Douchebag 2.0—an Elon Musk company

skydiver8 · April 23, 2023, 1:40am

spoutible is the closest I’ve found

Melkerson · April 23, 2023, 1:42am

Thanks. Hadn’t heard of it.

It is already failing as it won’t let me browse at all without signing up for an account. Can’t get arsed up to do that at the moment.

skydiver8 · April 23, 2023, 1:42am

I feel like Elon Musk vs dril is and always has been the natural endgame of twitter

Lawnmower_Man · April 23, 2023, 2:36am

It’s bad, and this is with page upscaled to 150%. With no scaling it’s unconscionably awful:

microbet · April 23, 2023, 6:38am

Yeah, I understand. I really just wanted to make the point that he’s a shit for expending so many resources on a handful of people maybe going to Mars while the Earth burns. It’s a bit like how he talks a lot about how AI is going to murder all of us while he’s working hard to make that happen.

klingbard · April 23, 2023, 6:58am

This all just seems ridiculous to me.

https://twitter.com/Lollardfish/status/1649954335822938113

TrueNorth32 · April 23, 2023, 1:54pm

Every accusation is a confession

https://twitter.com/sethabramson/status/1650002498252333056?s=61&t=PJ_nuTfUmHpusvvriNf7WA

TrueNorth32 · April 23, 2023, 1:59pm

https://twitter.com/dougjballoon/status/1649524569089380352?s=61&t=PJ_nuTfUmHpusvvriNf7WA

clovis8 · April 23, 2023, 2:14pm

How the fuck is this real life?!?!?!?

otatop · April 23, 2023, 3:04pm

And as always, he just stole that reaction picture from one of his loyal toadies.
https://twitter.com/RandleDog/status/1649890791400132608
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1649939689661423617

Meanwhile, his creepy step daughter impregnating father is trying to get some of his cash:

Devil · April 23, 2023, 4:00pm

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1649523985837686784?t=foXXjYVP_ATbhScyR9WkZA&s=19

Good luck with that.

microbet · April 23, 2023, 4:08pm

World is burning, so let’s just blow up an 11 million pound rocket every few months until the .000001% can escape. What an asshole.

bobman0330 · April 23, 2023, 5:05pm

Henry Ford is an odd contrast to pick here. He literally invented car culture!

microbet · April 23, 2023, 5:12pm

Yes, and I understand the potential irony there, but cars, especially those cars, were not toys for billionaires to blow up and although the greenhouse effect was understood at the time, anthropogenic warming from industry wasn’t exactly a mainstream understanding in 1908. So, it’s not really an ironic choice or an odd contrast.

microbet · April 23, 2023, 5:15pm

There are 278 million cars in the US. There would probably be more warming if there 278 million horses.

microbet · April 23, 2023, 5:27pm

I feel like if I blew up some 11 million pound machine and caused crap to fall out of the sky all over populated areas I might get in some kind of trouble.

otatop · April 23, 2023, 5:42pm

Here’s a little parable for your Sunday morning.

There once was a man who loved rock and roll music. Because he loved rock and roll music, he loved the guitar, which is the most prominent instrument in rock music.

And because he loved the guitar, he loved Jimi Hendrix, who many people believed was the greatest rock guitarist of all time. And because he loved Jimi Hendrix, he spent all his money to buy a guitar that Jimi Hendrix had owned and played. It was a gorgeous beautiful Olympic white Strat with a maple fretboard and three single-coil pickups, which were meant to give it “that distinctive Fender sound.”

The man owned the guitar, because he bought it, and that is how ownership works.

But the man, who had never learned how to play the guitar, did not sound like Jimi Hendrix when he played it. He didn’t even hear that distinctive Fender sound. The man kept trying to play the guitar, but he never took a lesson.

In time, the man grew to resent the guitar.

One day a knock came at the man’s door, and when he opened it, Jimi Hendrix was there. “I’m only back on earth for a day,” Jimi said. “I hear you got my guitar. You mind if I play it a bit?”

When Jimi played, his guitar didn’t only make that distinctive Fender sound: it actually sounded exactly like Jimi Hendrix.

“I don’t understand,” said the man. “That is my guitar. Why doesn’t it sound like that when I play it?”

Jimi smiled. “Man, don’t you know? There’s a big difference between owning something, and having it. ”

I hope you enjoyed this parable.

This parable isn’t about guitars, by the way. Parables aren’t ever really about the thing they’re about. They invite you to think about what they’re about.

Parables are annoying like that.

Let me tell you another parable.

Devil · April 23, 2023, 6:02pm

He pissed off the neighbors and they got some national attention so I expect he’ll have a little more trouble getting his next FAA flight permit.

wirelessgrinder · April 23, 2023, 6:29pm

Love moxons Twitter and substack

Devil · April 23, 2023, 6:37pm

And here I was, thinking Elon never learns.

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1650184830049734656?s=20