A racist Afrikaner? Unheard of.
#DeportMusk
What I love about the Boring Company is Musk “invented” the subway, but worse.
Yeah, he’s a real genius.
Musk is an English South African, not an Afrikaner.
A racist English South African? Unheard of.
#DeportMusk
Coke supporting an outspoken NAZI political activist? Why, it’s not even the first time this week!
< Cue Some Gibberish Don Jr Video >
It occurs to me that I should say this publicly as well. Thank you for that. The linked thread above alleviates my previous concerns about the Pit move.
I like the idea of a place where we can actually respond back to those who want to lionize Musk, but not having to read that thread just to keep up. And it’s definitely better than checking out the relevant hashtags on Twitter itself. My “for you” feed seems to prioritize making me angry, so that I engage more.
It should not be surprising that the right has almost as tenuous a grasp of political ideology and economics as they do of reality— the whole corporate communism idea is pretty stupid/funny
“Free speech” = I get to say what I want and everybody else gets to respond the way I want them to.
See? That’s not too hard to understand.
What’s hard to understand is how someone with a 4yo’s understanding of human behavior got to be in charge of anything. Or how it is that hundreds of millions of people seem to accept this 4yo “logic” as long as it’s in support of them, but not when it’s deployed against them.
Criticism of free speech is not suppression of free speech. Suppression of criticism is not free speech.
Hmmm … I’ve heard Trump described as having the maturity of a six-year-old. Are you implying that Trump is more mature than Musk? By the equivalent of two years of toddler-stage development? 
Also, “Free Speech” = We must allow foreign agents to post lies in social media to subvert democratic elections because freedom, but also we must forbid private companies from pulling their advertising, because that’s socialism.
Oh, but that’s what the mouth-breathers think it is.
What they really want is “consequence-free speech”
Exactly, which is why they lie about being pro-free speech as they strive to suppress criticism.
I understand that a guy like Elon Muskmann-Fried, who has never paid any taxes in his life and who honestly believes that other people’s taxes are levied for him to get subsidies does not understand how taxes work or are calculated, but I believe this claim of his is deeply flawed. Because if Apple takes a 30% cut on the sales in the app store, that is, if something costs a dollar, 30 cent go to apple and 70 cent go to the original seller, that is a 42.85% “tax” (wrong word anyway, and of course it is not secret at all, everybody knows that, but never mind), not 30%.
And if it isn’t so, then the expression “take a cut of 30%” means something different than what I thought (wouldn’t be the first time, so fight my ignorance then).
Here is an article from the NYT (gift link) about this apple tax or apple cut. Every other sentence can be interpreted in one sense (30%) or the other (42.85%). What is right? And why the sloppy writing?
It’s more than that. Just like their losing an election is proof the election was fraudulent, their online opinion not being popular is proof that the speech wasn’t free.
Well, he does have nearly 4 decades on Musk. That’s gotta count for something, development-wise
76 (Trump) - 51 (Musk) = 25 years.
Nice user name / post content combination.
OK, so Trump has learned over 25 years what the average six-year-old has learned in two. Sounds about right. Although the comparisons are only approximate. Most six-year-olds have the self-control to not throw ketchup at the wall when they have tantrums. It’s likely that even Musk isn’t a ketchup-thrower, and probably doesn’t dine on cremated steaks re-hydrated in ketchup. But in terms of common ground, both the mental 4-year-old and the mental 6-year-old are Nazi admirers, and embrace a philosophy of free speech directly from the playbook of Joseph Goebbels.