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  1. What a terrible fucking job. What idiot is going to take that? Elon wants someone to come in and fix his incomprehensibly stupid fuck-ups and make money for him, while also making sure Elon isn't the butt of even one joke. He'll still micromanage them to Hell and back. If they fail, they'll take the blame. If they succeed, Elon will take the credit.
  2. One day, Vlad, all of this will be yours. What, the Ukraine? No, not Ukraine Vlad. All those coffins you see. Stretched out on the hills and valleys of your land. That'll be your kingdom Vlad.
  3. Jewish Nazi bio-labs.
  4. There's never an Iran-Contra scandal around when you need one.
  5. Rush was one of the single biggest causes of where society headed and it will take decades to undo the ratfucking he stuck the rest of us with. Rot in Hell fucker.
  6. There have been a lot of reports the Russians planned to sit back and lob shells at Kherson once UA forces were there in bulk. UA hitting their flank is going to prevent that possibility. Even if they don't expand into a true salient, pushing the RU artillery back is huge for the citizens of Kherson. Preventing the RU from building up defenses further to the east leaves them vulnerable when the grounds start to freeze. Ukraine has put on a masterclass and we are all witnesses. Slava Ukraini. Heroyam Slava.
  7. Agreed. This same situation has now played out twice for this fanbase. Hornfans->Shaggy->Surly. If anyone should understand that the value of Twitter is the users and their trust, it's us.
  8. For sure, but dissidents and opposition groups would find another platform if Twitter disappears. The dictators would only be buying some time and they'd have no ability to peer inside that new platform. Saudis flat out own Twitter now, so they can dive into the data to identify specific users and locations and use these to crack the networks. The Chinese and Russians are just an arm twist away from the same access. Setting aside even the Cambridge Analytica type applications, that data is one of the most valuable things in the world to these authoritarian governments. No way they'd want to give up real time access to that data, just for another application to pop up they had no influence on.
  9. It's the latter. He's used Twitter for years to massively over-inflate his companies and crypto investments. It was far too valuable to him for him to intentionally destroy it. Also, Twitter has lots of data that's valuable to his authoritarian dickhead friends, many of which are now also Twitter co-owners with him. Past data is valuable, but breaking information and identities/locations of opposition groups is far more valuable. No way they would shut that spigot off on purpose. The simplest solution is the correct one. He's an authoritarian dickhead who bought the site thinking he could control conversation and what people talked about globally, while outing people that opposed him or his dictator cabal of buddies.
  10. It's the filter.
  11. Ukraine is going to be running the hurry up on the Russians asses once the mud freezes up again. They will be as comfortable as is possible, while the Russians will be freezing to death. Some of them literally. The motivation delta is going to be enormous.
  12. Sark should stop whispering "Be Shitty".
  13. Pods

    Fuck Big 12 refs

    Texas and Oklahoma both have sovereign immunity laws. Fuck the Big XII, just leave.
  14. Look at that, Ewers finally completed one of those bombs.
  15. Hey this throwing it to Worthy thing isn't working, so let's bash our fucking heads on the wall until it does.
  16. TIL Ukrainians pronounce Kherson as Herson. Finally a Ukrainian city I can reliably spell and I've been mispronouncing it for months.
  17. AZ- Kelly will win. NV- CCM is likely to catch Laxalt. To take the Senate, the GOP needs 2/3 of NV, AZ and GA. GOP best path is NV + GA. Probably not going to happen.
  18. Amazing timeline that we are in where you read a tweet that reads "Watching a desperately deranged malignant narcissist implode is quite something" and then have to read further to see if it's about Trump or Elon.
  19. We always use these modifiers, but they don't really apply anymore. In reality, it's just right wing now. There's no such thing as radical right, ultra right, any other descriptor. Anyone who isn't ultra-MAGA über alles has left the GQP. The lunatics are running the asylum.
  20. Exactly. Who needs Russia, if there are no civilized values in it?
  21. Insert Dukes of Hazzard joke here, but with whatever the South African equivalent of Dixie is.
  22. Elon views himself and his online activities to be the best possible advertising. Until now, it's been free and highly effective. He's been able to manipulate markets and inflate his own investments at will. A good comparison of what's happening to Elon is what's happening to aggy. When relatively few people look closely at maladaptive behavior, it's easy to write it off as harmless eccentricity. Eventually though, narcissists can't help themselves. They push and push until they pass a threshold where everyone can see what they really are. Elon has lived his entire life in Fuckaroundtown, but he just moved to Findoutsville and hasn't grasped it yet. He'll always be a billionaire, but he will never again approach the level of adoration he's previously enjoyed. Hope he likes hanging with the mouthbreathers. Doubt they will buy many Teslas though.
  23. If only they had turned on him for attacking democracy, or trying to extort Ukraine, or his countless other high crimes and misdemeanors. They wouldn't be in this mess.
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