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[–] roadkill@kbin.social 281 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Dude spent $44Bil just so he could behave like an insecure reddit mod...

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 59 points 4 months ago (4 children)

And all of the Reddit moderators looked in awe and decided to behave just like him.

Only problem is that they aren't getting the kind of money he does for it.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 58 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not the mods, literally the admins. Steve idolizes Musk.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Jokes on you all the old mods were banned and replaced by admin approved bootlickers

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Only the good ones left or so I hear. Reddit is blacklisted in my router NFTables.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 231 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You're a shit father, Elon.

There, he can't delete that.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 39 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You think he wouldn't buy lemmy.world?

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 73 points 4 months ago (10 children)

He might, but that's the whole point of federation - there's hundreds of other instances (including the one you're using) that he can't buy all at once. If one instance gets taken over, Lemmy as a whole is still strong.

Even if he buys the organization developing Lemmy, I have faith the community will fork it and everyone will stop using Musk's version.

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[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 105 points 4 months ago (10 children)

A "burner" account? Never heard it called that before. "Sock puppet" or just "puppet" makes much more sense.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 64 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s pretty common for people to refer to these types of accounts as burners on Twitter. I recall the GM of the 76ers getting in trouble about 5-10 years ago for having sock puppet accounts on Twitter and all the reporting referred to them as burners.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Drug culture is more well known among normies than nerd culture, is what we're saying here.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 25 points 4 months ago

Yes. That’s exactly what’s happening here. Big shout out to drugs for winning the war…

[–] Beefytootz@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Burner feels like such an old school term. I've more often heard "alt", "Smurf", or "finsta". The last being a portmanteau of fake Instagram account

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[–] darkmatternoodlecow@programming.dev 89 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Whether or not anyone found him out, think about the fact that he himself knows that he created a fake account so he could tell himself he's a great father. Imagine knowing that about yourself. I shudder to think of the absolute disgust he must feel when he looks at himself in the mirror. At least there's comfort and joy to be found for the rest of us in thinking about that. What a fucking loser. I dream of the day I don't have to hear about this pathetic waste of space on a daily basis.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think he has feelings about anything you mentioned (those are valid points though).

It's just image maintenance to him.

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 81 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How. Fucking. Pathetic. Do you have to be. To have an entire army of sycophants. And that's still not enough for your ego.

[–] PilferJynx@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It honestly makes me genuinely sad. He definitely has complexes and holes in his soul to conduct this behavior. Doesn't excuse him from being a complete asshole though.

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why are you sad about this piece of shit? He'd never pay you the same mind.

I revel in the insecurities and smallness of these exploitative, parasitic wastes of air.

[–] SmokumJoe@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You can always feel empathy. The more you try the better person you'll become.

Don't be like sad rich guy, be better.

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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 64 points 4 months ago

Oh Elon. You're gonna need a whole lot more Ketamine to convince yourself you're a good father.

[–] vsis@feddit.cl 63 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Rich stupid guy doing things is not technology. Why is this community flooded with this guy doing or saying things?

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[–] Bobmighty@lemmy.world 48 points 4 months ago (7 children)

All that money and power and no added happiness or joy. So unloved he has to fake it. I always knew absurd wealth doesn't actually improve a person, but thanks for constantly proving it over and over again anyway Elon. Glad to know you'll die unhappy.

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago

X has two rules. Don’t talk shit about Elon, and don’t talk shit about the dictators he wants to get cozy to.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 43 points 4 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's called a sockpuppet account you noobs. 🙄

[–] s0ckpuppet@kbin.social 19 points 4 months ago
[–] Flumpkin@slrpnk.net 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Huh? Doesn't everyone assume he has a whole PR team that probably runs hundreds of sock puppet accounts? Like human bots? I mean isn't a PR team basically a given for a billionaire or any special interest group?

[–] Clent@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Celebrities do use PR agencies but Musk is known for not having PR teams at any of his companies.

He is the stupidest billionaire.

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If he has a PR team they are doing a terrible job.

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[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 30 points 4 months ago (6 children)

This is some late 90s web forum admin tyrant drama. Wait until he finds out he can use phpmyadmin to edit other peoples posts.

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[–] Chaosl3gion@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (3 children)

How exactly was it proven? Not defending Elon, I'm genuinely curious. The article mentions an audio recording sounding similar to Elon and some weird praises on Twitter. How does that connect the Dittmann account to Elon though?

[–] Rooter@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] MrZee@lemm.ee 18 points 4 months ago

Agreed. I strongly dislike Elon and think he is a thin skinned trust fund baby who is destroying Tesla and already destroyed Twitter. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least to find out he is using sock accounts to praise himself… but in this article all I see are people making accusations without solid evidence. Yes, it appears he banned the guy accusing him but we already know that Elon will ban his critics whether or not those critics’ accusations are real. There is nothing here showing that the account is anything but one of his braindead fanboys.

It’s one thing to take these accusations and try to find solid evidence. It’s another to treat the accusations as solid evidence itself. Let’s be better than the conspiracy theorists.

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[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (5 children)

You know, I always thought money would make me happy. But he seems so much more insecure and miserable than I ever was.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 15 points 4 months ago

I've unfortunately worked for multiple multi-millionaires. The richer they were, the more insanely insecure in ways that would blow your mind. The richest would often leave his bank account open on his computer for his staff to see, among so many other examples.

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

This is so sad, Alexa play Despacito

[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Joined by conspiracy theorist David Icke, who believes that the world’s top leaders are actually lizards, Jones and his guest both questioned whether they were actually talking to Musk based on the individual’s eerily similar speech.

There’s.. there’s a lot to unpack here. I’m truly saddened that this version of me ended up in the bizarre timeline; I wonder how my other selves are doing.

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[–] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago
  • there are enough people on elons dick for this to be a legit account
[–] BlackNo1@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

what a pathetic fucking cunt

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Not sure why the title says Elon nuked the account for outing him when the account owner says in the article that he left on his own accord due to doxxing

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[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Too much social media does make you insecure and he owns one lol

[–] DarkSurferZA@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Shame guys, maybe Elon really isn't ok and all he really needs is a hug, and someone to tell him he is a good dad.

Also, Elon, if you're reading this, I will tell you whatever shitty lies you wanna hear, in the most convincing tone you need to hear it, if you give twitter back, free of charge, to it's prior owners

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[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Other than the Delaware thing and saying shitty things on Twitter, has Musk actually done anything newsworthy since he purchased Twitter?

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He blew up a starship test because he overrode engineers, thought he knew better than them, and didn't install a blast deflector under the rocket. It made a giant hole in the launch pad and the concrete debris damaged the rocket.

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