Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of twitter...update.. will soon be the sole owner as Board of Directors accepts his purchase offer

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Pens1566

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If people want to know why Matt Taibbi doesn’t get or deserve respect anymore this is why:


I have no idea why any of these hacks agree to interviews with either of Hassan or Jon Stewart. They always get eviscerated. Never fails.
 
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manly

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At this point if I was a vendor I'd be careful doing business with Twitter. Elon thinks he is so special he can get away with not paying bills. Also it is inevitable he declares bankruptcy at some point for Twitter. It's not if, it's when. He'll mess with it for a bit convinced he is God, but God will declare bankruptcy in this case.
Not necessarily, that would probably wipe out equity investors. Who happen to include buddies of his. As the saying goes, don't fuck with (other) rich people's money.
 

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If Elon were actively attempting to bankrupt Twitter I’m not sure what he would be doing differently.
Of the old men's club I wish he carried on to destroy twitter and then bought another social media program and fucked that up too. Late Carlin went on a rant on stupid people. All these social media companies beginning from the late 90s and until now, they've given a voice for these stupid people where they wouldn't have before and been given a quick kick in the nuts or a jackboot stomped onto their head for being a racist dumb piece of shit or whatever bullshit ailes them now. And Fox news, too. They enlighted dumbasses across America into thinking they were in the right of everything. The most morally depraved people vote Republican. And do you know what else? Thank god the democrats had some fucking sensibility and stopped being as outraged as the republicans decades ago and moved onto things that actually mattered. But especially fuck Tipper Gore. She is the Ginni Thomas of the Democrats.
 
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Landlords don't give a shit what the signs says as long as they get paid. Are SF business complex landlords special cases?
 

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Giggle:


This is just amazing to watch unfold. Chef's kiss. No notes.
Techdirt covers the Fiasco - Ending with Taibbi leaving twitter, and being shadow-banned by the Mad King.


There are simply no rules at Twitter, just the whims of the Mad King.
 

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Heh heh... reaping the repercussions of irresponsible rants and actions. Advertisers not happy with him and are expressing their concerns. Good read. :D

 

Pens1566

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At this point, syphilis is a reasonable guess.

I still lean towards something like "it's a terrible idea to put someone with zero social skills in charge of the world's most popular social media site". But I'm not ruling anything out.
 
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Of the old men's club I wish he carried on to destroy twitter and then bought another social media program and fucked that up too. Late Carlin went on a rant on stupid people. All these social media companies beginning from the late 90s and until now, they've given a voice for these stupid people where they wouldn't have before and been given a quick kick in the nuts or a jackboot stomped onto their head for being a racist dumb piece of shit or whatever bullshit ailes them now. And Fox news, too. They enlighted dumbasses across America into thinking they were in the right of everything. The most morally depraved people vote Republican. And do you know what else? Thank god the democrats had some fucking sensibility and stopped being as outraged as the republicans decades ago and moved onto things that actually mattered. But especially fuck Tipper Gore. She is the Ginni Thomas of the Democrats.

Way to shoot your own dick off by being exactly what you're bitching about (a dumbass raging about shit on a forum). Further, the way that Musk is fucking up Twitter makes all the aspects of social media you're angry about worse. Also, your shit analogy to end it doesn't work any which way you force it and just highlights how you're just as much a part of the problem as anything because your brain is stuck in fucked mode, you're griping about shit from almost 30-40 years ago (which you also clearly don't understand based on you trying to force the analogy between those 2), then conflating social media to the late 90s when those companies didn't even exist (and even then had limited real relevance until mass smartphone adoption in the 2010s).

But it also highlights the entirety of why your argument is stupid. You act like anything actually changed. It didn't. Like you said, Carlin (which I get, apparently that was pinnacle of human thought for you...) was bitching about stupid people for decades. Those people have always been there and likely always will.

Maybe not base your thoughts on stand up comedians who are every bit as shining examples of the problems in the world. Carlin did jack fucking shit about any of the stuff he bitched about, but hey, I guess thanks for the near incessant insolent righteous bitching? That accomplished less than nothing, and convinced an entire generation of people like you to sit by with your thumb up your ass, bitching, but doing nothing about it. Which is why we ended up where we are, because you sat by knuckle deep dredging your own plumbing and then going "why does my finger smell like shit?" For decades.

Just an FYI, nearly all the insane shit for brains Republican voters I know cite shit like Tipper Gore and other "PC police" as their galvanizing point for becoming Republican voting shit for brains. Most people don't know what actually happened there, but of course let's just keep howling about the same handful of Democrats (seriously, the Gores and Clintons seem to have some innate ability to get under people's skin despite people easily being able to recognize that Republicans are being far worse). Same dumb shit and then you wonder why Republicans have gotten away with what they have? Because dipshits like you are stuck howling about Tipper Gore, while you ignore that she was not pushing for what people blame her for - censorship (that was all the Republican wives and religious nutters doing that, Tipper merely wanted labels to make it easier for parents to understand content they were buying). Comparing that to Ginni Thomas who literally tried to enable an overthrow of the government is so laughably fucking moronic that well its the level of thought that I usually get from Republican voters.

Unfuck your mind, learn something, then actually fucking do something about it. Or don't. I frankly don't give a shit, as honestly based on your level of knowledge, rationalization using that logic, we're probably better off if you didn't and just stuck to bitching and jamming your thumb up your ass.
 

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Way to shoot your own dick off by being exactly what you're bitching about (a dumbass raging about shit on a forum). Further, the way that Musk is fucking up Twitter makes all the aspects of social media you're angry about worse. Also, your shit analogy to end it doesn't work any which way you force it and just highlights how you're just as much a part of the problem as anything because your brain is stuck in fucked mode, you're griping about shit from almost 30-40 years ago (which you also clearly don't understand based on you trying to force the analogy between those 2), then conflating social media to the late 90s when those companies didn't even exist (and even then had limited real relevance until mass smartphone adoption in the 2010s).

But it also highlights the entirety of why your argument is stupid. You act like anything actually changed. It didn't. Like you said, Carlin (which I get, apparently that was pinnacle of human thought for you...) was bitching about stupid people for decades. Those people have always been there and likely always will.

Maybe not base your thoughts on stand up comedians who are every bit as shining examples of the problems in the world. Carlin did jack fucking shit about any of the stuff he bitched about, but hey, I guess thanks for the near incessant insolent righteous bitching? That accomplished less than nothing, and convinced an entire generation of people like you to sit by with your thumb up your ass, bitching, but doing nothing about it. Which is why we ended up where we are, because you sat by knuckle deep dredging your own plumbing and then going "why does my finger smell like shit?" For decades.

Just an FYI, nearly all the insane shit for brains Republican voters I know cite shit like Tipper Gore and other "PC police" as their galvanizing point for becoming Republican voting shit for brains. Most people don't know what actually happened there, but of course let's just keep howling about the same handful of Democrats (seriously, the Gores and Clintons seem to have some innate ability to get under people's skin despite people easily being able to recognize that Republicans are being far worse). Same dumb shit and then you wonder why Republicans have gotten away with what they have? Because dipshits like you are stuck howling about Tipper Gore, while you ignore that she was not pushing for what people blame her for - censorship (that was all the Republican wives and religious nutters doing that, Tipper merely wanted labels to make it easier for parents to understand content they were buying). Comparing that to Ginni Thomas who literally tried to enable an overthrow of the government is so laughably fucking moronic that well its the level of thought that I usually get from Republican voters.

Unfuck your mind, learn something, then actually fucking do something about it. Or don't. I frankly don't give a shit, as honestly based on your level of knowledge, rationalization using that logic, we're probably better off if you didn't and just stuck to bitching and jamming your thumb up your ass.
Are you going through menopause right now or could you be more respectful and calmly address others instead of being a mentally unstable human? I didn't bother reading through your bullshit because it's not worth my time if you're going to start off with insulting others. Your post is a waste of kilobytes on an SQL server and nothing more. G'day and begone to your bridge.
 
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Are you going through menopause right now or could you be more respectful and calmly address others instead of being a mentally unstable human? I didn't bother reading through your bullshit because it's not worth my time if you're going to start off with insulting others. Your post is a waste of kilobytes on an SQL server and nothing more. G'day and begone to your bridge.
This is pretty much normal behavior for the fellow. He's generally one of the first to make it back on my ignore list after it's semi annual clean out.
I have a very strong dislike of internet tough guy's who love to spout off when there is no risk of consequences.
 
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This is pretty much normal behavior for the fellow. He's generally one of the first to make it back on my ignore list after it's semi annual clean out.
I have a very strong dislike of internet tough guy's who love to spout off when there is no risk of consequences.
Cheers. I don't like to judge. People sometimes have bad days and they take it out on others. Worked with similar people over the years. I shrug and move on. There's always a few on any enthusiast forum.
 

MrSquished

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This is pretty much normal behavior for the fellow. He's generally one of the first to make it back on my ignore list after it's semi annual clean out.
I have a very strong dislike of internet tough guy's who love to spout off when there is no risk of consequences.

90% of people on here realize that you are a dishonest immoral hack that is full of shit most of the time and on the wrong side of things 9 times out of 10.

Want to meet for a beer? But I ain't coming to your shithole state though.