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I believe this was one of his "jokes."

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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 38 points 2 months ago

Isn’t this libel?

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

I didn't believe it. The owner of a major social media organization publishing out right propaganda. Is he trying to get their non-publisher protections cancelled?

So I did the dirty.

And Ya'll... This is tame compared to the rest of his feed for the last couple days.

[–] Kuvwert@lemm.ee 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dude how is he not being detained for election interference? Somebody who knows about laws and stuff tell me how the fuck he's allowed to do this?

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because he's white and rich.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just tell a nearsighted cop he's an african immigrant breaking the law and let nature take its course

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

😂 good god you might be onto something

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

There's a law about election interference?!

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I wish Democrats were as cool as Republicans think they are

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I heard a Trump ad where they were talking about Kamala enacting gun control laws, socializing medicine, abolishing ICE, and defunding the police. Don't you threaten me with a good time!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (12 children)

I have to admit, that's a really nice uniform. Hugo Boss would be jealous.

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[–] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Americans getting raped in the ass by this South African wannabe Goebbels.

What is up with you guys?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

A gutted educational system. Especially in red states.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Half of our voters love being financially cucked by billionaires as long as the people they hate are hurt more.

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[–] gencha@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I'm having such a fucking hard time accepting that I ever thought Elol was smart

[–] mke@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Everyone makes mistakes. You've grown, rejoice.

It's also a reminder that many may still learn who he really is.

[–] Korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I knew about Elon from some very lengthy posts on a blog called waitbutwhy that made him look like some very rad dude.

I loved that blog because it was informative and funny and it had a very hopeful view on future technologies, it all sounded incredibly exciting.

Then they made a post taking cryonics seriously and I was like "huh?". And then I started learning who Elon really was and now I can't trust that blog anymore.

[–] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I mean people also admired Hitler for being such a great politician before he set the world on fire.

People are idiots.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was just talking about this with a friend. Remember back when he seemed like a neat guy? Quirky and kind of a dick sometimes but maybe an actual good rich guy with interesting ideas. He was even on Rick and Morty!

It turns out that was all bullshit. What a disappointment he turned out to be.

[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Bruh went from flamethrowers and bustin in Grimes to Nazi for what? Smh

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

He misjudged the time ghost. But also he fired the woman who kept his image and behavior under control, and lost his mind over unions. I imagine he thought he’d be like Walt Disney, but aforementioned zeitgeist made him look like Henry Ford with less competence and sanity.

I know he always had tumultuous relations with Grimes, the two of them both seem to have a lot of issues both separately and together. But also Naziism is meant to appeal to people like him. He is rich, powerful, and emotionally insecure. He must hear that he is special and better and that he should be having a ton of sex. He parrots eugenics that flatters him because it tells him what he needs to hear.

He refuses therapy because what he needs to hear to be healthy is the opposite, that he needs positive interactions with those around him and that that comes from genuine humility. That Twitter is terrible for him and that psychedelics clearly haven’t helped him fill the emptiness inside and so he’d be better served by something like volunteering. Not by giving some huge extravagant shit to show he’s the best, or some partisan thing. Something like swinging a hammer for habitat for humanity or stocking a food pantry. Something painfully ordinary that does direct good, allows him to be taught or guided and corrected, and puts him in community with strangers for a common goal. But he’s not going to do that. The emptiness in his soul is like an irrational phobia, it drives him away from the solution and towards behavior that makes him into a weirder and less likable person. If he hollows his soul out enough he’ll feel less empty right?

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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Elon forgets that for all his wealth and power, all it really takes is one sufficiently pissed-off person with a grudge and the werewithal to stab a steak knife into his neck.

Caracalla found this out the hard way as well.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I tried googling him, got distracted. Ended up with this:

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

A cat is fine too

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now I need to search more caracal pictures.

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[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Can you believe she wears that outfit?

No, I can't believe it, since that's very clearly a fake image. Does this temporarily wealthy individual consider this to be valid political discourse?

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Projection once again. Only one of them actually vowed to be a dictator on day one. And it ain't Kamala.

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not projection in this case.

Notice that trump already says he will be a dictator on the first day. There's already video of him saying that, and it is kind of hard to debt it and claim he meant something else.

MAGAts have no good defense for it either.

Muskow is using obvious AI created picture, to dillute how damming is trump's statement. He essentially says "oh you have video of trump saying he will be a dictator? That's AI! I can make Kamala also say something like that"

And at this point the attention is diverted, that trump literally wants to be a dictator and no longer is even trying to hide it and everyone is arguing what's real what's not.

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is precisely the type of hollow and blunt, unfunny and dishonest garbage a goebbels-wannabe edgelord manchild would push, the stench is unmistakable.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

When you get your propaganda minister from wish.com

[–] kazaika@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What is this shit? This feels unreal... I'm feeling like this is a joke but everyone just takes the joke further and further and i would like for it to be the case but the fact that it keeps going has me genuinely confused. Are people believing this ? This feels like a joke at a party but 15 people repeat it in the exact same way.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

It fits to this old quote, just not with words but everything they do:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

That... word for word... has been running through my head for about a decade now.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

AI has a really hard time depicting Kamala's features accurately, probably because of her mixed heritage. Makes it easy to spot an AI image of her, at least.

It gets Trump's ugly mug a lot better.

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What's hilarious is why even use an ai generator for something this shitty? I can do a substantially better job with Photoshop in, like, 5 minutes.

[–] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

That would require him either (a.) learn Photoshop or (b.) pay someone who already knows Photoshop; I think we can all rest assured he's doing neither of those things any time soon.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

You can, but I guarantee Elon can't.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

That, and also I'm assuming Elon was using Grok. I'm guessing the skin color and facial features when it came to the "anti-woke" AI's training skewed heavily white.

I'm guessing internet images skew white anyway since guess who was for a long time most likely to be able to afford the technology to take digital photos and post them online, so you're already working with many years of training data that is majority white by a significant margin.

[–] pastabatman@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

So he's trying to post images made by grok so people will want to pay for it, but he's using it to create false and inflammatory political images and suggesting that they are real. He's jumping straight to one of the most problematic consequences of AI like it's a selling point.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The goal was always to muddy the waters for people who already can't see when its crystal clear.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And yet again it doesn't even look like Harris.

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"she wears that outfit"

Cool libel, Bro.

Seems like a lawyer should have advised against posting that.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

That's just another form of regulation he's going to ignore

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I wish they would sue him for libel so bad

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Richist person in the world, and this is the best he can do.

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[–] deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

The general "understanding" of left leaning ideologies in America is sooooo bad. Left == commies! Weird that America has lots of great relations with Socialist countries. Trump even want people from Denmark to move to America and yet pretty much all Dane's are socialists.

[–] KellysNokia@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's rage bait to promote his uncensored Grok AI

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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

This is great for democrats. He's as addicted to Twitter as Trump was in his time as candidate and president. And they both share their stupidity in almost each tweet they publish. It's gold.

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