Stephen

🏳️‍🌈 | he/him | best wishes to those who oppose us

[Jack FR @FrayneJack34043]

absolute freaks man

[Judith Butler Bible Thumper @philosophysux]

gay people talking about their favourite pop star:

[Gravantus @Gravantus]

Today's “For You” snuff film was “people throw a woman off a cliff, without attaching her bungie cord”

[⛓️ G W Ξ N ‼︎ @POISONOMICON]

cowbeep boybop

[Ewan @jelly_pack]

This attack on internet freedom in the form of both restricting young people (public hates them) and "extreme content" (awkward to protest) is sure starting to look Pincer-shaped.

Probably nothing to worry about.

[Squib 🩷 @SquibMcLovin]

absurd

[Otto Von Biz Markie @wittgenfine]

There’s a part in the book White Noise where the characters talk about losing their identity once they’ve aged out of being the primary demo for advertisements and marketing.I think about that every time I see nostalgia porn videos because they’re always just ads for old products

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

It's quite funny that this dude's historic wealth might be the most persuasive blackpilling possible on capitalism, and yet the socialist warriors do not take advantage of the opportunity.

Let me explain. His wealth is fundamentally disconnected from personal merit or direct labor. He is the CEO of three companies and in the C-suite at many others. There is simply no possibility whatsoever that he works the hours expected of such positions and that the little personal labor he dedicates to them represents the the incredible wealth he has extracted from them.

Moreover, there are several, well-documented claims from insiders that they have to handle or buffer his erratic behavior, and that the executives that actually do the work are relieved when he gets hyperfocused on another company and leaves them alone. What work he does when he is hyperfocused consists mostly, according to insiders, as extreme micromanagement. He self-describes himself as a "nano-manager," and his official biographer talks about his hyper-critical "demon mode." There is a pretty reasonable argument to be made that his presence harms these companies, rather than helps them.

This is only boosted by how many expensive, high-profile lawsuits his companies have been embroiled in by his public remarks, nonstop posting, and refusal to abide by financial disclosure deadlines. How he treats his employees and unilaterally fires people without cause also causes employment lawsuits.

Substantively, his companies also benefit from him lying to the market to cause speculation and government subsidies won by quid pro quo behavior that would have, in better times, been considered criminal. Musk causes Tesla and SpaceX to consistently lie about its products, and he is never punished enough to offset the personal benefit he gets from the market or subsidies by such lying.

His wealth is an illusion driven by retail investor enthusiasm based on these lies, market expectations based on his lies and the fact that he has yet to seriously pay for lying, and pay packages approved by boards stacked with flunkies that cannot articulate how he can possibly do enough work as the CEO of three companies and executive of half a dozen others to justify his intensely bloated pay packages. He receives that pay even when his companies are not profitable, which has led to constant shareholder lawsuits.

If there was a poster boy of American Capitalism, it is him. He represents everything wrong with the reality of how the system works, and how lying and anticompetitive behavior is not adequately curbed.

[Stephen @blythos]

Nintendo presumably planning to drone bomb everyone who bought a modded Switch https://t.co/QuOLLX1guL

[Stephen @blythos]

when you problematically fetishise septuagenarian trans women

[Stephen @blythos]

The Sprocket Rocket is so inconsistent but it's still quite cool

[Stephen @blythos]

still mildly amazed at the dark alchemical processes that have allowed me to capture your souls on this ghostly ribbon

[Stephen @blythos]

Hmm we'll see

[Stephen @blythos]

yesssssss

[Stephen @blythos]

@jelly_pack If nothing else it feels like a stand in for some petty culture war grievances

[Stephen @blythos]

yessssss swallow my filth

[baidawi @buhdahwee]

🤷🏿‍♂️

[Stephen @blythos]

Do you think you have to plug it in via USB to get the allergy update

[Stephen @blythos]

@pjsrobertson It's when you put the chicken on a stick and spin it until it goes rrrrrrrr

[Ewan @jelly_pack]

Remember the ~3-year period when all these freaks screamed "demonic" and "satanism" at any photo of a pop star wearing a wacky costume or a fashion show with red lighting

[AvxryMk4 (They/Them) 🇵🇸 🥭 @AveryMk4]

Tomer Capone being an IDF soldier who plays a character that's angry when people kill children