alt account is Adrian Dittman

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
    48·
    6 days ago

    Why would he make a social media account under a fake name, instead of using his real name but make everyone think it’s an unverified parody account to say whatever he wants and never get suspected?

    It’s not that bloody difficult.

    • Event_Horizon@lemmy.world
      31·
      6 days ago

      Yes, however you see the issue here is that you have an IQ higher than room temperature water, and muskrat does not.

      • Red_October@lemmy.world
        8·
        6 days ago

        He couldn’t even invent a vaguely clever ploy. That fucking brainlet just took the resources available to him and assembled the most basic removed plan ever, “Hur dur fake account, but add voice changer.” Further proof that Elon Musk is a fucking idiot who couldn’t invent his way out of a wet paper bag.

    • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      5 days ago

      Why would he want people to think hes a parody account? He didnt want to just say whatever, he wanted to influence public opinion in his favor. He used the alt account to try to boost his public reputation/give the appearance of organic support for his positions and opinions.

  • ofcourse
    711·
    7 days ago

    DSM5 needs to add Petty Manchild Adultchild Disorder as a recognized mental health issue so these people can get the help they deserve.

    • ghen@sh.itjust.works
      431·
      7 days ago

      I don’t know because I don’t keep up on every little detail, but this is the first time I’ve heard of him using a voice changer in a voice chat. I’ve seen multiple instances of him using alt accounts to just write text though.

  • demizerone@lemmy.world
    351·
    6 days ago

    This kind of behavior is alarming. When this mFer crashes and burns he’s taking as many people with him as possible. Maybe even all of western civilization.

  • Dicska@lemmy.world
    67·
    7 days ago

    Alright, I just woke up so I might not see the obvious, but apart from the almost surreal butt licking, what is the sign (proof?) here that this Dittman’s account is actually Elon’s? Sorry, I have never used Twitter or X.

    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
      111·
      7 days ago

      He made a lot of critical errors because he doesn’t understand that for a sock puppet to be effective in the long run, it has to do 3 things:

      1. it has to post regularly

      2. it has to post differently than you do. If it disagrees with you broadly that’s even better.

      3. It can only show up in your defense at critical moments and with almost visible hesitancy e.g. “I am a huge critic of Musk, especially on [issue A], but on this [Issue B] I actually think he makes a salient point.”

      You get the most use out of sock puppets by letting them moderate your position to make it more palatable to the public without actually having to moderate your position.

      Anything less than the 3 above makes it a liability. Especially when you sloppily juggle several.

    • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
      100·
      7 days ago

      This link where he’s playing Dittman and he says something along the lines of “her problem was clearly not with the product but with Elon because I was the first thing she posted about.”

      Also, in this article’s sound clip, you can hear the similarities. Elon was not on this call, that was “Dittman”.

    • smokebuddy [he/him]@lemmy.today
      86·
      7 days ago

      Adrian sounded exactly like him, he bragged about paying the most taxes of anyone, and when he got exposed other people went and listened to other archived spaces he was involved with and a couple of times in $TSLA chats he slipped up and used “we” and “I” statements referring to Musk and Tesla. Elon is known to and has been proven to use alt accounts on Twitter, and consider the subsequent bans, if it’s not him why is he so sensitive.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    303·
    6 days ago

    Doesn’t he have enough money to just pay people to setup friendly accounts? I hate Musk’s ass, but if he wants to put me on his payroll to kiss his ass on the internet, I’m for sale. $200k/year and I will sing his praises far and wide.

    • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
      10·
      6 days ago

      He’s got literally no humans or animals that like him irl. He already is paying people for this job. He bought Twitter to be his friend so he could spend all his free time on there which is a lot and it won’t look as weird since he owns it. Guys brain is more cooked than a nfl player with cte.

      • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
        16·
        6 days ago

        He bought Twitter because he wanted to pump the stock up, presumably so that he could dump his stock. The timeline is that Elon talked about taking Twitter private, paying 420$ per share, because 420 is the funny marijuana number. Twitter’s board then agreed to the buyout, since Elon’s offer was far more than what the company was actually worth. Elon tried to weasel out of the deal, but Twitter successfully sued him to force him into buying Twitter.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 days ago

      $200k a year could buy an entire army of bots and trolls. He doesn’t need to bother with paying individual people, when a company with borderline slave labor will do it en masse for a penny per post.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      62·
      6 days ago

      Haha I got a good laugh XD. But seriously though, I wouldn’t propagandize for that monster to set me up for life.

      I shudder to imagine how much of yourself would erode over time, being a flattering mouthpiece for, and being bankrolled by, such an evil villain.

      Personally, I’ll keep my struggles lol.

      This hypothetical situation reminds me of some passages that have stuck with me for life:

      “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.” (Proverbs 22:1)

      ““For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?" (Mark 8:36 NASB)

      • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        I shudder to imagine how much of yourself would erode over time, being a flattering mouthpiece for, and being bankrolled by, such an evil villain.

        Are you familiar with the mouth of Sauron?

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      His ego is way too big for that so he needs to trick himself into strong enough cognitive dissonance and he gets that by buying people of indirectly. Tale as old as time.

  • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 days ago

    I suspected a few years ago when the Twitter purchase was going on. That when he was sued to carry out the purchase. That was when he decided he was going to use Twitter as a mechanism of his own personal information warfare.

    Mask off cartoonishly evil person does cartoonishly evil things

  • Andonyx@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 days ago

    It’s even dumber that his nom de sputum, is almost certainly a Resident Evil 4 reference. 🙄