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[–] 390 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Absolutely shocked that the South African oligarch/gamer is a white supremacist.

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  • [–] 207 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He’s not a gamer just wants the incel cred

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  • [–] 110 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    His desperation to impress a bunch of dweebs on the internet is as bizarre as it is pathetic.

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I feel like this is an example of the dangers of surrounding yourself with a monoculture. Maybe Elon was always exactly this way, but he was seemingly previously tempered by the notably distinct moderation policies at Twitter. Once he owned it and stripped that moderation, there's nothing holding the pendulum anymore and he swings pretty far the other direction.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Maybe he was always this way and not public about it, but things changed for the worse right around when his trans daughter came out.

    Between that and covid I think he went down a rabbit hole further entrenching things and turned into a MAGA type as that rabbit hole does to those that go down it.

    And now he won't even listen when his brother and the chair of the board of Tesla tells him he's hurting the brand.

    Edit: just to clarify, "the woke mind virus" is what thinks took his daughter away, and now he is hellbent on destroying it, not realizing it's him who's been infected by hate and bigotry

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So once he wouldn't get in trouble for openly being a bigot, he openly became a bigot?

    He owes his entire life to apartheid and slavery in all senses that matter. And even when he was everyone's hero and a real life Tony Stark, he threw a temper tantrum when divers chose to rescue children and not stroke his ego. To the point he accused one of the divers of pedophilia, ran an investigation, and used a team of lawyers to protect himself from any consequences.

    Musk has always been a dipshit

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    And why democracy is important as a form of error correction. People can have their opinions, and inevitably we all get things wrong (magnitude of things we get wrong varies a lot). But when someone has a large concentration of power we all have to deal with the fallout from their malfunction. Companies the size and import of Twitter, Facebook, Reddit should be democratically controlled, some kind of cooperative.

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    [–] 228 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

    Imagine being literally the richest person in the world. You can afford anything, you can go anywhere, you can do anything. But you spend most of your free time begging for attention from absolute strangers. What a pathetic little bitch.

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    [–] 144 points 2 years ago (36 children)

    I’ve always thought being “proud” of your race, any race, is a weird concept.

    Like, you didn’t do anything to be white, or black, or asian. Why would you take pride in something you had no agency in?

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  • [+] 64 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (24 children)
  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (57 children)
    • Sexuality

    Nah. Queer pride is a good thing.

    It's not pride as in "I am proud of this painting I made." Rather, it's pride as in "rejecting shame for being queer".

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    [–] 91 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    NOW can we fucking can this guy? SpaceX? Tesla? He's already flushed the cancer-formerly-known-as-twitter so we'll leave him that one.

    The significance that it's IBM calling it first should not be lost on anyone.

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  • [–] 69 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Anyone still on Twitter at this point for whatever their reasons, have to recognize what group they are in.

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    [–] 69 points 2 years ago (61 children)

    So, Elon dislikes that white people can't be proud of being white.

    Why would a person of any race be proud of their race? Shouldn't people be proud of their own accomplishments, and those of the people they've helped?

    I never really understood the rationale here. I support Pride Month for example, but I think the language is kind of wrong.

    Shouldn't people be proud, despite traits which have historically been denigrated?

    This is a serious question BTW.

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    [–] 65 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    People were unironically comparing this man to Tony Starks lol. 🏃🏾‍♂️

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    [–] 56 points 2 years ago* (13 children)

    For context, here's the full tweet Elon is endorsing as all these articles are omiting it for some reason

    Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.

    I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much.

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    [–] 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    X CEO Linda Yaccarino has said that most of the platform’s biggest advertisers have returned after dropping the site due to its moderation changes, but Media Matters previously showed that they’re spending far less than they used to. Yaccarino responded later on Thursday, writing that X has been “extremely clear about our efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination.”

    "There is no bombing at the airport"

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    [–] 47 points 2 years ago (19 children)

    Elon is slowly but surely tearing down everything he has created.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    What has he created? He bought himself into Twitter and Tesla... and the work is essentially done entirely by other people. i.e his employees

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The guy that still has no idea why his kids hate him, at it again.

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    [–] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why were they even adversing on Ten?

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Tell me you're South African without you know.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    I'm honestly not going to do business with anyone who still maintains a presence on that platform much less advertise on it. Cheers to IBM for stepping up.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I find an odd sort of satisfying humour that we know exactly where IBM draws the line, and it's right there.

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago

    Is there a list somewhere of the companies advertizing on this thing? Could be useful to ask them what they think about that!

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Twitter/X is going to end up selling boner pills and conspiracy theories. Way to burn through 44 billion dollars, Elmo.

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago

    Hey guys I think this Elon Musk guy might be not so great...

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    A white south african guy is racist? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It's surely only a matter of time before he becomes a climate change denier, right? He's gone all in every other right wing weirdo ideology.

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    The company that sold automation to Hitler: "This guy is a step too far"

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    The art of debate and discussion today is watered down to, "...but but that other thing is evil too!"

    Can't talk about Uyghurs genocide because European settlers killed natives 500 years ago. IBM and Musk can both be bad. Same as time changes things and people.

    Stop distracting from Musk's wrongdoings. What happened 90 years ago was 90 years ago. We can't change that. What we can do is influence change today. Thanks to IBM for not allowing their money to fuel Musk's machines.

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    So will I still get downvoted into oblivion for calling him the white supremacist that he has always been?

    Probably.

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    So was this guy semi normal in the head at some point?

    I am really wondering if he has been deteriorating over the last years.

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