Walked right into this one, didn’t he?
In fairness the setup was absolutely beautiful. She’s some woman for the zingers.
Well, the setup worked for whichever side chimed in. Elon never stood a chance. The fact that she was describing multiple people is truely terrifying. But I guess that’s her point.
What a fucking narcissist.
She was definitely talking about Elongated, but probably had that comeback planned ahead of time.
It’s everyone’s dream come true - when the comebacks you think up in the shower or before going to bed actually get to be used
Hasn’t AOC been involved in institutional debates about Meta for a long while now?
Yup.
It’s a pretty good stroke… Two birds with one stone
Fucking savage, I love AOC!
America needs more radical left candidates, not just AOC, Tlaib and Caraballo.
AOC is a breath of fresh air in the extreme right political climate of the US, but calling her “radical left” is just hilarious. She’s slightly left of centre at best.
Owning two billionaires for the price of one. !
I bet that toasted his buns. His ego is at critical mass.
Once someone explained it to him.
I’m sure just seeing his name is triggering
No way this upset him. His ego has reached the point where he doesn’t even entertain being wrong. He knows she’s lying when she said that, and she definitely has a crush, that’s why she keeps flirting.
I dunno. Did you see that interview he did recently? Dude is desperate for approval. It’s pathetic.
Fuck, you got me. He is desperate to seem “edgy and cool”.
No way. He’s way too vain not to take this personally.
I dunno, I’ve met people with heads so far up their ass that they think everyone else is wrong. I mean look at Trump, that guy never thinks he’s made a mistake.
Yep, and any time someone mentions one of his flaws in the news, you just know it ruins his whole day.
Look how much he obsessed over the fact that he had such a small turnout at his inauguration. Any time he boasts he’s trying to cover up his insecurity.
Recently the news has been blowing up about the fact that Trump smells bad, and once he has the bit between his teeth, he just can’t let it go.
So vain he probably thinnks this xeet is about him.
I assume xeet is the new word for tweet.
I prefer 𝕏creetion
I prefer the term kiss / kissing (in x’s and o’s)
That’s fucked up. We’re not giving him a whole English word, he already bought a letter.
“it’s an x! You send X’s on X!”
-Elon, probably.
In a recent interview this came up, and the best word be said he could come up with was post, but he was hoping for something better.
I don’t think they’ll ever get something good like tweeting on twitter. X is terrible for that.
By every metric it’s horrible. Searching for the term, using it as a verb and noun, ease of saying it in a sentence, recognition, as a logo, color scheme, the fact that X sounds a lot like ex as in something I previously engaged in but no longer do (irony) . I mean I could go on and on.
I refuse to believe no one told him how poor of an idea it is, I think he just has too much money to be able to listen to others.
I like to make jokes about how people might say X fucked them, and their current partner leaving them for cheating.
The company redefined a word in the space of less than a decade. Huge marketing success when you pull that off. Elon just couldn’t let go of his old idea from the PayPal days that the rest of the board back then told him was a bad idea.
It’s a bit of a forced joke, but whenever possible, I like to use “X-crete” as the verb to replace “tweet”.
I bet you think this xeet is about you
Don’t you
Don’t you
He is so vain
My people are calling it Xitter (sounds like shitter) so that would make each more like a little Xhit.
Coincidentally, that’s what I call people on that platform
I heard “xeet” in gmanlives’s voice.
You know, now I’m thinking Carly Simon is a psychic and the answer to who that song is about is Elon Musk.
Also, she totally sings “clowns in my coffee.” I will fight anyone who challenges me on this.
Nah, I’ll leave that to your morning clown brigade while I busy myself punching clouds. 🤷🏼♂️
All Xeet Xeet Muthafucker! All Xeet Xeet Goddamn!!
It’s honestly really gross that he immediately jumps to thinking she’s hitting on him. Like, him freaking out and going into a fit of rage might have been a less terrible response.
I assume he doesn’t really think that, but thinks he’s being a cute troll. Like picking 420.69 for everything.
Trying to deflect assumed criticism about him by being “funny”.
Musk sent the funniest response he could possibly think of.
Remember middle school?
NO I WON’T MAKE OUT WITH YOU!
Or was that elementary?
He desperately needs people to like him.
Idk why but I feel like he does think that, like he’s the king of the crop
Cream
King of the cream?
I said king of the crop not cream
He does not think that though. He was just teasing her (assuming this is not fake)
Clearly you’ve never heard of banter before.
Is there a place to verify these posts are real without actually touching Twitter (currently known as Elon Musk’s X)? I see there’s blue checkmarks on them but I have a feeling a really cleaver hacker could fake those in an image.
Here’s my Nitter search with some filters:
The iPhone let me copy that text out of the image (fastest way was to screenshot and then hold my finger on the text in the screenshot preview). I then tapped “look up” and DuckDuckGo found articles about the exchange. But for less popular Tweets, Nitter should work.
I don’t know of any service that verifies tweets, but this one is real: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-aoc-stop-hitting-on-me-tweet-mark-zuckerberg-2022-4
You don’t need to be a hacker to edit an image…
Or just use inspect element on a Twitter post and change it.
Shut up let me live my dream as a Photoshop hacker!!
[selects the text tool] “I’m in”
I think that was the joke
Seconding nitter. You can take any twitter link and just replace the front with nitter.net
You can just edit with inspect element pretty easily. I imagine there are fake twitter generators out there too
This specific one sounds familiar, I think I saw it some time ago
Man I really needed that laugh this morning lol
Any armchair psychologists care to weigh in on Elmo?
Money rots brains
Honestly, I think it’s that simple.
Radix malorum est cupiditas: the root of evil is greed. Or more colloquially, the love of money is the root of all evil.
One of the few things I’ll hang on to from my religious childhood.
Plus, hell hath no wrath like a nerd who stumbles into power.
My reductive opinion is that nerds come in two main flavors. Ones that are upset that the world is unfair, and are empathically motivated to change it for the better.
And then there’s ones like Benzos or Elon, the nerds who see the world as a totem poll. Totem poles where they have been placed below their true position in life. They don’t want to get rid of the totem pole, they want to make it bigger, and they want to be at the top, so they may punish those who got in their way.
No amount of money can hide the void inside of them where they’ll never be the star athlete. Never get the girl. It’s all a sham. None of their relationships are deep, meaningful or “real”. They may show a vaneer of confidence on the outside but inside they’re rotting as they seethe.
In a way it’s like, despite all the wealth and power, they still have nothing.
I actually don’t put Zuck in this group because
A. He’s a robot B. I actually think he’content despite being a douche
Tl’dr: don’t be rich pls. Be happy with your small lives like I am.
Many issues, will never change.
Stop attributing the name of one of the most beloved, friendly and wonderful muppets to ever exist, and who provided countless people decades of joy to that fucking shit stain Elongated Muskrat.
No. Fuck Elmo. Sesame Street was better when it was about Big Bird.
Also Elmos favorite “food” is wasabi… what kind of masochist is he?
Grover all the way
AMEN!
Brother, you don’t need to be a psychologist to call narcissism
I’d ask for the number but I’m afraid I already have it.
You technically do need to be
World praised him as a savior with Tesla and starlink. His ego ballooned and now he can’t control it
It also works in favor of other billionaires and corporate entities like BlackRock and The Vanguard Group (among countless others). He gets to publicly be a jabroni, and they get to carry on with fewer eyes on them and their practices
Remember his cameo in Iron Man 2? Back when he was considered the real-life Tony Stark? I recently re-watched that movie and the cringe I felt from that scene physically hurt.
Melon Husk got brain rot
Does Zuck hang out with Tucker & Thiel also? It wouldn’t surprise me, but I hadn’t heard about it…not to the extent that Elon does, anyway.
I assume anyone in silicon valley with two commas has hung out with Thiel at some point. He was one of the earliest investors in FB
But why are they still supporting platforms run by billionaires? It’s so easy to talk, theorize and posture as this revolutionary figure. But when it comes down to giving up one single convenience, people freak out. I don’t know if I can take these people seriously.
She was one of the first high profile people on blue sky so it’s not for not trying. Even this criticism though reads a bit like “You dislike capitalism and yet you participate in it.” You can criticise what you partake in, why not?
That’s not the same though? We can’t stop participating in Capitalism right now. But we can easily stop using Twitter as far as I’m aware. You will not die if you stop using a website. I am not saying don’t participate in social media of any kind. I am saying if you can’t even stop using a website because it clashes with every value you have, then what chance is there that you’ll give up something even greater for the sake of the greater good? Your analogy can be used to justify not making any kind of change ever because it inconveniences us.
As someone who does grassroots campaigning, I’m not sure she can. She needs to reach out wherever her audience is.
Yeah really. I can stop using Twitter because nobody gives a shit about me. My thoughts have 0 impact.
Companies and figures can’t simply ignore the platform and remain competitive.
Ok I can accept that. I am not speaking about her personally but about many people on the revolutionary left who stay on there and spend 90 percent of the time complaining about what Elon Musk did or said. There’s something wrong with this “politics of negativity”, where the very apparent opposition you have to something is what ultimately fuels it. It’s ironic in a sense. A post complaining about Elon Musk is ultimately creating money for Elon Musk. The apparent discourse and the latent effect are diametrically opposed.
You’re correct in a moral sense although I agree entirely with other posters that politicians need to spread their message far and wide regardless of platform. I do not personally use Facebook or Twitter because I find them to be toxic, predatory, and privacy red flags in the case of Facebook. I rarely use Reddit out of principle when they screwed over Boost devs. The issue though is similar to why boycotts really just don’t work for the left. Our power is in changing the systems at the government level, not at the endpoint or point of sale because almost definitionally we’re not part of the 1% who make or break companies financially. Increasingly even together in unity that’s still the case that our financial incentive offering is relatively minimal to the biggest companies if you ignore mass indignation as a stock value factor.
Twitter doesn’t comply with hate speech laws on social media companies and is used as a tool by Elon to manipulate markets. These are problems addressed through giving teeth to the agencies and that’s always going to be far more meaningful than the 4 cents you contribute in ad revenue before you max out views for the day.
Let’s be honest though, with Twitter it’s going to fail with or without government teeth around it. Elon has already started prepping the narrative to why his white nationalist pickme project is death spiraling.
politicians don’t use social media for “convenience”
What kind of value does Twitter actually bring to a politician? I think we tend to overestimate how much Twitter does influence politics of any kind. People who will support a politician will support them and people who don’t will not, Twitter will rarely sway anyone to a different position. Is it necessary to keep posting about every opinion you have constantly? If that’s what being politically active is, then politics has devolved beyond repair.
When the news has segments covering tweets and Trump won in 2016 partially because of his social media presence, politicians have no choice but to use the platform until it loses the majority of it’s userbase. Or until it gets officially declared no better than 4chan by the mainstream media.
It sucks, but this is our reality
Simple. Direct, uncensored, and provocative announcements directly to your constituents without needing to set up an event for each topic you want to discuss. More eyes and more control of your message. The most important thing is the number of eyes you have on your content. The more people that know and talk about it, the more likely the people who can vote for you will know about you.
People who will support a politician will support them and people who don’t will not, Twitter will rarely sway anyone to a different position.
I disagree with this. It’s like when people say “why does Coca-Cola run ads, everyone knows them”. Marketing matters. Awareness matters. Maybe it shouldn’t but that’s how it be.
I agree to an extent. I understand your analogy but I think there’s a crucial difference between ads for a product and political positions. You can easily get someone to buy a product, but getting someone to change their views on, say, abortion is much harder. Political positions are tied to identities in ways that purchasing decisions are generally not. There may be some ways to sway some people who are on the fense about a given candidate or position, but I generally think this ability to change people is way overstated. People just keep posting their opinions over and over and think it’s actually changing someone’s mind, more often they are preaching to people who already agree with them.
Wait is this real?
😂
I wish he would step away from twitter and focus more on improving rockets and electric cars. Twitter seems like a big distraction.
The only reason the rockets are any good is because he occupies himself with Twitter. I’ve heard that both Tesla and Space X have people whose sole job is to keep Musk from fucking up the projects and companies.
The amount of actual software improvements made to my Tesla since he started focusing on X has been record high (something as simple as getting automatic highlights and wipers finally working for example).
Please keep the madman occupied with his social media failure and away from everything that actually matters!
Do you really think, based on the decisions he’s made regarding Twitter, that he would have any beneficial effect on Tesla or SpaceX by focusing on them?
Tesla engineers reported productivity improving after he bought Twitter because he wasn’t around anymore…
I don’t know, seems to me like the “improvements” he personally makes to electric cars are things like having a car horn make a fart noise or, like, everything about the Cybertruck.
I wish he would step away from twitter and focus more on improving rockets and electric cars
He does none of those things. He uses his apartheid money to make others do the hard work and then he steals all the credit.
I don’t know why people love her so much, all she does is perpetuate this shitty style of politics. Why can’t they talk like grown-ups?
You see, we tried that. It did not work. All it did was embolden the crazies.
You say that like this doesn’t. She’s not teaching them a lesson or anything, she’s just engaging them on their level.
What it does do that’s good is get people who are sick of the crazies engaged in the situation instead of just ignoring it.
Ignoring it just means that there’s no counter-narrative hitting people, and it skews the perception of balance
I absolutely fucking hate it that it has to be like this, but there it is. Imagine being a lightning rod for all that weaponized ignorance and mental illness. It’s an unpleasant, stinky task, but if somebody’s gotta do it, I’m glad people of character and caliber like AOC are out there doing it.
So… that second thing I said?
Yea that’s what we need. We’ve been getting cucked hard because we play by the rules and refuse to stoop to their level. Meanwhile they just do and say whatever the fuck they want and get away with it. Fuck em, we didn’t beat the nazis by playing nice. Get in there and call them out and use their tricks.
I wouldn’t consider myself a progressive but AOC is the best among her peers when it comes to messaging with younger Americans. Perhaps this is the future of politics. Maybe it’s just a phase. Regardless, she’s good at it
For what it’s worth, she’s pretty good at cutting through the noise and explaining issues in an accessible way. There ARE moments like this but she seems to do good for her constituents. I don’t live in the area and I don’t know that much about her, but that’s the feeling I got
unilaterally controls a massive communication platform
The fuck are they feeding babies where you live?
Ivermectin, probably
because that’s boring as shit and disenfranchises anyone who isn’t 90
Ummm… Have you looked at the right? This is tryouts for a minor league team in comparison.
this shitty style of politics
Which is what, exactly?
