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@quietmarc Ha, never considered that about persevered!

@ArtBear @bytebro @oliphant I wana place bets on whether they'll end up making a movie about him, and on whether it will be flattering or otherwise.

@bytebro @oliphant @ArtBear Just to clarify, that last toot wasn't supposed to be snarky towards anyone but Elon. :)

@bytebro @oliphant @ArtBear Yeah, "self made"... His daddy owned mines here, which I'm sure you know. But anyway, we don't claim him. #southafrica

@bytebro @oliphant @ArtBear I'd fix my typo, but I'm on a platform that doesn't let me edit. Apologies. 🤷

@bytebro @oliphant @ArtBear I hate to bring this up again (no I don't, who'm I kidding) but as a South African I disliked him ages ago for having basically said he doesn't give a crap about us. At least that's what it came down to.

@oliphant @bytebro @ArtBear That kinda explains it better to me. I realised he wasn't a legitimate scientist, but I thought he was at least a good business person. Turns out... not so much.

@bytebro @ArtBear @oliphant As an occasional stoner, I can tell you that's probably exactly how it went. 😹 Hey don't judge, I don't have the money to buy massive platforms just to destroy them, and my stoned ass would probably give the accessibility team a huge raze instead of firing them and everyone else. But what do I know. 🤣 I'll start working on that book.

@oliphant Speaking as a therapist (no I'm not a qualified psychologist yet but I can diagnose, which I'm not doing right now, this is my opinion) yeah.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but..

“You are not naïve because you didn't see the ways they were going to hurt you. You are a trusting person who believes in good, & can't fathom doing to others what they did to you.
Your empathy & compassion were not the problem. Their behavior was. Accept this truth & carry on.”

@ArtBear @oliphant Just in addition, for that matter again, I'd rather be unemployed than be him. In the time that I was unemployed I believed I had added nothing significant to the world by that point (I was wrong) but even if that was true I'd have done more good than he's done. I may be wrong again, but fuck it, I'd still rather not be him. Don't misunderstand me, being unemployed for years sucks, and I wish that on nobody. But as a personal choice, I'd rather not be known for what he is now.

@ArtBear @oliphant Amazing when you can claim intelligence when you have teams and teams of people more intelligent than you are actually doing the work. Must suck to be one of those team members. I'd rather go back to my customer service job, or my years of unemployment for that matter, than work for uncle Elon.

So until right now in my bio I had that I'm #antiMLM which has been brought to my attention is commonly also used for anti #MenLovingMen, which I'm definitely not. I am #AntiMultiLevelMarketing. I apologise to anyone who may have been hurt by that, and I've changed it now. I fully support LGBTQIA+ and want to be the best ally I can. 🌈

@jase Fair point. Mainstream I've seen it only as anti multi-level marketing, which is what I mean, but I'll go and make that clear. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. :)

@Are0h But hey, gossip about political YouTubers is fun gossip. 😹

@Are0h Point, I'll consider that.

@Are0h Fair enough. Just another thing, and this is more of a side note, but do you know about the YouTuber Shoe0nHead? She claims to be left, and although I'm not in favour of telling people what their opinions "actually" are, I believe she's not left, because of who she chooses to be friends with and the people she goes out of her way not to offend. She's why I'd rather say I'm a centrist if I'm going to use that terminology, because I don't want to be that level of hypocrit.