lol I won't bring up the time an ilx poster was trying to argue that Musk is left-wing
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 31 October 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
Imagine being that rich and caring so much about what people thought of you, though.
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 31 October 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
i stick with my analysis from another thread, gleeful scofflaw fraudsters often look annoyingly like permanent winners till the edifice topples, i am happy to see EM's set-up as a perpetual motion machine of bullshit, every element propping up the one next to it but more and more frantic stunts being unleashed to shore up and distract from the fact that no part is actually really working at all
― mark s, Monday, 31 October 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
i guess my view on that is that the fraud is all in full view. tesla has looked and looks and is extremely dodgy in all sorts of respects, and the bottom is falling out of the EV market. but i don't think that makes him a fraudster in the dan davies sense. i think he's just a dodgy businessman. a huckster basically. it's not hidden fraud. it's in full view. same with twitter, which he seems to have bought inadvertently, and not really have any idea what he wants to do with other than troll people. he's wealthy enought to troll people by buying a platform without it being fraud. it's just silly and unpleasant ofc.
― Fizzles, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
silicon valley trump?
― Left, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
Ok but who said he was left wing, was it Fizzles
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
xxpyes calz I heard the same trailer on radio 4 and that line made me exclaim "oh fuck off!!" as I was driving
― oscar bravo, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
gyac you're a f'ing chancer you are
― Fizzles, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
the elon musk of ilx
― Fizzles, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
Look you know you are a top 200 ilxor of mine but you are nothing if not meltish
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
xp wow
Can we move this thread towards intro-ukpol bullying and away from tw***er before caek comes in and starts talking about how he used to work there, you know!
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
xxxpfucking state of the bbc, man!
come on Fizzles shame the devil and fess up!
― calzino, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
lol i have no idea who said he was left wing. i strongly refute gyac's melt accusation and will have it in 'the town square of ilx' if necessary.
― Fizzles, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
I'm joking lol!
― calzino, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
xp thank you for confirming it was fizzles, there’s a bin with his name (and a decrepit looking Chinese) on it
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
ofc! i took it in kind! (sitting here drinking melt wine listening to melt jazz)
― Fizzles, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
I've had to stop going to that chinese
― Fizzles, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
no it was a US poster - I'm finished with retrospective shit stirring for the night now
― calzino, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, October 31, 2022 8:59 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
are there any rich people who don't care very much about what other people think of them?
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
ooh stephen bush - i think he's pretty sane and good, not because i agree with his politics, but because he attempts to think things through looking at the various sides... though interestingly i think his most recent article on... ELON MUSK... is absolute horseshit. genuinely The Worst of Stephen Bush.
― Fizzles, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
Imagine being that rich and caring so much about what people thought of you, though.― barry sito (gyac), Monday, October 31, 2022 8:59 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglinkare there any rich people who don't care very much about what other people think of them?
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
pump and dump is securities fraud, he's literally already used twitter to do this with tesla stock and he's now gearing up to using twitter to do it with twitter stock lol, in case selling it is the only way out of what he's commited himself to
plus also he's starting to jerk advertisers around abt what kind of platform it's going to be and what it offers (lots of potentially miselading stuff can happen there, some of it illegal)
i agrere it's all right out in the open!
― mark s, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
no, they've stopped doing their prawn toasts xpost
― Fizzles, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
there are smart rich successful fraudsters no one knows abt bcz they are entirely canny abt getting on with robbing us and not drawing attention to themselves
― mark s, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
FizzlesPosted: 31 October 2022 at 21:15:51ooh stephen bush - i think he's pretty sane and good, not because i agree with his politics, but because he attempts to think things through looking at the various sides... The prosecution rests, your honour
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
true, i guess what i meant is that it wasn't that fraud that needs continual backing up - like a ponzi scheme.one interesting thing watching the recent wirecard documentary – they were trying to get away with subsuming their v ponzi-ish fraud into a wider acquisition and they nearly got away with it. it makes you wonder how many time this has never been noticed.
― Fizzles, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
Can we move this thread towards intro-ukpol bullying and away from tw***er before caek comes in and starts talking about how he used to work there, you know!― barry sito (gyac), Monday, October 31, 2022 5:10 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, October 31, 2022 5:10 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
you can block me if you like? i don't mind.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
that's an xpost to mark s. never talking to gyac again tbh.
Fizzles, maybe you are trying to summarise the Stephen Bush of about 4-5 years ago and stopped reading him in 2018?
― calzino, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
possibly. i don't mind that he sets out his reasoning. he still feels different from columnists who are purely thumb on the scales. he allows you to work out where you disagree with him.
― Fizzles, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:29 (one year ago) link
_Can we move this thread towards intro-ukpol bullying and away from tw***er before caek comes in and starts talking about how he used to work there, you know!― barry sito (gyac), Monday, October 31, 2022 5:10 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink_you can block me if you like? i don't mind.
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
sounds good.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
i've been meaning to complain on here about that fucking BBC doc trailer for a week
― wearing wraparounds (Noodle Vague), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
amol rajan again?
― conrad, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
the musk trailer on the radio is even more annoying than that "if you want to buy a good pressie for your kids before they go away to uni - buy them a tv license!" recurring ad from a couple of months back
― calzino, Monday, 31 October 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
Look you know you are a top 200 ilxor of mine
Underrated extremely faint praise. Invisible ink faint.
― the pinefox, Monday, 31 October 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
I think I'm missing something - I've been on this site for 21 years and I didn't know you could block people.
― the pinefox, Monday, 31 October 2022 22:24 (one year ago) link
_Look you know you are a top 200 ilxor of mine_Underrated extremely faint praise. Invisible ink faint.
― barry sito (gyac), Monday, 31 October 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
I was once talking to a posh couple in a pub who were saying he was a genius - you should have seen his ted talk, it was inspirational etc.. they thought I was lying when I mentioned he'd called the divers who rescued the school party "pedo guys".
I can beat this - the other day my therapist brought him up as an example of the power of self-esteem and self-confidence. Motivated by watching that BBC thing of course, ffs.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:17 (one year ago) link
Guardian EXCLUSIVE - really:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/01/labour-needs-more-coherent-narrative-to-win-election-starmer-told
thoughts about how KS can win, from an unelected person who the admiring report makes clear is a malicious scumbag.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:27 (one year ago) link
i just ready that twice and there's absolutely nothing of substance in it
― wearing wraparounds (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:31 (one year ago) link
Excited by the bold idea of trying to woo voters
― Led By Honkies (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:54 (one year ago) link
_ I was once talking to a posh couple in a pub who were saying he was a genius - you should have seen his ted talk, it was inspirational etc.. they thought I was lying when I mentioned he'd called the divers who rescued the school party "pedo guys"._I can beat this - the other day my _therapist_ brought him up as an example of the power of self-esteem and self-confidence. Motivated by watching that BBC thing of course, ffs.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
please tell me you're finding a new therapist
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/nov/30/moma-video-games-art
OH NO THE GUARDIAN HAS DAMNDED video games
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
"… we have a small favour to ask. "
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link