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Musk was very clearly mocking the propaganda tweet, not praising it. I wouldn't put much confidence in the predictions of someone who didn't realise that.

browningstreet 4y ago
Only because of his follow-up tweet -- his first tweet ("Epic thread") was fully ambiguous. He knows better (after all, he owns the platform) so he's also willingly trolling by not being clearer. That said, the media response to it -- pumping his first tweet without clarifying by virtue of the second tweet -- is emblematic of everything wrong with our current news/media/social-media culture.
- vardump 4y ago
  I'd say mockery was pretty apparent from the context in the first place. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1607494455720022018 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1607494455720022018 > Epic thread!! If you had no idea from who that tweet was from, wouldn't you regard it as mockery?
  - fwip 4y ago
    Musk genuinely still uses "epic" to describe things he likes.
    - vardump 4y ago
      Shrug. Maybe it's just me, but I don't things seriously when people use multiple exclamation marks.
      - astrange 4y ago
        Elon talks like a Rick and Morty script. He's serious when he says things like that.
        vgt 4y ago
        All this reminds me of MAGA treatment of Trump's ambiguity. A straight shooter and a troll at the same time..
- olddustytrail 4y ago
  It wasn't ambiguous to anyone with a functional sense of humour. Have you read the predictions in the tweet he was replying to? They're utterly insane. The EU will collapse, Germany will form a Fourth Reich, France will go to war with the Fourth Reich! In fact surely that's a parody account? How could anyone possibly think Musk genuinely agreed with it?
- TigeriusKirk 4y ago
  It wasn't remotely ambiguous. People have lost their minds over Musk. It's not a good look.
CharlesW 4y ago
She's aware that Musk walked back the "Epic thread!" comment 4.5 hours later, after he realized how badly he fucked up (and probably got a talking to by investors). The point it not what Wu thinks, but how the marketing is reacting to the initial tweet.
coolbreezetft22 4y ago
It reads to me more like jesting between pals...this isn't the first time he's retweeted and conversed with Medvedev in a light-hearted fashion like this. There is a reason the Kremlin and their propaganda is supportive of Musk. Meanwhile Twitter is banned for ordinary Russians by the Russian government, why isn't he questioning Medvedev over that?
- jacquesm 4y ago
  No sane supplier to the MIC would be pals with the likes of Medvedev.

browningstreet 4y ago

Only because of his follow-up tweet -- his first tweet ("Epic thread") was fully ambiguous. He knows better (after all, he owns the platform) so he's also willingly trolling by not being clearer. That said, the media response to it -- pumping his first tweet without clarifying by virtue of the second tweet -- is emblematic of everything wrong with our current news/media/social-media culture.

vardump 4y ago
I'd say mockery was pretty apparent from the context in the first place. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1607494455720022018 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1607494455720022018 > Epic thread!! If you had no idea from who that tweet was from, wouldn't you regard it as mockery?
- fwip 4y ago
  Musk genuinely still uses "epic" to describe things he likes.
  - vardump 4y ago
    Shrug. Maybe it's just me, but I don't things seriously when people use multiple exclamation marks.
    - astrange 4y ago
      Elon talks like a Rick and Morty script. He's serious when he says things like that.
      - vgt 4y ago
        All this reminds me of MAGA treatment of Trump's ambiguity. A straight shooter and a troll at the same time..
olddustytrail 4y ago
It wasn't ambiguous to anyone with a functional sense of humour. Have you read the predictions in the tweet he was replying to? They're utterly insane. The EU will collapse, Germany will form a Fourth Reich, France will go to war with the Fourth Reich! In fact surely that's a parody account? How could anyone possibly think Musk genuinely agreed with it?
TigeriusKirk 4y ago
It wasn't remotely ambiguous. People have lost their minds over Musk. It's not a good look.

CharlesW 4y ago

She's aware that Musk walked back the "Epic thread!" comment 4.5 hours later, after he realized how badly he fucked up (and probably got a talking to by investors). The point it not what Wu thinks, but how the marketing is reacting to the initial tweet.

coolbreezetft22 4y ago

It reads to me more like jesting between pals...this isn't the first time he's retweeted and conversed with Medvedev in a light-hearted fashion like this. There is a reason the Kremlin and their propaganda is supportive of Musk. Meanwhile Twitter is banned for ordinary Russians by the Russian government, why isn't he questioning Medvedev over that?

jacquesm 4y ago
No sane supplier to the MIC would be pals with the likes of Medvedev.