Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.

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      Bring back the classics. Not sure when/ why rotten tomatoes went out of style. Rotting onions could be a good remix/ update.

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        Tomatoes splat really well, especially rotten ones. Maybe eggs would be good, but tomatoes are cheaper. I think an open source easy to make at home slimy and smelly (preferably also something that stains) water balloon solution could do the job for a modern consumer base. Who wants to carry around smelly rotten tomatoes?

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      The new name alone isn’t what made Twitter crap, but it is symbolic of the massive changes made to the site by the new management. I like to think of it this way: Twitter is dead. X is the reanimated corpse.

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        X is modern New Coke. At this point, I’m not even sure which of the worst CEOs I’d compare musk to. He’s like all of their worst traits rolled into one. I have no doubt there’s some weird financial accounting going on at Tesla, just that they haven’t been found out just yet. His involvement into the crypto sphere and with doge should have thrown up regulatory alarm bells already.

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        A chant with more words becomes a song.

        Now a song about how shitty x is, sang by hundreds, like what football fans do, that would be great to hear.

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        Yeah and the key part would be to get up his nose which “Bring back Twitter” + boos certainly achieves.

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        Watching Twitter crash and burn under musk has been so much fun. It being a haven for all the worst dregs of humanity and an advertiser’s worst nightmare is just the cherry on top. Old Twitter before mush for brains musk was still salvageable. He’s somehow done everything to make it worse.

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          I’m not sure I’d call it fun, but there’s definitely something soothing in the thought that no matter how much I fuck my life up, there’s no way I can ever make a 44 billion dollar mistake. So there’s that.

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      I would say specifically because he loves his precious X so much, thinks it’s such a great idea, that it’s a good chant.

      Twitter was shit before Musk bought it. It’s just even worse now.

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      I think what we really want is to have it restored to pre-musk-ownership level of functionality. But that doesn’t make for a nice four syllable group chant. Also I doubt the douche is capable of ever admitting how wrong he was.

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    I hate Elon Musk as much as anyone else with a working brain but let’s be honest, the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died lol

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      Maybe. But the fact is that it was used by people in uprisings. It is a powerful tool for the people. There is a reason why wealthy people from the middle east backed and funded musk taking it over. They wanted to take away a tool used by the people in revolution.

      It probably contributed to a lot of stupidity and human suffering, but it also could have been used to great effect if us common folk could have learned to wield it appropriately. The rich and powerful were afraid of it, that alone should tell you that it’s death is a bad thing.

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        Exactly it was allowing us lower class a place to try hold large corporations liable.

        I remember using it to call out large corporations when some franchise fucked up. 9 out 10 times the issue was addressed.

        But a lot of people use it to organize.

        Musk wants to destroy any tool that would aid people to rise up.

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      the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died

      I think that Twitter is good for footage of emergency-type situations.

      All sorts of people who don’t know each other put images or video up, and the community is pretty good at associating it.

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        I think that Twitter is good for footage of emergency-type situations.

        All that is happening is why Twitter was never the right place for this type of information.

        Lazy journalism dictated by corporate bean counters and now we have whatever x is.

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      Imo the biggest problem is that it’s way too easy to use. Something as simple as an 8th grade math question or hiding the tweet button in a menu would make it so much better

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    Fuck Musk. He built an entire automotive platform on the concept of “sustainable transportation” and took those on the right to task for denying climate change. NOW he’s supporting the POS GOP candidate that had the audacity to call climate change a “hoax” repeatedly at the debate. Fuck you Elon!

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        now it’s quite clear that Tesla’s are quite shit to own and drive

        By whose metric? Tesla owners have a 97% approval rating. I know tons of people that drive Teslas and they have zero maintenance other than tires and windshield wiper fluid. Hate on Elon all you want, but to assume the cars are shit because he is shit is just juvenile.

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          I mean I will readily accept that the internet is a fickle place and nothing is ever as black and white as it would seem but there has been a metric fucktonne of examples lately for why Teslas are just straight up bad cars. Cheap materials, poorly wired electronics, broken features, etc.

          Like just casually scroll through any car subreddit or other online forum and you’ll see people recording their Teslas just breaking down.

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            Zero maintenance is a bold claim. They have repair people that go to your house to replace parts when they break.

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            But yet they keep selling a shit ton. And if you talk to an average owner they love their Tesla. It’s almost as if you are looking at a biased sample that is not representative of the vast majority of owners.

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                Well the model Y is the most popular car sold world wide so it’s hard to argue that they are “shit”.

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              ikr who would have thought a person who had zero issues with a car would go on a car forum and complain about it? google literally any car and you’ll see forums of people complaining about them. does this mean All cars are demonstrably shitty? by your metric it does. which is stupid.

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                lol your point is actually the opposite logic. You’re so close! Only reading about complaints makes you think that car is shitty. I’m actually saying that reading about complaints on forums is a horrible way to assess car quality regardless of car make.

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                  oh you’re so close too! I was actually agreeing with you. try lowering your defensive level 5 points and read it again.

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            My BIL just bought one, gas is around $6/gallon in Hawaii and there is basically no mass transport. He tried to buy another EV but there was a 6-8 month wait-list. He loves the car, it is what it is. QC has improved over the past few years.

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          hilarious you’re so heavily downvoted for this. there are some rabid people on here who can only see negatives. I agree Tesla’s are great to drive and I know plenty of peple who own them and love them and have had zero issues, and also saved a tonne on fuel, and maintance. trying to dismiss all Teslas as garbage is just utter stupidity and honestly sounds like sour grapes to me.

          Elon is a awful human and I wish with all my heart he’d have a sudden TIA. but tesla cars are not Elon musk.

          ps your downvotes just serve to make my point 💪 stronger.

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            Maybe they’re being downvoted for the ludicrous claim that a car, even an electric car, has zero maintenance issues other than tires and wiper fluid. It’s not like it has zero moving parts.

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                  How often do you replace the steering column, wheel bearings and electric motor bearings? Basically never.

                  How about the transaxle assembly? That’s rated for 1 million miles.

                  These cars need very little maintenance compared to an ICE car that needs bi-annual oil changes.

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        …I mean, I love my Tesla, and most people I know with one feel similarly. I’m not a fan of the way the company is run, and association with Elon makes me want to hurl these days, but I have no qualms with the cars themselves.

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          I don’t love your Tesla, because they keep almost running me down because their self-driving bullshit doesn’t know what a zebra crossing is.

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            So I’m not saying FSD is any good, it’s incomplete beta software on public roads, but considering not even a fifth of Teslas have FSD, I’d be willing to bet you’ve just encountered some bad drivers with a nice mix of confirmation bias…

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        Teslas are awesome to own and drive. It’s an annoying checklist that takes an hour when you first get the car to make sure your car isn’t one of the ones with the bad panels, doors that don’t close nicely, etc., But you can decline the car if it has any of those things, or they fix it right away. Once you are through that part it’s really a great vehicle, especially if you have a charger at home. Gad stations are super inconvenient if you think about it.

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      Sued the owners to force them into calling Elon a founder.

      Elon didn’t even found the company. He just sick’d his lawyers on the founders and bought his way into the “founder” title.

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      Keep your friends close.

      Keep your enemies closer. Where do you think GOP Republicans live? Texas. What vehicles do they drive? Gas/diesel.

      Call him everything he is. But he is a fantastic businessman for going to the place of most resistance and turning his worst demographic to his biggest group of followers.

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          I don’t have access to that data. And I don’t won’t to be misconstrued as promoting Elon or his activities (not that you’re doing that but I see the downvotes).

          I’m just explaining what I think he’s doing. It’s what I’d pitch personally if I noticed red voters trend and visibly meme anti EV and I had obligations to shareholders I had to keep.

          People are better off buying EV anyways. ICE vehicles are disgusting. I think people just like to assign large structures like businesses and folks like Elon to their political idealogies. Businesses and governments have to be larger than that because they need to serve people at the end of the day with either product or policy.

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            But if he’s doing what you’re claiming he’s doing, won’t all the people on the left who bought Teslas jump ship when it’s time to get a new car? Even if you’re right, he’s still an idiot.

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    Him showing up to a Valorant tournament is some next level “how do you do fellow kids”. Like, what’s his business being there? I mean, if you told me that he secretly just spends his days playing Valorant and shitposting on twitter, it would make a lot of sense.

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      No way in hell. He thinks everyone is just jealous, not realizing that most of us don’t want the problems that come with being ultra-rich, we just think he is a spoiled brat.

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        I’d take a billion dollars though. Live out my life without ever needing to worry much about anything.

        It’s that egotistical need to use that money to exert power to control people that I’m not interested in.

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          A billion is way too much. 5 to 10 million is all anyone needs to retire. I can see maybe “needing” 25 million if your hobby is racing cars. More than that is just needless hoarding.

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            Yeah, but in real life I’m Nicholas Cage and I gotta buy a bunch of crazy shit. Couldn’t possibly retire on anything less than $800 million!

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          Agreed. Take the money and do your own thing. Or better yet, help people that want to be helped.

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      I think if it took him as long as it did to figure out people liked him, it’s going to take at least that long for him to realize they don’t.

      Then again with the obvious ego boost of the first part of that, the question then becomes: even if and when he does realize it, will he care?

      I look forward to the day his story is a cautionary tale.

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      He knows, and he doesn’t care.

      Once he became the richest person on the planet, he stopped giving a shit. Money buys anything he wants, so why should he.

      Honestly, as much as I think he’s a db, and i dislike what hes become, I kinda find it makes him more relatable. I mean, who wouldn’t be consumed by extreme money and power? If anything, it distracts from the idea that you’re a giant cash bag and reminds people that you’re only human. Although from what I understand, he always been this way, and he just had a great PR team in the beginning.

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        I think he found out that all the money in the world doesnt make you happy.

        This fucker could literally change the world for the better for all of humanity and he does nothing but grow his own wealth.

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          Hell you can figure that out by just making 6 figures straight out of college. There comes a point where you realize all you do is work because you’re too tired to do anything else, and your disposable income can’t get you anything meaningful to make up for it. I’m far happier for having quit and taking a pay cut for a remote job closer to my family.

          I distinctly remember getting my hair cut when I was back home a couple months before I started working, and the stylist was someone in my high school graduating class. We chatted a bit and they mentioned money being a bit tight, and all of it just felt so wrong and gross to me. There’s no reason why I deserved more for my skillset than she hers.

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        With the tantrums he throws, I doubt he doesn’t care.

        Pretty sure he employs a meme shitposter group that makes propaganda to make the internet like him.

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      I would think so. But at this point, he has made his choice. Don’t think a baby face turn is in the cards. Might as well become Emperor Palpatine at this point.

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      Well now his ego is hurt and we get to see what else he ruins in a tantrum lol I wonder if he’ll try to buy out the IP and call it EX or something equally dumb lol

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        That’d be fun, especially considering that he’ll have to pay big bucks to Tencent, who wholly own Riot Games. All discussion would quickly devolve into a anti/pro China flamewar

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    Haven’t drugs been used as an explanation for his mammoth missteps with Twitter? Because the way this guy is piloting the ship, he’s going to crash it into Prince William Sound at any moment. They’ll be scrubbing stupid posts off the seabirds for months.

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        But some drugs can affect your intelligence, and if he was intelligent enough to at least lay low and take credit for others’ work before, it appears he no longer has at least that baseline.

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            I think the Rick and Morty joke flew over people’s heads tbh. He’s kinda portrayed as a useless dick, I mean his character just did what he does in real life. Let others solve the problem while he tries to take some or all credit.

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          Constant praise by sycophants and people wanting to believe in a better future at the hand of high tech billionaires also does the trick. It works like a pump for inflatable egos.

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      Well thank you for making me choke on my coffee. That seabirds comment really caught me off guard.

      Drugs, a breakdown, midlife crisis, or just Elon showing us who Elon actually is. Find out on the next episode of downward spiral!

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    Don’t stop him! He’s making the world a solid! He’s eliminating Twitter ffs.

    Give him new ideas like join with a paid invitation only.

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      The issue is, as others pointed out, that Twitter was extremely powerful for groups in oppressive countries to coordinate their activities. So much so, that some governments had resorted to switching off the internet for the whole country to combat social media; particularly Twitter.

      It’s entirely plausible that the supposed large sums of money that Elon received from Middle Eastern groups to help buy Twitter was for the expressed purpose to destabilize Twitter and destroy the brand. That way once Twitter is gone dissident groups can no longer organize and will be easy to oppress.