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 | What are your proposals for Elon Musk, to make Twitter that free public square of ideas, that most people hope he turns Twitter into. Do you think it will be possible to have Twitter exist without any rules on what you are allowed to say or post on it? Do you think some rules are 'common sense'? How does the law apply to it? And should it be free (financially) or would Twitter also allow 'free speech', if Elon introduces subscriptions, requiring payment on a monthly basis, for features that used to be free? |
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Elon Musk personally reinstated someone who was suspended for posting child sexual exploitation photos, illegal under federal law, just because the guy was a right-wing lunatic.
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Microsoft only holds this trademark for videogame-related services; this wouldn't affect Twitter.
However, Meta holds the "X" trademark for "online social networking services... social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming and application development..."
But surely Zuckerberg will give Musk that 'X'. They are such good friends.
Most people that criticize Elon Musk are simply jealous of his success and ability to recover from failure.
one large meteorite can send us the way of the dinosaur. That's why there should be a large international effort to develop the necessary technology, not just leave it to the hobbies of the ultra wealthy.
Musk has to recover from failure quite a lot. That's just the benefit of reaching a certain level of wealth; at some point you can keep failing UP. Musk started out that wealthy.
I'm not saying he's dumb, he has lots of talents and good ideas.
He's just acting dumb, for your approval, because he wants to sell you cars.
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"anal licker"
But, when I'm procrastinating, this site gets some of my attention again.
Just because my country has an actual democracy, with less corruption and serves its people a lot better, that doesn't make it perfect, by a long shot. You think America is great, so when some Dutch guy says The Netherlands is better, then it must be perfect. No, that's just your dumb nationalism. America is horrible and The Netherlands is just adequate. I never said The Netherlands is perfect, or great, or even good, it's just BETTER. I told you many times that the right-wingers have been in power for decades and have been screwing up the country a lot. And even if my country was doing pretty good, which it isn't, I would still NEVER call it perfect, because I'm a PROGRESSIVE; everything can ALWAYS BE BETTER.
How can I be satisfied, when nature is being destroyed by climate change and pollution and people are suffering war and poverty.
No one is doing at all enough to prevent humanity from collapsing and you think I think my country is perfect? Are you kidding me?
It's you who are indoctrinated to think that everything is perfect, while simultaneously make you believe that the Democrats are destroying it. That's how they can make it worse and worse and worse, and you never learn how it happened.
But, which specific meltdown are you referring to?
After 14 years of Rutte, our country has many problems. He was turning The Netherlands into America and it succeeded for a large part. However, we had a better starting position, so he has not succeeded in destroying everything. He just made healthcare much more expensive by privatizing it, privatized the energy sector, so prices went through the roof, made housing almost unaffordable by giving investors all the power to fill their pockets, gave our natural gas reserves away to Shell who sold it for cheap to other countries and doesn't want to pay for houses collapsing from the earthquakes, had the tax authorities accuse lots of poor people of child-care-allowance-tax-fraud and take away their house and children. The farmers have almost destroyed all of nature, because the right-wingers covered up the manure surplus and let farmers be exploited by food corporations, making them scale up milk and meat production, while farmers still didn't make any money. Now that's turned into a massive crisis and the stupid right-wingers think they can solve it by just buying out some farmers.
Rutte was turning into the most hated politician in our history for that, from the left to the right, except with his base. He decided to leave, because he knew his time had expired. He's now taking all the blame and tries to absolve the horrible right-wing policies for the problems they created. He probably thinks his successor can just continue to give everything to the rich and fuck over people.
And he might be correct, because people are stupid.
I'm doing my best to make my country better. But, I'll keep investing some of my time to discuss politics with you, because America is the root cause of capitalism turning destructive. The only way to save humanity is for people to come together and fight against their exploitation. People like you will never learn, but there are many Americans who are not TFG and they might read what I'm saying too.
So you say this has been going on in your country for 14 years
Well you never said anything about all this crap
You just kept painting us that perfect picture instead
You had all of us ready to pack our bags and move to the Netherlands
And now we find out it’s a shit hole just like every were else
Well congratulations my friend you just learned that government of any kind doesn’t work it should be every man and woman for them selves only the strong survive living off the land
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Oh and climate change is a bunch of shit don’t try to change what has been happening for billions of years the earth is just going through its stages next will be the ice age again
I repeat; what crap are you referring to?
Because, we have lots of problems, but still not much 'crap'.
I have talked about right-wing policies creating problems in my country many times.
If what I told you about my country sounds perfect to you, that we STILL have so many more rights and social benefits and more personal freedom and less poverty and better education and a better political system and less corruption and less crime and cops who don't kill us, then that is you, NOT understanding that your country SUCKS. Whatever problems we have, yours are worse. Maybe different, but more damaging.
It requires so much more effort and luck in America to live a good life and so much less bad luck to crush your life.
"it should be every man and woman for them selves only the strong survive living off the land"
That's humanity 1000 years ago. That life sucks! It's a life of misery, poverty, illness and lots of early death. Humanity has so much potential and you just want us to be a bunch of primitives. Such a shame.
What has been happening for billions of years, didn't happen in a hundred years. Those periods of warmer and colder climates changed over tens or hundreds of thousands of years, not in one lifetime of people, cutting down half of the worlds forests, reducing wildlife to 4% of animals and emitting 20X more carbon dioxide than all wildfires combined. You just believe what they are telling you to believe. How about looking at what's happening all around you and understand that this is not normal.
So how does it feel
My 'suck ass country' still beats yours on everything that matters for people.
Compared with other modern economies, America is dead last on many things.
The only way you are able to deny it, is staying ignorant of the rest of the world.
You know why because Americans have the killer instinct
It would help your people, if America didn't bully it's own people too.
That killer instinct is apparent, from your homicide rate and school shootings
"Yeah but ...."
At least you agree, that my 'suck ass country' beats yours on everything
that matters for people and that, compared with other modern economies,
America is dead last on many things.
But hey, you kill more people!
You are supporting a system where only the people with the best start in life are able to thrive. That leaves masses of people who are not able to escape their difficult start in life. Then they are not pulling their weight. The idea of them pulling themselves up by their bootstraps doesn't work. Helping them is much more successful. I'm not even suggesting being soft about it, but I would look at everyone individually and not ask more of them than they are able to achieve.
Some have more potential than others. I'm in favor of rewarding the people who contribute the most (within reason), but there is a minimum living standard that everyone has a right to. That should be provided by society working together.
There are more than enough resources for everyone, but there is just a small minority that takes too much and exploits the rest. It's stupid that people who are not benefiting from that system are allowing that to happen. I want to change that, that's what my socialist views are all about.
He has allowed people to say racist shit, which I'm sure you agree with.
Meanwhile he's bowing down to authoritarian regimes to do censorship for them.
Is that freedom of speech to you? Jack Dorsey didn't do that.
If he allowed everyone to say everything, then I would have been OK with it,
but he doesn't, he's doing even more censorship. He just decides himself who to censor.
He doesn't have any principles on the matter, he's just a fake free speech absolutist.
"If you don't believe in free speech for people who you disagree with, and even hate
what they stand for, then you don't believe in free speech." (@rickygervais)
That's a real free speech absolutist.
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Are there still people left who think Musk is a genius?
If you do, what are you?
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Elon Musk bows to dictators. He's not at all supporting free speech on Twitter.
For the people who do not understand free speech; it's not allowing you to say the N-word, it's allowing people and journalists to tell the truth about their government, even if their government doesn't like that.
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“In response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available to the people of Turkey, we have taken action to restrict access to some content in Turkey today,”
So he decided to block content that might be damaging to Erdogan,
because Erdogan threatened him to block Twitter. That's what that means.
Who still thinks of Musk as a 'free speech warrior' is an idiot.
Ye shall tweet no more!
Let's see if Elon kept some creative programmers on the payroll,
who can turn his dreams of an 'Everything App' into reality.
Changing the brand name didn't really work for Mark Zuckerberg yet.
It's not like Meta is now doing well. We are still waiting for the Metaverse.
independent of their political opinions?
But of course YOU think it abides by your Constitution,
because you don't understand the least thing about it.
The so called attack on mr pelosi is the result of a lovers quarrel .Didn't you see the body cam footage? Pelosi opened the door and went back to his so called attackers side.
DUH.The ruse you are repeating like a parrot is the democrats coverup to preserve pelosi's image.
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Where do you get your idea from and how can you think it, when everything else corroborates the case, that a man came looking for Nanci Pelosi with a hammer?
The one repeating bullshit propaganda, like a parrot, is YOU!
And YOU and the MEDIA both seem to forget,When pelosi opened the door,he did NOT RUN OUT OF THE OPEN DOOR into the protection of the armed cops as he very well could have and SHOULD HAVE. And why didn't he leave the bath room door locked once he got in there? That would have bought time if he felt in danger.
You are not thinking it thru either.
It is bad the man got wacked in the head no doubt but i think the situation surrounding it has been blown out of proportion.
and then call the cops? It's a ridiculous story.
Do you have any evidence this guy was some gay prostitute or something?
Look at him and tell me you believe that shit.
If armed cops show at your door, you better don't make sudden moves.
And he was holding the hammer, to not get hit by it.
"And why didn't he leave the bath room door locked once he got in there?"
That is not a detail shown in the videos. Do you have evidence?
But of course, he would have been pumped full of lead, by any Republican.
Do you think Paul Pelosi is not smart enough to think of doing that,
if that BS about hiding a sexual encounter was real?
Get him to break in, with a hammer, on video and then kill him. EASY!
But no, you get your head smashed in, while standing in your boxers. Sure!
It's as clear as day; a guy comes to a politician's house, in the night, to interrogate
and torture them with a hammer and we see it clearly on video evidence.
But all the Republicans start spreading bullshit stories to shift away blame.
But you don't really believe this shit, or you wouldn't say it was blown out of proportion. You would want this investigated to uncover Paul Pelosi's conspiracy.
What proportions do you expect, when this happens to a Republican?
That would be months of 24/7 crying about violent libs on Fox'News'.
"Paul Pelosi was able to dial 911 himself after telling the intruder he had to go use the bathroom and then calling from there, where his phone had been charging, according to a person familiar with the situation."
So right there he clearly had some opportunity for safe haven and chose not to take it. I still don't see why he didn't go out the door,dropping the hammer would have be logical.
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Most of those doors are made from cardboard.
No one knows how violent the guy was.
You don't here a crazy guy shouting in the background.
Sure, if you only care about your own life, then you run
and let the police kill the guy. Some people actually care
even about the life of a crazy guy entering their house,
knowing that he's just a victim of right-wing mind fucking.
Pelosi was just trying to de-escalate the situation.
Even if he was a 'gay lover', that hammer is just as dangerous.
There is nothing there pointing to either hypothesis.
If Pelosi wanted to hide some scandal, how then? What's the plan?
And why would the attacker not say so, but make it worse for himself?
Threatening a politician is a much worse crime than fighting with a lover.
You're only fishing for details, but there's nothing confirming your story.
Why would pelosi care about the guy that had broke into his house if he got shot or not? Hell if your story is 100% correct ,the luny toon was after his wife to harm her.
Yes,I know most interior doors are not very strong.
But the crook was not very smart either. And the fact that no attempt was made to stay in the bathroom,that is the point
"Elon’s Twitter is an “Inverse Startup”"
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Before anyone starts babbling 'What do they know?!', Linus Media Group Inc is one of the fastest growing media companies in the world and it recently got offered a 9 figure sum for it's purchase, which they slapped down. Linus Sebastian started the company himself and didn't just buy it for 2 times the actual value. Instead of firing lots of people, LMG has been hiring more and more people. If an actual smart person, with experience in the field, is saying that Elon Musk might be trashing Twitter, there's a good reason to accept that assessment.
Understood the ramifications from an early age
I'm only commenting on Elon Mush for brains,
because some people still think he's brilliant.
I'm fighting the stupid idea that wealthy people deserve their wealth,
because they are all better than everyone else.
Maybe you already understand that.
I just hate the cunt... Tesla products are old hat... He is known for much more
It's about the wealthiest person in the world, buying one of the biggest social media companies in the world, and about free speech rights itself. There are major political view differences associated with that. If that is a topic not worthy of discussion, than what is?
If this political topic shouldn't be allowed on this site, because this is a site for dickpics, than all political topics should be deleted.
However, there is no TOS limiting political topics on this site.
But I agree; Elon is shit, even without believing he shot JFK, 8 years before his birth.
If your political ad gender is so.. pay the right to have a say on and dick/cunt site. Or Shut the fuck up 😀
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BTW Your google searches are full of
Misinformation
I don't have that many friends here but I do have a good amount, and, believe me, I don't chat about the state of the USA with them. The forums are different. That's where I go to find real life. Ananas, I suspect, does too. 😈
I know sites like Reddit, Quora, Discourse and many others exist, but I haven't found any as accessible as this dickpic site yet. It's strength is simplicity.
I had no idea the netherlands would spend millions to build a road they would have to keep the water pumped out of except reading about here.
That idea would NOT float here in the US. just to cost prohibitive.
As for who shot JFK, The government had him and Marylin killed. period. Otherwise the information would have been released decades ago.
Marylin just overheard to much while her and JFK were together so she got snuffed. Apparently the government forgot where the term "dumb blond" came from.
It came from the Mobsters keeping hot blonds around that would not talk about what they saw or heard.
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Why? Don't they want to, or are they not able to?
Can normal people not pay their rent and get away with it?
Your a capitalist; do contracts not matter anymore?
Are no 'points' appearing in your brain, if you hear that news?
May be looking for cheaper space and thought the landlord would offer a lower rate if they stayed?
Besides, the "royal" family is wealthy enough, they shouldn't even be collecting rent. they should be letting company's use the land and buildings rent free.It's not like the people of london are being screwed. who cares about a rich king getting the shaft?
You wouldn't care if Trump wasn't being paid rent would you?
Same difference.
But yes ,contracts and rent should be honored but there is probably more to the story than we are being told. The buildings may not be up to code? The buildings may be lacking Maintenace and updates? violations of a contract perhaps? Lets hear all the story first.
If you rented a car and it stayed in the shop more than you were able to use it, you would eventually get tired of paying rent for something you did not get any good out of right?
"May be looking for cheaper space and thought the landlord would offer a lower rate if they stayed?" Exactly, that's how you do it in capitalism. And then you leave and pay your bills, up to the last day of use. Or you start a lawsuit if you have good arguments about being coerced.
I have no love for the royal family, but why do you care? All people who own and rent out massive property are wealthy. And now that one capitalist is doesn't hold up to a contract with another capitalist, it matters that one is royalty?
IS ELON MUSK NOT WEALTHY ENOUGH TO PAY HIS RENT?
If Trump was not paid the rent that someone owes him and there was no lawful reason for that, I would stand for the law.
"there is probably more to the story than we are being told" If arguments are presented in Twitter's/Elon Musks favor, than I might agree. I do not assume there is 'more to the story' until it's presented, just because I like one of the sides. That's what right-wingers do; taking the side they like most, no matter the evidence or lack of evidence.
"if you are a socialist right now in the US, then you have it made for a few more years" Because now the corporate neo-liberals protect the status quo for a while, instead of the fascists turning the US even further in a theocratic oligarchy, leftists have reached all their goals?
As long as I live in a capitalist system, I obey its rules.
If I protest the exploitative nature of it, I do it by the rules democracy has provided.
'bitching if you do not get your way' is exactly what Elon Musk is doing.
He is the wealthiest capitalist in the world and he is not playing by the rules of either capitalism or democracy, by refusing to pay his rent. He is just breaking the law.
You normally pretend to hate everyone who breaks the law, but that is only for people that you don't like. You just like when Elon Musk breaks the law, because you see him as god-emperor now, since you think he will allow the N-word and your fascist leader on Twitter, even when you are not on Twitter yourself. Did you like Elon and rush to protect Elon, when he was just selling electric cars?
[It's not free speech to break the first amendment, with racism, by threatening people, inciting violence, defaming your opponents, asking for campaign donations and using it fraudulently to enrich yourself, be obscene just by being yourself and use fighting words and threats daily. Except for child porn, Trump has violated every TOS that social media are required by law to have.]
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Racism is not in there? Correct, it has it's own laws overruling free speech laws.
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Elon Musk doesn't give a damn about free speech. He just want to decide what IS 'free speech' on his platform. And make that speech not FREE anymore, but have
his users PAY for it. The users must pay, for dumb Elon paying twice the value.
Meanwhile the value is dropping, because Elon is firing all the human resources that the company had developed. People are a company's greatest asset.
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The idiot even fired the people who sell the ads to advertisers. That's 89% of Twitter's revenue, you could say; the whole business model.
Besides that, a bird logo and the value of legitimacy, that once Twitter had, the value of the company is nothing. And they are even selling that bird logo: only registered users can see external links
For everyone that the YouTube algorithm shows other voices:
'What does Elon Musk Really Want with Twitter? - Dec 2022'
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maybe if you are nice she might "ALLOW" you to.
Elon Musk is now the richest person in the world, but what he doesn't have is control over the people. Jeff Bezos, with Amazon, has power over lots of consumers, to determine with algorithms who sees what products, from which reseller. He has the power to give and take away a marketplace for entrepreneurs, controlling their voice against his dominance. And he owns The Washington Post.
Google and YouTube have the power to control information with algorithms, controlling the source of information and controlling who has access to which information.
Every wealthy person wants control over information and the digital economy.
Elon Musk didn't have that yet, but it was worth 44 billion to him, to get it.
It's amazing that this is happening.
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It's a shifty world.
They do not trust the government, but they somehow do trust
wealthy people and corporations to not exploit them.
Trusting Elon Musk with free speech is like trusting a wolf to guard your sheep.
But to some people free speech is just being allowed to say the n-word.
Elon might allow that and then ban anything he doesn't like personally.
It shouldn't be up to him or some other random wealthy guy,
that's what people invented democracy and the law for.
I support regulating all social media like public utilities and not allow them
to have their own Terms of Service limiting what people can say on their platforms
or who they are allowed to ban. And I would restrict the hell out of algorithms.
The idea of government regulating free speech puts it in a position to create a dictatorship.
For example ,had Trump been given the power to take CNN's funding,and result in it's being off the air ,that would fit in your idea of government funding ,and government control. would you want that?
You honestly expect the government to pay for something but not stick their fingers in it??
I have some cheap beach front property in north dakota for sale.
Purse strings are leashes.
You don't get to vote who owns Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. or what they allow you to say, using their private property. Once they eliminate the competition, which they have and always will, you have no say over them taking away free speech.
I know your government isn't 'of the people, by the people, for the people',
but it should be. Then you're in control, because it's then 'public property',
not the 'private property' of some random wealthy sociopath.
That's why government control is better than corporate control.
He was at 56.4% 'Yes', 2 hours ago.
Another dumb move, unless he wants to make some other person CEO.
Besides,it could be construed as racist to expect him to step down since he is African American.
Because he lost his poll and doesn't want to step down now.
If he knew he would lose this poll, why did he do it?
It's making him look like a loser, to most of the world.
Only dumb-asses like you can think this is somehow positive.
He's calling his own poll 'rigged' and blaming a 'bot army'.
Is he, as owner and CEO, not in the best position to prove that?
So where is that prove? What is the real outcome of the poll then?
If Elon thinks this is good for Twitter, he's a dumb-ass.
He will still have control over key things though.
He responded to the poll as he said he would.
I think liberals are just mad at him and want to hat3 on him because he is exposing what everyone was trying to say,that twitter was being censored by the government.He is showing proof.I hope he dumps all the dirt, showing just how sinister the democrat operation really is.
because it makes him look like a clown.
If Elon wanted to be just the owner and have a new CEO lead Twitter,
because he understands that he is a dumb-ass, who is wrecking the company
and his investment, he could have done that in a much less humiliating way.
I am starting to really like Elon Musk.
He says what is on his mind and that of many others.
I never considered him to be a genius, but he's now showing actual stupidity.
I really didn't think he was that dumb. How the hell did he have so much success?
Just another narcissist failing upward, apparently. Or dumb luck.
Only in the USA can a dumb-ass become a billionaire.
He doesn't pay severance pay for all the people he fired and he fired his lawyer.
He stopped paying rent for all Twitter offices, to cut costs.
It doesn't work that way. Can you stop paying your rent, to cut costs?
Maybe he didn't mean to stop paying rent, but he just fired the bill paying guy.
He's a dumb-ass!!
Even if he destroys Twitter and loses $44 billion, you will still think he's a genius.
If you don't have a brain, it's hard to recognize a good one.
Besides
,i bet the rent is ridicules where it is located now.
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If he would get a nice tax handout to move to Florida, I would call that a smart move.
But, he has not done anything smart in the whole Twitter debacle, so far.
Tesla stock has been dropping hard, because his investors and customers now understand what a dumb-ass he is. Do you think conservatives will start investing in and buying electric cars now? If that happens, I will call Elon a genius.
Elon will never make $44 billion+ from changing Twitter into Fascist-Social.
There are not enough right-wingers and companies who want to advertise on a
right-wing hangout, to ever make that a good money making strategy.
Twitter will just disappear, another better moderated social media company
will just take over and Elon will lose his $44 billion.
more than 7 out of 10? is a fringe group??
1,000 likely voters over a two-day period (Dec. 12-13).
It was conducted by Public Opinion Research, LLC, with a margin-of-error rate of 3 percentage points.
Wow, yes, that's a mighty big poll. You know what? I say, " Let them investigate." We need another big laugh served by you Repuckers.
Not really possible for everyone in the US not to have a opinion on stuff because of the mass media.
No one with common sense would deny a virus can travel by air. But i remember VERY well, listening to felchy,fauci saying we didn't need mask for at least 2 months of the plandemic.
Giving it 1 hell of a head start to spread accross the country.
AND i personally watched the maps early on and when the cruise ships released the first infected people and they went home, you could literally watch the case numbers grow along I95 and other major hwys that they traveled on.
Fauci could and should have dictated those people STAY on those ships until the virus was dealt with, He did nothing to stop that spread.
The man allows to much to go wrong. Also,if he was being honest about the vaccines and so forth,why are the records sealed for 75 fucking years in regards to their testing and the results???? The sumbitch is hiding alot, and I don't need mass media to change my mind or fill it full of bullshit.I am capable of some deductive reasoning on my own.
The interview predates the CDC’s updated guidance on the use of face coverings. On April 3, 2020, the CDC updated its previous advice and recommended people wear cloth face coverings “in public settings when around people outside their household, especially when social distancing measures are difficult to maintain.”
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The CDC is the ultimate word on infectious deseases in this country. Less than one month after Dr Fauci made that statement the CDC advocated for masks. I remember Trump saying (he said a lot of crap about Covid) that we didn't need to worry about Covid around that time. Dr Fauci was the medical advisor to Trump, not the official agency that was responsible for warning people of the dangers of Covid.
And then you see a poll about Fauci as verification of the truth.
That's like Russians believing that the attack on Ukraine was warranted.
If the people hear nothing but propaganda they will believe it.
You finally figured it out,but got it backwards.
THE American people are being treated just like the Russian people.
We are fed bullshit from only 1 side and are expected to believe it. THe democrats feed us bullshit and we are just supposed to ask for the salt shaker.
He is African American!
He was born in Pretoria, South Africa.
So be carful in your rants about him and his work he could claim it was racist and sue you and cancel you and all that jazz.
I couldn't care less if it didn't exist.
However, I do not support absolute free speech, which includes knowingly spreading false information with the intent to harm specific people, the intent to scam people, to threaten people or to incite violence on people. These are exceptions to free speech according to US law and I support those. The Netherlands has something pretty similar.
However, is it still free speech if Elon starts asking money for verification, he obliterates any criticism of him personally and maybe soon his companies, he decides who actually gets to see the tweets and he still keeps up all the invasions of privacy and collecting of information that Twitter has been doing?
You can't keep saying things like "how much stupider can you get"? to liberals, they take it as a dare or make a mission to find out.
Are you acknowledging that I was right, that free speech is not helped
by some rich asshole buying up a social media company?
Musk doesn't care about free speech, he cares about money, power and praise.
All the right-wingers were enthusiastic about Elon Musk buying Twitter, because he said he would let your orange buffoon back on. Even if he did, that would only be temporary, because advertisers don't like to be associated with fascists.
That's not a good revenue model to run a big social media company like Twitter.
And because Musk paid $44 billion, he doesn't want to let it sink to the dark corners of the internet, where Trump's stupid fascist ideas belong. Free speech doesn't guarantee an audience or advertisers who want to be associated with it.
My selfsucking days are over. At 49, I will never be flexible enough again.
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But I predict that twitter will just go broke and go away. Not that I care one way or another.
Actually, I couldn't care less if twitter, Facebook, etc, all that crap, would go away. The world would be better.
think about that for a minute, you may know your job well, but when the transmission goes out in your car,you hire a man that knows transmissions.
Ok, for Musk, he may not know how a social media company ticks but he can spot inefficiency's ,like the free lunch bullshit for twitter employees, and eliminate them right off the bat .Once he gets the company trimmed down with less wasted money, he can use the savings to hire someone to tweek it.
But anybody running a company sets the vision. They can hire people execute the vision, but need to know and express the idea about what they want. It isn't clear that musk has any idea about what he is doing. He paid way too much money for a company loosing as much money as twitter is. Eliminating free lunches isn't going to save it and will drive some employees away.
Alienating commercial subscribers will not help either. I am not a known stockholder.
Really just to back up to the start of it, I don't know why Elon wanted it to start with?
He has demonstrated time and time again he can start a new company and make it work. Why buy twitter when he could have started Quacker or Oinker and put the little blue bird out in the woods the fun way.
Deplatforming a sitting president undermined public trust in Twitter for half of America
Most liberals have higher education than most right-wingers.
Most liberals have critical reasoning skills and knowledge pertaining reality.
Most liberals have at least some interest in science and the truth, other than what they get fed by their corporate media, while you just consume their biassed lies.
Some have actual scientific knowledge and skills, making that 'common sense' of yours absolutely, laughably, childishly inferior. True common sense requires a trained brain.
Your brain is not even capable of seeing patterns in facts, which is necessary for the ability to perceive, understand, and judge in a manner that is shared by most people. Basically, you don't even have 'common sense'.
Critical reasoning, that is BS. I guess if you call woke crap critical reasoning.
Liberals interested in science is also BS. They are interested in fiction.
Some have...really. Now that was laughable. Dementia and a cackler. Trained brain is something the libturds do not have, guess we have mega trained brains or ultra trained brains. So you as a socialist do not have a brain to train.
"Critical thinking is the analysis of available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments to form a judgement."
If you think that is BS, than please explain how people can separate facts from fiction. Just by choosing to listen to people who tell you things that you like to hear? Then why do you like hearing these things?
I studied the price of gas during Trump,and I priced gas under biden and it is higher.
I could buy alot more grocery's under Trump than I can under biden.So that means something during bidens rule is prompting a issue. Prices consistently higher, contradictions from washington as to why and etc
and etc.
Critical thinking, never knew using common sense and personal experiences and observations to come up with a logical answer had a name,
Show a connection between what Biden did and how that resulted in inflation.
Trump pumped 4.5 trillion in the stock market and massively increased your debt.
A stock market based on inflated air instead of true value can cause inflation.
At least I can show some correlation between Trump and inflation.
My correlation is 4.5 trillion big. What is your Biden correlation?
Logic requires cause and effect. You fail to show cause and effect.
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But he has to get the Thai mini-sub out first.
Petulant childen
Elon bought into a rigged game... and paid way too much for a shit stain product
Another tech company that was overvalued at best...
If either of them vanished I couldn't care less.
Cuz the only thing that matters to Americans,is the dollars in their pockets!!!
Gotta give props to the Twitter board for filing their case against musk in Delaware!!!
I wonder how much Saudi money is invested too!!
As for the actual site itself,I don't use it, can't have a conversation when you are limited to how many characters you can use!!
It's just full of people who have too much time on their hands!!
Social media in general has fucked people up!!
It just echo chambers..
But maybe he thinks he can open a new market for his cars,
when he succeeds in giving conservatives their platform.
Maybe it's even worth the money for him, if Twitter goes dodo.
I've never seen any love for 'free speech' in Elon Musk before.
Twitter was already a cesspool, but it promises to be even worse.
Still, I think that free marketplace of ideas is important.
But how can Elon create that, without it becoming even more of a cesspool
and an echo chamber. He's off to a rocky start.
I'm neutral about Elon Musk. I like that he made EV's cool and pulled innovation on that front. His boring company has potential to help alleviate congestion in cities. I'm neutral about SpaceX. And I do think he's going into Twitter with maybe the right intentions, but
he has a whole lot of stupid ideas about it and is making a big mess of it, at this time.
If you want to have the free public square of ideas, you don't want it privately owned by a billionaire. It should be a public service and it's shouldn't be controlled by algorithms who are designed to pull people to the furthest extremes of ideas they once showed any interest in. That's not a public square, that's a rabbit hole. It should be designed to challenge people's beliefs and make people think. And there should also be some moderation, to make sure people are not threatening, doxing or scamming each other
or posting illegal content from child molesters.
Having that publicly owned free public square of ideas is probably not realistic,
so if Elon Musk turns Twitter close to something like my ideal, I would be pleased
and I might even join Twitter. However with his current ideas, I would have left,
if I was on Twitter.
So I started this topic, to discuss what Elon should do, to make Twitter great.