Peter Lee
Philippa Willitts π³οΈβπWho'd have thought the winning tweet of the year would be such a late entry?!
Meeche@incurablehippie I feel like heβs asking someone in government to check his tax returns.
Noel KellyHe came up in my YouTube recommendation today. He claims to pay no UK tax by operating via a company based in Dubai.
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FeralRobots@Meeche @incurablehippie he's been begging for that for years just by how he lives. Basically a permanent expat, constantly & blatantly skirting tax law, while surviving on raw grift.
Daisy, Cybernetic Novice@Meeche @incurablehippie well they're definitely checking something!
Theodora Lau
arkywarky@incurablehippie @gretathunberg is here too! Banger tweet
Dwight Williams (π x9)+π·π¨π¦@arcade @incurablehippie @gretathunberg Thank you kindly, Ms. Thunberg! We'll keep working on putting out the housefires!
geolaw@arcade @incurablehippie @gretathunberg is Greta really at that account? The button says βPendingβ
@arcade @incurablehippie @gretathunberg
I think this explains it?
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/109456863598374746#:~:text=Have%20you%20tried%20following%20someone%20and%20it%20says%20%22pending%22%3F&text=next%20to%20their%20name%20on,if%20you%20see%20%22pending%22.
I think this explains it?
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/109456863598374746#:~:text=Have%20you%20tried%20following%20someone%20and%20it%20says%20%22pending%22%3F&text=next%20to%20their%20name%20on,if%20you%20see%20%22pending%22.
FediTips has moved! (@[email protected])
Have you tried following someone and it says "pending"? In theory this is meant to only happen when someone has manual follower approval switched on. If they have it switched on, there will be a padlock π next to their name on their profile. However, "pending" may also happen if servers are overwhelmed and your request is in a long queue, or there is some kind of technical fault. Don't assume someone is rejecting your follow if you see "pending". They might not even know it is happening.
@geolaw o! that makes sense. sorry im used to fedi's glitches a bit too much lol @incurablehippie @gretathunberg
Lazarou Monkey Terror πππ@incurablehippie
Forever "Andrew 'Small Dick Energy' Tate"
Forever "Andrew 'Small Dick Energy' Tate"
@Lazarou for ever and ever
Andrew D.@incurablehippie @Lazarou maybe βTiny Tate.β Gretaβs damn good.
S3r1ous Black
IdahoLark@Lazarou @incurablehippie I love how offended he was by her reply, which indicates she was spot on in her assessment.
@IdahoLark @incurablehippie can't believe he exposed himself like that, and he started this fight too!
RUN BACK HOME TO YOUR MOTHER, ANDREW TATE!
RUN BACK HOME TO YOUR MOTHER, ANDREW TATE!
Agora
Gabriel Pettier@incurablehippie To be willing to be publicly owned like this, he must be quite the marxist.
dizm@dizm @incurablehippie 1/ that's a joke
2/ well, i did read the manifesto, but i think that's about it, i've read some other socialist/anarchists (proudhon, kropotkine, bakounin, jaures), but i don't consider myself an expert in marxism (or even a marxist, it's complicated).
2/ well, i did read the manifesto, but i think that's about it, i've read some other socialist/anarchists (proudhon, kropotkine, bakounin, jaures), but i don't consider myself an expert in marxism (or even a marxist, it's complicated).
@tshirtman @incurablehippie
Fair enough, thanks for clarifying.
The problem is, terms like marxist, communist, socialist, etc, have been hijacked, turned into meaningless insults, precisely to distract from whatever valuable insight they have to offer.
Iβm actively opposed to that form (and all forms) of extremism.
@dizm @incurablehippie oh, ok, i wasn't sure about your intent, yeah i don't consider it an insult, but i'm sure he would, that's why i found it funny :).
And yeah, to some people the term has been distorted beyond any meaning, it's just their go to categorization for anything they don't like/are afraid of.
And yeah, to some people the term has been distorted beyond any meaning, it's just their go to categorization for anything they don't like/are afraid of.
Patrick Byers@tshirtman @incurablehippie underrated post
Keith_R"he must be quite the marxist."
Is that you being ironic?
Or just stupid?
Hard to tell...
undeuxtrois@keithreeder @tshirtman @incurablehippie
Why did you remove the "To be willing to be publicly owned like this" but ? It's the joke !
Why did you remove the "To be willing to be publicly owned like this" but ? It's the joke !
@undeuxtrois @tshirtman @incurablehippie
Because to be a joke, something has to be funny, and there was literally nothing about that post that said "joke".
Maybe it was in *in* joke, but the fact that it was lost on several of us tells you it failed in its wider job.
@keithreeder @undeuxtrois @incurablehippie maybe you donβt know what it mean to be "owned" in this context, but it is a well understood meaning, i think, and it was in public, so he was "publicly owned", which is a very socialist thing to be, if you take it in the other meaning of "owned", and of course, the guy is not a marxist at all, which is why itβs a joke.
You didnβt get it, no problem, but donβt blame others for the joke you didnβt get.
@tshirtman @undeuxtrois @incurablehippie
Of course I know what "owned" means: but the fact is that your sentence can easily stand in its own right as an ill-advised and uninformed pseudo-political comment.
If a "joke" doesn't land, it's on the teller, not the hearer - *good* jokes never need to be explained.
@keithreeder @undeuxtrois @incurablehippie dozens of people favorited the post, and like 2 including you, werenβt sure of the meaning, so i think it landed pretty well.
good day to you..
@tshirtman @undeuxtrois @incurablehippie
Yeah, that's how you can tell...
AllyBallyBee19@AllyBallyBee19 @[email protected] @incurablehippie
Lets unpick this, then.
For a play on words to work, it needs a nugget of truth in it, that the pun subverts.
So for the other meaning of "owned" to work here, it would have to be the case that Marxists are *actually* owned in the traditional sense of the word.
Well they aren't, are they? The fact that Marxism has *something* to say about ownership doesn't just somehow carry the joke anyway.
As a counterpoint, *this* one works:
@keithreeder @incurablehippie i know sarcasm is dead, but i though this one was quite transparent. Poeβs law, i guess.
How to prevent Poe's law from kicking in:
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Etc.
Easy, really...
@keithreeder @incurablehippie itβs useful indeed when you say something that could be said in all seriousness, which iβm pretty sure is not the case here, but hey, obviously there is always *someone* to misunderstand it.
"obviously there is always *someone* to misunderstand it."
Seriously - don't give up your day job. Comedy clubs the world over are going to be better for you *not* appearing in them.
Holdfast@incurablehippie
More like the winning Twat!
More like the winning Twat!
Comfortably Numb@incurablehippie sometimes QT does have its purpose.
Caperneoignis@incurablehippie hahahaha!!! That was great. I wonder if he caught the joke or will be trying to email his car list there?
Julian βͺπ»π₯₯π΄β«@caperneoignis @incurablehippie He was outraged, replied "How dare you" (trying to get back at her with her own words, but it was pretty weak).
@TFFPrisoner @caperneoignis That's a really, really inadequate response! He was rattled!
Laces@incurablehippie @TFFPrisoner @caperneoignis
And that makes it even more hilarious, how thin skinned he is. Don't get me wrong, it was a banger of a tweet, but it wasn't even deep. Like, you don't have to know much about Tate to come up with an insult like this. If just hitting surface level gets to him then he should just pack up and go. ππ
And that makes it even more hilarious, how thin skinned he is. Don't get me wrong, it was a banger of a tweet, but it wasn't even deep. Like, you don't have to know much about Tate to come up with an insult like this. If just hitting surface level gets to him then he should just pack up and go. ππ
@Laces @incurablehippie @TFFPrisoner did you see his response? You can tell it got under his skin lol
Jon Stackpool@incurablehippie the former-sixteen-year-old grew a pair.
And then grew some more for good measure!
@JonStackpool @incurablehippie She was amazing two years ago already... https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-thunberg-idUKKBN27M0TA
Climate activist Thunberg hits back at Trump over anger management taunt
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg hit back at Donald Trump on Twitter late on Thursday saying the U.S. president should "chill" about the election, a riposte to his tweet last year mocking the teenager over what he called her anger management issues.
Benj Souleπ«πHumanityFirstπ
@JonStackpool @incurablehippie Andrew should grow one on his forehead. Something I don't think he'd mind in all honesty.
THAT effin' Canadian guy....@incurablehippie Gotta love that girl....as for Andrew, we can only hope that Lady Karma rides as a backseat driver in one of his cars soon.π€·ββοΈ
@VDA @incurablehippie do those cars have back seats? Sounds like this Tate guy doesnβt need even one passenger seat.
Mariela@VDA sorry in advance for the 
link but yes, you are correct https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1608582107563167744 @incurablehippie
link but yes, you are correct https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1608582107563167744 @incurablehippie
Kathy α¨β π °@incurablehippie Go Greta! π
SmudgiesMom@incurablehippie LOLLL! πππ
Marty P.@incurablehippie If I still had a bird account, I send my warmest congrats to the inestimable G.
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