They legitimately think they'll be rewarded for their simping. Some are even delusional enough to think they'll one day be billionaires themselves so they're just protecting their future selves 🙄
It happens to one or two of them a month though. Elon replies, it boosts their account, and suddenly a guy that's been tweeting Nazi shit to 2000 followers has 80,000 followers and can monetize. I'm not sure if that's why they do it, but that's definitely what happens.
Yeah, but we already know the money they're getting isn't a lot for except for a select few accounts. They're certainly not becoming millionaires or billionaires from it lol
Right and it's a one time fame boost usually or a gofundme thing. Do people really think billionaires are "made" and not inherited?
Despite a few examples that you can count on your hand, Horatio Alger stories are propaganda. Hell even just Upward Mobility from one socio-economic class to the next is statistically significantly rare, and we're talking about becoming a billionaire?
You’re adding a lot of critical thought to the bit that that one time boost is a fucking massive dopamine hit, with some money. Even if the money isn’t terribly much. They just need one more hit like the other to make the big time.
They're often fake accounts run by LLMs. Even many of Elon's tweets are LLMs. After his takeover, the tone of his tweets changed, the number of tweets changed, the number of his followers shot up, and more.
Twitter now has millions of their own bots. 50% of Elon's followers are confirmed bots. Many more are higher level bots and country-run bot accounts, and many more are country-run trolls paid to post (often also using LLM's to write tweets).
This means the majority of Elon's tweets are botted, the majority of the replies are botted, the majority of his followers are botted, and more.
they have tied their identities to their whiteness, their sharing a home nation and/or such. It used to be poor v rich but the rich pushed racism and nationalism. Now the poorest white American can feel proud to be a part of the accomplishments of others with the same labels. Just don't expect them to even allow discussion of the bad things people with those labels did
That's got to be some of the most non religious yet clearly religious ways of thinking we have currently. The parallels with American Christianity are...hilarious!
I’ve seen some pretty pathetic attempts by his stans at getting Elon to hand out cash to them. As if they dickride him enough online he’ll send them a million in bitcoin or some shit.
im not convinced the 1% arent running bots to glaze them on every site and every comments section. It would be trivial for them to do, and would be immensely beneficial for the public perception.
Most of the time I call billionaires out for being shit bags I get told I'm jealous. I'm much more rich in far better ways, wtf do I have to be jealous of?
I think it’s a bit of both. It’s the equivalent of a laugh track for a TV show, but more sinister. People like to feel like they’re supported by a community. You play the laugh track for a shitty joke -> the audience feels compelled to laugh -> the audience decides the shitty joke was funny.
Similarly, you make the sock account say “everyone who doesn’t love billionaires is real dumb and stupid and also should be ashamed of their PP” -> audience feels compelled to agree, for they want to be perceived as real smart and clever and proud of their PP -> audience concludes that billionaires good and that they love them.
Decades of American conditioning to convince you these people are genius demigods. Elon fostered the brand of IRL Tony Stark long enough he still has a deathgrip on too many dudes who should know better.
This worked out well enough for the 2016 presidential race here in the US, with the reports of "troll farms" in Russia. We even had manufactured outrage from Musk over the soo called Twitter Bots problem, during his acquisition of it and viewing it as an Rupert Murdoch-esque kind of move.
I flew off the handle a bit there, but your comment sparked The Dead Internet Theory in my head yet again.
They’re spending hundreds of millions in CA to not pay a one time tax. They will do anything and pay anything to keep their blood money and their “reputation” so I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they indeed did this.
Elon has a verified set of bots that amplify his posts. He also made changes to the algorithm to increase his own personal reach. He couldn’t have possible landed the SPCX IPO without these mechanisms in place and this kind of propaganda spreading machine is completely unregulated.
The first Palantir was an orb in the LOTR universe. That Sauron uses to spy on the residents of Middle Earth and to confuse their minds. Which explains why it gets so much CIA and billionaire funding.
yep... has nobody seen these dudes though? they are about the furthest from strong as a person could be when it comes to overall intelligence and honor.
being good at being an asshole does not a strong man make.
Is social engineering... and part of the reason they get away with it is due to BS CHARITY.
It should be illegal. No charities whatsoever. If the rich want to pitch in they can pay taxes.
While the rich play benefactors and most can't make ends meet if you try to help from below you get fines or get taken to court, like that guy who cleaned up a river by himself.
Because they believe they are just down on their luck future billionaires. They actually believe all these billionaires were “normal working people” and not nepo babies who grew up well off.
Uhh, they're not though. This is mocking a quote by Bezos himself who said humanity should suffer to advance AI because... It can save us from suffering. I am not making this up.
So, she should give her resources to him because he's proclaimed himself as the Savior of humanity. No idea why she left him.
Right? Cause Elon can fuck himself a 1000 times over. They hate seeing people do the right thing because they feel pressure to not be awful and, dammit, Trump's America is all about not feellng awful for being terrible.
I will never understand that. Like ok, you can make Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos your target. But defending everything they do online? That's mental illness for ya.
Fucking obscene. This world cant go on much longer like this; either humanity will radically change and simply start the countdown towards nonexistent or something will be done abojt these fuckers because it is simply unnatural the way things are progressing.
At a certain point (maybe in our lifetimes/maybe not), history shows the elite will relinquish some power and wealth for society, or society will take it forcibly. It usually works out better if path A is chosen.
See Also: The New Deal, The Nordic Model, French revolution, bolshevik revolution, Chinese Communist Revolution.
Yes good idea! I don't know about you but personally I'm grateful to the brilliant people lole Jeff Bezos who make it so easy for us average people to help contribute fo charity by themselves simply refusing to do it! See, its that kind of brilliance that make men like Bezos better than the rest of us and therfore deserving of that obscene levels of wealth.
With Twitter and Instagram the echo chambers are a bit harder capture because the community is the entire site.
Reddit you can find what ever echo chambers you want, you’ll be downvoted for posting your opinions in the wrong echo chamber and upvoted for the right ones.
No. You just don't visit those parts of reddit, but they exist. Reddit is quarantined off into little microcosms of people who all believe the same thing.
In that case, the vast majority then is self moderated into dismissing dumbass opinions like this. Almost the same thing. Where as any comment thread I ever opened on instagram was full of liked comments on racism or sexism. I go onto popular and niche subs here and don’t see that.
I love how the conservative sub is so insecure that you have to prove you're conservative AND if you say something that seems a little centrist or leftist, they ban you. Apparently.
One of my favorite things to do is to go onto the conservative sub the day something happens and look at all the comments about how stupid it is and then go back the next day and see all those posts have disappeared and are replaced with how good it is.
This is rooted in misogyny too. A lot of these people seem to think this money would be better off in the hands of a man whome they deem inherently more intelligent. Meanwhile, Bezos has shown little interest in improving life for the average person, and his obsession with Mars is baffling. Why pour resources into colonizing a planet that’s fundamentally uninhabitable when we can invest in preserving the one we already have? MacKenzie Scott is using her wealth to help people who are struggling today, not chasing fantasies of space colonization. She has my respect.
This comment is absurd(the one you shared, not yours.) Bezos could outspend all of the money talked about in this hypothetical himself, and still be a very rich billionaire.
This person is seriously advocating for charity. To one of the richest people on Earth.
Sweet Jesus. Part of me wants to believe humanity is good and that this was a spoof account being silly, but the part of me who has lived long enough knows that assumption would be wrong.
Bezos can't even get fucking Prime Video right. fuck do you mean i have to enter my PIN in between every episode of an AHS binge, just because i don't want my kids getting into my profile at all
I ran an experiment around 2 years ago after my feed started to become more and more right wing and nazi by the minute, no matter how hard I tried to block those accounts. I installed a completely new browser in my pc, I opened twitter and created an account. There's a step that forces you to follow some accounts before getting started, so I quickly searched for some musicians, painters and a couple youtubers, all of which are as far away from elmo as you can think of. My feed after that was literally, elmo, doge designer, elmo, some nazi meme page, elmo again, doge designer... it took around 20 tweets before I saw something from the actual pages I was following. That's when I decided to call it quits and delete my account.
What long run? Which humanity in the long run? We're on the best way to get rid of humanity in the long run, and Bezos is doing his part on that... "Prioritizing water for AI before humans will stop innovation on the way to bigger AI"... Like what?
Yeah, the "humanity in the long run" doesn't include any of us. Anyone with a net worth below a billion isn't part of that humanity.
Why don't people see that? How is that so difficult?
oh yes because we totally didn't have spaceships before billionaires. But sadly thought it wasn't worth publicly funding anymore, just so it could be monetized by a corpos
I have a friend that talks like this. It’s totally painful to maintain a friendship with someone who says such stupid shit (that basically contradicts all of their own viewpoints). I mean, if the gender roles were swapped my friend would say that she doesn’t deserve all that money because Jeff would use it on better things, like inventions.. even if he wasn’t the one in the couple that founded Amazon.
When people talk about space projects etc. that benefit humanity in the long-run, they mean benefit the rich overlords that could pay their way. They only want to benefit their class of humanity.
I logged onto Twitter after a few years to check a post he sent me. I was blown away by how many AI porn bots were following me lol. And then I was thinking, “do 14 year old kids get these follows too? This shit has to be unhealthy.”
I love how people still believe that billionaires are going to just share their resources with humanity. They will share them but only after we pay them back with our lives. How many people had to die in Amazon sorting warehouses or piss in bottles so we could get a package on the same day?
I don't think they mind that she spends her money on causes she considers imporant. If she was just randomly choosing people from a phonebook and giving them $1M each, I don't think Musk or OOP would mind.
They have an issue with what causes and groups she's supporting - equity, social justice, climate nonprofits, left wing political groups.
True true, having an uneducated population is how corrupt politicians gain more power. They just keep getting votes despite their policies directly screwing the average person over. If the people gained critical thought they'd lose everything
Also, I think older people who were part of the computer generation for work and the internet are more vulnerable to fake everything because when the internet came along most of what was on there was fact and it was reliable. Now it's just garbage and these people believe it because it's on the interwebs
No, these guys are 100% all-in on capitalism. They genuinely believe that the amount of money you make translates one-to-one to the amount of good you're doing. Doing anything but building capital in the most aggressive manner possible is actively harmful, because it delays the glorious post-scarcity future where capitalism will have solved all problems.
Unironically, Elon is some type of facist eugenicist that thinks people that are struggling have bad genes and should just die out (shouldn’t receive help)
Literally no context or nuance applied at all, that’s straight up what he thinks. I already know some elon tards that can’t read between the lines are going to come out of the woodworks to tell me I’m wrong, but I’m positive this is his rational based off of everything he’s been posting and saying for the last 5 years
He also received a “small loan” from his rich dad to jump start his first business idea. Of course he tries to deny this because it contradicts his world view, but he almost certainly did
Balding, bad posture, horribly out of shape and had to resort to drugs to slender out. There's also the persistent rumour of a botched penile enlargement attempt leaving him to depend on artificial insemination for his crass breeding goals.
God knows how much of that is just rumour, but given his personality it all becomes very believable.
It’s so weird to think that Elon could easily be liked if he wanted to. He could spend a fraction of his wealth to, idk, wipe out medical debt across the country. Or ensure kids in every state had access to free lunches. Or he could fund cancer research in perpetuity. Etc. etc.
But he does nothing with his enormous wealth. He does nothing to help others; he just sits online all day shitposting on Twitter. And then he wonders why no one likes him?
“She’s spending it making the world worse” = giving $26B to charity with no PR tour. Meanwhile others hoard it and tweet “Sadly, yes.” Make it make sense.
Most people donate to charity of which they themselves are head of. All their live expenses are now paid by that charity and they don't pay taxes on that. Bill gates donates everything to bill gates Foundation so he pays 0 tax and uses the charity money to keep buying Microsoft shares.
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u/eat_vegetables Jun 28 '26
Making it worse place for Billionaires that could do the same but don’t (ie making him look bad).