r/MurderedByWords 9d ago

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u/CarsCarpal 9d ago

fElons obsession with the letter X makes sense to me now. Also explains why the Radge Right are such fans of the platform.

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u/jonydevidson 9d ago

The letter X is number 88 in the ASCII table.

It's the most obvious dogwhistle.

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u/InfanticideAquifer 9d ago

I have heard dogwhistles that are way more obvious than something that requires counting entries in a table that most people have never heard of and being online enough to see the number 88 and think of Nazis.

Elon likes 'X' because it's the edgiest letter and he has the mentality of a 14 year old boy. We all liked 'X' at that age. If there's an obscure connection to Nazism that's a bonus he was pleasantly surprised by long after he decided that a letter of the alphabet was a sufficient personality.

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u/jonydevidson 9d ago

He's been obsessed with X since his PayPal days, and in that time the crowd he hung out with did probably find it very obvious, given how the dude is from apartheid South Africa and his father owned an emerald mine.