The word “we” is doing heavy lifting there.

The ones that had enormous numbers of people having public meltdowns because they had to wear a few grams of paper over their mouth and nose.

No, you just defend his worthless shit to the death. Pull the other one. It plays “Jingle Bells”.

You’ve got your head so firmly placed up your ass you’ve adapted to breathing methane directly.

Like hundreds of millions of people use it every day ??

[citation needed]

It’s adorable that you think the USA has “oversight” over its megacorporations.

I hated Donald Trump in the '80s already. I thought he was a dishonest blowhard and was amazed that anybody believed anything that came out of his mouth.

I hated Elon Musk from pretty much the moment he showed up as the “darling awkward little geek bro”. He always struck me as inauthentic and a little bit stupid. (I was wrong on that last point, mind. He’s a lot stupid.)

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I don’t even know where to begin to unpack this.

I guess I’ll start with the “nefarious shit”. Nefarious shit like taking periodic snapshots of your screen (against your will) to feed an AI? That kind of nefarious shit?

Well, once there was this question about a random anecdote I’ve never had the chance to share, and I didn’t have one. (I tend to overshare.) But in the process of realizing I didn’t have one, I suddenly noticed I had one and typed it in.

🤭

I don’t even mean just their politicians and whatnot. Not just the “newsworthy” stuff (according to billionaire-owned news organizations). I mean their entire victim culture (left and right) that makes them look at everything with an electron microscope for any hint of something they can take offence at. I mean their insistence that their social issues are universal, but others’ social issues are localized and unimportant. I mean their insistence that their understanding of how to do things is how everything should be done (something which set the pretty fantastic gains the Chinese LGBT movement had made in two decades of careful diplomacy back about … two decades).

Just talk about anything except FUCKING AMERICAN POLITICS. PLEASE!

edited to add

For a hint of what I’m talking about, look at this:

Just positively going over everything with a fine-toothed comb to pick out any opportunity to take offence.

Anything that’s not the latest American political talking point infecting the rest of the world with its toxicity (“left” or “right” both—not that the USA has a meaningful “left”).

If it was a bit more common I’d assume it was just a joke. The fact that it was widely spread, but not omnipresent is what makes me think they believed what they were saying.

I’m sorry, Mr. Aneurysm: You’re a “feminist” who “doesn’t use Google Translate”. And who somehow thinks that your “radical feminism” is a topic suited to a thread about STARLINK in a group called ENOUGH MUSK SPAM.

I meant what I said before. The kiddie table is thataway. Go to it. Adults are talking here.

If you can’t figure out my possible nationalities by a quick application of common sense, it explains fully why you want to keep sliding manosphere bullshit talking points into an anti-Elon Musk group: You’re too stupid to live.

No amount of you pretending to speak Chinese via Google Translate is going to change this. Now piss off, little child. Adults are speaking. Go toddle off to the kiddie table and play with the rest of your breed.

It’s a well-researched phenomenon, actually, confabulation is. There’s even some evidence that a particular part of the brain does it. Our memories are actually kind of shitty. Things that get repeated often enough turn into “truth” if not quickly corrected when they show up. (This is how in the '80s, during the Satanic Panic, memories of “Satanic abuse” that would be physically impossible were generated and held by the unfortunate victims of unscrupulous lawyers and psychologists.) And once there, it’s “confrontational” to face them with reality.

So I’m pretty sure the people I talked to believed the story after repeating it likely dozens to hundreds of times.

Huh. Aneurysms that make you write in Google-translated other languages. Cool.

I’m very sorry to hear about your aneurysm and how it’s impacted your ability to say anything that’s even vaguely related to the group you’re posting to. I’m also very sorry to hear about your getting hit in the head by a shovel as an infant, thus causing you to say really stupid things as well.

Thoughts and prayers and healing vibes your way.

I’m very sorry to hear about your aneurysm and how it’s impacted your ability to say anything that’s even vaguely related to the group you’re posting to.

Thoughts and prayers and healing vibes your way.

I have found that doing so is counter-productive most times. (When it is productive, it’s productive in the sense of a little fact to remember for future ambushes.) People get very, very, very defensive when you point out that they’re probably confabulating and that their memory is flawed and likely deeply fooled.

I’ve heard rumours that there’s places out there that have so many of these they have to sell them!