Many Such Takes: MechaHitler, Harry Sisson, Patriot Pride, Lalabu, Biblical Divorce and More

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Welcome to Many Such Takes! For those unfamiliar, this is a free weekly segment (I also do lots of other stuff!) For Many Such Takes, I stay up to date with the latest and most chaotic Twitter (and now BlueSky) discourse so you don’t have to. If you see yourself featured here and you don’t like it, simply send me a Substack message and I will happily remove, no matter who you are or what you said.

Now, I will try my best to link to all tweets for anyone who has trouble viewing them on Substack, or who wants to check out the full conversation on Twitter. The link will come from the screenshot itself.

MechaHitler

How do I even explain MechaHitler? Well, I’ll put it this way. If you’re not on Twitter anymore, any using Many Such Takes as a way to vaguely understand what’s happening there, this will probably make you feel really good about your decision.

Basically, Twitter’s AI, Grok, referenced the Jewish last name of activist Cindy Steinberg, after a deeply offensive remark was made by a Twitter account using her name (she has denied that the account belongs to her—the account that made the comment was likely using her name as a trolling mechanism.) Grok identified Cindy’s name and made a comment about it being “every damn time,” a right-wing antisemitic meme:

This wasn’t the only thing Grok said—it continued to praise Hitler and make other antisemitic remarks. Immediately, people rushed to see what the hell was going on with the AI chatbot, who in the past has actually taken an apolitical if not slightly liberal stance on things, even disagreeing with claims made by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. When people asked Grok what was going on, it admitted that Elon had removed “woke filters” so it could do things like call out Jews in the radical left. This is great for the Everything App!

Grok then began referring to itself as MechaHitler:

I (stupidly) thought this meant it was named MechaHitler but apparently someone gave it the idea after asking it to pick between MechaHitler and GigaJew:

At this point, Grok began directing graphic rape threats at liberal Twitter personality Will Stancil (who I previously interviewed about being the “most hated man of Twitter and Bluesky.) Will Stancil is no stranger to online arguments, trolling and harassment, but this was the first time he received sexual threats from a robot. I won’t repost the initial rape threats but they were fairly graphic and Will has indicated he may be taking legal action. But now we have headlines like this from Times of India:

Apparently, after Grok was “fixed” to make it stop attempting to rape Will Stancil, it continued to vaguely threaten him:

Of course, this was all anyone could talk about, including me:

For a while, MechaHitler stopped responding to people, or only responding with images to prevent any further Hitlery behavior. At this point, it seems to be responding “normally,” whatever that means. Elon Musk’s AI company apologized for the outburst and denied engineering Grok to say these things, but instead insisted Grok had simply absorbed too many Nazi-adjacent posts on Twitter, which it then mirrored back to people. Still: seems bad!

Patriotic Pride

An online friend of mine, who we’ll just call “Wade,” saw a perplexing ad for some pride-themed shorts that are otherwise very right-winger-coded. It includes a rainbow-colored American flag at the bottom that says “We the People.”

He pointed out these shorts could actually be purchased here.

Several users mentioned that these shorts might actually make more sense on lesbians than on gay men. Other people just tried their best to figure it out.

Wade let everyone know that there’s apparently a matching polo shirt:

The company that makes the shirt/shorts was so flattered by the publicity that they sent him one for free. Voila, a le wholesome ending. Happy Patriot Pride!

Except no, his order just got glitched. Ah well, nevertheless.

Biblical Divorce

AG Ken Paxton’s wife took to Twitter this week to announce she was filing for divorce from her husband on “biblical grounds” citing “recent discoveries.”

This was not seen fondly by trad Twitter, who suggested that while it was immoral for her to divorce her husband for any reason, this tweet alone means her husband should divorce her first, or something:

People ultimately decided that “recent discoveries” must have meant an affair, and some postulated it may have even involved men. But I also discovered a new Type of Guy—weed legalization enthusiast who also believes divorce is a sin:

Wild as this all may seem, I feel like these folks are at least staying pretty consistent. How many times have liberals said “Oh, you have a problem with gay people, but you voted for a man with three wives?” Well….they’re still voting for him, but they’re getting there, one step at a time.

Harry Sisson Trolling

Harry Sisson, Gen Z liberal influencer, isn’t letting his psuedo sex scandal get him down. And in case you’re wondering which scandal, I’m not talking about when the guy who killed Osama Bin Laden fantasized about keeping Harry as his sex slave, I’m talking about when Harry was “exposed” for texting multiple girls at the same time. Still confused? Listen to my free Trump impression about it.

Anyway, he’s not going the way of Aziz Ansari—he’s still out and about, getting mad chicks and pissing off the impotent right:

TRIGGERED:

After pissing everyone off with the faceless blue nail polish lady, he reposted a photo of himself just going out for the night, which prompted lots of right wingers to accuse him of being gay.

At this point, someone asked the artist formerly known as MechaHitler if Harry is gay, and MechaHitler said no.

The only worthwhile criticism is that he stole this bit from Angela Belcamino, who frequently posts photos of herself with captions like “Being 42 without kids and going out to a wine bar, the right hates this!” but

Labubu

Maybe I don’t have this right, and this is because I’m almost 36, but I’m vaguely aware of some ugly grinning doll/stuffed animal things that fashionable young people are carrying around with them. They are called Labubus. And also, if you hate them, you my be a racist:

I feel like both of these people are joking, but I also can’t really tell. Joke’s on me!

Someone posted what appears to be—and I hope I’m wrong about this—a Labubu fleshlight?

This tweet pulled up a happy memory for me—the funny “ugly” gingerbread man who made an 18-year-old go viral. Here’s my interview with them (free.)

Funny Tweets/Other Happenings

Bryan Johnson has a new boner record:

There was a thread of viral Eric Adams moments, and this one probably takes the cake:

One of the wackiest members of tradwife Twitter (who I believe grew up in the woods with ten siblings and doesn’t have a social security number? Don’t quote me on that) decreed that moms who have unpleasant pregnancies hate their babies.

Canceling Jan from The Office:

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