• Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Not paying Elon musk 8 dollars being a political statement to these people is very confusing to me.

    I don't really understand how they think that sounds coherent at all, do they think we all have some secret desire for the blue check and that we have to stop ourselves to prove some kind of point?

    They have to see how worthless it is now right?

    It's a really weird turn of events

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I think of it as anti-woke brain.

      For them paying eight bucks is the right thing to do because even though Elon's really, really, really smart - he's got bills to pay. So - from their POV - if you don't give him eight bucks - you're woke and you hate America. That's crazy but I think that's where they are at.

      The guy who tweeted George Washington would paid to be verified also tweeted this...

      CW: anti-trans hate

      There's a photo of beer in a store fridge.

      Plenty of removed semen on the shelf at the local corner store.

      I guess they'll be dumping it out or giving it to the homeless because nobody is going to be buying!

      Tweet


      Of course - being that he drew attention to himself - people looked at his tweets. It's a week old. In the before times - he would have deleted his account. But he hasn't even deleted that tweet.

      • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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        2 years ago

        lmao.

        Trans comrades, if you ever doubt your attractiveness, just remember there's millions of conservatives lusting after your bodily fluids at any moment.

            • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              To be a trans ally you have to drink mass quantities of bud light, or something. I don't know, I've been tied to a chair with a blinding light shining in my eyes and forced to listen to fox news on a tv just outside my peripheral vision for the past 72 hours.

      • VHS [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        he doesn't know how stocking shelves works

      • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        This tweet gave me fucking brainworms, because now every time I see budlight in the store I just think of this tweet.

        Marketing in action folks, it's effective lmfao

    • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Buying/not buying a product is the ultimate political act, obviously. Consumerism sits at the top of everything. If you don't have a giant pickup/SUV, you are displaying fascist/communist tendancies for everyone to see.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      a lot of right-wingers only ever processed the blue check as a reminder of their own unimportance. they're upset because they have it now and still feel unimportant, which confuses and frustrates them

      that's why they're all mad about celebrities etc. not buying twitter blue. they're like a guy with a wad of cash after hyperinflation has made the currency worthless, desperately trying to understand why he can't buy a loaf of bread for the same price it was at last week

      Tweet

    • Golgafrinchan [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      They're stomping all over the former marker of modern nobility

      It's been taken away from people who greatly valued it because of the status it gave them, and now any murgatroid with $8 can have one

      It's beautiful actually (am I allowed to say that?)