That’s a very classy move. A smooooooooooth move. Like school in the summertime.
Still, Tesla pulls off another win…
So don’t bother with all that time-wasting “re-engineer and test the connectors,” eh? Never mind safety and silly stuff like that. What’s a few more car fires, after all?
More companies are pulling ads after Twitter ran their ads on a verified Nazi account.
News for those ignorant of the obvious?
In other not shocking news, NYU marketing professor with half a million followers jokingly criticizes Elmo in a tweet, offends the Great Man, gets locked out of twitter account.
How does someone so petty get so powerful?
That’s like saying “How does someone so cheap and stingy get so rich?”
They become powerful because they are petty little sociopathic shitheads who do anything to get and retain power.
Or, ya know, they choose to be born to the owner of an emerald mine. Why didn’t we all just do that?
My question is not how he became powerful. My question is whether another person so powerful, ever in history, has given off such intense and all-consuming “loser” vibes.
Trump beats him by a mile.
Musk is apparently intelligent.
Trump is absolutely not.
Their behaviour is very similar, though.
@Cervaise said “powerful,” not “intelligent.”
Fair enough.
I think Musk is more powerful (as much as Twitter/X has ‘power’) than Trump.
I imagine plenty of them would have if they’d had the ability to globally project their insecurities in real time.
As long as Trump has a hold over so many MAGA morons and so much political influence, that’s not even remotely true.
Trump and Musk both got a similar leg-up from daddy. In terms of sheer charisma, I feel Trump has Musk beat. A significant amount of Trump’s success has come from convincing people he’s a shrewd businessman despite the ever mounting evidence that he’s just a cheap huckster. Musk made a good bet early on in the dot com boom, was forcibly cashed out, then made a couple more good bets.
Does that make him smarter than Trump? Maybe, but when I look at Musk’s attempts at cons, like the Tesla Robot or Hyperloop, and I look at Trump’s cons like Trump University and his Atlantic City casino, all I see is two very similar charlatans peddling their wares.
Musk is intelligent in an idiot savant kind of way – his intelligence operates in very narrow domains, and outside of those domains he’s an idiot.
Trump is just a mentally defective moron by any measure in any circumstances.
Musk becomes Trump-like when he tries to function outside his areas of competence, which is often.
Are you fucking kidding me? This will finally get me off the platform if it happens.
ETA Actually, I can lock my account. That’s the way to go I think.
He’s probably sad about how many people are blocking him. Which they wouldn’t have to do if Twitter didn’t prioritize the shit out of his tweets regardless of their relevance to your account.
I also think his half assed revenue model does rely on people seeing tweets, and there are people who are auto blocking blue checks. I’ve certainly blocked a ton of ads.