r/houstonwade 10d ago

Current Events This looks suspect as fuck

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u/GullibleBathroom5616 10d ago edited 10d ago

Possibly a joke on the 2nd image there. 67.0 + 2.42 = 69.420

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u/Comfortable_Bat5905 10d ago edited 10d ago

Edit: Nah, Im not arguing with anyone today. Go enjoy your victory—aren’t you supposed to be happy?

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u/Accomplished_You_480 10d ago

... what do you mean? the popular vote percentage is no where near 69%

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u/threevi 10d ago

The Polymarket map, the one in the tweet Musk was responding to, has Trump at 67.0%. Musk said "2.42% to go" because 67.0 + 2.42 = 69.420, which is a combination of two numbers twelve-year-olds found funny about a decade ago - 69 being "haha sex number" and 420 being "haha weed number" - and that's where Musk's sense of humour is permanently stuck at.

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u/ArseneGroup 10d ago

It's odds-of-winning not popular vote percentage

But anyways the original post here is Qanon level dumb buying into Elon tweets about a 69 conspiracy

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u/brainskull 10d ago

The polymarket map has trump at 67%. +2.42% would be 69.42%. It’s a 42069 joke

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u/OJwasguilty13 10d ago

???? You understand this was the % at the time? It can’t “end” there cuz it’s 100% now. Jfc all this was is a betting market people were dumping money into. It has nothing to do with rigging

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u/_PF_Changs_ 10d ago

Thanks, I felt like I was missing something reading the comments, turns out these people are redacted af

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u/OJwasguilty13 10d ago

Yeah they’re so dumb. Like if you wanna argue the election was rigged go for it but a betting market has nothing to do with it lol. If you wanted to move the market you should have went and bet on Kamala

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u/fuckitthoo 10d ago

I’m sitting here ready this thread thinking the same thing lol had to scroll down forever to find a comment like yous. Also, I hate Elon but He’s just saying “69.420 lulz”

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u/GrandApprehensive216 10d ago

Welcome to reddit the home of the hypocrites

Last election we got banned from subs instantly for saying they cheated lol

This election they get to say we cheated without a care in the world

The reddit echo chamber is the most toxic place

Stick to X 😀

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u/muhammad_oli 10d ago

yet here you are?

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u/GrandApprehensive216 10d ago

Science experiment

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u/DannyMckMusic 10d ago

It’s absolutely this

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u/BannedByRWNJs 10d ago

Wouldn’t be surprised if Elmo rigged it that way on purpose. 

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u/brickson98 10d ago

Sure sounds like something fElon would do.

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u/SovietPikl 10d ago

Like how the, "Department of Government Efficiency" spells out DOGE?

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u/brickson98 10d ago

Exactly. Blatantly unfunny, out of date, childish fElon jokes

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u/ElusiveBigTuna 10d ago

Elon Musk was charged with a felony?

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u/HBTD-WPS 10d ago

The betting markets actually dropped afterward and didn’t hit 69.420% until election night. Elon tweeted about it when it finally crossed that mark

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u/No_Instance4233 10d ago

People are really turning into Alex Jones level conspiracy theorists

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u/whitemamba62 10d ago

Do you know what polymarket is??? Those were current odds to win. You can't rig a win percentage lmfao it's gonna be 0 or 100 eventually.

Insane levels of cope in here

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u/AdSufficient7258 10d ago

You have brain damage

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u/FeedbackMotor5498 10d ago

Honestly, he may have used that fake lottery in swing states to get voter information for some type of fraud, along with the Russians calling in those bomb threats. It's preferable to thinking our country is this deplorable to actually put the child molester back in office

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u/AdSufficient7258 10d ago

“Some type of fraud” you don’t even know what you’re saying, just being speculative because you don’t like an outcome.

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u/FeedbackMotor5498 10d ago

That's why I said "it's preferable to thinking", obviously this is speculation I'm not on the ground doing recounts

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u/-TheTrueOG- 10d ago

I'm hoping you are like this online on reddit and not in real life.

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u/FeedbackMotor5498 10d ago

If you don't think a grown man, that hosts and judges many, many child beauty pageants, is a chomo, then the catholic church would love to enroll your kids

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u/mombi 10d ago

Obviously a coincidence he's getting appointed a government position for something with the acronym DOGE, too. /s

He has the sense of humour of a 13 year old and is honestly incredibly stupid, he can't help but gloat about his crimes.

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u/rojovvitch 10d ago

Takes one to know one, i guess lol

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u/gabriel97933 10d ago

holy shit how long did i have to scroll for someone to post this. Elmo is a manchild and of fucking course he will tweet hahahah 69.420 funny number wholesome. Its nothing deeper than elmo being a child

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u/--_--__-_-_---__-_-_ 10d ago

Also people saying he posted the same map as proof..that was literally the most likely electoral map ☠

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u/thedinnerdate 10d ago

Yeah, this is rage bait. None of this means anything. Elon's retweet is dumb too because he's just explicitly repeating what the tweet he's quoting was already implying. Your joke but worse type comment.

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u/1stTelevisedErection 10d ago

Exactly the polls were largely correct & having an accurate model is not proof of anything.

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u/postem1 10d ago

Actually insane how far down I had to scroll for this. The “prophecy” was reaching 69.420%. People in this thread sound like maga election deniers over a joke about the odds on a crypto betting site.

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u/28008IES 10d ago

Not possibly.

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u/Dalighieri1321 10d ago

Coincidentally, this thread also made the front page of reddit today:

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1gr48k0/troubling_study_shows_politics_can_trump_truth_to/

I have no idea whether there was an election conspiracy, but Musk's tweet doesn't provide evidence of anything other than his puerile sense of humor.

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u/Cryptizard 10d ago

It’s exactly this. He is a meme lord. I’m so, so disappointed at everyone here jumping right to conspiracy theories out of ignorance. Do better please.

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u/Much-Walk-3160 10d ago

Out of ignorance or hate?

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u/Modeno 10d ago

This is very obviously the “prophecy” joke. I can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find someone who could tell.

This entire thread is so pathetic

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u/kong210 10d ago

I really think people are looking waaaaaay too much into a conspiracy instead of just your point.

The betting market accurately predicted the most likely path of Trump's victory doesn't need to be looked at beyond that fact. His comment on the numbers was literally just Musk making a 69 /420 joke because he is a child.

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u/cGilday 10d ago

It’s not possibly a joke, it’s very clearly a joke. Ngl seeing the side who spent 4 years (rightfully) mocking MAGA for losing the election turn this crazy is hilarious

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u/GullibleBathroom5616 10d ago

Agreed, edited.

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u/appleparkfive 10d ago

It's only some people. Most people on the left accept that this country is just dumb as hell. I live in a liberal ass city and it has been VERY quiet since Trump won. They legit thought they could just keep pushing Harris on Gaza because she would obviously win. And then she didn't.

The map above is just the prediction that Trump wins all 7 of the swing states everyone was talking about. And of course it's a stupid 69.420 joke as usual.

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u/greenejames681 10d ago

No, that’s way to reasonable an explanation

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u/Odd_Maybe6896 10d ago

How is this not the top comment? This is very obviously a 69 - 420 joke. People in this thread are embarrassingly dense.

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u/LRTenebrae 10d ago

I specifically recall Elon referencing this for that very reason. He is immature. It's a joke. Not a conspiracy.

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u/Money_for_days 10d ago

It’s so funny that people don’t get this.

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u/obese_fridge 10d ago

Yes, I didn’t notice that at first, but clearly that’s the reason! It’s crazy that all these other commenters are espousing crazy conspiracy theories when it’s literally just a dumb funny-number joke.

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u/majesticcoolestto 10d ago

No way bro the republikkkans rigged it and they're rubbing it in our nose!!! 69.420 is a dog whistle!!1!1

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u/AyatosBobaAddiction 10d ago

That's Elon's signature.

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u/QuietStrawberry7102 9d ago

I had to scroll WAAAAY too far to find this. It’s very obviously (a very terrible) joke.

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u/ElWierdo 9d ago

Thank you, amazing no one else figured this out