Comments by Tetradon (page 30)

"The urban culture is cursed 3 times over" My friends who grew up in that culture won't stop telling me how much it sucks, and how it's the values. Growing up with a father eliminates the economic gap. They vote Democrat out of fealty to the civil rights days, but that's starting to slip. AA men, in particular, are breaking off from a culture that seems to elevate black women over black men. Black women occupy a disproportionate number of government jobs, and are the face of "the man" to black men. Meanwhile, public schools are factories to feminize men and pathologize masculinity. Someone recently said the divide isn't white vs nonwhite, it's people who came to this country willingly (i.e. AA descendants of the trans-Atlantic slave trade) vs. not. African and Caribbean immigrants I've known rarely identify with AA culture, saying they don't appreciate the opportunities they have in America and don't have priorities straight. Actually, people voted for Clinton because of the recession under the first Bush, for the second Bush because they wanted stability after the Clintons' antics, for Obama because of a real estate crisis that had been brewing for decades, for Trump because the global economy left them behind, and for Biden because they were sick of Trump (and even there, Biden wouldn't have been elected if a virus hadn't leaked out of a lab in central China).

^ Hahaha nope. You're an internet tough guy who shit talks 16 year olds for being born to a family you don't like. Real big man you are. I'd love to see you try to spit in Trump's face when four defensive end-sized secret service are ready to bruise you top-to-bottom. Not sure what Obama has to do with this thread but I've shaken Bill Clinton's hand on multiple occasions, including when he was in office. I respect the role, if not the individual.

"I'm trying to give him valuable wisdom and tell him to get as far away from his toxic father and half-siblings as he possibly can." By calling him "right wing shit"? What, you gonna "roll him in a ditch"? You're another internet tough guy. Dime a fucking dozen. If you saw _any_ Trump in person you'd stutter and beg for their autographs.

"Musk is going to let all kinds of people say whatever they want on Twitter. In other words, it's going to end up like this place." If the phrase "FRMOS" appears once on Twitter, then the campus and all servers should be burned in a thermite fire.

@Drew, that's interesting. I'm somewhere between "ambivalent right" and "committed conservative." Like the former, I'm pro-same sex marriage, pro-choice (close to the median American, no further), and pro-marijuana legalization, see several places I'd raise taxes, and never voted for Trump. I'm also not one of the "what's good for big business is good for America" types. I also don't believe (most) Democrats and liberals are evil (only misguided). But I believe in a strong national defense and American identity, and as a consequence am pretty extreme on the first amendment. Unlike some others, Musk's fortune appears to be earned (yeah, I know there's that quote about a great crime behind every great fortune, it's opinion not fact). He's done more to "green" the world than all the DC muckety-mucks. And Twitter, while a vanity project, seems to draw the most haters because he's taken away the stick the Extremely Online left uses to bully people. I'd rather it go bankrupt than go back to its old state. But his ambitions for the platform aren't 280 characters. Shit, if it was just money, he could have paid the penalty and backed out of the deal. That's standard M&A language. He wants to turn the current base into the "everything" app. People are declaring he's lost that game when it hasn't even started yet.

^ Hahaha! I'm sorry, Meta and Microsoft stock are down _how much_ this year? I'd rather see Twitter completely die than go back to being the place for center-left normies to cancel anyone who hurts their feelings. Hey, if AOC and Taylor Lorenz miss that, there's always Truth Social! Lulz. Speaking of which, I guarantee you think about that platform more than any three conservatives here.

@shadowcat, I'll be crying into my third Moscow Mule of the night that I had a primo cut of medium-rare beef rather than commoditized tradition. Somehow I'll live.

^ "Sucking white cock," gee, must have taken you hours to come up with that one. Pretty hilarious to hear Icee, the pimping, pandering, woman-beating, woman-manipulating, lying, thieving piece of shit act like a champion of the working class for defending rich Bay Area tech bros.

^ Icee, if you followed tech industry news rather than just smoking pot all day to forget what a piece of shit you are, you might have to admit I have a point. Engineers not getting foosball tables and beer taps aren't coal miners protesting for PPE.

Turkey is the most overrated food out there--even when it's "good," it's mediocre. Other than a good stuffing, the other Thanksgiving trappings like gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce, are overrated too. And don't just say "you're only saying that because you haven't had good turkey." All turkey has a funky, gamey flavor, and 99% of it is dried the fuck out, too. At best it's a proteinaceous delivery device for everything else on the plate. Instead, I'm going out with family to a nice steak dinner. Give me a New York Strip au poivre, creamed spinach, and a Caesar salad any day.

The usual cast of lefties here gloating that Twitter--the left's means of browbeating and cancelling--is going tits up under new leadership. Gee, it isn't like Meta and Amazon and other big tech companies haven't laid off a shit ton, is it? How many times do I need to tell you, the 280 character platform isn't what matters. It doesn't take teams of coddled engineers with office nap pods and wine taps to maintain that. The new game is just starting.

^ Normal people don't use words like "magatards" and don't spend hours fussing over a company's politics before using their product. Normal leftist trolls do. Lefties getting all sad that at least one platform isn't letting their bullshit go untouched while censoring the other side. Cry more.

^ Making fun of a minor, Trucidos, yeah, that doesn't mark you as a piece of shit or anything. Lulz.

"Clubs are very exploitive." What does it say about you who uses the girls and the environment to make a buck? Biggest degenerate here.

"Sexism has a lot to do with strip clubs. Lots of misogyny there." Yes, in the form of a pimping, pandering, woman beating, woman manipulating, lying, stealing piece of shit who tucks a few progressive policies make him mostly superior. Can't get more sexist than that!

^ Bad timing, Trucidos. How's top Democrat donor Sam Bankman-Fried doing? Musk is only the richest man in the world, and you're just another big shit talker on the internet. I'm sure he'll live.

Hahaha Musk made his billions marketing those coastal progressive status symbols called Teslas. Now after he's taken their money, they're butthurt that he turns out never to have been one of them. And he'll keep taking progressives' cash, not that $8 a month is anything to him, but because it's a show of submission from left celebrities, journalists, and other such freak shows. It's hilarious!

^ Go away, Trucidos

^ It's Trucidos. All the written tells are there. He uses "fagg" (too stupid to spell a 3-letter word) and "cunt" as insults. Not realizing we're here because we _love_ cunt. Do not expect to engage him in good faith.

^ Bizarre, unsubstantiated comment

Scrub has an Itty bitty teeny tiny little pee pee

@BTE, the "if I were there, I would have..." is the dumbest form of tough guy trash talk. If small-penis would have assaulted Zimmerman, he'd have watched his life spill out onto that lawn with a last thought of "gee, maybe trying to punch out a random guy wasn't such a hot idea."

"Cim go.troll someone else" Oh, the irony.

Internet tough guy Trucidos said: "Only pussies need guns when the other person is unarmed." Only dumbasses throw leather at someone unprovoked when they might be concealed carrying. Martin attacked the wrong guy and met natural selection. Funny, Zimmerman was a Hispanic until that night.

I still think Elon's "crazy like a fox." His negotiation for Twitter was full of bombastic statements. In the end, he could give a shit about 280 characters and $8 a month. He wants to make Twitter the American WeChat (that is, the "everything app.") I'm more interested in what he does there than core Twitter.