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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Lifer
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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.
Yes. But why should a business have to allow lies that kill its user base like lies about COVID vaccines. Or why should it allow crazy conspiracy theories about replacements, flat earth, lunar landing conspiracies.

People who’ve spent anytime researching those topics themselves and still post as if they are true are either lying for manipulation purposes or so naive they need to be protected from themselves.
 

MrSquished

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It's kind of amusing to know how squirrel might have an IQ around 100 on a good day, and Elon is clearly higher for sure but they are both the same dumb fucking morons when it comes to this shit.
 
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During the pandemic, especially the lockdown, I was surprised to discover how much good-quality free content there is on YouTube.

But it seems clear there's also a lot of pure conspiracy-theory nutjobbery, of the likes that are linked to above, which makes me nervous about following YouTube algorithms 'recommendations' too blindly. Really don't want to be drawn down that rabbit-hole (or, given how it always, if you go down it far enough, ends up being about 'the Jews', maybe it should be termed a "rabbi-hole"?)
 

fskimospy

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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.
So Twitter is just censoring different things.
 

ch33zw1z

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I don't know why people are acting so weirded out like I just randomly came up with that, this info is right out there and there is TONS of material. If you're that much asleep then I can't help you.

This 12 minute video scratches the surface but there's tons more info from many sources if you look it up.


Ok, asleep. So you’re woke?
 
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I don't know why people are acting so weirded out like I just randomly came up with that, this info is right out there and there is TONS of material. If you're that much asleep then I can't help you.


Ok, asleep. So you’re woke?


I think he's implying that the "woke" are "asleep". And that the unwoken are, er, awake. Goddam, can't we go back to normal English language when discussing politics?
 

ch33zw1z

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I think he's implying that the "woke" are "asleep". And that the unwoken are, er, awake. Goddam, can't we go back to normal English language when discussing politics?

Unlikely. Conservative voters need short, catchy attack guidance. “Lock her up”, “build the wall”, “let’s go Brandon “, “woke”.

in fact, the longest one I’ve seen to date is “Jews will not replace us”. That’s a whole 5 words, almost intellectual libtard territory.
 

cytg111

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Yeah that sounds exactly like what Agenda 21 was. These guys have never actually read either of them. They're worried about something simply because anonymous strangers on the internet told them they need to be scared of it. Hit all the familiar dog whistles to get them hooked along the way.
Bingo, I think that's a major, if not the biggest, part of modern western society struggle with media in general. No source criticism.
I recall a professor I had back at Uni, telling us that all the courses we were taking there was worth jack shit, the real skill set we were learning was 1. source criticism and 2. information acquisition aka walk into a library, orient yourself, find the data you're looking for and understand the sourcing.
I think some of that shit should get taught in high school today.
 

cytg111

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This is damning. Watched it the first time and thought, “This is a deep fake, it has to be”. Still not 100% cause its so stupid. Why? Why dude, why?
This is the same gut reaction he had when Paul Pelosi got attacked. So fast to trigger conspiracy. Listen up, dude IS dosing. He has to be.

 

misuspita

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Musk now badmouthing Soros. One has 150+ billions, the other ~10. One sold all shares at the other's car company. Are the 2 things related?

/retorical
 

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So ... In an interview, Musk doubles down on his claims that there's no evidence the Allen, Texas mall shooter had white supremacist beliefs, and that Bellingcat does "does psy-ops" professionally. Lol! ..Yeah, who's to say whether a guy with a Nazi/swastika tattoos is a white supremacist?:rolleyes:Wtf is wrong with this guy? Or is it narcissists can never admit they are wrong? Is it an accident he is more concerned with standing up for white supremacy than he is addressing the senseless murder or the victims? And the useless reporter interviewing him didn't even challenge him on it by just mentioning that Texas police confirmed he was an explicit white supremacist?! the reporter doesn’t push back on him calling Bellingcat a psy-op and basically says he didn’t look into it. Why be a fucking reporter at that point?

He seems to get very upset when people speak ill of white supremacists. Why doesn't Musk come right out and say, "yes, I'm a white supremacist and a conspiracy theorist, deal with it." Hell .... He already said in the same interview "I'll say what I want to say and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it" So, just say it Elon! If I was a Tesla stockholder I’d be pretty concerned about now that Elon would rather shitpost conspiracies on Twitter rather than protecting his stockholders.
 

fskimospy

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So ... In an interview, Musk doubles down on his claims that there's no evidence the Allen, Texas mall shooter had white supremacist beliefs, and that Bellingcat does "does psy-ops" professionally. Lol! ..Yeah, who's to say whether a guy with a Nazi/swastika tattoos is a white supremacist?:rolleyes:Wtf is wrong with this guy? Or is it narcissists can never admit they are wrong? Is it an accident he is more concerned with standing up for white supremacy than he is addressing the senseless murder or the victims? And the useless reporter interviewing him didn't even challenge him on it by just mentioning that Texas police confirmed he was an explicit white supremacist?! the reporter doesn’t push back on him calling Bellingcat a psy-op and basically says he didn’t look into it. Why be a fucking reporter at that point?

He seems to get very upset when people speak ill of white supremacists. Why doesn't Musk come right out and say, "yes, I'm a white supremacist and a conspiracy theorist, deal with it." Hell .... He already said in the same interview "I'll say what I want to say and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it" So, just say it Elon! If I was a Tesla stockholder I’d be pretty concerned about now that Elon would rather shitpost conspiracies on Twitter rather than protecting his stockholders.
I guess this is what happens when you get rich enough that you're surrounded by yes men. Someone needs to take him aside and tell him to stop tweeting and to stop doing interviews because he's not accomplishing anything other than publicly humiliating himself.
 
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I guess this is what happens when you get rich enough that you're surrounded by yes men. Someone needs to take him aside and tell him to stop tweeting and to stop doing interviews because he's not accomplishing anything other than publicly humiliating himself.


He doesn't listen, I mean we know this is exactly what caused the Space X launch fiasco.
 
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I think Elon should definitely not shut up. Keep talking you wackjob!

I think I'd actually prefer it if he came right out and admitted he was pro-Nazi.

It's like "waiting for the other shoe to drop". All this tiptoing around, with facilitating the likes of Kanye, and pushing far-right conspiracy theories (even worse, doing it in a half-arsed deniable way, i.e. "there's no evidence the guy with swastika tattoos was far right" rather than "the swastika tattoo guy wasn't far right") for some reason puts me really on edge. Just rip the band-aid off and be open about what you really are.
 
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At this point, I can almost guarantee he has several hairless cats (that's where the plugs were donated from) and a secret underwater volcano lair.
 

K1052

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Same guy who says he doesn't care if he looses money on Twitter was not too long ago threatening to retaliate against companies that pulled their advertising spend from his new Gab clone. I don't believe a word that comes out of his mouth and neither should anybody else.
 
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zinfamous

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Agenda 2030 is literally the name of the agenda. And it's already starting to happen. I don't think it's going to just be a light switch they turn on where we're suddenly living in pods eating crickets, they are going to do it slowly. That's just the date the elites (I prefer to call them parasites) want it done by and if more people wake up and push back we can stop or at least slow it down. Used to be called Agenda 21 but got renamed. They're not really hiding any of this either. CBDC, Digital ID, more and more things going subscription based, run away inflation etc... it all ties in.

And yes it is concerning the new CEO is a WEF member, which I already mentioned.

what continues to amaze me is that you post these things, completely straight, as if it is knowledge as common as the color of the sky or the indisputable fact that humans evolved from apes, and that the rest of us are totally with you on this.

I know this is how cults and unsocialized conspiracists think, that the world will obviously agree with their true known facts--if only you listen!--but surely you must have some inkling of how completely insane this nonsense is, right?

Do you ever pause for even a few moments and consider the possibility that everything you are reading about these issues--none of which if they ever happened, would ever effect you in any way--are absolute nonsense and that maybe, if you considered actually traveling outside of Timmins for the first time in your sheltered life, you might entertain the idea that maybe the actual world that everyone else lives in is actually nothing like the one that you have created in your head?

Just to summarize: your rants are fucking insane and in no way reflect the reality of the actual world that 8 billion+ humans live in today. It might do you a service to spend some time actually investigating that world, rather than have other crazy people on the internet feed you nonsense that most 4th graders can see is just complete horseshit.

Just a thought.