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Elon's biggest problem @ Twitter - he's not funny at tweeting

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by SamFisher, Dec 2, 2022.

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  1. Space Ghost

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    Que? When was that particular tiktok video on the front news of MSM for weeks?
     
    #161 Space Ghost, Dec 14, 2022
  2. Xopher

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    The life of a high powered German CEO I guess.
     
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    Que? Indeed, I have no idea what this has to do with what I posted.
     
    #163 jiggyfly, Dec 14, 2022
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    Relocated German CEO to Florida.
     
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  5. Xopher

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    Arbeit macht frei
     
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  6. AroundTheWorld

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    Dude stop spreading Nazi slogans. I know it's done out of ignorance, but it's wrong.
     
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  7. SamFisher

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    The fact that everyone is talking about Hitler in a non- Godwin's law sense shows how healthy Twitter is these days.

    The fact that everyone is not talking about a good faith argument that Elon Musk is good at comedy or tweeting shows that he is not funny or good at tweeting.


    Someone unfamiliar with all that might correctly adduce that the “my pronouns” bit has to do with the reactionary campaign against trans and nonbinary people, which has become a favorite topic of Musk’s cohort of renegade free-thinkers; they have adopted this particular wan gag as their signal and indeed only joke. Such a reader might well wonder what any of that has to do with COVID-19 or the recently retired figurehead of the (also recently retired) federal response to the pandemic. Even by the miserable standards of mushing-two-recognizable-things-into-one gags that has long defined Twitter’s Mendoza Line, it only barely scans as a joke. It’s Left Shark saying “Covfefe,” or a meme of Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus with the words BEAN WIFE over it in Impact font. It is, as the worst posts tend to be, not just embarrassing but somehow implicating to read.

    In the ways in which Musk’s post is topical, it absolutely sucks ass; it’s strident and stupid and unfinished, a very low-impact and low-energy entry all around. In every other sense, from basic effort to basic craft, it is equally embarrassing. As such, it is very much in keeping with Musk’s personal posting style, which has in recent months come to resemble that of an AI bot that had been fed only the nouns from Glenn Greenwald’s posts.

    https://defector.com/the-eternal-mystery-of-a-rich-mans-politics/
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    Burn.

    @AroundTheWorld @Os Trigonum @basso
     
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  8. SamFisher

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    This is what happens when low-sense-of-humor individuals who lack natural affinity for poasting are allowed on Twitter



    @AroundTheWorld
     
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    @tinman rate this on the comedy scale 1-10
     
    #169 SamFisher, Dec 15, 2022
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    https://media.tenor.com/pFZwEK1hHyMAAAAC/samuel-jackson-****-negro.gif
     
    #170 Nook, Dec 15, 2022
  11. SamFisher

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    Many people are saying how bad a sad dad is at tweeting

    Surely the richest man in the world, hailed as a visionary technological futurist, has better uses for his time and energy? The particular flavor of dad-ish 4chan trollery that Musk indulges in, while nasty, also always seems a bit sad, redolent of men going nowhere, feeling powerless, raging at a screen in their basement and lashing out at their perceived foes because at least the rise they get out of others makes them feel like they exist.

    Trump, a true sociopath, isn’t really affected by what people think of him (only what they say about him). But Musk behaves like someone who has been rejected and feels it, and masks that feeling in belligerence in order to regain a sense of his own invulnerability. The fact that one of his children is transgender and has changed her last name because she no longer wishes to be related to him seems especially pertinent to what is playing out here.
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    Shots fired @tinman @Os Trigonum @AroundTheWorld @Commodore - let's poast our way out of this one.
     
    #171 SamFisher, Dec 16, 2022
  12. AroundTheWorld

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    @SamFisher, I appreciate you always tagging me, but most of the time, your ramblings are so incoherent that other than noticing they exude a lot of bitterness, I don't really know what to do with them. I neither feel offended nor do I find them funny nor do I have any opinion on your verbal diarrhea. Your posts usually leave me completely uninterested and unaffected, save for a rare slightly humorous lucidum intervallum on your part.
     
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    there's a reason folks call him ShamFisher ;)
     
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  15. Space Ghost

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    Imagine getting triggered by a man who you will never meet.
     
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    "The opposite" would be if the government had instructed Musk to do the bannings, which is not the case.

    Free speech is about being protected from government limiting your speech. That's what happened under previous Twitter ownership (it was painted as a conspiracy theory, but is now proven to have happened - they basically gave Twitter direct instructions on which tweets to delete and which users to ban, so Twitter's management acted as a tool for the government to limit people's speech).

    If the private owner of a private service takes away your account based on his own (possibly inconsistent) opinions of your postings, that is not a free speech issue.
     
    #176 AroundTheWorld, Dec 16, 2022
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    Uhm. It isn't a free speech issue at all. It wasn't before and isn't now. However Musk and others on the right claimed it was.

    An owner banning accounts he disagrees with isn't free speech.
     
    #177 FranchiseBlade, Dec 16, 2022
  18. AroundTheWorld

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    Nothing in that post made any sense.

    As I explained, when the government directly instructs private actors to limit your speech, then yes, it is very much a free speech issue. That's what happened under Twitter's previous ownership.
     
    #178 AroundTheWorld, Dec 16, 2022
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    You are showing that you misunderstood the previous role of government in Twitter's decision.

    I know you believe that is what happened. I spoke about potential harm of the government intervention or influence.

    However, they never required Twitter to suspend or not suspend.

    Chronology is also important. Any government influence on the management of the private company wasn't an issue at the time.
     
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  20. AroundTheWorld

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    I'm a lawyer, you clearly aren't one. This was definitely government directing a private entity's censorship actions and thereby violating people's 1st amendment rights.
     
    #180 AroundTheWorld, Dec 16, 2022
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