeah man, I did too. But I didn't go to another place that's going to be just as bad for the exact same reasons in six months. 

[Brisketexan 104201]

48 minutes ago, Leeroy Jenkins said:

It was a complete cesspool of idiots.  

Surly:

[CooterBrown 17825]

I've lost almost 500 followers on X since the election. On the other hand, I've gained about 140 on Threads and 45-50 on Blue Sky, so it's not a total loss.

Our social media will become even more bifurcated, I'm thinking.

Threads is gaining a huge number of new followers every day. Zuckerburg indicated roughly one million per day in his conference call. Now up to 275 million.  I wish it would gain some of X's functionality.

And Zuck was the first to cuck to Trump and kiss the ring after the election as called. Threads will probably go the direction of Twitter but the change will be subtle.