in other "look at where this guy comes from" news, Elon Musk's father just did a lengthy podcast episode that opens with the host saying "I bet the last time you had this many black people in your house someone was trying to rob you"
youtu.be/KH1U5x8LXgs?…
— e.w. niedermeyer (@niedermeyer.io) November 26, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Yes, you just might be spending tomorrow avoiding certain genetic relatives, but at least you don’t have literally thousands of total strangers sharing tales of your misery…
in case your wondering, his answer was literally “oh no, I have lots of black friends… I actually just bought Cyril Ramaphosa’s [the president of South Africa] Bentley”…
he tries to say that Elon and Kimball had black friends, but basically only says that Kimball did (the interviewer, who is black, performs polite surprise)
Apartheid was bad, and nobody wants to go back, says Errol Musk, but back then the white government had a paternalistic sense of obligation to help black people that is sadly lacking today. There it is, your nuanced apartheid take of the day…
“we inherited South Africa from the European countries, Britain and everything you know, they gave us all the rules”
there was really nothing to do but profit as much as humanly possible from the institutionalized racism that had absolutely nothing to do with me, a white South African
the origin story for Errol Musk’s infamous emerald mine is that his pal Botha made a speech insisting that white rule would last forever, and investment in South African development dried up, and Musk’s engineering business with it… “although I was living on money I had, it was hard for me too”
he was selling a plane he owned to raise some cash due to the economic downturn, and he wanted to save money by not flying to Jedda during the Eid festival and was killing time and Lake Tanganyika, where he met the Italian emerald mine owners and effectively traded his plane for a 50% share…
Errol Musk confirms that Elon is lying when he says his father didn’t own a mine and that he didn’t benefit from it. Elon was both physically at the mine, and personally involved in selling emeralds to Tiffany’s in New York.
“Elon knows all about the emeralds. It’s just because, you see, he wants to tell the people in America that he also had a hard time.” ~Errol Musk…
Errol describe Maye Musk’s parents as being “fanatical” in their support of Apartheid. “Her parents came to South Africa from Canada, because they sympathized with the Afrikaaner government”
“They used to support Hitler, and all that sort of stuff” (!!!!)
“Obviously they didn’t know what the Nazis were doing, but in Canada they were in the Nazi, in the German party in Canada, and they sympathized with the Germans. So when the Afrikaaner government came into power here in 1948, then Maye’s father… said he wants to be with the Afrikaaners”…
cable news outlets really need to start putting “Former Ms Transvaal” on Maye Musk’s chiron…
Errol says of his breakup with Maye: “we were top of the social pile, top of the economic pile, top of the political pile… when you have too much good life, you start to, as a man, you start being casual”
sir, have you by any chance ever passed this lesson on to your son?…
Errol denies that the gross family situation was responsible for his falling out with Elon. “I had a falling out with Elon because of my support for Trump,” he says.
EXCUSE ME WHAT…
Elon shipped Scarlett Johannsen and Jennifer Lawrence (along with Sergey Brin) out to Capetown in order to go out to dinner for his dad’s 70th birthday
At Errol’s 70th birthday party in 2016, John Favreau told Errol “I hear you’re a Trump supporter” and when he admitted he was the entire Hollywood contingent laughed at him.
When asked why he supported Trump, Errol said he was a good businessman who doesn’t mess around. “You want to talk about race things, Trump has more awards for helping poor people and people across the race spectrum than anyone”
After his 70th birthday meal, where Errol outed himself as a Trump supporter in front of the Hollywood glitterati, Kimball Musk was furious, saying he’d embarrassed him in front of his friends, and Elon said “it’s evil to support Trump.” This was the cause of the family breach.
ELL OH ELL
“He was just brainwashed by those Democrats, because now Elon supports Trump!”
“Did Elon ever come back to you and say ‘you were right’ [about Trump]?”
“No, no, I wouldn’t put him through something like that… I mean, he should say something like that, but no, no.”…
Errol on Elon’s fixation on procreation: “If you’re a dope, don’t have kids. But you’re not a dope, so you should have lots of kids. So the thing is if you can afford it, but you mustn’t have kids if you can’t afford it.
Errol says it’s not just about money, you also have to have time for your kids. Elon regrets not spending more time with his first batch of offspring, he says, and he’s having more to make up for it.
Because that is DEFINITELY how that works!…
When asked what it’s like being the father of the richest man in the world, Errol Musk answers “It’s important to remember that I also did well.”
That seems like a good place to leave this thread. Thanks for tuning in, sorry about all the weird, gross, racist stuff!
The former Ms Transvaal, doing her best for her boy:
Elon's mom is on Fox buttering up her son and answering questions about whether anybody actually likes him. Cringe.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 26, 2024 at 10:46 AM
War for Ukraine Day 1,008: For Want of a Nail
oldster
So we should be grateful that he’s too stupid to lie, or too arrogant to think he needs to lie?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
So, this whole thing with Trump and Elon is about getting his dad’s approval? Jesus Fucking Christ.
oldster
I’m reminded of John Ganz’s classic article about Elon’s best bud and fellow South African. The headline is:
The Enigma of Peter Thiel
And the subhead is:
There Is No Enigma — He’s a Fascist
There is no enigma with Musk — he’s a nazi born of nazis and raised in a nazi country. That’s why he and trump get along so well.
Splitting Image
One of the most amusing things about the “let the old, the weak, and the sick die” contingent of fascists is how they simultaneously say:
1) “Let the old, the weak, and the sick die. It is the natural order of things, and now that we are running things, this is the way it is going to be. Poor people are poor because they deserve to be, and once we are in charge, we are gonna make them poorer.”
2) “Yes, apartheid / Jim Crow / slavery had problems, but our forefathers had integrity and compassion, and took a paternal interest in the lives of the people serving them, so it was never as bad as those mean old liberals made it out to be.”
3) “Society has become too coarse and uncaring, and we need to go back to the way things used to be.”
4) See point 1.
If you make the mistake of taking these people seriously, you could come to the conclusion that they could achieve the conservative utopia they want simply by living up to the standards set by the compassionate and ethical forefathers they admire and start being less a bunch of dickheads.
But that would be a mistake, since they are invariably lying about how their forefathers behaved and why they admire them.
Citizen Alan
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: are there any republicans who don’t have crippling?Daddy issues?
Jay
@Citizen Alan:
No,
they also have daughter issues, women issues, all the issues.
The Thin Black Duke
@Jay: More issues than a newsstand.
Jay
@The Thin Black Duke:
They have issues that don’t even really exist
Can you imagine the horror of being a therapist to a Maggot?
frosty
@Jay: It would be a horror but I don’t see these people being introspective enough to go to a therapist. Or even to think they need one.
MagdaInBlack
@Jay: Do therapists have therapists?
(as if a Magot would ever get therapy)
Jay
@frosty:
@MagdaInBlack:
Some of it might be “Court Ordered”,
MagdaInBlack
@Jay: Ha! Ya made me laugh. Good morning 🍁
Jay
@MagdaInBlack:
No emogee’s!!!!!!!!!! Don’t piss off John.
I the mid 90’s, I was going through a “perfect storm”. Marriage was going in the shitter, Company was “downsizing”, new ERP was being brought online, and the Company kept some of the worst people, even promoted them, because $$$$$$. The stress was insane.
HR and MGMT took me aside and told me that Anger Management courses were “required” and that I should also seek therapy, (12 sessions a year, covered by our Corporate health care).
It was on one hand, “nice of them”, on the other hand, well, they needed me.
Anger Management Class, I was the only guy, (all guys, funny that), not “Court Ordered”. Half the class came in in jump suits, cuffs and leg irons while bored PO’s stood lining the back wall.
Learned some stuff, did me well, served me well going forward.
Therapy, had 6 sessions, first one, big nope, changed therapists, got Gene, Gene the Dancing Machine, absolutely brilliant. 5th session, I started, and Gene interrupted, and said, “Jay, you know what to do” Yerp. Just had to re-center.
Gloria DryGarden
@frosty: so lacking in introspection, they never notice the three fingers pointed back at them selves when they
projectpoint their fingers at someone.p.a.
Tony Soprano’s did!
frosty
@Jay: Yes, hadn’t thought of that. I see why you mentioned it (comment #13).
BellyCat
Literally can not tell in the post what are direct quotes and what is ironic commentary. JFC…
BTW: Can anyone explain why John Favreau was at Daddy Musk’s 70th birthday party? This might be the biggest surprise of the entire article.
Jay
@p.a.:
But did Tony Soprano’s therapist have a therapist?
WereBear
@Jay: Very corporate. “We feel free to destroy your mind, but the government makes us give you health insurance.
Here. Try to fix what we did. So you can keep working.”
MagdaInBlack
Re the emoji: I will not be canceled ;-)
My experience with therapy was not successful, but that was my fault. Not able to let the walls down.
It has surprised me how many of my shop level male coworkers are in or have been thru anger management therapy……court ordered.
WereBear
Thing is, this is why they tend to go screaming mad by the fourth generation, because it’s sick people raising sick people.
They could hire compassionate nannies, and sometimes they do, but it’s harsh nannies who get results and the compassionate ones get fired. This traumatizes the children, but they seem to think that’s presumptuous of them.
Of course, such discussions occur with the saner ones, who managed to get away.
WereBear
@MagdaInBlack: Whether your upbringing encourages toxic sex roles, your emotions are under strict rules and males are only allowed a few.
I do think there is toxic femininity, it’s the opposite. More emotions allowed, obedience and childlike behavior allowed, submission to all males required.
While I was good at being helpful and obedient, I just couldn’t manage to turn off my brain, as they requested.
Good grades were fine, but actual thinking was discouraged. Don’t know if it’s natural or created, but I became a wiseass in self-defense.
MagdaInBlack
@WereBear: And look at how they treat the ones who do escape. I’m thinking of trumps brother, Fred. There’s also some story of Don Jr making a break and being threatened back into the fold.
MagdaInBlack
@WereBear: Tradfemsnark in reddit has some interesting looks at that toxic feminity.
Also too: I recall as a child, being told (not by my parents tg) that I was too smart for my own good. Because, you know, smart girls are threatening.
Jay
@MagdaInBlack:
So, therapy, it’s a two way street.
Gene did not want to take me on, 99% of his work was with abused children. Funny that, I was an uber responsible Adult with an abused child inside me.
It needs to “click” between you and the therapist.
Funny thing, G (the ex) and I went to couples therapy. Later I learned that the couples therapist was also her therapist. That’s a huge no-no. No wonder why our “couple therapy” sessions felt more like I was an Allied prisoner being interrogated by the Gestapo.
WereBear
@MagdaInBlack: He went to Montana and worked on a dude ranch, but came crawling back.
I supposed if he’d had valuable skills he could have gotten a better job… but perhaps he was very young.
And perhaps at the time he had a clearer picture of what it takes to be a Junior. Die at Dad’s hands of neglect, to assume from Mary Trump’s father. He managed a career as an airline pilot, for a while.
But not all the way out.
WereBear
@MagdaInBlack: I was told, in the course of failing my Southern Belle training, that it was fine to be smart, because you will have to outwit your husband, the damn fool.
You just can’t let him know. But he is a damn fool. It’s easy for smart girls.
I passed. I already had a Southern stepfather.
WereBear
@Jay: Sounds like Gene was a gift to the children. Even the ones we used to be.
TBone
People are serious about no emojis? I thought it was a joking matter. Sheesh.
Looks like the Wollman Reality Test was a fail.
https://med-cat.livejournal.com/589152.html
BellyCat
@Jay: Woah… Seems like serious grounds for a disciplinary complaint.
WereBear
@TBone: Perhaps, to some, they make a message difficult to read.
Like the way random caps mess with the mind trying to read text, only worse, because it’s not recognizable letters, and the details are so small they sometimes have to be studied.
It’s easy for teens to zero in on a blurry phone screen covered with smears. Then comes the reading glasses, if we haven’t needed them before.
BellyCat
@TBone: Did you see Baud’s emoji response about the emoji intolerance? LOL
(Just responded to your email. Sorry for long delay. Epic last few weeks)
TBone
@WereBear: get off my lawn!
*shakes fist and starts to yell at clouds while removing onions from belt for turkey stuffing…
TBone
@BellyCat: I did and it was the right and proper jackal response IMO.
Off to check email
MagdaInBlack
@TBone: Good morning 🌻
BellyCat
@WereBear: This is all kinds of hilarious. My partner is from NC and she has similar stories. Apparently some well know Republican dickhead went to her posh, very right wing HS and the place was a NIGHTMARE for intelligent women who didn’t know their “proper place”.
Jay
@WereBear:
Gene was a godsend.
@TBone:
As far as I know, the emoji thing is another inside joke, but for John,…….
@BellyCat:
Could have been, but at the time, I was done. When one person loves some one and want’s to keep going, and the other has “quit”, at a certain point in time, you just give up and accept what is happening.
Advise for anyone going though a divorce or separation, don’t give anything, until you are also done. I gave up Sugar, my fishing buddy, in the hope of keeping the relationship alive. My biggest regret in my life.
BellyCat
@TBone: I would emoji that, but…. you know. Ban hammer and all. 🔨 (oops!)
Princess
@BellyCat: Favreau at Musk’s party sure explains a lot, doesn’t it. I bet Nate Silver was there too.
BellyCat
@Jay: Agreed. Going through a divorce right now. Young kiddo, too. Living nightmare.
I will add to your good advice: Don’t marry a covert narcissist. And if you do, never divorce them.
Glory b
@BellyCat: RiChat people hanging out with other rich people.
I read somewhere that he went to a school where kindergarten tuition was about $50,000 per year.
It’s why folks derisively call his podcast “Pod Save My Trust Fund.”
BellyCat
@Princess: Srsly… Not sure I can spit the “ick” out of my mouth. Could be the straw that breaks my back about The Pod guys (although I do like Dan Pfeiffer)
BellyCat
@Glory b: It’s all coming into focus now — especially the Biden dislike. Joe wasn’t no rich kid.
lurker
@BellyCat: @Princess: @Glory b:
[NOTE – have edited a few details here and there in this comment]
Am guessing the Favreau thing is a confusing coincidence. This was a party including a bunch of Hollywood types. There is Jon Favreau (H) who is a major Hollywood mover and shaker. He is one of the primary drivers behind the Marvel movies (Iron Man, etc.) and has had a semi-successful acting career alongside his behind the scenes career. He plays Happy Hogan, consigliere to Tony Stark and officially head of security.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau for more info.
There is also Jon Favreau (P) who is a political operative and one of the main forces behind the ascendancy of the Obama Presidency. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau_(speechwriter) for more info. This dude is the one on the podcast, worked for Kerry as well as Obama, and is essentially not involved in Hollywood. The (H) is for Hollywood, the (P) is for political.
The guy at the dinner is probably the Hollywood guy. That is not the podcast guy. I spent some significant time confused by this, because they both spell their name identically (no H in either name). There is also about a fifteen year age gap, with the Hollywood guy born in ’66 and the political guy born in ’81.
That and I doubt the political guy was famous enough to be the kind of guy Elon would fly out for his father’s birthday dinner. The Hollywood guy runs the Marvel franchise with Kevin Feige and does a bunch of other movie exec stuff would fit that kind of dinner though.
Neither of these guys is a saint, no one at the levels of success they have achieved manages that. But this is not a case like Kal Penn leaving Hollywood for the Obama administration – this is two completely different dudes who look nothing alike (see the photos on the wikipedia pages….)
Jay
@BellyCat:
Sorry about that.
Contract killings are cheaper than divorces, (just a joke).
Divorce sucks. In most cases, only one person want’s “out”, the other want’s to “fix things”.
I have been with T for over 25 years now, I would not give up a moment of that, (except when I was really drunk, dreamed of a toilet and peed in the closet.)
We had Digger, Casey, Capra, Popo, Little Bit, Mellow.
We had acreage and a farm, became unhoused, are clawing back and she has cancer,
There is love, and then there is love.
WereBear
@BellyCat: While the men are not-raised to be damn fools. The few who are not have to be “in the closet” along with the gay men, who have a similar problem.
Someone has to keep the thing from collapsing entirely. Usually the women, the ones who still want to live.
Sometimes, I don’t think the men do…
BellyCat
Been there, loved that.
Sending you digital “hang in there” power!!!
Princess
@lurker: That makes a lot of sense. But political Jf needs to think about his life choices if he’s becoming plausibly confused with Hollywood JF.
Another Scott
@TBone: That’s great. Thanks very much for the pointer.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Brant Lamb
@BellyCat: I am finding all of the people on Pod Save America to be extremely obnoxious lately. I also find them to be campaign staff, talking to campaign staff; a lot of their wording comes across as just wrong, not niche.
WereBear
@Glory b: Which explains why so much of our media behave as though they have the responsibility quotient of of a stand up comedian. Getting edgy.
Corporate media turned it into another system of frat houses, essentially. Because, as Tucker Carlson was famously told by his father, “You should try media. They don’t ask for much.”
They want to see the little people suffering. They are on Team Rich, not Team White, as I heard from a Black woman on TikTok. I’m sure she knows their mindset better than I.
Indeed, even their prejudices are tiered beyond the minds of mere mortals.
TBone
@Another Scott: 💜
(That is a purple heart, with all due significance, for the emoji-challenged.)
TBone
@MagdaInBlack: good morning sunny spirit! It is a cold November rain here and you always make me happy to just be, no matter what.
prostratedragon
@Jay: Yes, played by Peter Bogdanovich. I think its standard in most schools of therapy.
WereBear
@Jay: And Dr. Melfi’s therapist has one, too.
Maybe even the guy who talked to Carmella about blood money, but it might be someone younger :)
Because the journey never ends.
Tony G
“Elon shipped Scarlett Johannsen and Jennifer Lawrence (along with Sergey Brin) out to Capetown …” What? So beautiful young actresses are cargo that are shipped across the Atlantic Ocean for a party? Were they sedated first? What a freak show. Not only the Musks, but The Hollywood culture.
Tony G
@Tony G: Honestly. Scarlett Johannson and Jennifer Lawrence are wealthy famous women with successful careers. They are in a position to politely (or impolitely) tell Elon Musk to go fuck himself. Celebrities are, of course, part of the rot.
prostratedragon
@WereBear: It’s therapists all the way down.
Tony G
@Tony G: I’m trying to figure out whether there is any aspect of “American culture” that is not totally corrupted. I haven’t found any yet.
WereBear
@prostratedragon: In our dreams. The turtles seem to be slackers lately.
Josie
@Tony G:
Librarians!
Quinerly
@lurker:
Thank you for sorting this out.
WereBear
@Josie: I would accept rule by librarians. Like teachers, they should be about fairness.
Rusty
@Tony G: Are we sure they weren’t paid? I was surprised a few years ago to read about how well known bands can make big bucks for single performances at rich people’s birthday parties and such. Same for the famous just showing up at parties. The Kardashians made a lot of their initial money doing this. Wouldn’t surprise me, for a million dollars, they were there. For the ultra wealthy, it’s just another way to spend money.
Josie
@WereBear:
We (librarians) are always about fairness. The bottom line for us is a balanced collection and free access.
Soprano2
@Princess: Different John Favreau, he’s a Hollywood director.
frosty
@Rusty: Of course they were paid. I wonder if that’s the only way the rich have any attendees. Or friends.
I think less of both of them now.. Have at least SOME standards of what you’ll do for money!
Tony G
@Rusty: Yes, I’m sure that they were paid, and paid well. But my point is that these women are already wealthy (by normal standards, although they’re peasants by the standards of someone like Musk). They really don’t have to rent themselves out as eye-candy. But, if they had an ounce of integrity they wouldn’t have the show-business careers that they have. A nation of courtiers kissing up to the “nobility”. This country has always been corrupt, but it’s an order of magnitude worse than it used to be.
WaterGirl
@TBone: The emoji rant from Cole was not a joke. That was Cole, pissed off and dead serious.
Allow me to John-splain.
Serious –>
Side rant –>
Serious –>
Gvg
@Tony G: I don’t think Scarlett was then. I am not sure she is now as Black Widow didn’t make as much as hoped due to Covid killing Theater traffic etc. She should be comfortable but at the time I think she was still trying to get her lead role movie made and needed studio support. I think there are movie money politics too. Not many stars have the money to produce their own films for instance and she is not that rich. Lopez I don’t know much about.
Portly Neighbor
Errol Musk has at least 2 kids by his now-adult stepdaughter – I think they met when she was 4 years old and he married her mother. Feels just a little creepy :{
Tony G
@Gvg: Well … “Just my opinion man” — but if she had enough money to pay for food and a small apartment then she doesn’t have to rent herself out to a rich creep like that. But that’s celebrity culture — anything for money. (Spoken as a bitter old man.). What’s fascinating to me (in a repulsive way) is the attitude of Musk and of people like him. If I were rich (I am not) then why on earth would I want to be with people (male or female) who are being paid to pretend to like me? What an empty, twisted little life. But I imagine that this is a common attitude among the super-rich. Only money has meaning to these people.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: He can blame me, if it helps. I think I started the “+1” and “👍” stuff (but Baud might have started a little before me).
I doubt that he’s complaining about balloons and cakes and streamers and the like for birthdays, but dunno. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, this place would be pretty bad if the comments turn into a typical YouTube comment sidebar of a big live event, but I doubt that will happen. ;-)
And I thought the old red line was about threaded comments not nested ones. Does that mean we can look forward to threaded comments in the next upgrade??!! Should I email him my credenza??
Best wishes,
Scott.
Tony G
@Gvg: Anyway … I did a quick lookup. Jennifer Lawrence and Scarlett Johansson each have a net worth of more than $150 million. Chump change compared to Musk’s wealth, but a tremendous amount of money by normal standards. My point is not to disparage these two young women per se. They’re talented entertainers, I guess, so it’s fine that they’re rich. But this whole sick spectacle of Musk hiring beautiful, famous young women to pretend to like him just seems to me to be one of many examples of the rot that underlies our “culture”.
Tony G
@Another Scott: I’ve been entertaining myself by reading This Fine Blog for years. I, for one, am amazed at the notion of John Cole freeking out about something. He’s usually so calm!
The Pale Scot
Did she use a hand puppet?
The Interrogator from The Carol Burnett Show
The Pale Scot
It’s called “acting”
Really, I sure they fly first class +, get put up I a 4 star. I doubt they had to hang on his arm, spent a couple of hours circulating and keeping the fuckers at arm’s length. flew home with a couple of mills. There could have been movie executives there, ABS
JoeyJoeJoe
@p.a.: in the TV show Hannibal, Hannibal Lecter also had his own therapist. One guess on what happened to that therapist in the end
Ruckus
@Splitting Image:
I’m not saying you have to take them seriously but one does/should understand their views – because they often are so much crap. And they often have position and power. It’s humanity, in all it’s good and all it’s not even in the same universe as good. And if we don’t it is much, much more difficult to get much of the world/humanity to be even a tiny bit better.
Ruckus
@The Thin Black Duke:
Thank You!
More issues than a newsstand.
I’ve got to remember that.
Ruckus
@MagdaInBlack:
Many men are told/raised to be in charge, to think that they can do anything they want, to be anything they want. It seems to be deeply ingrained in many parts of humanity. And a lot of them see anything as being OK to be complete and utter assholes. Because it sometimes gets them what they want. Now often at some point they get the rough edges of being a complete and utter asshole at least somewhat sanded down, at least a fair number of them anyway. Not everyone that goes through this schooling sees it as reasonable and proper but it is a segment of male humanity. Especially historic (and some not all that historic) humanity.
Freemark
@Tony G:
This was before the 2016 election. Elmo certainly wasn’t considered the creep that he is now. A lot of liberals liked him for pushing electric cars and renewables. Also liked him for SpaceX. At that time going to his party for his dad where he paid all travel expenses and where many Hollywood money people were was perfectly good. It is looking back with hindsight where the ick factor gets huge.
Ruckus
@Splitting Image:
By George I think you’ve got it!
Money can buy a lot of things, but it cannot buy humanity, humility, logic, rationality, reasonable or good.
Those are learned and earned.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Threaded, nested, same thing, I think. If you have a reply to a reply, they ended up nested and threaded.
Your +1 was fine and has been fine for years. That’s not the issue.
As for ALL CAPS EMAILS and faxing credenzas, I think Cole is as good with those as he ever was. :-)
MagdaInBlack
@TBone: Well, that convinced me to go another day without burning the bridge here. TY.
WaterGirl
@Tony G: You’re right, Cole is loose about a lot of things.
But Cole is protective of what makes Balloon Juice Balloon Juice, which has been a pretty smart place for 23 years.
I can’t speak for Cole, but my takeaway from what he has said is that BJ has been here for 20+ years without devolving into a social media site on the internet filled with memes and emojis and like buttons and people who are there for the attention and the likes.
It looks like Cole wants to keep it that way, and all the emojis and random links are starting to dilute the smart (and smartass) conversation. That kind of stuff can be contagious, so i read Cole’s screed the other night as Cole wanting to nip that shit in the bud.
Gloria DryGarden
@MagdaInBlack:
i Heard some versions of that. Of note, a guy I knew in high school said I couldn’t get dates because you could see the wheels turning. And sheesh, he knew me from advanced math and physics.
I was willing to hide my prettiness, but never willing to pretend about my mind, ór dumb myself down.
Tony G
@WaterGirl: Yes. I admire a guy who speaks his mind! (And I can’t stand emojis myself! To me they’re a regression into a pre-literate culture.)
Ryan
Yo, Errol isn’t the billionaire, we don’t have to care what he thinks. We only have to care what Elmo thinks.