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[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 247 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Many people have reported this as a fake tweet. I don't have time to be the tweet police. What is everyone's thoughts about having a link to the actual tweet or other social media link?

Edit: Please stop reporting this. They may have re-posted this from somewhere else and didn't know or it might not be fake. I'm not going to x to find out. From now on, please provide an archived link to all politicians and major figures.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm for it. This is like the 15th fake Elon Musk tweet I've seen today

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 59 points 1 week ago

Yes, but an archived link so tweet cannot be deleted.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago

Good point, I'll change the sticky.

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.org 30 points 1 week ago
[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm not the mod you're talking to, but I assume they aren't deleting it because OP posted it before providing a link was a rule, and it might not be a fake tweet. I mean it is fake, but I can't prove that.

Personally I'm in favor of mods erring on the side of not removing content if there's any uncertainty, even if it's a bit annoying seeing this fake tweet

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago

It's misleading on the people Twitter sub. Fake Wikipedia articles hard to distinguish would be misleading on a Wikipedia sub

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

It really feels like you didn't actually read what I wrote

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

This is the way.

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 204 points 1 week ago

prolly the wrong climate to be openly admitting profits are more important than peoples lives.

[-] Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 93 points 1 week ago

A real "let them eat cake" moment.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

I've heard that phrase my whole life and only looked it up now because of your comment. For anyone else that's curious:

"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche",[1] said to have been spoken in the 18th century by "a great princess" upon being told that the peasants had no bread.

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The quote is taken to reflect either the princess's frivolous disregard for the starving peasants or her poor understanding of their plight.

~ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago

I had a history teacher who claimed that French bakers at the time called the layers of dough that were left on the bottom of the ovens and had to be scraped off periodically “cake” and that is what Marie Antoinette was referring to when she said “let them eat cake.” So it was just as heartless, but maybe less comically out of touch.

[-] Mora@pawb.social 13 points 1 week ago

The one sentence the poster you responded left out:

The phrase "let them eat cake" is conventionally attributed to Marie Antoinette, although there is no evidence that she ever uttered it, and it is now generally regarded as a journalistic cliché.

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Someone might wanna "Deny, Defend, Depose" Musk. 😉

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[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 149 points 1 week ago

I couldn't find this tweet on Elon Musk's Twitter feed

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago

Thank you for your sacrifice (of going to x).

[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

It was painful scrolling through his feed 😅

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Does that mean he deleted it, or it's fake? I don't know how Twitter works.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 91 points 1 week ago

It's fake. It was posted on r/ToiletPaperUSA earlier today and clearly flaired as fake/satire.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago
[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Ditto @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net

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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Either is possible.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 36 points 1 week ago

I legit cannot tell anymore whether I'm reading satire or actual muskrat posts

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago

If it's any longer than the comment I'm leaving right now, it's fake. He is never this verbose

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[-] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I just assume they're fake, they usually are.

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 week ago

Is there a list of healthcare company shareholders?

I guarantee you the companies will start freaking out once their largest shareholders start to be picked off and everyone else sells their shares.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

The largest shareholders tend to be retirement funds. It's generational warfare that no one realizes or talks about.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

I would disagree that that is an example of generational warfare.
The older people get, the less of their money tends to be in actual stocks, and the shares managed by retirement funds are inevitably non-voting, so they can't even voice what tiny bit of opinion their fraction of ownership would theoretically get them.

The "shareholders" being performed for are the managers of those investment funds.
Making obscene wealth on stock investing is relatively rare, but making obscene wealth investing other people's money and then paying yourself an obscene salary out of the proceeds is far more common.
Those are the people who control the massive amounts of money that companies perform for to drive up share prices.

Why own when you can get paid to control? Then your money isn't on the line and you don't need to be lucky to get rich.

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[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 28 points 1 week ago

There’s been a bunch of Elon Musk tweets about this guy that are fake. But they’re all things he obviously believes.

"I was just following orders"

-said every nazi ever

[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago
[-] allo@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

edit: not finding this on elons twitter

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Because it's not real. It's from reddit, specifically, r/ToiletPaperUSA where it was clearly flaired as fake/satire.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 14 points 1 week ago
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[-] LibreHans@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

If killing CEOs reduces their profits, maybe they should work on not having unpopular CEOs

[-] matlag@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

This is obviously fake. That's what other CEOs think, not Musk.

The only duty of CEO Musk is to himself!

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

And this is a lie. There is no law about this there is no duty for it. I mean your company is tock might not be the greatest but that is another thing.

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[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 10 points 1 week ago

???

Did he just condemn people for celebrating the killer and shitting on the killed and then went on providing the exact reason why people are celebrating? He forget to take his meth this morning or something?

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[-] brisk@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago

Is this real? I have no idea how to even access twitter anymore

[-] schwim@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

There doesn't seem to be any actual record of this being tweeted.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

So I'm watching Severance right now and it's incredible how spot on the corporate cult portrayal is in that show

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

the >80%+ that still use facebook using the laughing meme aren't "the radical left" if anything, facebook is a right leaning platform.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

"We're forced to!"

Are you against that?

You spent a shitload of money, scheming to reshape American democracy. Was a single penny spent toward untying your tortured hands?

Do any of these assholes ever address this, as anything besides an excuse for their individual evils?

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[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

It's not even the same jacket. Fucking boston bomber mkII

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