[Politics] Musk (real life Bond villain planning world domination) needs a thread.

[GoldstoneVintage]

Remember when Jack Dorsey owned Twitter and was always posting unhinged conspiracy theories and Russian propaganda?

Me neither.

It's almost as if Musk bought the platform just so he could use it to poison social and political debate, sow division and do everything else possible to destroy the fabric of civil society.

 

[Withdean11]

EDS is the new TDS I see.

 

[FatSuperman]

EDS is the new TDS I see.

Never any coherent discussion with this sort of thing. Just people blaming insubstantial concepts like "left wing media" and "TDS".

Sensible people are WATCHING what they say and post, which are very quickly shown to be complete fabrications, and are asking themselves 'why would a man in this position say that?'. Sensible people are spending a few minutes thinking about the 2nd order implications of some of these things, and are worried.

And Trump / Elon fanciers just post things like "cry more lib" or "lol EDS is real". You're supposed to be adults.

 

[GoldstoneVintage]

Never any coherent discussion with this sort of thing. Just people blaming insubstantial concepts like "left wing media" and "TDS".

Sensible people are WATCHING what they say and post, which are very quickly shown to be complete fabrications, and are asking themselves 'why would a man in this position say that?'. Sensible people are spending a few minutes thinking about the 2nd order implications of some of these things, and are worried.

And Trump / Elon fanciers just post things like "cry more lib" or "lol EDS is real". You're supposed to be adults.

Thank you. My thoughts exactly, but you articulated them so much better than I could!

 

[Triggaaar]

 

[Thunder Bolt]

He’s losing money hand over fist.

 

[Triggaaar]

He’s losing money hand over fist.

I thought his wealth had gone up 50% or so since the election?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I thought his wealth had gone up 50% or so since the election?

I don’t know about the last few months but X is losing money and value.

Twitter Has Lost 80% Of Its Value Since Elon Musk Renamed It X: Report

The world's richest man paid $44 billion for the platform just two years ago.

www.ibtimes.com

 

[Bozza]

I don’t know about the last few months but X is losing money and value.

Twitter Has Lost 80% Of Its Value Since Elon Musk Renamed It X: Report

The world's richest man paid $44 billion for the platform just two years ago.

www.ibtimes.com

Musk is far, far wealthier than he was just a short while ago.

It wouldn't matter if X had fallen to $0 - but it hasn’t. It seems it could now be worth in the same ballpark as he paid for it.

xAI (Grok) has soared in value since creation not long ago.

SpaceX continues to increase in worth at a stratospheric (see what I did there?) rate.

The one thing we can’t cling onto is “Musk is losing money and he may soon see sense”.

Musk’s companies set to add $613 billion in value since election

Investors are eager to get close to Musk, President Trump's so-called “first buddy.”

fortune.com

 

[marlowe]

X-tortion

 

[Whoislloydy]

He's unhappy with community notes now because they are correcting his BS claims, and trumps. Says it needs to be fixed.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Musk is far, far wealthier than he was just a short while ago.

It wouldn't matter if X had fallen to $0 - but it hasn’t. It seems it could now be worth in the same ballpark as he paid for it.

xAI (Grok) has soared in value since creation not long ago.

SpaceX continues to increase in worth at a stratospheric (see what I did there?) rate.

The one thing we can’t cling onto is “Musk is losing money and he may soon see sense”.

Musk’s companies set to add $613 billion in value since election

Investors are eager to get close to Musk, President Trump's so-called “first buddy.”

fortune.com

I agree, but the original post was about X and that was what I was referring to. He was also going to sue advertisers who withdrew their adverts citing contract agreements.
My post should’ve said X is losing money hand over fist.

 

[beorhthelm]

it's setting up a hilarious standoff between Musk and the courts. advertisers will highlight he literally told them to eff off, then refer to 1st amendement, free speech, to say they dont have to do what he wants.
starting to use influence to interfere with businesses will rapidly wear off the shine of Musk and Trump in business community, who seem largely on board presently (tariffs aside). replacing the corrupt deep state with Musk mght work with the Maga crowd for a while, it's going to land very badly with the business and political classes on the right.

 

[SouthSaxon]

But but but…he’s supposed to be a super genius…

 

[Triggaaar]

But but but…he’s supposed to be a super genius…

And he's one of the best gamers in the world.

 

[SouthSaxon]

And he's one of the best gamers in the world.

I think that was a fairly major typo personally…

 

[Triggaaar]

I think that was a fairly major typo personally…

Sorry, I'm being wooshed here. What do you mean?

 

[SouthSaxon]

Sorry, I'm being wooshed here. What do you mean?

Replace gamer with your choice of crude insult

 

[Triggaaar]

Replace gamer with your choice of crude insult

So like 'he's one of the best arses in the world' or 'he's one of the best twats in the world' or 'he's one of the best ****s in the world'? Nope, they all sound like compliments.

 

[Cordwainer]

He's unhappy with community notes now because they are correcting his BS claims, and trumps. Says it needs to be fixed.

But..but..but..he’s a champion of free speech, no? Getting to be a full time job keeping up with the rank hypocrisy.