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Summary
Elon Musk, after spending $21 million backing conservative Brad Schimel in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, amplified election fraud claims following Schimel’s loss to liberal judge Susan Crawford.
Musk boosted a post by Alex Jones featuring Roger Stone, who alleged mail-in vote fraud. Schimel rejected the claims, urging supporters to accept the results.
Musk pivoted to highlighting a voter ID ballot measure, though Wisconsin already requires ID. Critics see his reaction as echoing Trump-era denialism.
Despite GOP pressure, Schimel’s concession stood out for its rare break from MAGA conspiracy rhetoric.
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Oh look, Conservatives sowing more doubt and mistrust because they can’t handle it when faced with how unpopular they are.
Quelle surprise.
Sowing like planting seeds not sewing like creating a garment
But now that I think about it they both kinda work… sewing the threads of lies.
You know, I looked at that and knew it looked wrong but brain couldn’t figure out why.
Thanks!
Instead of a seamstress, we’ve got a memestress.
Also not sure what it means to quelle surprise.
It’s French for what a surprise
I also have no clue. Though Quelle in German is a spring, or source.
Yes I’m familiar with the German word Quelle. All bottled carbonated water in Germany seems to come from one Quelle or another.
I’m thinking they were going for the English word “quell”?
quell /kwĕl/
transitive verb
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To put down forcibly; suppress.
“Police quelled the riot.”
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To pacify; quiet.
“finally quelled the children’s fears.”
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To take the life of; to kill.
Similar: kill
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Perhaps some leading election deniers are motivated by a psychological defense mechanism, but I think that many realize the strategic benefit. The members of the public who are convinced that Democrats steal elections will vote Republican. They’ll also be more willing to accept a Republican refusing to leave office after losing an election, if things come to that.
Anyone voting Republican after 2017 is a lost cause. No matter what happens they are voting R. Save your breath and sympathy.
I disagree. While I will never forgive those voters, I don’t think most of them are lost causes. They’ve been manipulated by the largest, most well-funded misinformation and propaganda campaign ever waged against the American people.
Exercising even the smallest amount of critical thinking skills protects oneself against most of it, but no one is completely immune to misinformation.
Sure buddy I’m sum it up for you. “Two Trump Elections.” But keep turning the other cheek. This time Lucy won’t pull the football. She promised. 🙄
Anyone who still supports HitlerPig is as much a traitor and Nazi as he is. If you don’t like hearing that, atop being a traitor and a Nazi.
I’m not sure how that’s related to what I wrote.
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Ya know, Elon…
A bit?
Don’t undersell the oligarch’s image. He’s worked hard to earn.
The only work he’s personally performed these past decades.
“I WASNT ABLE TO BUY THIS ELECTION DESPITE MY VAST WEALTH, SO OBVIOUSLY SOMEONE ELSE BOUGHT THIS ELECTION AND STOLE IT WITH THEIR VAST WEALTH, ITS THE ONLY CONCEIVABLE REASON WHY I COULD POSSIBLY LOSE!”
He’s salty because he got outbid. Damned eBay snipers.
he payed for that election fair and square!!!
Poor Musk was robbed, he was promised that if he paid generously, the election result would be guaranteed. In the end he was cheated, it’s unfair. Cry, Cry, crocodile tears. 😭
Musk boosted a post by Alex Jones featuring Roger Stone
It’s like a who’s who of absolutely garbage people.
Roy Cohn was also consulted by seance.
How can this man walk freely on the street? He would get shanked in prison and those dudes have to make knives with toothbrushes and other garbage.
This idiot just walks around and no one shoots their shot.
Well, I mean he had an entire security detail deputized by the US Marshalls…so it’s not like he’s just walking out in the open. The guy surrounds himself with sycophants and other billionaires, it’s the only way to completely isolate yourself from reality.
I don’t think he’s really made an actual public appearance since being booed on stage at that chapel show, and that was by people going to see an unfunny transphobe.
He would be protected by the nazis in prison.
lol, how long before the prison Nazis get tired of his shit.
I want to know why anyone still uses that shitty Nazi site he bought.
Unfortunately, the art community is still big. No other platform has as much engagement with small time artists. I use it just for that. Sometimes Ill get curious and see political tweets. They’re almost always filled to the brim with comments spouting: hate, disinformation or deflection. You’ll see sane comments but the algorithm buries them. I’m sure most are bots but the nazi-ism is definitely boosted.
I’ve made accounts on bsky, pixelfed and cara and post there also. Unfortunately the masses haven’t moved to those yet so commissions and posts are sparse.
Twitter overtook deviant art?
Would be interesting if everyone still stuck using it consistently advertised a discount for finding them on any site besides Twitter. Might not make the biggest difference by itself but it could start a trickle that turns into the flood.
Basically a surcharge for users that only know Twitter or otherwise wouldn’t be bothered by the noise. Maybe call it a tarrif that can be easily avoided :)
Because it’s the site where you can follow and interact with the most people.
No one in their right mind should want to interact with the nazi-loving scum on that shit hole.
It’s almost as if there are many different people on that website.
And if they’re still on there they’re supporting a Nazi shit head. People need to migrate their communities. Stop being lazy. Stop being part of the problem. Get off the nazi website
I actually looked up the people I follow on X on other platforms such as Mastodon & Bluesky, I found 0 on Mastodon and 3 on Bluesky…
Who/what do you follow that is worth supporting the app? I have never used Twitter/x, I’m genuinely curious
A few examples include Drop Site, Aymeric Canon, Mary Kostakidis, Bruno Tertrais, Marco Botenga MEP, Régis Le Sommier, Dr Jimmy Mohamed, Ian Caroll, Rachel Blevins, Scott Ritter, Trita Parsi, Kenneth Roth, Dominique De Villepin…
Another way to look at it is like having to use Windows because that’s what they use at your job. There’s a problem but because most people are oblivious or don’t care, the momentum is difficult to escape. You may find it easy to say ‘quit you job then’ to fully show your disapproval but not everyone has that luxury.
I do hope everyone that is stuck using it mentions in every commission or interaction that they are available on different sites as well though.
Anyone still using it or of convenience though should quit immediately.
And its a shitty thing for each of them to use the website.
You’re entitled to your opinions.
You spelled bots wrong homie.
Sure, there are bots. There are also a lot of real people, politicians, journalists, analysts, software engineers etc.
I actually tried to replace X a few weeks ago and considered Mastodon and Bluesky. Nobody I follow on X is on Mastodon, and only three are on Bluesky.
Go outside? I have never used Twitter and live a perfectly normal life. I have access to plenty of information and opinions from paid subscriptions to newspapers and personal blogs. No one can communicate anything serious on Twitter. For sport highlights or similar - I get it. For anything else - a social tool - people have simply forgotten to go outside and do real stuff with real people. You are lying to yourself by saying Twitter provides something you can’t live without.
You answer to finding a platform that provides most of the information I want to have is to … go outside? Do you think that’s even remotely helpful?
Dont be lazy and find it elsewhere? I didnt realize twitter was where all new things come from.
I’m guessing you didn’t read my comment two steps above…
YOU LITERALLY BOUGHT VOTES
He’s been able to get whatever he wants by throwing money at it his whole life, so when it doesn’t work he automatically cries foul.
Exactly like Trump.
…Which is why he thinks it’s rigged…
Can’t argue with that logic. CHECK AND MATE, LIBERAL!
Elon, this isn’t an auction you disphit
Everything is stolen when your a South African Nazi fascist who was unable to buy the vote they wanted.
Hey F’Elon; how about returning those billions of dollars you’ve stolen from the U.S. government (and many other governments) over the past decade.
Fuck you Elon 🖕
Your attempts to steal an election were subverted and now you’re complaining. Fucking GOLD.
This is a guy who wants to blame the world for his botched gender affirmation surgery that left him with a mangled useless sex organ.
No wonder he hates trans people so much.
No wonder he has so many ivf babies with multiple women.
No wonder he wants to experiment on unwilling human subjects in El Salvador until he can get the neuralink chip to work (he wants to be able to push a button to get off. He has been waiting years for his tantric release. There is no other way)
No wonder he’s so rich yet seems so unhappy.
botched gender affirmation surgery that left him with a mangled useless sex organ
I keep hearing this around here. Is there any actual reason to think it’s true?
Even if the bit about the surgery is true, it’s a very reductive explanation of issues which clearly aren’t new in his life. He was brought up by far-right parents and his father apparently showed him no love. He has been poisonously insecure all his life, only now he has the power to inflict his psychological troubles on the world. Ever since he got financially lucky in the 1990s, he has had the money to buy influence and pay people to do what he wants, so he has never become equipped to deal with people as equals and has all kinds of issues and insecurities around power. He discovered early that, while he had trouble making friends, he could make an impression on people by being edgy and controversial, and has never managed to move beyond this into a more mature persona.
I feel like saying “it’s all because of his wonky penis” trivializes how profoundly this man’s life has messed him up, and how many complex factors are at work in his psyche. It also implicitly insults anyone else who doesn’t have “normal” genitalia.
how profoundly this man’s life has messed him up, and how many complex factors are at work in his psyche.
Why should we give a single fuck? This guy lies, cheat and sayd himself he thinks empathy is a weakness. Why should have any towards him. He calls everyone he disagree losers, called my prime minister “girl” and openly makes nazi salutes, and you want us to play the “Tell me about chilhood Elon” card? He’s a little narcissist privilege bitch who’s been exploiting people all his life, and I will be happy to take a piss on his grave. And I have no doubt the size of his dick (it’s obviously tiny) is one of the reasons he want’s to make the world suffer.
It’s not that I feel any particular sympathy for Elon Musk. But I’m sure there are lots of people living with small dicks who don’t experience any need to become crazy Nazis, and lots of crazy Nazis with sizeable penises. I just feel this whole “a man needs a big dick to be secure, and any insecure man has a small dick” thing is a somewhat offensive outlook.
The reason to make fun of his dick size is because that’s one of the only way that we can get to him. This guys controls half of the planet, the only thing we have is to make fun of him on social networks. You can call him a racist pos, transphobe, hateful, he actually takes prides into this. But call him a small dick and you just know he will spent the night convincing himself he as the biggest dick on the planet. Just like Donald the pedo and crowd size.
I’m sure a lot a men with small dicks are perfectly happy and secure about themselves, because they don’t live in a superficial privilege bubble, just like lots of men rock their grey hairs and balding. But you got to admit Musk screams insecurity so it’s totally fine to assume the size of dick is something he thinks about all the time.
The only way we can be sure is to inspect the genitals.
Prove there is a penis that can get an erection.
Otherwise “he” might be using the WRONG BATHROOM!!!
I looked into it a week or two ago and couldn’t find any definitive evidence. It seems plausible because Musk is well known for being into plastic surgery and IVF, but other than a musician who knows Grimes publicly claiming that Grimes confirmed it to them, I didn’t see anything that looked convincing.
If he wanted us to care, he should try using empathy. He went in the opposite direction and now reaps what he has sown.
Space Nazi abuses ketamine- that’s an established fact. And ketamine abuse can do horrible things to your urogenital tract. So it might not be botched gender affirming surgery that is his pee pee problem, but ketamine side effects.
Elon and the mangly inch looool
Is it possible he literally cannot have orgasms and sexual release? Can’t he get pegged or something, maybe Neuralink has a backdoor to his Backdoor. Analink
His obsession with trans people, means he could be into it
Its just so sketch. I know a conservative who made a weird distribe about all this stuff and then mentioned in some vague way that ladyboys in Thailand were an exception in his mind cuz prostate(s). Mind-boggling
He thinks it’s “stolen” because he also thought he had bought it and thus owned it.
He still has his receipts! But there’s a no-return policy for purchased elections.
You have to understand his perspective. He paid for it, so he thinks it’s his
Musk = POS Nazi.
