Weird, I could swear the illegal voters I read about are overwhelmingly on the Republican side.
Strawmen and outright lies in seven words (wow)
Introducing facts with evidence
More outright lies
Numbers (big numbers) without any actual numbers
Insinuating that multiple mass groups are acting as dunderheads
Totally oblivious that complacency /= incentives
Start returning your pay and go into rehab for a couple of years (minimum).
Those are A-OK – they’re white God-fearing Christians seeking tax cuts and 1950s-style misogyny.
Just remember that’s why @Sam_Stone has “suddenly” become a Great Replacement pusher. He uncritically just devours whatever bullshit Elon says.
It’s like clockwork for him, Elon posts something on X and Sam comes running in a few hours to a couple days later to essentially repost whatever dubious nonsense Elon did, but claim it as his own.
I don’t have an article to link to right now, but apparently Elmo has banned Liam Nissan’s account because Nissan exposed Elmo’s sock puppet, “Adrian Dittmann”, whose account was dedicated to laughing at Elmo’s jokes and telling him what a good father he is.
“#FreeLiamNissan” is one of the top trends right now, and I wouldn’t have known about this if not for that, which once again proves that Elmo does not understand the Streisand Effect.
ETA: I’m actually reading “Dittmann’s” Twitter feed right now and the sock puppetry is so blatant that Elmo wouldn’t last half an hour on the Dope before getting banned.
If we learn that Elmo has had an account on the SDMB at one time (anonymously of course) but got banned I’d only be slightly shocked.
Come to think of it, I’ve never seen Elmo and @The_Grapist together.
Edit: very sad to discover that I can’t make text purple on Discourse.
\color{purple}{\text {You absolutely can}} but it’s a pain in the rear to do so.
Russian assets gotta ass:
(Update: Apparently somebody eventually got through on the optics of suspending the account of Alexei Navalny’s widow and got it reinstated.)
Successfully changed the optics from “Elon is a Putin lackey” to “Elon is a Putin lackey who lacks the courage of his convictions”.
Well Elmo had to suspend her; she was slandering the Russian government! I mean even absolute free speech has to have its limits. Saying Jews are responsible for antisemitism or are trying to corrupt our pure Aryan blood by replacing the white race with mud races is one thing. Suggesting Putin poisons his political opponents is another thing entirely, why I mean people fall out of windows all the time when that happens. I mean it’s not just to protect against slander, it’s a public safety issue. Elmo just doesn’t want people randomly dying from defenestration.
checks notes
Ahem, sorry, I mean she was mistakenly suspended by being accidentally flagged as spam. Right after she accused Putin of poisoning her husband again, fatally this time. People will believe that excuse, right? It shows Elmo is combatting the bot problem. That he already solved. Twice.
X says Yulia Navalnaya’s account was suspended by ‘mistake’
Social media site X has claimed it suspended the account of Yulia Navalnaya after mistakenly flagging it as “violating our rules”.
“Our platform’s defense mechanism against manipulation and spam mistakenly flagged
@yulia_navalnaya as violating our rules,” it wrote.
“We unsuspended the account as soon as we became aware of the error, and will be updating the defense.”
They did not clarify in what way they mistakenly believed Ms Navalnaya had broken the rules.
“Platform’s defense mechanism…”? Is this AI on the loose? Some random chips rejected from the Full Self Driving program? Is this “mechanism” actually in favor of manipulation and spam? And who is the “We”? An actual person? A neuralink endowed monkey? Human, vegetable, or mineral?
So many questions!
Is this defense mechanism in the room with us right now?
The “Defense Mechanism” is some intern in the basement.
I could actually buy it as a mistake. I could see Musk designing the algorithm where enough spam reports got an account removed. And I could see Russia stans and/or Russian operatives targeting this flaw.
He could legitimately have that bad “Defense Mechanism”. But he sure isn’t helping his case by saying that Putin can’t lose.
How long before we start seeing ads for Elmo’s favorite K dealer?
They did not clarify in what way they mistakenly believed Ms Navalnaya had broken the rules.
The rule that was broken was being critical of Putin, which got the attention of Elmo’s minions and bots. I’m willing to acknowledge that it was a “mistake” only in the sense that some moron didn’t realize it was Navalny’s widow. If it had been anyone else with less public visibility and sympathy, they’d still be banned. Because that’s how Free Speech works in Elmo’s world.
Well, we all know what happens when you’re critical of Putin.
“They want it to be done secretly, without a goodbye. They want to bring me to the edge of the cemetery, to a fresh grave and say: here lies your son. I don’t agree to that,” she said.
“They say that if I don’t agree to a secret burial, they will do something with my son’s body.”
Navalnaya said the investigators threatened to let her son’s body rot unless he is buried in secret. “Time is not on your side, corpses decompose,” she was told.
I got curious about that company, and searched for them. They actually sell products on Amazon! I won’t link to it, but it’s not hard to find. It’s advertised as, “Whipped Cream Dispenser Cartridge Tank”. The description claims that it is used to make whipped cream, or to charge a whipped cream dispenser, but reviews for the product claim that it isn’t suitable for such things because it is given a “flavoring” (tropical punch in this case) which makes whipped cream inedible. (Presumably the “flavoring” is meant to mask the chemical smell/taste you get from inhaling the stuff to get high.)
I’ll also note that the page for the product has a disclaimer (in a photo) that says:
DO NOT INHALE CONTENTS
N20 cartridges are to be used for FOOD CONSUMPTION ONLY. Do not leave the nozzle screwed to the cylinder to avoid leakage. Galaxcy Gas Pressure Regular sold separately
(The misspelling and bad punctuation is directly from the warning on the page.)
Another negative review said the gas doesn’t create whipped cream, just a sludge. The only positive review includes the note, “Shipping was very discreet too.” So it’s pretty obvious what this is.
From what I can tell, Amazon sells legitimate whipped cream chargers, including the original “Whip-it!” brand, and this product is hidden among them.
I also found another “whipped cream charger” brand on Amazon called “Monster Gas” which also gives “energy drink” vibes, and it too has terrible reviews. I’m not looking any further but this crap is out there and not taking great pains to be hidden.
I’m pretty sure they put that same disclaimer on the ones they sell at the gas station in the glass case with the pipes and tiny digital scales and kratom and “male enhancement” pills.