Elon Musk takes over Twitter

Thread.

 

She addressed some of that in the thread.

 

i hate

absolutes


why they not like at chappelle show i paid 44 billion to be funny they still think comedy is illegal

 

Can take over Twitter, but not a crowd.

 

Vox populi, vox dei, bitch.

 

When I’m tempted to utter some sort of a humblebrag about never signing up for Twitter, I try to remember that just makes me appear to be an archaic smug geezer.

I get the same feeling when I have conversations about pronouns with my college-age son. I used to catch myself ranting, “When I was on the copy desk, I lost count of all the ‘theys’ I changed to ‘his or her’ to make them agree with the sentence structure.”

“Things change, Dad”

“But, AP Style!”

“Like I said, Dad. Things change. Oh, and also, kids are occasionally going to wander into your yard. That’s what kids do. Stop yelling at them!”

 

Kids going onto my lawn has never been a thing. Golf balls, on the other hand . . .

 

Yep.

When I was a kid, my mom, the special Ed teacher, wouldn’t think twice about using the words “retarded” or “idiot savant” to describe her students.

My only hope is that my kids never look at me with the same horror with which I looked at her.

I can already see it with my 9-year-old, when I come across him watching something on TikTok and he sees the curmudgeonly look on my face.

That said, I’d still rather slam my nuts in a car door than spend more than a nanosecond on “Twitter.”

 

Don’t rich people have anything better to do than troll? I feel like my old teacher in grade school who would catch me day dreaming and say, “if you have nothing to do I can find you something.”