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> Vaught is mostly a Musk fan, as he's interested in Musk's electric cars and space developments. He said that this experience with X hasn't tainted his opinion of Musk or his relationship too much with X as a platform. He's holding out hope that Musk has a long-term plan for where Musk is taking X, but like many users, he's struggling to adjust to the rebranding. Vaught still refers to the platform by its original name.

I love the smell of 'cult of personality'

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/x-user-super-pis...

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Cult of personality-induced Stockholm Syndrome.

Please, wtf, thats just idiotic. Can't say I agree with X's style of appropriating tags but just the assumption that everything comes as an edict from EM himself is kinda sick.

“sick” is pretty exaggerated language. And he runs the company, all of the companies decisions are ultimately attributable to him, especially when it demonstrates a change in policy from before he bought the company.

I exploit you, still you love me

I tell you one and one makes three

Oh, I'm… the… cult of personality

Living Colour, my favorites!

Spelled 'Colour' correctly as the band would have it, too.

w00t!

He only hits me when I deserve it.

All hail Loviatar.

Reading stuff like this makes me think we are seeing Gen-X's version of Donald Trump, and it worries me.

Not just Gen X, sadly

You are. I mean the similarities are uncanny. Both are publicity hounds who flip out at any perceived slight. Both are vain, petty, vindictive, and in general, seem to show all the signs of narcissistic personality disorder.

Both have gone through countless wives. Both have a habit of not paying people because they can get away with it - as it’s too expensive to sue them for nonpayment; they can drag it out in court and bankrupt you.

I never got caught up in the Musk hype and the more I learn about him the more wary of him I became. I have seen the amount of damage to society a narcissist can do in the form of the 45th.

Both are also serial liars. The small mercy with Musk vis-a-vis Trump is that his nationality and shifting demographics of the United States (Republican efforts at voter suppression not withstanding) should ensure he doesn't have a shot at becoming president of the United States.

It should worry you if you do business with any Musk-owned company. I'd consider buying a Tesla, for instance, but its resale value could easily drop by five digits based on a single Tweet from Musk.

You say "cult of personality".

I say "Great Founder Theory".

https://samoburja.com/gft/

They’re the same picture

It’s almost like Stockholm syndrome.

> Just now, Twitter/X just ripped it away. Super pissed.

Who’s going to tell him that Twitter/X is controlled by a person who’s name is Elon Musk?

Selective memory

Fucking hell, I hate this word with a passion and how it's used as a cheap insult, but really "cuck" is the only thing that springs to mind. Someone takes a dump all over you but not even that makes you less eager to say panegyrics about them? Very strange.

Cuck is a good word for this case, but perhaps “addict” is better?

Maybe he just doesn't care that much. Inconvenienced, evidently, but to stake a personal dislike towards a human being for this seems unwarranted.

Did you even read the article? In his own tweet he says he's "super pissed", how could you possibly conclude that "maybe he doesn't care that much"?

Because I can differentiate between being upset over something, especially something that is a minor inconvenience relative to other things that can occur in a man's life, but not being upset to the extent where I dislike those responsible for it.

I mean seriously, stop for a moment and think if "I don't dislike the guy who runs the company that inconvenienced me and I think things may turn out okay" warrants the association that the person who feels like this would be sexually gratified by his wife sleeping with another man.

Just admit that you didn't read the linked article.

Please, no. “Cuckold” already has a meaning and it’s not this.

I know it makes me sound like a crotchety old man to complain about the changing nature of language but I’m not going to start helping it along.

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