• AFK BRB Chocolate
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        103 months ago

        He’s got some weird things about fathering children. That story about him wanting to donate his sperm to Mars settlers was just too bizarre.

        • Pelicanen
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          Elon Musk is very likely a supporter of eugenics and since he’s also a narcissist who thinks he’s better than everyone else, it makes sense that he’s obsessed with spreading his genes.

          Just remember to conveniently ignore actually raising those kids, and those who happen to not fit his mold of what a person should be like (e.g. if they happen to be trans or see through a modicum of his bullshit)

          • @pingveno@lemmy.world
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            I am a very narrow supporter of eugenics. Specifically, I am against any further breeding by Elon Musk.

    • @Gork@lemm.ee
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      It wouldn’t surprise me if Elon unironically agrees with Trump that if you’re famous they let you do it.

    • @ultranaut@lemmy.world
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      She definitely isn’t going to consent to being impregnated by Elon so the only conclusion is that he will rape her to get her pregnant. Whether he intended to threaten her with rape or not, he is threatening her with rape.

    • @gencha@lemm.ee
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      Maybe he’s misunderstood. Maybe another one of his children doesn’t agree with him and he wants to get rid of it. He’ll take the cat in exchange. A somewhat understandable offer.

  • @58008@lemmy.world
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    2653 months ago

    If at 53 I’m sending tweets like this to female celebrities half my age, please humanely euthanise me at your earliest convenience. For my sake as much as everyone else’s.

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    That’s some high-level incel shit right there

  • 2ugly2live
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    Talyor: I’m voting for Harris.

    This fucking guy: Fine. I guess I’ll impregnate you.

    • @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Nothing borderline about it. It is sexual harassment.

      Coming from a man who has settled several claims of sexual harassment, has children with various people who have reported to him.

      • Is there more than 1 employee?

        There was reports it happened twice at neuralink but it was the same person.

        Also, he was a sperm donor, they didn’t have sex.

          • @NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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            Oh sorry, I was actually just commenting on the “children with various people who have reported to him” part. I should have quoted that above my reply.

            I’m not up to date on all the potential harassment cases, but yes there was the flight attendant one they settled.

            • @Krauerking@lemy.lol
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              Oh right. Well I mean there are the 2 children he “had with Grimes” that are all surrogate and may have been employees… But yeah guess you got to specify specifics with how he is currently mistreating which specific employee.

              What a weird fucking dude that doesn’t seem to like any aspect of being human.

      • @Siethron@lemmy.world
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        Well, what if he’s saying he’ll hand over one of his children to her? Not create one with her.

        Hard to tell, he has a lot of them.

    • @Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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      Sorry I just woke from a coma, I’m sure such things get quickly taken down by Twitter’s mod team.

      30 seconds later

      What? He paid 44 billion to remove mods???

  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    It did finally click why Taylor used a pic of her and her cat tho…

    Like I knew the “childless cat lady” shit blew up in their face, but it never landed that Taylor is a childless cat lady, and for better or worse she’s someone a shit ton of women love.

    • @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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      She also said the only reason she isn’t being politically neutral like she typically does is because Trump posted AI pictures of her claiming she supports right-wing policies. She’s now encouraging her massive fan base of young women to vote, a group that probably would have been apathetic beforehand. That’s another massive unforced error for the Trump campaign.

      • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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        53 months ago

        Huh?

        She said she’s supporting Kamala and encouraged her fans to do their own research and decide who to vote for.

        It’s the same she said in 2020, and I believe 2016 too.

        She’s being just as politically active as she has been for like a decade, probably going back even further.

        • @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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          Recently I was made aware that AI of ‘me’ falsely endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential run was posted to his site. It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation. It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter.

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    Best thing she could do is publicly disavow twitter for that and move her business elsewhere.

    • @Serinus@lemmy.world
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      You have to keep posting to Twitter because that’s where the people are.

      However, if you post to BOTH Twitter and Mastodon, you allow people to move. It wouldn’t take many people doing this to start the wave.

        • @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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          I will lose some respect for her if she does continue to use it. She really does not need it and people will indeed follow her elsewhere en masse. I think she’s been sitting on her star power a bit too much and could really do some good with it.

          • @Azzu@lemm.ee
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            Almost all celebrities get to where they are specifically not because they are amazing people. It requires a special kind of mindset to pursue fame and status to such an extent.

        • @kralk@lemm.ee
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          She could start a Mastodon instance called “swift social” and charge for access

      • @mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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        You have to keep posting to Twitter because that’s where the people are

        No, you don’t. Screw Twitter and the people still on it.

        • @ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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          After the ban of Twitter in Brazil my opinion on that matter changed. There’s a lot of artist that depend on that hell for work. Is not that simple to change platform. It’s easy to move on when your income doesn’t depend on it.

          • @Kalysta@lemm.ee
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            Except if a huge star like Taylor Swift were to declare a new social media site THE site, it would help get an audience for artists elsewhere.

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            You know what? You’re right. No artist was able to make a living before Twitter. I don’t know what I was thinking.

            Here, let’s wrap this up.

            1. Some people are making money on Twitter. The vast, vast majority are not. It’s easily thousands to one. Those thousands of people have absolutely no argument.

            2. Those that are making a living have a choice to make… continue being hostage to and supporting a platform that actively makes the world worse using the money they obtain from their support, or find an audience the old fashioned way. If you are talented, your audience will find you. I don’t buy that you NEED a particular platform. I don’t begrudge someone who is making money their decision to stay and keep making it, but you don’t get out of it with a squeaky clean “oh well, it is what it is”. There are professionals who work for shit companies that do awful things because they understand the evil crap they’re supporting and they’ve accepted that they will be judged for that activity, and the income is their compensation for it. Anyone who stays on Twitter for a living should be prepared for the same judgement. But if that’s the case, I hope they’re making enough to make it worth it.

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              Yeah the artist that create a small community in a platform with reliable income after a huge pain in the ass work need to redo most of that work in another platform because some rich stupid moron billionaire touch on that platform and transform it into shit. Definitely screw those guys, move on or be judged!

              They are the minority but it is still a fucked situation created by a douche.

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                It’s not that I don’t sympathize, but that IS what happened. The platform is no longer something you can use without carrying that weight. You just can’t. Yes, it sucks for them, but people’s workflows and ability to do their jobs get disrupted all the time. Factories shut down. Industries get replaced.

                Yes, the work is hard, and yes it isn’t their fault that this happened. But life isn’t fair. The fact is staying with this platform is delivering income to a man who who is running his own judicial review of the laws of democratic countries, just threatened to rape Taylor Swift on an international platform, and thinks the world should be run by incels. Absolutely NO amount of “But I’d have to find a new audience…” changes that. I understand it isn’t easy, but sometimes doing the right thing is hard. That doesn’t mean you get a pass to not do it. If making the right decisions were easy and involved no personal sacrifice, everyone would do it all the time.

                • @ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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                  I see your point of view, now I know you understand the struggle for them to move on and how fucked up is the situation.

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        You have to keep posting to Twitter because that’s where the people are.

      • Ech
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        83 months ago

        Taylor could make her own site and it’d rival twitter in short order. Society isn’t beholden to musk and the sooner people realize that, the sooner we can leave him in the dust.

      • @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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        Twitter is only populated because that’s where the creators are. If the creators leave, the people will follow.

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          Yep. And it’s okay to say “when” here.

          There’s no one-in-a-million magical future timeline where Elmo stops enshitifying Xitter and it rallies to remain relevant.

          It’s just a matter of how long inertia carries folks before Xitter joins the Sears catalog.

  • @Krono@lemmy.today
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    I’m confused. Is he self aware?

    Does he know that this is cringe, and yet posts it deliberately to increase engagement? Like a Facebook algorithm that has escaped and gained sentience, is he a demon driven to maximize user’s time on app at all costs?

    Or is he the proverbial egotistical billionaire, surrounded by yes-men who have helped to lodge his head so far up his own ass that he actually believes tweets like this are cool and witty?

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      Sadly I think it’s the last one. Of course I can’t read his mind, but I honestly think he is just as lame and broken as he seems.

      • @kautau@lemmy.world
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        yeah he’s the richest person on the planet. the people around him are just on their knees with their mouths open hoping he’ll piss out money they can lap up, so they are most certainly yes men

        • Flying Squid
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          Do you think she wants to be impregnated by him? Did she ask him? She has a boyfriend. She is clearly happy being childless.

          It’s a rape threat.

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            It’s a rape threat.

            Again, you’re making a huge logical leap that I can’t follow. The fact she’s probably not interested means it’s a rape threat?

            • Flying Squid
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              Yes. Telling someone you will impregnate them against their will is a rape threat, and I’m disturbed that you don’t understand why.

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                This is someone defending musk. They probably have no idea

                That’s why it logically doesn’t make sense

                • Flying Squid
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                  I’m thinking more that it’s a “women don’t get to have consent” thing at this point based on their most recent response.

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                He didn’t say he was going to impregnate her against her will, did he? I’m disturbed that you think this has anything to do with a rape threat. It suggests a severe lack of judgement.

                • Flying Squid
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                  Again- do you think she wants to be impregnated by him? What do you call it when you impregnate someone and they don’t want you to? I’m pretty sure there’s a four-letter word with that that starts with R and ends with APE.

    • @psycho_driver@lemmy.world
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      I was just thinking about how had nature taken it’s course and he not had his ass hair transferred to his dome how much he’d look like Dr. Evil these days.

  • @Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    “How about you take care of the children you already have for a change and keep at least 500 yards of distance to me forever?”