Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 399: Teardrops on My Qatar

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https://twitter.com/bestofdyingtwit/status/1604592169339465728

oopsies he used the p-word

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097?s=19

What is this timeline.

Sure, I voted

55.5 - 44.5 with 11 hours left

This might actually be him trying to quit while framing it as "the will of the people" to soothe his ego/reputation

lol he followed it up with a be careful what you wish for tweet

is he going to step down, but name the bad Matt Walsh or one of his other right-wing sycophants as his replacement

That's definitely what it is

He's finally realized that the job sucks, especially as someone with a pathological need to be the center of attention

honestly though he's really doing us a great public service by showing the world that billionaires are the dumbest fucking people on the planet

Yes is expanding its lead; up to 57.5%

Being the CEO of a company that is going down in flames is not what I would choose to do when I had other companies not currently dying

lmao biggest self own ever

its just so funny that hes doing the this shit while literally in the city where the World Cup finals just happened and its like 3 am or something

dude couldnt just enjoy the huge world event he was at on a day that isnt even a business day normally he had to do his tweet meltdown right away

https://twitter.com/thequartering/status/1604630363795513345?s=46&t=BMBKiHKNAysoMxeu308Tnw

lmaoooo

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/3/7/AAeolZAAEASJ.jpg

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

https://twitter.com/thequartering/status/1604630363795513345?s=46&t=BMBKiHKNAysoMxeu308Tnw

lmaoooo

I gotta admit if elon just shuts the site down in 11 hours I will just laugh my ass off

You know, I burned my entire Roth to the ground on risky leaps headed into this year. Picked a truly terrible year to get aggressive.

Proportionally, it probably was about as much of my net worth as twitter was to Elon.

While it certainly sucks, Im not losing sleep over it.

I wonder if Elon just giving up and shutting Twitter is completely off the table. It probably isnt as Elon obviously has serious attachment issues to this, but from a monetary standpoint I dont know if shrugging and moving on is off the table

if he pulls the bird I swear every other social media site gotta be like

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/4/3/AAeYFbAAEASP.jpg

Looks like Twitter raised the price of Twitter Blue yesterday without actually announcing anything too, lol.

...sounds like i'm gonna have a lot of catching up to do on wtf is happening lol

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Looks like Twitter raised the price of Twitter Blue yesterday without actually announcing anything too, lol.

right now if I click the thing to sign up on the web (not app), it says its still $8, but also calls that a limited time offer

which is extra funny because all the features it lists are tagged coming soon, other than the checkmark

wow what a great offer, I can pay less now because it has none of the proposed features

I feel like some enterprising B8er could make some decent money as an online poll correspondent for one of the cable networks

This could be us!
https://twitter.com/macrotargeting/status/1604622767718076416

Something of a tangent, but as someone who has experience being a power tripping, obnoxious, immature forum mod back at the age of like 14 I think even I never approached the level Musk has been at these past couple of weeks, and especially the last 72 hours.

but the parallels are there and makes me cringe at my teenage self even more

but at least i had the excuse of actually being a dumbass teenager then

Thorn posted...

Something of a tangent, but as someone who has experience being a power tripping, obnoxious, immature forum mod back at the age of like 14 I think even I never approached the level Musk has been at these past couple of weeks, and especially the last 72 hours.

lmfao same I was probably worse than you were though

also both of us banned bigots so we were automatically better despite the cringe

Funny you should mention forum mods

https://twitter.com/PAMaster2/status/1604546165533396992

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Looks like Twitter raised the price of Twitter Blue yesterday without actually announcing anything too, lol.

Not sure if it was brought up here, but apparently it's $11 on the App Store to account for Apple's 30% cut. So maybe you were just looking at that?

KamikazePotato posted...

55.5 - 44.5 with 11 hours left

This might actually be him trying to quit while framing it as "the will of the people" to soothe his ego/reputation

Counterpoint:

https://twitter.com/LordRavenscraft/status/1604625294559674369
https://twitter.com/LordRavenscraft/status/1604628170946347012

though as a fact check: the former richest man in the world

I was once a forum mod of a moderately-big forum at 12 and I had far more restraint than this

https://twitter.com/juddlegum/status/1604678612191514627?s=21

aaaand the rule is gone again

maybe he should try asking literally anyone else for an opinion before he makes major decisions

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1604520004732571650?s=46&t=BMBKiHKNAysoMxeu308Tnw

MoogleKupo141 posted...

https://twitter.com/juddlegum/status/1604678612191514627?s=21

aaaand the rule is gone again

maybe he should try asking literally anyone else for an opinion before he makes major decisions

I'm guessing he hasn't instilled most of his new employees with the sense that pointing out bad ideas is a thing that will not get you fired!

https://twitter.com/NKingofDC/status/1604803844038615040
https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1604828933588979716

this is quite the story

Guy who won a House Seat in NY (US Congress) seems to have just lied about everything in his life and resume.

• He says he worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. They say they have no record of him ever working there. Citigroup further adds they are unfamiliar with the title he claimed to have and that they sold off the division he claimed to be part of years before his account.
• He says he graduated from Baruch College in 2010. The college says they have no record of anyone with his name and date of birth graduating that year.
• He claims he did a stint at NYU. NYU has no record of his attendence.
• He says he ran a tax-exempt/charity animal rescue group. The IRS says they have no record of a charity by that name.
• He claimed to have lost 4 employees at the Pulse nightclub shooting. The NYT looked into the 49 victims and found no evidence that any of them worked for any firm he listed in his biography.
• When he lived in Brazil he stole the checkbook of a man his mother cared for (she was a nurse) and used it to make fraudulent purchases. He confessed and was charged. However, he did not respond to the summons, when a court representative went to his given address he was nowhere to be found, and the case remains unresolved.
• He is alleged to have not paid rent on multiple occasions. Then during COVID complained that tenants were not paying him rent and bashed NY's COVID eviction moratorium. The NYT states he has not listed any NY properties on his required financial disclosure forms.

The chaser:

The New York Times reports...

The Times attempted to interview Mr. Santos at the address where he is registered to vote and that was associated with a campaign donation he made in October, but a person at that address said on Sunday that she was not familiar with him.

Wow, looks like that's actually a competitive district too. How did this not come out until now?

how can someone reasonably expect to misrepresent themselves to such a degree while pursuing a political/public position? They know computers exist, right?

Xeybozn posted...

Wow, looks like that's actually a competitive district too. How did this not come out until now?

No clue. Hell, he ran and lost in this district in 2020 and it apparently didn't come out then either.

Real answer: NY Dem machine is the worst.

When you have no competition you don't try.

See Georgia Republicans

not really true about that district tbqh

Also, I know the policy got walked back because it was so stupid and a bunch of other stuff happened since but we, as a society, can not forget this episode in the miniseries that will be the End of Twitter because if we do we'll look back and not believe it could have been real.

Musk's mom started tweeting at people who were dunking on the "can't link to other social media" policy to defend it.

https://twitter.com/mayemusk/status/1604550452447690752
https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1604570894004895748

Thorn posted...

The chaser:

We found the voter fraud!

Thorn posted...

https://twitter.com/NKingofDC/status/1604803844038615040
https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1604828933588979716

this is quite the story

Guy who won a House Seat in NY (US Congress) seems to have just lied about everything in his life and resume.

* He says he worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. They say they have no record of him ever working there. Citigroup further adds they are unfamiliar with the title he claimed to have and that they sold off the division he claimed to be part of years before his account.
* He says he graduated from Baruch College in 2010. The college says they have no record of anyone with his name and date of birth graduating that year.
* He claims he did a stint at NYU. NYU has no record of his attendence.
* He says he ran a tax-exempt/charity animal rescue group. The IRS says they have no record of a charity by that name.
* He claimed to have lost 4 employees at the Pulse nightclub shooting. The NYT looked into the 49 victims and found no evidence that any of them worked for any firm he listed in his biography.
* When he lived in Brazil he stole the checkbook of a man his mother cared for (she was a nurse) and used it to make fraudulent purchases. He confessed and was charged. However, he did not respond to the summons, when a court representative went to his given address he was nowhere to be found, and the case remains unresolved.
* He is alleged to have not paid rent on multiple occasions. Then during COVID complained that tenants were not paying him rent and bashed NY's COVID eviction moratorium. The NYT states he has not listed any NY properties on his required financial disclosure forms.

The chaser:

The New York Times reports...

Thats fucking wild

Wonder if he would have been expelled in a Dem-led House? No chance of that with McCarthy, though.

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1604917936161845248

I imagine DOJ is just going to go "We already appointed a special counsel. Jack Smith will look into that along with everything else."

1/6 Committee also referred McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Biggs, and Perry to the House Ethics Committee for defying subpoenas but that's not going to amount to much.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604985324505030658

so he's gonna discount it as bots eh

Did you really expect anything different?

oh so if there's a bot problem i guess we're reverting all the other "vox populi vox dei" decisions because the sacred integrity of twitter polls has been called into question

no?

how odd

that response made me actually mad

people who already like the state of Twitter/Elon enough to pay $8 a month for basically nothing are not a good representation of the userbase.

if Elon wants more people to sign up for blue, he should probably listen to what the non-blue people have to say instead of listening to the morons he already convinced. Does he think people are going to give him $8/month just to vote in these polls? Come on.

You know those were legit because it let the right people come back to the platform obviously.

JonThePenguin posted...

Did you really expect anything different?

Actually yes. I figured he was making the poll so he could have an excuse to bail. If he's going to stay anyway then he made the poll...why? Bragging rights? Did he honestly expect he was going to win it?

KamikazePotato posted...

Actually yes. I figured he was making the poll so he could have an excuse to bail. If he's going to stay anyway then he made the poll...why? Bragging rights? Did he honestly expect he was going to win it?

I think it's increasingly likely that he's in such a narcissistic bubble surrounded by suck ups and yes men that he actually did.

See: "It was actually 90% cheers and 10% boos" and how he fires or bans anyone who provides even the lightest pushback to him (lmfao bans bari weiss of all people for questioning his journalist bans and then not answering his question over twitter immediately after having handpicked her as one of his twitter file sycophants)

KamikazePotato posted...

Did he honestly expect he was going to win it?

I don't have anything concrete to base this on but would be willing to bet on the answer being yes

this does potentially lead to a funny situation where he runs the Blue-only poll and it gets like 30,000 votes, revealing how barely anyone is paying for that shit

it's fair to think he was looking for an out since everything's been going so badly

but yeah it's looking like his dumb ass really did think he would win the poll, which is understandably baffling after he just lost the now vs 7-day ban poll this same week