For Musk free speech is code word for “things I agree with”

  • @hOrni
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    1721 month ago

    Is he seriously posting cringe like this?

    • @[email protected]
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      1 month ago

      My guy he posted about being banned from PoE2, a mostly PvE game, for cheating. Literal man child that cannot beat AI enemies.

      • @affiliate
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        401 month ago

        it shouldn’t be too surprising that he cheats in online games given that he cheats in pretty much every other aspect of his life as well

      • @riodoro1
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        The richest man on this planet. What the fuck are we doing

        • @MutilationWave
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          81 month ago

          I’d argue that Putin and perhaps some Saudi royalty are richer but we don’t know those numbers. But yeah agreed in general of course.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 month ago

        I didn’t even see that one, was it like super obviously “in just so good and amazing and smart they banned me for cheating”

        • @TrousersMcPants
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          121 month ago

          He literally said he was banned for playing too well

          • @MutilationWave
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            51 month ago

            He, or someone he paid to impersonate him online, is the number one Diablo 4 player in the world. I played it for a couple months, it was pretty fun, but to get to that level you’d have to be playing it like it’s your job.

            • @TrousersMcPants
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              61 month ago

              He was number one on an unofficial leaderboard with around 880 recordings uploaded to it

            • @Furbag
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              51 month ago

              Keep in mind, he has an extremely demanding job. Five of them, in fact - CEO of Tesla, Neuralink, Boring, SpaceX, and X Formerly Twitter. And he manages to find enough time in the day to play Diablo 4 at the highest level and also advise the president elect on policy.

              So either he’s on amphetamines 24/7 to keep up with what I assume is a hellish workload even for companies that rarely need C-level input to function, or he’s majorly full of shit and half asses all of his jobs and plays video games all day while boasting about what a successful hardworking guy he is and how he totally deserves that gorillion dollar benefits package.

              • @[email protected]
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                He takes amphetamine and plays games and thinks of stuff others can do for him there is no work involved at any point

              • @MutilationWave
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                Could be somewhere in the middle. I imagine there’s a cottage industry of designer drugs for the ruling class and their bubble. People say he does a lot of K but if it’s K I’m sure it’s 100% pure. He probably has access to five different amphetamines, each for a different purpose, with minimal side effects. I truly envy the ultra rich for their no personal risk drug access.

                I know if I were a billionaire I’d be hiring the brightest minds in chemistry to create all kinds of drugs, therapeutic, functional, or recreational. Pure and safe. Create a pharmaceutical corporation that does real work and then pay the shadow chemists top dollar for secret R&D. The difference is I would try to find a way to give it away for free. Or find a way to get it to high level criminal leaders to distribute for low cost with high volume. Safe alternatives to fentanyl, etc.

                Just daydreaming here as I’m off tomorrow and I only have alcohol and weed.

                Edit- to actually respond, I think the only company he really touches with any regularity is Twitter, with obvious motives and results.

                SpaceX - Has done very well and genuinely benefitted the progress of humanity. No indication he messes with it much anymore. I’m glad it exists.

                The Boring Company - Don’t think he’s touched it in years. It’s a front company to deliver barely more than jack shit and big promises. It’s purpose is to undermine high speed rail and other infrastructure, to benefit:

                Tesla - Kicked electric cars into high demand which I’m grateful for. But their vehicles suck and they’re far too expensive. I don’t think he touches this much anymore beyond the cybertruck.

                Neuralink - Finally this. I think he lost interest in it. Killed a bunch of apes, helped some severely disabled people. But from what I understand the people who gained in ability are seeing their implants become less and less effective. I like the idea. I would definitely become a cyborg if someone offered, but I don’t think I’d let them mess with my brain or spine yet. I hope to see super cool implants developed from the data they’ve gathered, but they’ll probably hoard it. And of course once they’re safe, the implants will only be for the ultra wealthy.

    • Kairos
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      571 month ago

      Have you met the guy? (I’m sorry if you have)

      • @sloppysol
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        Depends, what do you do with the excitement? The fact that this is the news of the world that we get, that the state of the world is what it is right now?

        I disagree, I just don’t wish people took some more time to introspect as to what their senses show their surroundings to be, and how.

        I can see the British east india trading company saying the same shit you just said, but to Gandhi. I don’t mean it as an attack, just wandering thoughts.

        • @sloppysol
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          -41 month ago

          Sorry, I know it’s irrelevant. People don’t seem to like that.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 month ago

        I mean the Taylor Swift thing where he said he’d have her babies and protect her cats was pretty bad and I swear that isn’t even close to the worst.

        However, I’m not on X though so I don’t have to look at the weirdness.

  • @[email protected]
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    781 month ago

    If by “Free speech absolutist”, he means, “big fat fucking liar”, then I agree with his stupid fat ass.

    • @NotMyOldRedditName
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      Free speech absolutist

      Whenever I hear that, I know the person is one of the following: bigot, fascist, liar, or so dumb they shouldn’t have children.

    • @Glitterbomb
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      21 month ago

      Considering the recent ruling that Twitter owns all of the account data, he could mean all these losers keep uploading their speech for free.

      Your thoughts, your ideas, your speech - it was all free, you gave it away to Elon.

  • @SlopppyEngineer
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    641 month ago

    In the context of this movie, Musk is Theron, forcing himself on the wife of the protagonist and taking all the gold.

  • @bcgm3
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    511 month ago

    I’m not good at metaphors… Does this mean he’s using “X” to shield us from free speech?

      • @Lowpast
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        61 month ago

        I mean no, the shield would have to face the other way for it to be blocking free speech.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          The way “FREE SPEECH” is up at the top, it looks like it’s labeling the rain going past his shield, while he is blocking the rest.

    • ALoafOfBread
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      It is a good metaphor, just maybe not for the reasons he thinks

  • don
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    501 month ago

    Poor fucker never did have a good grasp on reality.

  • @[email protected]
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    411 month ago

    I kinda hate how they want free speech but when someone they oppose says something that’s also considered free speech yep it’s blocked.

    • @NotMyOldRedditName
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      It’s always free speech for me, not for you, and my free speech is the hateful kind, but it’s not hateful, you’re just woke for saying it is.

      • @A7thStone
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        11 month ago

        It’s just a joke… unless

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      That is the only thing free speech means to them. One sided uninterrupted and unchallenged propaganda.

  • @Sam_Bass
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    281 month ago

    Fuckhead lies just like his orange catdaddy

  • Binette
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    261 month ago

    Would be funny if chemists couldn’t talk about cis and trans isomerisms anymore

    • @Furbag
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      41 month ago

      Historians: “So during the Roman occupation of Cisalpine Gaul…”

      X: “Cis alpine? What is this woke shit? You’re banned!”

    • @A_Random_Idiot
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      141 month ago

      This, exactly.

      All right wingers that scream about freespeech are screaming for the same thing.

      The freedom for them to say whatever they want, and the freedom to silence anyone who calls them out and proves them wrong.

  • @WoodScientist
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    191 month ago

    At this rate, social media companies will start censoring Luigi images like China does Winnie the Pooh.

  • @einlander
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    141 month ago

    Censorship Speedrun any%. Less than 12 seconds to censor.

  • @Mog_fanatic
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    141 month ago

    “The new Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.”

    • Elon Musk

    He was never for free speech. Just claimed he was and somehow people ate it up just like they always do with everything else he claims. He said this less than a month after buying Twitter btw.

    • @jaybone
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      31 month ago

      Whatever happened to Elon pulling plugs on critical servers and driving them in rental cars to Sacramento? Why isn’t Twitter dead yet? Did someone finally have the grown up talk?