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The man is clearly making a joke at the expense of liberal Bay Area tech workers, and you all are in here clutching your pearls and psychoanalyzing him. Lmao.

gfodor 5y ago
He’s a great troll, as demonstrated by the reactions here. Why do people get so bent out of shape about tweets? I’ll never understand it.
- emerged 5y ago
  They are very fragile. I’m here to join the other grey comments in laughing at them.
  - voidfunc 5y ago
    Yea this whole thing is hilarious. A lot of folks on here without a ounce of humor in them.
- somenameforme 5y ago
  I think what he's doing is trying to use the internet like people interact in real life. Online we all have these overly straight forward and sterile personas, for the most part, because people get so weird and autistic about jokes or off-color references, like my last choice of adjective. It's not serious and not reflective of my views, but also has enough of a tinge of truth in it to convey some meaning - like all of the Elon's current slew of shitposts. And I think the reason "people" get bent out of shape about tweets was answered pretty aptly by this [1] post which is also why I put "people" in quotes. 22% of Americans (2019) use Twitter, with a bias towards youth and liberalism. And of those 22%, 80% of all posts are generated by 10% of them with what is almost certainly a further bias. So when you think of "people" on Twitter you're talking about a biased to heavily biased sample of 2.2% of America. It's about as representative of America as Atherton is. So the reason people get bent out of shape about posts on Twitter is because Twitter is a little micro-bubble of society where the people engulfed within it likely have a very different perspective of reality than people outside of it. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30838517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30838517
  - gfodor 5y ago
    I’m pretty jacked into Twitter, but there’s still a higher order bit that seems to be related to people reacting to things like this with broad, sweeping outrage. A lot of people on Twitter either just roll their eyes or think this is funny at least in terms of meta trolling skill. I think a lot of people are very unwell.
- throwaway894345 5y ago
  Me neither. I think he’s politically similar to his critics, but he doesn’t identify with their tribe which appears to be unforgivable. I don’t think in our current political system it matters what you support, but rather who you side with.
- delecti 5y ago
  Tweets are speech. They're not some special category of thing separate from human communication. "Person said something inflammatory and people are inflamed" is just how human communication works.
  - wutbrodo 5y ago
    What the comment is remarking on is why so many adults let obvious trolling affect their mental state so deeply. Independently of judging the troll for his behavior, it's reasonable to wonder at people's fragility, particularly in the face of such light trolling. This is also why the specific form of speech (tweets) are relevant. Letting your guard down in front of friends/family/colleagues is completely normal, and people would naturally be more vulnerable to inflammatory comments in this context. But Twitter is not any of those contexts: there are a functionally infinite amount of people saying every manner of dumb or otherwise inflammatory things, which means the only leverage you have is over your own reactions. It's just such a self-own: "I'm going to let my mental health be temporarily controlled by any of the millions of people choosing to be cheeky or trollish at any given moment". I share GP's bafflement.
- wutbrodo 5y ago
  I've noticed it's gotten very common recently for wingnuts on both sides to pick an Emmanuel Goldstein figure that represents the root of all seemingly-unrelated evil in the world. Elon has become that figure for a big chunk of those people, a fever-dream boogeyman to rival George Soros or Hillary Clinton. As far as I can tell, a sane person's reaction to him is some weighted combination of a) bemusement at his trolling, b) annoyance at some of his actually-irresponsible behavior, and c) respect for his accomplishments.
bavell 5y ago
Yeah I'm surprised people here are treating this so seriously. Not much to see here, the joke is pretty mild. Seems like people are having a hard time accepting his new Twitter role? I guess I might too if I didn't think Twitter was such a hopeless cesspool.
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gfodor 5y ago

He’s a great troll, as demonstrated by the reactions here. Why do people get so bent out of shape about tweets? I’ll never understand it.

emerged 5y ago
They are very fragile. I’m here to join the other grey comments in laughing at them.
- voidfunc 5y ago
  Yea this whole thing is hilarious. A lot of folks on here without a ounce of humor in them.
somenameforme 5y ago
I think what he's doing is trying to use the internet like people interact in real life. Online we all have these overly straight forward and sterile personas, for the most part, because people get so weird and autistic about jokes or off-color references, like my last choice of adjective. It's not serious and not reflective of my views, but also has enough of a tinge of truth in it to convey some meaning - like all of the Elon's current slew of shitposts. And I think the reason "people" get bent out of shape about tweets was answered pretty aptly by this [1] post which is also why I put "people" in quotes. 22% of Americans (2019) use Twitter, with a bias towards youth and liberalism. And of those 22%, 80% of all posts are generated by 10% of them with what is almost certainly a further bias. So when you think of "people" on Twitter you're talking about a biased to heavily biased sample of 2.2% of America. It's about as representative of America as Atherton is. So the reason people get bent out of shape about posts on Twitter is because Twitter is a little micro-bubble of society where the people engulfed within it likely have a very different perspective of reality than people outside of it. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30838517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30838517
- gfodor 5y ago
  I’m pretty jacked into Twitter, but there’s still a higher order bit that seems to be related to people reacting to things like this with broad, sweeping outrage. A lot of people on Twitter either just roll their eyes or think this is funny at least in terms of meta trolling skill. I think a lot of people are very unwell.
throwaway894345 5y ago
Me neither. I think he’s politically similar to his critics, but he doesn’t identify with their tribe which appears to be unforgivable. I don’t think in our current political system it matters what you support, but rather who you side with.
delecti 5y ago
Tweets are speech. They're not some special category of thing separate from human communication. "Person said something inflammatory and people are inflamed" is just how human communication works.
- wutbrodo 5y ago
  What the comment is remarking on is why so many adults let obvious trolling affect their mental state so deeply. Independently of judging the troll for his behavior, it's reasonable to wonder at people's fragility, particularly in the face of such light trolling. This is also why the specific form of speech (tweets) are relevant. Letting your guard down in front of friends/family/colleagues is completely normal, and people would naturally be more vulnerable to inflammatory comments in this context. But Twitter is not any of those contexts: there are a functionally infinite amount of people saying every manner of dumb or otherwise inflammatory things, which means the only leverage you have is over your own reactions. It's just such a self-own: "I'm going to let my mental health be temporarily controlled by any of the millions of people choosing to be cheeky or trollish at any given moment". I share GP's bafflement.
wutbrodo 5y ago
I've noticed it's gotten very common recently for wingnuts on both sides to pick an Emmanuel Goldstein figure that represents the root of all seemingly-unrelated evil in the world. Elon has become that figure for a big chunk of those people, a fever-dream boogeyman to rival George Soros or Hillary Clinton. As far as I can tell, a sane person's reaction to him is some weighted combination of a) bemusement at his trolling, b) annoyance at some of his actually-irresponsible behavior, and c) respect for his accomplishments.

bavell 5y ago

Yeah I'm surprised people here are treating this so seriously. Not much to see here, the joke is pretty mild. Seems like people are having a hard time accepting his new Twitter role? I guess I might too if I didn't think Twitter was such a hopeless cesspool.

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