Remember when he polled Twitter about whether or not he should stop being CEO and the majority said yes and he ignored it anyway?
Now suddenly polls on Twitter matter?
Didn’t the guy quit though?
Good chance he was pushed by someone with actual power because of his views on Israel and this is all about Musk showing all the racism the media is running with instead was fine.
I remarked on that at the time.
Edit: Mbin does something new with fediverse links that totally butchers how this is embedded in the text I intended. Not sure if it just looks like a sentence with some hyperlinked text to Lemmy users.
It does.
It doesn’t get much more Musk than, "I polled the racists and they said racism is okay, so racism is okay "
polled? more like he entered some numbers for the vote counts in backend
You don’t need to do that with the Twitter user base that’s left.
See, I’d agree but this is Musk we’re talking about. I wouldn’t be surprised if this douche sent some poor, naive and overeager but overworked intern on a groundbreaking task to gain his admiration and trust by fudging some numbers with fake accounts. So while you think nobody needs to do that, that’s it’s terribly inefficient and only a psychopath drunk on power would pull such a thing, what you need to keep in mind is that this billionaire needs his ego stroked on every turn by some fresh young impressionable men, as he does.
I don’t know Musk personally but I believe this because there was once some poor, ground-feeding soul who went through this entire process to please his master and Tweeted about his weeks-long process adding some insignificant feature to the site as if it were groundbreaking work back when the site was still named Twitter and none of the replaced employees knew how any of that shit worked. The dude was nothing but raving and hyping himself up and down the feed kissing ass. I also believe this because one of his former team members blew the whistle on his Substack(?) on the unethical and probably illegal shit they were doing with bot accounts during the elections.
(I can try to find the blog post if you want to read it but trust me bro on the other guy.)
“If you are not part of my website your vote does not count ha ha ha”
Not even a joke though. That is inevitable.
You mean he polled a number out of his ass. He doesn’t need to go through the effort of asking anyone to get an actionable result. The results from bots and racists would have been similar anyway.
“so I asked my sock puppets, and they said he should be rehired”
So he polled a bunch of bots and racist mother fuckers to see what to do with the racist mother fucker?
Not event that. Why would he do that the hard way?
He just published a result that shows people agree and that’s it
You mean bots, right? Polling bots. Also this doesn’t account for all the people that have blocked you or don’t even use twitter anymore. It’s like if my friends all told me they didn’t like Chinese food and my conclusion is that nobody likes Chinese food.
I hope the masses let that little racist fucker know how they feel about him ad nauseum. Harass the Nazis.
I bet he cuts his pay 50%
They’re already working for rep.
Clown country entertaining a clown immigrant.
Pathetic.
Stuff moved so fast that I can’t keep track but…
I feel like groyper-racist-doge kid’s bad tweets were found, they reflexively fired him, Vance chided them for being into cancel culture, musk polled x and they’re gonna rehire him, all before the media even had time to spin up any original outrage.
“Hired”
I’m surprised anyone besides Musk is getting paid for this
This is the guy who has full unfettered admin access to Treasury Department, in case you were wondering.
I’m honestly not sure why Elon is going through this theater. The guy almost certainly didn’t lose that access when he “resigned.”
“Haha, it’s all right out in the open, look at how terrible I can be and no one can do anything about it.”
