emptywheelElmo has created a real colosseum thing over there.
campfirewood@emptywheel In that it probably reeks of animal carcasses and excrement these days?
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Alexander Ruthol@MichaelRoss @emptywheel
It's a bit sad to see that so many try to reason with him & his flying monkeys.
It's a bit sad to see that so many try to reason with him & his flying monkeys.
Steve Crist@emptywheel And a lot of journalists who should honestly know better seem all too willing to continue being gladiators. I really don't see how they don't recognize that they're the entertainment. It's time to move on.
KE0OEA@srcrist @emptywheel There's a reason that people don't hear about the Westboro Baptist Church anymore. That's because after years of protesting and getting up in their face, everyone sort of collectively decided to ignore them. I haven't heard a thing about them (aside from members who have left) in a few years now. Everyone just needs to do the same thing with Elon. If people give him the attention he craves, then he will continue to do what he's doing.
Joel Defoe@emptywheel he does it for the attention and he will continue doing it because it works.
Andy Sternberg@emptywheel a collosal shitshow that's for sure.
John K@emptywheel
Except the slaves are free to leave.
Except the slaves are free to leave.
Pietro@emptywheel In a year's time, the "lions" in Musk's colosseum will have only each other to eat, as everyone else will have landed elsewhere, far away from that nonsense.
Hammancheez@emptywheel commodus doing a shit job of crowd work too
Corey Cradle@emptywheel
Yep. Virtual public hangings and throwing people to lions.
Yep. Virtual public hangings and throwing people to lions.
beryl@emptywheel Will advertisers be ok with it?
nhb
billseipel@emptywheel In many ways the battleground analogy is appropriate. There's no reason for average joes to be there but its important that journalists be there to report the crimes. At some point however, there should be no reason for people to stay there.
@emptywheel It's getting worse by the day.
I'm not sure if it's more of the good people leaving, more of the bad people multiplying or most likely a combination of both.
But, Twitter is quickly devolving into an bigger cesspool that I ever thought possible. Between Trump's deranged cult, Elon's derranged cult, the anti-anti-Trump losers, and the edgelords, including the chief edgelord himself, Elon.
It's hard to find places where it's not completely awful now.
JeffOwnby@emptywheel And everyone just stays there. Unreal
@emptywheel so, you’re saying we need a Maximus Decimus Meridius to take him on?
Steve Rehrauer@emptywheel His lions work for the hope of free ponies.
Kimberly Marie@emptywheel every journalist he banned should of stayed gone off twitter. They should of flipped him the finger and said we're leaving the platform. 😩
It's going south fast. I think it's more soap opera than gladiatorial combat....
Jasper Jenkins👵✡️♌️🇺🇲🇺🇦@emptywheel
What a perfect metaphor except for one thing. 😊 Thank God we can all just leave when we want.
What a perfect metaphor except for one thing. 😊 Thank God we can all just leave when we want.
Bathsheba BlueI kid you not this is the exact image I've been thinking of ever since he bought twitter - esp with his moronic "polls".
DalchicoMe too. It’s such an obvious parallel. Let the rabble hoard decide!
Darrel Plant@inklings @emptywheel Are you not entertained?
Teresa Vann@emptywheel he’s horrible
Siun@emptywheel he was hanging with Jared Kushner and their owners at the World Cup Final
Beelzebabe667✅🇺🇦@emptywheel My last attempt at twittering before@I disabled my account & deleted the app. #TwitterMigration
toxtethogrady@emptywheel Good - let's just open up the floodgates and drown them all out.
marie_cast 
“Are you not entertained?!” The Roman Games were paid for by the emperor, but Elmo is charging $8/11 for the good seats.