The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

dowie · 12 Dec 2022 at 09:34

Jono8 said:
What? How is suggesting prosecuting the head of the NIAID/chief medical officer for the president, for simply doing his job and trying to keep people safe, "rational debate"?

Seemed like a totally serious suggestion, you're clearly very smart Jono.

Jono8 · 12 Dec 2022 at 09:36

dowie said:
Seemed like a totally serious suggestion, you're clearly very smart Jono.

"Everything I can't defend is clearly a joke/trolling"

unwashed potato! · 12 Dec 2022 at 09:37

Why does it being a joke make it OK?

Though I shouldn't be surprised when an attempted coup was brushed off as just people playing dress up.

Jono8 · 12 Dec 2022 at 09:43

unwashed potato! said:
Why does it being a joke make it OK?

Though I shouldn't be surprised when an attempted coup was brushed off as just people playing dress up.

It doesn't. This is a man who has received death threats from lunatics over the COVID pandemic, but Elon thinks it is a sensible and adult thing to spread nonsense like that about on a platform where millions are reading his tweets.

Also, yes Dowie has an issue with passing off anything he cannot defend as just a joke/bluster/unimportant even if that is totally and clearly and objectively false.

dowie · 12 Dec 2022 at 09:51

Jono8 said:
"Everything I can't defend is clearly a joke/trolling"

"This is 100% serious, there is no trolling or joking involved here"

https://twitter.com/x/status/1601894132573605888

I presume you're going to refer to him (Fauci??) by the correct pronouns now?

unwashed potato! · 12 Dec 2022 at 09:53

dowie said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1601894132573605888

Of course you're sharing my CT nonsense from Elon.

Jono8 said:
This is a man who has received death threats from lunatics over the COVID pandemic, but Elon thinks it is a sensible and adult thing to spread nonsense like that about on a platform where millions are reading his tweets

cheesyboy · 12 Dec 2022 at 10:02

He's doubled down @dowie . Doesn't seem like a joke

https://twitter.com/x/status/1602113254360162304

C Kent · 12 Dec 2022 at 10:07

cheesyboy said:
He's doubled down @dowie . Doesn't seem like a joke

https://twitter.com/x/status/1602113254360162304

So Fauci didn't lie to congress under oath about funding gain of function research in Wuhan?

cheesyboy · 12 Dec 2022 at 10:09

C Kent said:
So Fauci didn't lie to congress under oath about funding gain of function research in Wuhan?

Don't have a ******* clue mate. Was just disputing the idea that Musk was joking. You seem to be agreeing with me.

C Kent · 12 Dec 2022 at 10:10

cheesyboy said:
Don't have a ******* clue mate. Was just disputing the idea that Musk was joking. You seem to be agreeing with me.

I think memes are jokes, in this instance the pronoun element of the tweet, however I also think he's 100% serious in saying that Fauci should be prosecuted for lying under oath to congress. Any 'normal' person would have been.

Jono8 · 12 Dec 2022 at 10:11

cheesyboy said:
He's doubled down @dowie . Doesn't seem like a joke

https://twitter.com/x/status/1602113254360162304

This might create a dowie hole so big that it may cause a singularity.

dowie · 12 Dec 2022 at 10:11

cheesyboy said:
He's doubled down @dowie . Doesn't seem like a joke

That's a different tweet. He's explained his view on pronouns in that tweet, he's jokingly used pronouns in the other tweet.

Likewise, he's not keen on gain of function research (understandable, that may well have caused the pandemic), I don't know enough about whatever the lying to congress allegation is to comment on that one.

cheesyboy · 12 Dec 2022 at 10:13

dowie said:
That's a different tweet. He's explained his view on pronouns in that tweet, he's jokingly used pronouns in the other tweet.

Likewise, he's not keen on gain of function research (understandable, that may well have caused the pandemic), I don't know enough about whatever the lying to congress allegation is to comment on that one.

I guess we will never know if it was a joke or not without any additional context to give us a clue to what he was thinking.

unwashed potato! · 12 Dec 2022 at 10:13

Lol! Lol lol lol lol.

So now the whole "he's just joking bra" shows those users to be what they are!

Lol thanks Elon. I was just chilling here (on my day off roar before you moan about posting in this thread on Mondays as we know you moan about that) and that has already made my day.

And I love how when being shown its not a joke, which was their only defence, they just move onto "well well, Elon is right any way, we should prosecute fauci" lolly

I'll stop laughing now as I don't want to be rubbing more salt in the womb

dowie · 12 Dec 2022 at 10:16

cheesyboy said:
I guess we will never know if it was a joke or not without any additional context to give us a clue to what he was thinking.

But you have that context? Like WTF?

Surely you don't believe he has actually changed his pronouns as per the tweet?

cheesyboy · 12 Dec 2022 at 10:19

dowie said:
But you have that context? Like WTF?

Surely you don't believe he has actually changed his pronouns as per the tweet?

Here's some context for my post: I was being insincere.

C Kent · 12 Dec 2022 at 10:19

unwashed potato! said:
And I love how when being shown its not a joke, which was their only defence, they just move onto "well well, Elon is right any way, we should prosecute fauci" lolly

You do realise that 2 things can be true, the context/style of what someone is saying i.e the joke - in this instance 'pronouns' and yet the underlying message can also be true. "The left cant meme" has never been more relevant, thanks for showing us why.

Jono8 · 12 Dec 2022 at 10:21

This thread is ***** gold this morning.

Just watching the usual suspects going full pretzel with their arguments.

dowie · 12 Dec 2022 at 10:21

cheesyboy said:
Here's some context for my post: I was being insincere.

So what are you even disputing then?

cheesyboy said:
He's doubled down @dowie . Doesn't seem like a joke

Now you agree that it was?

Colonel_Klinck · 12 Dec 2022 at 10:25

mattx4 said:
Given that he originally said $8 through the app and then raised it by ~30% for the app after his apple talk and kept it at $8 for the web shows he didn't account for it as he would expect most of the purchases to come in through the web therefore he has based his budgeting on $8 a user. This really only leaves two options

1. He knew about it and arrogantly thought it wouldn't apply to him

2. He didn't know because no one told him. From all accounts Elon is the type of boss to fire people for very little provocation. Can you imagine Elon talking though the $8 dollar business plan and being the one to say Elon you know there's a 30% cut here..

I'd probably put it 80/20 on the two possibilities. Either option shows he not the business genius he's believed to be. Unless anyone has any other theories that would explain this odd about turn on the pricing

If I'm not mistaken doesn't Google Play also charge 30%? And after 1 years Apple drops its subscription charge to 15% so will he be dropping the IOS charge back to $8 after 1 year? Something doesn't add up.