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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 willi

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.