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Re:Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in ... by browningstreet on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:43AM (#34150296)
Only because of his follow-up tweet -- his first tweet ("Epic thread") was fully ambiguous. He knows better (after all, he owns the platform) so he's also willingly trolling by not being clearer.

That said, the media response to it -- pumping his first tweet without clarifying by virtue of the second tweet -- is emblematic of everything wrong with our current news/media/social-media culture.

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Re:Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in ... by olddustytrail on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:59AM (#34150583)
It wasn't ambiguous to anyone with a functional sense of humour. Have you read the predictions in the tweet he was replying to? They're utterly insane. The EU will collapse, Germany will form a Fourth Reich, France will go to war with the Fourth Reich!

In fact surely that's a parody account? How could anyone possibly think Musk genuinely agreed with it?

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Re:Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in ... by vardump on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:47AM (#34150369)
I'd say mockery was pretty apparent from the context in the first place. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1607494455720022018

  > Epic thread!!
If you had no idea from who that tweet was from, wouldn't you regard it as mockery?
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Re:Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in ... by fwip on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:50AM (#34150422)
Musk genuinely still uses "epic" to describe things he likes.
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Re:Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in ... by vardump on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:57AM (#34150552)
Shrug. Maybe it's just me, but I don't things seriously when people use multiple exclamation marks.
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Re:Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in ... by astrange on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:25PM (#34151008)
Elon talks like a Rick and Morty script. He's serious when he says things like that.
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Re:Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in ... by vgt on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @02:13PM (#34152518)
All this reminds me of MAGA treatment of Trump's ambiguity. A straight shooter and a troll at the same time..
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Re:Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in ... by TigeriusKirk on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @05:06PM (#34154500)
It wasn't remotely ambiguous.

People have lost their minds over Musk.

It's not a good look.

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