You are absolutely spot on when it comes to right wing neo-libertarians. But off base when it comes to actual libertarians. And you can use this small point to infuriate any Rothbard acolyte you come across. If you suggest that they aren’t libertarian, and instead just deeply selfish. Having that fact pointed out. Will wound them on a deep personal and emotional level. Because they’ve built their life around having plausible deniability for being assholes.
Actual left libertarians tend prioritize the freedom of everyone. Not just themselves and their property. Many left libertarians refrain from voting out of principle and not just laziness. Voting for something, no matter how much they like it. Could negatively impact someone else’s freedom. The anarchist end get pretty squirrely sometimes still. But on the whole they’re not all that bad. Nothing like their pretend right wing counterpart.
As I clicked to load comments, I thought to myself that there hasn’t been a single article that presented anything he’s done with Twitshit as positive. I wondered if that’s bias or whether he’s fucked up on every change. But you’re right. I’m ready to stop hearing about it. It sucks when children are billionaires.
I’m really looking forward to having content filter options. I don’t want to block technology or news, I just want to filter out anything that mentions Twitter, Elon, Musk, and quite a few other key words. I think connect for lemmy has this option, I just couldn’t stand the UI.
Because Twitter is something many people use and is part of our lives. The terms tweet and retweet is in our lexicon and a lot of breaking news appear on twitter. It’s clearly important to us and as evidenced by Mastodon, Blue Sky, and Threads, we humans want a form of twitter. I agree and it has some utilitarian use. There’s something “internety” about short blips of info with quick vids if necessary that anyone can access.
It may not seem important, but with Google trying to push DRM browsing, their search algo shitting itself, reddit crapping itself, Youtube being Youtube, etc. the old internet as we knew it is dying. The old internet being the free one we knew that wasn’t centralized, full of forums, and felt a different kind of alive. I think that’s why the news for Twitter is important.
Now, do we need to know about the people complaining about the X sign? Maybe not, i kind of don’t think so, but it is nice to have a record of it for future reference. It most likely didn’t need to reach my all/local page but people upvoted it.
Twitter is dead. Calling it X will drive that home.
Also, Twitter has amazing brand equity. Much of Twitter’s value was the brand. If this idiot is dumb enough to throw that away, I’ll gladly help him burn money.
All Elon has to do is… nothing. He doesn’t have to come up with ‘hilarious’ tweets, he doesn’t have to make an everything app, he doesn’t need to run any of his companies. He could retire right now and just do whatever he felt like in his private life.
But he’s such a needy little attention whore that he won’t do that.
If he does not want to be in charge of a non-profitable company, why bring the responsibility upon himself? Oh yes, because Tesla is involved in scandals and any investment is better than that.
You’re saying all that as if he couldn’t have done the very same thing like 25 years ago back in the 90s. Technically, he never had to become an “entrepreneur” in the first place… daddy’s apartheid emerald mine gave him a cushy little trust fund to live off for the rest of his life without anyone ever knowing anything about him. But sadly, he’s a spoiled little bitch who throws a tantrum when the media spotlight is off him for longer than 5 minutes.
Holy shit. It cycles through a bunch of animation presets like a giant fucking set of high beam Christmas lights or a modded out Nissan Z.
In not even going to link a video, because it comes dangerously close to the photosensitive seizure threshold in some parts. Also because the video was in a tweet.
I think stunts worked out well for Musk’s image initially because he was seen as “Iron Man IRL” and his… widely imaginative ideas were seen as genius and innovative.
However, as his current image has now become “middle schooler in a grown man’s body with way too much money”, all of his stunts only reinforces that image into his descent into the butt of the joke. He of course, doesn’t seem to understand that and only looks to double down.
It’s good that we’re all sick of hearing about him at this point, because that’s the reputation a person like him deserves.
I love how even the news isn’t calling Twitter “X,” even when it’s talking about the stupid giant pulsating X Elon put up as a giant DivorcedMan signal.
This, like the rest of it, is on purpose. He wants to create a “they are hostile to me in SF despite my desire to stay in the city, so I will now relocate Twitter to Texas”. Ultimately, he wants to destroy Twitter as it was previously a place used to organize movements (Arab spring, Saudis are #2 investor in Twitter behind musk) and amplify information about the embarrassing failures and crimes of fascists like him. Destroy the validity (and even basic functionality) of the site, and less people hear those messages.
Chronically-divorced megalomaniac coward who’s daddy didn’t/doesn’t love him.
His dad was the first one to prove they weren’t a poor South African family because Elon, in his infinite assheadedness, put up a bounty for people to claim he wasn’t actually a poor.
We should have implemented a sarcasm flag in the English language, like in Lojban, where unmarked jokes, sarcasm and offhand remarks are syntactically incorrect. However, English is a natural language undergoing evolution and generally does not conform to new prescriptive rules.
Destroying property is a no no in the states. Ironically if children were slaves (therefore property) we might actually get somewhere in having better laws protecting them from getting shot
It is hard to come up with a better metaphor for a pathological need for attention than a 20 foot tall icon, shining brighter than the sun, and strobing into elderly people’s apartments.
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