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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTruly bizarre Musk tweet... bizarre even for Musk.
Musk has a history of sending cryptic messages via Twitter... I'm working on this one.
BTW the gun in the foreground is called a RHINO gun.
Link to tweet
This one is weird, too... he's stirring shit again. He wants to release internal Twitter documents re: free speech
Link to tweet
SouthernCal_Dem
(852 posts)Twitter is bleeding loads of money and advertisers and he's pissed. That explains his recent behavior.
WarGamer
(12,449 posts)Jack the Greater
(601 posts)FalloutShelter
(11,869 posts)Frasier Balzov
(2,654 posts)And BTW notice the cans of woke.
Elon is high. Possibly lonely or feeling isolated.
Tickle
(2,525 posts)means I want to be a cowboy
The second one, I haven't a clue
Red Mountain
(1,733 posts)and was was sleeping in super rich friends guest bedrooms.
Notice I didn't say on friends couches.....because that's silly.
He sets up this little diorama every night before going to bed?
WarGamer
(12,449 posts)Red Mountain
(1,733 posts)and this will not turn out well.
WarGamer
(12,449 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)womanofthehills
(8,718 posts)74 thousand people tweeted back to this tweet- . He got almost 750,000 views on the Tweet. Its kind of like Twitter games of who can be the most creative.
Jack the Greater
(601 posts)Maybe he is contemplating blowing his brains out.
WarGamer
(12,449 posts)He's still got half of Colombia to impregnate and wants to supervise the Mars landing.
Botany
(70,516 posts)Alcohol, a dueling pistol, and a large caliber hand gun next to your bed. OK then.
Iris
(15,659 posts)Red Mountain
(1,733 posts)no trigger on the revolver.
Sigh.
There goes that hope.
Walleye
(31,028 posts)I mean just visually. Ive seen something on Saturn designed very well and are elegant. This looks like a gun design by Tucker Carlson
FalloutShelter
(11,869 posts)In Tibetan Buddhism it represents indestructible power.
As a Buddhist, I am offended this was used in his tableau.
This is more stoking of violence! He is a sick puppy.
DontBelieveEastisEas
(509 posts)Why would somebody have one of those?
FalloutShelter
(11,869 posts)Symbolic. It may be kept next to a Buddha
it might be a meditation device
held for focus, etc.
Why would this guy have it? Hes an acquisitional poseur.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)You'd think if he wanted to attract the MAGAts, he'd have a cross or a crucifix.
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)With his money, you'd think he'd have help.
Sky Jewels
(7,111 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Hes posting word salad and photos of random shit thinking hes discovered the new Rosetta Stone.
Mostly hes just crazy - and this nonsense is not adding content value to his smoldering turd platform.
Jack the Greater
(601 posts)smb
(3,471 posts)Is he already starting the "collecting bottles of his own urine" stage of his Howard Hughes trajectory?
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)Free Speech is a GOVERNMENT ISSUE, not the issue of a PRIVATE platform. You can say that Twitter is "Censoring" content, but you have ZERO argument when you use the WRONG framing. Twitter, like EVERY OTHER PRIVATE PLATFORM has a right to moderate content. Has the company made mistakes? You can be absolutely sure of that. There are decisions that DU and other sites have made that not everyone agrees with when it comes to moderation. The choices of those who disagree? Accept them or leave the service, just like advertisers and many influencers have left since Musk took over Twitter.
Musk is really putting it out there that he is a complete idiot. I only hope that he crashes hard. He deserves it. Maybe Tesla, Space X, and other ventures currently under his thumb will actually improve once he is out of the way.
Mr. Sparkle
(2,935 posts)which is a shame, as Tesla and SpaceX are great companies.
Sogo
(4,986 posts)Is Musk just another incel?
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Samrob
(4,298 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,943 posts)PurgedVoter
(2,218 posts)The Gun is a cosplay replica of a spy gun from a video game. TF2 Diamondback Gun
The odd metal object is a Varja. In Tibetan Buddhism it represents sudden inspiration/enlightenment that makes you a Buddha too.
The diet coke is not the typical color best guess is it is caffeine free from a promotional version and 30 years old.
So it looks like these are all items to troll the internet.
My theory is he is throwing weird at the wall to see what sticks and to try and say, "I planned all of this." I think he will take down twitter, use any emails he can find to try and take down people who made him angry, and then claim he is so rich that he did this for fun/to expose the truthiness.
I think he made a big fail and now he is going to cover it up by trying to look smart and happy with losing 44 billion for a cause. Good luck, Elon. With all the extra scrutiny we know enough about you to never again think you are all that brilliant.
What puzzles me is the diet coke. Does it mean solidarity with TFG, or is diet coke a dog whistle that I don't understand.
What gets me, is that these folk never seem to realize that all they have to do is listen to smart people, invest in really good things and help people out. It may or may not have just been publicity, but that was the sort of thing that made people initially like and trust Elon. If he had invested the 44 billion in solar and power backup systems, he could have made more money and had a lot of us thinking that he has issues but his heart is in the right place. If he made sure some communities that had poor power systems, such as Texas and a few reservations, had affordable and reliable power, a lot of us would be cheering him. But no, pride got in the way and yes men helped him spiral into the stupid loop where you get rid of the least yes, yes men and end up surrounded by lying liars who will let you think and say the most stupid things.
Bristlecone
(10,129 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Also known as brown carbonated water with aspartame.
GenThePerservering
(1,824 posts)niyad
(113,336 posts)Bristlecone
(10,129 posts)Bristlecone
(10,129 posts)Pills are my guess.
niyad
(113,336 posts)Declaration, the Constitution, aaaaaand (my personal favourite) George Washington on civil discourse.
Takket
(21,575 posts)and wasn't just posed there by some interior decorator that was paid by musk to "put together a scene that will make MAGAts love me".
not saying he doesn't own and/or like any other those things (he is a MAGAt after all), I'm just saying the scene isn't "natural", it is staged.
canetoad
(17,167 posts)And spent his time couch-surfing. Does he cart this collection of dreck around with him?
ecstatic
(32,707 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,181 posts)Maybe he's "Q".