Every day we stray further from God’s light the nominal topic of this thread, but I discovered the weirdest Ubuntu variant I have ever seen.
Wubuntu is an Ubuntu variant that specializes in a startlingly accurate re-creation of a Windows 11 look and feel. I was grabbing a livecd to do some out-of-band fixup work on a corruped NTFS disk and wound up wasting an hour just playing with the danged thing.
Anyway, we return you to your regularly scheduled trashing of the tech-illiterate manchild.
Can we get a bot (and maybe name it Ed BOTti…) that just prowls around posting words to this effect?
(Though, notice, it did no good in this instance.)
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Look who doesn’t know how voting or deportation work.
“Every illegal is a highly likely vote?” That would be an extreme assumption even for a devoted MAGA person. That’s millions of illegal votes happening out in the open that for some reason nobody can see. At least Trump’s people suggest these things are happening in secret.
Yeah, but he used the convenient “at some point” phrase to give himself some wiggle room.
Not really, that is meaningless. It just means each undocumented person in the US “highly likely” represents an illegal vote somehow. That’s 10.5 million votes for Democrats happening because they’re able to walk into a polling place or somehow get a mailed ballot in their name and nobody checks anything. 10.5 million times that happens and nobody catches it. Not even Republican election workers.
Does he think they are literally wizards or something?
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness Biden
Maybe “Brandon” is just a corruption of the Sindarin name Barad-dûr, which was Sauron’s main fortress in Mordor. Just as the Baranduin became the Brandywine river.
I wonder how hard it would be to convince Qanon folks that Tolkien was some kind of proto-Q warning people in advance of the coming of Biden.
Good one.
YES! 100 pts. to @Atamasama
I literaly LOL’d.
Do you mean figuratively wizards?
Or maybe witty lizards.
This conversation is as crazy as an Elon Musk belief.
C’mon, Elmo’s just trolling. He almost certainly knows they don’t vote. He also almost certainly doesn’t care if he’s “mistaken”
He knows what side his fans are on. And he’s also personally racist. And a post like that absolutely ticks off a lot of boxes - he gets to dehumanize brown people, he gives his ardent fanbois something to cheer for, and he gets gullible rubes to retweet him in outrage
You’re just feeding the troll. He must be having an orgasm over how many impressions (or whatever he’s calling them these days) he’s getting for it
Musk has made several trolling posts, and they look different than this. They are all obviously trolling to everyone. But, in this post, he’s repeating something some people genuinely believe.
I can’t be sure he doesn’t know it’s bunk, but he writes it in the same style as his other posts where he thinks he knows what he’s talking about. And it’s very much in line with his previously stated white supremacist beliefs.
Plus, if he has good enough acting ability to pretend to be one of the idiot conspiracy theorists, then I think he would have done a better job faking it in other situations.
I don’t think he actually likes that people think he’s stupid now.
Just think about all that ad sharing revenue he’ll get to pay himself!
Precioussss!
This is beautifully awesome. All hail Barad-dûr the Black, or “Dark Brandon” as he is remembered in the Shire.
If you’ve followed Musk for a while, you realize pretty quickly that it’s not enough for him to be insanely rich — he is frantically, pathetically desperate to be thought of as cool and funny. He could have been simply the admired tech titan, sitting atop his tower of accomplishment — but as soon as he started getting a real public profile, he broke containment on his industry bubble and started associating himself with celebrities. Remember his cameo in Iron Man 2, filmed in the summer of 2009.
There’s a great article from 2016 in the New Yorker about the making of the HBO comedy Silicon Valley. It’s paywalled, but here’s an excerpt from near the end.
(In this story, “Miller” is TJ Miller, the curly-haired comic actor who was everywhere a decade ago — he was Deadpool’s friend at the bar who made jokes about his skin texture — until his career evaporated when people realized what a piece of shit he is.)
Of course Musk would criticize the show, and then sidle up to it and try to involve himself in it. Of course he would do that. Because that’s such a good use of his time and energy.
Then fast forward to 2021, when Musk made his intensely cringetastic and unfunny appearance on Saturday Night Live. Preening, mugging, grasping at cultural cachet, imagining himself as conquering a new world while revealing himself as an awkward doofus without a molecule of genuine comic energy. Well, not in the conscious way he intends, anyway.
Now that brings us to today, and his reply-guy schtick on Xitter, retweeting memes and recycling the same seven or eight joke premises, insulating himself in a bubble of ego-reinforcing adulation from his crowd of toadies and sycophants. “Excellent wit, my lord!” they respond, after Musk reposts a gif of a dog sniffing another dog’s balls or whatever.
It’s arguable the degree to which he’s legitimately got a knack for technology leadership, but what’s not arguable is that outside of that circle, he’s one of the most wretchedly insecure and emotionally needy losers on the planet.
So yeah. He hates it when he steps on his nuts in public. Hates it.
Oh well. Sucks to be him.