The Twit destroying Twitter is a Twaitor

[NovaSaber]

I think we should rename "Nobel syndrome" as "Dawkins Syndrome", because nobody in history has provided more examples of "an expert in one field is an idiot outside his field" than Dawkins has.

 

[Shadewing]

What about Neil Degrassi Tyson?

 

[Paladin]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/middleeast/elon-musk-iran-un-ambassador-new-york-intl-latam/index.html

The maker of the Cybertruck thinks he can advise Iran on policy...

 

[Corvus]

The maker of the Cybertruck is pathologically incapable of staying in his own lane.

 

[NovaSaber]

So is the Cybertruck itself.

 

[Pocket]

The maker of the Cybertruck is pathologically incapable of staying in his own lane.

He never had a lane. He's garbage at everything and always has been. He's proof that rich people shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, and should instead be subject to a 100% inheritance tax.

 

[G.B.Blackrock]

He never had a lane. He's garbage at everything and always has been. He's proof that rich people shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, and should instead be subject to a 100% inheritance tax.

So far as I know, Musk's kids aren't the problem....

 

[Pocket]

I meant his dad, the emerald mine owner whose fortune Elon inherited. Or whatever the verb is for when your dad is rich enough that you can live off and invest his money while he's still alive.

Fred Trump also belongs on the list.

 

[Ungnome]

Yea, quite often those telling people to 'pull themselves up by their bootstraps' are the ones who never had to do that.(the term itself was originally used to mock those who now use it, given that the very act they describe isn't physically possible)

 

[Pocket]

I... think it might have started as advice on getting your feet unstuck from the mud, actually. I've learned to be careful of "folk etymologies" for figures of speech since I discovered that "drinking the Kool-Aid" predates Jonestown by multiple decades.

 

[Ungnome]

Just going by how the phrase was used in the 19th century. The way it's used now has kind of flipped. The actual origins of the phrase aren't truly known, though it was first seen in print as far back as the 1830's

 

[Dekafox]

So like how "Blood is thicker than water" tends to get reversed - originally I believe it was "The blood of fellowship is thicker than the water of the womb" meaning true friends over hostile family, where the modern usage tends to be the opposite.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

Elon Musk's reputation in 2020: "Innovator, Visionary, founder of Space-X and Tesla".

Elon Musk's reputation in 2024: "World's biggest right-wing social media influencer".

Leaving aside the question of whether his 2020 reputation was undeserved, that is really quite a remarkable pivot.

 

[abates]

Elon Musk Is Pissing Off Everyone on Trump’s Team

“He wants to be seen as having say in everything (even if he doesn’t),” one person in Trump’s orbit said.

newrepublic.com

Hahahahahahahaha

 

[Ungnome]

Good. Chaos WITHIN the Trump camp can help keep things from going too far. Hopefully the infighting lasts for at least two years, preferably four.

 

[Pale Rider]

The left should taunt Trump and say he only won because of Elon. That should stir things up.

 

[Anonymous X]

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

Space Wanker is trying to interfere with British politics now, attempting (futilely) to get the government to trigger an early general election, four months after the last one…

 

[Dekafox]

X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts

"X CORP. OWNS THE X ACCOUNTS."

www.404media.co

 

[Pocket]

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

Space Wanker is trying to interfere with British politics now, attempting (futilely) to get the government to trigger an early general election, four months after the last one…

That might not be a bad idea, honestly. Only four months after voting out the previous ruling party in a landslide, and zero months after seeing proof that the current ruling party is exactly the same, maybe they'll take a hint and vote for someone else for a damn change.

 

[abates]

Judging by the political polling, the only ones to make any gains from a UK election would be the previous ruling party, so I'm not convinced anyone has learned anything.