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X is done.
Yep. Fortunately for Elon (and, you know, fascism) he doesn't need it any more. For Elon, it is already 'Mission Accomplished'. The richest, most thin-skinned losers on Earth already control the biggest economy and the biggest military. What more could that shitstain hope to get out of Twitter?
Well now he's calling for a new election in the UK (presumably to put the right wing bac in) so looks like he's not happy with just proxy ruling America.
Haha right you are. It is in his nature, I suppose, to grasp and grasp after already being the richest person in history. In a better world, we would put people like Musk in a nice, humane institution.
He’s not the richest in history. Modern history, sure if you count excluding inflation. But when people like Mansa Musa existed Musk has quite a ways to go. Hell even Carnegie’s wealth eclipsed Musk if you’re talking purchasing power.
Musk has now surpassed Carnegie. You are right about Mansa Musa (for now), but the gap is closing. According to google today, Musk is at $334B, Carnegie peaked at a modest $309B, and Mansa Musa had about $400B, though there are quibbles about personal wealth vs. kingdom's treasury. If you want to compare Musk and Musa, I think you could reasonably add the GDP of the US to Musk's fortune, since he is one of the puppeteers behind Trump. All figures adjusted for inflation, by the way.
Or a nice, sharp guillotine
Well, you have to remember, he's an entitled NepoBaby manchild who grew up rich off an emerald mine in Apartheid South Africa, failed upwards into every position he's ever held after blowing shit tons of money into failing companies, claims he knows more about manufacturing than anyone else despite his products getting recalled almost weekly and openly flaunting safety standards over the color of safety gear, and just overall is a massive dweeb who shills failed crypto scams and political grifts over on the Social Media platform he spent Too Much Money™️ on.
So yeah, of COURSE he thinks he can shadow-run 2 governments at once by funding Fascist takeovers. He's just that stupid and entitled. And when it all blows up in his face one day, all I will do is laugh.
The fact that Elon Musk has time to shadow run GOVERNMENTS while ALSO being CEO of THREE Companies is PROOF that ceos EARN their Billions of Dollars with how much Harder they work!
And he’s dancing around Ukraine and Putin. This guy is so entitled.
It served its purpose.
Let that sink in.
This was such a compensating thing. Tried to back out of the deal, wasn't allowed to, then made this dumbass dad joke. "I meant to do that" vibes, fucking pathetic.
Obviously he was pulling some crazy 6D chess moves, but we're all just dumb peasants that don't understand what a genius Elon truly is
Oh I hope this is true.
In the future I hope they do studies on what percentage of nazi content is necessary to destabilize a platform and get an established base of regular people and companies to flee.
To hear it told on Bluesky, it's the better blocking tools and the culture of "we don't have to put up with these assholes."
shrug
I've been off Twitter for years and even before that I probably posted less than a half-dozen times per year. I mostly prefer subject-based social media (here) over identity-based, but I'm looking to surround myself with people who talk about something other than politics because the last Trump presidency I just couldn't handle the constant tide of horrors.
I just need somewhere to escape all that and if not, I'm going to be in a really mentally unhealthy place for the next four years.
There’s a good way to talk about it!
How else can we describe Lemmy? I’ll call it a “social news site“ but meh
I like subject vs identity because I enjoy discussing issues and I enjoy seeing familiar people in the discussions, but I don't like being followed and following is hard for me. I might love your thoughts on Star Wars but you also post a lot of cat pictures which I'm neutral about and sports which I don't like.
So if I follow you and see those three subjects, two posts I have to cognitively tune out. If I follow a Star Wars board, I get your thoughts and potentially two other people's thoughts in those same three posts.
I like that. On Bluesky (or TwX/Mastodon) I have to find people who mostly post about things I want to see. It's hard and it's not conducive to massive follow/follower counts which is normally the measure of success.
I also find myself feeling constrained to only post things my followers are interested in, because as an individual I'm just not that fascinating. So I post less and less as my follower count goes up.
Because of all that, subject vs identity is the most natural way to divide up social media to me. I'd be happy to brainstorm other ways, though.
If ya like scifi and whatnot may I suggest the space battles forum. Theyre pretty chill, alzo the fanfiction side is pretty bloodthirsty.
X never was. Twitter is dead though
I hope so, although it might serve as an easy way for companies to bribe the first lady Musk for favours with Trump
Might as well make "Biggest Donor" a cabinet position at this point
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