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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on April 04, 2022, 08:33:35 AM
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Musk recently asked people about Twitter's censorship and curating.
Today he became their largest shareholder. [popcorn]
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/04/sht-just-got-real-elon-musk-officially-becomes-twitters-largest-shareholder-let-the-games-begin/
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That could be fun to watch. Hell, I might have to get a twitter account just to get in on some of the fun.
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There's been talk of him buying twitter outright but this will do for now.
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There's been talk of him buying twitter outright but this will do for now.
It's a big jump from 9.2% ownership to even 51%.
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It's a big jump from 9.2% ownership to even 51%.
He only spent $3 billion for the 9.2%. He could buy the whole company with his pocket change. After 10% though, it's no longer a passive acquisition, so things get more complicated.
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I doubt Twitter will change much because they are too firmly entrenched in their ideology. Listening to a major stockholder that they disagree with is not in their DNA. It wouldn't surprise me if they issued more stock just to dilute Musk's holdings.
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He only spent $3 billion for the 9.2%. He could buy the whole company with his pocket change. After 10% though, it's no longer a passive acquisition, so things get more complicated.
Doesn't need to buy the whole company - owning 50% +1 share will do it. >:D
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This could be a precursor to a hostile takeover. [popcorn]
Woody
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This could be a precursor to a hostile takeover. [popcorn]
Woody
I hope so.
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The Third Rate Pundit is @bogiestl.
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Twitter stock up 25% so far today
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I wonder when President Trump will be unbanned?
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I wonder when President Trump will be unbanned?
Never?
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https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1511030309818707969
Elon Musk is already making twitter a better place
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This should be a good week for spectating histrionics on Twitter
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https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1511030309818707969
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https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1511030309818707969
This should be a good week for spectating histrionics on Twitter
I don't care what anyone thinks of Musk, even this one thing is a thumbs up in my book. I hope 10,000 others just like this guy "resign" because of Musk.
Also, as a tangent, I can just about guarantee someone is a mean-spirited bigot if they have the rainbow flag in their avatar.
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Also, as a tangent, I can just about guarantee someone is a mean-spirited bigot if they have the rainbow flag in their avatar.
Don't know if I could guarantee such, but it has certainly become a symbol of bigotry and intolerance.
Ultra-Rich Gay Activist On Targeting Christians: It’s Time To ‘Punish The Wicked’ (https://thefederalist.com/2017/07/19/ultra-rich-gay-activist-targeting-christians-time-punish-wicked/)
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I don't care what anyone thinks of Musk, even this one thing is a thumbs up in my book. I hope 10,000 others just like this guy "resign" because of Musk.
Also, as a tangent, I can just about guarantee someone is a mean-spirited bigot if they have the rainbow flag in their avatar.
Key & Peele have a skit about that.
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https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1511030309818707969
This should be a good week for spectating histrionics on Twitter
If it was truly a free speech issue, they wouldn't have to constantly "develop" the terms and conditions. They would just enforce them. The only reason to change them all the time is to target people they don't like.
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https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1511030309818707969
This should be a good week for spectating histrionics on Twitter
It appears that it's a satire account.
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Musk has been named to the twitter board of directors, which from the news I just saw on the teevee, means he can only own 14.9% stock in the company.
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Looking forward to working with Parag & Twitter board to make significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 5, 2022
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/04/05/new-twitter-board-member-elon-musk-teases-significant-improvements-to-twitter-in-coming-months-and-ceo-parag-agrawal-pretends-to-be-thrilled/
Just the idea he could start making changes has got them hitting the panic button [popcorn]
Would love to see him show up for his first board meeting wearing a MAGA hat :rofl:
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Anyone got VIP access? Would love to see what this says
Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon offers some valuable insight into Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/04/05/babylon-bee-ceo-seth-dillon-offers-some-valuable-insight-into-elon-musks-twitter-takeover/
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Speaking of BB :rofl:
Liberals Outraged To Learn 10% Of Twitter Now Owned By African-American
https://babylonbee.com/news/liberals-outraged-to-learn-10-of-twitter-now-owned-by-african-american
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https://babylonbee.com/news/liberals-outraged-to-learn-10-of-twitter-now-owned-by-african-american
Other Twitter employees expressed excitement over the new ownership—especially for the free White Claws now available in every break room.
Brandon Herrera owns Twitter?
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Related, Tulsi Gabbard on shadow banning. I disagree with around 50% of what she says. I want to hear what she has to say.
https://youtu.be/e3PL_255pJw
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https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1511325246967660547
Seth Dillon
@SethDillon
Musk reached out to us before he polled his followers about Twitter's commitment to free speech. He wanted to confirm that we had, in fact, been suspended. He even mused on that call that he might need to buy Twitter. Now he's the largest shareholder and has a seat on the board.
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Brandon Herrera owns Twitter?
What? No. Musk is South African
Oh wait, the White Claws. Took me a moment.
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Oh wait, the White Claws. Took me a moment.
=)
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Ha ha - the Substack comms VP always comes up with good lines to tweak the SJWs. :laugh:
Lulu Cheng Meservey
@lulumeservey
Substack is hiring!
If you’re a Twitter employee who’s considering resigning because you’re worried about Elon Musk pushing for less regulated speech… please do not come work here.
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=)
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"My name is Jackson Mulholland& I'm one of many ppl here working at @Twittein charge of developing terms &conditions for users. We're not stripping away 'free speech', we're protecting users from bullies, bigots, & spam.Irefuse to work with or for @elonmusk. I'm resigning."
Doublethink?
Anyhow, relevant to that mindset:
"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading."
--Asimov
And I keep thinking of the so-called Hays Code for movies and books that were "banned in Boston."
Terry, 230RN
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"Elon Musk Must Be Stopped" FB page
Apparently he's the most evil person ever
https://www.facebook.com/groups/181713272438415/
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Apparently people in Twitter's hometown are all... atweet.... about Elon buying into Twitter, and they're not happy.
Twitter employees are also upset, and apparently resignations are up.
Well, at least Substack is hiring.
Only they're not hiring whiney Twitter people.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/substack-vp-warns-twitter-employees-resigning-elon-musk-please-do-not-come-work-here
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Twitter employees are also upset, and apparently resignations are up.
Draining the swamp. =D
https://babylonbee.com/news/not-to-be-outdone-bill-gates-buys-92-of-myspace
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Apparently people in Twitter's hometown are all... atweet.... about Elon buying into Twitter, and they're not happy.
Twitter employees are also upset, and apparently resignations are up.
Well, at least Substack is hiring.
Only they're not hiring whiney Twitter people.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/substack-vp-warns-twitter-employees-resigning-elon-musk-please-do-not-come-work-here
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSSSPVPB4zI
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The Washington Post is concerned that rich people might use their money to control media. :rofl:
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/04/09/hot-take-in-the-bezos-owned-wapo-about-need-to-prevent-rich-people-from-controlling-media-cracks-up-elon-musk/
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Musk is running another poll :rofl:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512966135423066116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Convert Twitter SF HQ to homeless shelter since no one shows up anyway
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2022
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Convert Twitter SF HQ to homeless shelter since no one shows up anyway
That's awesome! :rofl:
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I figure that he's basically found a hobby, and will be monkeywrenching a bit of the stupidity.
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Like Trump Musk has found trolling the left is super easy and fun if you know what buttons to push and you don't give a rat's arse what they say about you .
I expect them to call for a boycott of Tesla which will probably backfire just like it did with CFA
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:rofl:
Elon while the rest of the Twitter Board Members look on RN: pic.twitter.com/7rHB3sbfj8
https://twitter.com/allreactionvidz/status/1165719773776371712
— Colt Yohman (@CStyles45) April 10, 2022
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Titter
https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-asks-followers-if-twitter-needs-a-name-change-delete-the-w
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I was going to suggest Natter but there's a natter.com anyway. Don't know what they "do," though, just found them on a check search.
I don't get out much.
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Titter
https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-asks-followers-if-twitter-needs-a-name-change-delete-the-w
Shitter seems more accurate.
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"Twatter"
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Splatter
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Sputter
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Triggered
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Blather.
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Twaddle
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Twits.
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I see Musk has decided not to join the board of directors. Not enough info for me to discuss what that might mean, other than the Twitter CEO sent some internal memo out about people on the board of directors having to "work in the best interests of the company".
Maybe Musk decided that would constrain him too much. Or maybe he's just gonna sell all his shares this week and make a few billion in profits. =)
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Maybe Musk decided that would constrain him too much. Or maybe he's just gonna sell all his shares this week and make a few billion in profits. =)
Could be he wants to eventually purchase a controlling interest in the company, or maybe he just wants to make some money off the stock buy. It's going to be interesting and fun to watch if it's the former. The tenor of Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's message to the employees has a note of concern to it, I think. He is wondering what Musk is up to.
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Could be he wants to eventually purchase a controlling interest in the company, or maybe he just wants to make some money off the stock buy.
I just saw on the TV that not being on the board means he can do a hostile takeover of the company. =D
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I just saw on the TV that not being on the board means he can do a hostile takeover of the company. =D
From your mouth to Musk's ears...
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Either
a) He's bored with it already
b) He's got too much on his plate already
C) He's planning a hostile takeover
d) He's planning something else on his secret Bond villain island
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I see Musk has decided not to join the board of directors. Not enough info for me to discuss what that might mean, other than the Twitter CEO sent some internal memo out about people on the board of directors having to "work in the best interests of the company".
Maybe Musk decided that would constrain him too much. Or maybe he's just gonna sell all his shares this week and make a few billion in profits. =)
As a director, there would be some kind of constraint limiting him to some arbitrary percentage (around 15%, IIRC) of ownership. By not joining the board, he can buy as much as he wants.
Also, that announcement from the CEO mentioned something about directors having a "fiduciary duty." Basically, that means directors are supposed to do what's in the financial interests of the shareholders, not rock the boat. Taken together, those two factors wouod significantly tie Elon's hands if he really wants to upset the apple cart.
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If he was on the board, he would be limited to 15% of the companies stock.
Twitter: giving twits with nothing to say a place to say it
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Looks like Musk is starting a hostile takeover bid...
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/elon-musk-offer-buy-twitter-take-it-private
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Looks like Musk is starting a hostile takeover bid...
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/elon-musk-offer-buy-twitter-take-it-private
This will be interesting. I'm guessing Trump is a little ticked off about it though... :laugh:
Also I just heard on Maria Bartiromo's show that the NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet, which sold not long ago for $2.9 million, is currently on the market again. Current bids (all dozen of them) are ranging from $6 to $277. Tells you a little something about the worth of both NFTs, and that jackass Dorsey. :rofl:
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Seren's coming out with her own line of NFTs.
She figures Non Fungible Turds is the wave of the future and, with the looming fertilizer shortage, will have greater long-term value.
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Seren's coming out with her own line of NFTs.
She figures Non Fungible Turds is the wave of the future and, with the looming fertilizer shortage, will have greater long-term value.
I'm jumping on that bandwagon with NFFs. Non fungible fungus.
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Apparently, Musk wants to take the company private. This is from the SEC filing at https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465922045641/tm2212748d1_sc13da.htm (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465922045641/tm2212748d1_sc13da.htm)
Bret Taylor
Chairman of the Board,
I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.
However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.
As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced. My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.
Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.
/s/ Elon Musk
He's certainly playing for keeps, although it sounds like he'd divest his shares if he can't have the whole company. I hope he succeeds in the purchase. I think it'll be difficult to keep the platform from devolving into chaos. I envision a very low signal to noise ratio would result very quickly. I'm curious what policies he'd enact.
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I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.
— Max Boot 🇺🇦 (@MaxBoot) April 14, 2022
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/14/dont-like-it-build-your-own-platform-bro-max-boot-admitting-hes-frightened-of-elon-musk-allowing-free-speech-on-twitter-goes-so-wrong/
Let what he said there sink in for a moment.
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I'm jumping on that bandwagon with NFFs. Non fungible fungus.
That reminds me, I need to clean my shower...
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And now I want popcorn...
Goddamn it.
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And now I want popcorn...
Goddamn it.
As long as it's not that microwave in a bag crap.
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I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.
— Max Boot 🇺🇦 (@MaxBoot) April 14, 2022
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/14/dont-like-it-build-your-own-platform-bro-max-boot-admitting-hes-frightened-of-elon-musk-allowing-free-speech-on-twitter-goes-so-wrong/
Let what he said there sink in for a moment.
But wait there's more
He decided to drag Trump into this
All the hyperventilating from Trumpist trolls in response to this post (claiming that content moderation=fascism) is a good example of the worst of social media. It’s corrosive tendencies should be curbed not amplified. Trump must never be allowed on Twitter again. https://t.co/hp8zvFfUKM
— Max Boot 🇺🇦 (@MaxBoot) April 14, 2022
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/14/cope-more-max-boot-makes-things-worse-defending-his-whining-about-elon-musk-and-free-speech-by-blaming-wait-for-it-trump/
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Musk is manspreading!!!
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/04/14/msnbc-analyst-anand-giridharadas-says-elon-musk-is-why-to-abolish-billionaires-warns-that-people-like-musk-will-manspread-economic-power/
It's both funny and scary to see the outrage of people who want to curate and control speech "to create a better society".
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And - total coincidence - the gov just launched multiple investigations against Musk for non-related stuff.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/04/14/amazing-coincidence-sec-doj-reportedly-launch-joint-investigation-into-elon-musks-company/
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If Musk dumps his 9.2% stake in twaddle, won't that cause other shares to tank as well?
Could he be using that tactic to "convince" (coerce) others to sell to him to avoid a meteoric crash in their shares prices? ;)
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10718427/Elon-Musk-tries-buy-Twitter-41billion-Tesla-CEO-offers-54-20-share.html
'How much of Twitter does the Kingdom own, directly & indirectly? What are the Kingdom’s views on journalistic freedom of speech?' Musk asked bin Talal.
I personally don't think he actually wants Twitter. He does love tweaking political extremists, and he's been at odds with both Trump and Biden in the past.
I think he's after a good old payday here though. He's going to drive the stock price up and liquidate his shares. Twitter is a cesspool. Freedom of speech is pointless at 148 characters or whatever their size limit is for a tweet. You can't reason, you can't elucidate. You can only exclaim and rile people up. It's a soundbite platform.
That, and Musk has long said that his companies exist for the purpose of making mankind multiplanetary. Twitter isn't even within an order of magnitude as valuable as Starlink. Dude will be the first trillionaire when that is fully operational.
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I personally don't think he actually wants Twitter. He does love tweaking political extremists, and he's been at odds with both Trump and Biden in the past.
I think he's after a good old payday here though. He's going to drive the stock price up and liquidate his shares. Twitter is a cesspool. Freedom of speech is pointless at 148 characters or whatever their size limit is for a tweet. You can't reason, you can't elucidate. You can only exclaim and rile people up. It's a soundbite platform.
On the first, I'm starting to lean that way probability-wise.
On the second, Gotta agree. It's basically shouting headlines with no story. I think Twitter would have been the bomb for what was supposed to have been a big part of its mission on launch: A way to communicate important information quickly in emergencies, or in foreign lands where a totalitarian government is shutting down free speech, etc. It turns out Twitter is the totalitarian though.
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If anyone cares, @bogiestl
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Hmmm
‘It’s Get-Out-The-Popcorn Time’: Musk Could Buy Twitter Even If His Offer Is Refused. Here’s How.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-get-out-the-popcorn-time-musk-could-buy-twitter-even-if-his-offer-is-refused-heres-how
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If nothing else, it has been entertaining to read the various outrage screeds by people afraid that points of views different from theirs might no longer be censored. It's also interesting that the loudest voices seem to be "journalists".
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/14/daily-beast-columnist-says-if-we-walk-out-the-door-the-moment-elon-musk-takes-over-twitter-it-is-nothing/
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Seems like there are two kinds of people.
Those who think that you have the right to an opinion, even if it is not their opinion, and those who don't.
And those who don't seem to have a pretty fair amount of power.
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Musk is no longer the largest shareholder in Twitter. Vanguard has increased their stake to 10.3%. I suspect Musk will sell his holdings and take whatever profits he can from the deal. He's made his point, though it was kind of tilting at windmills for all the good it did.
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Musk is no longer the largest shareholder in Twitter. Vanguard has increased their stake to 10.3%.
Well, I think this is the first time that I've ever been disappointed in Vanguard's investment strategy. I'll need to read up on why they did this. Up until now, they have always seemed to me to be good at focusing at making me money, not focusing on "social investing" bullshit.
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Some good words from Glenn Greenwald:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/15/this-glenn-greenwalds-thread-dragging-media-for-showing-how-desperately-they-crave-censorship-for-others-is-straight-freakin-fire/
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Well, I think this is the first time that I've ever been disappointed in Vanguard's investment strategy. I'll need to read up on why they did this. Up until now, they have always seemed to me to be good at focusing at making me money, not focusing on "social investing" bullshit.
My guess is that it's primarily about protecting the value of their position in the company and not about some social campaign.
A hostile takeover bid could ramp up Twitter's value short term, but it could just as easily end with a collapse in its value.
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My guess is that it's primarily about protecting the value of their position in the company and not about some social campaign.
A hostile takeover bid could ramp up Twitter's value short term, but it could just as easily end with a collapse in its value.
I just don't understand why they're heavily invested in it in the first place. It's not that great performing of a stock.
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Twitter’s board of directors has issued a new “shareholder rights plan” to block Elon Musk’s proposed buyout offer, a major setback to the billionaire’s efforts to take full financial control of the company.
The plan was adopted “following an unsolicited, non-binding proposal to acquire Twitter,” the company’s board of directors noted in a press release announcing the change.
This maneuver, known in the finance world as a poison pill, blocks hostile takeovers by giving certain shareholders the right to purchase more stock if an outsider attempts to seize control.
Twitter board announces poison pill measure to block Musk buyout
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/15/23024978/elon-musk-twitter-buyout-offer-ownership-deal-finance
Twitter Just Blocked Elon Musk Buyout With Poison Pill! What That Is & The Battle Is Just Beginning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TZLM5nZAZI
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Another buyer is reportedly working on a potential bid for Twitter as entrepreneur Elon Musk is trying to buy the entire company with a massive $43 billion bid.
“Private equity giant Thoma Bravo is working on a possible bid for Twitter … setting up what could be a rival to Elon Musk’s offer for the social giant,” the New York Post reported. “It’s not clear what Thoma Bravo might bid or when it would present the Twitter board with its bid. The firm has an internal team working on the potential transaction.”
Another Buyer Working On ‘Possible Bid’ To Buy Twitter As Musk Tries To Take Over: Report
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-another-buyer-working-on-possible-bid-to-buy-twitter-as-musk-tries-to-take-over-report
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Twitter board sets up a "poison pill" defense: AP News (https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-elon-musk-shareholder-rights-board-of-directors-35b7210a6c847d055ba690167a9092fb).
There's already talk by shareholders about legal action against the board for neglecting their fiduciary responsibilities. I gotta get more popcorn . . . . [popcorn]
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With this poison pill and all the buying, that will raise the price of the stock. At some point Musk may decide it's not worth it and sell. At that point the stock price will crash to what it's actually worth, Musk makes billions, and those that blocked him lose. He wins either way.
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I'm not the only one wondering what Vanguard (and Blackrock) think they're doing. Good points about buying high, especially regarding Vanguard, whose motto is supposed to be "don't just do something, stand there".
If things come to pass as Bedlamite suggested, Vanguard is going to be looking pretty stupid.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/15/not-a-financial-decision-it-never-was-jeff-carlson-lays-into-twitter-for-taking-poisonpill-to-reject-elon-musk-in-zero-punches-pulled-thread/
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Oh, and Twitter just suspended "libsoftiktok". The equivalent sites making fun of what conservatives ay are all still active.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/15/paging-elon-jonathan-turley-nails-twitter-in-brutal-thread-using-their-targeting-of-libsoftiktok-to-prove-how-biased-the-tech-giant-really-is/
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If nothing else, it has been entertaining to read the various outrage screeds by people afraid that points of views different from theirs might no longer be censored. It's also interesting that the loudest voices seem to be "journalists".
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/14/daily-beast-columnist-says-if-we-walk-out-the-door-the-moment-elon-musk-takes-over-twitter-it-is-nothing/
From the comments:
Dave is currently actively participating in the social engineering experiments of an out of control megalomaniac but lacks the awareness to recognize it.
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I'm still kind of thinking he's just messing with them
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Oh, and Twitter just suspended "libsoftiktok". The equivalent sites making fun of what conservatives ay are all still active.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/15/paging-elon-jonathan-turley-nails-twitter-in-brutal-thread-using-their-targeting-of-libsoftiktok-to-prove-how-biased-the-tech-giant-really-is/
They're back already.
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Most entertaining thread evvvar.
With this poison pill and all the buying, that will raise the price of the stock. At some point Musk may decide it's not worth it and sell. At that point the stock price will crash to what it's actually worth, Musk makes billions, and those that blocked him lose. He wins either way.
You suppose we could hire him for a dollar a year as Secretary of National Strategy?
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Musk is reportedly working with another potential investor to help him buy Twitter.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-in-talks-with-investors-to-join-his-bid-to-take-over-twitter-report (https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-in-talks-with-investors-to-join-his-bid-to-take-over-twitter-report)
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No longer a Bond Vilian. Now a right wing extremist.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/04/16/occupy-democrats-support-twitters-corporate-takeover-defense-effort-against-right-wing-billionaire/
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[popcorn]
Elon Musk points out that ‘with Jack departing, the Twitter board collectively owns almost no shares!’
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/04/16/elon-musk-points-out-that-with-jack-departing-the-twitter-board-collectively-owns-almost-no-shares/
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"Elon Musk is in for a bad time.
I’m not sure he’s prepared to take on a couple PhDs, a few MBAs, and a Baroness..."
"‘Amazing coincidence’! SEC & DOJ reportedly launch ‘joint investigation’ into Elon Musk’s company."
But of course. He's only got a Bachelor's degree.
Are they also investigating Twitter? Kinda makes you wonder why Jack left.
Cheap pun; apologies in advance: "Rats deserting a stinking ship?"
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Tangent but related:
A California billionaire is running for the senate. Why? To destroy Elon Musk. It appears even his fellow dems aren't too crazy about it, even if they hate Musk too.
A couple of interesting points from the article as to why he's using a senate run to do this:
Political ads cost less, so he gets more bang for the buck in his Musk dissing, and there are apparently some special free speech rules as a political candidate that let him kinda say whatever he wants about Musk without any burden of proof or civil liability for slander.
This guy must really hate Musk.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/16/don-odowd-elon-musk-00025688
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Most folks on the left REALLY hate... I don't quite know why. Maybe mommy and daddy issues.
They don't seem to understand math either.
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Most folks on the left REALLY hate... I don't quite know why. Maybe mommy and daddy issues.
They don't seem to understand math either.
Math is racist you bigot.
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At least they're only shooting words and dollars at each other.
"We're only enforcing our community standards and the hell with your community standards." Not a real quote, but might as well be one.
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Tangent but related:
A California billionaire is running for the senate. Why? To destroy Elon Musk. It appears even his fellow dems aren't too crazy about it, even if they hate Musk too.
A couple of interesting points from the article as to why he's using a senate run to do this:
Political ads cost less, so he gets more bang for the buck in his Musk dissing, and there are apparently some special free speech rules as a political candidate that let him kinda say whatever he wants about Musk without any burden of proof or civil liability for slander.
This guy must really hate Musk.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/16/don-odowd-elon-musk-00025688
Doesn't that go both ways? Commentary about the candidate is pretty wide open also.
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I heard speculation that he will find proof elements of the Govt or the parties are paying to push propaganda.
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"I heard speculation that he will find proof elements of the Govt or the parties are paying to push propaganda."
But you have no proof of that.
I repeat:
1.There is no proof without evidence.
2. There is no evidence without investigation.
3. There is no investigation without suspicion.
4. But suspicion without proof is paranoia, so shut up, you paranoid conservative.
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^
"I heard speculation that he will find proof elements of the Govt or the parties are paying to push propaganda."
But you have no proof of that.
I repeat:
1.There is no proof without evidence.
2. There is no evidence without investigation.
3. There is no investigation without suspicion.
4. But suspicion without proof is paranoia, so shut up, you paranoid conservative.
The Alphabet Four-step.
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Why are they afraid of a champion of free speech? Why such a frenzy of self-imposed terror?
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 17, 2022
This is how #Twitter deals with free speech. The warning came up within two seconds of posting this tweet. pic.twitter.com/hEh8XpCpIl
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 17, 2022
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/18/frenzy-of-self-imposed-terror-james-woods-mocks-twitter-as-only-he-can-for-being-wussies-about-elon-musk-and-free-speech/
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"I heard speculation that he will find proof elements of the Govt or the parties are paying to push propaganda."
But you have no proof of that.
I repeat:
1.There is no proof without evidence.
2. There is no evidence without investigation.
3. There is no investigation without suspicion.
4. But suspicion without proof is paranoia, so shut up, you paranoid conservative.
Which is why I called it speculation.
Even if all the truth and documentation were uncovered and made public, a portion of the electorate would hear about it, another portion wouldn't believe it, and it would never be prosecuted if illegal.
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Do y'all remember Cokie Roberts?
Back in the 1980s, maybe early 90s, she opined that online systems were bad, because they removed the media gatekeepers from the stories, and people could share news without their vetting.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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The Alphabet Four-step.
But it seems like a lot of people never go "up" from 4, "...suspicion without proof is paranoia, so shut up, you paranoid conservative," since they don't want to be labeled as paranoid (in the street sense.)
So speculation/suspicion/fear of approbation seems to impede the rest of the process:
"But you have no proof, so shut up, you paranoid right-winger, you."
Terry "Did you ever watch an alley cat cross the alley?," 230RN
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I remember the 1980s and 1990s when "gun people" managed to produce some _serious_ conspiracy nuts.
The left has whipped their asses in Teh Krazi...
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But it seems like a lot of people never go "up" from 4, "...suspicion without proof is paranoia, so shut up, you paranoid conservative," since they don't want to be labeled as paranoid (in the street sense.)
So speculation/suspicion/fear of approbation seems to impede the rest of the process:
"But you have no proof, so shut up, you paranoid right-winger, you."
Terry "Did you ever watch an alley cat cross the alley?," 230RN
That's a feauture, not a bug.
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Ouch!
Not even CLOSE! Elon Musk wipes the FLOOR with blue-check attempting to smear and discredit him in EPIC set-the-record-straight thread
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/21/not-even-close-elon-musk-wipes-the-floor-with-blue-check-attempting-to-smear-and-discredit-him-in-epic-set-the-record-straight-thread/
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I've been in a room where someone who was piled high and deep said something patronizingly nasty to an ol' boy with just a bachelors in the field...
The ol' boy's response?
"So, how many patents do you have?"
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BREAKING: Elon Musk has
1. $25.5B in financing for Twitter from a group of banks led by Morgan Stanley—includes $12.5B in margin loan against his Tesla shares.
2. The rest of the money ($21 B) is coming out of his own pocket. (SEC filing)
Translation: THIS GUY IS SERIOUS.
— Trish Regan (@trish_regan) April 21, 2022
Musk Announces He’s Secured Funding For Twitter, Details Potential Next Move To Work Around Unresponsive Board
https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-announces-hes-secured-funding-for-twitter-details-potential-next-move-to-work-around-unresponsive-board
Elon Musk Makes Big Announcement On Purchasing Twitter & The Board Cannot Stop Him Now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAr1XuEsj7M
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And so it begins.
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This is great! For as long as twitter leaves it up, anyways.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/04/23/elon-musk-compares-bill-gates-to-the-pregnant-man-emoji/
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This is why we need Musk
Twitter says it will no longer allow advertisers on its site who deny the scientific consensus on climate change, echoing a policy already in place at Google. https://t.co/k81ii345em
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 23, 2022
“Ads shouldn’t detract from important conversations about the climate crisis,” the company said in a statement outlining its new policy Friday.
There was no indication that the change would affect what users post on the social media site, which along with Facebook has been targeted by groups seeking to promote misleading claims about climate change.
The announcement coinciding with Earth Day came hours before the European Union agreed upon a deal requiring big tech companies to vet their sites more closely for hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/23/twitter-will-no-longer-allow-advertisers-who-deny-the-scientific-consensus-on-climate-change/
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The Barbarians are at the Gate
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 22, 2022
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/24/twitter-better-hope-elon-musks-tweet-about-barbarians-is-not-foreshadowing-because-if-it-is-*expletive deleted*it-is-about-to-get-real/
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https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/as-musk-bids-for-twitter-his-fight-to-tweet-freely-hits-snag
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Bloomberg News? Bloomberg News? Bloomberg?
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Looking like it's gonna happen:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/25/reee-twitter-set-to-accept-elon-musks-best-and-final-offer-and-lefty-twitter-has-gone-into-full-out-meltdown-mode/
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AH MAH GERDZ! FREE SPEEZH IS DED!
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https://www.businessinsider.com/ron-santis-hold-twitter-board-accountable-poison-pill-elon-musk-2022-4
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a press conference Tuesday that the state will attempt to hold Twitter's board of directors "accountable" for their poison pill defense against Elon Musk's potential hostile takeover.
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Florida's state pension fund holds 949,690 shares in Twitter as of Dec. 31, according to Bloomberg.
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Somedays Ron just needs to learn to keep his mouth shut.
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Somedays Ron just needs to learn to keep his mouth shut.
But is he wrong?
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But is he wrong?
Probably. I know there were rumblings of lawsuits from shareholders about the boards fiduciary responsibility in [attempting to] block the acquisition, but I think an argument could easily be made that the board figured that Elon was a polarizing enough figure that overall the acquisition would cost Twitter value and money, so they were acting responsibly. At least I assume that's what the board's lawyers would say.
So it's probably a frivolous threat.
On top of that the State of Florida's pension fund's stake in Twitter is pretty small, and the pension fund is well leveraged against market volatility, so there's some question if it would actually hurt FL. But the real issue is that DeSantis is a government executive that has much more important *expletive deleted*it to be working on in FL. He could work on the Open Carry he talked about, for instance. Ron has really embraced the Trump "Every headline is a good headline" idea, and, I think, really enjoys seeing himself on TV. So he says *expletive deleted*it that will get him on TV.
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The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming.
How many Russian Oligarchs are propping up this @elonmusk @twitter bid right now, do ya think?
It sure would fix everything for putin, tang and the rest of the complicit super rich if this platform was run by them.
After the takeover, I wouldn’t DM anymore if I were you.
— yvette nicole brown (@YNB) April 25, 2022
Actress Yvette Nicole Brown suspects ‘Russian Oligarchs are propping up’ Elon Musk’s Twitter bid, shares a piece of post-‘takeover’ advice
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/04/25/actress-yvette-nicole-brown-suspects-russian-oligarchs-are-propping-up-elon-musks-twitter-bid-shares-a-piece-of-post-takeover-advice/
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The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming.
Actress Yvette Nicole Brown suspects ‘Russian Oligarchs are propping up’ Elon Musk’s Twitter bid, shares a piece of post-‘takeover’ advice
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/04/25/actress-yvette-nicole-brown-suspects-russian-oligarchs-are-propping-up-elon-musks-twitter-bid-shares-a-piece-of-post-takeover-advice/
Honest question: Are Russian oligarchs worse than who's in charge of Twitter now?
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Twitter board agrees to $44bn takeover by Elon Musk
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61222470
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Twitter board agrees to $44bn takeover by Elon Musk
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61222470
[popcorn] [popcorn] [popcorn] [popcorn] [popcorn] [popcorn] [popcorn] [popcorn] [popcorn]
Brad
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Probably. I know there were rumblings of lawsuits from shareholders about the boards fiduciary responsibility in [attempting to] block the acquisition, but I think an argument could easily be made that the board figured that Elon was a polarizing enough figure that overall the acquisition would cost Twitter value and money, so they were acting responsibly. At least I assume that's what the board's lawyers would say.
So it's probably a frivolous threat.
On top of that the State of Florida's pension fund's stake in Twitter is pretty small, and the pension fund is well leveraged against market volatility, so there's some question if it would actually hurt FL. But the real issue is that DeSantis is a government executive that has much more important *expletive deleted*it to be working on in FL. He could work on the Open Carry he talked about, for instance. Ron has really embraced the Trump "Every headline is a good headline" idea, and, I think, really enjoys seeing himself on TV. So he says *expletive deleted*it that will get him on TV.
You are probably right that the State of Florida wouldn't have much to say about it. However, I heard a similar comment from someone else (before DeSantis spoke up) about Twitter's board doing a poison pill plan, that it would overall hurt shareholders which is not what they are supposed to be doing. How far someone could take that legally is question I can't answer.
Moot point now.
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Is there anyone more savvy in business than I that can explain what happens next? Elon's SEC filing stated his intention to take Twitter private. Do the shareholders vote on the deal? Do they all just get a check for $54 per share for whatever they had? Why is the stock still trading (as of market close today)?
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Twitter locks down product changes:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/twitter-locks-down-product-changes-after-agreeing-to-musk-bid?srnd=premium
Product changes will require approval from a vice president, the people said. Twitter imposed the temporary ban to keep employees who may be miffed about the deal from “going rogue,” according to one of the people.
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Obi-Wan : I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Elon Musk: I just bought Twitter.
:rofl:
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Twitter locks down product changes:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/twitter-locks-down-product-changes-after-agreeing-to-musk-bid?srnd=premium
I wouldn't be surprised if some employees have already acted to delete data:
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/25/one-request-for-elon-musk-audit-the-twitter-logs-to-show-how-our-communications-were-manipulated/
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I wouldn't be surprised if some employees have already acted to delete data:
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/25/one-request-for-elon-musk-audit-the-twitter-logs-to-show-how-our-communications-were-manipulated/
Don't be surprised if some unexplained fires break out in the server rooms.
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Meanwhile at twitter
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This is cracking me up. This exactly what these shmucks were telling others to do "and if you don't like it, tough", but now they're upset they may have to take their own advice.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/25/build-your-own-sounds-like-robert-b-reich-wants-to-leave-twitter-and-keep-his-followers-is-haunted-by-old-tweets/
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And of course the Biden admin wants to look into online misinformation. Reforming Section 230 is a valid topic after all . . . .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10752593/Psaki-hints-Biden-Twitter-Musk-takes-concerns-power.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10752593/Psaki-hints-Biden-Twitter-Musk-takes-concerns-power.html)
Psaki: "the president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms"
His main concern is making sure those that run them toe the correct line . . .
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Psaki: "the president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms"
I wouldn't be surprised if they now decide they need to have DOJ "do something" about big tech twitter.
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Musk could buy a painting with the loose change in his couch
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Meanwhile at twitter
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Stealing and posting on Facebook!
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The ACLU: Absolute free speech is unacceptable
Human rights groups including the ACLU and Amnesty International raised concerns about hate speech on Twitter and the power that Elon Musk, a self-described 'free speech absolutist,' would have after his acquisition https://t.co/U3h2usxiKp pic.twitter.com/mlhwzzF9OJ
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 25, 2022
Reuters: Human rights groups like the ACLU and Amnesty International have ‘raised concerns’ about hate speech on Twitter
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/25/reuters-human-rights-groups-like-the-aclu-and-amnesty-international-have-raised-concerns-about-hate-speech-on-twitter/
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Stealing and posting on Facebook!
You too. :rofl:
bob
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The ACLU: Absolute free speech is unacceptable
Reuters: Human rights groups like the ACLU and Amnesty International have ‘raised concerns’ about hate speech on Twitter
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/25/reuters-human-rights-groups-like-the-aclu-and-amnesty-international-have-raised-concerns-about-hate-speech-on-twitter/
Wait, that's allowed again? Finally, I'm freed from the prison that is Ifunny and Gab!
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The owner of Chinazon thinks twitter now has a China problem
Interesting question. Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square? https://t.co/jTiEnabP6T
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) April 25, 2022
FAIL: Christina Pushaw & others give Jeff Bezos the wedgie of self-awareness after attempt to connect Musk’s Twitter purchase to China
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/04/25/fail-christina-pushaw-others-give-jeff-bezos-the-wedgie-of-self-awareness-after-attempt-to-connect-musks-twitter-purchase-to-china/
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Just wait until he moves the HQ to Texas.
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And of course the Biden admin wants to look into online misinformation. Reforming Section 230 is a valid topic after all . . . .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10752593/Psaki-hints-Biden-Twitter-Musk-takes-concerns-power.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10752593/Psaki-hints-Biden-Twitter-Musk-takes-concerns-power.html)
Psaki: "the president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms"
His main concern is making sure those that run them toe the correct line . . .
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My last Twitter post:
HeroHog @SpeedyMercer
#ElonMusk #ElonMuskBuyTwitter #ElonMuskTwitter
I, for one, WELCOME our reptilian overlord. LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC and the US Constitution, ALL OF IT!!!
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You now have a follower.
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Consulting group I used to work for had a Friday Afternoon Happy Hour at a mexican restaurant adjacent to the hotel where the out-of-town folks stayed. The VP picked up the tab. There was serious drinking. And there was a whiteboard and someone keeping notes, and "no idea is a bad idea" about various strategy topics.
Some excellent stuff came out of that. A few really horrid ideas, but when folks got lubed enough, they just said what they really thought, and that often was right.
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Enter David Hogg
He's got fellow Super Genius Musk all figured out
‘Hear me out’: David Hogg thinks Elon Musk may use Twitter’s data to build a ‘humanoid robot’
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/04/26/hear-me-out-david-hogg-thinks-elon-musk-may-use-twitters-data-to-build-a-humanoid-robot/
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Caravan Of Liberal Refugees Arrives At MySpace Border
https://babylonbee.com/news/caravan-of-liberal-refugees-arrives-at-myspace-border
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Gaslighting turned to 11
This MSNBC guy is worried twitter is going start doing what twitter has been doing
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1518777886668374016
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And Trumps says he's not going back to twitter
“I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH,” Trump told Fox News. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/04/26/good-news-the-biggest-fear-for-many-twitter-employees-and-the-naacp-with-elon-musk-in-charge-isnt-going-to-happen/
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Are there any estimates as to when I can start posting pics of my guns on Faisbook?
And why do I have the suspicion there's a lot of backups on Faisbook being reviewed for "accuracy?"
Or is Faisbook now the "rescue helicopter" (as depicted above) for aggrieved Leftists?
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The View's Sunny Hostin: "So when Elon Musk says, 'wow, this is about free speech,' seems to me that it’s about free speech of straight white men." pic.twitter.com/q6jmGVK1gX
— John Cooper (@thejcoop) April 26, 2022
Well now you know
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Think of the damage Zuckerberg has done.
Musk is a Piers Morgan level media thirsty, vindictive, white supremacist who is looking to convince you he is an innovative disruptor.
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) April 25, 2022
Well now you know because you now.....know
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Nice list
‘Men DON’T have periods’: Sara Gonzales tweets EVERYTHING (and then some) Twitter has suspended Conservatives for saying before and it’s GLORIOUS
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/26/men-dont-have-periods-sara-gonzales-tweets-everything-and-then-some-twitter-has-suspended-conservatives-for-saying-before-and-its-glorious/
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Related note:
I don't know how much time this crowd spends on twitter, but today, all of a sudden, literally hundreds of conservatives leaning tweets are just appearing by like magic on peoples timelines. Conservative folks are all of a sudden reaching followers that are interested in their views and engaging on threads.
An example: https://twitter.com/monsterhunter45/status/1518978445631401986 ( I already followed Larry, but he's seeing a bunch of movement)
IraqVetern8888 and John Ringo showed up on my feed today, and I didn't even know they were on Twitter.
The deal isn't actually done yet, so it's not like Elon is in there tearing things up. I have two theories: Twitter employees aren't as monolithic as everyone thought, and folks that previously felt the need to keep a head down and go with the liberal flow are feeling empowered to tweak stuff (probably not), or there was a shadowban algorithm, and someone nuked it before Elon could make it public. By the time the deal is done there will be no evidence that algorithmic de-platforming ever occurred.
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Related note:
I don't know how much time this crowd spends on twitter, but today, all of a sudden, literally hundreds of conservatives leaning tweets are just appearing by like magic on peoples timelines. Conservative folks are all of a sudden reaching followers that are interested in their views and engaging on threads.
An example: https://twitter.com/monsterhunter45/status/1518978445631401986 ( I already followed Larry, but he's seeing a bunch of movement)
IraqVetern8888 and John Ringo showed up on my feed today, and I didn't even know they were on Twitter.
The deal isn't actually done yet, so it's not like Elon is in there tearing things up. I have two theories: Twitter employees aren't as monolithic as everyone thought, and folks that previously felt the need to keep a head down and go with the liberal flow are feeling empowered to tweak stuff (probably not), or there was a shadowban algorithm, and someone nuked it before Elon could make it public. By the time the deal is done there will be no evidence that algorithmic de-platforming ever occurred.
It's also possible people that had left have now returned. I think the theory that someone at twitter has "untweaked" the algorithm is the most likely though.
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I keep wondering if Musk is as much a free speech advocate as he claims.
[popcorn]
https://www.mediaite.com/tech/lawrence-fossi-speaks-out-on-elon-musk/
(Use reader view if you can't read it.)
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Musk's Twitter Purchase Fails After 138,000 Board Votes Found Overnight
https://babylonbee.com/news/musks-twitter-purchase-fails-after-138000-board-votes-found-overnight
When the final votes were tallied, the takeover bid failed by a final tally of 10 votes for, 138,000 votes against. While the final result came as a shock to most observers, Agrawal said the election was fair.
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Musk later tweeted that he was planning a demonstration at Twitter headquarters on May 6 to protest the results. His account was then permanently suspended by Twitter for questioning the integrity of the election.
=D
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=D
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/26/men-dont-have-periods-sara-gonzales-tweets-everything-and-then-some-twitter-has-suspended-conservatives-for-saying-before-and-its-glorious/
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Related note:
I don't know how much time this crowd spends on twitter, but today, all of a sudden, literally hundreds of conservatives leaning tweets are just appearing by like magic on peoples timelines. Conservative folks are all of a sudden reaching followers that are interested in their views and engaging on threads.
An example: https://twitter.com/monsterhunter45/status/1518978445631401986 ( I already followed Larry, but he's seeing a bunch of movement)
IraqVetern8888 and John Ringo showed up on my feed today, and I didn't even know they were on Twitter.
The deal isn't actually done yet, so it's not like Elon is in there tearing things up. I have two theories: Twitter employees aren't as monolithic as everyone thought, and folks that previously felt the need to keep a head down and go with the liberal flow are feeling empowered to tweak stuff (probably not), or there was a shadowban algorithm, and someone nuked it before Elon could make it public. By the time the deal is done there will be no evidence that algorithmic de-platforming ever occurred.
Ding ding ding!
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We need algorithmic justice!
Dem Sen. Ed Markey says we need laws to ‘promote algorithmic justice’ as a safeguard against Elon Musk’s ‘dangerous influence’
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/04/26/dem-sen-ed-markey-says-we-need-laws-to-promote-algorithmic-justice-as-a-safeguard-against-elon-musks-dangerous-influence/
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Hit piece after hit piece on the internet today.
Here's a doozy
Elon Musk Proves Yet Again That He's Just Not Very Bright
America's dumbest smart guy strikes again with an idiotic take on subways.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-proves-yet-again-that-hes-just-not-very-brigh-1848835670
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All that and umpteen slides to clobber an offhand incorrect remark?
I think he left his pewpewpewpewpewpewpewpew auto firing switch on. Talk about being "triggered."
Some of these people are going to be poisoned by their own vitriol.
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We need algorithmic justice!
Dem Sen. Ed Markey says we need laws to ‘promote algorithmic justice’ as a safeguard against Elon Musk’s ‘dangerous influence’
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/04/26/dem-sen-ed-markey-says-we-need-laws-to-promote-algorithmic-justice-as-a-safeguard-against-elon-musks-dangerous-influence/
At this point, I'm pretty sure "________ justice" is just commie-speak for "absurd or downright evil things voters would overwhelmingly reject if we didn't cloak them in buzzzwords."
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Musk could
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1518777886668374016
“You could secretly ban one party’s candidate…secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it until AFTER the election.”
pic.twitter.com/yPMbtSN2wx
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) April 26, 2022
You mean just like twitter? :facepalm:
Yeah that came from MSNBC
MSNBC’s Ari Melber warns that Elon Musk could secretly ban one party’s candidate from Twitter
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/26/msnbcs-ari-melber-warns-that-elon-musk-could-secretly-ban-one-partys-candidate-from-twitter/
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MSNBC’s Ari Melber warns that Elon Musk could secretly ban one party’s candidate from Twitter
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/26/msnbcs-ari-melber-warns-that-elon-musk-could-secretly-ban-one-partys-candidate-from-twitter/
Unbelievable.
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I'll just leave this here:
https://twitter.com/mbesheer/status/1518581620969771009
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I'll just leave this here:
https://twitter.com/mbesheer/status/1518581620969771009
If all it takes to solve world hunger is $43 Billion, then why hasn't any government done so yet?
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I keep wondering if Musk is as much a free speech advocate as he claims.
[popcorn]
https://www.mediaite.com/tech/lawrence-fossi-speaks-out-on-elon-musk/
(Use reader view if you can't read it.)
Here's his latest tweet (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376?s=20&t=wZwI7CLVPRq4KVUDXm_ylg) on free speech:
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law.
I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.
If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.
Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.
2:33 PM · Apr 26, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
Is he lying? Maybe. It's not illegal to lie . . .
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Twitter lawyer responsible for decision to boot President Trump off Twitter on Jan 6, 2021 cried at Twitter employee meeting on the take-over by Musk. She has been in charge of all content moderation and was also behind the ban of New York Post article on Hunter Biden's computer. https://t.co/xC5w0ZgFRC
— Tricia D (@patriciamdavis) April 26, 2022
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/26/twitters-top-lawyer-cried-during-a-meeting-about-elon-musks-takeover-of-the-company/
(https://media4.giphy.com/media/kkEm7G8KUezK/giphy.gif)
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https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/26/twitters-top-lawyer-cried-during-a-meeting-about-elon-musks-takeover-of-the-company/
[img]https://media4.giphy.com/media/kkEm7G8KUezK/giphy.gif
So no more fawning glamour articles on her by Politico, I guess.
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What's cracking me up is that all these twitter employees are coming out with statements right now as if "new twitter" will cover for their lies the same as "old twitter". For some of this stuff, whether they nuke algorithms or whatever, it doesn't matter. What they say, along with documented evidence to the contrary, clearly shows they're lying.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/26/twitter-engineer-insists-that-suppression-of-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story-wasnt-targeted-censorship/
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(https://i.redd.it/w72wk677huv81.jpg)
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I don't want to turn this into a microcosm of twitter or anything but this is too good not to share:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52032832154_3fa3e36ed0_n.jpg)
Originally posted by some Libertarian account.
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I haven't seen this much stupid since the great 2016 liberal migration to Canada.
‘Anti-racism educator’ says we’re ‘gonna have to deal with Nazis the way our grandparents did’ because of Elon Musk
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/26/anti-racism-educator-says-were-gonna-have-to-deal-with-nazis-the-way-our-grandparents-did-because-of-elon-musk/
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I don't want to turn this into a microcosm of twitter or anything but this is too good not to share:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52032832154_3fa3e36ed0_n.jpg)
Originally posted by some Libertarian account.
I think it is ~$24b, or something like that, of his money. Proportionally about what you would spend on a used car.
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I haven't seen this much stupid since the great 2016 liberal migration to Canada.
‘Anti-racism educator’ says we’re ‘gonna have to deal with Nazis the way our grandparents did’ because of Elon Musk
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/26/anti-racism-educator-says-were-gonna-have-to-deal-with-nazis-the-way-our-grandparents-did-because-of-elon-musk/
Bolded for truth.
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Andrew Lawrence
@andrewlawrence
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20h
Elon Musk could have put that $44billion towards tackling world poverty, instead he's used it to send millions of woke Liberal narcissists into a spiral of depression, and honestly I think it's money well spent.
Anthony Cabassa
@AnthonyCabassa_
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22h
Can @elonmusk
buy California next?
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Expect more crying
Elon Musk weighed in on the Hunter Biden and Sussmann stories and there’s not enough popcorn in the world for what’s about to happen
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/04/27/elon-musk-weighed-in-on-the-hunter-biden-story-and-the-sussmann-trial-and-theres-not-enough-popcorn-in-the-world-for-whats-about-to-happen-a/
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Give them a list of the leftest hate speech still up and info them this will have to go as well.
I am told this morning that Apple and Google will remove Twitter from the App Store if it does not moderate and remove hate speech under @ElonMusk.
This isn’t a new policy, but a commitment already made.
Amazon Web Services has the same commitment.
So there’s that.
— Shaun King (@shaunking) April 27, 2022
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/04/27/shaun-king-says-apple-and-google-will-remove-twitter-from-their-app-stores-if-elon-musk-wont-moderate-hate-speech/
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Well, given that we know what their definition of hate speech is -- any speech that doesn't conform to their very left-leaning view of the world, including men can menstruate/have babies, there are 1,206,127,279x10196 genders, that America actually started in 1619 and then was violently overthrown by a bunch of rich white men, etc. -- it's a foregone conclusion that Twitter will be deplatformed.
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Now he's putting the lives of twitter execs at risk
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/04/27/complete-bs-saagar-enjeti-busts-wapo-journo-who-straight-up-lied-about-him-in-order-to-paint-elon-musk-as-a-safety-threat/
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Pretty sure that if he can buy twitter, build a space internet company etc that he can make an App Store. I didn’t know I needed this but the memes are better than the great triggering. (Inauguration 2017)
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Now he's putting the lives of twitter execs at risk
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/04/27/complete-bs-saagar-enjeti-busts-wapo-journo-who-straight-up-lied-about-him-in-order-to-paint-elon-musk-as-a-safety-threat/
Well, the Post is simply outing White Racist Hate Speech lovers.
What, he's not white?
Doesn't matter, he's a White Racist Hate Speech lover.
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I am told this morning that Apple and Google will remove Twitter from the App Store if it does not moderate and remove hate speech under @ElonMusk.
So what? Musk can make it available for download most anywhere he wants. Sure, there are a couple of extra steps if you're not using Play or Store, depending on your settings, but big deal.
I'm thinking this "hostage" crap that was pulled on Parler is no longer going to happen. You have Rumble guaranteeing service for these sites now, and I wouldn't be surprised if Musk makes an instant workaround if Apple and Google do this, to the detriment of them both. Big tech is no longer calling the shots, I think.
Related, I see that there are a ton of articles out now listing "all" the alternatives to twitter. Parler and Truth are not listed in the "all". Of all the sites they do list, the only one I've heard of is mastadon, and only because it has been in the news for the past few days listed as a "safe space".
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Herrrre's Everything is about race Joy Reid
MSNBC host Joy Reid came up with an insane theory to explain why billionaire Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk decided to buy Twitter.
During her show on Tuesday, Reid claimed Musk bought Twitter because he yearns for the days of apartheid South Africa.
"They don't want to just be in the club. They are on the — they've been described as being on the outside of the culture looking in through the glass, but they don't just want to come in. They want to come in and be able to punch people in the face and walk around and laugh about it and to not have anyone be able to stop them. The thing is, the enjoyment they get out of being in this 'town square' is being able to harass people, being able to attack people," Reid said.
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Twitter executive accuses Musk of MISOGYNY for criticizing firm's top lawyer over her 'incredibly inappropriate' censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story - but Elon continues attacking Twitter and points out Trump's Truth Social is beating it
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10756831/Elon-Musk-slams-Twitters-lawyer-sobbed-bought-social-media-network.html
Elon Musk Just TORCHED Twitters Top Lawyer For Left Wing Bias! Old Joe Rogan Interview Resurfaces!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPVsaAsJUCw
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Dataracer
@Dataracer117
Twitters Saftey executive Vijaya Gadde sent these 3 tweets to the journalist herself to smear Elon Musk.
They were all screen captured within 1 min of being posted, at a similar time, on 3 different posts. None by Elon Musk.
Kinda sloppy on this hit job.
https://twitter.com/Dataracer117/status/1519277255171530755
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519377424437243904/photo/1
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Wow
Elon Musk LOCKS OUT Twitter Staff On Fears Of SABOTAGE After Slack Messages LEAK!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae0o4nhLDDg
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Wow
Elon Musk LOCKS OUT Twitter Staff On Fears Of SABOTAGE After Slack Messages LEAK!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae0o4nhLDDg
That was first announced maybe two days ago? I thought I read it on Fox, but it may have been somewhere else, and it apparently wasn't at the behest of Elon Musk, it was Twitter's current management who did it, apparently.
This is from Tech Crunch: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/twitter-lock-source-code-elon-musk/
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Babylon Bee remains in Twitter jail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOenZRqMCWA
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Babylon Bee remains in Twitter jail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOenZRqMCWA
:rofl:
Love the Trump and Gina background. :laugh:
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=D
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I just hope he doesn't pull a Trump and hang on to all the old guard in Twitter's staff.
I suspect Trump's lack of instant swamp-draining was unwise, although I defended it back then. Silly me.
Single biggest mistake Trump made was not immediately firing everyone he was legally/constitutionally entitled to purge.
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Single biggest mistake Trump made was not immediately firing everyone he was legally/constitutionally entitled to purge.
Spot on Larry !! :rofl: :rofl:
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/elon-musk-teases-buying-more-companies-including-coca-cola-to-add-back-the-cocaine
"Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in," Musk quipped in a late-night tweet Wednesday.
...
Billy Markus, the co-creator of Dogecoin who uses the Twitter name "Shibetoshi Nakamoto" (a reference to Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym used by the inventors of Bitcoin), asked Musk, "can you buy fox I want another season of ‘firefly’." "Firefly" (2002-2003) became a cult classic, despite getting canceled after only one season.
"Some sci-fi that actually features sci-fi would be great," Musk replied.
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I want him to buy Bushmaster and absolutely flood the streets with rifles.
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I want him to buy Bushmaster and absolutely flood the streets with rifles.
Musk will buy all of the gun companies, but make only Hipoints.
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:rofl:
Winning: Elon Musk Makes All Of Bill Gates's Tweets Autocorrect To Say 'Poopy Butt'
https://babylonbee.com/news/winning-elon-musk-makes-all-of-bill-gates-tweets-autocorrect-to-poopy-butt
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Musk will buy all of the gun companies, but make only Hipoints.
At least they would be fairly accurate and dependable...
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At least they would be fairly accurate and dependable...
You just have to plug them in overnight every 300-400 shots or so.
But on the bright side they will auto shoot.
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:rofl:
Twitter Employee Undergoes Therapy Over Elon Musk Takeover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFNCsSBnYVg
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Twitter Employee Undergoes Therapy Over Elon Musk Takeover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFNCsSBnYVg
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
"If he buys our free speech platform, people will be able to have free speech on our platform! "
"Well that's just stupid..."
"Everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi! "
Whoa. Now that's hitting home.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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And in other Elon news
I didn't know he dated Amber Heard for a year. yikes!
Elon Musk, James Franco won’t testify at Depp-Heard trial after all
https://nypost.com/2022/04/27/elon-musk-james-franco-wont-testify-at-johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial/
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My favorite fake (at least I think it's a fake) Musk tweet so far:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52035606146_bef08d1c61_n.jpg)
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He responded to this one
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/x383/WLJohnson1/FRZViwWX0AMsqQ1(1).jpg)
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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11h
Listen, I can’t do miracles ok
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Zero-thickness edges:
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Stephen Miller
@StephenM
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22h
I, for one, am enraged by the sinister
@elonmusk
plot to allow ordinary citizens—many without PHDs, let alone NYT subscriptions—to freely express themselves & question the unblemished wisdom of politicians, gov’t experts, even CEOs. This is the dark & dangerous road to democracy.
(Bolding mine --230RN)
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Kassy Dillon
@KassyDillon
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22h
I just paid off my student loans, and now Joe Biden expects me to pay off other people's. No thanks.
(Maybe they can set aside some freshly-printed money just for you to pay it off.)
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Seth Dillon
@SethDillon
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14h
Objecting to Twitter becoming politically neutral is to admit that it isn’t.
(Say, whut? You trying to start trouble? Why, doublethink is at the core of Leftist thinking.)
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Terry, 230RN
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Posted ysterday
Breakingviews: Elon Musk probably won’t buy Twitter
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/elon-musk-probably-wont-buy-twitter-2022-04-27/
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Jussie Smollet to the red courtesy phone
Anand Giridharadas @ The.Ink
@AnandWrites
Some Musk bro just confronted me at an airport, right outside security, but only once he had cleared it, in case you’re wondering whether this digital army he is unleashing is online-only.
7:34 PM · Apr 27, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1519459971011911682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Did you have a $5 footlong in your hand?
Were they wearing Tesla hats, and screaming 'This is MUSK COUNTRY!!!!!'???
— Shay Patrick Cormac (@ShayCormac_1) April 28, 2022
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/28/this-is-tesla-country-anand-giridhardas-terrifying-tale-of-some-musk-bro-confronting-him-would-make-jussie-smollet-proud/
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Watcher.Guru
@WatcherGuru
JUST IN: The FCC, FTC and DOJ were asked to block Elon Musk’s deal to acquire Twitter after claiming the transaction poses a “direct threat to American democracy and free speech”.
The Commissioner responded and said they had no authority to block the purchase.
https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1519507566820315136
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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11h
Replying to
@WatcherGuru
FCC FTW!
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(https://i.redd.it/r2h2yk17cbw81.jpg)
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“I want Twitter to do well. I just have no faith that under Elon Musk that Twitter would continue to be a place where women, people of color or LGBT people could use it at all,” she said.
Is NBC News Serious With This Piece About Elon Musk and Twitter?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/04/28/is-nbc-news-serious-with-this-piece-about-elon-musk-and-twitter-n2606447
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Democrat senators say Elon Musk should be called to testify over his plans to overhaul Twitter
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/28/democrat-senators-say-elon-musk-should-be-called-to-testify-over-his-plans-to-overhaul-twitter/
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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole
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6h
The hate @elonmusk
receives is unfair. Elon is one of the greatest engineers of this generation. The man is solving climate change, reusable rockets, existential risk with AI, traffic, & free speech. He's an inspiration.
LabPadre
@LabPadre
Replying to
@PPathole
and
@elonmusk
Ignorance and jealousy brings out the worst in people. They have no idea what they're hating.
5:41 PM · Apr 28, 2022·Twitter for Android
https://twitter.com/LabPadre/status/1519793945777262593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofile%3ALabPadre%7Ctwgr%5EeyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19%7Ctwcon%5Etimelinechrome&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.starshipstalker.com%2F
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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1h
The far left hates everyone, themselves included!
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BTW, since it seems to be the latest “thing” on here. I’m stating that I’m staying on Twitter. Besides I think @elonmusk is adorbs. Also, full disclosure: I’m trying to pitch Elon to hire me as face of Twitter. #dumpthebird 😉😏
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) April 28, 2022
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/29/unlike-other-hollywood-whiners-losing-their-minds-over-elon-musk-buying-twitter-william-shatner-embraces-it-in-perfect-tweet/
Waiting on Takei's take [popcorn]
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Yes Virginia they are this dumb
S.E. Cupp gets the feeling that Elon Musk ‘is going to run for president’ (so who wants to tell her?)
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/04/29/s-e-cupp-gets-the-feeling-that-elon-musk-is-going-to-run-for-president-so-who-wants-to-tell-her/
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I'll bid $100 for the privilege of telling her.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRgvsxIUUAAfjtW?format=jpg&name=medium)
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For real fun he should eliminate the liberal’s coveted blue checkmarks 😂
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AOC is mad now
AOC is pretty disgusted that a billionaire like Elon Musk has the nerve to criticize ‘the extreme far left’ (no word on if she’ll return her Tesla)
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/04/29/aoc-is-pretty-disgusted-that-a-billionaire-like-elon-musk-has-the-nerve-to-criticize-the-extreme-far-left-no-word-on-if-shell-return-her-tesla/
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No wonder she's crying
Twitter’s chief lawyer — seen as the social network’s top advocate for censoring conservatives — is among the highly paid executives who stand to lose their job if Elon Musk completes his takeover of the company.
Vijaya Gadde, who earned $17 million last year as Twitter’s top legal counsel, could be on the chopping block as Musk is reportedly planning to slash jobs and reduce executive pay as he looks to secure financing for his Twitter bid.
Twitter’s ‘chief censor’ making $17M per year could be fired by Elon Musk
https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/twitters-chief-censor-making-17m-per-year-could-be-fired/
[popcorn]
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No wonder she's crying
Twitter’s ‘chief censor’ making $17M per year could be fired by Elon Musk
https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/twitters-chief-censor-making-17m-per-year-could-be-fired/
[popcorn]
Interesting with lefties, that when they're making millions, they "deserve" it all.
I guess it's a mindset that I don't understand, but if I'd been making $17mil/yr for the last few years and I got some new boss who fired me, even for no reason at all, I'd happily walk away, no hard feelings, and enjoy the dough I'd made.
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Interesting with lefties, that when they're making millions, they "deserve" it all.
I guess it's a mindset that I don't understand, but if I'd been making $17mil/yr for the last few years and I got some new boss who fired me, even for no reason at all, I'd happily walk away, no hard feelings, and enjoy the dough I'd made.
Be willing to bet good money she blows it on parties and whatnot and has almost if not zero in her bank account.
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Interesting with lefties, that when they're making millions, they "deserve" it all.
I guess it's a mindset that I don't understand, but if I'd been making $17mil/yr for the last few years and I got some new boss who fired me, even for no reason at all, I'd happily walk away, no hard feelings, and enjoy the dough I'd made.
If you aren't stupid, that's enough to retire on, even if you're still in your 20's. But I bet WLJ is right.
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If you aren't stupid, that's enough to retire on, even if you're still in your 20's. But I bet WLJ is right.
"If you aren't stupid"
That's the hard part for many
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Posted ysterday
Breakingviews: Elon Musk probably won’t buy Twitter
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/elon-musk-probably-wont-buy-twitter-2022-04-27/
So is the deal happening, or not?
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So is the deal happening, or not?
Everything I've seen says yes but some lib rags are trying to scream no
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So is the deal happening, or not?
I read that article and all I could think was that it was the author's desperate hope that his article would somehow derail the Twitter take over and "Liberal-mode free speech" would be safe.
The whole time I was reading it I was thinking -- "This is nothing more than a spoiler article."
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Musk will buy all of the gun companies, but make only Hipoints.
You know what? I'm down with that just because of liberal rage tears.
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I can't breathe :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Billionaires be like “the extreme far left is taking over” when the “extreme far left” in the US is “medicine shouldn’t bankrupt you,” “wages should cover rent,” & “maybe it’s bad that Wall St companies profit off mass surveillance, manufactured housing crises, and caging people”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 29, 2022
All the US billionaire votes combined couldn’t even come in 2nd for an NY city council election. That’s why they stay pressed
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 29, 2022
Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening bc some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 29, 2022
Heeeeere's Elon
Stop hitting on me, I’m really shy ☺️
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2022
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
In case you don't remember not too long ago AOC said that the only reason Rs criticize her is because she won't date them
‘I’m dead’! Elon Musk’s comeback to AOC’s criticism is the ‘LOL of the century’
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/04/29/im-dead-elon-musks-comeback-to-aocs-criticism-is-the-lol-of-the-century/
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I'm sure Musk’s a pretty bright guy, so I wonder if he writes his own snappy comebacks, or if he has help. Could be both, I guess.
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Twitter employees react:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T0BQl_zzCE
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Twitter employees react:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T0BQl_zzCE
That was pretty damned funny!
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A couple of those are my customers/neighbors. I misgender someone at least once a week. Wear a damn sign, already...
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dOUBLE POST
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Twitter employees react:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T0BQl_zzCE
JP is the best of the best of the red-pilled. :laugh:
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My utterest favest: Blue haired
lady person object. Oscarette deserved. And the gloves were perfectly scintillating haut couture.
:rofl:
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I've enjoyed twitchy for years but never downloaded Twitter. Until yesterday.
Just looking it over a little and this popped up. World of Engineering: Elon Musk should seriously consider renaming Twitter to MySpaceX.
Made me laugh.
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@bogiestl, aka Third Rate Pundit.
Helps to have a sense of humor.
Regarding gloves?
There seems to be more than a few of the more serious covid-dancers who are wearing the blue "surgical" gloves, with cotton jersey gloves over them, with leather gloves on top. Sometimes winter ski-type gloves. Haven't seen too many of the "doing dishes and watching my nails" type. My favorite with the triple-glover with welding gauntlets...
Gloves are becoming a bit easier to get (at least the thick black kind that folks who work on transmissions like), but decent respirators are still "you gotta know someone." We keep them in the back for real customers.
There are still people out there who think that there are hundreds of people dying daily from the coof in this city... And it is Trump's/Musk's fault...
One of the groups which has largely been masked up until now, often with gloves, were POC... Okay... Black people. And I'm lately seeing less and less of those... Either they're dying off (doubtful), or waking up. I'm thinking the latter...
Of course, some see it as fashion. And, frankly, it was...
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Elon Musk Will Reinstate Donald Trump On Twitter & CNN Goes Ballistic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak5H4_EJKz8
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/BadInfamousCottontail-size_restricted.gif)
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1521202951230046210
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Loved this!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1521302586619482112
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Oh God, it's even worse than the left has feared...
He's not just going to own it, he's actually going to LEAD it!
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/05/elon-musk-expected-to-serve-as-temporary-twitter-ceo-after-deal-closes.html
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Gee, I wonder what the NYTs is trying to imply
Elon Musk grew up in elite white communities in South Africa, detached from apartheid’s atrocities and surrounded by anti-Black propaganda.
He sees his takeover of Twitter as a free speech win but in his youth did not suffer the effects of misinformation. https://t.co/bciCJDWGGP
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 5, 2022
‘This is your brain on CRT’: NY Times gets shredded over not-so-subtle hit on Elon Musk
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/05/05/this-is-your-brain-on-crt-ny-times-gets-shredded-over-not-so-subtle-hit-on-elon-musk/
Elon Musk Left a South Africa That Was Rife With Misinformation and White Privilege
The apartheid era created all-white enclaves littered with anti-Black government propaganda and sheltered from the atrocities of apartheid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/africa/elon-musk-south-africa.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
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This is my shocked face. I'm absolutely shocked that the NY Times would stoop to such a base level of...
Yeah, I can't say that without laughing my ass off.
Typical liberal pick from the playbook...
Don't like him/what he says/what he does?
Call him a RACIST!
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The left constantly lives in the past. In South Africa, in the US... Whatever...
From the first page of a google search:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-original-underclass/492731/
The huge lead photo is from the 1940s.
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Elon Musk did not kill himself
REVEALED: George Soros, Clinton and Obama staffers and European governments are behind anti-Musk campaign to force big corporations to boycott Twitter - after Elon demanded to know 'who funds these organizations?'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10780583/George-Soros-Clinton-Obama-staffers-European-governments-anti-Musk-campaign.html?ico=most_shared_articles_mol.web.desktop_
Elon Musk In Danger! REVEALS The Scary People Behind Twitter Censorship & It's Huge Names!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yJQYuaYPK0
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FTC is now investigating the Twitter sale.
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I wonder how many thousands of complaints they got.
Of course, FTC could have started an investigation on their own motion, I suppose.
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I just read the investigation could take months. What happens in months?
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Saying they'll need to be paid more to meet Musk's work ethic might not be the sympathy winner they think it is, considering six figures seems to be the minimum wage at Twitter.
https://twitchy.com/foundersgirl-313133/2022/05/07/elon-musk-threatens-extreme-work-ethic-expectations-alienating-potential-leftist-work-base/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y6pK2RCzCw
YoungRippa59
"How are we going to control the channels of communication in this country?"
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From what I’ve heard his work ethic demands is s pretty simply to do your job. The lefty staff is probably pissed because “actual work” is required and “farting off to support political causes” is not their actual job.
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Loved this one:
The primary allegation made by this hit piece is that Elon Musk failed to grow up as a black teenager. https://t.co/s3SGGHC3WR
— Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸 (@fuzzychimpcom) May 5, 2022
I gotta remember that one.
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Steve Martin to the white
courtesy privilege phone
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c0/21/42/c02142184fffe83ddd2d6ff204a4983e.jpg)
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"You mean I'm going to stay this color??"
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^ That was a knee-slappin' coffee-spurter.
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Elon was born a poor African boy...
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Elon was born a poor African boy...
So is he a nationalized citizen? If so, that makes him an African-American who has become very successful.
Put that in your statistics pipe and smoke it. The average and median wage for African-American males just went through the roof.
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So is he a nationalized citizen? If so, that makes him an African-American who has become very successful.
Put that in your statistics pipe and smoke it. The average and median wage for African-American males just went through the roof.
Yes he is, immigrated from South Africa. Big snag for the USA.
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Elon putting on the brakes?
BREAKING: Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold pending audit of ‘spam/fake accounts’
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/05/13/breaking-elon-musk-puts-twitter-deal-on-hold-pending-audit-of-spam-fake-accounts/
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Elon putting on the brakes?
BREAKING: Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold pending audit of ‘spam/fake accounts’
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/05/13/breaking-elon-musk-puts-twitter-deal-on-hold-pending-audit-of-spam-fake-accounts/
Makes me go back to my tinfoily idea that Musk is really wanting to destroy twitter (I approve) vs buy it. That "under 5%" is absolute bullshit. All I've heard over the last few years from twitter reps is how they have all these Russian and conservative bots running rampant on their service.
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Update on that Twitchy thread as of 7:50 AM, Musk says he is still committed to the purchase. Even so, it does make me wonder if he is having second thoughts.
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Update on that Twitchy thread as of 7:50 AM, Musk says he is still committed to the purchase. Even so, it does make me wonder if he is having second thoughts.
Confusing the enemy is part of a good plan.
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Confusing the enemy is part of a good plan.
I would say they were thoroughly confused already
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Considering how much less Musk is worth today compared to a week ago, it leaves me wondering if he will go through with the deal -- or if his funding partners will go through with the deal.
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Yeah, the bots/fake users thing isn't new so there's no reason for that to cause a hitch now. What has changed is the financing.
Musk’s net worth, which makes him the world’s richest man, has fallen by around $50 billion in recent weeks, according to Forbes’ real-time wealth index. And Tesla stock has shed nearly 30 percent of its value in just the past month.
Musk disclosed more than $7 billion of financing last week from sources including investment firms, the Oracle founder Larry Ellison, the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, the Qatar sovereign wealth fund, and Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Now, Musk has been seeking out additional investments beyond what he had initially planned, because of the economic downturn and the weakening of Tesla’s stock price
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Elon putting on the brakes?
BREAKING: Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold pending audit of ‘spam/fake accounts’
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/05/13/breaking-elon-musk-puts-twitter-deal-on-hold-pending-audit-of-spam-fake-accounts/
Thought: The bots might be less than 5% of total user accounts, but what % of viewed tweets do they account for? If the bots are still drowning out real voices then it doesn't matter what the account ratio is, the outcome is still the same. The ratios of real people posts seen versus bot posts seen is what needs discernment.
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And now we got our Minister of "Truth" saying people like her should be allowed to edit people's tweets to correct any misinformation.
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How did today's launch go? Moare Interwebz?
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(https://thinkcivics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/nyt-slammed-over-stealth-edited-race-baiting-musk-smear.jpg)
The cognative dissonance is strong with this one.
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Wait for it
:rofl:
Elon Musk gives Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s lengthy thread on spam the only response he feels it deserves
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/05/16/elon-musk-gives-twitter-ceo-parag-agrawals-lengthy-thread-on-spam-the-only-response-he-feels-it-deserves/
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Thought: The bots might be less than 5% of total user accounts, but what % of viewed tweets do they account for? If the bots are still drowning out real voices then it doesn't matter what the account ratio is, the outcome is still the same. The ratios of real people posts seen versus bot posts seen is what needs discernment.
I heard they did the 5% claim on a Monday. Starting Thursday or Friday before that, almost everyone on the right side of things reported an increase in twitter interaction and likes, more followers, and people with suspended accounts were reinstated. On the left, a lot of people lost followers. It was suspected that twitter went out of their way to try to get the Bot numbers down before the Monday report.
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Hmmm
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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May 14
Very important to fix your Twitter feed:
1. Tap home button.
2. Tap stars on upper right of screen.
3. Select “Latest tweets”.
You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize.
Easy to switch back & forth to see the difference.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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May 14
Replying to
@elonmusk
(This message brought to you by the Illuminaughty)
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1525612988115320838
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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May 15
I’m not suggesting malice in the algorithm, but rather that it’s trying to guess what you might want to read and, in doing so, inadvertently manipulate/amplify your viewpoints without you realizing this is happening
Show this thread
After that it quickly goes south including Buffalo being brought up
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About that 5% bot thing,
Later Friday, Musk tweeted that he was conducting a random sampling of 100 accounts to check how many were not legitimate, noting he used that number because “that is what Twitter uses to calculate
On Saturday, he tweeted: “Twitter legal just called to complain that I violated their NDA by revealing the bot check sample size is 100! This actually happened.”
The Tesla Inc. TSLA, -5.88% chief executive again questioned Twitter’s numbers in a tweet Saturday, saying “I have yet to see *any* analysis that has fake/spam/duplicates at later added “There is some chance it might be over 90% of daily active users, which is the metric that matters to advertisers.”
Musk doubts Twitter’s numbers, ponders if over 90% of service’s daily active users are fake
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-continues-to-rail-against-twitter-bots-says-company-accused-him-of-breaking-nda-11652655718?mod=home-page
Wait, What?
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Apparently Twitter employees work like four hours a week and can take a couple months off whenever for "mental health" or because they're not into working. They are going to hate working for Musk.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/05/17/bombshell-twitter-employee-spills-the-twitter-beans-about-censoring-the-right-and-fearing-elon-musk-in-damning-project-veritas-video-watch/
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Elon: "The real president is whoever controls the teleprompter"
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elon-musk-biden-real-president-teleprompter
Well, he's not wrong.
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There's a story on the Daily Caller where Musk claims he doesn't remember ever voting Republican before, but he intends to this year.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/17/elon-musk-voting-republican-not-democrat/ (https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/17/elon-musk-voting-republican-not-democrat/)
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Elon: "The real president is whoever controls the teleprompter"
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elon-musk-biden-real-president-teleprompter
Well, he's not wrong.
The real president must not be very happy right now, as the current mouthpieces are really bad at reading the prompter.
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The real president must not be very happy right now, as the current mouthpieces are really bad at reading the prompter.
I'm still of the opinion that Brandon is an intentional insult to the country for daring to interrupt their plans with an unexpected Trump election. Just absolutely rubbing it in that our president is just a puppet chosen by and working for a select few individuals.
ETF
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About that 5% bot thing,
Musk doubts Twitter’s numbers, ponders if over 90% of service’s daily active users are fake
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-continues-to-rail-against-twitter-bots-says-company-accused-him-of-breaking-nda-11652655718?mod=home-page
Wait, What?
Audit: half of Biden's Twitter followers are fake:
https://nypost.com/2022/05/17/half-of-joe-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake-audit-reveals/
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Audit: half of Biden's Twitter followers are fake:
https://nypost.com/2022/05/17/half-of-joe-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake-audit-reveals/
And, most of the other half are just a bunch of *expletive deleted*ing morons. =D
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And...
They are organized. Networked. With a consistent message.
And they'll pile on in an instant.
That 100 accounts may be only 30, but they can type, and I figure some of them have a lot of paragraphs stored for cut and paste...
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The world’s leading maker of electric vehicles has been cut from S&P’s index for environmentally conscious investors due to flaws in its business conduct and, ironically, low-carbon strategy. https://t.co/vF470Tj3A7
— Forbes (@Forbes) May 18, 2022
Breaking: S&P Dow Jones Indices has just canceled Elon Musk's Tesla from the S&P 500 ESG index, citing accusations of racial discrimination.
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) May 18, 2022
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/05/18/elon-musk-reacts-to-tesla-being-dropped-from-the-sp-500s-index-of-woke-companies-with-a-meme/
Musk's reply
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526961753619369987
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Audit: half of Biden's Twitter followers are fake:
SparkToro used the same audit on Musk himself and found that nearly 70.2% of Musk’s 93.3 million Twitter followers were fake.
:O
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Sure, I can believe that.
I'm not sure why bots following someone would be a ding on that person. It just means they are influential enough the bot owners targeted them.
Hell even real followers don't confer agreement. I follow Jen Psaki on twitter just to see what the WH is (was) saying. Doesn't mean I agree with her on anything.
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Sure, I can believe that.
I'm not sure why bots following someone would be a ding on that person. It just means they are influential enough the bot owners targeted them.
Hell even real followers don't confer agreement. I follow Jen Psaki on twitter just to see what the WH is (was) saying. Doesn't mean I agree with her on anything.
If anything it is a ding on twitter for allowing such bot usage to flourish.
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https://youtu.be/kS-E6VtD_rE
It's important to remember Twitter isn't real.
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A lot of people out there have never even looked at it.
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I joined in a while back to see what Trump was saying directly as the news kept talking about it. I learned pretty quick not to bother with replies. Lots of nasty replies within seconds of any post he made. Many seems automatic having nothing to do with what he said. I quit pretty soon after they kicked him off. I had stopped following it anyway.
Yes, it is not real life.
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If anything it is a ding on twitter for allowing such bot usage to flourish.
I have heard people speculate that either Elon Musk never had any intention to buy Twitter, just expose them, or he will not pay what he offered as the bot percentage is much higher than what they claimed and what they reported to govt regulators.
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*TWITTER TO PLACE WARNING NOTICE ON TWEETS DEEMED MISINFORMATION
*TWITTER TO DISABLE LIKES, RETWEETS, SHARES ON MISINFO TWEETS
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 19, 2022
People turn to Twitter during crisis times to share news, find support, and stay connected. Today, we’re launching a crisis misinformation policy so Twitter doesn’t recommend or amplify viral, false content that can further harm already vulnerable groups.https://t.co/NyhoGo5RQU
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) May 19, 2022
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I have heard people speculate that either Elon Musk never had any attention to buy Twitter, just expose them, or he will not pay what he offered as the bot percentage is much higher than what they claimed and what they reported to govt regulators.
I am one of those people. =D
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Interesting coincidence:
(https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/05/1862/1048/musk-division.png?ve=1&tl=1)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/elon-musk-sexual-assault-spacex-flight-attendant-massage
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Should have seen some of the responses. Like he kicked a hornets nest
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Interesting coincidence:
I wouldn't really call it a coincidence, he knew the story was coming and got his spin out there first. He was clearly trying to get ahead of it.
The SpaceX CEO requested more time to respond, and while Business Insider did give him more time, he did not respond by press time.
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I fully expect that if this twitter deal fails and twitter feels like the heat is off for twitter to ban Musk or at the very least start deleting a bunch of his tweets
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I wouldn't really call it a coincidence, he knew the story was coming and got his spin out there first. He was clearly trying to get ahead of it.
Sure, he might have known a story might come out after he was red-pilled. It's the calling card of the anti-Kavanaugh crowd, just like the attacks on him for being the seven year old leader of apartheid in South Africa.
They had years to come up with stuff like this. It's only happening now though.
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Sure, he might have known a story might come out after he was red-pilled. It's the calling card of the anti-Kavanaugh crowd, just like the attacks on him for being the seven year old leader of apartheid in South Africa.
They had years to come up with stuff like this. It's only happening now though.
And they will find several more people to accuse him as too many people think a bunch of accusers means it is accurate. Doesn't matter if they are real or not. We have seen that before also.
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I'll give them this much they're consistent
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And Twitter "algorithms" seem to be suppressing all posts critical of the Business Insider hit piece.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/05/20/elon-musk-sees-no-coincidence-in-timing-of-standard-despicable-playbook-being-used-against-him/
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And they will find several more people to accuse him as too many people think a bunch of accusers means it is accurate. Doesn't matter if they are real or not. We have seen that before also.
I also note that it's an anonymous "friend" rather than the woman in question, who is "heroically speaking for the woman".
"If there were a way for [her] to come forward without putting herself at risk, without jeopardizing her life in any way, I believe she would," the friend of the attendant told Insider. "I hope she feels like I did the right thing. I hope she feels I said the things that she didn't feel safe enough to say."
I'm sure Bond villain Musk has SPECTRE assassins on the move already. ;/
I also noticed this at the bottom of the article:
Do you have important information to share about Musk, SpaceX, or his other companies? Contact us at investigations@insider.com.
Sure sounds like unbiased reporting with zero agenda to me. ;/
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And Twitter "algorithms" seem to be suppressing all posts critical of the Business Insider hit piece.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/05/20/elon-musk-sees-no-coincidence-in-timing-of-standard-despicable-playbook-being-used-against-him/
This is my shocked face
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Several thoughts...
1. I also suspect the timing on these allegations against Musk. Seems to be way too... convenient.
2. I also don't have a problem believing that these allegations against Musk could be real. Money, power, and fame go a long way towards making people think that they are invulnerable.
3. If these allegations are manufactured (and I have no doubt believing that they could be) by someone against Musk's takeover of Twitter, I have to wonder what they really think they're going to accomplish. One allegation isn't going to be enough to derail his Twitter purchase. FAR more credible allegations against Joe Biden went absolutely nowhere (I know, I know...)
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Just read some of the allegations by the individual involved...
The allegation was supposedly made FOUR years ago, but is now just coming to light.
The complainant alleged that Musk offered to buy her a horse if she performed sex acts (no specifications as to exactly what, but I'm guessing he wanted her to ride his pony?).
And it gets even better... apparently the person who disclosed this allegation wasn't the woman who was allegedly promised a horse... It was a friend of hers who apparently felt it to be her duty to disclosed this information for purely non-selfish and completely altruistic reasons...
Yeah... this is starting to stink worse that the $3 shrimp buffet at a 4th rate Atlantic City casino...
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2. I also don't have a problem believing that these allegations against Musk could be real. Money, power, and fame go a long way towards making people think that they are invulnerable.
Yeah, there could easily have been some interaction. In the age of "me too" and "I don't like him anymore, so I'm going to accuse him of sexual misconduct", we have no idea just what it was. Could have been something as innocent as him putting his hand on her shoulder (old guys consider that innocent, I guess millennials consider it a form of rape) to bawdy talk, to actually pulling out his wiener. Though for a bazillionaire to pay only $250K with an NDA, I'm gonna say that no wieners were involved.
This just has the Blasey-Ford playbook written all over it.
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This is making me wonder what Michael Avenati has been up to lately.... :rofl:
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This is making me wonder what Michael Avenati has been up to lately.... :rofl:
Prison bitch, according to Wikipedia.
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This is making me wonder what Michael Avenati has been up to lately.... :rofl:
Playing catcher in prison
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/elon-musk-sexual-assault-spacex-flight-attendant-massage
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1527613465220743168
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Musk may be gearing up for some legal battles:
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/05/20/there-will-be-blood-elon-musk-announces-formation-of-a-new-hardcore-litigation-department/
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And he needs at least one total ahole who thrives on libel and slander stuff - because counterbattery fire is how you stop incoming...
And I suspect he already is aware of that.
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"It seems @elonmusk actually understands the forces that are mobilizing against him and is preparing for battle. https://t.co/7hb44Dktkd
— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) May 20, 2022"
Well, many of us understood those forces a long time ago. We just didn't have a big enough stick to do anything about it beyond pointing it out frequently and loudly.
I done my bit, as pitiful as it wuz.
Terry, 230RN
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"It seems @elonmusk actually understands the forces that are mobilizing against him and is preparing for battle. https://t.co/7hb44Dktkd
— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) May 20, 2022"
Well, many of us understood those forces a long time ago. We just didn't have a big enough stick to do anything about it beyond pointing it out frequently and loudly.
I done my bit, as pitiful as it wuz.
Terry, 230RN
Take heart, Terry. Truth is never small nor pitiful.
Between smoke and fire there is a spark. Keep striking!
Woody :old:
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^ Thanks, Woody.
I was thinking about it later and my refrain about "control the language and you control the issue." I realized that if a person is still afraid to call a "progressive" a communist, there's much fighting still to be done.
And remember there's a difference between strategic awareness and clinical paranoia, so don't start throwing that "paranoia" word around like an idiot.
Senator Joe McCarthy had a lot going for him on this issue, it's too bad he went too far ("Have you no shame?") and the media crucified him to the point of getting him censured.
I rather think the "fellow travelers" in the Senate should have been censured for their tactical blindness but that's an <ahem> "extreme" viewpoint.
Terry said that. But I lived through the so-called "McCarthy Era."
Terry, 230RN
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I was thinking about it later and my refrain about "control the language and you control the issue." I realized that if a person is still afraid to call a "progressive" a communist, there's much fighting still to be done.
I believe AOC prefers to use the term "Democratic Socialist."
In other words -- Communist
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^ Good one, Hawkmoon.
Control the language and you control the issue.
Another irk: "Children." Yeah, up to seventeen years and 364 days and 200 pounds of muscle.
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I wouldn't really call it a coincidence, he knew the story was coming and got his spin out there first. He was clearly trying to get ahead of it.
BuT hE dIdNt Respond. That is a standard hatchet job character assassination phrase and here you are trying to spread it around like it means anything other than "I'm muckraking."
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And I wouldn't mind seeing somebody's "hardcore litigation department" going after a bunch of politicians for violation of their oaths of office.
Ticklish, and would involve some SCOTUS-level arguments in lower courts, but it might make a lot of people think about what's "Constitutional" beyond the high-falutin' legalese of the lawyers' stratosphere.
Hey, "infringe" (2A) means just about the same thing as "abridge" (1A).
Terrible Terry, 230RN
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTSYCu7XsAEQGJv?format=jpg&name=small)
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Twitter quote I just read:
"You all treat @elonmusk like a hero, but with $43 billion, he could have easily revived and produced a second season of Firefly and he hasn't even talked about it. #disgusting"
He has a point.
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Oh, "woke." I guess that means "awakened" in pre-awakened English.
What a bullshit ignoramus corruption of the language. But "control the language and you control the issue."
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I was thinking about it later and my refrain about "control the language and you control the issue." I realized that if a person is still afraid to call a "progressive" a communist, there's much fighting still to be done.
Thing is, that doesn't matter anymore. The progressives are HAPPY when you point out that they are communists.
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Oh, "woke." I guess that means "awakened" in pre-awakened English.
[snip] "control the language and you control the issue."
"As Orson Welles once said, "He who controls the past controls the future"
"It was George Orwell that said that"
"Well, for now, maybe" -- The X-Files :rofl:
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"As Orson Welles once said, "He who controls the past controls the future"
"It was George Orwell that said that"
"Well, for now, maybe" -- The X-Files :rofl:
Nah. All the past did was bring us to the present. From here on it is up to us.
Woody
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Twitter quote I just read:
"You all treat @elonmusk like a hero, but with $43 billion, he could have easily revived and produced a second season of Firefly and he hasn't even talked about it. #disgusting"
He has a point.
He didn't have billions in 2002 when Firefly aired.
..20 years.
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He didn't have billions in 2002 when Firefly aired.
..20 years.
The tweet was talking about reviving Firefly in the present, not twenty years ago. I think Disney+ is getting something in a Firefly reboot together, but no doubt it will be woke and worthless if they follow through.
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The same people going after Musk now that he’s been red pilled are the same people that cover up for corrupt politicians, defend child molesters, have a million excuses for the race pimps funneling wealth out of BLM, cover up the absolute incompetency and evilness of the left and gas light us over it.
Their accusations mean nothing to me and the only good journalist is a dead one.
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A friend of the attendant detailed the incident in a signed declaration. Twitter users asked why the friend would come forward years later, which Musk responded to by saying the friend "is a far left activist/actress in LA with a major political axe to grind."
Figures Hollywood would be involved.
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(https://i.imgur.com/zrUams1.jpg)
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No...
Don't...
Stop...
Please...
No...
Don't...
Stop...
Don't...
Stop...
Don't...stop...please...
Please don't stop...
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Hulu just started running a documentary on Elon Musk title Crash Course, which looks at the limits of Tesla's self driving technology.
Timing seems... interesting.
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BuT hE dIdNt Respond.
Way to miss the point by a mile.
Musk did respond, just not to the reporter. He did so on twitter before the story was published and he obviously chose a good strategy for the current polarized environment. Basically declaring that 'anything bad you might hear about me is democrat fAkE nEwS' fits an existing narrative that will help immunize him against scandals real or fake.
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Musk/Gates spat heating up
Research exclusively shared with Breitbart News identifies hundreds of millions of dollars flowing from Bill Gates’ foundation to 11 of the 26 organizations that signed an open letter last month urging Twitter advertisers to boycott the company if Elon Musk restores free speech on the platform.
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Gates Poured Millions into Dark Money Fund Attacking Elon Musk
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/23/exclusive-bill-gates-poured-millions-into-dark-money-fund-attacking-elon-musk/
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I guess it's full-auto assault dollars now.
That damned tyrannical Musk, wanting everyone to knuckle under to that free speech bullshit. Dammit, if I want to be censored, that's my privilege and prerogative, and Musk can go fly a kite with that free speech nonsense. Dammit, we have enough freedoms as it is, we don't need any more! Eleventy Cadrillions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I saw a blurb on twitter today with some pundit talking about social media and how the added access to the internet meant we may need to, quote "recalibrate our thinking on human rights, including free speech". She was not being ironic.
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I saw a blurb on twitter today with some pundit talking about social media and how the added access to the internet meant we may need to, quote "recalibrate our thinking on human rights, including free speech". She was not being ironic.
I guess they're taking the "The 2nd Amendment only includes muskets" road.
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AOC Wants To Sell Her Tesla After Elon Musk Teased Her Online http://dlvr.it/SR5q52
https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1529814753136168967
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https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1529814753136168967
So, who would buy a Tesla that may smell of spoiled fish?
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So, who would buy a Tesla that may smell of spoiled fish?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTsQZh8VIAAIPtq?format=jpg&name=900x900)
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So, who would buy a Tesla that may smell of spoiled fish?
Poor hygiene?
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Maybe Elon could buy it back and launch it into orbit.
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Maybe Elon could buy it back and launch it into orbit.
Or launch AOC into orbit.
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Or launch AOC into orbit.
Make her an official engine starter for the first full booster.
Her job is to stand under it and hold a match.
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Make her an official engine starter for the first full booster.
Her job is to stand under it and hold a match.
Why does this make me think of Wile E. Coyote?
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Let's prove how phony the right’s ridiculous polls are by doing one of our own. Who do you trust more @elonmusk @AOC
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) May 27, 2022
Lets just say the results are not what he wanted :rofl:
‘Proud liberal Dem’ blue check takes the L on AOC vs. Elon Musk poll that was intended to show ‘how ridiculous the right’s phony polls are’
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/05/28/proud-liberal-dem-blue-check-takes-the-l-on-aoc-vs-elon-musk-poll-that-was-intended-to-show-how-ridiculous-the-rights-phony-polls-are/
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I saw a blurb on twitter today with some pundit talking about social media and how the added access to the internet meant we may need to, quote "recalibrate our thinking on human rights, including free speech". She was not being ironic.
One thing/motivation we seem to forget in all this is that some people want to be ruled.
I'm not sure Musk, sharp as he is, realizes this.
Terry, 230RN
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One thing/motivation we seem to forget in all this is that some people want to be ruled.
I'm not sure Musk, sharp as he is, realizes this.
Terry, 230RN
Yeah, but that quote sounds like it came from the minutes of a certain country in the 1930's. Nice language from people who picture themselves and benevolent tyrannical dictators.
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Hmmmm
The alleged bug was brought to light Tuesday morning by Tesla superfan Steven Mark Ryan. “Hey @elonmusk, twitter is FKING you,” the sharp-eyed watchdog wrote. “Dear everyone, SCROLL down on @elonmusk’s tweets & replies and tell me….. DO THEY STOP LOADING????”
Ryan even made a Patreon video detailing the alleged digital disappearing act, along with a Twitter poll, in which 80% of respondents claimed that Musk’s “tweets stop loading after a short scroll.”
Indeed, after perusing the car magnate’s Twitter, The Post confirmed at the time of writing that his feed does not display any replies that are older than 17 hours and the earlier tweets only showed up after adjusting the settings to display only public tweets.
Elon Musk claims something ‘very strange’ is happening to his Twitter feed
https://nypost.com/2022/05/31/elon-musk-something-very-strange-happening-to-twitter-feed/
Elon Musk Reveals New Suspicious Twitter Activity! Calls Out CEO Parag Agrawal Publicly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEvLzBfiUsE
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Yeah, I'm not sure this is the dig on Musk that Brandon thinks it is. :rofl:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-spars-musk-economy-sets-off-twitter-good-luck-trip-moon
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Why does this make me think of Wile E. Coyote?
Because she is about the same level of intelligence as Wiley. AOC is the type of person that, if the power to go out and she smelled gas, she would strike a match to light her way out. >:D :facepalm:
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Because she is about the same level of intelligence as Wiley. AOC is the type of person that, if the power to go out and she smelled gas, she would strike a match to light her way out. >:D :facepalm:
If she knows how matches work.
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Musk is again threatening to walk away from the Twitter purchase due to them not releasing realistic data on the percentage of bots on the platform.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/06/06/musk-hints-he-could-walk-away-from-twitter-deal-over-bots/?sh=5827b9f234d7 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/06/06/musk-hints-he-could-walk-away-from-twitter-deal-over-bots/?sh=5827b9f234d7)
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Musk is again threatening to walk away from the Twitter purchase due to them not releasing realistic data on the percentage of bots on the platform.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/06/06/musk-hints-he-could-walk-away-from-twitter-deal-over-bots/?sh=5827b9f234d7 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/06/06/musk-hints-he-could-walk-away-from-twitter-deal-over-bots/?sh=5827b9f234d7)
I think if they do release realistic data on bots, it'll tank their advertiser income, and might open the board to civil and criminal penalties. The folks that pay Twitter do it because they expect a certain number of real humans to be influenced. If that number is grossly inflated, they won't be happy.
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Now if Musk does walk away do you think twitter will have learnt it's lesson to not be so political in how they screened posts and accounts or that they'll merely double down on it while crowing how they defeated the big bad right wing wolf.
I think the latter.
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My understanding is that "walking away" is not that simple.
The big picture: Musk has a contractual obligation to buy Twitter at the agreed price, and he can certainly afford to do so.
A lot of attention has focused on the $1 billion termination fee in the short-form merger agreement. Fewer people have looked at the section on "specific performance" in the long-form merger plan that basically says: "If you try to back out of this, we can take you to court in Delaware, and the court will force you to buy the company at the agreed price."
Between the lines: Such language is particularly germane in cases like this, where the buyer has the ability to pay in full. (Even if he has to sell a large chunk of Tesla stock to get the cash he needs.)
The key precedent is IBP Inc. v. Tyson Foods Inc, with Don Tyson of Tyson Foods playing the role of Elon Musk. He tried to back out of an agreed acquisition of IBP, but in 2001 was forced to buy the company anyway by the Delaware Chancery Court.
Obviously it's hard to predict how things might go in court, and Musk certainly has the resources to fund an extended legal battle, but it seems like this bot thing should have been worked out (or at least specifically addressed in the contract) before it got this far. It's not really a new thing and Musk himself has tweeted about verifying real human users and cleaning up the bots. I guess that's assuming he's not just lying / manipulating though.
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My understanding is that the bot thing WAS addressed in the agreement. Twitter estimated some number of bots (~5% of accounts IIRC), and it is now being discovered that they either knew the number was much larger and lied (big trouble) or didn't have an accurate count of the bots (just incompetent).
Of course the whole bruhaha may be just a way to keep the merger in peoples minds, or made up by people that earn their living by the word.
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No dog in the fight of course, so I’ll just grab some shares in ConAgra and be entertained.
I hope that my the end Twitter is a small shell of its former self, and more than a few executives lose their gravy train. Whether Musk ends owning Twitter and if he ends up richer or poorer in the end makes no difference to me.
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My understanding is that the bot thing WAS addressed in the agreement. Twitter estimated some number of bots (~5% of accounts IIRC), and it is now being discovered that they either knew the number was much larger and lied (big trouble) or didn't have an accurate count of the bots (just incompetent).
Has anything new come out?
More important, nothing has changed about the bot problem since Musk signed the merger agreement. Twitter has published the same qualified estimate—that fewer than 5 percent of monetizable accounts are fake—for the last eight years. Musk knew those estimates and declined to do any nonpublic due diligence before signing the merger agreement. He knew about the spam bot problem before signing the merger agreement, as we know because he talked about it constantly, including while announcing the merger agreement. If he didn't want to buy Twitter because there are spam bots, he should not have signed a contract to buy Twitter. No new information has come to light about spam bots in the last three weeks.
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I don't think so, publicly anyway. Twitter claims 5%, Musk says BS, drama ensues.
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Twitter to provide a "firehose" of user data to Musk.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/twitter-to-provide-elon-musk-with-firehose-of-internal-data-report (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/twitter-to-provide-elon-musk-with-firehose-of-internal-data-report)
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They're gonna try to bury him with data, probably completely scrambled...
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Elon calling for an all hands twitter staff meeting Thursday
Elon Musk Will Speak With Twitter’s Staff for the First Time This Week
https://www.barrons.com/articles/elon-musk-twitter-meeting-51655192959
Elon Musk INVADES Twitter All Hands On Deck Meeting & He Is NOT Happy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UMVvRFfhmU
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Elon said he's leaning toward DeSantis for 2024
The libs have flipped their lid
Meanwhile DeSantis
Just asked @GovRonDeSantis about @elonmusk saying he would vote for DeSantis if he were to run for POTUS:
He said, “I’m focused on 2022. But always appreciate the support from African Americans.” @FOX13News
— Dan Matics (@danmaticsFOX) June 15, 2022
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But always appreciate the support from African Americans.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Live highlights from the Muskorama at Twitter..
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/16/elon-musk-is-addressing-twitter-employees-live-updates-from-the-meeting.html
Elon Musk on free speech
Elon on free speech (paraphrased): People should be allowed to say racist things but that doesn’t mean Twitter should promote it.
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Live highlights from the Muskorama at Twitter..
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/16/elon-musk-is-addressing-twitter-employees-live-updates-from-the-meeting.html
Elon Musk on free speech
Elon on free speech (paraphrased): People should be allowed to say racist things but that doesn’t mean Twitter should promote it.
Yup.
If people don’t like what someone says they can unfollow them or block them from their feed.
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Now he's done it. He said All Lives Matter. Nuclear meltdown at twitter ensues.
Also info on the SX dustup. Apparently they were pressuring other employees to sign a woke letter condemning Elon over twitter.
Elon Musk Just Caused A Full Blown Meltdown At Twitter & FIRED Entitled Space X Employees!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFLcnCYO3p4
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Jesus Christ, a 12-minute Game of Thrones knockoff for that news?
FTS.
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Jesus Christ, a 12-minute Game of Thrones knockoff for that news?
FTS.
Brought to you by the guy who almost never looks at the camera when speaking. Am I the only person in the universe who finds that to be distracting and creepy?
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Brought to you by the guy who almost never looks at the camera when speaking. Am I the only person in the universe who finds that to be distracting and creepy?
Not creepy to me, but looking at the camera would be better. You always seem to go for the most charged and provocative words to us when describing people. =)
I figure has his notes/script/article on the screen and is looking that.
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So who is the Quartering guy, anyway? I'm guessing a video game toober that got into political talk? And what's a quartering?
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Not creepy to me, but looking at the camera would be better. You always seem to go for the most charged and provocative words to us when describing people. =)
I figure has his notes/script/article on the screen and is looking that.
He's not looking anywhere near the screen most of the time.
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Maybe he had acting training, where one is "vigorously" trained to not look at the camera.
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Thinking as he speaks. Staring off somewhere while the brain is doing heavy processing.
It is a good sign that he isn't giving premade answers; also probably a very high functioning autist.
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Quartering?
He got Swatted. Good enough for me.
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I do appreciate that the coffee brand he sells isn't called Real Manly Man Coffee That's Not For Weaklings, which seems to be the brand name of every other coffee being sold by right-of-center toobers.
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I do appreciate that the coffee brand he sells isn't called Real Manly Man Coffee That's Not For Weaklings, which seems to be the brand name of every other coffee being sold by right-of-center toobers.
Or liberals wanting to make money off suckers on the right
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^ "Or liberals wanting to make money off suckers on the right."
Past them I would not it put.
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Apparently Musk has a keeping it in his pants problem.
Latest is twins with one of his executives. Think I saw that makes 9 now.
And as far as twitter is concerned.
Gerrit De Vynck
@GerritD
NEW - Elon's deal to buy Twitter is in serious jeopardy. His team now believes they won't be able to confirm Twitter's numbers on how many spam bots are on the site, something Elon has said he needs to know before moving forward. W/ @faizsays
https://twitter.com/GerritD/status/1545146952118964224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1545146952118964224%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fgregp-3534%2F2022%2F07%2F07%2Ftaylor-lorenz-calls-out-elon-musk-for-procreating%2F
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Layoffs at Twitter have begun:
https://www.shacknews.com/article/131262/twitter-twtr-layoffs-have-begun-with-employees-unable-to-sell-vested-stock?amphtml=1
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And Musk has cancelled the deal:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/08/elon-musk-notifies-twitter-he-is-terminating-deal.html
Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf to the company’s chief legal officer Friday.
In the letter, disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Skadden Arps attorney Mike Ringler charged that “Twitter has not complied with its contractual obligations.”
Ringler claimed that Twitter did not provide Musk with relevant business information he requested, as Ringler said the contract would require. Musk has previously said he wanted to assess Twitter’s claims that about 5% of its monetizable daily active users (mDAUs) are spam accounts.
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I joined when Musk said he was buying it but haven't posted anything. I guess I need to start posting and see how long I last.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXLRC37WIAI1itX?format=jpg&name=medium)
Good. I hope the employee's last sentence is correct and that they never recover.
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From my limited experience, Twitter appears to be a horrible place that exists so strangers can viciously insult each other?
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From my limited experience, Twitter appears to be a horrible place that exists so strangers can viciously insult each other?
It gives twits with nothing to say a place to say it.
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More on the cancellation:
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-4193a27d86458952542dfa2176150a01
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I joined when Musk said he was buying it but haven't posted anything. I guess I need to start posting and see how long I last.
@bogiestl
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Twitter says it’s going to sue Elon Musk for trying to back out of the deal
https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/8/23201004/twitter-to-sue-elon-musk-for-backing-out-of-merger
So, if Twitter sues Elon, wouldn't this open them up to discovery? I guess it depends on if they were up front with him on all the information.
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So, if Twitter sues Elon, wouldn't this open them up to discovery? I guess it depends on if they were up front with him on all the information.
Well, discovery of the stuff they didn't "wipe with like a cloth or something".
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Elon Musk did not killed himself
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In my view, these companies do not produce anything of tangible worth. The BS they foster, produce, spread, and tout is nothing more than that. They profit only on emotion. The drop in value shows it to be true. Musk might still purchase TwitsOnPrarade when it can be had for its current ethereal value. !5 billion or so saved is 15 or so billion earned.
Woody
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In my view, these companies do not produce anything of tangible worth. The BS they foster, produce, spread, and tout is nothing more than that. They profit only on emotion. The drop in value shows it to be true. Musk might still purchase TwitsOnPrarade when it can be had for its current ethereal value. !5 billion or so saved is 15 or so billion earned.
Woody
This is remarkably naive. These companies clearly produce something of value because the customers of social media companies pay billions of dollars for their product. And plenty of people who are very good at making money highly value social media companies and their stocks.
Among other things they produce highly accurate and sophisticated models of what their users will watch and react to. They sell the ability to reach very precisely target groups of people. Twitter openly has the ability to swing a US election at least a couple points. And who knows what else their algorithm has compiled that they sell. All of theses things have value.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXLRC37WIAI1itX?format=jpg&name=medium)
Good. I hope the employee's last sentence is correct and that they never recover.
When I was living out in Suburbia (Wentzville), I had a neighbor who was some sort of union rep at Ford's plant in St. Louis. He was laid off/striking/something... Lots of free time.
We were sitting in my living room, having a cold one following some yard work, when the news announced that Ford was closing all St. Louis operations.
He looked at me, smiled, and announced "Looks like we won!"
Well, the bank got his house.
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This is remarkably naive. These companies clearly produce something of value because the customers of social media companies pay billions of dollars for their product. And plenty of people who are very good at making money highly value social media companies and their stocks.
Among other things they produce highly accurate and sophisticated models of what their users will watch and react to. They sell the ability to reach very precisely target groups of people. Twitter openly has the ability to swing a US election at least a couple points. And who knows what else their algorithm has compiled that they sell. All of theses things have value.
What has any of these social media companies ever produced that you can eat, drive, shelter under, wear, or even wipe with? The only thing they make is money off ads, and that is ethereal - not tangible.
Woody
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So they did every thing they could to block Musk from buying twitter and are now suing him for not buying twitter.
Sounds about right.
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So they did every thing they could to block Musk from buying twitter and are now suing him for not buying twitter.
Sounds about right.
They didn’t want him until they couldn’t stop being exposed for the financial frauds they are. Now they want to force the sale because otherwise they also lose massive amounts of wealth built on their decade of bullshit.
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What has any of these social media companies ever produced that you can eat, drive, shelter under, wear, or even wipe with? The only thing they make is money off ads, and that is ethereal - not tangible.
Woody
You could say the same about a book, except maybe the part about wiping with it.
The rumor I hear is Twitter is paid by the CIA or some of other part of the govt to push opinions and narratives. I imagine politicians and other organizations do the same. Pay to get their posts and opinions favored in the algorithms so people see them similar to people paying Google to be favored in searches. That is over and above the aggregate information they have on their users that can be used for advertising or politics to target ads or craft messages.
Yes, it is not a tangible product, but it is still considered valuable by many and can be used for profit. Now, is it worth what Elon was originally offering? I hear it is not, but still quite a bit.
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You could say the same about a book, except maybe the part about wiping with it.
The rumor I hear is Twitter is paid by the CIA or some of other part of the govt to push opinions and narratives. I imagine politicians and other organizations do the same. Pay to get their posts and opinions favored in the algorithms so people see them similar to people paying Google to be favored in searches. That is over and above the aggregate information they have on their users that can be used for advertising or politics to target ads or craft messages.
Yes, it is not a tangible product, but it is still considered valuable by many and can be used for profit. Now, is it worth what Elon was originally offering? I hear it is not, but still quite a bit.
I believe you are right. I see that Twitter, like the MSM, is where news and events are filtered through a bovine sphincter for the nose blind. (That's a metaphor - in case you are wondering...)
Woody
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You know those television programs and movies you see?
There are commercials - and there is also "product placement."
The hero drinks Sparky Soda. He's driving a Burnmobile. He wears Duperjeans.
And those are all paying...
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From the office of Elon Musk
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXW4J4xXgAAXFKs?format=jpg&name=small)
:rofl:
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What has any of these social media companies ever produced that you can eat, drive, shelter under, wear, or even wipe with? The only thing they make is money off ads, and that is ethereal - not tangible.
Woody
We're decades into the information age and people still don't recognize how valuable their information is, how much of their information is harvested, and how much of that information is sold.
YOU are the commodity. Ads are a nice sideline, but for companies like Twitter and Facebook, the millions of data points of behavioral information that you willingly provide to them is absolute gold.
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I think all of this was planned, and that Musk played them brilliantly. My thoughts are echoed somewhat in the meme WLJ posted, but go even deeper on the financial side. I think he made the ridiculously high offer to buy knowing full well they wouldn't be able, or in this case willing, to provide the necessary "bot rot" documentation. He did it with the intention of creating a problem that drove stock price way down so he could snap up a bunch at discount prices. It's a giant middle finger to a company he feels wronged by.
First, put in the offer and get people thinking Twitter is about to explode upward so they buy up a bunch of stock (shareholder base dilution). Create minor hiccups along the way to start seeding caution and concern. Push one big problem (nondisclosure) to cement shareholder's concerns that something is wrong, creating panic and fomenting a stock plummet. Then, when stock is way, way down, kill the deal on a solid contract technicality. That leaves him free to rush back in and buy stock on the open market. That $40 billion committed to the deal will now buy twice as much.
He knows a lawsuit will force disclosure, and that Twitter will get their butts handed to them by the courts when the same stonewalling occurs. Even if it does develop into a full court battle, he still wins.
Brad
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I think all of this was planned,
I'm not 100% on board with "Planned", but I want to be. My hope has always been that Musk was willing to blow a couple of billion ducats to either knock twitter the *expletive deleted*ck out, or at least expose them, rather than buy and take them over.
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I'm not 100% on board with "Planned", but I want to be. My hope has always been that Musk was willing to blow a couple of billion ducats to either knock twitter the *expletive deleted*ck out, or at least expose them, rather than buy and take them over.
And I don't think he actually planned on running it day to day either. Probably appoint one of his soon to be pregnant executives to run it.
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Saying he planned for this to happen is not likely. Saying he saw potential outcomes and covered his bases might be very likely.
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Saying he planned for this to happen is not likely. Saying he saw potential outcomes and covered his bases might be very likely.
Either way Twitter gets its comeuppance and he comes out smelling like a rose.
Brad
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We're decades into the information age and people still don't recognize how valuable their information is, how much of their information is harvested, and how much of that information is sold.
YOU are the commodity. Ads are a nice sideline, but for companies like Twitter and Facebook, the millions of data points of behavioral information that you willingly provide to them is absolute gold.
If the service is free to use YOU are the product!
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Elon Musk Backs Out Of Twitter Deal After Realizing He Can Read The Babylon Bee By Going Directly To Their Website
https://babylonbee.com/news/elon-musk-backs-out-of-twitter-deal-after-realizing-he-can-read-the-babylon-bee-by-going-directly-to-their-website
At publishing time, The Babylon Bee announced their website is now for sale for a mere $4 billion.
:rofl:
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We're decades into the information age and people still don't recognize how valuable their information is, how much of their information is harvested, and how much of that information is sold.
YOU are the commodity. Ads are a nice sideline, but for companies like Twitter and Facebook, the millions of data points of behavioral information that you willingly provide to them is absolute gold.
There's always been a lot of complaining about people that make money without making a physical product, or providing certain kinds of services. Finance companies and stock brokers are a common target. But of course, a lot of those complaining still want to have some kind of retirement account, or to borrow money for houses and cars and such. And though I don't enjoy using Facebook or the other big socials, a lot of small businesses rely on them. They're clearly useful to a whole lot of people, and not just for personal stuff.
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Got curious
Who is #1 Twitter follower?
@BarackObama
Most followed accounts on Twitter
Rank Account name Followers (millions)
1 @BarackObama 132.2
2 @justinbieber 114.1
3 @katyperry 108.8
4 @rihanna 107.0
49 more rows
Full list at
List of most-followed Twitter accounts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_Twitter_accounts
Musk is #6 at 100.9 mil
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I have noticed that if you say something against The Progressive Way, you'll get dozens piling on, telling you that you're lower than whale doo...
And 95%, or more, have under a dozen followers.
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If the service is free to use YOU are the product!
Even if the service isn't free you are still the product.
We routinely get requests to buy our member and email lists at TFL. At one time we were also getting requests from companies that wanted to put sniffers on the platform.
Some of them, when TFL was REALLY active, were offering HUGE money and they just couldn't understand why we wouldn't want to line our pockets by selling out our members' privacy.
Had one guy actually get more than a little snippy with me. And that's all it took for me to break out all of my charm. :mad:
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There's always been a lot of complaining about people that make money without making a physical product, or providing certain kinds of services. Finance companies and stock brokers are a common target. But of course, a lot of those complaining still want to have some kind of retirement account, or to borrow money for houses and cars and such. And though I don't enjoy using Facebook or the other big socials, a lot of small businesses rely on them. They're clearly useful to a whole lot of people, and not just for personal stuff.
Don't worry, no one enjoys it when you use Facebook, either. :rofl:
Data mining and analysis has been around for a LOT longer than people realize.
Herman Hollerith really kicked it off hard when he introduced punch cards and tabulating machines that would allow quick accumulation and summation of a lot of data points really quickly.
It's just been getting more and more invasive ever since.
And yeah, the provider and consumer are firmly connected.
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"if twitter has lots of bots then that's good" :O
https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1546549205983846400
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How do you feel about TV ratings?
I was once a Nielsen Family.
I would always make sure the TV was on for American Gladiators and for Roller Derby stuff.
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1547238325907513346?s=20&t=BZidv0NUVg2u4lIJ1n3Ayw
Welp. There goes SpaceX's FAA approval.
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I love the comments under that...
"Why not put solar panels in space?"
"To power what?"
ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGERS! DUH, YOU RACIST LUDDITE PLANET HATER!
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MSNBC to Musk
Imagine the positive impact you could have on the world if you used the extraordinary amount of influence and power you have to spread decency, kindness and positivity?
— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) July 13, 2022
Musk to MSNBC
Imagine if MSNBC did that
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 13, 2022
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2022/07/13/elon-musk-embarrasses-msnbc-host-with-one-tweet-n2610194
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Lib math
Sunil Adhikari
@SunilAd94214293
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@elonmusk
and
@shacknews
Musk spent $44 Billion on Twitter. The World's population is 8 billion. He could have given each person $5 billion and still have money leftover. I feel like a cheque for $5 billion would be life changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on Twitter
:facepalm:
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Shacknews
@shacknews
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Twitter (TWTR) submits Elon Musk poop emoji tweet as evidence of disparaging behavior
:facepalm: :facepalm:
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MSNBC to Musk
Musk to MSNBChttps://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2022/07/13/elon-musk-embarrasses-msnbc-host-with-one-tweet-n2610194
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MSNBC to Musk...
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!
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Looks like twtter just went down
https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
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Is Twitter down? Massive outage reported on social media site
https://abc7.com/twitter-down-right-now-is-detector-over-capacity/12051199/
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IT'S TRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Back up now
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Back up now
The world can breathe easy now. We're all saved.
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Back up now
Alright everyone! Stop talking to your neighbors and go back to your basements. The emergency is over.
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
https://twitter.com/teslaownersSV/status/1547763018989088768
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Twitter’s lawsuit seeking to force Elon Musk to complete his $44 billion acquisition of the company will take place in October, a judge ruled Tuesday.
The social media platform’s lawyers argued in Delaware Chancery Court that Twitter is being harmed each day that its dispute with Musk continues without a resolution and asked for a court date in September.
Musk’s lawyers contended that that expedited timeline would not give his team enough time to evaluate the data they’ve been given about the prevalence of fake accounts on the platform.
Delaware Court of Chancery Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick ultimately ruled in Twitter’s favor, setting up a five-day trial for October.
Looks like the lawsuit will be addressed relatively quickly.
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Just in
Reuters
@Reuters
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BREAKING: Twitter shareholders vote in favor of Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover offer at a special shareholder meeting https://reut.rs/3eJElMA
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/09/13/report-twitter-shareholders-have-voted-in-favor-of-the-44-billion-takeover-offer-that-elon-musk-is-trying-to-take-off-the-table/
This is interesting considering he's been trying to scrap the deal
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Yeah we did =D =D
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Like him or not you have to admire the fact he doesn't pull any punches
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Seems like the purchase might be back on again.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-04/elon-musk-proposes-to-proceed-with-twitter-deal-at-54-20-a-share-twtr
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Quite a few members of the "mainstream" media are, once again, in an absolute pants-messing tizzy about this.
It's beautiful to see...
Now they're screeching about the potential for it to affect midterms.
Obviously they mean affecting midterms in a way that they don't want them to be affected, or negating their ability to affect the midterms with their twitter feeds.
I love to see liberal media in pain and panic.
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muh democracy!
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This one is really special...
From author Don Winslow...
"IF Musk gets control of Twitter, And Zuckerberg has control of Facebook, And CNN is under new Republican backed management, We have a massive problem. And do not listen to anyone who tells you differently."
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Obviously he means Facebook won't kowtow to liberal demands to let their *expletive deleted*it run rampant while flushing conservatives completely off the platform...
And by CNN being "Republican-backed" he means losing that channel's 24x7 TRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP screech-a-thon when it has the temerity to actually go back to reporting news...
This is turning out to be a really good morning. The crocodile tears make up for all of the rain we've been having.
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I’m trying to figure out how Zuck having control of FB is bad for the Dems.
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I’m trying to figure out how Zuck having control of FB is bad for the Dems.
Did The Zuck go off narrative at some point?
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I’m trying to figure out how Zuck having control of FB is bad for the Dems.
Because he hasn't yet banned all of the conservative things, just some of them.
Same way the mainstream media is controlled by the far right. You can never be sufficiently communist/black nationalist/gender-radicalist for Twitter.
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Could the approaching midterms have anything to do with Musk dropping the legal shenanigans and agreeing to go through the deal? As in... twitter must be open for meaningful debate so people have a platform to denounce voter fraud? Or did he just realize that he was screwed if he took it to court?
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Could the approaching midterms have anything to do with Musk dropping the legal shenanigans and agreeing to go through the deal? As in... twitter must be open for meaningful debate so people have a platform to denounce voter fraud? Or did he just realize that he was screwed if he took it to court?
What I heard is there were some text messages that were made public that seemed to show he was aware of the potential issues with Twitter (bots) and he would likely lose the lawsuit.
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I have also seen it hypothesized that Elon was pretty pissed off that the bot Army swarmed him for taking the far right fascist position that we might want to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine before it escalated to nukes. The theory goes that train being run on him reinvigorated his desire for a Twitter overhaul.
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The trial will still move forward until the deal is all the way done.
The way it’s being reported is as though the deal is now done, and I assure you, with what we currently know, it is not. I suppose they can report the way they do, and I can tell you what’s really going on, in the eyes of the court.
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He won’t even release his counterclaims in exchange for a stay of the litigation? There is absolutely no reason known to the public as of this date that would lead Twitter to accept that deal, as it is written. They get nothing, and lose the specter of trial and deposition that is obviously motivating Musk to make this whole thing go away. Why release the hold on those leads? For what? A “for realsies this time” promise? I don’t think so.
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The notion that this response means that they are going to agree to stay the trial or push the upcoming depositions is bonkers, and I will say that if for some reason they agreed to it, it could only show that their case has a weakness to which the public is not yet privy. Because absent some motivation on Twitter’s part to avoid a trial (and we have seen none), there is absolutely no incentive for them to accept Musk’s proffer, because again—he’s offering them nothing that they don’t already have.
From the judge today:
"The parties have not filed a stipulation to stay this action, nor has any party moved for a stay. I, therefore, continue to press on toward our trial set to begin on October 17, 2022"
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Well, according to the bookface, i'm still on double-secret probation...
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Musk "will be taught a lesson"
Elon Musk has released his personality too much, and he believes too much in the US and West’s “freedom of speech.” He will be taught a lesson. pic.twitter.com/nv4VU7rFIv
— Hu Xijin ??? (@HuXijin_GT) October 4, 2022
Makes one wonder why would China be so concerned with Musk now, Hmmmmm
'Will Be Taught a Lesson': CCP Mouthpiece Threatens Elon Musk
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/10/06/will-be-taught-a-lesson-ccp-mouthpiece-threatens-elon-musk-n2614067
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The bot purge was in overdrive yesterday.
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Hopefully Musk hurries up with the purchase to put the kibosh on this:
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/10/06/twitter-is-rolling-out-birdwatch-ahead-of-the-midterm-elections-so-eligible-users-can-add-helpful-notes-to-your-tweets/
We obviously know who the "selected users" will be.
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Twitter Purchase Delayed As ATM Will Only Let Elon Get $200 Out At A Time
https://babylonbee.com/news/twitter-purchase-delayed-as-atm-will-only-let-elon-get-200-out-at-a-time
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I have also seen it hypothesized that Elon was pretty pissed off that the bot Army swarmed him for taking the far right fascist position that we might want to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine before it escalated to nukes. The theory goes that train being run on him reinvigorated his desire for a Twitter overhaul.
Very possible -- even likely.
Musk is an ardent advocate for free speech ... unless the aforementioned free speech is critical of Elon Musk.
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This is a great self-own.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/10/14/rofl-occupy-democrats-begging-followers-to-tweet-im-real-to-dunk-on-elon-musk-who-called-their-followers-bots-goes-so-wrong/
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This is a great self-own.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/10/14/rofl-occupy-democrats-begging-followers-to-tweet-im-real-to-dunk-on-elon-musk-who-called-their-followers-bots-goes-so-wrong/
If you aren’t a bot, tweet your credit card info!
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Sometimes it's fun to watch a meltdown [popcorn]
Occupy Democrats
@OccupyDemocrats
BREAKING: Right-wing billionaire Elon Musk plans to fire 75% of Twitter's employees when he seizes control — a move that will allow him to stuff Twitter with minions who will support his move to flood the platform with racists and Nazis. RT IF YOU OPPOSE MUSK OWNING TWITTER!
‘Think of them as being permanently suspended’: Elon Musk reportedly to cut 75% of Twitter staff
https://twitchy.com/artistangie-313138/2022/10/21/think-of-them-as-being-permanently-suspended-elon-musk-reportedly-to-cut-75-of-twitter-staff/
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[popcorn]
‘Think of them as being permanently suspended’: Elon Musk reportedly to cut 75% of Twitter staff
https://twitchy.com/artistangie-313138/2022/10/21/think-of-them-as-being-permanently-suspended-elon-musk-reportedly-to-cut-75-of-twitter-staff/
Well, he's been promoted to "right wing billionaire". I'm excitedly awaiting for him to move to "right wing extremist".
Also, "RT if you oppose". ;/
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🇺🇸 Lowkey Rey 2.0 🇺🇸
@AtlRey
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Replying to @AtlRey
I heard the IRS is hiring though.
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"75% of Twitter employees only function is to suspend conservatives. Definitely won’t be necessary once @elonmusk buys it. Guess they better learn to actually code."
SNORT!
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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/biden-admin-weighs-blocking-twitter-deal-national-security-grounds-just-musk-wanted
ObDisclaimer: it is zerohedge, so some NaCl is warranted.
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Oooh... He's going to destroy "our" democracy.
So... "your" democracy requires censorship?
They don't like hearing that...
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List of demands from Twitter employees to Elon
[popcorn]
‘Demand in one hand …’ Entitled Twitter employees send list of MUH DEMANDS to their soon-to-be new boss Elon Musk and LOL (thread)
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/10/25/demand-in-one-hand-entitled-twitter-employees-send-list-of-muh-demands-to-their-soon-to-be-new-boss-elon-musk-and-lol-thread/
https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1584934801122869251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1584934801122869251%7Ctwgr%5Ec4759ac3f20125637645c49424116d1aed8dd6e6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsamj-3930%2F2022%2F10%2F25%2Fdemand-in-one-hand-entitled-twitter-employees-send-list-of-muh-demands-to-their-soon-to-be-new-boss-elon-musk-and-lol-thread%2F
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They ended a demand letter with "sincerely". :rofl:
I hope he fires everyone.
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They ended a demand letter with "sincerely". :rofl:
I hope he fires everyone.
Starting with those who drafted/submitted that letter.
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Dear Former Twitter Workers,
*expletive deleted*ck you.
Love,
Elon
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I will say this: Elon apparently is a PITA to work for. He runs his companies like he thinks they are integral to changing the world, and he expects his employees to do the same. I've heard enough anecdotes from both Tesla and SpaceX employees and former employees to buy there's some truth to the 3AM mandatory meetings, all hands on deck for crazy hours to solve something, and do it or GTFO moments. And FWIW both Tesla and SpaceX have revolutionized their markets. Even if you don't think EV's are ready to replace all ICE vehicles, you gotta admit that Tesla has changed what an EV can be. And SpaceX routinely lands and reuses orbital rockets.
Compare and contrast that with the Project Veritas video of a Twitter employee talking about how they work there. Four hours a week of actual work, work from home, if you don't feel like coming in you just take days or weeks off and no one cares, how you feel is the most important thing.
I understand why they're panicking, even as I laugh at them. They aren't being hyperbolic, there's every reason to believe that Elon is going to destroy their livelihood. At least I hope he is.
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"Elon apparently is a PITA to work for. He runs his companies like he thinks they are integral to changing the world, and he expects his employees to do the same."
A lot of CEOs whose companies have actually changed the world have been like that.
Not everyone can thrive in an environment like that, and many of them shouldn't even try.
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That was kind of my point. SpaceX especially.
Ironically, Twitter HAS undisputedly changed the world, but it's employees don't want to work like they did.
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Ironically, Twitter HAS undisputedly changed the world, but it's employees don't want to work like they did.
Not for the better, IMO. They started to. When it first came out, my initial thoughts were, "What a great idea!". The ability to message in emergencies or natural disasters, or for people in unstable regions to get communications out - man, I thought that was a winner. It sure turned into a blue check hellhole run by spoiled and undisciplined children.
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"Ironically, Twitter HAS undisputedly changed the world,"
I wouldn't say that they've changed the world in the very least.
If Twitter goes away today, what is the true net effect?
Annoyance from some people that they won't be able to share their daily bullshit in short snippets.
People will grumble and get on with their lives.
That's not world changing. Facebook has been far more world changing than Twitter could ever hope to be.
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Disagree. At least one election outcome can be laid at Twitter's feet. If we had solid data on algorithmic weighting of posts I'd bet more than one.
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He's really rubbing it in :rofl:
Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585341984679469056
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He's really rubbing it in :rofl:
Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585341984679469056
That's hilarious! :rofl:
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Disagree. At least one election outcome can be laid at Twitter's feet. If we had solid data on algorithmic weighting of posts I'd bet more than one.
One election. Dog catcher for Lower Lesser Ball Scratch County?
Unless it's election of Lord High Commander as Dictator of Earth, chances are that it was about as world changing as me stubbing my pinky toe on the newel post...
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I might need to actually sign up for Twitter now.
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Holy hell, he needs to fire more than 75% of them. "Red wine on tap".
https://twitter.com/i/status/1585395267552960512
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/10/26/if-this-day-in-the-life-of-a-twitter-employee-is-real-then-just-wow-red-wine-on-tap/
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Living the capitalist high life while at the same time condemning it
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Living the capitalist high life while at the same time condemning it
Real life Ayn Rand characters.
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
"This is fundamentally cruel," CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem reacted. "Whatever the masters of the universe are doing with this website, lots and lots of people — not fancy people, just people with kids and houses and vacation plans and who make companies run and rich men richer — will lose their livelihoods."
In other words... WE DEMAND GUARANTEED, HIGH-PAYING JOBS FOR LIFE! JOBS WHERE WE HAVE RED WINE ON TAP! AND WHERE WE ONLY HAVE TO WORK FOR 4 HOURS A WEEK!
Learn to code, people.
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I mean....hold on a second. I could get behind adding mandatory beer/wine taps to Federal Employment laws. Let's not be too hasty and dismissive. Free beer at lunch may be a heretofore overlooked human right.
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A message from Elon Musk
Dear Twitter Advertisers
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728/photo/1
Apparently some don't like it
Lib writer’s take on ‘toxic jerk’ Elon Musk taking over Twitter is why Musk should do this every day
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/10/27/lib-writers-take-on-toxic-jerk-elon-musk-taking-over-twitter-is-why-musk-should-do-this-every-day/
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I mean....hold on a second. I could get behind adding mandatory beer/wine taps to Federal Employment laws. Let's not be too hasty and dismissive. Free beer at lunch may be a heretofore overlooked human right.
You have a point there Mush. Too bad it didn't happen before I retired, though.
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They actually think this is a threat :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Zack Kanter
@zackkanter
If Elon doesn’t meet these demands, there’s a real risk of many employees quitting – some estimates say up to 75% of them
Blue-check tells Elon Musk he better meet Twitter employee demands OR ELSE he’ll lose them and LOL
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/10/27/blue-check-tells-elon-musk-he-better-meet-twitter-employee-demands-or-else-hell-lose-them-and-lol/
Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out. :rofl:
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That's a good one. =)
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So it begins
SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk has started cleaning house at Twitter with the firings of at least four top executives on Thursday, said two people with knowledge of the situation, as the billionaire closes his $44 billion takeover of the social media company.
The Twitter executives who were fired include Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief executive, Ned Segal, the chief financial officer, Vijaya Gadde, the top legal and policy executive, and Sean Edgett, the general counsel, said the people, who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly
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https://twitchy.com/amy-313134/2022/10/27/it-begins-elon-musk-reported-to-have-fired-top-twitter-executives/
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A message from Elon Musk
Dear Twitter Advertisers
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728/photo/1
Apparently some don't like it
Lib writer’s take on ‘toxic jerk’ Elon Musk taking over Twitter is why Musk should do this every day
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/10/27/lib-writers-take-on-toxic-jerk-elon-musk-taking-over-twitter-is-why-musk-should-do-this-every-day/
Oh, good grief. We gots another math whiz here.
Junior 🥷
@PirateStyle7
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@elonmusk
Musk spent $44 Billion on Twitter. The World’s population is 8 billion. He could have given each person $5 billion and still have money leftover. I feel like a cheque for $5 billion would be life changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on Twitter
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Ha ha - Taylor Lorenz being upset (again) is already makes this deal worthwhile. :rofl:
Controversial tech columnist Taylor Lorenz tweeted, "It’s like the gates of hell opened on this site tonight."
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Ha ha - Taylor Lorenz being upset (again) is already makes this deal worthwhile. :rofl:
Yep. Double Soup Tuesday at the Orphanarium...
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Of course those fired execs have golden parachutes on top of their stock sale payouts.
In total, Gadde is set to walk away from Twitter with the biggest haul: Nearly $74 million. Agrawal and Segal aren’t far behind her, though, at roughly $65 million and $66 million, respectively.
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Ramp Capital
@RampCapitalLLC
BREAKING: FALCON 9 LAUNCH SPOTTED OVER CALIFORNIA, UNCONFIRMED BUT POSSIBLY CARRYING EX-TWITTER EXECS TO OUTER SPACE
https://twitter.com/RampCapitalLLC/status/1585820284459810820/photo/1
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Ramp Capital
@RampCapitalLLC
BREAKING: FALCON 9 LAUNCH SPOTTED OVER CALIFORNIA, UNCONFIRMED BUT POSSIBLY CARRYING EX-TWITTER EXECS TO OUTER SPACE
https://twitter.com/RampCapitalLLC/status/1585820284459810820/photo/1
I didn't think it was a LITERAL golden parachute they got, but hey, I'm willing to give it a shot.
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https://twitter.com/RampCapitalLLC/status/1585820284459810820/photo/1
21st century helicopter ride?
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Hi. I'm @elonmusk and I just took $44,000,000,000 and urinated on it and then lit it on fire so I could be the one to reassure a terrified anonymous right wing nutjob troll who fulfills the latest Trumpcult paranoia by self-identifying as a cat that I WILL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF IT pic.twitter.com/ADnWkxKzwG
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 28, 2022
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Catturd â„¢
@catturd2
Replying to
@KeithOlbermann
and
@elonmusk
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https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1586016455878770689
Catturd gets a reply from Elon Musk and Keith Olbermann and others can’t deal
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2022/10/28/catturd-gets-a-reply-from-elon-musk-and-keith-olbermann-and-others-cant-deal/
:rofl:
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Elon To Replace 3,200 Twitter Employees With One Hardworking Immigrant Named Amar
https://babylonbee.com/news/elon-to-replace-3200-twitter-employees-with-one-hardworking-immigrant-from-india
"Amar is a hardworking immigrant from India who can easily do the work of 3,200 Silicon Valley millennials," said Musk. "Once we filtered out all the breaks for meditation, wine-on-tap, matcha sipping, shuffleboard, and corn-hole, we discovered that these employees could all be replaced with Amar, who will outperform all 3,200 of these employees by at least 9%."
Probably not too far from the truth :rofl:
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I may need to break down and finally get a Twitter account...
Hum... Maybe Seren needs one, actually.
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When something stops being fun, people stop doing it.
And on a side note - Anheuser-Busch used to allow employees to drink on the job. I think it was stopped back around 1988 or so. But you would still see the execs, etc., lunching in bars in the area of the brewery.
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When something stops being fun, people stop doing it.
And on a side note - Anheuser-Busch used to allow employees to drink on the job. I think it was stopped back around 1988 or so. But you would still see the execs, etc., lunching in bars in the area of the brewery.
I worked for a large multinational company headquartered in the USA. The German branch had refrigerators stocked with beer for their employees. When I first started working, it wasn't unusual for the department to go out for pizza at lunch time, and traditionally the highest-level manager would spring for a couple of pitchers of beer for the group. Then a new executive came in and beer during lunch was first "discouraged" and then "prohibited" for regular employees . . . but it was still served on the Gulfstreams in our company's air force and even on campus during "executive training" workshops, a clear case of "rules for thee but not for me." The same CEO put a halt to firearm ads in the "for sale" section of the employee newspaper.
Oh, and the flogging would continue until morale improved.
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Twitter is so much better now.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Just received this email from Twitter. This is an actual, real email that was autogenerated 🤣🤣
Go to the link for the email
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586680643831836677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
He better hurry he's only got 30 days :rofl:
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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2h
Replying to
@WholeMarsBlog
My title is Chief Twit right there in the bio. No idea who the CEO is.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Also, change "blue check" to "red check". :laugh:
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In his last post before his unfortunate suicide, Elon fact checks Hillary Clinton.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1586723534381916160
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Interesting. As of now, when I hit the link that Elon posted, it just keeps loading and loading and loading.
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Interesting. As of now, when I hit the link that Elon posted, it just keeps loading and loading and loading.
I just hit it, and it says that the tweet in question was deleted by the author. Remaining, though, are a couple of responses taking him to task for being homophobic.
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Interesting. As of now, when I hit the link that Elon posted, it just keeps loading and loading and loading.
Try this:
https://www.smobserved.com/story/2022/10/31/opinion/the-awful-truth-paul-pelosi-was-drunk-again-and-in-a-dispute-with-a-male-prostitute-early-friday-morning/7191.html
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Try this:
https://www.smobserved.com/story/2022/10/31/opinion/the-awful-truth-paul-pelosi-was-drunk-again-and-in-a-dispute-with-a-male-prostitute-early-friday-morning/7191.html
Took a while to load, but it worked, thanks. :)
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https://twitter.com/jfrankcarr/status/1586767259032330243
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Replying to
@spideycyp_155 and @WholeMarsBlog
There seem to be 10 people “managing” for every one person coding
6:50 AM · Oct 30, 2022 Twitter for iPhone
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Not an image.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgMizxUaEAALNxV?format=jpg&name=small
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Same problem.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgUGHfnXkAADAdt?format=jpg&name=small
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What browser are you using?
I've found some if sec set to strict that can mess with images loading. Sec setting can be changed for individual sites.
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Not an image.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgMizxUaEAALNxV?format=jpg&name=small
Looks like an image to me.
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And... Looks like Musk has enough evidence of malfeasance to justify "firing with cause" to ensure no golden parachutes for the folks he's tossing out of the helicopter...
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Musk better watch his back. There may be stuff some people don't want exposed.
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And... Looks like Musk has enough evidence of malfeasance to justify "firing with cause" to ensure no golden parachutes for the folks he's tossing out of the helicopter...
Such as?
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And... Looks like Musk has enough evidence of malfeasance to justify "firing with cause" to ensure no golden parachutes for the folks he's tossing out of the helicopter...
Really? Not going to expand on that at all with any sort of background information or supporting links?
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https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-fired-twitter-execs-for-cause-avoid-severance-report-2022-10
The original story broke on "The Information". I don't know anything about that site so I can't guess veracity, but I'd say taking the report with a moderate amount of salt is a good idea. Rhose exacs are rich enough they'll stay rich, but I would love to see them not get any cash or stock payouts.
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I haven't seen the libs this butthurt since 2016, all because opinions other than their own will now be allowed on a "free" speech platform.
As a lawyer Im going to do research to see if @elonmusk in any way lied on his application for US citizenship. I'll be making a FOIA request for his immigration application. If he lied anywhere on application we will move to strip him of US citizenship. Stay tuned.
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) October 31, 2022
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/10/31/dean-obeidallah-puts-on-his-lawyer-hat-and-vows-to-try-to-strip-fascist-elon-musk-of-us-citizenship/
Further down
Dean wants to strip US citizenship from an African-American man. https://t.co/DYqcaIYwvn
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 31, 2022
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Another point that needs to be made...
German Fascists spent the 1930s... stripping German citizens of their citizenship.
So this Dean Ollybawhatever wants to strip someone of his American citizenship.
Which is, on its face, extremely fascist.
So now we have an better idea who the real fascist is.
And let's not even talk about the left's repeated efforts to suppress free speech, which is another classic fascist move.
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I talked this morning about Elon Musk, his Paul Pelosi conspiracy theory, and how you lose a democracy in the age of the internet. pic.twitter.com/WLikKY32Ll
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 31, 2022
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/10/31/nbc-news-ben-collins-barely-holds-it-together-explaining-how-elon-musk-will-destroy-our-democracy/
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https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/10/31/nbc-news-ben-collins-barely-holds-it-together-explaining-how-elon-musk-will-destroy-our-democracy/
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He's saying that on an outlet that lies routinely.
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David Hogg thinks Twitter should be paying blue-checks like himself to tweet
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/10/31/david-hogg-thinks-twitter-should-be-paying-blue-checks-like-himself-to-tweet/
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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I guess he's looking to make money any way he can since his pillow empire failed...
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David Hogg is a clown. However, there is a point in there. Other social media, Facebook, YouTube as examples, pay content creators on the basis of audience engagement. High value content creators being paid for doing so drives additional content creation, and that drives more value. Not necessarily cultural value, or moral value, but it does drive more advertising value.
Larry Correia monetizes his Facebook account (not sure how, and he was de-monetized until very recently). YouTubers get paid per ad view.
It sounds absurd to us because we recognize him for the clown he is, but why shouldn’t David Hogg be paid by Twitter if he is driving audience engagement? There’s plenty of people just as much (and more) of a clown as him that are monetized on various platforms already.
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David Hogg is a clown. However, there is a point in there. Other social media, Facebook, YouTube as examples, pay content creators on the basis of audience engagement. High value content creators being paid for doing so drives additional content creation, and that drives more value. Not necessarily cultural value, or moral value, but it does drive more advertising value.
Larry Correia monetizes his Facebook account (not sure how, and he was de-monetized until very recently). YouTubers get paid per ad view.
It sounds absurd to us because we recognize him for the clown he is, but why shouldn’t David Hogg be paid by Twitter if he is driving audience engagement? There’s plenty of people just as much (and more) of a clown as him that are monetized on various platforms already.
You make a reasoned, compelling point. But *expletive deleted*ck that little bastard. Pay everyone EXCEPT him. On general shithead principle.
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You make a reasoned, compelling point. But *expletive deleted*ck that little bastard. Pay everyone EXCEPT him. On general shithead principle.
I’m down with that.
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David Hogg is a clown
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Copy-pasting something I left on a YouTube vidja.
When they spread lies that Musk’s Twitter is going to be a haven for racists, they should take the blame for all the racists showing up. Cf. the (fabricated) rise in white supremacy under Trump. When the media told racists the President was on their side, they (not Trump) emboldened them.
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David Hogg thinks Twitter should be paying blue-checks like himself to tweet
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/10/31/david-hogg-thinks-twitter-should-be-paying-blue-checks-like-himself-to-tweet/
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David Hogg might be getting even more pissed. Not only will Elon not be paying him, he might start charging him:
Musk is also looking into revamping Twitter's verification process. Users wishing to keep their verification badge may soon be required to subscribe to Twitter Blue. The cost of Twitter Blue is also reportedly rising from $4.99 per month to $19.99 per month.
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David Hogg might be getting even more pissed. Not only will Elon not be paying him, he might start charging him:
IMHO it should go both ways. Users should pay for the verification and the silly checkmark; Twitter should then pay them for content. (not sure what the basis for payment would be, probably however YT does it would be close)
I think I have a twitter account; when I look at a twitter link it knows who I am. I have never posted anything there, not even once.
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Elon Musk bought Twitter because he takes Viagra. ;/
Kinda funny how the "don't judge people's sexuality" left doesn't mind making fun of what they would otherwise call a disability that must be recognized, as long as the disability is connected to an enemy (and probably not even true, or if it is, okay, but viagra wasn't approved until well after Musk turned 18).
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/01/not-sure-why-adam-parkhomenko-is-so-fixated-on-elon-musks-junk-but-hey-were-not-judging/
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I guess gas cars are okay again.
It took only 4 days, but Twitter has turned into a cesspool of lies, hate, racism, antisemitism, & right-wing extremism. It happened because of @elonmusk, which means that it is financed by Tesla. If you have had it with Elon, but you still drive a Tesla, time to rethink that.
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) October 31, 2022
He hasn't even changed anything yet other than firing some deadwood and yet suddenly there's suppose to be all this hate speech on Twitter.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/11/01/fred-guttenberg-says-twitters-now-a-right-wing-cesspool-and-its-time-to-rethink-your-tesla/
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I guess gas cars are okay again.
He hasn't even changed anything yet other than firing some deadwood and yet suddenly there's all this hate speech on Twitter.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/11/01/fred-guttenberg-says-twitters-now-a-right-wing-cesspool-and-its-time-to-rethink-your-tesla/
The things to complain about are that left wing hate is still prevalent. Apparently if you do a search for a "Kemp" account, it leads to results on Stacy Abrams as Kemp is stealth banned.
I'm not blaming Musk. You can't fix this *expletive deleted*it in a day or a week or a month. It will likely take time to find all the stealth bans and stuff, whether automated or via dumbass "site integrity" employees doing it manually. He still has a lot of people to fire.
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The things to complain about are that left wing hate is still prevalent. Apparently if you do a search for a "Kemp" account, it leads to results on Stacy Abrams as Kemp is stealth banned.
I'm not blaming Musk. You can't fix this *expletive deleted*it in a day or a week or a month. It will likely take time to find all the stealth bans and stuff, whether automated or via dumbass "site integrity" employees doing it manually. He still has a lot of people to fire.
It could take months to unclog and clear out 90% of the crap. The remaining 10% may never happen since it's probably like playing Whack A-Mole.
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I guess gas cars are okay again.
He hasn't even changed anything yet other than firing some deadwood and yet suddenly there's suppose to be all this hate speech on Twitter.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/11/01/fred-guttenberg-says-twitters-now-a-right-wing-cesspool-and-its-time-to-rethink-your-tesla/
Something changed. My feed used to be full of Democratic ads. Now it's full of real people.
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Something changed. My feed used to be full of Democratic ads. Now it's full of real people.
No wonder the dems are scared.
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According to MSN's Business Insider, Twits have been told they have to work 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week. That's an 84 hour week.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/twitter-staff-have-been-told-to-work-84-hour-weeks-and-managers-slept-at-the-office-over-the-weekend-as-they-scramble-to-meet-elon-musk-s-tight-deadlines-reports-say/ar-AA13BP61?cvid=bfa6ce4d7da942e6a8da114f47a915c0
CNBC reported that staff haven't been told whether they'll get overtime pay, time off in lieu, or job security for working on the assignments.
They'd better be getting paid overtime -- at least most of them. Unless they genuinely have managerial responsibility and authority, they are not salaried (i.e. "exempt') employees, and I'm pretty certain the law requires that they get paid time-and-a-half beyond 40 hours per week.
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According to MSN's Business Insider, Twits have been told they have to work 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week. That's an 84 hour week.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/twitter-staff-have-been-told-to-work-84-hour-weeks-and-managers-slept-at-the-office-over-the-weekend-as-they-scramble-to-meet-elon-musk-s-tight-deadlines-reports-say/ar-AA13BP61?cvid=bfa6ce4d7da942e6a8da114f47a915c0
They'd better be getting paid overtime -- at least most of them. Unless they genuinely have managerial responsibility and authority, they are not salaried (i.e. "exempt') employees, and I'm pretty certain the law requires that they get paid time-and-a-half beyond 40 hours per week.
12-hour days *and* work weekends? Sounds like bullshit to me. And by bullshit, I mean I don't believe the article but there probably is a little truth in it. (and they'll probably claim that everyone is on salary so no OT pay at all, not even straight time) Long shifts or weekends, for a short duration like a week or two? Yeah, maybe. But there better be some kind of compensation or the workers will burn the place down and rightly so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzqZm357pXk
[edited for clarity]
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According to MSN's Business Insider, Twits have been told they have to work 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week. That's an 84 hour week.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/twitter-staff-have-been-told-to-work-84-hour-weeks-and-managers-slept-at-the-office-over-the-weekend-as-they-scramble-to-meet-elon-musk-s-tight-deadlines-reports-say/ar-AA13BP61?cvid=bfa6ce4d7da942e6a8da114f47a915c0
They'd better be getting paid overtime -- at least most of them. Unless they genuinely have managerial responsibility and authority, they are not salaried (i.e. "exempt') employees, and I'm pretty certain the law requires that they get paid time-and-a-half beyond 40 hours per week.
Management doesn't necessarily mean people management. Management of anything would suffice.
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[popcorn]
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I smell bullshit created by people mad they have to work in the first place
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I smell bullshit created by people mad they have to work in the first place
Me too.
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Alternatively this could actually be happening but with the following context:
These folks are part of the progressive agenda but for whatever reason he can't fire them for cause or terminate at will, so he needs to make them want to leave. Enter context part two, they are salary and are obligated to work whatever is demanded of them (demand used to be very low so they didn't worry about this). Now the demand is 12/7 until they choose to GTFO.
I still feel fine. Also Afghanistan was 16-18 hour days for 6 months for me. So I personally know this demand is doable. If true it should prove to be a very good mass spectrometer of employee desire to turn Twitter around and make it genuinely free speech. People who don't want free speech will be highly unwilling to sacrifice so much of their time to the task.
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From last May:
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/twitter-senior-engineer-talks-elon-musk-takeover-in-new-undercover-video/
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Well, BYE!
Let me put it this way: I will leave Twitter rather than pay Musk a single dime for anything
— Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) November 2, 2022
Just got real: Jennifer Rubin vows to ‘leave Twitter rather than pay Musk a single dime for anything’
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/11/02/just-got-real-jennifer-rubin-vows-to-leave-twitter-rather-than-pay-musk-a-single-dime-for-anything/
Further down
Dear Diary:
After four days of continuous threats, I'm starting to believe that nobody takes me seriously. I must take drastic measures; perhaps I'll glue my hand to a Space X rocket just before it launches.
Sincerely,
Jenn
Post script: Resist!
— Dan Novotny (@MrDanNovotny) November 2, 2022
:rofl:
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These folks are part of the progressive agenda but for whatever reason he can't fire them for cause or terminate at will, so he needs to make them want to leave.
I would have figured turning off the wine tap and turning all the safe space rooms into workspaces would have taken care of that, but whatever works... =)
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I would have figured turning off the wine tap and turning all the safe space rooms into workspaces would have taken care of that, but whatever works... =)
Hire people like Larry Elder and Dennis Prager to come to headquarters, and consult on free speech and bias issues. I'd suggest Ben Shapiro, but that would just be too cruel to the flakes.
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Just put up a Trump cutout then film the screaming hysterical rush for the door. Local shrinks would be booked solid for the next 12 months.
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Not (yet) real, but we can dream ...
https://babylonbee.com/news/following-through-on-commitment-to-address-twitter-disinformation-elon-suspends-new-york-times
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From the desk of Chief Twit
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587894226695884800
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WH tweet gets a really sweet fact-check.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/11/02/wh-deletes-tweet-after-getting-busted-by-citizen-fact-checkers-and-elon-musk-thinks-its-awesome/
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WH tweet gets a really sweet fact-check.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/11/02/wh-deletes-tweet-after-getting-busted-by-citizen-fact-checkers-and-elon-musk-thinks-its-awesome/
I was cracking up about that - all kinds of lefties are screeching about that misinformation destroying twitter and democracy. Nevermind that the guy provided source material straight from the US gov. "Lies! All lies!!!" :rofl:
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Lmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that “free speech” is actually a $8/mo subscription plan
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 2, 2022
Your feedback is appreciated, now pay $8
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022
She clearly just wants to date him. LOL.
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2022/11/02/elon-musk-trolls-aoc-your-feedback-is-appreciated-now-pay-8/
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^^^
She's also claiming that he's messing with her twitter account. :rofl:
And as for her $60 sweatshirts made by high paid US workers, wasn't there something in the news a while back about her and taxes and paying employees?
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I heard some complaining that it appears Musk isn't making Twitter a completely free speech platform. However, Salty Cracker pointed out that it is a hell of a lot better than it was and we have an election around the corner so blow things up while you can.
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But wait, there's more
Elon Musk must’ve REALLY gotten under AOC’s skin over $8 because LOL she’s STILL melting down
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/03/elon-musk-mustve-really-gotten-under-aocs-skin-over-8-because-lol-shes-still-melting-down/
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The left really doesn't like getting fact checked
The White House has been “fact checked” by Twitter with mundane nuances at least three times since Elon Musk took over.
A right-wing filter on a giant communications platform—what could go wrong? pic.twitter.com/BY7zqStlTC
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) November 2, 2022
Lol, the best part has been the sheer outrage over actual facts being allowed on this site.
— Chris McGowne (@cjmcgowne) November 3, 2022
Sawyer Hackett gets fact-checked over his Birdwatch meltdown and it is GLORIOUS
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/11/03/kjp-says-wh-isnt-having-any-meetings-or-anything-happening-like-that-in-preparing-for-a-recession/
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I heard some complaining that it appears Musk isn't making Twitter a completely free speech platform. However, Salty Cracker pointed out that it is a hell of a lot better than it was and we have an election around the corner so blow things up while you can.
According to Musk, not much has changed (yet).
Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.
Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
I think Twitter had already peaked before Musk overpaid for it, but its decline is going to accelerate with him in charge.
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According to Musk, not much has changed (yet).
I think Twitter had already peaked before Musk overpaid for it, but its decline is going to accelerate with him in charge.
I was thinking of rejoining as a few people I follow on youtube use it to share other stuff. I don't think it needs to go away, but any platform that tries to micromanage creators and users is going to chase people away. Elon needs to find a way to make a profit without having advertiser conglomerates telling him how to run it.
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Elon needs to find a way to make a profit without having advertiser conglomerates telling him how to run it.
I think if he wants to really go all in on free speech, he should forget about profit and focus on that. That's how he talked when was going to buy it. His latest tweets seem to be going in a different direction though and there's only so much common ground between what advertisers want, what the current user base wants, and what free speech focused potential users want.
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The You're Fired! Channel
Reuters has a live feed ‘outside of Twitter as Elon Musk begins laying off employees’
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/11/04/reuters-has-a-live-feed-outside-of-twitter-as-elon-musk-begins-laying-off-employees/
LIVE: View outside of Twitter as Elon Musk begins laying off employees
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1588593318346502145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Well that has news day emmy written all over it!
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That was a whole lotta nuthin.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator
:rofl:
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I think Twitter had already peaked before Musk overpaid for it, but its decline is going to accelerate with him in charge.
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And suddenly pregnancy is important to the MSM. For some reason ;/ , Yahoo News is connecting a twitter (ex) employee's pregnancy with her being locked out of her computer. "Oh dear, Musk has kicked a pregnant woman to the curb!"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-employee-whos-8-months-095949708.html
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
https://twitter.com/johnhackerla/status/1585509583757320194
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Hey Twitter ex employees… Found some jobs for ya.
Brutal https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1588721805841530881?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email
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Holy freaking frack!
The United Nations has weighed in on Musk taking over Twitter...
Be sure to ensure human rights while you're laying people off, Elon!
What the literal *expletive deleted*ck?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/amid-mass-twitter-layoffs-un-urges-elon-musk-ensure-human-rights-central-companys-management
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Holy freaking frack!
The United Nations has weighed in on Musk taking over Twitter...
I was just about to post that. When you have the UN butting in and telling you what you need to do, you know that you're already doing something right.
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They'll assign Iran as supervisor to ensure no human rights are violated.
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I read that one of the teams he fired was the Twitter group responsible for incorporating UN guiding principles on business ethics.
That may be why the UN is upset.
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Wow, if true, this is huge:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/06/whoa-sounds-like-twitter-employees-may-have-been-selling-verification-for-1000s-of-dollars-thread/
Not that the MSM won't bury it.
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No wonder the UN is involved then.
The UN is all about corruption to the very core.
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Wow, indeed.
What price integrity?
Makes one wonder about other "rating" groups... Consumer's Union, BBB, J. D. Powers...
Diogenes looking for an honest man....
(https://i1.wp.com/stockholmcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Diogenes.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
It's lonely out there...
Update: "The end dollar justifies the means.
Terry. 230RN
Pic credit in properties.
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No wonder the UN is involved then.
The UN is all about corruption to the very core.
Some sort of grift, ratline, or other corruption, must have just ended for them to respond like this. It has been shown that online social media has been used for distribution of child porn and coordination of child prostitution rings, and the UN and the myriad of NGOs have been involved with child trafficking. So that's where I'd start, that and money in general of course.
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JUST IN: Kathy Griffin’s Twitter account has been suspended after she made numerous fake post impersonating Elon Musk. “Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended,” Musk declared. pic.twitter.com/niC6Y9i24r
— Election Wizard 🇺🇸 (@ElectionWiz) November 6, 2022
No exceptions
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2022
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2022/11/06/she-gone-kathy-griffin-got-suspended-for-impersonating-elon-musk-and-finally-made-us-laugh/
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/x383/WLJohnson1/Forum%20stuff/.highres/cat-popcorn-movie-film-hollywood-3d-gkasses-600x399_zpsa3b85660.jpg)
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I read that one of the teams he fired was the Twitter group responsible for incorporating UN guiding principles on business ethics.
That may be why the UN is upset.
That team probably includes friends/relatives of key UN officials.
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fg6tSqEWAAEr37s?format=jpg&name=900x900)
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Isn't "permanently suspended" an oxymoron?
She's the one who published a picture of her holding the bloodied head of Trump, right?
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Isn't "permanently suspended" an oxymoron?
She's the one who published a picture of her holding the bloodied head of Trump, right?
Yep
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Okay it wasn't Elon she was impersonating
Edi: Or maybe that's another shot! :rofl:
Actually, she was suspended for impersonating a comedian
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022
But wait there's more
But if she really wants her account back, she can have it
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022
For $8
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022
:rofl:
But it gets better
Kathy Griffin is so addicted to Twitter that she’s now using her deceased mother’s Twitter account to complain about being treated like anyone else who breaks TOS. How DARE she be expected to adhere to the rules like the unverified plebs!
#FreeKathy
— Maggie Griffin (@TipItMaggieG) November 7, 2022
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
I'm running out of popcorn. Need to make a Sam's trip
Elon Musk’s condition for giving Kathy Griffin her account back TRIGGERS her on her dead mom’s account
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/07/elon-musks-condition-for-giving-kathy-griffin-her-account-back-triggers-her-on-her-dead-moms-account/
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I like her strategy of, "You're an ahole. Give me my account back."
Typical lefty though - "I hate you and give me free stuff."
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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If you don’t like Twitter anymore, there is awesome site called Masterbatedone
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How long before she blames Trump for breaking her again?
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Can you say gaslighting?
Look, free country, he owns the company, he can do and say what he wants, he can endorse whoever he wants. And I’m fine with all that. But what’s funny is thinking about how the right would be freaking out if prior Twitter ownership had openly encouraged users to vote Democrat. https://t.co/B9wkJ6ez2X
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) November 7, 2022
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/11/07/joe-walsh-thinks-the-right-would-be-freaking-out-if-twitters-last-owners-pulled-what-elon-musk-did/
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Griffin going off the deep end, attacking Elon, and ending her tirades with "free kathy". At first he said that she could post again if she pays $8/month, but since she is now flagrantly stealing his identity with "not a parody" statements, I hope he just bans her.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/07/get-the-net-kathy-griffins-meltdown-over-musk-suspending-her-continues-on-her-dead-moms-account/
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Griffin going off the deep end, attacking Elon, and ending her tirades with "free kathy". At first he said that she could post again if she pays $8/month, but since she is now flagrantly stealing his identity with "not a parody" statements, I hope he just bans her.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/07/get-the-net-kathy-griffins-meltdown-over-musk-suspending-her-continues-on-her-dead-moms-account/
Noooooo, at this point Musk should sue her for defamation and/or criminal charges for attempted identity theft. She clearly declared it to be not a parody after all. >:D
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Noooooo, at this point Musk should sue her for defamation and/or criminal charges for attempted identity theft. She clearly declared it to be not a parody after all. >:D
Works for me. =)
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Wow, if true, this is huge:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/06/whoa-sounds-like-twitter-employees-may-have-been-selling-verification-for-1000s-of-dollars-thread/
Not that the MSM won't bury it.
People are coming out confirming it
Elon Musk Just Revealed Massive Corruption At Twitter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o24ZCQ_TdDw
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People are coming out confirming it
Elon Musk Just Revealed Massive Corruption At Twitter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o24ZCQ_TdDw
Interesting that they refused to blue check Jeremy.
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People are coming out confirming it
Elon Musk Just Revealed Massive Corruption At Twitter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o24ZCQ_TdDw
:rofl:
One of my favorite 1980s movies!
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But but the left he would kill it.
Twitter’s daily user growth hit “all-time highs” during the first full week of Elon Musk owning the platform, according to a company document obtained by The Verge.
Since Musk’s dramatic takeover, Twitter’s monetizable daily user (mDAU) growth has accelerated to more than 20 percent, while “Twitter’s largest market, the US, is growing even more quickly,” according to an internal FAQ obtained by The Verge that was shared with Twitter’s sales team on Monday to use in conversations with advertisers. Per the FAQ, Twitter has added more than 15 million mDAUs, “crossing the quarter billion mark” since the end of the second quarter, when it stopped reporting financials as a public company.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/08/twitter-user-growth-hits-record-high-in-first-week-under-elon-musk-so-haters-take-the-l/
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No surprise here, but worth noting:
https://twitter.com/monitoringbias/status/1589976029187244033
98.7% of Twitter employee donations to political candidates in the 2018 mid-term elections were to the Democratic Party.
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There was an article I read a day or two ago where Valerie Bertinelli had taken over Musk's twit feed as well and posted a few tweets like Griffin did.
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There was an article I read a day or two ago where Valerie Bertinelli had taken over Musk's twit feed as well and posted a few tweets like Griffin did.
Nobody hacked his account. They just changed profile pictures, and things like that, and tweeted as if they were him.
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Uhm... did someone ask, and President Alzheimer's, really respond, that Elon Musk might be a threat to national security because of his ownership of Twitter?
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Nobody hacked his account. They just changed profile pictures, and things like that, and tweeted as if they were him.
Then cry like a baby when they get suspended/banned
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AOC is upset mere commoners can get a bluecheck
Oh, and of course it will negatively impact women and others (You know she means POC) the most
If so, it definitely seems like a tool that’s ripe for targeted harassment, especially of women + others on this platform
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 9, 2022
Get over yourself. Elon won’t date you
— Reaganette (@Ezinger44) November 9, 2022
:rofl:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/10/public-servant-aoc-is-very-very-upset-the-unwashed-masses-can-now-access-a-blue-check-on-twitter/
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AOC is upset mere commoners can get a bluecheck
She's probably one of those fools who paid 15 grand for one.
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So is there a new verification system/symbol separate from the $8 blue check mark? They are going to need to verify people anyway if they are removing impersonations, otherwise how do you know who to remove?
far from altering or fixing what he perceived to be the problem — namely, that the blue-check system had drifted from its original purpose and become a capriciously awarded and maintained status symbol — Musk has now reinforced it. It made no sense, on pre-Musk Twitter, to hand verification symbols only to prominent people of whom Twitter’s owners approved. And it makes no sense, on Musk’s Twitter, to hand verification symbols to people who haven’t actually been verified. That’s not a fix, it’s revenge, and, while it may feel good in the moment, it is probably not going to help Musk achieve the lofty and admirable goals that he talked about before he was handed the keys to the kingdom.
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She's probably one of those fools who paid 15 grand for one.
Unpossible. I'm certain I remember AOC complaining that she couldn't possibly survive on the salary the government (meaning us, in this context) pays congresscritters.
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She's probably one of those fools who paid 15 grand for one.
Wouldn't the "Justice Democrats" have taken care of that for her?
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:rofl:
But you better hurry "Pretty soon, $8 will be $4 and then you'll have to pay $16"
Sponsor A Liberal For Just $8 A Month
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoG3e7MI34Q
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https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/14/ummm-did-we-just-see-a-twitter-employee-tweeting-smack-at-elon-musk-get-fired-in-real-time/
Calling out your boss (the CEO of Twitter) on Twitter is not a good idea career-wise.
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So, Elon Musk cuts staff at Twitter, and people lose their minds, that it's the most horrible Fascist thing ever to happen in a world of cis normal fascists, and it's the new American holocaust.
Amazon and Facebook cut staff, and virtually no one utters a word.
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Amazon and Facebook cut staff, and virtually no one utters a word.
Exactly. Amazon is firing 10,000 people as we speak.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/amazon-plans-lay-off-employees-report
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They're just trying to break the unemployment insurance bank.
Which will be bailed out by the overall government printing more paper scrip.
Which will be paid for by our grandchildren.
Trouble is, we ourselves are already the grandchildren from thirty and more years ago, and we're paying through the nose for that.
We'd better get busy making more grandchildren.
Terry, 230RN
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Hey man, can someone explain in boomer language what this whole Ligma and Johnson thing is? I am apparently missing a cultural reference that started when they were fired. If they are indeed real people who were really fired.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/11/15/good-to-his-word-elon-musk-welcomes-back-ligma-and-johnson-to-twitter/
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Former Twitter Employee Can't Seem To Find Meditation Room At New Taco Bell Job
https://babylonbee.com/news/former-twitter-employee-cant-seem-to-find-meditation-room-at-new-taco-bell-job
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Hey man, can someone explain in boomer language what this whole Ligma and Johnson thing is? I am apparently missing a cultural reference that started when they were fired. If they are indeed real people who were really fired.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/11/15/good-to-his-word-elon-musk-welcomes-back-ligma-and-johnson-to-twitter/
They were never Twitter employees; just pretending to be fired for the lulz.
Also, "Ligma" sounds like "lick my;" and "Johnson" sounds like "Johnson."
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Musk is going to start WW-III because......something
I have a headache now
I feel totally reassured that there's a major international crisis in Poland that could lead to a world War and Twitter is being run by manbaby who fired all of the execs and engineers who fight disinformation.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) November 15, 2022
I'm sure everything would be fine if a paid verified impersonated account of the NATO Secretary General declared in a tweet that Article V had been invoked and counter strikes were imminent. Not like the risk of miscalculation isn't nuclear war or anything.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) November 15, 2022
What if a Twitter impersonator with a blue check starts World War III with Russia?
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/11/15/what-if-a-twitter-impersonator-with-a-blue-check-starts-world-war-iii-with-russia/
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Musk is going to start WW-III because......something
I have a headache now
What if a Twitter impersonator with a blue check starts World War III with Russia?
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/11/15/what-if-a-twitter-impersonator-with-a-blue-check-starts-world-war-iii-with-russia/
What if some actor became president, and announced on a hot mic that the bombings were about to commence?!
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Hold the phone
Welcoming back Ligma & Johnson!
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592618665933156352
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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Replying to
@elonmusk
Important to admit when I’m wrong & firing them was truly one of my biggest mistakes
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Who are Ligma & Johnson?
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Who are Ligma & Johnson?
Read further down at the link https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586108809772089345
Musk bad mouth them after firing them a couple of weeks ago and now he's like "my bad", welcome back!
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Read further down at the link https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586108809772089345
Musk bad mouth them after firing them a couple of weeks ago and now he's like "my bad", welcome back!
I don't think you've quite got it yet.
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I don't think you've quite got it yet.
And now I see that.
Apparently I wasn't reading far enough :facepalm:
Nevermind :rofl:
Too much soap opera crap and I start surface reading
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I wonder if Musk understands the laws on overtime pay.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/16/elon-musk-demands-twitter-staff-commit-to-long-hours-or-leave.html
He is demanding that remaining employees commit to working “long hours at high intensity” or leave. Since he has already fired a bunch of senior executives, most of the employees left are probably not high enough in the corporate ladder to legally qualify as "exempt" (i.e. salaried) employees. That means if he wants all those remaining minions to work long hours, he has to pay them time-and-a-half for all their overtime.
My guess is that he has no intention of doing that.
It's interesting that, while demanding a commitment to working long hours, there's no indication of how many long hours.
I think if I were at Twitter, I'd take the three months severence package and find a real job, working for an employer who isn't an egotistical jerk.
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^^^I suspect most employees there are exempt, just like any other dot com. My nephew works at Microsoft, and virtually everyone who works in the actual IT/software area is exempt.
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^^^I suspect most employees there are exempt, just like any other dot com. My nephew works at Microsoft, and virtually everyone who works in the actual IT/software area is exempt.
How are they exempt? You're an attorney -- to be exempt, certain conditions have to be met. The person has to have executive or decision-making authority. They also can't have their pay docked when they take time off. For an employee to be exempt, it takes a lot more than the employer saying, 'You're salaried, so you don't get paid for overtime." (As one of my former employers found out the hard way.)
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/exempt-employee.asp
https://www.patriotsoftware.com/blog/payroll/exempt-employees-must-meet-specific-qualifications/
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I'm sure they all make the minimum salary and would be considered "learned professionals". Almost anyone working in software or IT is exempt these days.
Not everyone can learn to code ya know?
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How are they exempt? You're an attorney -- to be exempt, certain conditions have to be met. The person has to have executive or decision-making authority. They also can't have their pay docked when they take time off. For an employee to be exempt, it takes a lot more than the employer saying, 'You're salaried, so you don't get paid for overtime." (As one of my former employers found out the hard way.)
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/exempt-employee.asp
https://www.patriotsoftware.com/blog/payroll/exempt-employees-must-meet-specific-qualifications/
You don’t have to be a senior executive to be exempt. Fresh out of undergrad engineers making $70k are usually exempt employees.
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You don’t have to be a senior executive to be exempt. Fresh out of undergrad engineers making $70k are usually exempt employees.
Yep.
From Hawkmoon's own link:
- The FLSA includes these job categories as exempt: professional, administrative, executive, outside sales, and computer-related.
- The details vary by state, but if an employee falls in the above categories, is salaried, and earns a minimum of $684 per week or $35,568 annually, then they are considered exempt.
I'm guessing most of the relevant Twitter employees are making more than $35,568 and can be considered one of the categories listed.
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I point out that there may be state laws that are more restrictive than the Federal laws on dot com employees being exempt vs. non-exempt. California is an example: effective January 1, 2022, there are a number of tests to determine if a computer professional is exempt or non-exempt for purposes of paying overtime.
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I started out of college as an engineer. Been exempt my entire career. Never had pay docked because I was sick, but never got paid extra for working over either. Generally, if exempt people end up working too much OT or too much travel, they find another job. When I have seen hourly guys switched over to salary, they were usually given a boost in base pay to try to account for the OT they were getting paid for. Some are okay with that, others are not.
I don't know what they mean by long hours. That could just mean working a full 40 hours a week. I am sure someone at Twitter was working, but it sure seemed like they were heavy with people who weren't doing much that was useful.
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I point out that there may be state laws that are more restrictive than the Federal laws on dot com employees being exempt vs. non-exempt. California is an example: effective January 1, 2022, there are a number of tests to determine if a computer professional is exempt or non-exempt for purposes of paying overtime.
Good point on the state specific laws.
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I don't know what they mean by long hours. That could just mean working a full 40 hours a week. I am sure someone at Twitter was working, but it sure seemed like they were heavy with people who weren't doing much that was useful.
This. I recall a Twitter employee complaining that they had to work like four hours a week a while back.
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At PACCAR I have never been paid a dime for OT. At aerospace companies I’ve been paid for OT, but only at straight time equivalent hourly rate, and in some cases the first 5 or 8 hours of OT was unpaid, or you had to work at least 5-8 hours of OT to get paid for any, but then you got paid for it all.
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Even fed.gov employees have professional "exempt" categories. I was allowed limited comp time, but the only time I got OT was in special circumstance emergency response work. For the regular office stuff, I usually averaged 50hrs/week, no OT. Even for fieldwork, like diving and flying, while I got hazard pay (which was a joke of an amount), no OT, even on day trips where the boat left at 0300 and got back at 1900.
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Who are Ligma & Johnson?
Ligma Johnson
Close cousins of Ligma Balls
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:rofl:
Fired Twitter Employee Applies For First Real Job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-voQsFY6SE
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Poor girl on TV doesn't get L-M, either. =D
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/11/17/hill-tv-host-doesnt-think-ligma-and-johnson-looked-very-happy-being-welcomed-back-to-twitter/
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One of my favorite parts of the takeover is the now balanced fact checking that is driving the left crazy (because they are now being fact checked for the first time in the history of twitter),
https://www.foxnews.com/media/surge-twitter-fact-checks-progressive-figures-praise-tech-watchdogs
I also saw another article where Elon sent an email requiring a mandatory yes or no answer about employees agreeing to actually work like normal people instead of putting in 5 hours a week from home. If they answered "no", they were automatically fired with three months severance. It started a spree of tantrum quitting, which is probably something he was hoping for.
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And the latest.
Those Twit employees who survived the mass layoff are now apparently resigning in droves because they don't want to commit to working hard.
You took my nap room! You took my free lunches! You took my emotional support puppies, kittens, and coloring books! And now you actually expect me to WORK? You're a monster!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/musk-triggers-liberals-email-urging-employees-commit-extremely-hardcore-work-musks-hellscape
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Musk's only miscalculation in this entire mess is that he should have demanded this commitment FIRST, before laying off a ton of people. Had he done so it's likely he would have gotten the head count reductions he wanted and without having to resort to the axe.
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Those Twit employees who survived the mass layoff are now apparently resigning in droves
Who's Elon going to be left with?
It's rarely the best and the brightest that stay behind when a company experiences a significant change or mass exodus like this. It tends to be the people who are in the country on work visas or aren't talented enough to easily find employment elsewhere.
You took my nap room! You took my free lunches!
Maybe it morphed into something else by now, but in the beginning many of these "perks" were just simple ways to keep employees from doing anything else besides working. Sleep at the office and work through your lunch break.
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Who's Elon going to be left with?
It's rarely the best and the brightest that stay behind when a company experiences a significant change or mass exodus like this. It tends to be the people who are in the country on work visas or aren't talented enough to easily find employment elsewhere.
Maybe it morphed into something else by now, but in the beginning many of these "perks" were just simple ways to keep employees from doing anything else besides working. Sleep at the office and work through your lunch break.
Bet most of the people leaving are basically worthless and aren't going to be missed.
Just how many people are required to run twitter? Probably a tiny fraction of the number that was there.
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Bet most of the people leaving are basically worthless and aren't going to be missed.
Just how many people are required to run twitter? Probably a tiny fraction of the number that was there.
If they had titles like "content overlord" or whatever the *expletive deleted*ck other weird job titles there were for people with no real skills, who even cares if they were "the best and brightest" at that? It sounds like Elon wants all those jobs gone anyway and is looking for engineers and actual software coders.
Real engineers versus "social engineers". I'm sure he'll find plenty of skilled engineers that want to make a boatload of money and don't care about working 40-50 hours a week because they're doing that anyway at their current job.
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Just how many people are required to run twitter? Probably a tiny fraction of the number that was there.
Depends on what exactly you mean by "run Twitter". Keep the site operational so folks can Tweet and see other tweets, or shape a worldwide societal narrative.
Real engineers versus "social engineers". I'm sure he'll find plenty of skilled engineers that want to make a boatload of money and don't care about working 40-50 hours a week because they're doing that anyway at their current job.
See above.
I think that's the real cause of all the Twitter [ex]employee, and liberal twitter user angst. It's not that these social engineers weren't doing anything between there rounds of meditation, massage, and Kambucha. It's that they WERE doing something they thought was important, and now they are told it's not important, and their work will be undone. And to top it off, they can't say what they were really doing that has them so wound up, because they spent a decade wink, wink, nudge, nudge saying they weren't doing it.
Personally I love to see unemployed collectivist social engineers as, like locusts, when they do labor they only destroy useful things. I have also been entertained spending the morning reading about the end of Twitter, on Twitter.
It remains to be seen how many of the folks at Twitter are going to be onboard with it's new direction, and whether Elon can find enough over-dedicated folks to run it. I think he's been successful at finding those folks to work at Tesla and SpaceX because he sells the companies to employees as transformative to humanity and doing important work. Folks are more willing to work crazy hard hours and sacrifice downtime if they think they are changing the world*. I don't know if Elon will be able to sell "Twitter 2.0" as the exciting, transformative, cutting edge place to be that attracts the type A personalities he wants to employ. I guess we'll see how he brands it and what he says he plans to do with it. SpaceX crashed a lot of rockets before they landed one. I'd expect to see a similar number of "crashed" ideas at Twitter before (if) they manage some paradigm shifting social media product.
*Ironically, last year's Twitter employees seem to be the exception to this. They thought they were shaping the world, but still weren't willing to work super hard.
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Can Elon buy DC?
As in the whole package.
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Is it a bad thing if Twitter implodes? Is it bad for the world?
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Can Elon buy DC?
As in the whole package.
He already has a missile. Sometimes buying the thing isn’t the most cost effective way to get a few redundancies of staff handled.
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Ligma Johnson
Close cousins of Ligma Balls
Meet my eastern cousin, Harry Balsczak
Is it a bad thing if Twitter implodes? Is it bad for the world?
It'll be okay. Twitter is just an imaginary place.
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Is it a bad thing if Twitter implodes? Is it bad for the world?
I still sometimes think maybe that's what Elon actually wants, and that he'll change it to something else entirely.
I saw that AOC put out some stupid statement about the millions of people mad at Elon. I wonder if she has considered that there are TENS of millions of people happy with him, and another TENS of millions of people that don't care. Twitter users are actually not that big of a subset of the overall population. They're just mouthy.
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Is it a bad thing if Twitter implodes? Is it bad for the world?
I don't think so. I'm sure many people would miss Twitchy, people seem to love that.
Before Elon bought it there was grandiose talk about Twitter being vitally important to free speech and many people seemed to buy into that - calling it the new town square. That always seemed a bit silly to me but it was a big talking point leading up to the purchase.
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I don't think so. I'm sure many people would miss Twitchy, people seem to love that.
Before Elon bought it there was grandiose talk about Twitter being vitally important to free speech and many people seemed to buy into that - calling it the new town square. That always seemed a bit silly to me but it was a big talking point leading up to the purchase.
I get a hoot out of twitchy, but I got along fine before it existed and will happily get along fine without it, and with whatever new platform I find that makes fun of hippies and losers. :laugh:
Twitter's beginnings were that of a "free speech" platform in the vein of people being able to speak freely worldwide, even within repressive governments. Also as an expeditious way to get news out during natural disasters, conflicts, wars, etc. These were laudable goals. They evaporated within the first ten years. Whether it's noise from the left or noise from the right, it's all just noise now, with 0.0005% signal.
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^^^My wife persuaded me to sign up for Twitter to get news about power outages, natural disasters, breaking news and the like. It is handy for that. I don't follow anyone on Twitter.
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Is it a bad thing if Twitter implodes? Is it bad for the world?
Yes. Maybe. Could be.
Twitter, and more expansively social media, has become where a lot of "public opinion" of the world, and especially the western world is formed, and decisions that affect us are made by people and governments on the basis of that opinion. I think that "the discourse" has always happened somewhere. Federalist/Anti-Federalist papers being published. Newspapers in general, but certainly the Yellow Press, later televised debates, talk shows and things like 60 Minutes (circa 1968), later still CNN through the 80's and 90s. All the various editorial pages and magazines, and now on the nebulous "Social Media". A decent argument could be made that nailing a list of complaints to a church door is very public discourse. This discourse will happen, and where it does, people will seek to control it for their own ends.
Look at how the Western governments and populations are responding to the war in Ukraine for one example. The pushing of The Woke tm is spearheaded on social media. Chinese interests are being pushed on TikTok with a striking lack of subtlety. There are plenty of other examples.
All of which is to say, that there is plenty of harm that can come from opaque interests controlling and shaping the direction of the public discourse, since that discourse ends up shaping social and government policy. If Twitter is to implode and disappear today, I think we can predict with a high level of confidence that some other means of communication will rise to fill the void in public discourse, and that folks in power will attempt to guide or control that means of communication for their own ends. Elon is certainly not a savior, or even necessarily a nice person, but he at least seems committed to guiding Twitter towards a neutral[ish] version of discourse control, which I think is better for my preferred goal of individual liberty, then any of the other options likely to rise and fill the void were Twitter to fail.
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Can Elon buy DC?
As in the whole package.
The comic book publisher or the wretched hive of scum and villainy?
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Look at how the Western governments and populations are responding to the war in Ukraine for one example. The pushing of The Woke tm is spearheaded on social media. Chinese interests are being pushed on TikTok with a striking lack of subtlety. There are plenty of other examples.
Twitter could easily be a factor in WW3, or at least escalated conflict. Just look at a few days ago, when twitter was awash in blue check "The Russians fired a missile at Poland!" talk, and the MSM and politicians ran with that (though I actually have to give some props to the Biden admin for early on saying "we don't know" rather than "Ruskies!").
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593673844996288512?s=20&t=xsLaXfSvdZjyP3gfgTsavA
Kathie Griffin, Jorden Peterson & Babylon Bee have been reinstated.
Trump decision has not yet been made.
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Plumbing is all the rage now.
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"Trump decision has not yet been made."
He doesn't want the building burnt down by a mostly peaceful raging mob of San Fran SJWs.....yet.
Needs to make sure nothing valuable is left in there first.
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"Trump decision has not yet been made."
He doesn't want the building burnt down by a mostly peaceful raging mob of San Fran SJWs.....yet.
Needs to make sure nothing valuable is left in there first.
Maybe he's waiting for more TDS patients to resign. Better to not give them the opportunity to show off how bravely and piously anti-Trump they are, by resigning in protest.
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Maybe he's waiting for more TDS patients to resign. Better to not give them the opportunity to show off how bravely and piously anti-Trump they are, by resigning in protest.
Or he's just making the suspense last. Theatrical timing and all that.
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Or he's just making the suspense last. Theatrical timing and all that.
Could have timed it with Trump's announcement...
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Elon Musk has committed an act of war!!!!!!!!!!!
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2022/11/18/journalist-elon-musks-twitter-purchase-is-an-act-of-war-and-were-laughing/
So do we call it EDS or MDS?
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Elon Musk has committed an act of war!!!!!!!!!!!
Arise Wokeastan. Your nation calls you to battle!
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‘In light of the uncertainty around Twitter, and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site, as it continues to monitor the platform.’
CBS News and its owned and operated stations are “pausing” activity on Twitter; blaming “uncertainty” on the platform. pic.twitter.com/Pv1gEQjQJH
— Jim Lokay (@LokayFOX5) November 19, 2022
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2022/11/19/lol-cbs-news-is-pausing-their-use-of-twitter-out-of-an-abundance-of-caution/
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And there it is. The left can't help themselves from stealing.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fh2HdVnXgAMR0Hl?format=jpg&name=large)
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And there it is. The left can't help themselves from stealing.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fh2HdVnXgAMR0Hl?format=jpg&name=large)
The left's answer to everything, total government control.
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From the desk of Elon Musk
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fh06lfYUAAAHPtr?format=jpg&name=small)
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And the war continues :rofl:
She's not used to getting fact checked.
AOC’s response to Elon Musk’s Twitter poll about Trump earns a fact-checking
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/11/19/aocs-response-to-elon-musks-twitter-poll-about-trump-earns-a-fact-checking/
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From the desk of Elon Musk
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fh06lfYUAAAHPtr?format=jpg&name=small)
I am SO stealing that!!! Made me literally LOL.
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I am SO stealing that!!! Made me literally LOL.
You're not stealing it from me. Elon posted it
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(https://i.imgur.com/k4NXLNE.jpg)
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All 60 will be blue
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Can you imagine the disturbance in the leftist socialist force if he actually purchased Dominion? I believe it would be of an epic proportion.
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And there it is. The left can't help themselves from stealing.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fh2HdVnXgAMR0Hl?format=jpg&name=large)
How dare you, sir?! You know Rick Wilson is a Real Conservative, with Principles, and not a leftist.
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Popcorn alert: Elon Musk will reinstate Trump’s Twitter account
https://twitchy.com/amy-313134/2022/11/19/popcorn-alert-elon-musk-will-reinstate-trumps-twitter-account/
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Almost enough for me to get a Twitter account. Almost enough.
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I thought I felt a disturbance in the force, as if millions of woke voices suddenly cried out.... and continued to cry out... and continued to cry out.... and continued to cry out...
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There's gonna be some entertaining reading on Twitchy over the next few days. :rofl:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/20/here-are-some-of-the-most-hilarious-lefty-argle-bargle-rars-over-trumps-reinstated-twitter-account/
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People are gonna die!
BTW: Made a post in Club Q shooting thread along these lines before this was posted.
How many Americans will die because @elonmusk brought @realDonaldTrump back onto Twitter?
— David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) November 20, 2022
He's Back and every American who dies because of @realDonaldTrump being back on Twitter is @ElonMusk's fault pic.twitter.com/xiAQkvWeJX
— David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) November 20, 2022
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/20/target-loser-david-leavitt-owned-for-unhinged-rant-accusing-trumps-twitter-account-of-killing-people/
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Paraphrasing something from this video: "Musk’s response to quiet quitting is loud firing." :laugh:
https://rumble.com/v1vnk04-death-of-twitter.-rebirth-of-twitter.-death-of-twitter.-all-in-a-days-work-.html
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Party like it's 2016
Just emailed the head of safety at Apple and Google respectively to ask if their app stores will continue to carry the Twitter app now that Elon Musk has reinstated Donald Trump
— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) November 20, 2022
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/20/shannon-coulter-bragging-about-tattling-on-elon-musk-to-apple-and-google-about-trump-goes-so-wrong/
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I remember when the head of safety at a company was the person who yelled at you for not wearing a hard hat or safety glasses.
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I remember when the head of safety at a company was the person who yelled at you for not wearing a hard hat or safety glasses.
Lefties wear hardhats on their butt to guard against getting butt hurt.
It doesn't work
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https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2022/11/19/lol-cbs-news-is-pausing-their-use-of-twitter-out-of-an-abundance-of-caution/
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Nevvvvvermind :rofl:
Megyn Kelly points out why CBS News REALLY quit Twitter and LOL-OUCH (PS: They’re BACK already)
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/20/megyn-kelly-points-out-why-cbs-news-really-quit-twitter-and-lol-ouch-ps-theyre-back-already/
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I remember when the head of safety at a company was the person who yelled at you for not wearing a hard hat or safety glasses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqGy4potxRI
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I remember when the head of safety at a company was the person who yelled at you for not wearing a hard hat or safety glasses.
Boy, are YOU old.
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Russia, Russia, Russia
Blue-check prof DRAGGED for claiming Russia Russia Russia voted in Elon Musk’s poll to reinstate Trump
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/21/blue-check-prof-dragged-for-claiming-russia-russia-russia-voted-in-elon-musks-poll-to-reinstate-trump/
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I remember when the head of safety at a company was the person who yelled at you for not wearing a hard hat or safety glasses.
She e-mailed the heads of THOUGHT SAFETY.
Can't be having people forming their own opinions, so thought safety is there to make sure that only properly vetted thoughts are installed into the brains of the masses.
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She e-mailed the heads of THOUGHT SAFETY.
Can't be having people forming their own opinions, so thought safety is there to make sure that only properly vetted thoughts are installed into the brains of the masses.
Meet the head of that dept
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Thirteen billion people have already died horrible deaths mere hours after former President Donald Trump was reinstated to Twitter.
At publishing time, Mr. Trump had called for an end to the violence, directly causing another billion people to die.
13 Billion Dead After Trump Unbanned From Twitter
https://babylonbee.com/news/13-billion-dead-after-trump-unbanned-from-twitter
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But wait, there's more
Taliban Quits Twitter To Protest Return Of Trump
https://babylonbee.com/news/taliban-quits-twitter-to-protest-trumps-reinstatement
:rofl:
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So the hall monitors of twitter are tantrump quitting and moving to mastadon, where they are finding fewer people very different from themselves to snitch to moderators on. So they're snitching on other hall monitors that are just a little bit different than them. :rofl:
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/11/21/nbc-news-ben-collins-seems-salty-that-nate-silver-called-mastodon-a-honeytrap-for-hall-monitor-types/
(https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2011-08-16-StarTrek3.jpg)
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A couple of hundred karens left for mastadon in the last week and 1.6 million new users signed up. :rofl:
Interesting comment by Musk about twitter and youtube. I wonder if twitter might turn into a new youtube for people like demonetized youtube gun guys. I recently learned through personal experience that youtube is actually one of, if not the, biggest stealth censors of comments in the whole wide world.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/11/21/elon-musks-graph-showing-all-time-high-this-week-might-trigger-the-twitter-is-dying-crowd/
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A couple of hundred karens left for mastadon in the last week and 1.6 million new users signed up. :rofl:
Interesting comment by Musk about twitter and youtube. I wonder if twitter might turn into a new youtube for people like demonetized youtube gun guys. I recently learned through personal experience that youtube is actually one of, if not the, biggest stealth censors of comments in the whole wide world.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/11/21/elon-musks-graph-showing-all-time-high-this-week-might-trigger-the-twitter-is-dying-crowd/
Like a bunch of extremely obese people loudly proclaiming they're going to put a buffet out of business by leaving it for another buffet but them leaving actually causes profits to go up at the first buffet.
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I don't know if twitter will replace youtube or other outfits until they get more independent and Google/Apple can't hold them hostage with the app stores. That is something I hope Elon can work on.
As far as youtube alternatives, I am hearing people say that Rumble has been doing a great deal to set up their own independent infrastructure to support their site. A number of people I watch are getting good view numbers over there and they are starting to pay out ad revenue. IMO, they still have some user interface issues to work out, but I hope they do well. Youtube has a big head start so it isn't something happening soon.
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I don't know if twitter will replace youtube or other outfits until they get more independent and Google/Apple can't hold them hostage with the app stores. That is something I hope Elon can work on.
As far as youtube alternatives, I am hearing people say that Rumble has been doing a great deal to set up their own independent infrastructure to support their site. A number of people I watch are getting good view numbers over there and they are starting to pay out ad revenue. IMO, they still have some user interface issues to work out, but I hope they do well. Youtube has a big head start so it isn't something happening soon.
As a viewer (I don't upload content), I think Rumble's interface works well. I just haven't found much content there. They have a few big names, but not enough depth or variety to be able to replace YT for me.
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Rumble is good. I watch "Louder With Crowder" there M-Th.
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Totally amazed with everything on this man plate he actually has time to read and respond to this stuff and still has time to get execs pregnant :rofl:
Pretty soon the only advertiser left on Twitter will be My Pillow.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) November 22, 2022
Oh hi lol
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 23, 2022
Is My Pillow actually a great pillow? Now I’m curious.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 23, 2022
https://twitchy.com/artistangie-313138/2022/11/23/stephen-king-pretends-twitter-is-a-horror-movie-for-advertisers-and-it-turns-into-comedy-gold/
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Not sure if this has been posted or not...
But it's funny as all get out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-voQsFY6SE
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1595305491156111361
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Look what Elon found in a closet at Twitter HQ
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/11/23/06/64848779-11460169-image-m-50_1669186656789.jpg)
'Found in closet at Twitter HQ': Elon Musk reveals stash of 'STAY WOKE' T-shirts
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11460169/Elon-Musk-reveals-stash-STAY-WOKE-t-shirts-activists-threaten-shame-advertisers.html
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1595305491156111361
That's just creepy as *expletive deleted*it.
Like two cannibals deciding to share a roast missionary.
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Elon Musk Lists 'Lightly Used' Social Network On Craigslist For $5 OBO
https://babylonbee.com/news/elon-musk-lists-lightly-used-social-network-on-craigslist-for-5-obo
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10 Totally Unreasonable Work Expectations Musk Is Implementing At Twitter
https://babylonbee.com/news/10-totally-unreasonable-work-expectations-musk-is-implementing-at-twitter
10. If you bring in weed, you must bring in some for the boss too: And everyone must bring in weed on 4/20.
:rofl:
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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Awesome new Twitter merch!
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I know he is a left libertarian commie something but screw it. Elon for(let's change the rules) President. His trolling alone is the only platform I need.
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Won't someone please think of the
hookers call girls?!?
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/11/24/nbc-news-finds-another-community-that-could-be-marginalized-by-elon-musks-twitter-purchase/
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[popcorn]
Elon Musk has promised to fully disclose what led to Twitter's decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, 20 months after DailyMail.com authenticated its contents with top experts.
Billionaire Musk responded to a user who demanded the social media giant get to the bottom of why the laptop was blacklisted from the site - which occurred before he bought Twitter.
In an act of 'politically motivated censorship', Twitter deliberately prevented users from sharing a link to a front-page newspaper article about Hunter Biden's private life and his controversial business ties to Ukraine in the run-up to the 2020 Presidential Election between Biden's father and Donald Trump.
'This is necessary to restore public trust': Elon Musk says he will reveal all secret documents about Twitter's decision to ban Hunter Biden laptop story
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11467387/Musk-says-disclosure-Twitters-decision-censor-Hunter-Biden-laptop-story.html
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Won't someone please think of the hookers call girls?!?
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/11/24/nbc-news-finds-another-community-that-could-be-marginalized-by-elon-musks-twitter-purchase/
Paywall. Was it this?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/feature-sex-workers-bakers-twitter-180100612.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWFyY2guYnJhdmUuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFlwooqK8Pyx8b9cw-YZ2Hi1c7QkbEpfvDf7RPmtf4h6Jtq8Ldv-UovrbNFKyMGpQ1XYlxCEATNR397cGbq3VG0rWutsaujShR_QOwq7rjnRrPbmQD6alRbEAlZt0s3CKDg9t_xUIgNwfPzBhKiWtSYVmteO_bDTRMhi_r3bdmGy
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Paywall. Was it this?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/feature-sex-workers-bakers-twitter-180100612.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWFyY2guYnJhdmUuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFlwooqK8Pyx8b9cw-YZ2Hi1c7QkbEpfvDf7RPmtf4h6Jtq8Ldv-UovrbNFKyMGpQ1XYlxCEATNR397cGbq3VG0rWutsaujShR_QOwq7rjnRrPbmQD6alRbEAlZt0s3CKDg9t_xUIgNwfPzBhKiWtSYVmteO_bDTRMhi_r3bdmGy
Oh, sorry. Yeah, pretty much.
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Now I'm really, really hoping that Apple and Google ban the Twitter app. I would buy an ElonPhone in a heartbeat. I'm certain it would be the least intrusive stock phone on the market. People who want privacy but who don't want to deal with the tech aspects of modified Android installs, etc. would jump on it. Not to mention, a dual band cell tower / Starlink phone would be off the hook.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/elon-musk-consider-alternative-phone-twitter-booted-apple-google-app-stores
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Creep who warns about LIVES BEING IN DANGER because of Musk’s Twitter is caught inciting violence. Obviously.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/11/26/about-the-expert-medias-consulting-for-reports-on-musk-creating-a-dangerous-atmosphere/
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Of course it's racist
Black Twitter is mourning the possible end of the influential community they found on Twitter more than a decade ago, but users are split between finding a new app or staying put https://t.co/STnGE0zy9S
— CNN (@CNN) November 26, 2022
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/11/26/cnn-finds-more-potential-victims-of-elon-musks-twitter-ownership/
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First this
That’ll show him: Alyssa Milano ‘gave back’ her Tesla now that Twitter is pushing hate and white supremacy
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/11/26/thatll-show-him-alyssa-milano-gave-back-her-tesla-now-that-twitter-is-pushing-hate-and-white-supremacy/
Enter James Wood :rofl:
James Woods ZINGS Alyssa Milano for her Elon Musk dunk turned Volkswagen GAFFE as only he can and LOL
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/27/james-woods-zings-alyssa-milano-for-her-elon-musk-dunk-turned-volkswagen-gaffe-as-only-he-can-and-lol/
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So she bought a VW.
I guess she wants to go from Berlin to Warsaw in one tank...
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She has to have one of the lowest IQs in Hollywood. Which, hey, genetics is genetics, but when you think that you're not stupid, then...
https://youtu.be/8sIWDynqHgI
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So she bought a VW.
I guess she wants to go from Berlin to Warsaw in one tank...
And don't forget it was VW that was caught programming their cars to cheat on emissions tests.
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https://twitter.com/DrPeoplekind/status/1596662442918301696
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:rofl:
https://twitter.com/Bigdaddybtc/status/1596778696538349568
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While this is funny, it's also frightening to think that without evil, extremist, "non-news sources" like Twitchy, we would never see that this stuff was happening, because the "real news" would censor it. Also, can vindman just drop dead and disappear? His 15 minutes were up like 35,000 hours ago.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/27/weeble-wobble-alexander-vindman-dragged-for-his-kinda-weird-dig-at-elon-musk-thats-kinda-weird/
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Is that a joke/meme, or did CNN actually claim that?
It's hard to tell anymore.
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Is that a joke/meme, or did CNN actually claim that?
It's hard to tell anymore.
Turns out not in those exact words but in fairness it's pretty much the gist of what the left and much of the MSM including CNN seems to be saying.
"Ignorance Is Strength" and all that
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Is that a joke/meme, or did CNN actually claim that?
It's hard to tell anymore.
I was going to post the same question. Even just ten years ago I would have automatically said, "Don't be an idiot. Of course it's photoshopped."
Currently I can no longer assume that even the most outrageous, "obviously photoshopped" stuff is obviously photoshopped, because it's too often obviously real. These people are whack.
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In a tweet war between Vindman and Must who do think would win?
BTW: Vidnman's face just screams weasel to me. Reminds me A LOT of Himmler.
Alexander Vindman completely MELTS DOWN in shrieking thread when Elon Musk brutally calls his ‘bluff’
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/28/alexander-vindman-completely-melts-down-in-shrieking-thread-when-elon-musk-brutally-calls-his-bluff/
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Hmm. It appears the phones and a few other things may indeed be just around the corner.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/11/28/its-so-on-elon-musk-calls-down-the-thunder-on-apple-for-threatening-to-remove-twitter-from-app-store/
I bet an app store that only took a 5% commission instead of 30% could attract a lot of developers.
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Elon Musk did not kill himself
Elon Musk’s info on what will soon be ‘published on Twitter itself’ explains the Left/Dem freakouts
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/11/28/elon-musks-info-on-what-will-soon-be-published-on-twitter-itself-explains-the-left-dem-freakouts/
The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
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Well, it appears they finally got the goods on Elon. He's all washed up now. An incredibly brave journalist's investigative report discovered that he drinks Diet Coke...JUST LIKE TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2022/11/29/wapo-belched-out-a-story-on-elon-musk-and-diet-coke-that-has-twitter-users-popping-off/
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Note to self: While at Sams pick up a case of Diet Coke to wash down all this popcorn
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597280496525844481/photo/1
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An interesting concept I picked up from one of the twitter links:
— aka (@akafacehots) November 28, 2022
You served DC, not America
— Factotum (@emery__bored)
I shall have to remember to use that one on certain occasions.
You served DC, not America.
Terry, 230RN
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Well, it appears they finally got the goods on Elon. He's all washed up now. An incredibly brave journalist's investigative report discovered that he drinks Diet Coke...JUST LIKE TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2022/11/29/wapo-belched-out-a-story-on-elon-musk-and-diet-coke-that-has-twitter-users-popping-off/
If you read the comments on Elon's original tweet there, the amount of scree, tiny dick jokes, and flogging of dead children for clout over what is obviously not a real gun is pretty hilarious.
My favorite was one woman this morning going off about safe storage and trigger locks and another guy pointed out that thing doesn't have a trigger, so that's pretty locked.
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Well, it appears they finally got the goods on Elon. He's all washed up now. An incredibly brave journalist's investigative report discovered that he drinks Diet Coke...JUST LIKE TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2022/11/29/wapo-belched-out-a-story-on-elon-musk-and-diet-coke-that-has-twitter-users-popping-off/
Got to love one of his follow up tweets. "Next I'm buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in."
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MDS - Musk Derangement Syndrome
They're still having a meltdown over this Diet Coke business
Elon Musk's Diet Coke tweet lights up internet: 'F---ing trailer park simpleton'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musks-diet-coke-tweet-lights-internet-f-ing-trailer-park-simpleton
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A Hollywood guy with half Musk's IQ calls him a simpleton. ;/
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Speaking of which
Avg IQ on twitter just went up 20 points.
Nothing more irritating than a stupid loudmouth who thinks he's the smartest person in the room.
Alrighty then: Jim Carrey is leaving Twitter … we say goodbye with some Jim Carrey movie quotes
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2022/11/30/alrighty-then-jim-carrey-is-leaving-twitter-we-say-goodbye-with-some-jim-carrey-movie-quotes/
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That's not a Firefly prop, is it?
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That's not a Firefly prop, is it?
This one?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FipFkIsVsAAM0O_?format=jpg&name=900x900)
A prop from "Deux Ex":
https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Diamond_Back_.357
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Whatever it is it and the diet coke was enough to get the left's Rainbow All Natural 100% Plant Based Fair Labor Chinese Slave Labor made panties twisted up in knots [popcorn]
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Whatever it is it and the diet coke was enough to get the left's Rainbow All Natural 100% Plant Based Fair Labor Chinese Slave Labor made panties twisted up in knots [popcorn]
Good.
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"The Washington Post shined the bright light of hard-hitting journalism on Elon Musk’s Diet Coke habit, ensuring that democracy won’t diet in darkness."
Beautiful. That's all, just beautiful.
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Between a rock and a hard place
The left: You must ban people for inciting violence!
Also the left: You can't ban people!
Kanye West suspended after tweeting swastika symbol and people push Elon Musk on free speech
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/12/02/kanye-west-suspended-after-tweeting-swastika-symbol-and-people-push-elon-musk-on-free-speech/
BTW: WTF is going on with Kanye West?
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BTW: WTF is going on with Kanye West?
Some dudes are just plain wired for whack.
As for Elon, I think he is finding that "operational" free speech is harder than theoretical free speech. I won't knock him on this, as he's still doing 1000% better than old twitter. I'll agree though, with a comment I read, that this might have been better handled from the "free speech" perspective with a warning label on the tweet, which would allow discussion.
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As for Elon, I think he is finding that "operational" free speech is harder than theoretical free speech.
It’s kind of a rite of passage for any new social media network. They show up, insist that they’re the “platform for free speech” without quite understanding what that actually means, and then they quickly discover a whole bunch of fairly fundamental ideas, institute a bunch of rapid (often sloppy) changes… and in the end, they basically all end up in the same general vicinity, with just a few small differences on the margin.
I would like to see Elon lay out his rules a bit more clearly. He talks big about free speech but kept the ban on Alex Jones and suspended Ye. Not that I care to see either of those buffoons in my "newsfeed" but it doesn't match up with his rhetoric.
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Maybe there should "ratings" on twitter accounts like movies (G, PG, PG-13, R) and you can change your account settings to the level of "adult content" you want to see.
What do you think?
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Some dudes are just plain wired for whack.
As for Elon, I think he is finding that "operational" free speech is harder than theoretical free speech. I won't knock him on this, as he's still doing 1000% better than old twitter. I'll agree though, with a comment I read, that this might have been better handled from the "free speech" perspective with a warning label on the tweet, which would allow discussion.
Like the warning labels ewetwob slaps on anything not progressive narrative? Labels are bad mmkay. Modern jew stars.
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Musk said months ago that his Twitter would allow any speech that was legal in the subscriber's jurisdiction. While Jones' statements about Sandy Hook were not illegal, he did lose a lawsuit over it.
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Musk doing the data dump on twitter's role in the Hunter Biden coverup
[popcorn]
Elon Musk (and Matt Taibbi) help explain ‘what really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression’ (WOW)
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/12/02/elon-musk-explains-what-really-happened-with-the-hunter-biden-story-suppression-wow/
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Like the warning labels ewetwob slaps on anything not progressive narrative? Labels are bad mmkay. Modern jew stars.
No, like age ratings on movies.
Grandma may want a PG account. Someone else might want an R rated account.
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Maybe there should "ratings" on twitter accounts like movies (G, PG, PG-13, R) and you can change your account settings to the level of "adult content" you want to see.
What do you think?
I think the leftists and Hollywood elite would end up arguing about the rating on the child porn Twitter hosts[ed]. Can it really be more than PG13 if the actors are 13?
Elon had it right before the merger. If it's not illegal in the poster's jurisdiction, let it ride and be derided. If it is, email it to law enforcement in that jurisdiction and move on with your life.
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Well, the "laptop suppression" stuff is beginning to drop, and man, the left is in full gaslighting mode.
If I'm reading things right, much of this suppression was done using the "deep state" methodology. It seems some of the previous executives at Twitter were kept out of the loop on the decisions.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/12/02/glenn-greenwalds-take-on-matt-taibbi-and-elon-musks-twitter-files-revelations-does-not-disappoint/
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/12/02/elon-musk-explains-what-really-happened-with-the-hunter-biden-story-suppression-wow/
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No, like age ratings on movies.
Grandma may want a PG account. Someone else might want an R rated account.
And who applies the ratings? The obvious abuse is nonprogressive politics all get marked NC-17 no matter what to minimize the people who see them.
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https://babylonbee.com/news/man-reads-tweet-he-disagrees-with-dies
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James Wood looking to sue DNC over them working with Twitter in getting him banned. [popcorn]
James Woods vows to sue DNC over Twitter scandal in EPIC response on Tucker Carlson
https://twitchy.com/mikel-313136/2022/12/03/james-woods-vows-to-sue-dnc-over-twitter-scandal-in-epic-response-on-tucker-carlson/
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https://babylonbee.com/news/man-reads-tweet-he-disagrees-with-dies
Unfortunately in the real world they just whine about it to the point we wish they would sometimes.
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And who applies the ratings? The obvious abuse is nonprogressive politics all get marked NC-17 no matter what to minimize the people who see them.
Good question. I don't know what would be best.
The idea is reasonable though. If you can rate movies for sex, violence and language levels surely twitter accounts could be the same.
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Good question. I don't know what would be best.
The idea is reasonable though. If you can rate movies for sex, violence and language levels surely twitter accounts could be the same.
The idea is fundamentally censorship and thus it can't be reasonable. This is principle, not degree.
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Between a rock and a hard place
The left: You must ban people for inciting violence!
Also the left: You can't ban people!
Kanye West suspended after tweeting swastika symbol and people push Elon Musk on free speech
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/12/02/kanye-west-suspended-after-tweeting-swastika-symbol-and-people-push-elon-musk-on-free-speech/
BTW: WTF is going on with Kanye West?
West wants to run for president in 24, which in my book indicates questionable mental health and at least proves he's a glutton for punishment. Regardless of his mental health or the claims by Musk that he incited violence, the "star of David/swastika" symbol he tweeted is actually a Hindu symbol: https://www.hinduamerican.org/blog/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-swastika/ (https://www.hinduamerican.org/blog/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-swastika/). As the twitchy article indicates, we can't know what transpired between Musk and West (who goes by "Ye" now) so we have to take Elon's word for it. West has always seemed pretty unbalanced to me, all the media attention is bound to mess him up even more.
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So from what I'm seeing, the MSMs (yet again orchestrated) response to the release of the twitter/hunter biden files is that twitter did the right thing because otherwise they would be posting naked pictures of someone without their consent.
Okay, MSM. Run with that.
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West wants to run for president in 24, which in my book indicates questionable mental health and at least proves he's a glutton for punishment. Regardless of his mental health or the claims by Musk that he incited violence, the "star of David/swastika" symbol he tweeted is actually a Hindu symbol: https://www.hinduamerican.org/blog/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-swastika/ (https://www.hinduamerican.org/blog/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-swastika/). As the twitchy article indicates, we can't know what transpired between Musk and West (who goes by "Ye" now) so we have to take Elon's word for it. West has always seemed pretty unbalanced to me, all the media attention is bound to mess him up even more.
Did you miss the part where Hitler invented microphones?
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Did you miss the part where Hitler invented microphones?
I didn't see any of the tweets other than what was in the twitchy article. Just going on my internet search for "hitler invented microphones" which indicates West made that claim at some time, it doesn't sound like inciting violence to me. Making stupid statements isn't suspension worthy material in my view. Neither is being delusional.
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I didn't see any of the tweets other than what was in the twitchy article. Just going on my internet search for "hitler invented microphones" which indicates West made that claim at some time, it doesn't sound like inciting violence to me. Making stupid statements isn't suspension worthy material in my view. Neither is being delusional.
I was just addressing the question of "just how loopy is this guy?" I haven't even looked into the question of why he was banned. Sorry.
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The idea is fundamentally censorship and thus it can't be reasonable. This is principle, not degree.
It isn't censorship if people can freely decide what ratings they want to see.
That being said, it's just an idea, I don't really care.
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Fire off the ratings idea in an e-mail or response in one of his twitter threads.. From what I've seen he's quite open to ideas
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Oh look at that.
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I'm very encouraged to be seeing this kind of stuff, and I'm just seeing it on twitchy. I bet there's a lot more of it on twitter and that lefty heads are exploding at the fairness of it all.
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https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/12/05/biden-whs-mega-disingenuous-brag-about-jobs-earns-a-much-needed-fact-check-flag/
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This could be a fun one...
Kyle Rittenhouse has asked Musk to reveal if there was a Twitter censorship campaign against him...
https://www.foxnews.com/media/kyle-rittenhouse-goes-viral-asking-twitter-files-reveal-hidden-censoring
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No, like age ratings on movies.
Grandma may want a PG account. Someone else might want an R rated account.
But who decides the ratings? What objective criteria can be established for what rating a post will receive?
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DNC, Media Collude To Suppress Story About DNC, Media Colluding To Suppress Story
https://babylonbee.com/news/dnc-media-collude-to-suppress-story-about-dnc-media-colluding-to-suppress-story
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But who decides the ratings? What objective criteria can be established for what rating a post will receive?
Beats me. You could just re-use the standards for movie ratings I suppose.
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Maybe it morphed into something else by now, but in the beginning many of these "perks" were just simple ways to keep employees from doing anything else besides working. Sleep at the office and work through your lunch break.
I guess the nap rooms are back ;/
Elon Musk's “extremely hardcore” vision for Twitter seems to have manifested itself in conference-room sleeping quarters reminiscent of sad hotel rooms at the company's recently depopulated headquarters.
On Monday, employees returning to work at the company’s San Francisco location were greeted by modest bedrooms featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors
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I see that SanFran is "investigating" Elon over the sleeping quarters. He needs to close that building down and move the operation to America.
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Doesn't anyone just sleep in their office anymore?
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Doesn't anyone just sleep in their office anymore?
With the rent rates in that city who wouldn't if they could get away with it?
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Doesn't anyone just sleep in their office anymore?
We need Linus Larrabee's input on this.
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Actual blacklists:
https://twitchy.com/amy-313134/2022/12/08/bari-weiss-drops-twitter-files-part-two/
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Actual blacklists:
https://twitchy.com/amy-313134/2022/12/08/bari-weiss-drops-twitter-files-part-two/
Let me find my shocked face.
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One more reason why some elections can simply not be regarded as legitimate - unless you're very gullible.
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I just wish that Elon would buy Google. They are twitter x1000, and have a far greater effect, given numbers of people who use anything google related vs twitter.
I recently made a comment post for a youtube video - a totally innocuous post on something that had zero politics attached - and it was disappeared. Doing some (ironically) googling, I discovered a whole big rabbit hole on how youtube scrubs video comments, often with seemingly no rhyme or reason, and in great numbers.
All of big tech needs sunlight.
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I recently made a comment post for a youtube video - a totally innocuous post on something that had zero politics attached - and it was disappeared. Doing some (ironically) googling, I discovered a whole big rabbit hole on how youtube scrubs video comments, often with seemingly no rhyme or reason, and in great numbers.
It's more complicated than that. Creators can also set up banned word lists that will block posts featuring certain words as well as perform administration on comments on their videos. Just because a comment was disappeared doesn't always mean Google did it.
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It's more complicated than that. Creators can also set up banned word lists that will block posts featuring certain words as well as perform administration on comments on their videos. Just because a comment was disappeared doesn't always mean Google did it.
I recognize that and certainly a creator could have deleted me, manually or automatically. However this was at Warrior Poet Society, where I commented on John's video about book banning, stealth editing, etc. He was making a case for people to find hardcopy classics before they are stealth banned from bookstores, etc. All I posted was that a good resource for classics was the Gutenberg Project. I didn't even post the URL. That was disappeared. I can't see his channel killing a post that agrees with him. Certainly it could have been an algorithm error.
Nevertheless, an internet search will bring up some pretty blatant censoring by google, much of it appearing to be worse than twitter.
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It's more complicated than that. Creators can also set up banned word lists that will block posts featuring certain words as well as perform administration on comments on their videos. Just because a comment was disappeared doesn't always mean Google did it.
Except in the case of The Poorman's Chemist, who expressly refused to censor anything on principle, and youtube was still deleting or shadowing half the comments people were leaving in his videos.
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Except in the case of The Poorman's Chemist, who expressly refused to censor anything on principle, and youtube was still deleting or shadowing half the comments people were leaving in his videos.
I am aware that Youtube censors stuff, but I was pointing out that creators can also make word lists for automatic comment suppression. People putting together their own word lists often make them too broad.
Not sure which is impacting Ben, but both are a possibility.
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Not sure which is impacting Ben, but both are a possibility.
Now that I'm thinking about it, regarding the WPS post, I will put on my tinfoil and recall that I did use the phrases "stealth censor" and "stealth edit", and will note that big tech is rather sensitive to those two terms. =)
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I, too, have suffered a great deal from Big Tech censorship. Lost to mankind forever are many of my unfathomably deep, sophisticated, witty, urbane, polished, erudite, deeply researched and broadly-sourced - yet refreshingly down-to-earth and accessible, eminently readable - thoughts and musings.
I must go now, and broodingly ponder the sadness of it all.
Sorry, what are we talking about?
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I, too, have suffered a great deal from Big Tech censorship. Lost to mankind forever are many of my unfathomably deep, sophisticated, witty, urbane, polished, erudite, deeply researched and broadly-sourced - yet refreshingly down-to-earth and accessible, eminently readable - thoughts and musings.
I must go now, and broodingly ponder the sadness of it all.
Sorry, what are we talking about?
Wait until you find out how many of your older posts here that APS staff have deleted. =D
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Wait until you find out how many of your older posts here that APS staff have deleted. =D
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Wait until you find out how many of your older posts here that APS staff have deleted. =D
Why is my post count 4?
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We need Linus Larrabee's input on this.
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[popcorn] =D
Good movie. Harrison Ford remake was almost as good.
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[popcorn] =D
Good movie. Harrison Ford remake was almost as good.
Bogie's character had a studio apartment attached to his office.
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I, too, have suffered a great deal from Big Tech censorship. Lost to mankind forever are many of my unfathomably deep, sophisticated, witty, urbane, polished, erudite, deeply researched and broadly-sourced - yet refreshingly down-to-earth and accessible, eminently readable - thoughts and musings.
I must go now, and broodingly ponder the sadness of it all.
Sorry, what are we talking about?
You left out the part about the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ...
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=D
My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/12/11/elon-musk-drops-his-pronouns-and-omg-lol-it-does-not-look-good-for-fauci-next-twitterfiles/
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Suddenly it's important to be in this country legally.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/12/14/suddenly-a-whole-bunch-of-left-wing-accounts-are-tweeting-about-elon-musks-us-citizenship-status/
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Well of course they are. He is an absolute 100% undesirable. He should be ejected right on his arrogant ass, and he needs to take his $7 billion in tax payments with him! We don't need his filthy money!
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https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-being-investigated-over-his-us-citizenship-fact-check-1767025
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New policy on "doxxing" which seems to have an ever-widening definition much like shadow banning.
Musk had vowed to not ban the account last month, but Twitter on Wednesday suspended it and other jet trackers as the platform updated its doxxing policy to ban the sharing of individuals’ live location information.
Elon should probably stop calling himself a free speech absolutist, unless we're going to redefine that too.
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New policy on "doxxing" which seems to have an ever-widening definition much like shadow banning.Elon should probably stop calling himself a free speech absolutist, unless we're going to redefine that too.
I'm a bit torn on that one. He's definitely not being a free speech absolutionist here. He IS being a parent. The whacko climbed on the car his child was in. I would be prepared to take physical action, to include running the person over, and I would be in the right (though Johnny Law might still arrest me)*. Elon likely has some philosophical growing pains to go through getting this right on the new twitter.
As an aside, the stalker (or maybe another one) is dressed antifa-fashion.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/12/15/elon-musk-drops-the-hammer-proves-he-aint-playin-when-it-comes-to-thugs-threatening-his-family/
* It would be easier to be a free speech absolutionist if it meant actions had consequences. If you dox someone, that someone gets to shoot whoever attacks him, and you, the doxxer, go to jail. For murder if the attacker dies. The doxxee goes free and gets a handshake from the Sherriff for a job well done.
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New policy on "doxxing" which seems to have an ever-widening definition much like shadow banning.Elon should probably stop calling himself a free speech absolutist, unless we're going to redefine that too.
Elon is certainly not living up to his own hype, but overall what direction do you think Twitter has moved?
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Overall, I'd say Twitter has moved toward the better. People can talk about the same sort of stuff we talk about here, without fear of getting nuked.
Facebook, on the other hand - you say something, like maybe about a certain felonious government employee who was too cheap to buy his own tacky dresses, and get dogpiled...
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Considering Musk has received a number of death threats recently, I don't have a problem with the blocking real-time tweets about his or his family's movements if they have not been publicly announced by him or his team.
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Considering Musk has received a number of death threats recently, I don't have a problem with the blocking real-time tweets about his or his family's movements if they have not been publicly announced by him or his team.
No, it's a BS application of a policy crafted to fit the specific scenario. The account in question republishes public flight data for his aircraft.
Of course, most of the people seizing on and mocking this particular bit of hypocrisy are not doing so in defense of decreased censorship.
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No, it's a BS application of a policy crafted to fit the specific scenario. The account in question republishes public flight data for his aircraft.
Of course, most of the people seizing on and mocking this particular bit of hypocrisy are not doing so in defense of decreased censorship.
So public figures have no right to maintain some semblance of safety for themselves and their families? Even when there are documented threats against them? Got to maintain absolute free speech even if it kills people under active threat. :facepalm:
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Elon is certainly not living up to his own hype, but overall what direction do you think Twitter has moved?
It seems to be moving in a few directions at once. As a "free speech haven" I would guess it has improved a bit, although it's still in the same realm of restrictiveness as any other large social media player. If you're really interested in unrestricted free speech then your best bet is probably whatever cesspools spun off of 4chan. As a topic of discussion Twitter has skyrocketed - there are articles about Twitter drama every day. Most of them are negative but I suspect Elon is starting to take the Trumpy approach of any press is good press. As a profitable business Twitter seems to be moving in the wrong direction. Although it's possible that one of the many ideas Elon is throwing at the wall might stick, I still think it's going to continue its downward trend. Advertisers are scared by the unpredictability and very few users love twitter enough to pay for it.
I think it's still a dysfunctional place for honest & reasonable discussion, and for news/opinion reading I prefer going direct to various sources instead of whatever the social media algorithm decides to show me.
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Just wondering - can y'all see me on Facebook right now?
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Just wondering - can y'all see me on Facebook right now?
This morning I could.
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So public figures have no right to maintain some semblance of safety for themselves and their families? Even when there are documented threats against them? Got to maintain absolute free speech even if it kills people under active threat. :facepalm:
Smells like Alinski. "Make them live up to their own rules to the point it kills them." Paraphrased.
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It seems to be moving in a few directions at once. As a "free speech haven" I would guess it has improved a bit, although it's still in the same realm of restrictiveness as any other large social media player. If you're really interested in unrestricted free speech then your best bet is probably whatever cesspools spun off of 4chan. As a topic of discussion Twitter has skyrocketed - there are articles about Twitter drama every day. Most of them are negative but I suspect Elon is starting to take the Trumpy approach of any press is good press. As a profitable business Twitter seems to be moving in the wrong direction. Although it's possible that one of the many ideas Elon is throwing at the wall might stick, I still think it's going to continue its downward trend. Advertisers are scared by the unpredictability and very few users love twitter enough to pay for it.
I think it's still a dysfunctional place for honest & reasonable discussion, and for news/opinion reading I prefer going direct to various sources instead of whatever the social media algorithm decides to show me.
On the last part of that, that is all I used Twitter for when I was using it. Following specific people who posted news/event/information. As for the first part, Twitter isn't much better or worse than anywhere on the internet except now they aren't banning/restricting conservatives as much.
I follow Mrgunsngear on Instagram. He posts a lot of gun related news and events. A bunch of his posts are deleted by Instagram every week. If I am watching daily, I can see most of them before they are deleted. A lot of people keep multiple backup Instagram accounts so they can keep going when the first account is deleted.
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So public figures have no right to maintain some semblance of safety for themselves and their families? Even when there are documented threats against them? Got to maintain absolute free speech even if it kills people under active threat. :facepalm:
Of course he can. He is more capable than most in providing protection for his families. I'm not worried that the publicly accessible flight information about his private jet is out there, nor is banning that account going to conceal the information.
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It seems to be moving in a few directions at once. As a "free speech haven" I would guess it has improved a bit, although it's still in the same realm of restrictiveness as any other large social media player. If you're really interested in unrestricted free speech then your best bet is probably whatever cesspools spun off of 4chan. As a topic of discussion Twitter has skyrocketed - there are articles about Twitter drama every day. Most of them are negative but I suspect Elon is starting to take the Trumpy approach of any press is good press. As a profitable business Twitter seems to be moving in the wrong direction. Although it's possible that one of the many ideas Elon is throwing at the wall might stick, I still think it's going to continue its downward trend. Advertisers are scared by the unpredictability and very few users love twitter enough to pay for it.
I think it's still a dysfunctional place for honest & reasonable discussion, and for news/opinion reading I prefer going direct to various sources instead of whatever the social media algorithm decides to show me.
Do you believe the more pronounced and partisan censorship of pre-Musk Twitter was preferable?
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Government Warns That With Elon Owning Twitter They Will Only Control 97% Of The Media
https://babylonbee.com/news/government-warns-that-with-elon-owning-twitter-they-will-only-control-97-of-the-media
"We can't overstate how dangerous this is," said gay black Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. "Yes, we still control Facebook, Google, Apple, Instagram, YouTube, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Hollywood, TIME, USAToday, The Wall Street Journal, and pretty much all the rest, but we don't control Twitter. This is dangerous to democracy."
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Of course he can. He is more capable than most in providing protection for his families. I'm not worried that the publicly accessible flight information about his private jet is out there, nor is banning that account going to conceal the information.
Which, this is not me arguing your point, but rather throwing another variable out there:
So yeah, anyone with an ounce of initiative could do the same flight tracking this guy does. In fact it's probably the same amount of time to go to a flightracking site as it is to go to this guy's site. And certainly Elon can afford top notch security (should he have to is another topic).
How about poorer people on twitter though that might be doxxed and have no means to hire security and no pull with law enforcement? This is where it gets tricky and I have no answer. We can argue that Elon is a public figure, so he needs to suck it up, but if a nobody is doxxed to the point of it threatening their well-being, do we allow that "free speech absolutism" or are there legitimate reasons to censor the doxxers?
Again, if there were sufficient punishments for doxxers, antifa who think smacking someone in the head with a bat is "free speech" (and get away with it), and others, much of this wouldn't come up.
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How about poorer people on twitter though that might be doxxed and have no means to hire security and no pull with law enforcement? This is where it gets tricky and I have no answer. We can argue that Elon is a public figure, so he needs to suck it up, but if a nobody is doxxed to the point of it threatening their well-being, do we allow that "free speech absolutism" or are there legitimate reasons to censor the doxxers?
Again, if there were sufficient punishments for doxxers, antifa who think smacking someone in the head with a bat is "free speech" (and get away with it), and others, much of this wouldn't come up.
I have a hard time believing Twitter is going to start banning accounts over saying where a "little person" is. The rule as I understand it would even seem to prohibit someone live tweeting that they saw anyone else anywhere or tweeting a picture of someone in an identifiable location. Not sure how that would be enforced in good faith.
My impression is that this is something Elon thinks is a clever way to paint principles on convenience.
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I'm starting to get fed up with doxxing hysteria. Yeah, it sucks that there are crazies in this world who will absolutely do shitty things to people they disagree with, but most of the time "doxxing" is simply collating already public information. Given how so many on both sides throw around "doxxer" as an epithet and use it as a way to silence opponents they don't like I start to wonder if the juice is worth the squeeze with stopping it.
Why can't we just settle on "if the speech is not unlawful, then it stays up, and if it is unlawful, we turn it over to law enforcement."? Every time we start down the rabbit hole of "well this is bad, or that may condone violence" we end up here, where whoever is in charge gets to suppress whatever they don't like.
Like Tim Pool recently said on Timcast IRL, if you go to someone's house that was doxxed with nefarious purpose, you'll get shot. Let that be the solution.
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Like Tim Pool recently said on Timcast IRL, if you go to someone's house that was doxxed with nefarious purpose, you'll get shot. Let that be the solution.
I would be absolutely happy with everyone saying what they want and the above being the solution for moving from speech to a physical act. I'd really like it more if law enforcement everywhere also universally accepted it as a proper solution.
And I admit, I often conflate doxxing with swatting.
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Yes, doxxing and swatting are pretty parallel by their very nature --cowardly enlisting the help of others to punish an adversary.
Worms.
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Elon does seem to be going overboard on the suspensions.
If you see the names of the reporters he has suspended and what they and their colleagues are saying about it, you'll note it's the same terminology used by conservative journalists when they were suspended by old twitter. The response of the currently suspended reporters when the conservatives were suspended was, "Twitter is a private company and can do what it wants."
At this point, I'm kinda hoping it's just a ruse to highlight the hypocrisy of these guys, and he'll quickly reinstate most of them (Olberman could be permabanned for all I care) with a, "How does it feel with the shoe on the other foot". Otherwise this is looking like Elon is being a bit irrational or is not admitting an algorithm error. JMO.
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Another possibility is Elon is more committed to the culture war than we thought. It's certainly been mentioned here several times over the years that we need to stop playing by old rules when no one else is playing by them, most especially the enemy.
Elon might have the philosophy that once you come out as his enemy, he will treat you as such.
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These journalists apparently weren't banned by an algorithm. They all wrote about Musk's ban of the Musk airplane tracker kid, and Musk's position is that by providing a link to a site that provides real-time data on his location they "doxxed" him, thus violating Twitter's [new?] no doxxing rule.
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.@TaylorLorenz just scrubbed her entire Twitter account
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 16, 2022
Taylor Lorenz scrubs her Twitter account after getting caught in SO many lies (and doxxes?) and LMAO
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/12/16/taylor-lorenz-scrubs-her-twitter-account-after-getting-caught-in-so-many-lies-and-doxxes-and-lmao/
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Elon might have the philosophy that once you come out as his enemy, he will treat you as such.
Imagine that.
Wouldn't it be nice if Republican pols at the federal level would do this... along with treating their voters as their friends, not as moronic cattle?
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Do you believe the more pronounced and partisan censorship of pre-Musk Twitter was preferable?
No, less partisan censorship is preferable.
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I was unaware of this flight privacy PIA thing with the FAA. I think it does add a new variable to the conversation, since if this is accurate, it's no longer an "anyone can track his flight" thing.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/12/16/wapos-philip-bump-explains-why-id-ing-the-location-of-musks-plane-is-no-big-deal/
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Hey man, where were the UN and the EU when the other guys were in charge of twitter?
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/12/16/christina-pushaw-explains-what-the-u-n-alarm-about-twitters-journo-suspensions-is-really-about/
I will give credit to several European leaders speaking out when Trump was banned, but that was individual countries. Also, I'm sure, some enlightened self-interest, since they saw that if the President of the freakin' United States could be banned, that they could be next.
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Elon should contract someone to live tweet the location of the transportation of every leader of every country that signed on to those condemnations.
There's lots of folks in the world with enemies that don't need their location blasted across the net in real time.
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Imagine that.
Wouldn't it be nice if Republican pols at the federal level would do this... along with treating their voters as their friends, not as moronic cattle?
But most voters ARE moronic cattle, so they get away with it.
Milgram. 55% of people will do whatever they're told to do by an authority figure.
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More file releases regarding the FBI.
6. But a surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/12/16/new-twitterfiles-thread-from-matt-taibbi-drops-twitter-the-fbi-subsidiary/
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I hope musk buys the FBI next.
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I hope musk buys the FBI next.
The Democrats already did.
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Wonder why Wikipedia felt the need to put this on the main page? :rofl:
"Wikipedia is not for sale"
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I think Keith Olbermann is going to have a stroke soon. :rofl:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/12/18/woof-elon-musk-mocks-keith-olbermann-evading-suspension-using-a-dog-account-and-keith-cant-deal/
I like the comment about, "If it's a dog rescue account, use it to rescue dogs, not to cry." :laugh:
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Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
Can’t wait for Elon to lose this poll then appoint Donald Trump Twitter CEO.
— Catturd â„¢ (@catturd2) December 18, 2022
All of the liberals are retweeting the poll and the “journalists” are writing articles breathlessly right now.
“This is our chance to get rid of Elon !!”
Not realizing this is exactly what Elon wants. He already has his CEO selected and is just creating news and engagement.
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) December 18, 2022
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2022/12/18/the-end-is-near-elon-musk-asks-if-he-should-step-down-as-head-of-twitter-in-latest-poll/
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Well, Musk is out at Twitter.
He claims that he didn't already have a new CEO standing by, but I can't believe that there is no method to his madness here. There has to be an Elon bomb that will drop.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/elon-musk-twitter-poll-users-say-should-step-down-ceo
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I highly suspect this was his plan.
He'll still be the owner and meanwhile many libs are acting like Twitter will be back to being the bastion of Free, One-sided, Speech by mid afternoon.
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I highly suspect this was his plan.
Agree. With all the other stuff he has going on, "twitter CEO" was never gonna be a long term thing.
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He'll still be the owner...
In the liberal business mind, incidentals like ownership are irrelevant.
Brad
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In the liberal business mind, incidentals like ownership are irrelevant.
Brad
Only when they're not the owner.
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"Thursday Night Massacre" is now a wikipedia entry. Which is just one more reason to not trust wikipedia for pretty much anything.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/12/19/wikipedia-redirects-thursday-night-massacre-to-elon-musks-suspension-of-nine-journalists/
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Journalists Warn Of Frightening Trend Where Rules Apply To Them
https://babylonbee.com/news/journalists-warn-of-frightening-trend-where-rules-apply-to-them
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Elon To Stay As Twitter CEO After Counting Mail-In Votes
https://babylonbee.com/news/elon-to-stay-as-twitter-ceo-after-counting-mail-in-votes
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11558251/FBI-paid-Twitter-3M-devoting-staff-processing-requests.html
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For a "Don't stand for the anthem" America hating company, they sure worked with the gov a lot.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/12/20/new-twitterfiles8-reveals-how-twitter-aided-the-pentagons-covert-online-psyop-campaign/
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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And then he'd cry about how the sound of the gun and the recoil gave him PTSD and he needs a safe space with puppies and coloring books.
Oh, and the reason why the lefty would try to kill Elon Musk?
Because the left HATES capitalism and any version of free speech rights that isn't their version.
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In the liberal business mind, incidentals like ownership are irrelevant.
Brad
THE PEOPLE MUST SEIZE THE MEANS OF TWEETING!
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I wonder what his security budget is... Because you know that the crazies are out there...
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THE PEOPLE MUST SEIZE THE MEANS OF TWEETING!
I'm cracking up that the leftys all somehow think they have won something here. I'm seeing all kinds of blue check celebrations and talk of who they demand Elon make CEO in his place, to include "Someone from management at Google or Disney or one of the big media companies who know how to run things." :rofl:
Newsflash morons - Elon still owns Twitter, you don't. You will NOT be happy with whoever he puts in place (though I probably will). :laugh:
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I think it would be absolutely awesome if he were to resign as Twitter CEO and immediately appoint... himself as Twitter CEO.
:rofl:
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wrong topic
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I think it would be absolutely awesome if he were to resign as Twitter CEO and immediately appoint... himself as Twitter CEO.
:rofl:
Or Donald Trump ...
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What is the Wide Wide World of Sports is going on here?
Former US government intelligence agents are now working across Silicon Valley in senior roles dedicated to censoring 'misinformation', DailyMail.com can disclose.
A large number of ex-officers from the FBI, CIA, NSC, and State Department have taken positions at Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
The revelation comes amid fears the FBI operated control over Twitter censorship and the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Spooks infiltrate Silicon Valley: Facebook is riddled with ex-CIA agents – including President’s briefer who now runs 'harmful content' team – so many ex-FBI work at Twitter they have Slack channel and Google is rife with ex-CIA
Mint Press' Alan MacLeod found that former CIA agents made up some of the top ranks in almost every politically sensitive department at Meta
He also found that former FBI agents migrated to Twitter in droves
DailyMail.com has been able to track down many of these former intelligence officials who are now working at top tech companies
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11562433/Facebook-riddled-ex-CIA-agents-ex-FBI-agents-work-Twitter.html
This could be much bigger than we thought
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This could be much bigger than pretty much about what we thought
FTFY.
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FTFY.
Pretty much.
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It sounds like a "covid drop" is forthcoming. That should be interesting - especially for those of us who were called ignorant conspiracy nuts.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/12/25/not-the-first-or-last-time-elon-musk-says-the-quiet-part-about-twitter-conspiracies-out-loud-watch/
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Also, regarding the covid stuff, it's fair to note that apparently the Trump admin also tried to get twitter and other big tech to push a narrative. I think the main takeaway though, is that they mostly didn't do it for Trump and mostly did it for Biden.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/12/26/david-zweig-thread-is-the-latest-and-most-disgraceful-twitterfiles-yet-on-rigged-covid-debate/
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Awesome!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-users-applaud-fume-musk-declares-twitter-follow-science-allow-questioning
I note that journalists and "blue checks" are the biggest complainers about this policy, but an actual scientist in a real science gets it.
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Posting here, though it goes well beyond twitter:
https://twitchy.com/amy-313134/2023/01/03/jordan-peterson-says-hes-been-told-to-submit-to-social-media-communication-retraining/
Jordan Peterson is basically being sent to a reeducation camp. Holy 1984 Batman.
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Posting here, though it goes well beyond twitter:
https://twitchy.com/amy-313134/2023/01/03/jordan-peterson-says-hes-been-told-to-submit-to-social-media-communication-retraining/
Jordan Peterson is basically being sent to a reeducation camp. Holy 1984 Batman.
Came here to post that.
Party like it's 1984
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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The White House made a lot of demands to censor individuals that they didn't like, especially over covid:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/01/08/ag-andrew-baileys-thread-of-biden-admin-pushing-big-tech-to-silence-opposition-damning-must-read/
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'So much better than the other guy': Elon Musk jokingly names his dog new Twitter CEO after telling conference 'someone else' should be running social media giant by end of 2023 after he bought tech firm for $44b in October
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11752807/Someone-running-Twitter-year-says-Musk.html
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:rofl:
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Twitter boss Elon Musk sets automatic poop emoji response for all press requests
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11880917/Twitter-boss-Elon-Musk-sets-automatic-poop-emoji-response-press-requests.html
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Total coincidence of course, but the IRS paid a visit to Taibbi's home.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/substack-writer-matt-taibbi-says-irs-visited-home-while-testifying-congress-cruz-musk-weigh-in
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
https://twitter.com/KevinTober94/status/1643561276042248192
Perfect! NPR now listed as ‘state-affiliated media’ (don’t forget about the rest of ’em, Twitter!)
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2023/04/05/perfect-npr-now-listed-as-state-affiliated-media-dont-forget-about-the-rest-of-em-twitter/
And they're not liking it.
Glenn Greenwald takes NPR APART in GLORIOUS (brutal) thread proving they ARE state-affiliated media
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/04/06/glenn-greenwald-takes-npr-apart-in-glorious-brutal-thread-proving-they-are-state-affiliated-media/#
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Elon having a little fun
The Twitter sign on the company's San Francisco headquarters was slightly revamped.
The social media giant's head honcho, Elon Musk, had the "W" in the Twitter sign painted over in white to blend into the background color so that the name reads ‘Titter.’
"Our landlord at SF HQ says we’re legally required to keep sign as Twitter & cannot remove "w", so we painted it background color. Problem solved!," a boisterous Musk tweeted on Sunday.
He said in a follow-up tweet, "They tried to muffle our titter."
Elon Musk changes Twitter headquarters sign to 'Titter'
https://www.ktvu.com/news/elon-musk-changes-twitter-headquarters-sign-to-titter
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Pretty much everyone who wrote the Twitter Files has parted ways with Elon.
From Alex Berenson:
On Thursday, he picked a fight with Substack, a company one-one-thousandth Twitter’s size. Then he doubled down by attacking Matt Taibbi, a veteran investigative reporter who has done months of work at Musk’s invitation on the Twitter Files, the effort to open Twitter’s archives to examine how governments, non-profits, and companies tried to force Twitter to censor tweets and ban users.
In 48 hours, Musk has burned up what’s left of his credibility as a free speech champion. And he’s ensured the mainstream media will forever treat the Twitter Files – a key reason he bought Twitter – as a joke.
...
If Musk has a long-term or even short-term plan for Twitter, that plan is not evident. He is simply flailing from crisis to crisis.
He apparently shadowbanned (https://mobile.twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1645677023157977090) Taibbi. :facepalm:
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Yeah, Elon is not the champion of free speech on social media he pretends to be.
I have noted your newfound interest in the subject, though. Welcome to the party.
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Elon: BBC is stated funded media.
BBC: No we're not!!
Elon: Well why don't you come on my Twitter Space and we'll talk about content moderation.
BBC: Well this seems like a good idea and totally not a trap, let's send someone.
The Trap: https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1646025652347506688?s=20
My personal favorite part of that clip is BBC hack saying "This is not an interview about the BBC" and Elon saying "Oh, you thought it wasn't?" =D =D
Elon is not a perfect guy by any means, but the level of schadenfreude I get from watching the self proclaimed gatekeepers of public discourse have their control stripped away by his whims allows me to overlook a lot of ideological differences I might have with Elon.
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Yeah, Elon is not the champion of free speech on social media he pretends to be.
I have noted your newfound interest in the subject, though. Welcome to the party.
There's going to be some missteps along the way and areas we will disagree on and besides I seriously doubt he's personally micro managing twitter especially with all the activity at SpaceX.
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It appears he has cut 80% of twitter staff. I would assume it was mostly non-operational staff. I would also assume most of the other similar companies are just as bloated as twitter was.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/tech/elon-musk-bbc-interview-twitter-intl-hnk/index.html
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I can heard the steam coming out of their ears as I type
Elon Musk slams transgender therapy for minors and says parents or doctors who 'sterilize a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11974075/Elon-Musk-slams-transgender-therapy-minors.html
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I can heard the steam coming out of their ears as I type
Elon Musk slams transgender therapy for minors and says parents or doctors who 'sterilize a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11974075/Elon-Musk-slams-transgender-therapy-minors.html
When he's right, he's right.
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This right here is some gold medal gaslighting:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1647075805866913793
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2023/04/15/unreal-msnbcs-ari-melber-warns-how-elon-musk-and-twitter-could-interfere-with-elections/
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This is my shocked face
Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk has claimed in a new interview how the U.S. government had complete access to users private messages on Twitter
Musk stated how he was surprised when he learned of the revelation
Musk then goes one step further and admits how government agencies had full access to everything that was happening on Twitter
'Government had full access': Elon Musk makes bombshell claim that US govt could access Twitter users' private messages
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11980025/Elon-Musk-claims-Government-access-private-Twitter-DMs.html
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More Elon
Pronouns are virtue-signaling, so inevitably, as with all virtue-signaling, they will be used as a shield by bad humans
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2023
In any event, good manners require using the person’s name, not their pronoun, when referring to them
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2023
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/04/17/boomity-elon-musk-calls-pronouns-out-for-the-virtue-signaling-bad-human-shields-they-really-are/
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Welcome to the extreme radical fascist MAGA far right Mr. Musk.
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I saw Tucker Carlson is doing an interview with him tonight. I'm DVRing it - it should be good.
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Someone came unprepared and got their arse handed to them because of it.
As they discussed looming layoffs and the “painful” journey Musk, 51, has gone through following his Twitter acquisition last year, BBC reporter James Clayton decided to confront the Tesla founder about allegations that he does not have enough staff to police hate speech on Twitter.
“What hate speech are you talking about?” Musk asked. “I mean, you use Twitter. Do you see a rise in hate speech? Just a personal anecdote? I don’t.”
When Clayton answered that he did personally see more hate speech on Twitter, Musk challenged him to name just one example, but the reporter could not come up with one.
“Honestly, I don’t … I don’t actually use that feed anymore because I just don’t particularly like it,” Clayton said of Twitter’s “For You” feature. ” And actually a lot of people are quite similar. I only look at my followers.”
Musk replied: “I’m asking for one example and you can’t give a single one. Then I say, sir, that you don’t know what you are talking about.”
“You cannot give me a single example of hateful content, not even one tweet. And yet you claimed that hateful content was high. That is false, you just lied.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/12/elon-musk-slams-bbc-reporter-in-tense-interview/
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And to prove him right
‘Sounds Just Like Trump’: Elon Musk Blasted for Tweeting Demonstrably False Meme Supporting Conservatives
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/04/sounds-just-like-trump-elon-musk-blasted-for-tweeting-demonstrably-false-meme-supporting-conservatives/
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The interview with Tucker Carlson is very interesting. Various governments have had access to people's DMs, which (I assume as I'm not on twitter) are supposed to be private. Elon said that he's implementing encryption now.
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The interview with Tucker Carlson is very interesting. Various governments have had access to people's DMs, which (I assume as I'm not on twitter) are supposed to be private. Elon said that he's implementing encryption now.
Do you mean various governments of other nations, including the US? Or various US government agencies?
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Do you mean various governments of other nations, including the US? Or various US government agencies?
Yeah, sorry, the latter. I didn't have anything to drink yesterday, but I still apparently drunk typed.
There's going to be a part 2 tonight.
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Late night Elon tweets are the best Elon tweets
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And to prove him right
‘Sounds Just Like Trump’: Elon Musk Blasted for Tweeting Demonstrably False Meme Supporting Conservatives
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/04/sounds-just-like-trump-elon-musk-blasted-for-tweeting-demonstrably-false-meme-supporting-conservatives/
Interesting that no where in the article did they list out specific issues where Republicans moved to the right. That would seem like a simple thing to do.
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Interesting that no where in the article did they list out specific issues where Republicans moved to the right. That would seem like a simple thing to do.
That's because it's not an article. It's left wing twitchy. They get lefty rage clicks and sell impressions to advertisers.
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First, both US and Canadian public broadcasting quit twitter, and now Musk has revoked the twitter policy regarding banning people who "deadname" trannies. The schadenfreude just keeps on rollin'. :laugh:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/04/18/cue-the-meltdown-elon-musk-rolls-back-hateful-twitter-policy-punishing-users-for-misgendering/
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So by revoking my blue check mark because I wouldn’t pay some arbitrary fee, someone can just be me and say a bunch of bullshit. Does that mean Twitter and @elonmusk are liable for defamation or identity theft or fraud?
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) April 20, 2023
“Someone can just be me and say a bunch of bullshit”
Yes, we wouldn’t know the difference… https://t.co/d2zYB1EygP
— Liam Henry III (@Liam_Henry_III) April 21, 2023
:rofl:
Cope and SEETHE: Alyssa Milano has the biggest most hilarious meltdown OF ALL over losing her blue check
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/04/21/juuust-point-and-laugh-alyssa-milano-has-the-biggest-meltdown-of-all-over-losing-her-blue-check/
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:rofl:
Cope and SEETHE: Alyssa Milano has the biggest most hilarious meltdown OF ALL over losing her blue check
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/04/21/juuust-point-and-laugh-alyssa-milano-has-the-biggest-meltdown-of-all-over-losing-her-blue-check/
Yeah, this blue check thing is pretty hilarious. :rofl:
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2023/04/21/blue-checkless-bette-midler-struggling-to-adjust-to-life-amongst-twitter-peasants/
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Shibetoshi Nakamoto
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people are literally going to die because some are being taken away. literally. i almost died but then i paid 8 bucks.
Cigs
@UsingCigarettes
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Elon thinks this is a funny joke. As a former verified account who lost their blue checkmark, I know how dangerous this really is. People are going to die. twitter.com/verified/statu…
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Lmaoooo
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Save a celebrity:
https://twitter.com/carlabitcoin/status/1649506973946380288
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^^^
That was great! :laugh:
I'm surprised Shatner was one of the whiners.
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https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2023/04/22/charlie-sheen-begs-elon-musk-to-give-him-back-his-blue-check-and-the-replies-are-hilarious/
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuTQvBkX0AA1d9X?format=png&name=900x900)
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^^^
That was great! :laugh:
I'm surprised Shatner was one of the whiners.
I think he meant Shatner paid the $8.
(ETA: I may have been wrong: https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2023/04/21/lol-stephen-kings-blue-check-is-now-funded-by-elon-musk-in-epic-troll/)
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I think he meant Shatner paid the $8.
Exactly this. I think Shatner has tweeted derisively a time or two about whinging celebs thinking their lives are going to end because they lost their cherished little blue check.
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Babylon Bee back in Nov.
Yeah they saw this coming
https://twitter.com/The_Kyle_Mann/status/1590875477723734016
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He not may be good at designing launch pads for a BFR but he sure can troll.
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1649926598479544321
Paul Krugman gets trolled by Elon Musk in one tweet that perfectly sums up the Blue Check Wars
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2023/04/22/paul-krugman-gets-trolled-by-elon-musk-in-one-tweet-that-perfectly-sums-up-the-blue-check-wars/
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Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
I never realized how much the media hates Elon until this week
Twitter gets criticized for $8 verification, yet no one talks about Instagram copying the strategy at almost double the price
The SpaceX launch, despite the unsurprising explosion, was a success and an incredible step forward for humanity, yet the media paints it as a failure. If NASA did the same thing, praise would dominate headlines
Something doesn’t add up
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I don't necessary agree with the latter part, NASA would be getting ripped as well, but that's a discussion for another thread.
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I think Mr. Musk should give my blue check to charity. I recommend the Prytula Foundation, which provides lifesaving services in Ukraine. It's only $8, so perhaps Mr. Musk could add a bit more.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) April 22, 2023
Enter Elon
I’ve donated $100M to Ukraine, how much have you donated?
(We turned down the DoD money btw) https://t.co/wpLa6dTnP6
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 23, 2023
Feel the burn
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/04/23/hello-9-1-1-wed-like-to-report-a-murder-elon-musk-makes-stephen-king-look-even-worse-with-ukraine-burn/
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Was just coming here to post that.
Epic burn on Musk's part.
Of course, according to Pocahontas Warren, Musk should be giving that money to the IRS as but a small, small part of his "fair share" in taxes.
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Was just coming here to post that.
Epic burn on Musk's part.
Of course, according to Pocahontas Warren, Musk should be giving that money to the IRS as but a small, small part of his "fair share" in taxes.
So then our .gov could give the money to Ukraine, but ensure that the right people all get their "fair share" as the money changes hands.
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Man, this blue check thing is neverending comedy gold.
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2023/04/23/i-did-not-pay-ron-perlman-david-hogg-and-other-twitter-npcs-repeat-the-approved-mantra/
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You can not make these people happy. But you already knew that.
Liberal celebs, journalists furious that Musk gave them their blue check back: 'Without my consent'https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-celebs-journalists-furious-musk-gave-them-blue-check-back-without-my-consent
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In one of the more beautiful things I've seen on Twitter, Elon responds to a political flunky talking crap about getting a Community Note with this:
Anyone making materially false statements on this platform will get Community Noted, including you, me, Tucker, advertisers, head of state, etc. No exceptions.
Convince the people and let the chips fall where they may.
@CommunityNotes
Elon's tweet is then immediately community noted pointing out the limits of the Community Notes system.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Some tweets with false claims may not have Community Notes. This system is limited in reach by participation, and is not impervious to errors or perpetuating common misconceptions. If you'd like to help us keep improving, consider joining us @CommunityNotes.
It proves his point, yet gives the vibe that there's a coder following Elon around whispering "Remember you too are mortal can be noted."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1651602599345373186?s=20
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Breaking News: Elon Musk says he’s selected a new CEO for Twitter. The company is in talks with Linda Yaccarino, a top advertising executive at NBCUniversal. https://t.co/Wgafe7g570
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 12, 2023
https://twitchy.com/aaronw-313234/2023/05/12/is-linda-yaccarino-the-new-ceo-of-twitter/
The left is already attacking her as MAGA
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https://twitchy.com/aaronw-313234/2023/05/12/is-linda-yaccarino-the-new-ceo-of-twitter/
The left is already attacking her as MAGA
If Musk chose AOC, the left would be crying MAGA.
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https://twitchy.com/aaronw-313234/2023/05/12/is-linda-yaccarino-the-new-ceo-of-twitter/
The left is already attacking her as MAGA
She probably did something really offensive, like referring to Bruce Jenner by his original given name - in 1976.
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Genius: Elon Musk Saves 22% On Twitter Executive Salaries By Hiring Female CEO
https://babylonbee.com/news/genius-elon-musk-saves-22-on-executive-salaries-by-hiring-female-twitter-ceo
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She probably did something really offensive, like referring to Bruce Jenner by his original given name - in 1976.
Well, the fact that he/she/it won the Olympic decathlon gold medal in high heels should have been a clue...
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Losing their minds
Vanity Fair compares Elon Musk to David Duke in insane rant over DeSantis’s Twitter campaign launch
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2023/05/24/vanity-fair-compares-elon-musk-to-david-duke-in-insane-rant-over-desantiss-twitter-campaign-launch/
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Yikes
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1662667558539886592?t=LcmtpaYaDoljdwKmfMWpfQ&s=19
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Elon back on top
So much for the left saying buying twitter bankrupted him
Elon Musk wins battle of the multi-billionaires….again: Tesla boss takes top spot with net wealth of $192B toppling French luxury goods tycoon Bernard Arnault's $187B after shares in firm dropped 2.7%
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12147491/Elon-Musk-wins-battle-multi-billionaires-again.html
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Twitter has always had outages, all sites do.
But I've noticed since Musk bought Twitter every glitch is personally Musk's fault according to the MSM.
Just saw another headline "Musk's twitter" down.
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Twitter has always had outages, all sites do.
But I've noticed since Musk bought Twitter every glitch is personally Musk's fault according to the MSM.
Just saw another headline "Musk's twitter" down.
Doesn't that show how much they still use it?
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I don't regularly read this suite. This was a feed from Drudge:
https://gizmodo.com/10-times-elon-musk-censored-twitter-users-1850570720
The headline claims the article will reveal 10 times Musk has acted against free speech. In fact, it didn't cite a single, specific incident.
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Apparently this is going on too:
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2023/07/01/new-twitter-limit-data-scraping-verified-users-n2385017
If you ask me, anyone who's having withdrawals being cut off at reading 600 posts a day, let alone 6000, needs to seek psychiatric help posthaste. Go outside, man.
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Apparently this is going on too:
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2023/07/01/new-twitter-limit-data-scraping-verified-users-n2385017
If you ask me, anyone who's having withdrawals being cut off at reading 600 posts a day, let alone 6000, needs to seek psychiatric help posthaste. Go outside, man.
And here's the Babylon Bee
Tweet View Limit Forces Man To Interact With Real Life
https://babylonbee.com/news/tweet-view-limit-forces-man-to-interact-with-real-life
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1678098028849143809
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1678098028849143809
And just like that *let's not go there* is now a a white supremacist slur
"*let's not go there*" is a word favored by white supremacists and neo-Nazis. The ADL states that the word is "used by white supremacists to describe [men] who promote the interests of Jews and non-whites over those of whites." pic.twitter.com/v3UKRIiMHE
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 10, 2023
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/07/10/elon-musk-called-mark-zuckerberg-a-white-supremacist-slur-n2385260
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Appears this site censors that word
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I encourage anyone that thinks that is the definition of "*let's not go there*" to google it with safe search off. Preferably from a work computer.
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Appears this site censors that word
It does not appear to censor *let's not go there*. Did your phone autocorrect to a different "c" word?
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It does not appear to censor *let's not go there*. Did your phone autocorrect to a different "c" word?
On a computer right now.
And nope, it is also censored in the copied and pasted tweet. Apparently whoever set up the filter for this site included *let's not go there*.
Funny, news sites are using it without feeling the need to censor it.
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The site censor can be enabled or disabled based on the user's preference.
Profile->Look and Layout->Leave words uncensored.
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The site censor can be enabled or disabled based on the user's preference.
Profile->Look and Layout->Leave words uncensored.
Figured there was a switch somewhere but never looked for it since I often find the effect amusing sometimes.
Just more surprised the site has that word in it's censored list while apparently most news sites use it freely.
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Considering that it's a shortened version of a generally-accepted word, there's no reason to censor it. I suspect whoever set up the site's filter was confused.
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Elon Musk Rebrands Twitter As 'X' After CEO Rejects His First Choice '69Boobies420'
https://babylonbee.com/news/elon-musk-rebrands-twitter-as-x-after-board-rejects-his-first-choice-69boobies420
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I could be wrong, but it seems like getting rid of the twitter bird logo and replacing it with an X is a terrible idea.
What is he thinking?
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I could be wrong, but it seems like getting rid of the twitter bird logo and replacing it with an X is a terrible idea.
What is he thinking?
I'm of the same opinion
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I could be wrong, but it seems like getting rid of the twitter bird logo and replacing it with an X is a terrible idea.
What is he thinking?
Yeah, I think he blew it with this one.
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I also thought that it was, as one of the comments pointed out, going the "New Coke" route. But he's the gajillionaire, not me, so what do I know?
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X=Nazi
(https://media.townhall.com/cdn/hodl/tw/images/up/2023/206/d55448dc-15b3-4f23-8778-879167724513-650x0.png)
Veteran journalist cannot in good conscience ignore the obvious link between Elon Musk's X and the Nazis
https://twitchy.com/sarahd/2023/07/25/rochelle-riley-x-nazi-flag-n2385707
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X=Nazi
(https://media.townhall.com/cdn/hodl/tw/images/up/2023/206/d55448dc-15b3-4f23-8778-879167724513-650x0.png)
Veteran journalist cannot in good conscience ignore the obvious link between Elon Musk's X and the Nazis
https://twitchy.com/sarahd/2023/07/25/rochelle-riley-x-nazi-flag-n2385707
I wonder how long she had to search to find a Nazi flag with a prominent X in it? (is the British union jack Nazi too?) Surprised she didn't go with the Confederate battle flag, although perhaps too many would-be rebels still support that one.
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X.com became what?
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ZZ Top - Heard It On The X (Official Music Video)
https://youtu.be/adnNrK11pu0
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Interesting. There seems to still be a significant lefty fifth column hiding within twitter. Or X or whatever.
https://twitchy.com/aaronwalker/2023/07/26/is-there-a-twitter-purge-in-progress-it-sure-looks-like-it-n2385736
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I think he's still kinda grooving on the dichotomy...
I'm thinking long-game here - he wants to still be in business 20 years from now...
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Mark "Karen" Hamill, who constantly spews crap on twitter, wants "everyone" to boycott twitter tomorrow, for "no twitter Tuesday". Best comment:
“No Lib Tuesday?” Don’t threaten me with a good time.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/07/31/mark-hamill-aug-1-dont-tweet-lol-n2385850
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San Francisco Demands Elon Musk Remove Bright Sign As It's Disturbing People Trying To Poop On Street
https://babylonbee.com/news/san-francisco-demands-elon-musk-remove-bright-sign-disturbing-people-trying-to-poop-on-street
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So I guess this is not a joke after all and actually happening?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elon-musk-fight-against-mark-zuckerberg-live-streamed-x
As much as I'd like to see Elon KO the friendface guy, I have to admit that Zuckerberg looks like he works out, and Elon, well, doesn't. =)
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I was unaware that Elon had a trans kid. I wonder how much that weighed in to his red-pilling? Especially since the kid apparently hates him, and not only swallowed the trans koolaid, but the Marxist swill as well.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/elon-musk-says-progressive-la-school-has-turned-daughter-communist-thinks-anyone-rich-evil
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Musk's "daughter".... ;/
Musk has a mentally ill son. A mental illness that the left thinks is wonderful, stunning and brave. =(
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He should support the kid's philosophy by not giving him another dime.
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[popcorn]
Elon Musk is suing the Anti-Defamation League for 'roughly $22billion' for allegedly trying to destroy X by accusing him and the social media giant of being anti-Semitic.
In a series of tweets sent out Monday night, Musk, 52, said he plans to sue the ADL 'to clear our platform's name on the matter of anti-Semitism.'
'It looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League … oh the irony!' the billionaire wrote.
He added: 'In our case, they would potentially be on the hook for destroying half the value of the company, so roughly $22 billion.'
Elon Musk sues the Anti-Defamation League for $22 BILLION for 'trying to kill X by falsely accusing it and me of being anti-Semitic': X owner sets up huge defamation battle with group
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12480549/Elon-Musk-sues-Anti-Defamation-League-22-BILLION-trying-kill-X-falsely-accusing-anti-Semitic-X-owner-sets-huge-defamation-battle-group.html
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[popcorn]
Elon Musk sues the Anti-Defamation League for $22 BILLION for 'trying to kill X by falsely accusing it and me of being anti-Semitic':
Or not.
From the article:
In a series of tweets sent out Monday night, Musk, 52, said he plans to sue the ADL 'to clear our platform's name on the matter of anti-Semitism.'
...
It's unclear whether or not Musk and his lawyers have filed an initial complaint against ADL
Musk has a documented history of saying he's going to do something, and then not doing it.
Musk's battle with the ADL began Monday morning when he called out the organization for being responsible for the company's quickly falling profits
Good luck proving that in court, Elon.
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Two-bit NBC reporter gives the richest man in the world an ultimatum:
https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/09/14/ben-collins-elon-musk-n2387238
:rofl:
Hopefully the next time he sits down at a meeting, the floor doesn't open up under his chair and he falls into a shark tank. =D
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They really have it out for him don't they?
Now they're digging up his grandfather
The New Yorker
@NewYorker
Elon Musk’s grandfather was a pro-apartheid, antisemitic conspiracy theorist. Although his views are not Musk’s responsibility, “what would happen to those rantings, if they were posted on X today, really does lie at his doorstep,” Jill Lepore writes.
https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1705089815094427766?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The World According to Elon Musk’s Grandfather
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-world-according-to-elon-musks-grandfather?utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter&mbid=social_twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=tny
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And suppose those views were posted on
Twitter X today. So what? Either the platform allows freedom of opinion and expression, or it doesn't. As long as it doesn't actively advocate the overthrowal of a legitimate government, an opinion isn't illegal. Those who don't like an opinion are free to ignore it and read opinions they find more accommodating.
That said, Elon Musk has proven that he's not really the free speech advocate he claims to be.
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Late night Elon tweets are the best Elon tweets
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ft_hJySWcAQLDfX?format=jpg&name=large)
Nice
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And suppose those views were posted on Twitter X today. So what? Either the platform allows freedom of opinion and expression, or it doesn't. As long as it doesn't actively advocate the overthrowal of a legitimate government, an opinion isn't illegal. Those who don't like an opinion are free to ignore it and read opinions they find more accommodating.
That said, Elon Musk has proven that he's not really the free speech advocate he claims to be.
While not perfect and there have been some missteps along the way he's been trying to toe the fine line between willey nilly free speech and letting what many would call "hate speech" get out of control. Twitter, sorry X, has definitely been the better for it and it's got the lib's panties twisted up in a knot which is good in my book =D
I think some of the decisions some have placed on him has actually been done by many holdovers from the old twitter regime many of which he has gone and reversed. I mean he's not the one policing every post like some seem to think.
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia https://t.co/wxoHQdRICy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 22, 2023
@Wikipedia, Do it!
You can always change it back after you collect.
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) October 22, 2023
One year minimum. I mean, I’m a not fool lol.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 22, 2023
Elon Musk Offers Wikipedia ONE BILLION DOLLARS to Make This One TEENY TINY Change and BAHAHA
https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/10/22/elon-musk-wikipedia-n2388860
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The Babylon Bee wasn't letting the above pass them by
Elon Musk Offers Mark Zuckerberg $1 Billion If He Changes Name Of Facebook To 'Faceboob'
https://babylonbee.com/news/elon-musk-offers-mark-zuckerberg-1-billion-if-he-changes-name-of-facebook-to-faceboob
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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I guess Media Matters was unaware of forensics.
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/11/20/elon-musk-describes-media-matters-as-pure-evil-and-heres-why-n2390015
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Explains the screaming in the streets
Elon Musk restores X account of Alex Jones after holding a public vote - despite conspiracy theorist repeatedly calling the Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12847101/Elon-Musk-reinstates-X-account-Alex-Jones.html
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And the meltdowns begin! [popcorn]
Vile fascist Musk is going to reinstate dangerous infowars conspiracist Alex Jones’ Twitter account.
Sandy Hook families should sue Musk for propping up the propagandist who terrorized their families.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) December 9, 2023
REEE *Breathes* REEE *Gasps*! Here are some of the BEST Meltdowns Over Alex Jones Coming Back to Twitter
https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/12/10/reee-breathes-reee-gasps-reee-here-are-the-best-meltdowns-over-alex-jones-coming-back-to-twitter-n2390693
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It's been interesting to me over the last 60 years how many people I know who went off to college as normal people and came home fully committed libtards and throw the word fascist around as if they actually knew what that word meant. :old:
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It's been interesting to me over the last 60 years how many people I know who went off to college as normal people and came home fully committed libtards and throw the word fascist around as if they actually knew what that word meant. :old:
Pretty much they use it describe anyone who is not in complete total lockstep with the latest leftest fad.
They really hate it when you explain to them that Nazism and Fascism are actually two different things and that they were both socialist
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With Alex Jones Returning To X, Journalists Concerned They'll No Longer Be Only Source Of Misinformation
https://babylonbee.com/news/with-alex-jones-returning-journalists-worried-theyll-no-longer-be-only-source-of-misinformation
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This has been the best year, watching a guy with *expletive deleted*ck you money turning the tables on woke cancel culture.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/12/24/elon-musk-disney-tesla-n2391122
"But it won't work if you do to us what we do to you! Play fair Elon, and bend your knee!"
:rofl:
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Elon is probably a solid #2 on the left's hate list right now
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(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/x383/WLJohnson1/unnamed_gfdf.jpg)
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It is quite funny to see a red pilled Elon Musk.
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It is quite funny to see a red pilled Elon Musk.
He loves messing with people who have taken to labeling and attacking him as a extreme right winger while in reality he sits a bit on both sides of the middle line depending on the issue and he has the money and the resources that they can't shut him down like they have so many others.
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TESLA ROBOTS ATTACK!
TESLA ROBOT TERROR!
The robot had pinned the man, who was then programming software for two disabled Tesla robots nearby, before sinking its metal claws into the worker's back and arm, leaving a 'trail of blood' along the factory surface.
The incident - which left the victim with an 'open wound' on his left hand - was revealed in a 2021 injury report filed to Travis county and federal regulators, which has been reviewed by DailyMail.com.
OMG!
Once you get pass the hyperventilating reporting he suffered a couple of cuts and it's a story of don't in the way of auto machinery which is nothing new.
Oh and he didn't even require any time off.
Meanwhile they go on to say injuries are under reported which could be said about anywhere.
Bet dollars to donuts 99.9% of those injured are nothing to even report and more than likely the fault of the injured
I'm posting this here because it's an example of how the media hyperventilates over anything bad real or imagined that happens with anything remotely related to Elon since he became enemy of the people #2.
Meanwhile ambulances are almost a daily thing at the two (union) Ford factories.
Tesla robot ATTACKS an engineer at company's Texas factory during violent malfunction - leaving 'trail of blood' and forcing workers to hit emergency shutdown button
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12869629/Tesla-robot-ATTACKS-engineer-companys-Texas-factory-violent-malfunction-leaving-trail-blood-forcing-workers-hit-emergency-shutdown-button.html
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I say go for it
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/x383/WLJohnson1/unnamed_utuyt.jpg)
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Musk wants to disclose to the public how much the govt had twitter spying on said public. The government said he can't. I'm disappointed that the current SC did this.
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/01/09/supreme-court-rejects-x-surveillance-n2391543
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Detecting glee over this on part of many in the MSM
Remains to be seen if he has any recourse to fight this but if it holds he will fall to 3rd on the rich list.
Now my question is what happens to that $55b if he doesn't get it?
Elon Musk's $55b pay package at Tesla is struck down by Delaware judge - putting his position as the world's richest man at risk - sparking a rage-fueled post at Biden's home state on X
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13026733/Elon-Musks-55b-pay-package-Tesla-struck-Delaware-judge-putting-position-worlds-richest-man-risk-sparking-rage-fueled-post-Bidens-home-state-X.html
He reacted to the ruling on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, tweeting: 'Never incorporate your company in the state of Delaware.'
'I recommend incorporating in Nevada or Texas if you prefer shareholders to decide matters,' Musk wrote in another post on X.
Users on X had mixed opinions on Tuesday's court ruling. 'It’s total b*lls**t that a judge in the United States of America is able to prevent a company from paying you whatever sum the board deems appropriate,' one user responded.
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Detecting glee over this on part of many in the MSM
Remains to be seen if he has any recourse to fight this but if it holds he will fall to 3rd on the rich list.
Now my question is what happens to that $55b if he doesn't get it?
Elon Musk's $55b pay package at Tesla is struck down by Delaware judge - putting his position as the world's richest man at risk - sparking a rage-fueled post at Biden's home state on X
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13026733/Elon-Musks-55b-pay-package-Tesla-struck-Delaware-judge-putting-position-worlds-richest-man-risk-sparking-rage-fueled-post-Bidens-home-state-X.html
While he's not "the owner", the guy who started the whole things should be able to pay himself a trillion per year if he wants to. This is kinda similar to Trump being "the placeholder" in that what the government does to them is eventually what the government will do to us. Brain surgeons shouldn't make more than burger flippers - that's unfair!
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Nothing to see here
Before becoming the head of the Delaware Chancery Court, McCormick worked at a Delaware law firm called Young Conaway.
This firm and its employees have been major donors to President Joe Biden for decades.
In 2016, Hunter Biden hosted a gubernatorial campaign event for Congressman John Carney, with then-Vice President Joe Biden as the guest speaker.
This event took place at the Law Offices of Young Conaway in Wilmington, Delaware.
Carney, a close friend of Joe Biden for the last four decades, later became governor and nominated Kathaleen McCormick, a partner at Young Conaway, to her position on the Delaware Chancery Court.
In a March 2018 email, Hunter Biden claimed to personally know every judge on the Delaware Chancery Court while threatening legal action against his Chinese business partners."I will bring the suit in the Chancery court in Delaware - which as you know is my home state and I am privileged to have worked with and know every judge on the chancery court."After Elon Musk purchased Twitter with the stated goal of restoring free-speech, President Biden called for a federal investigation into Musk on the podium at the White House.
Following this, the Biden Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Federal Trade Commission initiated legal actions and investigations against Tesla, SpaceX, and X.
This recent decision by Judge McCormick, who worked with Biden's top donors and was nominated by Biden's close friend, to override Tesla's board and the majority of its shareholders is another clear example of the Biden administration and its allies weaponizing the American legal system against their political opponents.
BOMBSHELL: Just GUESS Who the Judge Who Ruled Against Elon Musk in Delaware Has Serious Connections With
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/02/01/judge-mccormick-musk-biden-n2392429
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If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill.
No limit.
Please let us know.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2023
Guess who's taking Elon's offer up on that
Today is an important day for me--I am filing a lawsuit against @lucasfilm & @Disney
After my 20 years of building a career from scratch, and during the regime of former Disney CEO Bob Chapek, Lucasfilm made this statement on Twitter, terminating me from The Mandalorian: “Gina…
— Gina Carano 🕯 (@ginacarano) February 6, 2024
Please let us know if you would like to join the lawsuit against Disney https://t.co/FnMxhUQvVA
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2024
[popcorn]
WHOA! Gina Carano Announces She's Suing Disney/Lucasfilm with Backing of Elon Musk/Twitter
https://twitchy.com/coucy/2024/02/06/musk-gina-carano-disney-n2392634
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Guess who's taking Elon's offer up on that
[popcorn]
WHOA! Gina Carano Announces She's Suing Disney/Lucasfilm with Backing of Elon Musk/Twitter
https://twitchy.com/coucy/2024/02/06/musk-gina-carano-disney-n2392634
I think most of us here are on Gina's side. We seem to be a minority. A "general news" sub popped up on my reddit feed this morning talking about this. While reddit leans commie, still, you would expect some variation in opinions, but of the currently 2500ish posts, 99% of them are hating on Gina. A really good example of our current social divide.
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1akng6s/backed_by_elon_musk_gina_carano_sues_disney_over/
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On reddit, there's probably a not insignificant group of folks that would have been neutral on Gina, but went negative because Elon backed fer up.
On the internet Elon Derangement Syndrome is a powerful thing, and reddit is a super-spreader.
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Interesting. Musk says that a Google senior exec called him and talked for an hour about the AI debacle. I'm curious why they called a guy they hate.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/02/23/google-called-elon-musk-n2393229
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I wonder if out of frustration, Elon will now create a SpaceX or Tesla operating system. He apparently texted the Microsoft CEO for tech support. :rofl:
https://twitchy.com/gordon-k/2024/02/25/breaking-even-tech-billionaires-gets-the-microsoft-windows-blues-n2393307
In his defense, they have made it harder and harder to create a local only account. I'm still on 10 with no Microsoft account. Never had one, never will.
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I wonder if out of frustration, Elon will now create a SpaceX or Tesla operating system. He apparently texted the Microsoft CEO for tech support. :rofl:
https://twitchy.com/gordon-k/2024/02/25/breaking-even-tech-billionaires-gets-the-microsoft-windows-blues-n2393307
In his defense, they have made it harder and harder to create a local only account. I'm still on 10 with no Microsoft account. Never had one, never will.
Only reason I create a MS account is that it makes transferring windows keys to a new setup easy
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If Elon did create a new OS I'd buy a half dozen copies.
Hopefully they'd be able to do recalls (updates) via an internet connection instead of taking the computer into the dealership.
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If he did probably be more than likely be another flavor of Linux.
But if he did go the writing from scratch route it would take teams years of coding and testing to do so. Windows 11 is suppose to be around 50 million lines of code for example so I wouldn't get my hopes of anything soon in that case but it would be rather interesting what they could come up with if he did.
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If he did probably be more than likely be another flavor of Linux.
But if he did go the writing from scratch route it would take teams years of coding and testing to do so. Windows 11 is suppose to be around 50 million lines of code for example so I wouldn't get my hopes of anything soon in that case but it would be rather interesting what they could come up with if he did.
Yeah, I would expect some type of linux base with a windows-like gui that is more plug and play with a wider range of devices than most linux guis, plus better privacy than win or apple.
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Yeah, I would expect some type of linux base with a windows-like gui that is more plug and play with a wider range of devices than most linux guis, plus better privacy than win or apple.
Annoys me when Linux gurus in many YT videos go on about how easy Linux and about how they can't understand why everyone isn't using it and then spend 10 minutes typing commands and complicated switches in the command line just to install a simple driver. See? it's easy! They either forget or completely ignore the fact that a light switch is about as complicated as most people can handle.
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Popped up in my YT feed a few days ago.
Haven't watched the whole video yet but so far he's hitting several key points of what is holding Linux back.
Normal People Don't Use Linux For a Reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGLfh194BDk
If Elon could have a team work up a Linux that fixes some of these problems it could be a killer.
Most people just want something akin to a washing machine, throw the clothes in, push start, done.
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Popped up in my YT feed a few days ago.
Haven't watched the whole video yet but so far he's hitting several key points of what is holding Linux back.
Normal People Don't Use Linux For a Reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGLfh194BDk
If Elon could have a team work up a Linux that fixes some of these problems it could be a killer.
Most people just want something akin to a washing machine, throw the clothes in, push start, done.
I've used linux ever since I saw the first computer in the lab in grad school pop up with it. I thought it was a cool way to get unix on something other than a $20K sparc station, and be able to run unix-y stuff at home on my 486.
Since then, I've always kept some flavor of it, and in my 40s for about a year made it my main machine, but it only ended up being a 90% machine, because there was always something I needed that I couldn't get to install or run on it, and I would have to fire up the Windoze box, so I ended up switching back.
I'm currently at 90% windows and 10% linux on a VM. When I was younger, I enjoyed futzing with linux just like I enjoyed futzing with other computer problems, new builds, etc. Tinkering with computers and software was a fun hobby. Now in my old age, I'm turning into the stereotypical apple user and I just want everything to work. I just don't have the time or desire to make stuff work with linux. If somebody came out with a linux interface that was equal to windows but without the baggage or cloudiness, I'd go back to fulltime linux in a heartbeat.
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X-Linux
Turns your computer into an extreme far right MAGA racist transphobic murder machine
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Linux: Made by developers for developers. Linux documentation is written by developers for developers.
It's still fun to mess around with, and there is some decent software out there that only runs on Linux.
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Throwing this in here because it's a Musk thread...
The lawyers who blocked Musk's Tesla compensation package?
They think they're entitled to, and are demanding, legal fees (in the form of Tesla stock) that are currently worth SIX BILLION DOLLARS.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/03/01/lawyers-who-voided-elon-musks-tesla-pay-package-seek-6-billion-in-legal-fees/?sh=45d3b1707e20
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Delaware should have to pay that
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It's honestly going to really piss me off if the value of my Tesla stock takes a hit because this ahole activist with 9 godsdamned shares decided to sue over a compensation package I voted in favor of.
Talk about a threat to our *expletive deleted*ing democracy.
It has not escaped my notice that these bloodsucking lawyers are asking for their compensation in....Tesla stock, which they have had a part in devaluing currently, so they are hoping it'll go back up once they get their ill-gotten gains.
I have more compassion for that couple camping in St. Louis in the other thread then these lawyers and their client.
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They're having a fit :rofl:
Note how Elon is now described as conservative
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's family outraged as foundation gives namesake award to Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch after years of only honoring women
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13203027/Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg-family-outraged-award-Rupert-Murdoch-Elon-Miusk.html
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Apparently Elon was looking to have Don Lemon host a show on Twitter, I mean X, but Don started making shall we say tiny demands, nothing much.
The ex-CNN anchor sent over an astronomical wish list to Elon Musk during contract talks to host a show on the billionaire’s social media platform X – including a free Tesla Cybertruck, a $5 million upfront payment on top of an $8 million salary, an equity stake in the multibillion-dollar company, and the right to approve any changes in X policy as it relates to news content, according to a document reviewed by The Post.
Lemon — who was expected to air an interview with Musk for next week’s debut episode on X — had also demanded a private jet flight to Las Vegas, a suite for him and his fiance, and that the company pay for their day drinking and massages, a source with knowledge of the situation said.
You can guess how Elon reacted.
Waiting on Don or someone in the MSM for him to claim it was due to racism
Hysterical Details Emerge Revealing How the Elon and Don Lemon Deal Went Sour and They Are a Must Read
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2024/03/15/don-lemon-elon-reasons-for-deals-going-sour-revealed-n2394034
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Apparently Elon was looking to have Don Lemon host a show on Twitter, I mean X, but Don started making demands.
You can guess how Elon reacted.
Hysterical Details Emerge Revealing How the Elon and Don Lemon Deal Went Sour and They Are a Must Read
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2024/03/15/don-lemon-elon-reasons-for-deals-going-sour-revealed-n2394034
I notice that none of that was mentioned on the legacy media - just Elon being an extremist and canceling lefty free speech.
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I notice that none of that was mentioned on the legacy media - just Elon being an extremist and canceling lefty free speech.
Not shocked by that in the least. Disappointed yes, shocked no.
I'm sure Don will be on Oprah soon going on about how Elon refused to hire him because he's black and he and Oprah will cry about how oppressed they both are.
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After typing that and thinking about it a bit more I suspect Lemon did this on purpose to torpedo the deal especially after reading Elon's relationship to Trump being brought up on the The View while this matter was being discussed like somehow there was some sort of connection. Much of the MSM has put extra effort into smearing Elon lately after reporting he could back Trump with his money.
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Enter the Babylon Bee
10 More Things Don Lemon Demanded From Elon Musk
https://babylonbee.com/news/10-more-things-don-lemon-demanded-from-elon-musk
2. A spaceship to keep in his backyard
A Starship launch from Lemon's backyard would be nice to watch. Where's Lemon's house go?
8. Mars
Marvin may have something to say about that.
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I guess he really has gone full extreme far right as far as the left is concerned
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
This is a battle to the death with the anti-civilizational woke mind virus.
My positions are centrist:
- Secure borders
- Safe & clean cities
- Don’t bankrupt America with spending
- Racism against any race is wrong
- No sterilization below age of consent
Is this right-wing?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1770806158497906916
And fascist too
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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And, although it shouldn’t need to said, I believe in the Constitution and freedom of speech
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^^Literaly. Hitler.
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We are living in an age of mass formation psychosis.
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But wait, there's more
I voted 100% Dem until a few years ago.
Now, I think we need a red wave or America is toast.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 24, 2024
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/03/25/elon-musk-far-right-post-n2394349
In the reponses
X is basically run like a pyramid of rightwing propaganda where Elon’s pharaoh and his likeminded bros kiss his ass and share his worldview and he drives traffic to them and pays them through ad-share but only because “there’s a leftwing media conspiracy to control the narrative”
— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) March 24, 2024
Yeah right