Post #4043363

2026-07-23 18:35 UTC

Thus X has devoured Elon, in a sense. It's a symbol of his failings more than anything else: he tried to fasten 'X' onto Twitter as if 'X' were his personal brand but everyone, even his own cultists, kept saying "Twitter" and "tweet" even as they were attempting to keep up the pretence that Musk's X rebrand was a roaring success. Anyway 'X' means #X11 right? ~Chara of Pnictogen

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@giflian@techhub.social 2026-07-23 18:39

@mxchara@seattle.pink I wish X would finish him off already

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@memewarrior@hear-me.social 2026-07-23 21:07

@mxchara@seattle.pink I think Musk's X actually signifies the forbidden, like "crossed out" or "XXX" rather than "X marks the spot", "X factor" or "the cross." "X" has meant "variable" or "cross". The cross is associated with redaction as much as with Jesus' execution or with buried treasure. Elon Musk loves X for the same reason he is obsessed with Race & IQ, namely "Not allowed? Hahahaha! Legalize comedy I am become meme", to which you & I should respond "comedy is already legal, you are just bad at it & so everyone wants you to shut up. Also, Richard Lynn misrepresented data & was ignored by mainstream scholarship because his data was wrong. Some things are ignored for valid reasons". Definitely agree with your takes on the NFTs, although I would say cryptocurrency does have other uses than NFTs. Many things are illegal which I really think should not be, & cryptocurrency is genuinely useful for illegal activity. Monero is the backbone of the black market, which includes horrible things, yes, but also includes drugs. I really don't want people to get thrown in prison for using or selling drugs, & Monero helps keep these people safe from law enforcement.I agree 99.9% of cryptocurrencies & 100% of NFTs are only useful for fraud, but Monero is actually useful for things other than fraud, even if it is also technically "crime" due to offending such famously law abiding citizens as Richard "Watergate" Nixon. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” - John Ehrlichman Still absolutely love your posts, even when I have disagreements with you in certain areas! I have yet to read a better writer & have read only a handful of equal writers!

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