The miniseries on Twitter's collapse is going to be epic.
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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Get a black dude (or even better a black lady) to play Musk and watch the entire right spontaneously combust.
Non-binary black lady for the best effect
Oh man can you imagine how great this would be if they got hit with a 3 day eviction notice for damaging the property?
That would be so fucking funny
Can we now start pronouncing X as 'errrr' when referring to the company? It would be good not to taint the good name of the letter entirely.
And it does say 'er' on the side of not-his-building.
I call it Xitter, using the Chinese pronunciation of Xi.
Brb gotta take a xit
The Police actually stopped a rich guy from doing something illegal?
Honestly, this is a comedy that needs to be seen to be believed.
To er is to be Musk
Slight shame that the contractors didn't start from the end. It could have been funnier if they had taken off the "er" instead.
My thoughts the same, though it should have been the "ter" to properly describe Musk.
Then again, having "twit" misspelled might have been even more on-point. Maybe they can just add the X and become Twit-X
er
You need to have permits to change signs on your own building?
It's the heavy machinery required to do it that's the problem. This is also not Elon Musk's building, but a building Twitter rents. The building management company were the ones who called the police.
Ah that explains. Didn’t know he was renting the building.
Companions like this very rarely own property. They rent space from the property management companies that bought the land and constructed the buildings.
Forgot about that shit. The guy's such a scumbag. Hasn't paid rent since he moved in and then tried to renovate? He seriously needs to be knocked down a few billion pegs.
Most of those IT platform companies only rent their premises as it helps improve the balance sheet and quarterly results by moving "capital expenses" into "operational costs"
I believe part of it is that managing huge buildings is actually a pain in the ass and requires specialized experience to do efficiently, so many companies end up saving money by not owning their buildings.
Well that, and the fact it costs huge amounts of money to own land in cities.
Does it not cost even more to rent?
I have no idea. But good luck finding unclaimed land with or without a giant office building on it in the middle of a major city. Adding the cost of land and construction and all the taxes that come with it plus the time needed to build everything?
The way I heard it elsewhere (Google should help), Twitter/Elon actually had the necessary and correct permits (for using heavy machinery on the street/sidewalk and redirecting traffic around it).
Unfortunately, that detail was not correctly communicated to building security, who called the police believing there was no permit.
By the time the misunderstanding could be cleared up, the workers & heavy machinery had... "vacated premises" already, leaving the work in its half-finished state.
This is comical beyond belief lmao
That's gonna mess with Elon's baseball stats. Now he has an er.
Definitely an unforced er.
"it is my building!" -- Elon, probably
It seems like this gets even more amusing about twice a day. Anyone wanna guess what might happen next?
At some point Musk will get arrested. For what I haven't decided yet.
Something sexual, I think. Even as recently as a few months ago, I would have said “he’s a jackass, but he’s not that stupid,” but now, well…
He already sexually harassed some poor flight attendant, and literally a day before made some kind of stupid announcement about being a Republican as some sort of stupid way to dodge it
Oh, yeah. With all the other outrageous assholery, I forgot about that. Scumbag.
Sounds plausible to me.
I would only be very minorly surprised if Musk is arrested in the middle of a small town in Louisiana, covered in his own shit and clumsily trying to hump a crocodile. And yes, I know that crocs aren't native to Louisiana.
You can’t make this stuff up, this is hilarious and beyond apropos
At this point it sounds like intentional.
Thanks for the heads up on Taylor. I am now following her!
Taken out of context, that sounds creepy AF.
Yeah, if I have to choose who is worse between Musk and Taylor Lorenz, 100% Taylor Lorenz takes the cake.
Why?
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I do recall Lorenz being caught in a lie and trying to cover it with stealth-edits. She has definitely had her (and her publisher's) agenda take precedent over facts back when she was covering the Depp/Heard trial.
However, while I do try to verify her reporting from other sources, I would not classify her anywhere near the imploding egomaniac billionaire. She's way better than any billionaire, because there's no way anyone can amass that amount of resources and not be selfish, problematic, and too far removed from ordinary people to relate to them.
/edited for grammar
Okay, got it. I was like "...worse than literally right-wing, genocide supporting, actively shutting down leftist organization on Twitx Elon Musk???"
I know a lot of people don't like it. But the people who have changed the world have always been far from ordinary.He prefers to sensationalize rather than advertise.
Being born rich is almost certainly a requirement to start with. There must be a lot of non famous brilliant people without a public voice like the clowns, Musk and Trump and Zuck and all the others.
Serious question: why do you need to get a permit to change a sign on your own building?