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Musk has failed upwards. Funny how those with wealth and privilege manage to do that… it is almost like there’s some kind of imbalance in the economic system. Huh, go figure.
Worshippers gotta worship. The ones with additional personality defects in there tend to pick the worst possible objects to worship.
“I wanna own Twitter and have a billion followers so I can have a billion friends, and no one can say no to being my friend.”
The only way that you could not understand that Lord Musk hasn’t created the banking, automobile, space flight, and social media industries is to have no sense of sarcasm. Like, at all.
It is a great relief to me to know you were being sarcastic. I sincerely don’t understand Musk worshippers.
Mankind has a long history of worshipping false idols in the false belief that they will be rewarded for their devotion.
There’s not much difference between them and any other religion. While church memberships has declined, America really hasn’t become any less religious, we have just moved our pantheon to the Job Creators (J.C.!) that we mere mortals can only gaze in wonder at their ineffable plans that to our weak minds and sense seem random chaos.
“For Elon Musk so loved the world, he said, ‘Fuck this, imma go to Mars!’”
This is called Poe’s Law: it can be stated in many different ways, one of which is that when someone expresses extreme opinions in the internet it is impossible to know without additional information (for instance, someone’s posting history, if you care to remember it or look it up) whether you are talking to a fool, a moron, a jerk or an idiot. But it usually is an asshole.
That was a literal LOL
Yes, I call this the “Humans Suck” hypothesis. Also known as the “The Law of This is Why We Cannot Have Nice Things”.
Or somebody trying to make a lame joke. But yeah, when reality has turned into parody there are no landmarks left to judge by.
Poe’s Law has a lot of room to run when discussing Elmo.
ETA : As eloquently explained by @Pardel-Lux
But I’ve always liked the graphical expression
'Dats a real nice social media company ya got dere. Be a shame if anyting happened to it.
Although I’m not sure Elon has really grasped the “pay for protection” business model. With Twitter he inserted an extra step between threatening the business owner and burning the business to the ground.
Darn good point there @Riemann. Let me update my immediately prior post. …
'Dat’s a real nice social media company I got here. Be a shame if I made anyting happen to it.
Even Homer Simpson isn’t quite that self-destructively dense.
Agile Racketeering!
It’s in the news today that Vince McMahon is looking to sell WWE for $9 billion, which means Elmo could’ve been Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion for a fifth of what he spent on the bird site.
And considering that they’re both manchildren with massive egos and an obsession with 4th grade humor, you’d barely be able to tell the difference under the new management.
<checks couch cushions for $9 billion>
Hmm… I found a nickel and two cat treats.
I wonder if Vince would settle for that?
UPDATE: My cat has eaten the cat treats.
I’d just like to see a cage grudge match between Vince and Elmo. For the pink slips: Winner gets both Twitter and WWE.
Vince is old but skilled and strong. Elmo is young(er) and ???
I bet the PPV take for that would be ginormous. Hope the streaming & payment platform doesn’t crash under the load. Just don’t subcontract the job to Elmo’s remaining H1B folks; I hear they’re already too busy to do good work.
Elmo looks awfully flabby to me.