Elon / Twitter Thread

Discussion in 'The Mainboard' started by Whammy, Apr 14, 2022.

  1. WC

    WC Bad Company, ‘til the day I die.
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    Been a joke for TWENTY FUCKING YEARS and he still fucked it up

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  2. beerme

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    i don’t even… is it because he used the word hard? Even though it still doesn’t work?
     
  3. houtex716

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    That might be the worst attempt at a TWSS I’ve ever heard

    impressive really
     
  4. SD_Irish

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    At 2:31in goddamn morning no less.

    Musk is such a try-hard loser.
     
  5. steamengine

    steamengine I don’t want to press one for English!
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    Maybe he think twss is meant to be a misogynistic joke and he’s knocking Jeffries for being a Pelosi puppet?

    Like oh you’re owned because those are really Nancy’s words?

    That’s the best I can do.
     
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  6. bro

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  7. Daniel Ocean

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    that doesn’t even make sense
     
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  8. Drown ‘Em

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    That’s what she said.
     
  9. $P1

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    That's what she said
     
  10. Deep dirt

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    Could we get an deepfake of The Office with musk as Michael Scott. I mean thinking about it right now and the parallels are pretty stunning. Maybe Elon just didn’t get that everyone was laughing at Mike?
     
  11. Truman

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    idk why - but Chris Hayes using message board lingo is hilarious to me
     
  12. Shawn Hunter

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    That’s what she said
     
  13. TAS

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    I'm not going to claim to know everything about him or what skeletons are in his closet, but he seems to be one of the realest ones out there
     
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  14. Truman

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    He is by far the best MSM news/personality out there. I keep waiting for the day where he'll make an irredeemable take or something. So far it hasnt come.
     
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  15. kezarmyaj

    kezarmyaj eat your floor cereal
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    he talks sports a good bit as well
     
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  16. laxjoe

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  17. BrentTray

    BrentTray I’m thinking Dorsia.
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    Musk dick riders are the woat

     
  18. Can I Spliff it

    Can I Spliff it Is Butterbean okay?
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  19. NCHusker

    NCHusker We named our yam Pam. It rhymed.
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    Knew this would be coming
     
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  20. NCHusker

    NCHusker We named our yam Pam. It rhymed.
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    1. Buy twitter because I created in my own mind an association between the verification check and elitism, which hurts my feelings.
    2. Make it so that anyone can buy the verification check, unintentionally changing it into a symbol of Elon worship
    3. Now actually, uh, you can hide your blue check even though that shit was the main thing that snowflake reactionaries whined about in the first place
     
  21. Killy Me Please

    Killy Me Please I lift things up and put people down.
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    Interesting
     
  22. Redav

    Redav One big ocean
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    "Hehe we're taking over the blue checkmark."

    *3 months later*

    "Will you please hide my blue checkmark"
     
  23. MJH

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    I’m glad the crybabies who couldn’t get verified ruined a good feature. I’m sure this won’t create any unforeseen issues of disinformation being spread.
     
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  24. NCHusker

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    This is a much funnier and better way of describing it than what I did
     
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  25. CaneKnight

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    I mean Comon man you Chris hayes is 100% terminally online like many of us. I assume most journos are at this point
     
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  26. Truman

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  27. Name P. Redacted

    Name P. Redacted I have no money and I'm also gay
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    Journos sure but not people with their own network show
     
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  28. Truman

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    Plus journos being terminally online as far as twitter -sure. The thought of Hayes having an anonymous acct on a Knicks message board or something and knowing common message board quirks is hilarious.
     
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  29. Name P. Redacted

    Name P. Redacted I have no money and I'm also gay
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    There’s being online and then there’s being a poster.
     
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  30. electronic

    electronic It’s satire!
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    That “this mf paid for Twitter” meme really got the job done. Ha.
     
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  31. shawnoc

    shawnoc My president is black, my logos are red...
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    *FEMALE BODY INSPECTOR
     
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  32. The Guglia

    The Guglia I Work in the City, and I Work Long Hours.
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    Is this Colin Rugg doofus that keeps being shoved down my throat only popular for fellating elno online?
     
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  33. BrentTray

    BrentTray I’m thinking Dorsia.
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  34. BrentTray

    BrentTray I’m thinking Dorsia.
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    He’s another college republican doofus that old people like
     
  35. CaneKnight

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    Snowflakes
     
  36. jrmy

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    Being closeted probably isn’t anything new for the Twitter Blue crew
     
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  37. timo

    timo g'day, mate
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    So we've gone from people paying a $10 / month (or whatever it is) to show the world that they're willing to suck off a billionaire to people paying $10 / month just to pay $10 / month because they're ashamed that they're willing to suck off a billionaire.

    Like, I pay for too many streaming services, but at least I get to watch my football club flame out in hilarious fashion every year *plus* Murder She Wrote and 1950s Perry Mason at 1:30 AM if I so choose. That may not be worth $10 / mo but at least it's something.
     
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  38. HuskerInMiami

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    I think the benefit is you get preferential tweets that more people see. And people were catching onto the fact that shitty tweets were being pumped to them because these idiots paid. Hiding the blue check will help them get noticed and not be called out....but the internet never forgets.
     
  39. fattus

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    The other day I remembered I have Discovery+ and watched Homicide Hunter until 3 am.
     
  40. TAS

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    I think some of the schadenfreude obscures the fact that Elon has successfully destroyed the original purpose of the blue check - to give the public some general idea of who is who on the site, and to a lesser extent, who you could "trust" when following breaking news or important topics.

    Some of the benefits of a paid subscription are worthwhile, but mixing that up with the "this is actually who this person claims to be" accountability aspect of twitter was always a dumb idea. And predictably, it made twitter a worse product for the general population, and a better site for grifters and scammed who benefit from the confusion.
     
  41. timo

    timo g'day, mate
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    The thing I like best about 1950s Perry Mason is you would think LA would have gotten a new prosecutor by season 2 after he lost 35 cases in a row in season 1.
    :twocents:
     
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  42. Handcuffed

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    wow man, spoilers
     
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  43. fattus

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  44. Mix

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    Would bet a good bit he had an account on the bulls sbnation site and fired off some takes.
     
  45. laxjoe

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    anyone else?

    it’s back. Must have been user error
     
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  46. bro

    bro Your Mother’s Favorite Shitposter
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    I’m sure this has been posted, but just in case

     
  47. chuckmasterflex

    chuckmasterflex Attack and dethrone God
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  48. Beeds07

    Beeds07 Bitch, it's Saturday
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    Sooo when’s the hearing or does this not matter since Zuck isn’t throwing millions at Congress for this?
     
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  49. Redav

    Redav One big ocean
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    Love that this dude is basically Apartheid Trump