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16 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

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Don’t you think this has got to be the biggest con of all times?  I mean, we gave the keys to this country to this?

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1 hour ago, Surly Bevo said:

Oh WOW REALLY??

I mean take your pic of a few that took 3 seconds to locate

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Why did you post a bunch of Trump-related posts from xitter in this thread?  Go fuck yourself in the face. 

Also if you had taken a minute to read what you quoted and what you cross-posted you'd have noticed they're nothing alike. Assuming you weren't wasted out of your mind. 

 

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13 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

waitwaitwaitwaitwait.

you think this guy might be on drugs? 

Combine it with an ego like his, and that he thinks everything he has achieved has been solely due to his own hard work and brilliance, and that any criticism of H-1Bs is a criticism of him and, well,...

Considering Season 3 GIF by Portlandia

 

edit: apparently the H-1B thing has been a sore point for him for many years (probably since his brother outed them as being here illegally).

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7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I'm not reading everything, but it seems like just a brief glance and the past 2-3 days is him melting down over H-1B stuff.

Like this.

 

The punchline is the implicit admission of breaking immigration law, which up until a week or two ago was a carnal sin for him and his ilk

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1 hour ago, Captainant said:

The punchline is the implicit admission of breaking immigration law, which up until a week or two ago was a carnal sin for him and his ilk

Yeah that’s part of what is making his meltdown so hilarious.  It’s drawing attention to his breaking the law and he’s out there saying “fuck yeah I did because I’m special and should have had an easier process”.  

I’m really wondering if he is doing all of this (the campaigning for Trump, etc.) for the H-1B stuff.  I’ve seen his tweets where he says America doesn’t have enough skilled engineers for him.  He believes this stuff and that H-1Bs are vital to the tech industry.  

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Posted
7 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Real question is can Leon piss off Trump to get deported hisself

If Musk Loomers himself as quickly as he appears to be doing, who knows.  Loomer probably knows how to read the room a little better than Musk at least.

Musk doesn't get that people look down upon him for this.

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/28/elon-musk-germany-afd-party

Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party

Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics

 

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The tech entrepreneur and close adviser to Donald Trump Elon Musk has taken a stunning new public step in his support for the far-right Germanpolitical party Alternative for Germany (AfD), publishing a supportive guest opinion piece for the country’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper that has prompted the commentary editor to resign in protest.

The commentary piece in German was launched online on Saturday ahead of being published on Sunday in the flagship paper of the Axel Springer media group, which also owns the US politics news site Politico.

 

 

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Musk uses populist and personal language to try to deny AfD’s extremist bent and the piece expands on his post on the social media platform X that he owns, on which he last week claimed that “only the AfD can save Germany”.

Translated, Musk’s piece said: “The portrayal of the AfD as rightwing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party’s leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!”

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has classified the AfD at the national level as a suspected extremism case since 2021.

 

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Shortly after the piece was published online, the editor of the opinion section, Eva Marie Kogel, used the US tech mogul’s own platform to post on X that she had submitted her resignation.

“I always enjoyed heading the opinion department at Welt and Wams. Today a text by Elon Musk appeared in Welt am Sonntag. Yesterday I submitted my resignation after printing,” she posted.

 

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She included a link to the Musk commentary article.

The AfD has a strong anti-immigration stance and, like incoming president Donald Trump in relation to the US, is calling for mass deportations from Germany. Earlier in December, Musk not only posted in favor of AfD but the party’s hard line on immigration appeared to resonate with the incoming US vice-president, JD Vance, MSNBC reported.

Senior Welt Group figures weighed in on Saturday.

“Democracy and journalism thrive on freedom of expression. This includes dealing with polarising positions and classifying them journalistically,” the newspaper’s editor-in-chief designate, Jan Philipp Burgard, and Ulf Poschardt, who takes over as publisher on 1 January, told Reuters.

They said discussion about Musk’s piece, which had about 340 comments several hours after it was published, was “very revealing”.

Underneath Musk’s commentary, the newspaper published a response by Burgard.

“Musk’s diagnosis is correct, but his therapeutic approach, that only the AfD can save Germany, is fatally false,” he wrote, referencing the AfD’s desire to leave the European Union and seek rapprochement with Russia as well as appease China.

The AfD backing from Musk, who also defended his right to weigh in on German politics due to his “significant investments”, comes as Germans are set to vote on 23 February after a coalition government led by the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, collapsed late this fall.

The AfD is running second in opinion polls and might be able to thwart either a centre-right or centre-left majority, but Germany’s mainstream, more centrist parties have pledged to shun any support from the AfD at the national level.

 

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Posted
6 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

By that time, Compaq had stopped operating as a PC company and decided to focus on its core business of making dumb decisions.

Somewhere Ekhard Pfeiffer is revving his engine angrily at one of his own employees for crossing the street on foot. 

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1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Somewhere Ekhard Pfeiffer is revving his engine angrily at one of his own employees for crossing the street on foot. 

…but only after reading a McKinsey report recommending that he do so.

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Posted
9 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

25 years later it’s still wild to me that Compaq paid $300mm for Zip2. 
imagine explaining to somebody who was born at any time since the day Zip2 was founded what that company was. 

ZIMA!

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Posted
On 12/27/2024 at 7:43 AM, Biff Tannen said:

This is my working theory, along with covid. I followed him really closely around when I first got my model 3 in 2018 and he was relatively normal back then. Grimes combined with Covid completely broke his brain. 

Well that and he’s a whacked out junkie. 

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8 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

That is the saddest thing I’ve seen 

The universe has conspired to make the richest man also completely and utterly unlikeable.  He’s a fairy tale character, his life seems completely miserable TBH. 

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2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The universe has conspired to make the richest man also completely and utterly unlikeable.  He’s a fairy tale character, his life seems completely miserable TBH. 

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Posted
3 hours ago, Shut up Lou Holtz said:

I’m not on twitter but is that Elon tweeting at himself from an alt account? 

3 hours ago, Shut up Lou Holtz said:

Damn. That’s fucking sad 

Yep, and it's almost a year ago and I believe it was before he publicly acknowledged that it was his alt account.

He really is an early 90s teen BBS sysop using alt accounts to make his BBS (or in this case his life) look like something it wasn't.

Posted
4 hours ago, Captainant said:

It’s picking up steam on the various social media platforms used by these people.  Lots of “holy shit, Musk is doing all of this to benefit his companies” and it’s glorious.  Musk’s response  of “fuck your face” and calling them crackheads to people questioning him is also glorious.

I can’t decide if he is not reading the room, or if he knows something these people don’t (direct line to Trump or whatever). He’s extremely confident that his arguments will win.

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6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

It’s picking up steam on the various social media platforms used by these people.  Lots of “holy shit, Musk is doing all of this to benefit his companies” and it’s glorious.  Musk’s response  of “fuck your face” and calling them crackheads to people questioning him is also glorious.

I can’t decide if he is not reading the room, or if he knows something these people don’t (direct line to Trump or whatever). He’s extremely confident that his arguments will win.

Insomuch as he has Trump's support (as Trump stated yesterday) the argument has already won.  Trump never gave a shit about the people, some of them may be finding that out now but other than enjoying the entertainment of their faces getting eaten it isn't likely to change the direction of anything.  That's why I keep saying none of this matters.  I mean I guess maybe Congress can do something (this is the point you should start laughing uncontrollably at my suggestion)

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Oh please, maga doesn't give a shit about any of this, a few tweets here in there amounts to jack fucking shit. If they need to they'll just find some trans kid playing volleyball somewhere so they can all coalesce around that again.

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