#Types of musk

[geminisee]

this is a renaissance painting to me x

[nabedalarab]

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[gingerswagfreckles]

It's crazy how many people's only reaction to Elon Musk doing the sieg heil at the inauguration is just "haha he just said Heil Hitler now watch The Jews downplay the REAL antisemitism they're probably gonna support it bc they're all Zionazis!!! 😆😆" like hey babe if this is your first and only reaction to a member of the federal government Heil Hitlering at the US Presidential inauguration I think the only person downplaying antisemitism here is you.

[johnnypecanpie]

we’re so damn patriotic we wrap the flag around our eyes as it fucks us over again and again and again

9/11 was a tragedy. Let’s start off with that. Nothing will make it alright, or justified. When we discuss the events of history, however, providing ample focus towards the various aspects of a topic is necessary in keeping the most unbiased lense. To put it lightly — the events of 9/11 paled in comparison to those that happened before and after during the Pan-American era. The Middle East’s history, especially with conflict, goes far back — and playing the blame game is always easy. How far back do you start? With the Ottomans? Crusades? Caliphates? Romans? It’s impossible.

Certain actions, however, were taken with no pre-qualification or previous event in mind. Western interference in the Middle East during the Colonial era follows the same. British and French influence in the region following the full acquisition of British India and the Scramble for Africa was increased to the point of near complete control — especially piqued by the interest in oil reserves discovered. This land, over the course of fifty years, was divided and extracted till both empires acknowledged they had grown too large to maintain and began to slowly break apart. The first problem arises here: the intentional division of regions through containing ethnicities and religions to create conflict. Secondly, the most valuable resources of the region had been extracted — and those that hadn’t had were trapped in contracts which would keep them feeding the same to companies like British Petroleum and Total.

This leads into the second acquisition: as the Cold War continued, the strategic importance of both the resources and locations of the nations there became incredibly important to both the USSR and NATO. After many internationally influenced wars in the region, the USSR directly invaded Afghanistan in 1979. This conflict worried the United States, which trained the Muhjadeen, a local militia, to fight against the invading forces — and incorporated the idea of Jihad. It wasn’t difficult for so called religious leaders to then enter the fray and seize power for themselves. Osama Bin Laden, an anti-American terrorist, formed the Al-Qaeda out of many of the same, using Saudi wealth — which, you guessed it, was supported by the United States against the Shah of Iran, which was supported by the USSR. On 9/11, they then attacked one of the wealthiest places in the world, the World Trade Center. How did the United States retaliate? A million killed in Iraq for “weapons of mass destruction” which didn’t exist. Upwards of two trillion dollars spent on the war in Afghanistan.

Maybe every year we should have a memorial on medical discrimination against people of color because that death toll is in the hundreds of thousands each year when it doesn’t have to be. Maybe every year we should have a memorial on the tens of millions of Native Americans that were killed through evidenced and recorded biological warfare. Because it feels every damn time, like one white life is worth a thousand coloured ones. But God bless America right? We’re so damn patriotic we wrap the flag around our eyes as it fucks us over again and again and again. We’ll continue to feed this behemoth till the day it takes us down with it, but history will see us as complicit to the crime.

[skullz-reblogz]

quoting my sister here because holy shit i never heard this put into perspective this way and she's so fucking right

"Jesus was rejected by society alone, and by supporting those who shut out minorities and other cultures, we might just be shutting out his own reincarnation. if anything minorities such as different races and those part of the LGBTQ have a closer connection to *heaven* itself. Being close-minded leads us to believe a false prophet"

using religion as your excuse to be a bigot goes directly against the teachings

[king-of-birds]

reminder that elon musk is an immigrant and theres evidence he was here working illegally in the 1990's.

if yall want to get rid of immigrants so bad, start with the big one thats actually ruining our country.

stay safe out there, this rollercoaster is about to get a whole lot worse.

[deadgodjess]

It's really funny how Twitter is rolling out this rebranding on like, a design level, outside of just Elon's whole man-baby routine.

They didn't have a new logo created, they're just using a Unicode 𝕏, it's for math. It can't be trademarked because it's not a distinct logo so they have 0 control over how, if, or when people use their branding on other sites, which is just an insane situation for a major social media company to create for themselves.

Search engine optimization. You are a major social media company, you want to be THE PLACE people go for social media, news, etc, right? Well, good luck chucklefuck, because while X is the top search result, it's also the ONLY one on the first page (on duckduckgo) that refers to the social media site. Search Twitter and it's the entire front page of search results including news articles and Wiki articles about the social media site.

Association with porn. X-[anything] sounds like a porn site and XVideo IS a porn site. That's what you're contending with, and while I personally don't believe there's anything inherently shameful with close proximity to porn, on a professional level most companies are going to notice that and have to seriously consider if they want refer people to their X Account to see their X Posts on their X Feed and you see what I'm getting at here? Which then gets into...

The sheer brand recognition of the Twitter name. There is NO other social media site with the kind of brand recognition that Twitter has. Zuck would sell his right nut for the kind of brand recognition Twitter has. They have their own word for posts! Facebook doesn't have that! Reddit and Tumblr don't have that! Myspace and LiveJournal and Xanga also never had that! All for the far more generic 𝕏. No one's Booking on FB or Ditting on Reddit or w/e. But on Twitter they be Tweeting. Saying you tweeted someone tells people EXACTLY what site you were on immediately. Now they're what, X-posting? Well that's short for "cross-post". Posting on X? Looks like you're being vague about what site you were using on purpose. "I @'d [so-and-so] on X" doesn't have the same ring it, either.

They didn't make all their rebranding decisions BEFORE announcing and rolling out the rebrand, so now we have a site called 𝕏 with a LOT of the on site references to the site itself and it's features still called Twitter [thing] and you still post using a button that says "Tweet" (as of 7.29.23) and they JUST settled on a word to replace that with. USUALLY when a company is doing a rebranding, especially one with the kinds of resources Twitter has available, they plan it all out well in advance and do the roll out all at once rather than this hodgepodge thing that's going on. This is a big one and I don't think Elon understands how unprofessional this looks. This doesn't look like the work of a team of skilled, experienced web developers, designers and marketers. This looks like a site being ran on a shoe-string budget ran by a disorganized child making decisions on a whim.

Okay so I can't fully divorce the design decisions from Elon's general fuckery, but you get my point. Like, all the behind the scenes and PR shit is bad enough but even if we didn't know he had a tantrum over the name of PayPal and hadn't been all over the site being loud and wrong about everything, just these decisions listed would be enough to show what an entitled, inexperienced, immature walnut he is.

And it's really fucking funny.

[alkemylabz]

learning that a large portion of ai bros are desperately invested in the idea that "ai" is a rokos basilisk type being that will make everything Great in the future (whatever that means) and the primary way to do it is to make sure everyone imagines a future where that happens and nothing else. its just recycled Manifestation Theory of course theyre going to be threatened by anyone with actual imagination

[telestoapologist]

clovis "the moon's full of shrimp. blow it the fuck up" bray, everyone

[macbethz]

You guys loveee the eroticism of the machine you loveee when characters transcend the flesh but when people are transhumanist irl you hate it. Put your money where your mouth is and put a magnet in your arm or something GROW UP

[bookinit02]

getting so so excited to teach my class :)

[advanced-procrastination]

“Our bodies could only be so perfectly designed by an intelligent creator”

Jfc just say you’ve never pooped harder than your butthole is equipped for so it filled up with blood like a satanic balloon animal which in turn only makes pooping harder

[wolfpawns]

:THEFLAG:

[hawkmoon269]

"I can't believe the news today I can't close my eyes and make it go away How long, how long must we sing this song? How long? How long?"

U2 'Sunday Bloody Sunday', Live Aid 1985.

[qroier]

this sounds like the funniest thing in the world mutuals please comment in the replies if you want me to try drawing your icon poorly

[meltingstarlight666]

I keep forgetting tumblr exists haha

Anyway

The world is kinda scary, here's a cute Vaporeon and Flareon to keep you safe and cozy ^.^

One way or another, everything's gonna be okay.