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      Just a random selfie with a Russian propagandist. That doesn’t mean anything by itself, however. He also was spotted in another photo with Kushner at the world cup as well and again, that doesn’t mean anything more than a picture.

      What it does mean, however, is that the world’s richest man chooses to be in close proximity to some really shady people. Or not. The world cup managers probably just had a section carved off for the Friends of Putin club.

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        Hey now! That’s not fair!

        You’re forgetting that he was also photographed next to Ghislaine Maxwell.

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        [Sorry beforehand if this sounds like a defense of Musk…]

        I’ve recently seen a documentary about a con man who used to go to galas, photoshoots and stuff, asking if he could “just take a selfie” with popular/influential people… then use those photos as “proof” to his victims of how he had “powerful friends” and “knew the right people”.

        He’s (presumedly) scammed between half and several million that way, convincing people to invest, to work for him recruiting people to invest, to hold shell companies for him, and so on.

        So… “taking a selfie with Elon Musk”, could be more of a “whoever takes the selfie” thing, rather than a Musk thing.

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          So… “taking a selfie with Elon Musk”, could be more of a “whoever takes the selfie” thing, rather than a Musk thing.

          At this point I would tend to say the Muskrat is the one trying to improve its reputation by taking pictures with people who appear professional.

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          Yeah I hate Musk but this stuff is stupid, including that photo of him “with” Ghislaine Maxwell where he isn’t posing or smiling and has his back fully turned to her. They were obviously having separate photos taken when Maxwell’s photographer shouted his name.

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    #ElonMuskisaTraitor The way things are going, pretty soon we’ll be able to start a #GoFundMe to buy #Twitter and put a #Mastodon instance on its domain.

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          Doubtful they will just give up the domain

          He doesn’t have to give it up. He just has to pay his domain fees like he pays his employees, his rent, his utilities, his taxes, his arbitration fees, his mounting judgements, etc. Give it a hot minute, twitter.com will be available soon enough.

          I mean, yeah, normally an employee or group of employees is usually tasked with domain maintenance and renewal, but at Xitter, Inc. these days . . . that’s not really the durable fix it is for other companies that do not have Elon Musk as their head.

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    I look forward to Mr Muskovy reacting with a sense of humour about it all, rather than doubling down and acting like a thirteen year old boy who’s father doesn’t love him.

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    How crazy is it that there’s a butthurt Elon worshiping coward downvoting all the comments here.

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        You think hexbear likes musk? The legend of hexbear grows ever twisted.

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          In my country our main communist party holds one of the most conservative views in our political spectrum. So progressive fascism wouldn’t surprise me.

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            Well, I’ll give you an example of what I mean.

            In America, the second amendment right to bear arms is championed and deified even by conservatives.

            The idea itself, that the public at large should have the right to have guns, is a very, very liberal idea, just by definition, objectively.

            It’s certainly possible for a fascist regime to embrace some aspects of progressive ideology, if it is truly fascist, it is by definition neither liberal nor progressive. They are antithetical.

            There can be no such thing as a progressive dictator. Just the idea that one person could control the government, is inherently not progressive, not liberal.

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              Equating liberal and progressive like they’re synonyms is pretty funny. You’re right that a fascist govt could have a few progressive ideas, “Something something Hitler liked dogs something something”, but liberalism is not one for 9ne progressivism. This is why someone like Joe “Fuck Poor People” Manchin is considered liberal despite blocking progressives at every turn.

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    He can’t care less. They’re still engaging with the platform and generating ad revenue. Maybe don’t protest a platform by continuing to use said platform and therefore making it money.

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      He definitely does care he hates people not thinking he’s great. I agree with your sentiment but he’s a delicate removed all the same

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        I honestly wouldn’t be suprised if the engineers screen the tweets before showing them in his feed or else he would constantly be forcing them to “fix” the fact people are tweeting mean things about it.

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      It’s definitely going to hurt his fragile little ego. I bet his visa slaves are working on a “solution” as we speak.

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    He is awfully close to autocrats of all kind. Neatly following the CCP to sell Teslas in China, doing nothing against spying by Saudi Arabia on Saudi dissidents on twitter and easily doing what Putin wants him to do in Ukraine. The problem is bigger than just Ukraine. Hell, he even let the Saudi investment fund bankroll a part of the twitter acquisition. These are the same guys who lock people up for live for a few critical tweets about MBS (the Saudi despot).

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    No, no. He stopped world war iii from starting.

    Seriously. That’s the fanboy stance on the matter.

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    When do we start boycotting everything he has his hands in? As much as I support space travel and exploration I cannot support SpaceX because of his involvement. But I will not support Amazon space either.

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      I have money in some standard retirement ETFs and quite a few include TSLA. It is so easy to indirectly send money his way even though I try to avoid it

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        Given Tesla stock is very clearly an overvalued bubble, you have to ask questions about how gullible those fund managers are…

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          A lot of times the ETF won’t have a choice in what it buys. They just buy X amount of Y stock when it hits a certain level.

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            And thus, the myth of “stock owners have anything to say” gets dispelled: you put money on a retirement fund, that buys ETFs, that buy TSLA, that does whatever Musk wants… and you can do nothing about it.

            “Vote with your wallet”, except someone took it from you 😖

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              More like “you have it away” than then taking it from you. But otherwise yeah pretty much. You can take some splice in the fact that unless you have a whole lot invested in those ETFs you aren’t giving much to him.

              $SPY only has like a 2% stake in Tesla so for every dollar you put in $SPY Tesla only gets a couple pennies

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      I could never really afford it anyway. Cars are expensive, rockets are very expensive, and microblogging is a fundamentally bizarre concept to me.

      I guess I could not use his fake trains?

      In a way, it’s impressive this guy shitposted his way to the king of exploiters, but there’s nothing to boycott

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      In the future, AI is going to write articles for AI to comment upon, so that AI can display ads on the pages.

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        Have you read about what daily trading in Wall Street is actually like nowadays?

        It’s bots fighting each other for millisecond advantages in cents differences in prices. The only humans still participating are chumps sacrificing their money so it’s siphoned by the robots into hedge funds and financial risk management firms.

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          I wouldn’t want a job making more money for hedge fund, but it’s such an interesting technical problem. They’re building custom hardware with FPGAs to parse price changes directly from network packets and respond before a normal CPU even knows what’s happening!

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        Don’t forget the AIs extracting engagement metrics, so that AIs can decide which articles to summarize and rewrite… for the cycle to repeat itself.

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    If I had an account I’d jump in. Just because I love seeing billionaire fee fees hurt. And you know he’s seething and malding about it too since that’s all he does is Twitter.

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      Oh god could you imagine Elon building a suit to fly around in … I could see him consider this as a good idea. Tesla man

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    He should go back to Africa.

    I love that I get to say this guilt free for once.

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    That’s the least one could do if they choose to stay on Twitter, I mean X, I mean… meh.