Ran into an old friend a few weeks back with whom I’d grown apart over the years. He’s become a full Elon stan and wow, yeah, that’s definitely a whole thing. Awkward conversation eventually devolved predictably into my calling him an edgelord and his angrily getting up and declaring, “why would I ever want to hang out with this motherfucker again?” Good times.
Not even sure why I’m bringing it up except that Mastodon feels like my confessional sometimes. Anyway, he also told me I should read Twitter “to know what the other side is saying,” like that’s somehow the key to progress. I’m like, how about you listen to an opinion about why Elon sucks and why you’re a doofus for stanning him?
@hikeofthemenrys that sucks. We have a friend heavily on the Elmo train and it's exhausting even though he's still a great guy - currently he is still just totally apolitical & hasn't picked up any of the edgelord bullshit, for him it's a gizmo thing (and he holds tesla stock)
@chopaganda@hikeofthemenrys no, but only because our back and forth on Elmo, Tesla etc has long bored the rest of the chat and if I posted everything I see it would be a relentless barrage. I trust reality to assert itself over time here, and if not, c'est la guerre
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