I propose we ignore the trolling dummy and get back to the business of considering just how incompetent and stupid Elon Musk is.
To wit:
There is a newly published book on the market — Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac — which exhaustively details how Musk’s ignorance and arrogance led to his acquiring and then ruining the platform, transforming a once-meaningful communication hub into a laughingstock.
If you don’t have the time or energy or level of interest to read a whole book, you can read the following summation, which highlights how Musk’s stated goals for the platform were in fact the previous leadership’s own objectives but that Musk disregarded and sabotaged all those efforts already in progress, because he’s a fucking idiot.
You do all know that these posts are public, right? It’s not really possible to talk behind someone’s back in print on the web.
For the record, I hadn’t realized “Elmo” was meant to be derogatory. It’s a nickname, not an insult. Nicknames can be wielded in malice, but we’d have to know what he thought of it. Maybe he likes it.
It is an insult. And, it’s highly derogatory. To the actual Elmo.
To be compared to a serial liar, a world champion misogynist, a white nationalist, whose latest “visions” are more like “hallucinations” or drug fueled dreams; is damaging to the real Elmo’s psyche.
That’s fair. The red muppet is really an innocent child who never harmed anyone. Wasn’t it bad enough in the mid 90s that he was relentlessly tortured by countless strangers through tickling? Sure, some might say he asked for it; “Tickle Me” was his chosen monicker after all. But I believe it went too far. And now this?!
We need to step back and reconsider our treatment of Puppet Americans.
It may be that in your delusional world you believe that. Perhaps you also believe that you’re the Emperor of Abyssinia.
But this is the Pit, where we like to banter, and when some pompous moron shows up dictating strictures about how we should conduct ourselves, the opportunities for banter are endless!
I am neutral on the use of Elmo. On the one hand, there is the real Elmo being sullied by this dude’s reputation, on the other hand the letters of “Elmo” are slightly more visually distinctive than those of “Elon”, which at a half-glance look sort of like “elm” and “melon”.
I don’t think it’s too terribly pejorative to The Unprofessional (see: that was pejorative). I’d call him that even if I didn’t like or dislike him. Or not. I don’t care too much one way or the other what people call him.
I enjoyed the muppets very much in the 20th century, but I’m only vaguely aware of Elmo as an irritating red muppet they introduced later on. I assume there are also humans named Elmo. A quick look at the stats says that there are around 8500 people called Elmo, a little more common than the around 3300 with my name.
I prefer Eloon (as in lunatic) since it’s a bit insulting and actually references his behavior. Unless I’m talking about his products, where I often refer to the stench of his Musk in terms of depreciating their value to me.
And I give zero fucks if it’s childish and insulting, because, hey, it makes me feel a tiny bit better. I’ll own being slightly rude and childish, better than being a racist, bigoted asshole wanting to ruin the lives of myself and many of my friends.
Then again, I was happy to use MAGAt and own the insult in a different thread.
I would mention that the person who climbed on their high horse, @Randolph would have been better served if they’d stuck with chiding us for lack of creativity in our insults and nicknames (which would have been a more-or-less valid criticism) rather than simply writing off anyone who uses them as someone to be “readily dismissed”.
Irony of ironies someone who tells me a person can be completely dismissed because they can be childish at times IN THE FLAME FORUM seems to be volunteering themself as someone who should absolutely be dismissed.
Calling him “Elmo” saves typing as compared with calling him “Elon, whom I despise.”
Same thing with “Donald.” Some of his fans have called him “THE Donald” but never “Donald,” which Trump is said to dislike. So in the interest of clear communication, I type “Donald” instead of “Trump, whom I despise.”
someone who tells me a person can be completely dismissed because they can be childish at times IN THE FLAME FORUM seems to be volunteering themself as someone who should absolutely be dismissed.
