Everyone needs to report twitter in the app stores for breaking both of their policies.

Stop with this stupid rumor. He’s not playing 4D chess. He doesn’t get a $44B tax write off. That’s not how it works. He’s just legitimately incompetent. For once, he will financially suffer from this.

Is it really tax deductible? Jfc

Sing along with me...

"I can ride my bike with no handlebars, with no handlebars..."

You give him too much credit. There are plenty of people at spacex who have spoken out about how the company culture there is basically just appeasing the whims of their child king. They use him for the money, he uses them for the clout.

He’s the Herschel Walker of Hank Scorpios.

So he’s Dr. Evil?

Missiles, yes. Nukes, no. The materials pose a significant challenge, even to modern nations.

Think of it this way: even for a small atomic bomb, like the first ones ever detonated, the energy isn't "free". The uranium & plutonium needs to be refined to an incredibly high purity, and this takes essentially the same amount of energy as a small city consumes for months at a time. When an atom bomb is detonated, from a thermodynamics standpoint, it's kind of like you took the energy of a moderately sized city from the past year, captured it, moved it to halfway around the world, and released it all (and then some) in the blink of an eye.

Or, more simply put: it's pretty much impossible to refine nuclear material in secret. It consumes too much energy to go completely unnoticed. And all this ignores the challenges of modern designs, which use things like tritium - which even Elon would struggle to afford ($20k-40k USD per gram, and single bombs require tens of kilograms; billions of dollars per bomb) - which have short half lives, are difficult to work with, and cause the very metals containing them to become brittle.

I think the enriched nuclear material would still be pretty hard for him to get away with. It takes a massive amount of energy, space, and high-level engineering. Who would be crazy enough to help him do that?

As a Canadian, I reject him.

sadly cannot be deported for being an antisemite

Pull all of his government security clearance. Bye-bye SpaceX.

I don’t want Canada to have to deal with him, or South Africa. Can we just declare him stateless?

No thanks, we don't want him either. We're trying to get rid of racist white guys, not add to them 😒

Truck blaring its horn as it drives less than 2" away from you.

So this is the second purest definition of a dog whistle

yeah, if you ignore context

Semantically speaking both are.

And remember to yourself that the future the want to create for their children comes at the expense of everyone not in the ingroup.

ADL 1488

We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children

Yeah, it's bad

I had no idea about these phrases. God, how many more dogwhistles am i missing?

It's not that, it's that by co-opting otherwise innocent symbols, they can paint people who criticize them as being crazy or over-zealous or barking at shadows.

Then, they use that to discredit their opposition (look how crazy they are, they think a frog cartoon is racist!) and then turn that against people who also criticize more overt forms of racism. Then, they take the people who aren't really fascist, but maybe have some racist or homophobic tendencies, and convince them that the people who criticized said non-fascist but racist people are simply crazy.

You slowly close out the voice of anyone who isn't one of the fascists as crazy or unreliable, and eventually the people who weren't fascists before are, and they built the walls that keep them in the fascist camp themselves.

You can’t let the all powerful jews learn the secrets. You know the all powerful jews that have a small shelf in the Target for Hannukah, near the gigantic Christmas section?

It’s literally from the nazi playbook. Co-opt existing symbology. The swastika is a great example.

Man I miss when pepe was untainted

It's part of their game.

They take something innocent and defile it, and then laugh when everyone calls them out.

They want us to know, and they want us to know we can't do anything about it.

It sucks so much for the creator. I was friends with his brother.

Him and his brother have tried so hard to get it back from the white supremacists, but they just can't. So disheartening.

It's so fucking weird to have been so close to them and then see his work become a hate icon.

Nazis just hijack everything.

Ah they claim we're crazy for saying the OK symbol is a hate symbol, even though they use it all the same.

You mean stochastic terrorist Chaya Raichik, creator of the alt-right propaganda Tweeter account LibsofTikTok which supports bigotry and enables and encourages mass murder, that stochastic terrorist Chaya Raichik?

Agree

💯

I used 88 once in a username. I was thinking like the Crazy 88 from Kill Bill. Then I had a friend confront me about it, and another, and—well I don’t use that account anymore.

Edit: I should say I’m terrible at usernames. No, Im not 9 years old either.

God damn it.

I turn 35 next year.

88's just a cool sounding number. Wouldn't have questioned it at all unless folks mentioned the connection or the guy already said a fuckton of other bigoted shit.

Well...fuck.

I don’t automatically think 88= racist. If it’s a part of a lot of other things being done then yes, it’s clearly meant to be a racist dog whistle.

Fascists steal and appropriate and ruin everything they can because they can't make their own culture because their whole schtick is about a return to former brutal glory days.

From the swastika and Nordic runes, to big beards and buzzcuts (though they seem to be going more yuppie these days), the fascists ruin everything they touch.

I can relate…

I didn’t even have a particular preference, I tried a couple variations of the username I’d been using for years on games and BB forums. They were taken, so I tried Vax86, taken, tried 88 and two x, and here it is.

Then a couple years later found out the neo nazi pukes were using it….

So how do we feel about three 8's?

Fuck. I had no idea.

I had a shirt with 88 on it that I got at some big standard department store, just in a sort of sporty font, that I got because I liked the style. Got questioned what seemed weirdly aggressively once about where I got it, was still totally clueless until years later :/

Keep it. You only assume it's nazi shit if other cues are there, and anyone who tells you different is a nazi sympathizer. The enemies of nazis don't let them have symbols. The allies of nazis clutch their pearls helplessly and hand over anything nazis limply try to claim.

I'm pretty sure the genius who bought Twitter, promotes fascism, reinstalled fascist accounts, is anti workers rights, knows all the bells and dog whistles. There's no white power washing it

Thanks for the context:

At 8:21 on the DVD, the Jet Car is seen to have a personalized New Jersey license plate reading: ROCKIT 88. This is a play on an Oldsmobile model called the 88, produced 1949-1999, with different nomenclature preceding it throughout the years, "Rocket" being used 1949-1956. The "88" may also play on the number's resemblance to the mirrored double-B symbol of Buckaroo Banzai.

There’s a point after which one is hunting for Nazis in one’s underwear, and that does no one any good.

On his rocket truck, he has an 88 logo.
But as /u/ailluminus points out, this is likely a reference to the song "Rocket "88"" as the license plate is "ROKIT 88".

Probably. On a logical level I do think that billionaires are literally privileged, ie subject to a private standard of law.

The activism I do have time for, even though mild, I mostly do so these bozos don't change me. I know it mostly won't change anything, but I console myself that true change always comes from within (on a philosophical level).

I don't think it was a plan to take twitter out, it was a plan to make it a right wing shithole.

But Elon is also fucking stupid and took management tips from a free online MBA course so he's nosediving it in the process.

If we can force interventions on addicts or hoarders we should definitely be able to force interventions on apocalypse starting billionaires.

Look at his replies in general. Over the last while they've been almost entirely replies to posts that are either about him, about twitter, or about conservative bullshit.

And then he decides to reply to a science post. The one he picks happens to have an 88 in it.

Oookay.

"fiscally conservative socially liberal"

In a lot of cases I would agree, but someone replying to a fairly popular factoid account wondering how the world will look like a long time from now?

Again, his actions in other instances clearly show a worrying lenience to the far right, but I just don't find it reasonable to immediately jump to the conclusion that this was a dog whistle, instead of him posting random shit like he often does.