Walked right into this one, didn’t he?
In fairness the setup was absolutely beautiful. She’s some woman for the zingers.
Well, the setup worked for whichever side chimed in. Elon never stood a chance. The fact that she was describing multiple people is truely terrifying. But I guess that’s her point.
What a fucking narcissist.
She was definitely talking about Elongated, but probably had that comeback planned ahead of time.
It’s everyone’s dream come true - when the comebacks you think up in the shower or before going to bed actually get to be used
Hasn’t AOC been involved in institutional debates about Meta for a long while now?
Yup.
It’s a pretty good stroke… Two birds with one stone
Elon is not a narcissist, he’s an asshole. Narcissists are innocent victims of abuse. You’re a bigot who hates disabled people.
Victims of abuse? Possibly. Innocent? No.
Just because you’re the victim of abuse, that doesn’t give you the right to abuse others, and you aren’t “innocent” if you do so.
I never abused anyone and neither did most people with NPD, because there is no link between having NPD and abusing others. You just invented an imaginary association between pwNPD and abusers because you hate disabled people.
So vain he probably thinnks this xeet is about him.
I assume xeet is the new word for tweet.
I bet you think this xeet is about you
Don’t you
Don’t you
He is so vain
I prefer 𝕏creetion
I prefer the term kiss / kissing (in x’s and o’s)
My people are calling it Xitter (sounds like shitter) so that would make each more like a little Xhit.
Coincidentally, that’s what I call people on that platform
“it’s an x! You send X’s on X!”
-Elon, probably.
All Xeet Xeet Muthafucker! All Xeet Xeet Goddamn!!
Wait is this real?
Fucking savage, I love AOC!
Owning two billionaires for the price of one. !
America needs more radical left candidates, not just AOC, Tlaib and Caraballo.
AOC is a breath of fresh air in the extreme right political climate of the US, but calling her “radical left” is just hilarious. She’s slightly left of centre at best.
It’s honestly really gross that he immediately jumps to thinking she’s hitting on him. Like, him freaking out and going into a fit of rage might have been a less terrible response.
I assume he doesn’t really think that, but thinks he’s being a cute troll. Like picking 420.69 for everything.
Trying to deflect assumed criticism about him by being “funny”.
Musk sent the funniest response he could possibly think of.
Remember middle school?
NO I WON’T MAKE OUT WITH YOU!
Or was that elementary?
He desperately needs people to like him.
Idk why but I feel like he does think that, like he’s the king of the crop
Cream
King of the cream?
I said king of the crop not cream
He does not think that though. He was just teasing her (assuming this is not fake)
That’s a weird way to spell sexually harassing
Elin is the biggest beta simp I’ve ever seen.
Either I need to get out more, or I’m doing something right.
I bet that toasted his buns. His ego is at critical mass.
Once someone explained it to him.
Is there a place to verify these posts are real without actually touching Twitter (currently known as Elon Musk’s X)? I see there’s blue checkmarks on them but I have a feeling a really cleaver hacker could fake those in an image.
Here’s my Nitter search with some filters:
The iPhone let me copy that text out of the image (fastest way was to screenshot and then hold my finger on the text in the screenshot preview). I then tapped “look up” and DuckDuckGo found articles about the exchange. But for less popular Tweets, Nitter should work.
Seconding nitter. You can take any twitter link and just replace the front with nitter.net
You don’t need to be a hacker to edit an image…
Or just use inspect element on a Twitter post and change it.
I think that was the joke
I don’t know of any service that verifies tweets, but this one is real: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-aoc-stop-hitting-on-me-tweet-mark-zuckerberg-2022-4
Making it funnier is that this was from Apr 2022, when Elon didn’t even control Twitter yet, so her comment couldn’t actually apply to him. His offer had been accepted 4 days prior, but he would soon try to back out of it until Oct 2022.
So those saying in the comments here that she was lying in her reply have some crow to eat.
Any armchair psychologists care to weigh in on Elmo?
Brother, you don’t need to be a psychologist to call narcissism
I’d ask for the number but I’m afraid I already have it.
Does Zuck hang out with Tucker & Thiel also? It wouldn’t surprise me, but I hadn’t heard about it…not to the extent that Elon does, anyway.
I assume anyone in silicon valley with two commas has hung out with Thiel at some point. He was one of the earliest investors in FB
I wish he would step away from twitter and focus more on improving rockets and electric cars. Twitter seems like a big distraction.
I wish he would step away from twitter and focus more on improving rockets and electric cars
He does none of those things. He uses his apartheid money to make others do the hard work and then he steals all the credit.
But why are they still supporting platforms run by billionaires? It’s so easy to talk, theorize and posture as this revolutionary figure. But when it comes down to giving up one single convenience, people freak out. I don’t know if I can take these people seriously.
politicians don’t use social media for “convenience”
What kind of value does Twitter actually bring to a politician? I think we tend to overestimate how much Twitter does influence politics of any kind. People who will support a politician will support them and people who don’t will not, Twitter will rarely sway anyone to a different position. Is it necessary to keep posting about every opinion you have constantly? If that’s what being politically active is, then politics has devolved beyond repair.
People who will support a politician will support them and people who don’t will not, Twitter will rarely sway anyone to a different position.
I disagree with this. It’s like when people say “why does Coca-Cola run ads, everyone knows them”. Marketing matters. Awareness matters. Maybe it shouldn’t but that’s how it be.
I agree to an extent. I understand your analogy but I think there’s a crucial difference between ads for a product and political positions. You can easily get someone to buy a product, but getting someone to change their views on, say, abortion is much harder. Political positions are tied to identities in ways that purchasing decisions are generally not. There may be some ways to sway some people who are on the fense about a given candidate or position, but I generally think this ability to change people is way overstated. People just keep posting their opinions over and over and think it’s actually changing someone’s mind, more often they are preaching to people who already agree with them.
Simple. Direct, uncensored, and provocative announcements directly to your constituents without needing to set up an event for each topic you want to discuss. More eyes and more control of your message. The most important thing is the number of eyes you have on your content. The more people that know and talk about it, the more likely the people who can vote for you will know about you.
I don’t know why people love her so much, all she does is perpetuate this shitty style of politics. Why can’t they talk like grown-ups?
unilaterally controls a massive communication platform
The fuck are they feeding babies where you live?
I wouldn’t consider myself a progressive but AOC is the best among her peers when it comes to messaging with younger Americans. Perhaps this is the future of politics. Maybe it’s just a phase. Regardless, she’s good at it
AOC voted to force an end to the rail union strike. She’s just another neoliberal saying how do you do fellow kids.
Uhhh no. Let’s be real, you’re looking at this with the same level of clarity that MAGA losers look at things. They think liberals are communists. You think democratic socialists are neoliberals. Just because someone doesn’t adhere to an ideology 100% of the time doesn’t make them not what they really are. We don’t have the same intel they have when they make their decisions. All we know is that after the votes are tallied, we can take a look at their voting records and plot them all on a chart. She is by no means in the same quadrant as moderate democratic and the remaining, near extinct moderate republicans who are firmly in the neoliberal one.
For what it’s worth, she’s pretty good at cutting through the noise and explaining issues in an accessible way. There ARE moments like this but she seems to do good for her constituents. I don’t live in the area and I don’t know that much about her, but that’s the feeling I got
