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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dank69

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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.
He isn't saying the guy isn't a white supremacist. He is saying that the motive might not have been white supremacy. He doesn't realize that this distinction doesn't matter to anyone but white supremacists, and thus bringing it up makes him look like the white supremacist we all suspect he is.
 
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zinfamous

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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.

to be fair, they just repeat these phrases from previous generations of undisputed fascists--to be clear, fascists that even today's fascists accept as being fascists--but still, today they "are different!" So what if they repeat all the words verbatim, do all the exact same things and want all of the exact same things, tout the exact same world conspiracy nonsense that the previous fascists used to justify their evil goals....today's fascists are totally not fascist! They promise.

So anyway, they're just lazy and completely lack creativity and critical thought capacity. They can't even come up with their own 5 word phrases. Just stick to their history--oh! which totally isn't their own history, actually, they promise!
 
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ivwshane

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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.

How would one know if they were crazy?

For me, I think I would have to draw the line at whether or not my beliefs relied on multiple conspiracy theories in order to explain basic questions one would ask. Like if it was just one theory and the facts supported it, ok maybe, maybe not crazy. But if that same theory required me to believe another theory and further analysis required me to continually expand who was involved in that conspiracy in order to make sense, I’d have to start doubting myself.

For example: if I were to believe that democrats are pedophiles who are sex trafficking kids, I’d have to be able to explain why none of them have been caught but other sex traffickers have. Well one might then declare its because multiple agencies, both public and private, are involved. But then I’d have to question why not a single whistle blower has come forward in this conspiracy but in every other scandal you always hear about at least one person exposing at least some of the criminal activity. Which would then require me to again expand who was involved. At that point the size and scale of the conspiracy is so massive that’s it’s impossible to be true. Humans aren’t great at keeping secrets and if my conspiracy theory requires me to assume that what is normal human behavior is somehow not taking place, then I’d have to admit that my beliefs are a lie. But that would mean that I would have to be open to my beliefs being wrong and that can be extremely difficult for some, hell if not most people, to do.

How would you test yourself?
 

cytg111

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Starting 2:15
The pause at 2:35 - 2:46
The stare at 3:20 -

Tell me what you see.


"Offer me money, offer me power, I dont care".
Alright. Ill bite. I see a true believer. Its not a fad, owning the libs for the lolz, its a matter of truth and righteousness. He may be a shit poster with his own social media platform to enable him but his shit posts are real and true to him.

True believers are *always* dangerous. Look out.
 
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cytg111

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How would you test yourself?

The times I've course corrected myself so far has always been as a consequence of analyzing whether my current course of direction has a net positive or net negative influence on the people in my life I love. What's more important than them right?
 

nakedfrog

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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.
It's just unfathomable that a white person who grew up in apartheid-era South Africa could possibly harbor white supremacist beliefs.
 

MrSquished

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Jan 14, 2013
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If you ever step in a bit of random dog shit on the sidewalk, that shitstain on your shoe has more decency and human character than Elon Musk.
 

cytg111

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Outside of his opinions on rocket science and electric cars why do people care what Elon thinks?
Why do anyone care what anyone thinks? As evident by his following a-lot of ppl care about what Elon has to say, and thats really my gripe. Same as with Rogan. I care that they poison the air waves for so many uninformed or disinformed people.
 

hal2kilo

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Alright. Ill bite. I see a true believer. Its not a fad, owning the libs for the lolz, its a matter of truth and righteousness. He may be a shit poster with his own social media platform to enable him but his shit posts are real and true to him.

True believers are *always* dangerous. Look out.
A motto for me is Beware of zealots.
 

HomerJS

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Explain to us then why we should care when you post thread/posts about random nobodies spouting racist shit.
You don't have to. Why do I?

I don't give 2 shits about Trump the racist asshole gameshow host, hotel and casino owner. All of a sudden the country decided to make this racist asshole POTUS. Now he effects my life and I care a lot. Trump along with a political party that actively supports white nationalists affects my like and people like me. With the likes of Tommy Tuberville, Paul Gosar, MTG and Louie Gohmert holding positions of power in national office while at the same time pushing laws and rules that are anti-civil rights and anti-voting rights remaining silent is not a tenable position for me.

These are hardly "random nobodies". You don't have to care about it if that's your position. I think this country is sliding backwards.
 

UNCjigga

Lifer
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Meanwhile, back in verified Blue Check Twitter, apparently there was a large explosion at the Pentagon (no, there wasn’t):

 

kt

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Meanwhile, back in verified Blue Check Twitter, apparently there was a large explosion at the Pentagon (no, there wasn’t):

Who in their right mind would use Twitter as a news source? Even before Elon took over Twitter, I couldn't tell whether a tweeted message is credible or just someone tweeting while sitting on a toilet spewing shit from both ends.
 

MrSquished

Lifer
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Who in their right mind would use Twitter as a news source? Even before Elon took over Twitter, I couldn't tell whether a tweeted message is credible or just someone tweeting while sitting on a toilet spewing shit from both ends.

It was quite easy to use Twitter as a verified news source before Elon Musk because you could follow certain trustworthy news media and individual journalists and know it was definitely their account.

That's a big part of the reason it became so popular in the first place.
 

kt

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It was quite easy to use Twitter as a verified news source before Elon Musk because you could follow certain trustworthy news media and individual journalists and know it was definitely their account.

That's a big part of the reason it became so popular in the first place.
Yes, but also quite easy for one disgruntled employee with access to the Twitter account to fuck it all up.
 

cytg111

Lifer
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Another thing that sort of proves Musk is not all that smart, for all his warnings about AI and doom of the race, his embracement of conspiracies and generic shit posting on twitter is not doing his message any favors.

End of the world? What, by the crazy billionaire shitposter on Twitter? Good one man, good one.
 

kt

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No it wasn't.
Mind explaining? I am actually serious because I have zero experience with Twitter, but my understanding is posting of Twitter messages are in real time. So, damages are already done even if you try to do damage control after the fact. Case in point, the Twitter account hijacking of 2020.
 

purbeast0

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Mind explaining? I am actually serious because I have zero experience with Twitter, but my understanding is posting of Twitter messages are in real time. So, damages are already done even if you try to do damage control after the fact. Case in point, the Twitter account hijacking of 2020.
It's just like any other account you have.

Just because you work at your company doesn't mean everyone has all of your credentials to log into all of your work accounts.

Just because someone works at CNN doesn't mean anyone at CNN can log into their twitter account.