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I was not expecting the "self-obsessed rich guys [...] who cannot run a live stream in the year 2024" 😂🤣😂🤣
I love this.
also "whatever that was on [twitter]"
perfectly dismissive. the campaign team is some of the best we've seen from democrats. they know how to speak to people without making it robotic and boring like democrats usually do. that's why this weird thing has been working too.
And I’ve been noticing it’s shifting how I think of these people. There’s a guy in the periphery of communities I’m a part of who has been a real creep to multiple friends of mine and is a right wing gun nut. Before this change in tone I’d been thinking “lunatic” but since I’ve been thinking “pathetic”. Not sympathetic pathetic, but like “grow the fuck up, you’re a grown ass man who can’t move on when a woman you like doesn’t like you back”. I’m not seeing him as any less dangerous, but before the fact that these types were losers was secondary to the fact that they’re dangerous but it’s flipped to me. They’re losers who make their issues everyone’s problems.
fascists love being feared; it makes them feel powerful. fascism is entirely based around male insecurity, which is why the need to put women in their place is so central to their world view. so pathetic insecure losers who can't deal with their own failures would take the deal of being feared but feeling powerful for it in a heartbeat.
that's why "oh no they're fascists and they're coming for us" doesn't work. a lot of people find that enticing. what they can't stand is being reminded how pathetic they are.
weird works especially well because a huge part of these people's narrative is how they're normal people and all those trans people and homosexuals and blue haired women and people who don't want to have children are degenerate and abnormal. so when you start pointing out that they're weird, they can't stand it.
Exactly. And like, just seriously think about that desire for a second. What fucking losers they are to want to be feared. They need to grow the fuck up and learn to coexist with their fellow humans like the rest of us
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I honestly think Trump will see that and be happy that "at least she said I'm rich".
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As much as I wish politics could be more civil, I'm glad that Democrats are finally playing the same game as Republicans and getting a bit rude.
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Ooh. She hit him with the "I don't even know what that was!"
That was the nail in the Trump Biden debate. So it's gotta sting a bit for the old weirdo.
what happened with the livestream? i did not (and will not) watch it but I'm curious what problems they had
The interview, which was hosted on X Spaces and scheduled to begin at 8PM ET Monday night, crashed immediately and didn’t begin until 42 minutes later.
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18 minutes after the conversation was supposed to begin, Musk claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack” that had made it impossible for the Space to proceed as planned.
The rest of X appears to be working normally, however, and a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Elon was lying about an attack
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219121/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-x-twitter-crashes
claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack”
That's such a stupid lie too. A much better one would be "so many people were trying to watch it and it crashed!"
With all the bullshit these people spew on a daily basis you'd think they'd be better at it...
But he's always gotta be a victim--ddos makes him one. Those trans gender hackers are trying to make him look bad or whatever.
Too many people coming to watch reminds the alphas and lone wolves that there's a lot of others alphas and lone wolves which kinda defeats the whole "there can only be 1" mentality a lot of them like to reserve for themselves. Ok so that's a stretch but who tf knows with these people anymore
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When you’re an idiot, a DDOS attack and actual web traffic are indistinguishable.
Especially when you fire/drive out the majority of your operations and security teams.
What, Musk lying?? How unusual.
“massive DDOS attack”
"by the Dems" of course. It's not precise unless you're creating an enemy. With followers adding on crazy shit like "must be the FBI and CIA".
Couldn't be that Musk doesn't know how to run Twitter. No. A conspiracy makes much more sense.
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Ever since Elon bought Twitter, he massively fired anyone involved in making it work. Now it runs like shit, and spews, mostly, shit.
It’s no shock that such an event (a widely-viewed like video event) would immediately cause it to crash, since anyone who knew about how to make this work left or was fired long ago, and the goose-steppers who stuck around for shit pay and worse treatment can’t do any better than this.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Don't forget the time he barged into Twitter HQ and just started unplugging racks because the team was moving "too slow".
I respect that the tech contractor noped out and refused to help him move the racks. Musk had to get security to help him 🤣
to a layman, it was an interview where trump layed out some of his economic plans and what he thinks are some problems, while musk tries to force his narrative to change his POV (e.g Trump doesnt care about climate change, Elon wants to shift his plans so that you invest in future technology that he down the line or already has companies in). Generally speaking its a lot of boogeyman stuff (especially on how he claims leftists want to release all people out of jail, and that the people in jail are primarily gang migrants).
of the several things I personally don't agree with, theres like one thing I do agree with was his stance on Nuclear (which he believes ultimately is a good thing for energy) and that someone should rebrand Nuclear so that public acceptance of it is better.
Except that Trump thought Elon was talking about nuclear weapons.
Was that the part where Trump claimed to have done "the most deregulation and restrictions"?
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:: chef's kiss ::
Can you imagine what it’s like for a Trump staffer who still has a brain? “Please quit doing the Nazi thing. Please anything but more public Nazi shit.”
But Trump can’t help it. He is who he is.
Problem, I don't think many of said staffers do as evidence by this brilliant response to a journalist asking about why trump suddenly had a lisp in this interview
In an emailed response to an inquiry about the lisp from a Huffington Post reporter, the Trump campaign said, “Must be your s****y hearing. Get your ears checked.”
The lisp was present throughout and takes like 2 seconds to find clips of it and hear it
That "lisp" sounded precisely like dentures sound when the adhesive wears off. Trump's teeth were coming loose and he was clamping down on the back of his mouth whenever he made an "S" sound so they didn't blow out of his mouth mid-sentence.
It is a well-known elderly person sound that even kids imitate when they are pretending to be elderly. I'm surprised it's not headline news. It was the weirdest and most comical part of the shit-show.
Fellas, is it gay to have ears?
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The unspoken "weird" is just like that punch that Muhammad Ali did not throw
Is KamalaHQ officially associated with her and is this an official statement? I see their TikTok page a lot and its very memey/jokey. It feel an like it's adjacent (run by an intern or campaign staffer or something), but I'm not sure if this is really "Kamala Harris's Statement".
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It was deeply boring. One billionaire sucking off another for getting shot at for what felt like a full hour, then Trump rambling on with Musk going "uh huh" "yeah" every minute or so.
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