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      i’m going to stop calling it twitter when twitter.com redirects to x.com, and not the other way around

      at that point i would stop talking about it, because X is just too stupid

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        His obsession with the letter X is like that middle school kid who used to talk about how many girlfriends he got and how good he is at being a bad ass…

        Basically, he’s a less likeable version of Zane from Hypnospace Outlaw.

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      I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If you want him to fail, help him destroy Twitter’s brand.

      Call it X.

      I has worse brand recognition, terrible brand loyalty, and if only highlights that the product has changed for the worse.

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    The only thing that gets me hard is billionaires not getting their way.

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        I mean…im already a masochist when i fuck so…I…I really don’t know how we got here to be perfectly honest.

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        If I win the Powerball I’ll be able to afford a good Dom.

        Now the real paradox: if I can only cum when billionaires can’t get their way but I’m a billionaire and my mistress denies me orgasm, what happens? Does the universe implode on itself?

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        Nah just donate to charity until you’re well below a billion. Even a hundred million sets me up for life, and it has the added bonus of not being so much that my descendants end up as fucking idiots like Musk.

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    I’m so tired of these woke CEOs and their snowflake whining over misgendering their companies. There’s the name that a company is assigned at birth, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to change the way I’ve always called them (for my whole life and ALL of god-fearing Christian history) because some liberal snowflake CEO one-day wakes up and simply declares, “twitter is now X” ffs.

    The facts of the birth incorporation certificate, DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS little pissant mUsK… GET OVER IT!

    /s since satire is dead.

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      Mr. Pibb, Dr. Robotnik, Sierra Mist, I’m not using your woke “Pibb Extra, Dr. Eggman, Starry” nonsense!

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          I don’t know if it’s placebo messing with me, but I think Starry is a different drink that replaced Sierra Mist. Tastes different imo.

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        Oh, that’s what that was about? I honestly just assumed Starry was some crap knock-off that the restaurant just happened to have that day. Not really sure what the motive would be or why they’d expect the reaction to rebranding a nearly 20yr old product would be any other assumption. I’m going to disagree with them. They should be glad I’m not calling them Sprite.

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          Yeah… I thought the same, that it was some knock-off company’s bootleg Sprite, wasn’t a very good idea, especially since the product packaging looks like Sprite’s

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      Ugh, it hurts that there are losers out there who say this shit unironically.

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      “The Chaser” is a satire site. You’re getting really angry over something that never happened.

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    The problem is, is that if you engage with anyone outside of the internet, they have no fucking idea what you’re talking about when you call it “X”.

    It’s so fucking stupid of a name. Even worse than Facebook changing to Meta.

    You can ask people to call it “X” all day, every day, but you can’t just change the name of your brand/product to a single letter, that people use every day for other things, and expect it to work out for you.

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      That was totally his idea, the idea of a fucking imbecile, I bet he fired the entire PR and marketing departments, because he thinks he knows better.

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        An imbecile narcissist. He probably thought he could literally take over the mindshare of “x”. Megalomania seems like his brand, though, so no surprises there.

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        That’s going to happen anyway when he enables The Code, he just has to wait for enough people to buy them to save the climate he’s actively helping destroy with rockets, then he gets all them tree hugger no good hippies in one go!

        /foil hat

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      And if you say Twitter 69 times inside of a Tesla models S3XY at sharp 4:20am, Elon Musk will cum inside the car

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    No. I’m exercising my Musk-given right of ultimate free speech and will continue calling it Twitter, just because I feel like it. Musk would be proud of me standing up against censorship. Oh wait…

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    … And all of this could have been avoided if he just renamed it “Twitter by X”, so make Twitter part of the X super-app that he wanted to build.

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      Then he would have been accused of following in the footsteps of zuck with “meta” and I don’t think his insanely fragile ego would survive

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    Yep. One of many reasons I’m not catering to the whims of a billionaire and calling it what he wants it to be called. It’s going to continue to be Twitter as far as I’m concerned.

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    No. In fact we should continue to make fun of it. It’s stupid. Twitter was a hellsite before Elon. Now it’s dying due to his stupid decisions. He’s foing the things I used to joke about doing if i owned a website