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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (5 children)

That anti David Gerard Wikipedia nontroversy from awhile back has made it to Elon Musk's twitter feed: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1849862303614894223

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I wish I was cool enough to have the world's worst people get so mad at me that they make fan art and put it up on their website.

They're just making DG look bad ass.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

david gerard refuses to respond to my allegations that he wears an awesome trenchcoat and uses magic to trap his opponents in a realm where everything is made of the pages of a failed novela, and I think that says a lot

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no no, that one i totally did and i'll fuckin do it again

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is it possible to learn this power?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

you've got the abyss diving down pat

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Anti David Gerard David Gerard Club

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

"I want to speak to the manager" energy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

oh boy it’s gonna be funny/painful to see musk’s biggest fans try to litigate this on Wikipedia with all the banal nothing and weird stalking that trace’s article consists of

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

trace is on a quillette podcast about it too, prob where Musk got it

no new outbreak on Wikipedia itself

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

my condolences on the likely death threats. I've been there before and it sucks

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

so far it's two (2) idiots on X the everything app

lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's all happening on X the death threats app

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

well so far it's the whiny little chuds app

though today's was the Nigerian crypto guy who was angry I'd apparently deleted several of his articles

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Only now? It is amazing how disconnected Musk is from that part of SV culture. Amazing, even sucks at the thing he should have a home field advantage at.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I had a mini identity crisis when i realized I'm more aware of techno-fascist writing than Elon Musk of all people.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

If Elon had any self-awareness he wouldn't be Elon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe not super amazing, he probably avoids/firewalls out most of these people because they'd constantly be hitting him up for money