Another weird thing I stumbled upon is that the size of a Mercedes 770 (hitlers and other powerful Nazis used this vehicle) is almost exactly the same dimensions as a cybertruck.
In centimetres:
Mercedes L-6000 W-2070 H-1800
Cybertruck L-5682 W-2032 H-1796
That may be but one of his early companies was X which became part of PayPal. I'm not gonna fight on the ground that he's been making secret literally Hitler Nazi code in the dweebieat way for 25 years.
The assumption is that he chose the X back then because he was also a Nazi back then. He came from a family of ~Nazis in apartheid South Africa. His maternal grandparents were Canadian Nazis who moved there at the start of the apartheid. It's not a very big stretch.
he told us...
the original Paypal name, his kid's name, Twitter
In ASCII, the character "X" has the code 88, meaning that the uppercase letter "X" is represented by the value 88...
Neo-Nazis use 88 as an abbreviation for Heil Hitler. The letter H is eighth in the alphabet, whereby 88 becomes HH.
It wasn't the original PayPal name, but Musk did try to change it to X during his brief tenure there. X was the name of his company that he merged with Peter Thiel's Confinity that became PayPal. Thiel staged a coup to take out Musk before ultimately selling PayPal to eBay.
That's because 88 corresponds to capital X in ASCII, which would absolutely not surprise me if someone who's as much of a weeb for Nazi stuff as Elon would know. 14 doesn't correspond to a printable character, btw
And the reason it's there is because 'A' is at position 65, or 1000001. That leading '1' makes it a single CPU cycle to tell if some character is capital or lowercase. Some letter was going to end up in position 88. It's an unfortunate coincidence that that letter was one associated with otherness.
"X-Files," "X-Factor," "The X-Men," the letter X has been associated with a lot of miscellaneous, if immature, cultural artifacts. Elon's just never grown out of that.
"Is it really that important that you can tell the difference between a capital letter and a lowercase that quickly?" Kid, when computers ran at kilohertz not gigahertz, it was very important.
And yes, the letters have to be in order, so it's easy to sort things by alphabetical order.
You ever see Farrakhan's speech at the million man march? He talks about how the number of steps in the capitol is a satanic code, something like that.
I wanted to comment that he isn't that clever so yeah. (his X obsession also seems to predate his far right radicalization by a while (and sure he might have been a secret neo-nazi, but I don't think he is clever enough to hide that)).
He always was a racist prob yes, but there is a bit of a difference between being a racist and being a neo-nazi. All this shit about birthrates is a pretty recent development for example. (he always was a pos however). Unless you believe he could secretly hide all that.
I hate the association of 88 with Nazi symbology. I get so mad they took that. My heritage got there first and I am not letting them take that from me.
There was a group of skinheads that hung out on the periphery of the punk scene back in the day, they used 88 as an ode to the hammerskins who formed in 88, least that's what they said, but what do I know...
Coincidence. ASCII is a mix and compromise of several control and character sets.
Nerd trivia: ASCII DEL (delete) is 127 or seven ones in binary, because back in the days of paper tape if you made a mistake you could go back and punch all the holes to delete the character.
it's never a coincidence with nazi types Tau Cablander.
There's always a level of obsfucation to these things that make you go "mmm... maybe it's just." but no...no, when it's these types, it's NEVER a fucking coincidence, they LOOK for shit that can be written off as that for their dogwhistles.
And I'm telling you, despite Elon being a "Fake gamer" he's EXACTLY the kind of nerd type that would find out the ASCII for X is 88 and tie it in.
Elon's an idiot, but he's ALSO a massive tech nerd, as much as it lothes me to admit that, it's not accidental.
i hate this dogwhistle shit. i feel like i'm living in a conspiracy theory as we speak, and i'm the crackhead trying to desperately convince everyone my delusion is real
the worst part is you're absolutely onto something because the musks are former nazi sympathizers, and elon musk has had an OBSESSION with the letter x for years since he bought the domain.
oh, i'm not doubting that this is legit, i just hate that no matter who you explain them to, everyone just looks at you like you're an overreacting idiot.
When someone tells him (in great detail) his bad idea is bad he goes and does it out of spite.
Granted it is possible that he is signalling to Nazis but his obsession with having a site call "X" predates him jumping head first down the Libertarian to Fascist pipeline.
Yes, the decimal number for it is 88 but that is in all likelihood an actual unfortunate coincidence. The earliest use of 88 that I can find is from the early 2000s.
While the ASCII table is likely unfortunate coincidence, Musk using X is unclear and I'm unwilling to provide the benefit of doubt.
Notably X has been in the 88th slot since the beginning of the ASCII standard back in 1963. These early standards were very much a "first solution that comes to mind" thing and X is only in that location because of where it falls in the alphabet.
I think her point isn't that X is ASCII #88 because of Nazism, but Elon's obsession with X is because of the ASCII #88 connection, because *He's* a Nazi.
Elon has been trying to name things 'X' for years eg PayPal was first called 'X.com' in the early 2000s. There's not any evidence that he was a Nazi back then, that seems to be a fairly recent development (cocktail of Peter Thiel, twitter brain and ketamine).
88 in this case isn't the number 88; but 58 in hex. And the machine code uses hex, not decimals. we just numbered it 88 because we read decimal numbers easier.
I’ll just go ahead and nip this one in the bud because there’s plenty to *actually* worry about. ASCII maps 128 (2^7) characters to binary in groups. They started the letters at position 2^6 (midpoint of 128). So A is 65 (64+1). X is just 64+24 which happens, not for Nazism reasons, to be 88.
You've got the logic backwards. The premise is that if ASCII 88 represented P, then Musk would have fixated on P. Granted, it's conceivably just coincidence anyway, but not for the reason you've given where you have the cart before the horse.
It’s a dogwhistle to whom? And who is doing the whistle when?
I hate to break it to you but you’re using Unicode (which is a superset of ASCII) right now unless someone is transcribing all digitized writing to you.
You're coming at this backwards. Here's the order of logic we're discussing: One day, Elon learned that the ASCII code for the letter X is 88. Being who he is, knowing the dog-whistle value of 88, he decided X is now his favorite letter. He's been on about the letter X for years now.
It's really not that hard to imagine that Elon was fucking with ascii codes one time and figured out that alt+88 made X and he decided from this that X was now his new favorite letter, in his immature feeling that it'd be like a personal secret language for him.
The suggestion is that Musk loves the letter X because it's number 88 (as a decimal ASCII code).
Wtf does the fact that we're "using Unicode" (which is a bizarre way to put it ... and noted that none of the characters in this comment or yours are > 127) have to do with anything?
It's dog whistles all the way down with these 1488 losers, because they have the emotional maturity of 10-year-old boys who think secret decoder rings and magic words or phrases are the ultimate hack.
Okay since you seem to be fucking simple: Elon Musk. is using an ASCII equivalent. To rename Twitter to X. To wave to his fellow Nazis. That Twitter is meant for fascists. Now fuck off and go learn something. God damn.
the ability to recall large amounts of information is a type of intelligence. however, it doesn't necessarily mean a person is great at more abstract thinking, reading between the lines, or being able to piece together how someone is connecting thought A and thought D
He’s a rapidly disillusioned fuckbro with an intellectual complex, of course he’s a chud who thinks like that. He’s just also dim enough to think it makes him one of the good guys.
Nobody is saying that ASCII is magically a nefarious Nazi plot. We’re saying that the Nazi Tech Goober In Shadow Chief picked X to replace the name of Twitter because he’s familiar with ASCII and hurrhurrhurr ain’t it funny to dogwhistle or some shit.
Sure, but they’re not accusing ASCII of Nazism, they’re accusing Elon Musk of (potentially) picking “X” as his personal symbol because of that association.
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♫ Huh. I usually just do the emoji
X Oh shit it is
In centimetres:
Mercedes L-6000 W-2070 H-1800
Cybertruck L-5682 W-2032 H-1796
He would be that kinda freak...
Bummer... my brain thinks in codes like that too
Alt+88
X
OK... Had no idea. Sooooo... Is this what did lead Elmo to X fixation? Or did it just support his downward spiral?
Oh that makes so much more sense now
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lhetozp75s2d
Sack of human shit that he is
the original Paypal name, his kid's name, Twitter
In ASCII, the character "X" has the code 88, meaning that the uppercase letter "X" is represented by the value 88...
Neo-Nazis use 88 as an abbreviation for Heil Hitler. The letter H is eighth in the alphabet, whereby 88 becomes HH.
alas, not enough text allotment
https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/Nazi-symbols
Hell, you could argue that this country inspired them.
And yes, the letters have to be in order, so it's easy to sort things by alphabetical order.
https://www.wukongsch.com/blog/number-eight-in-chinese-culture-post-21701/
Nerd trivia: ASCII DEL (delete) is 127 or seven ones in binary, because back in the days of paper tape if you made a mistake you could go back and punch all the holes to delete the character.
There's always a level of obsfucation to these things that make you go "mmm... maybe it's just." but no...no, when it's these types, it's NEVER a fucking coincidence, they LOOK for shit that can be written off as that for their dogwhistles.
I have no doubt that Elon would pick 'X' for the Nazi connotations of 88, and think himself clever for it.
And I'm telling you, despite Elon being a "Fake gamer" he's EXACTLY the kind of nerd type that would find out the ASCII for X is 88 and tie it in.
Elon's an idiot, but he's ALSO a massive tech nerd, as much as it lothes me to admit that, it's not accidental.
But you have to remember, to these types, it's all part of the game, all part of the bigger troll.
You have to put yourself in their mindset, their poisoned worldview of constantly doing things to "own the libs."
i don’t think it’s true, i think he just thinks the letter X is cool because it’s extreme like x games, but it wouldn’t be beyond him.
I did nazi that coming.
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M=13 H=8 G=7 O=15 T=20 Y=25
13+8+7+15+20+25 = 88
The chance of the first letters being 88 and then the last digits of all letters also being 88 seems incredibly low.
Omfg.
0001
0010
0011
And so on.
Nerds are passionate about niche topics, trying to learn everything & correcting others DESPITE it making them unpopular. They get bullied for it.
Musk DESPERATELY wants BOTH to be popular AND get “Nerd cred” yet ISN’T interested in learning!
He’s a cheater and a bully HIMSELF
And here I just thought he liked the UFO Unknown series 🤦🏼
Everyone told him it was fucking stupid because every person in the focus groups thought it was a porn site and then made him change it.
He never got over it.
When someone tells him (in great detail) his bad idea is bad he goes and does it out of spite.
Granted it is possible that he is signalling to Nazis but his obsession with having a site call "X" predates him jumping head first down the Libertarian to Fascist pipeline.
There was also the thing about racial segregation in Tesla factories some years ago.
Just wanted to point out that there is a dumber reason why Musk does what he does.
And with Musk it is usually because of the dumbest reason possible.
Accusing him of using a letter to correspond to a number to correspond to letters actually weakens the case against him.
While the ASCII table is likely unfortunate coincidence, Musk using X is unclear and I'm unwilling to provide the benefit of doubt.
Chalking this one up as coincidence.
Not saying he isn't pandering to the worst of humanity, but this is a bit out there.
Probably.
Actually never mind, I take it back.
He's been obsessed with the letter x for a long time, so he might've been using this secret motif for just as long.
X was the name of his bank that he founded in '99 which became PayPal, and SpaceX started in 2004.
It's a coincidence.
Not everything is a conspiracy-theory, just FYI 😀
I hate to break it to you but you’re using Unicode (which is a superset of ASCII) right now unless someone is transcribing all digitized writing to you.
as someone else said, if another letter correlated to "88" he would use that one instead. not that hard to grasp !!!
It's really not that hard to imagine that Elon was fucking with ascii codes one time and figured out that alt+88 made X and he decided from this that X was now his new favorite letter, in his immature feeling that it'd be like a personal secret language for him.
Wtf does the fact that we're "using Unicode" (which is a bizarre way to put it ... and noted that none of the characters in this comment or yours are > 127) have to do with anything?
still stupid af
it’s not that serious a theory and it has nothing to do with ASCII itself.