• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Also interesting that everyone I’ve ever met that is a fan of Andrew Tate wears wife beaters because they dress for the job they want. Also they seem like they either have meth or know where to get it.

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    The arc of his popularity has been an interesting thing to watch. Many of the things he does seem childlike in nature, almost like a lot of maturity is just missing

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      Remember that Twilight Zone episode where everyone is constantly trying to please this omnipotent child?

      That’s our billionaire class.

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      Musk still counts as someone who likes Musk. Perhaps more than anyone else. So it still works.

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      Well now you make me want to hear your story. Not everyone can have a personal experience with the world non-champion.

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        I have met Musk! This was in 2018 at a startup conference, pre-wtf Elon days.

        He was actually really inspiring about his dream of space and humanity. But he was also weirdly edgelord. Then we all realize he was a walking talking meme and going around doing that backpack kid floss dance everywhere while people were trying to talk serious with him.

        If you told me the guy was 25-30, i would believe you. But the dude is in his 50s, has a bunch of kids who don’t speak to him.

        What a fucking loser.

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          Of all the things he could be doing as a billionaire and he chooses to be an edgy memelord. It is pathetic. Also it is vile how he is assisting Nazis reach an audience for Naziism. Pathetic and vile.

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            He needs people to love him and he’s discovered that if he says all the atrocious things he truly believes, there is a group of people who will love him because of it.

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          I can see how he inspired people back then. He never inspired me because he always seemed a little off to me, but I had no idea why. There was just something creepy about him.

          And now we all know why.

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          I’m not sure it was “pre-wtf” days, the “pedo guy” submarine thing happened before that, didn’t it?

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    Says the dude actively using twitter. GTFOO of twitter people.

    Personally I feel lemmy should ban, or at least mandate they are nsfw screen shots originating from that cesspool.

    Remember people when the viewing stops, that awful CEO can go fuck himself.

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      I don’t fault him at all. If you’re in the entertainment industry (and want to stay in it), a Twitter presence is pretty much required. Online posting isn’t just a hobby, it’s part of your job, and Twitter is where the audience is.

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          Since Twitter is a pile of shit let me link a photo of this tweet today.

          Ah. It was a year and a half ago. And you’ll notice the account is no longer verified.

          That being said fuck Twitter. Not just since Muskrat took over, fuck it for as long as it has existed and been a blight on society.

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          It is basically impossible at this point to know. Elon loves giving people who give him shit blue check marks because he thinks it’s an insult to them.

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      Says the dude actively using twitter. GTFOO of twitter people.

      Centralization sucks. I know a lot of people who are currently dropping BlueSky and migrating back to Twitter because it was just too much of a loss for them unfortunately.

      Edit:

      Can’t be bothered responding to each post individually so I’ll put this here.

      First off. Mastadon isn’t that great of an experience. There’s a reason it’s not even at half the amount of users it started with. The devs don’t listen to feedback and at the current time attempting to get the average person on there is a struggle.

      Second off. There are people who use twitter for professional purposes. There’s also a lot of companies that refuse to drop the platform which means people collaborating or coordinating with them end up using it for that purpose too. A lot of people and groups with large followings still find moving off the platform too risky. I’m not among those groups but you’re being a bit ignorant if you think they don’t exist or that they don’t matter.

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    My incel 30yo cousin loves Musk as of last year.

    He used to tweet at Musk to say things like “good job” and swore if he could get Musk to see him, he’d wow him with a billion dollars.

    He’s the kind of guy who would watch a 4 hour YouTube video of a book summary, rather than read the book. And Ive been slowly deprogramming him because he’s in his 30s and miserable, and realizing Joe Rogan lied to him.

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    I had a coworker who seems to look up to him. He got offended when I told him I don’t trust Musk; and took it to mean I don’t like Musk. I clarified that when I said I don’t trust him, I meant that I am skeptical and don’t care much about him. Mind you, this was before the Twitter takeover and Musk finally showing his true colours, and his only bizarre scandal about him at that point was calling professional divers who rescued trapped Thai kids and refused Elon’s offer of help, “pedos”.

    I left my old company and I wonder what my former coworker thinks of Elon now. My coworker seems to be well-intentioned but I sense deep insecurity from him-- the kind of types who typically idolise Musk.

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    I really enjoyed the show of putting the car outside the Earth. That’s how I got to know of him. When there is no space exploration budget, trying to make space entertaining appeared like a good idea to me.

    But then the cave incident revealed the type of person he was.

    Only a few years later I learned that billionaires are the scum of the earth

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    It’s funny because the losers who used to worship him a few years ago are now the same exact losers who obsessively hate him while, ironically, calling other people losers.

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    Haven’t been on Lemmy in a week. Come back, and the top thread on All is about Musk. I’ll never understand the obsession with this cat. His haters appear far more obsessed with him then those who worship him.

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      I don’t know, maybe there’s a reason to pay attention to an overt racist who is one of the richest people in the world with his own massive social media platform who uses it to influence politics across the globe?

      Maybe it’s just me, but that sounds like it’s sort of an important thing to pay attention to?

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            Jews can be white. Being jewish is a religion. His comment (or the one he supported) is targeted at that religious group. No statement of hatred towards a skin color, specifically. This is potentially antisemitic, perhaps bigotry, but not racist.

            Any other examples? Elon is a douche, but not every douche is a racist.

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              Judaism is an ethnicity.

              Both Larry David and I are atheist Jews.

              But please, go on. Tell me how Larry David isn’t Jewish.

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                dude honestly you may need a break from the computer. I don’t disagree with you but I remember reading your comments over damn near every thread on lemmy going back like 6 months ago. even though I don’t disagree with your overall points, you just seem to be angry at everyone and everything on lemmy all the time

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                You are both Jewish (as far as I know), but that isn’t your ethnicity.

                There are plenty of reasons to shit on your mortal enemy, Elon Musk, but you do not need to make up stuff against him. Call a spade a spade.

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                  It’s not our religion. We’re atheists. We have no religion. So if it isn’t our ethnicity, what is it?