Ok, Elon is insane.
Does he really believe, that he can ask a Communist to pay money for a service?

@LukeAlmighty which communist and which service?

All the "commies" I know are consoomer retards who sign up for Spotify and Netflix.

@PonyPanda
True...
But he's asking Twats for 20 dollars for.... a blue checkmark.

@PonyPanda
Can someone please help me devide $43 billion by 20 dollars?

I mean, how many people would you expect to pay a Twat license?

@LukeAlmighty @PonyPanda
One more thing

Fedi is great because of all the options we got. Twitter users are always starved for new features but they rarely get anything new except more shadowban. There is demand and people willing to pay for features. Those same people are not gonna spend 20 bucks to read a blue checks tweet. So the math works out.

@zemichi @PonyPanda
More importantly, the blue checkmark will mark you as "rich enough to spend on your reputation".

And that almost sounds like a good deal even to me to be honest.

@LukeAlmighty @zemichi I don't think you quite grasp the WASP mindset. The mindset that leads to hipsterdom and things like normcore. You need to know what "counter-signalling" is. And I realize that the definition of the term "counter-signalling" has kind of lost it's meaning because retard pseudo-intellectuals on the right have come to use the term in place of "disparaging."

This is counter-signalling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersignaling

Counter-signalling is why you have broke hood niggers covered head-to-toe in brand name clothing but you still know they're poor. Counter-signalling is why when you see a very modestly dressed white person, you know that they're in all likelihood richer than their better dressed peers. Counter-signalling is why you know the professor who lets you call them by their first name is more competent than the pajeet who insists you call them "doctor."

Not getting a blue checkmark will be a form of counter-signalling. ESPECIALLY because to get a blue checkmark means paying into a right-wing, fascist, transphobic institution. The mindset among these people will be "I am important and you should just know without me paying 20bux" The really noteworthy people won't get checkmarks because they're quite secure in their reputation. The people on the social ladder below them will be inclined to for a while but then they'll see that it makes them look stupid.
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@PonyPanda @zemichi
While interesting, that would change the group buying the checkmarks from celebrities to pseude-celebrities.

Hmmm..... That actually sounds better for Elon.

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