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Christian conservatives are expressing outrage at Elon Musk over the billionaire’s “Satanic” Halloween costume.

The fervor began on Monday after Musk shared two photographs of the attire, a red Samurai-style suit of armor, to his nearly 113 million followers.

The costume, as noted by the Daily Mail, is listed online as the “Devil’s Champion-Leather Armor” set and retails for $7,500. Musk wore the costume to model Heidi Klum’s 21st annual Halloween party at New York City’s Moxy Hotel.

Musk’s chest plate, which features a goat’s head and an inverted cross, quickly caught the attention of conspiracy theorists. Numerous social media users, who seem to believe that Musk’s recent acquisition of Twitter is part of a global battle against evil, accused the billionaire of sending the wrong signal.

“Come on @elonmusk, we are fighting satanist and you choose to wear this?” they wrote.

Others appeared to suggest that Musk could be the anti-Christ, a figure in the New Testament that Christians believe will attempt to lead them astray prior to the end of the world.

“tell me thats not something the anti Christ would wear,” another user wrote.

www.dailydot.com

'Not good': Elon Musk's 'Satanic' outfit befuddles conservatives—who now worry they championed the anti-Christ

'Tell me that's not something the Antichrist would wear.'
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Jefferson said:
I think YouTube shorts are way more efficient than TikTok because of the text in the topic/subject on a short. It only takes 2 seconds for me to read a topic for me to realize the video is not something I'm interested in whereas I have to watch a TikTok video for a good 10 seconds or longer before I'm finally able to make the same judgment. In 60 seconds I can scroll past 30 video shorts on YouTube but only 6 videos on TikTok. Why? Because of text.
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Maybe for you, but not necessarily for billions of other users (the majority younger than you) who'd rather scroll TikTok on their phones. TikTok dominates OG social media globally, youtube had to add shorts just to try to stay competitive. The scrolling is addictive. By design, of course.

How many hours a day do you estimate you're interacting with social media? You don't have to say, just think about it.
 
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Christian conservatives are expressing outrage at Elon Musk over the billionaire’s “Satanic” Halloween costume.

The fervor began on Monday after Musk shared two photographs of the attire, a red Samurai-style suit of armor, to his nearly 113 million followers.

The costume, as noted by the Daily Mail, is listed online as the “Devil’s Champion-Leather Armor” set and retails for $7,500. Musk wore the costume to model Heidi Klum’s 21st annual Halloween party at New York City’s Moxy Hotel.

Musk’s chest plate, which features a goat’s head and an inverted cross, quickly caught the attention of conspiracy theorists. Numerous social media users, who seem to believe that Musk’s recent acquisition of Twitter is part of a global battle against evil, accused the billionaire of sending the wrong signal.

“Come on @elonmusk, we are fighting satanist and you choose to wear this?” they wrote.

Others appeared to suggest that Musk could be the anti-Christ, a figure in the New Testament that Christians believe will attempt to lead them astray prior to the end of the world.

“tell me thats not something the anti Christ would wear,” another user wrote.

www.dailydot.com

'Not good': Elon Musk's 'Satanic' outfit befuddles conservatives—who now worry they championed the anti-Christ

'Tell me that's not something the Antichrist would wear.'
www.dailydot.com www.dailydot.com
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I wonder if they'll care that Musk's changes will likely encourage more pornography on Twitter, even to his taking a take a cut from those providing video for a fee? Nah. They won't care. As long as they can post more Pepe, they'll think they're winning the culture war.
 
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annabenedetti said:
Maybe for you, but not necessarily for billions of other users (the majority younger than you) who'd rather scroll TikTok on their phones.
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Well yeah, the text would be less efficient for them because, in order to be enabled to benefit from it, they'd have to first drop what they are doing and go learn how to read.
 
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Jefferson said:

Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification​

It looks like Elon isn't even going to need that many advertisers.
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I don't think you understand. Elon Musk paid the big bucks--$44 billion--to buy Twitter. Do you honestly think that charging $8 per month for verification is going to cover that? Twitter has to be massively profitable for Must to stay above water, and this just won't float:

www.forbes.com

Elon Musk Has Twitter Bills To Pay, But Charging For A Blue Checkmark Won’t Be Enough

Charging users $8 a month to verify their accounts is unlikely to cover much of the debt service costs resulting from Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the social media company. It also risks driving away the influencers the platform needs most.
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annabenedetti said:
I wonder if they'll care that Musk's changes will likely encourage more pornography on Twitter, even to his taking a take a cut from those providing video for a fee? Nah. They won't care. As long as they can post more Pepe, they'll think they're winning the culture war.
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Musk is a pro-abortion transhumanist, so of course right-wingers are more than happy to support him as long as he pays phony lip service to some of their agenda. He's as fake as they are.
 
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Musk is a pro-abortion transhumanist, so of course right-wingers are more than happy to support him as long as he pays phony lip service to some of their agenda. He's as fake as they are.
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Fake? So those whom you call "right-wingers" are not really what you call them?
 
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You seem to be more miffed that anna has chosen not to engage with you
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I'm probably quite a lot less miffed about that than she is miffed about the fact that she had already shot herself in the foot, boldly advertising her anti-intellectualism by having literally admitted to me, in a debate forum of all places (and as though it were something for her to be proud of), that she never provides arguments:

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Yeah I don't converse in syllogisms.
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annabenedetti said:
Maybe for you, but not necessarily for billions of other users (the majority younger than you) who'd rather scroll TikTok on their phones. TikTok dominates OG social media globally, youtube had to add shorts just to try to stay competitive. The scrolling is addictive. By design, of course.

How many hours a day do you estimate you're interacting with social media? You don't have to say, just think about it.
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I consider platforms where people engage in running conversations (eg. TOL, Twitter, Facebook) to be "social" media. However, YouTube and TikTok aren't like that. There is an active creator and a passive viewer. Running conversations don't really happen that often. Hence, they're not that "social."
 
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I don't think you understand. Elon Musk paid the big bucks--$44 billion--to buy Twitter. Do you honestly think that charging $8 per month for verification is going to cover that? Twitter has to be massively profitable for Must to stay above water, and this just won't float:
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After the cuts in staff and cuts in the bloated salaries, Twitter doesn't need that much money to stay above water.
 
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