Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

[countingtozero]

Blue-ticks on Xhitter accusing BlueSky of having a nonce problem are either liars or ignoramuses. Musk gutted the Trust and Safety team and there's no sign that it's been re-staffed.

Better still, the former head of trust and safety, Aaron Rodericks, now occupies the same position at... Bluesky.

 

[JimW]

Alt text: pic of a cybertruck, with text 'man who brought you this is going to be the judge of wasteful spending'.

 

[two sheds]

Well that parody account seems to have it right on NPR

"Democrat propaganda": Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR

She accused the public radio network of doing "nothing for the American people."

www.salon.com

"It's all over," Greene said of supposed government waste. "We'll be looking at everything from government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda...all kinds of programs that don't help the American people."

The statement led "defund NPR" to trend briefly on Musk-owned social media app X. In truth, NPR receives very little of its budget directly from the federal government. How exactly to calculate its funding is up for debate as money granted to local public radio stations via the government-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting is frequently used to pay for the rights to air NPR-produced national programming locally. However, the conception of NPR as an entity that only exists thanks to government largesse is false.

To hear tell from experts, it wouldn't be the first time that the newly minted DOGE had a surface-level understanding of government programs they hoped to cut. The Center for American Progress' Bobby Kogan told Salon earlier this week that DOGE leadership's proposal to cut all programs whose spending authorizations had lapsed betrayed a "fundamentally superficial" understanding of how government budgets work.

'Let's get rid of unauthorized spending' is the sort of thing that you might see in a Facebook meme," Kogan said."People have this idea of just huge and absurd amounts of government waste, and it's just not borne out in the data."

FUCKERS!!

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I joined Bluesky last week, it’s like a breath of fresh air! Very few freaks, loons, cranks, fash, rapists, sex traffickers, bots, MRAs, incels, crypto-Bros and other vermin who now dominate X. The digital world is just better without these scum and the real world would be too.

 

[tim]

I joined Bluesky last week, it’s like a breath of fresh air! Very few freaks, loons, cranks, fash, rapists, sex traffickers, bots, MRAs, incels, crypto-Bros and other vermin who now dominate X. The digital world is just better without these scum and the real world would be too.

It's a bit boring without the Fasc and conspiraloons, though.

 

[BigMoaner]

Bloody hell the replies to this, endless blue ticks shrieking about bluesky...

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I would bet my mortgage that the nonce ratio on X is ten fold compare to bluesky or wherever it’s called.

 

[krtek a houby]

It's a bit boring without the Fasc and conspiraloons, though.

You never hear anything from them, these days

 

[BigMoaner]

I joined Bluesky last week, it’s like a breath of fresh air! Very few freaks, loons, cranks, fash, rapists, sex traffickers, bots, MRAs, incels, crypto-Bros and other vermin who now dominate X. The digital world is just better without these scum and the real world would be too.

Don’t be fooled. The real world is the digital world now.

 

[MickiQ]

Have we done sex robots yet? It's got piers morgan excited apperently...

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I have a feeling that there is (sadly) a certain cohort of young men who think domestic robot and think of Gemma Chan in the TV series Humans whereas the reality is the Roomba.

 

[moochedit]

I have a feeling that there is (sadly) a certain cohort of young men who think domestic robot and think of Gemma Chan in the TV series Humans whereas the reality is the Roomba.

I have no idea what that is but i guess piers and musk (who are not young) do

 

[BigMoaner]

Who does large and utter bellpiece think he is

Elon Musk brands UK a ‘tyrannical police state’

X owner shares a petition demanding a UK general election and boosts a far-right activist.

www.politico.eu

 

[moochedit]

Who does large and utter bellpiece think he is

Elon Musk brands UK a ‘tyrannical police state’

X owner shares a petition demanding a UK general election and boosts a far-right activist.

www.politico.eu

Yeah i saw that petition going round earlier and thought "i bet musk shares that"

Starmer is not going to call an election with 4 and a half years to run and a massive majority because of a fucking epetition

 

[moochedit]

I'm sure musk and his fellow right wing grifters can drum up a lot of signatures.

Plenty on the left dislike starmer's labour as well but this epetition is going nowhere.

 

[JimW]

Time for MI6 to earn their crust, get him bagged and dropped over the Marianas Trench.

 

[Santino]

Time for MI6 to earn their crust, get him bagged and dropped over the Marianas Trench.

They should Manchurian Candidate Eddie Redmayne to do it.

 

[ska invita]

I'm sure musk and his fellow right wing grifters can drum up a lot of signatures.

Plenty on the left dislike starmer's labour as well but this epetition is going nowhere.

Of course it wont lead to an election but it is effective in brewing discontent and Trumpifying UK politics

 

[NoXion]

It's a bit boring without the Fasc and conspiraloons, though.

I wish the offline world was at least that boring. I'm so tired of current events being "interesting".

 

[moochedit]

Of course it wont lead to an election but it is effective in brewing discontent and Trumpifying UK politics

The epetition will be forgotten about quite quickly i think. Most of the people signing probably voted tory or reform at the election anyway. Half the country is unhappy with every election result.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

It's a bit boring without the Fasc and conspiraloons, though.

It’s really not. I’ll die a happy man if I never hear or see any of those scum again.

 

[MickiQ]

Clearly his obscene wealth (now standing at $345bn) is giving him massive ego problems where he increasingly sees himself as Emperor of Earth never mind Emperor of Mars.
I can see someone like the Chinese or even us popping the fucker off at this rate,

 

[BigMoaner]

“Knowing what I know of the man, it’s incredible that such a mediocre figure can rise so high”

‘We live in a climate of fear’: graphic novelist’s Elon Musk book can’t find UK or US publisher | Elon Musk | The Guardian

Darryl Cunningham blames fear of ‘legal consequences’ for reluctance to take on book, now only available in French

amp.theguardian.com

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Yeah i saw that petition going round earlier and thought "i bet musk shares that"

Starmer is not going to call an election with 4 and a half years to run and a massive majority because of a fucking epetition

But… but… “they’ve got to debate it in parliament now, it’s the law or something”

 

[bcuster]

Fierce bidding war may be result

Cash strapped Elon Musk mulls buying MSNBC, but he’s not the only billionaire who may be interested...​

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/media/elon-musk-msnbc-spinoff-cable/index.html

 

[moochedit]

But… but… “they’ve got to debate it in parliament now, it’s the law or something”

Yeah..it's in the magna carta. Article 5 on epetitions

 

[tim]

But… but… “they’ve got to debate it in parliament now, it’s the law or something”

Yes, a short going through of the motions in the draughty and irrelevant splendor of Westminster Hall.

 

[Ax^]

 

[Saul Goodman]

When you hit 88mph in a Cybertruck, you take it back to the dealership to get the parts replaced that fell off but aren't covered under warranty because you went over 55mph.

 

[Yossarian]

I wonder where his rockets travel back to after they hit 1488mph

 

[BigMoaner]

I wonder where his rockets travel back to after they hit 1488mph

Hopefully his basement

 

[MickiQ]

That is without question the fugliest vehicle ever built, the cars are quite stylish looking but that is hideous.