Trump / Musk (other than DOGE) Omnibus Thread

[lawtig02]

For future reference:

All those Venezuelan gangs are so bad at their jobs these days.

 

[Bobfripp]

For future reference:

And this too ..


“You can’t walk across the street to get a loaf of bread. You get shot, you get mugged, you get raped,” [Trump] said recently at a campaign event north of Detroit.

 

[JCTarheel82]

The economic illiteracy of the American public is infuriating.

 

[WaynetheDrain]

These posts alternate with posts claiming the UK government is covering up Pakistani rape gangs, that Grok is the future of AI, please be more positive on Xitter and we’re going to Mars, baby! (The last one I suspect may be at the core of his attempt to seize control of the U.S. government - to get funding for his dream of going to Mars at the expense of pretty much everything else).

Maybe we can all just circumvent the process by pitching in enough to send him to Mars, under the caveat that it be a one-way trip?

 

[lawtig02]

The economic illiteracy of the American public is infuriating.

That, and worse. Right wing media, and Trump’s constant lies in particular, have made it so that half of America is convinced it lives in a much, much worse country than actually exists.

 

[lawtig02]

Maybe we can all just circumvent the process by pitching in enough to send him to Mars, under the caveat that it be a one-way trip?

I’d also be fine with deregulating the safety requirements for that particular space launch.

 

[nycfan]

 

[finesse]

We should use only the best rubber bands for the launch vehicle.

 

[StrangePackage]

Or we can just find a guy named Mario willing to do the funniest thing in history.

 

[lawtig02]

Just an unbelievably reckless decision by the Pubs that puts our entire military at extreme risk.

 

[JCTarheel82]

That, and worse. Right wing media, and Trump’s constant lies in particular, have made it so that half of America is convinced it lives in a much, much worse country than actually exists.

Absolutely. Well, until Trump takes power (or is elected even) and then everything magically improves in an instant.

 

[JCTarheel82]

It's wild to think back to when Musk "overpaid" for Twitter just a couple years ago. At the time, no one realized how radicalized and consumed with power and greed Musk had become. Truth be told, you can't put a price on unilateral ownership of humanity's most robust disinformation/propaganda platform if that is one's intended use. Billionaire Goebbels has become one of the most dangerous people on the planet.

 

[dcphx]

I saw a headline today that Musk was about to buy Liverpool soccer club, so maybe he will lose interest in ruining the US.

 

[Bobfripp]

I’d also be fine with deregulating the safety requirements for that particular space launch.

Morton Thiokol probably has some left over O-rings they aren't using.

 

[Calheel]

It's wild to think back to when Musk "overpaid" for Twitter just a couple years ago. At the time, no one realized how radicalized and consumed with power and greed Musk had become. Truth be told, you can't put a price on unilateral ownership of humanity's most robust disinformation/propaganda platform if that is one's intended use. Billionaire Goebbels has become one of the most dangerous people on the planet.

I think you are giving twitter much more credit than it deserves. That it has no guardrails does not mean that it is particularly influential. Tiktok and Meta are far, far more important platforms.

 

[nycfan]

I think you are giving twitter much more credit than it deserves. That it has no guardrails does not mean that it is particularly influential. Tiktok and Meta are far, far more important platforms.

Culturally?

Politically, closer call.

 

[nycfan]

 

[Calheel]

Culturally?

Politically, closer call.

How many low-information swing voters do you think were influenced by tiktok, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp vs. how many were influenced by X? I'd be willing to bet that the former outpaced the latter by 100 times or more. Twitter is not a significant platform in this country and it is getting less significant every day.

 

[nycfan]

How many low-information swing voters do you think were influenced by tiktok, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp vs. how many were influenced by X? I'd be willing to bet that the former outpaced the latter by 100 times or more. Twitter is not a significant platform in this country and it is getting less significant every day.

Fair points. Still where the political class and political activists communicate globally but in terms of impact on low info voters, I think you are correct.

 

[Calheel]

Fair points. Still where the political class and political activists communicate globally but in terms of impact on low info voters, I think you are correct.

Fair point as well.

Because the politicians still think X is important, that makes it important (at least more so than its reach would suggest).