His Muskness is inclined to write some curious things on that social media thing he owns, but this has been particularly striking:
Um. This shouldn’t be too surprising, cos Oolong did call himself a “cultural Christian” (for reasons at least partly related to his obsession with birth rates), but somehow him actually coming out with… whatever this is does feel kind of weird. Not least because it’s in verse. Obviously no one should seriously believe for a second that Musk actually believes in Christianity or anything; he’s a Christian in the same way Drumpf is, in that the only god he really believes in is himself. That’s one of the things that makes this kind of peculiar; the other is the particular timing of this thing, given that he’s made some other interesting statements lately…
The White House has condemned Elon Musk for tweeting “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala” in response to an X user asking “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” […]
Musk, himself a Trump supporter, was quickly criticized by X users from the left and right, who said they were concerned his words to his nearly 200m X followers could incite violence against Biden and Harris.
The tech billionaire deleted the post but not before the Secret Service, tasked with protecting current and former presidents, vice-presidents and other notable officials, took notice.
“The Secret Service is aware of the social media post made by Elon Musk and as a matter of practice, we do not comment on matters involving protective intelligence,” a spokesperson said in an email. “We can say, however, that the Secret Service investigates all threats related to our protectees.”
To be sure, I’m not sure there was anything in that post that actually said someone should have a go at them, but people these days are stupid enough to take it that way. Oolong later basically said it was just jokes, bro:
“Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on X,” he later wrote. “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”
Meet Elon Musk, theorist of comedy, folks. I don’t know what if anything the SS (because he would call them that, I suspect) actually said to him, but he evidently wasn’t too bothered about it for too long, given that this is his currently pinned tweet:
“OK, I’ll be circumspect about the shooting jokes, but I reserve the right to lie through my teeth about the Democrats on my social media platform where I won’t allow propaganda”… sure. Anyway, I’m still puzzled by the poetry and its purpose, but I did wonder…
…Was Oolong in fact trying to show this creep how to do it? Cos Jordibles has attracted notice for his own “verse” posts—kind of like Nice Cave’s moustache, it’s something he does mostly because other people find it irritating—which are of a notably more free sort. I wonder if Oolong was trying to give him a hint about doing it properly? In which case, Oolong’s got some way to go himself and shouldn’t be advising anyone about anything…
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