Musk and Trump are the modern apotheoses of the cliche where no amount of money or power will satisfy when there’s a bottomless black hole of emotional need in the center of one’s soul.
It’s poignant when it’s in a movie or novel or TV show. But that poignancy vanishes and it’s nothing but endlessly terrible when these cow-eyed dipshits are stomping their big stupid feet all over the real world.
Minor nitpick but Musk was an English South African, he doesn’t have an Afrikaans accent. But what he does have is a very distinctive accent molded by decades in the US that is instantly recognizable.
The current status of Xitter says otherwise.
As someone who is not from any money at all, I’m surprised to learn that I do in fact look down on new money.
I look down on dumb money.
I quit it and don’t miss it a bit. It was gross, and it was pushing Trumpist nonsense on everyone.
“Hey, remember when I used to talk about Mars all the time? That was fun, right? You all loved me when I did that! Love me like that again! PLEASE LOVE ME I NEED THIS MY FOUR YEAR OLD CALLED ME A BETA SOY CUCK AND I GOT PWNED BY A TWINKED-OUT NECROMANCER YESTERDAY”
what the what now?
Yep, and, as I mentioned upthread, Musk recently posted support for AfD in the immediate aftermath of a terrorist attack instigated by…a supporter of AfD, who had posted anti-Muslim and anti-immigration material for many years, including in a BBC interview.
Imagine you or I were in Musk’s position, after that incident. I know I’d do a mea culpa, consider whether I shouldn’t jump to conclusions about news stories, and question what effect I am having by spreading hate.
But that’s probably why I’m not one of the richest men on the planet with one foot in the Oval office. The correct answer is to double down on the bigotry, with an article so offensive the editor of the newspaper quits.
Some of the summaries of Musk’s opinion piece have said that Musk talks a lot about freedom of speech (which I can’t verify as it’s paywalled). A funny position to take, for one of the most listened-to men on the planet, who is influencing elections in multiple countries now, and who regularly shuts down speech he doesn’t like or because governments pay him to do so.
Despite being the CEO of like six companies and ostensibly a government advisor, Elmo spends a lot of time playing Diablo 4.
My translation is that a necromancer class (a type of wizard that summons undead) in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game defeated Elon’s character in player-versus-player combat due to having superior equipment that gave too much of an advantage to make it a fair match, hence his need for validation elsewhere in life.
(And if this is Diablo 4, yes Necromancers are awesome, I have a Blood spec Necro who basically stands there while area-of-effect attacks simultaneously heal him, kill everything, and provide a damage shield; I call it a “let me beat this dungeon while I make a sandwich” build.)
It has just come to my attention that Elmo’s name comes from a novel by Wernher von Braun (!) where the elected god-king of Mars is known as “the Elon” and now a lot of shit makes sense.
A Nazi who built rockets to launch into space, seems fitting.
Elon … Elon … I am your father … it is your destiny … remember all these worlds are yours … but especially Mars… it is your destiny.
Repeat that a few times per day to a kid starting in infancy & by the time he’s 20 you’ll have created a ravening monster.
"I aim for the stars…
but sometimes i hit London."
Elmo has now changed his display name to “Kekius Maximus” and his avatar is now an AI-generated sketch of Pepe the Frog wearing Roman armor and playing a video game.
This is just pathetic.
I wonder whether “keki” or “keke” is a bad word in some language. Like “ca-ca” is an English euphemism / kid word for excrement. If so, then we can taunt him some more.
Here ya go, read at your own risk..
I also assumed “KEK” was the “LOL” of World of Warcraft, because I played that game for years (I was even a beta tester). At least that’s the first association I make with it.
@steronz’s article espouses that etymology. But it’s gone waaay beyond WoW, regrettably.