Dude spent $44Bil just so he could behave like an insecure reddit mod...
And all of the Reddit moderators looked in awe and decided to behave just like him.
Only problem is that they aren't getting the kind of money he does for it.
Not the mods, literally the admins. Steve idolizes Musk.
Jokes on you all the old mods were banned and replaced by admin approved bootlickers
Only the good ones left or so I hear. Reddit is blacklisted in my router NFTables.
You're totally right. You're an amazing lemming, roadkill.
You're a shit father, Elon.
There, he can't delete that.
You think he wouldn't buy lemmy.world?
He might, but that's the whole point of federation - there's hundreds of other instances (including the one you're using) that he can't buy all at once. If one instance gets taken over, Lemmy as a whole is still strong.
Even if he buys the organization developing Lemmy, I have faith the community will fork it and everyone will stop using Musk's version.
A "burner" account? Never heard it called that before. "Sock puppet" or just "puppet" makes much more sense.
It’s pretty common for people to refer to these types of accounts as burners on Twitter. I recall the GM of the 76ers getting in trouble about 5-10 years ago for having sock puppet accounts on Twitter and all the reporting referred to them as burners.
Drug culture is more well known among normies than nerd culture, is what we're saying here.
Yes. That’s exactly what’s happening here. Big shout out to drugs for winning the war…
Burner feels like such an old school term. I've more often heard "alt", "Smurf", or "finsta". The last being a portmanteau of fake Instagram account
How. Fucking. Pathetic. Do you have to be. To have an entire army of sycophants. And that's still not enough for your ego.
It honestly makes me genuinely sad. He definitely has complexes and holes in his soul to conduct this behavior. Doesn't excuse him from being a complete asshole though.
Why are you sad about this piece of shit? He'd never pay you the same mind.
I revel in the insecurities and smallness of these exploitative, parasitic wastes of air.
You can always feel empathy. The more you try the better person you'll become.
Don't be like sad rich guy, be better.
Rich stupid guy doing things is not technology. Why is this community flooded with this guy doing or saying things?
Oh Elon. You're gonna need a whole lot more Ketamine to convince yourself you're a good father.
X has two rules. Don’t talk shit about Elon, and don’t talk shit about the dictators he wants to get cozy to.
All that money and power and no added happiness or joy. So unloved he has to fake it. I always knew absurd wealth doesn't actually improve a person, but thanks for constantly proving it over and over again anyway Elon. Glad to know you'll die unhappy.
This is some "John Barron" energy. Imagine having fucktons of money and still being a whiny crybaby like these fellows.
Sad man.
Indeed, the level of obsession some people have with Elon Musk is kind of ridiculous.
I think it's because he's clearly a villain like Trump, and there is clearly a different legal system for him, like Trump.
Nobody who has lived like him and wasn't a billionaire would get security clearance. People focus on him because he's out here Saying The Quiet Parts Out Loud, and so he's a really good one to focus on if you're trying to make a point about corporations and their love of fascism and hate of actual capitalism and competition.
What can I say? Everyone hates a hypocrite, especially one who uses his power to shove his hypocrite-ass in everyone's face. Like all hypocrites with power, he does it to show everyone he has power to get away with what you can't. People do tire of that, and they would like to see this fucking prick strung up by his fucking neck by people who have actually faced real suffering in their lives, who finally got sick of his fat whiny baby bitch ass.
Ignoring him certainly wouldn't make him go away, and it's a good thing to have more and more people waking up to the fact that the rich aren't any smarter or more capable than us, and Musk is a perfect example. They have created a media ecosystem which praises the rich as somehow better than the average person, but the reality is they just had money, power, and connections. They aren't smart, they aren't capable, they aren't brilliant, they are just as shortsighted and stupid as the fucking rest of us, and it's helpful to be able to point at people who really exemplify that, like Musk.
What can I say, it's helpful to have a Free Speech Warrior who clearly only cares about his speech. It makes it easier to open people's eyes to how fucked our entire society is for handing the keys to the kingdom to these fucking idiots to begin with.
Further, almost nobody would say the same thing about people bitching about, say, Rupert Murdoch, but there's plenty of people who watch Murdoch's moves as well, because he also owns right-wing media companies that intend to massage the narrative to the right-wing "reality." I heard the names like Murdoch, Bill O'Reilly, and Tucker Carlson thrown around and complained about for years before Musk became a target because of his shenanigans. Nobody says "people are obsessed with Carlson!"
Huh? Doesn't everyone assume he has a whole PR team that probably runs hundreds of sock puppet accounts? Like human bots? I mean isn't a PR team basically a given for a billionaire or any special interest group?
Celebrities do use PR agencies but Musk is known for not having PR teams at any of his companies.
He is the stupidest billionaire.
How exactly was it proven? Not defending Elon, I'm genuinely curious. The article mentions an audio recording sounding similar to Elon and some weird praises on Twitter. How does that connect the Dittmann account to Elon though?
Agreed. I strongly dislike Elon and think he is a thin skinned trust fund baby who is destroying Tesla and already destroyed Twitter. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least to find out he is using sock accounts to praise himself… but in this article all I see are people making accusations without solid evidence. Yes, it appears he banned the guy accusing him but we already know that Elon will ban his critics whether or not those critics’ accusations are real. There is nothing here showing that the account is anything but one of his braindead fanboys.
It’s one thing to take these accusations and try to find solid evidence. It’s another to treat the accusations as solid evidence itself. Let’s be better than the conspiracy theorists.
This is some late 90s web forum admin tyrant drama. Wait until he finds out he can use phpmyadmin to edit other peoples posts.
You know, I always thought money would make me happy. But he seems so much more insecure and miserable than I ever was.
I've unfortunately worked for multiple multi-millionaires. The richer they were, the more insanely insecure in ways that would blow your mind. The richest would often leave his bank account open on his computer for his staff to see, among so many other examples.
This is so sad, Alexa play Despacito
Joined by conspiracy theorist David Icke, who believes that the world’s top leaders are actually lizards, Jones and his guest both questioned whether they were actually talking to Musk based on the individual’s eerily similar speech.
There’s.. there’s a lot to unpack here. I’m truly saddened that this version of me ended up in the bizarre timeline; I wonder how my other selves are doing.
what a pathetic fucking cunt
- there are enough people on elons dick for this to be a legit account
Not sure why the title says Elon nuked the account for outing him when the account owner says in the article that he left on his own accord due to doxxing
It's just amazing that probably the one man who least needs to give a crap about anything has such a thin skin. All of his money can't seem to resolve his deep insecurity.
Too much social media does make you insecure and he owns one lol
Shame guys, maybe Elon really isn't ok and all he really needs is a hug, and someone to tell him he is a good dad.
Also, Elon, if you're reading this, I will tell you whatever shitty lies you wanna hear, in the most convincing tone you need to hear it, if you give twitter back, free of charge, to it's prior owners
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