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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kt

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Elon got threatened with sanctions by a high profile WEF member a while back if he allows full free speech, guessing he's caving to them. Sanctions against him would be bad for SpaceX and Tesla so I kinda don't blame him but it would be nice to see him have a bigger spine and tell them to F off. The new CEO is part of WEF as well, wonder if he got his hand forced, or what. He could also very well be controlled opposition. Always need to be on high alert with people like him. As much as I tend to support him I don't exactly trust him 100% either. Billionaires, millionaires and business people in general don't get there by being nice to everybody.
Dude, we can't understand you if you don't take Elon's cock out of your mouth first.
 

cytg111

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Elon got threatened with sanctions by a high profile WEF member a while back if he allows full free speech, guessing he's caving to them. Sanctions against him would be bad for SpaceX and Tesla so I kinda don't blame him but it would be nice to see him have a bigger spine and tell them to F off. The new CEO is part of WEF as well, wonder if he got his hand forced, or what. He could also very well be controlled opposition. Always need to be on high alert with people like him. As much as I tend to support him I don't exactly trust him 100% either. Billionaires, millionaires and business people in general don't get there by being nice to everybody.
What is super bad news is that all signs point towards Elon not making this connection BEFORE getting into acquiring Twitter.
Cause that means he is a dumdum. And that's bad news for everyone with money in the race.
 

dank69

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Elon got threatened with sanctions by a high profile WEF member a while back if he allows full free speech, guessing he's caving to them. Sanctions against him would be bad for SpaceX and Tesla so I kinda don't blame him but it would be nice to see him have a bigger spine and tell them to F off. The new CEO is part of WEF as well, wonder if he got his hand forced, or what. He could also very well be controlled opposition. Always need to be on high alert with people like him. As much as I tend to support him I don't exactly trust him 100% either. Billionaires, millionaires and business people in general don't get there by being nice to everybody.
Here is a fucking stupid lib telling you this was going to be a problem back in October:
While of course people claiming this is about free speech are lying, it's funny that implicit to their argument is that it's better to be subject to the whims of the Chinese Communist Party than the Woke Libs.

To me the process here is obvious:

1) China says 'we don't like people talking about X'.
2) Musk responds: 'too bad, I am a free speech absolutist'.
3) China says 'ok, well in unrelated news we have to close all Tesla factories in China for the next year or two for safety inspections'.
4) Musk: 'Okay, maybe free speech doesn't include talking about X'.

What does he value more, Tesla or Twitter? I think the answer is pretty clearly Tesla.
Only took you seven months to connect the dots.
 
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Zorba

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What is super bad news is that all signs point towards Elon not making this connection BEFORE getting into acquiring Twitter.
Cause that means he is a dumdum. And that's bad news for everyone with money in the race.
Yeah, I think this was discussed back on page 3 or so of this thread. Back when @ponyo was saying Elon would never do this.
 
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MrSquished

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I think it's been pretty obvious with Elon for some time now, well before he bought Twitter, that he would do things exactly like this.
 

fskimospy

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Yeah, I think this was discussed back on page 3 or do of this thread. Back when @ponyo was saying Elon would never do this.
@ponyo also seemed to think that Twitter was worth far more than $43 billion when Musk bought it and that its value would double or triple. Well, now that it's halved I guess it will need to quadruple or sextuple from here to get to his predictions. You never know!
 
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brycejones

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@ponyo also seemed to think that Twitter was worth far more than $43 billion when Musk bought it and that its value would double or triple. Well, now that it's halved I guess it will need to quadruple or sextuple from here to get to his predictions. You never know!
This is the thread that caused @ponyo to rage quit after all.
 
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fskimospy

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This is the thread that caused @ponyo to rage quit after all.
Haha I forgot about that. I also went back and looked at the first few pages and apparently he thought the killer advantage Musk Twitter (or whatever social network he would make) would be having Elon Musk on it, as if he were some huge draw.

Then I think about how a few months ago Elon got mad that people weren't interested in him so he had Twitter change its algorithm to promote his tweets specifically.
 

cytg111

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Haha I forgot about that. I also went back and looked at the first few pages and apparently he thought the killer advantage Musk Twitter (or whatever social network he would make) would be having Elon Musk on it, as if he were some huge draw.

Then I think about how a few months ago Elon got mad that people weren't interested in him so he had Twitter change its algorithm to promote his tweets specifically.
Its not like we havent seen the concept running at full rev the last couple of years. Idolization of a personage to the point of blind faith - no matter what evidence is showed in your face.
@ponyo was exercising blind faith. Same with the majority of Trump supporters I am sure.
I guess some people are meant to be led with blinders on?
 

Red Squirrel

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What is super bad news is that all signs point towards Elon not making this connection BEFORE getting into acquiring Twitter.
Cause that means he is a dumdum. And that's bad news for everyone with money in the race.

Maybe he knew or he didn't but the REAL issue is the fact that you can get sanctioned for simply allowing people to speak freely. THAT is the problem. Clearly the ones doing the sanctioning have things to hide that they don't want people talking about. Twitter is a private company and should be allowed to make their own rules, they can either censor stuff like they did before, or allow full freedom of speech, or partial freedom of speech, but it seems the globalists are not too keen on full freedom of speech.
 

sdifox

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Maybe he knew or he didn't but the REAL issue is the fact that you can get sanctioned for simply allowing people to speak freely. THAT is the problem. Clearly the ones doing the sanctioning have things to hide that they don't want people talking about. Twitter is a private company and should be allowed to make their own rules, they can either censor stuff like they did before, or allow full freedom of speech, or partial freedom of speech, but it seems the globalists are not too keen on full freedom of speech.
This just in. Erdogan is a globalist.
 
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sdifox

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Not sure where Erdogan came in the picture, I was talking about the fact that Elon got threatened by WEF with sanctions if he continues to allow free speech.

Erdogan demanded Elon silence his election competition and Elon did. Elon also signed a deal to launch Turkish satellite. Pure coincidence. Remember Elon calls himself Free Speech Absolutist. Turns out he is just a Capitalist.
 
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Red Squirrel

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Erdogan demanded Elon silence his election competition and Elon did. Elon also signed a deal to launch Turkish satellite. Pure coincidence. Remeber Elon calls himself Free Speech Absolutist. Turns out he is just a Capitalist.

I didn't really follow that specific situation but yeah anyone who does not realize he's a capitalist would be naive.
 
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Red Squirrel

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So you agree that Elon doesn’t give a shit about free speech, right?

Twitter still has less censorship than it did before. You can talk about things that before would get you banned, so I'd say he does care to some degree. Maybe not 100% free speech, which is unfortunate, but I never really expected that. Money talks.

I never said at any time that Elon is an angel, but there's no denying that Twitter is better than it was before. He took a lot of the trash out.
 

sdifox

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Twitter still has less censorship than it did before. You can talk about things that before would get you banned, so I'd say he does care to some degree. Maybe not 100% free speech, which is unfortunate, but I never really expected that. Money talks.

I never said at any time that Elon is an angel, but there's no denying that Twitter is better than it was before. He took a lot of the trash out.
LoL animal smut videos and nazi speech is what makes Titter better, got it.
 

brycejones

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Twitter still has less censorship than it did before. You can talk about things that before would get you banned, so I'd say he does care to some degree. Maybe not 100% free speech, which is unfortunate, but I never really expected that. Money talks.

I never said at any time that Elon is an angel, but there's no denying that Twitter is better than it was before. He took a lot of the trash out.
And you missed it
 
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Red Squirrel

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LoL animal smut videos and nazi speech is what makes Titter better, got it.

That's barely a pressing issue, and I'm sure if it's bad enough it would still get banned, if you even know where to look to find that kind of crap and report it. I'm talking about conversations against the alphabet child grooming cult and such, which before would get you banned. Also the whole covid thing, which is over now, but for a while if you questioned anything you got banned. Same with talking against the great reset of agenda 2030, pretty sure that got you blocked before. In general people from either side of the political spectrum can now speak freely without being banned and actually criticize politicians of either side.
 

sdifox

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I'm talking about conversations against the alphabet child grooming cult and such, which before would get you banned. Also the whole covid thing, which is over now, but for a while if you questioned anything you got banned. Same with talking against the great reset of agenda 2030, pretty sure that got you blocked before. In general people from either side of the political spectrum can now speak freely without being banned and actually criticize politicians.
Alphabet child grooming what? And again with the nutty great reset conspiracy. Do you really understand what you are saying?


Oh by the way your buddy Elon hired a new CEO who is part of the WEF you fear so much.
 
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cytg111

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Maybe he knew or he didn't but the REAL issue is the fact that you can get sanctioned for simply allowing people to speak freely. THAT is the problem. Clearly the ones doing the sanctioning have things to hide that they don't want people talking about. Twitter is a private company and should be allowed to make their own rules, they can either censor stuff like they did before, or allow full freedom of speech, or partial freedom of speech, but it seems the globalists are not too keen on full freedom of speech.
You mean like elections in Brazil? As big a mouth as Elon has sported over how Twitter was run he owes someones some fucking apologies over what he is doing now. What a two faced bitch.
I have, soon to be had, a friend like you, and I also need to explain this freedom of speech shit to him like he is a fucking toddler- and he still dont get it, well he wont retain it anyway. If I come into your house and start insulting your wife, you are gonna censor me by kicking me out your house right? Thus oppressing my speech right? - And then build from there. But for some fucking reason it never sticks. These Elon drones is getting tiresome.
 

MrSquished

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Yeah, who cares if there's literal Nazis and animal snuff films being auto-suggested on the platform as long as you can talk shit about queer people and share your batshit conspiracy theories again?

You're telling us exactly who you are, Squirrel.

He ignored me because I've been calling him what he is in not so uncertain terms as it has been clear for quite some time.

I mean virtually everyone here sees what trash he is. He is a perfect specimen of a fascist acolyte that will remain ignorant for life because he is willfully detached from reality, no matter WHO gives him facts from anywhere.