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
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!
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.
lmao.
Trans comrades, if you ever doubt your attractiveness, just remember there's millions of conservatives lusting after your bodily fluids at any moment.
Are you calling me a conservative or trying to say I drink trash beer?
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.
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
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.
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
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?)
Crown emoji in display name
Identifies with 'the plebs':debord-tired:
Also posing with Doctor Lobster or a cardboard standee of him in his pfp
And I just noticed that his TB subscription is costing him roughly $0.66 for every follower he has.
I feel like if your last name is Royal you're exempted from bullying based on use of the crown emoji
definitely bully him for everything else though
one of Americas oldest and most well known public figures
Think about it, are we supposed to take out Spiderman and SpongeBob? They don't have any heroes. We have a country in front of us with a large population and a large land mass, but it doesn't have any heroes, all of their heroes are cartoon characters, they're all fictional.
America does have "heroes", but they're villains of some kind:
- Charles Koch
- The Walton Family
- Elon Musk
- Henry Kissinger
- Donald Trump
- George Bush
Are those actually national heroes, though? George Washington/ the founding fathers are of that status, but most figures you mention are only important to certain sections of the populace
This is the best list I could come up with while following two rules:
- Have to be alive
- Have to be admired by "normal" Americans. (I would personally put Parenti, but I am in the minority with that decision).
Bush is highly regarded as a "good" president by a huge segment of the population
Bush literally just picked up a paintbrush while not being the orange man and that is all he had to do to be forgiven by libs for EVERYTHING.
He's a darling for liberals because he rehabilitated himself by speaking out against Trump. To them he's a paragon of "civility".
Are those actually national heroes, though?
P R E S T I G E T V such as Star Trek Discovery desperately wants you to see :my-hero: as the great hero of our time and works it into the dialogue.
The last two sentences sort of creep me out. Do right-wingers have a dream of taking their AR-15 to the studio where Sesame Street is filmed?
When your ideology is pining for a past that didn't exist and doing extreme violence on anything that shows kindness, I wouldn't doubt it.
Bang! Bang! Bang! "Oscar the Grouch gets to live but the rest of you are dead! All dead! Where's Big Bird? I hate him most of all!"
They'd murder Oscar because that trash can doesn't count as a house. :zizek-fuck:
So here's the burning question (:elmofire:) -- when an alt-right shitbag inevitably tries to :amerikkka-clap: the cast of Sesame Street, are they going to shoot just the puppets, the puppeteers, or the puppeteers' hands?
Imagine being such a fucking nazi that the (final) solution to fictional characters saying upsetting things is to shoot up the studio and murder the d-slurs there. :frothingfash:
Shocked this dude isn’t concerned that Elmo is 3 and a half, and is posting in violation of Twitter’s age limit policy, let alone that Elmo can’t have a credit card to pay $8 a month.
Anyway, as the parent of a toddler I have seen far too much Sesame Street. I wish to relay this message to my comrades: “Elmo loves you”.
Giving money to billionaires is not political, it's just what capitalism demands.
Their brainworms have their own brainworms. Is it brain worms all the way down?
side point but this guy is talking like he thinks elmo is a real person
This is the funniest meltdown of the year. I didn't think the budlight is woke one would be topped this quickly, but here we are.
:penguin-dance: sit back and enjoy the show. Election season is just ramping up. :meow-popcorn: .
Elmo is a powerful political stand user
:approaching-1: :elmofire:
First Sesame Street did not pay for Twitter Blue, and I did not speak up for I am not a muppet.
:peterson-pill-dinner: was also malding about Elmo recently, strange that it's happened twice.
Right-wingers are oddly obsessed by anything involving kids having fun - cartoon characters, animation, etc.
True, I remember Dennis Prager getting incredibly mad at a sign in a school telling kids that they're important
Republicans are like a poorly written Sonic OC at this point, they're coldsteel.
Likes:
- Hurtin' people
- Being Badass
Dislikes:
- Niceness
- sunshine
- life
Shit like this is what happens when black plilled incels on 4chan have been the driving force behind your party and ideology, you end up with whatever the fuck your average reactionary is.
Seems this level of visceral hatred for normal children activities doesn't fly too well outside of deep red areas though.
We are already seeing backlash from book banning in every state that is trying it.
I'd wager this will play out like the 1980's moral panics over D&D books and metal records being allowed in libraries. Lasted until about the 1988 Olympics and when the news media let up for a month or so, everyone moved on.
Weapon: Bloodedge the AR-15 (gets more powerful with each destroyed can of bud light)
Catchphrase: meh listens to Matt Walsh
Can charge for walrus belch. Adds [BREAD] status which inflicts compounding self damage.
Bloodedge the AR-15 (gets more powerful with each destroyed can of bud light)
*more schools you shoot up
All their takes about children and childhood are unhinged.
Kid's tv show host: "Let's talk about how to respect each other. The word 'respect' means..."
Right-wing Facebook post just minutes later: "I'M WATCHING A CHILDREN'S TV SHOW AND THE HOST JUST SAID SHE HATES AMERICA AND HATES JESUS TOO! SOROS-FUNDED COMMUNIST DEMONS MUST BE STOPPED!"
Little Rascals/Our Gang back in the 20's'-40's was banned in some markets because it showed black and white children as equals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Gang
Kids are supposed to be bullied, or be bullies, and that's the only exchange of pleasure going on that doesn't make them entitled/soft/woke. :grillman:
can you imagine what these people would do if they had a real problem in their lives?
Elmo appreciates giving space for Elmo to live in your big empty head.
