New logo for Elon Musk’s social network strobes over San Francisco neighbourhood, prompting complaints and mobilising building inspectors
Why doesn’t it surprise me that Elon didn’t give a shit about his neighbors?
It’s not like a man who got rich off slave labor mining for emeralds would have compassion for other people, right?
Libertarians think it’s their sacred duty to be belligerently annoying with their property as possible.
Literally had one tell me that defending property rights is a stronger moral imperative than helping someone dying of thirst the other day.
That would of course change the moment they were the thirsty ones.
You are absolutely spot on when it comes to right wing neo-libertarians. But off base when it comes to actual libertarians. And you can use this small point to infuriate any Rothbard acolyte you come across. If you suggest that they aren’t libertarian, and instead just deeply selfish. Having that fact pointed out. Will wound them on a deep personal and emotional level. Because they’ve built their life around having plausible deniability for being assholes.
Actual left libertarians tend prioritize the freedom of everyone. Not just themselves and their property. Many left libertarians refrain from voting out of principle and not just laziness. Voting for something, no matter how much they like it. Could negatively impact someone else’s freedom. The anarchist end get pretty squirrely sometimes still. But on the whole they’re not all that bad. Nothing like their pretend right wing counterpart.
" X user @itsmefrenchy123 said they would be “LIVID” over the bright logo, imagining it “right across from your bedroom”. "
No! It’s a twitter user. Not an X user. Don’t give that clown the satisfaction.
Edit: On the other hand, you all make very good points.
I’d say it’s better if we just stop caring. If he wants to lose Twitter’s brand equity so bad, why don’t we let him?
I’m all for calling it X.
Twitter is dead. Calling it X will drive that home.
Also, Twitter has amazing brand equity. Much of Twitter’s value was the brand. If this idiot is dumb enough to throw that away, I’ll gladly help him burn money.
Brand X is the most appropriate name for that site.
That’s very annoying sign. Why it has to pulsate? That company should be fined.
It what?
glowing, pulsing and strobing
Holy shit. It cycles through a bunch of animation presets like a giant fucking set of high beam Christmas lights or a modded out Nissan Z.
In not even going to link a video, because it comes dangerously close to the photosensitive seizure threshold in some parts. Also because the video was in a tweet.
was in a tweet
I doubt that’s what they’re officially called anymore. No idea what Musk thinks they should be called now. X-cretions?
I saw somewhere they are trialing renaming Tweets to Posts
Devoid of any personality.
I love that name, I’ll call it that from now on and see if it catches on
He was asked that and said they’re called Xs now. Yes, it’s incredibly stupid.
Why it has to pulsate?
All Elon has to do is… nothing. He doesn’t have to come up with ‘hilarious’ tweets, he doesn’t have to make an everything app, he doesn’t need to run any of his companies. He could retire right now and just do whatever he felt like in his private life.
But he’s such a needy little attention whore that he won’t do that.
You’re saying all that as if he couldn’t have done the very same thing like 25 years ago back in the 90s. Technically, he never had to become an “entrepreneur” in the first place… daddy’s apartheid emerald mine gave him a cushy little trust fund to live off for the rest of his life without anyone ever knowing anything about him. But sadly, he’s a spoiled little bitch who throws a tantrum when the media spotlight is off him for longer than 5 minutes.
Another day, another publicity stunt.
I think stunts worked out well for Musk’s image initially because he was seen as “Iron Man IRL” and his… widely imaginative ideas were seen as genius and innovative.
However, as his current image has now become “middle schooler in a grown man’s body with way too much money”, all of his stunts only reinforces that image into his descent into the butt of the joke. He of course, doesn’t seem to understand that and only looks to double down.
It’s good that we’re all sick of hearing about him at this point, because that’s the reputation a person like him deserves.
It feels more and more like a cry of help “Look at me! Please look at me!”
So boring urgh
He’s always been like that. You just never noticed it until the illusion shattered to reveal the terrible person behind it.
This is also the reason why even smart people fall for scams too. People are emotional and only see what they want to see.
This, like the rest of it, is on purpose. He wants to create a “they are hostile to me in SF despite my desire to stay in the city, so I will now relocate Twitter to Texas”. Ultimately, he wants to destroy Twitter as it was previously a place used to organize movements (Arab spring, Saudis are #2 investor in Twitter behind musk) and amplify information about the embarrassing failures and crimes of fascists like him. Destroy the validity (and even basic functionality) of the site, and less people hear those messages.
Chronically-divorced megalomaniac coward who’s daddy didn’t/doesn’t love him.
His dad was the first one to prove they weren’t a poor South African family because Elon, in his infinite assheadedness, put up a bounty for people to claim he wasn’t actually a poor.
I love how even the news isn’t calling Twitter “X,” even when it’s talking about the stupid giant pulsating X Elon put up as a giant DivorcedMan signal.
What an insecure aged boy Musk is
He’s showing us how much smarter he is than the rest of us and why he deserves the billions he has.
I wish this place had a sarcasm font so it doesn’t seem like someone is actually dense but instead is being quite funny. So hard to tell these days
That’s in the US, isn’t it? And that’s nothing a bullet or two can’t fix…
Destroying property is a no no in the states. Ironically if children were slaves (therefore property) we might actually get somewhere in having better laws protecting them from getting shot
Wasn’t that one of the arguments against women’s rights?
Wouldn’t surprise me
its gone btw.
ah our dayli reminder that Musk is a cunt that does not care about other people…
It is hard to come up with a better metaphor for a pathological need for attention than a 20 foot tall icon, shining brighter than the sun, and strobing into elderly people’s apartments.
Wannabe dictator acts like a giant crybaby and tries to get attention, to the surprise of absolutely no one.
Wasn’t that logo supposed to be temporary? Sure doesn’t seem temporary if they’re installing a sign on the offices.
Yep, that’s what he said, but that was an out so he could reverse course if the criticism was too loud
X gon’ give it to you…?
what
Fuck waitin fo you to get it on ya own
X gon deliver it to ya yeah
