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kt

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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.

I am not talking about individual accounts, I referring to company accounts. Don't they usually have multiple people with access to them within their respective company?
 

MrSquished

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Some website I’ve never heard of reporting 4/5 censorship requests from authoritarians are approfed

He's a free speech absolutist, just about 20% of the time, as long as his lawyers say it's cool, and he's Not offended or disagrees with that speech.
 
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manly

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Some website I’ve never heard of reporting 4/5 censorship requests from authoritarians are approfed
They are a center-left daily newspaper in Spain:

 

Vic

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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.
Dude.. the guy who owns factories across the globe... is a fucking globalist.
Get a fucking clue. Seriously.
 

Vic

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That's the sugar coat version of it so dumb people think it's a good thing. You need to read between the lines and just observe what's going on and actually read more specific articles of the agenda. What they basically want is to end car ownership, home ownership and pretty much ownership of anything and a lot of the things that are normalized to have a decent life style. They also want to have full control over every aspect of our lives. They want to create a dystopia. You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
This isn't what's happening. What is happening is that people from diverse backgrounds from across the world are trying to rise up and live that decent lifestyle, buy a car, buy a home, move up in life and lift their children too, and gullible morons like you, filled with the lies of the corrupt elites who want to tear down democracy restore the aristocracy, are trying to push them down in desperate hopes the global elites will give you breadcrumbs. It's pathetic.
 
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Vic

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‘The richest guy in history is just like me’.

Wut.
It is a never ending amazement to me that people are this fucking gullible.

I recall when Meloni got elected PM of Italy and some Queensland (IIRC) Senator tweeted that this was a great victory against the global elites! And all these idiots are lapping it up by pitiful dogs while all I'm thinking is that if the Prime Minister of Italy and a blueblood Australian Senator aren't members of the Global Elite, then exactly who the fuck is?

Apologies for the language, it's just I see shit like that and it's hard for me to filter it in.
 
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fskimospy

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It is a never ending amazement to me that people are this fucking gullible.
It is incredible that he reads what’s happened in his lifetime as an elite conspiracy against him.

Actually not that incredible, but amusing. Conservatives who said that the system was fair and the only thing holding people back was a failure of work ethic have seamlessly shifted to explaining their failures as being victims of a global conspiracy.
 

fskimospy

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This is really the last gasp of the boomers though. They took the prosperity their parents gave them and took it for themselves and once they ran out of prosperity to loot decided everyone else was to blame.

Hey boomers - your problems are entirely your own. You are the worst generation in US history.
 

Vic

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It is incredible that he reads what’s happened in his lifetime as an elite conspiracy against him.

Actually not that incredible, but amusing. Conservatives who said that the system was fair and the only thing holding people back was a failure of work ethic have seamlessly shifted to explaining their failures as being victims of a global conspiracy.
That's because it's only a failure of work ethic if you're not one of them.
 
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This is really the last gasp of the boomers though. They took the prosperity their parents gave them and took it for themselves and once they ran out of prosperity to loot decided everyone else was to blame.

Hey boomers - your problems are entirely your own. You are the worst generation in US history.
This problem isn't limited to the boomers. Tribalism has plagued humanity throughout history. It is encoded into our DNA that there is an "us" and there is a "them." And that "us" deserves all the forgiveness in the world while the "them" must be punished.
The great psychological mindfuck right now has been using social media to get people to personally identify with their "us" in order to manipulate them. Something that conservatives are particularly susceptible to. FFS those people openly support govt agents murdering citizens in the streets just by getting them to identify with the govt agents doing the murdering.
Socialism, to conservatives, is really just the proposition that persons are created (legally and politically) equal. The whole 'stealing your stuff' bit is just the lie they tell themselves so they won't see their boots on the necks of others.
Likewise capitalism, to leftists, represents the entreched wealth given to those who were born into it, who hit a home run from 3rd base, and who are really just keeping the rest of us down with rent-seeking.
And for myself, I'm just a classical liberal who read too much Tolkein and Heinlein but stopped short of Rand's demand that John Galt get away with acting like he invented mathematics and the English language.
 
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MrSquished

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As much as I have disagreements with some people on here, nobody is even close to being as dumb as squirrel.

I mean Brandon and Taj are pure evil, but squirrel is so dumb that it hurts my brain, but the problem is his idiocy is also very dangerous, because people that stupid and ignorant will go along with a lot of horrific things as we have seen in history.
 

Greenman

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This is really the last gasp of the boomers though. They took the prosperity their parents gave them and took it for themselves and once they ran out of prosperity to loot decided everyone else was to blame.

Hey boomers - your problems are entirely your own. You are the worst generation in US history.
That's an astonishingly shallow and envious statement.
How long have you been nursing this little ball of hate and what triggered it's release today?
 

allisolm

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That's the sugar coat version of it so dumb people think it's a good thing. You need to read between the lines and just observe what's going on and actually read more specific articles of the agenda. What they basically want is to end car ownership, home ownership and pretty much ownership of anything and a lot of the things that are normalized to have a decent life style. They also want to have full control over every aspect of our lives. They want to create a dystopia. You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
Every time I read something like the bolded above I can't help but think about the Kayak commercial .

 

fskimospy

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That's an astonishingly shallow and envious statement.
How long have you been nursing this little ball of hate and what triggered it's release today?
I’ve been very clear that the boomers are the worst generation in US history for many years now. Use the search function and you will see!

Also that doesn’t change the fact that what I’m saying is true. College is a good example. It was heavily subsidized when the boomers went to college. When it was their turn to subsidize their children they instead cut funding for it and cut their own taxes.
 
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fskimospy

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This problem isn't limited to the boomers. Tribalism has plagued humanity throughout history. It is encoded into our DNA that there is an "us" and there is a "them." And that "us" deserves all the forgiveness in the world while the "them" must be punished.
The great psychological mindfuck right now has been using social media to get people to personally identify with their "us" in order to manipulate them. Something that conservatives are particularly susceptible to. FFS those people openly support govt agents murdering citizens in the streets just by getting them to identify with the govt agents doing the murdering.
Socialism, to conservatives, is really just the proposition that persons are created (legally and politically) equal. The whole 'stealing your stuff' bit is just the lie they tell themselves so they won't see their boots on the necks of others.
Likewise capitalism, to leftists, represents the entreched wealth given to those who were born into it, who hit a home run from 3rd base, and who are really just keeping the rest of us down with rent-seeking.
And for myself, I'm just a classical liberal who read too much Tolkein and Heinlein but stopped short of Rand's demand that John Galt get away with acting like he invented mathematics and the English language.
I hear that but it doesn’t explain why the boomers were for public works and public spending when it benefitted them and then turned against it when they had to pay for it.

To me the most likely answer is the famous quote about how easy times make weak men and weak men make hard times. The boomers had it easy and grew up used to a life of entitlement. When it came time to pay the bill and gift that to their kids they decided it was better to keep that life of entitlement.
 

Ajay

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This is really the last gasp of the boomers though. They took the prosperity their parents gave them and took it for themselves and once they ran out of prosperity to loot decided everyone else was to blame.

Hey boomers - your problems are entirely your own. You are the worst generation in US history.
What?? The boomer generation will be transferring ~68 Trillion dollars to their children and charities as they die off over the next ~20 years. It's more complicated than that, you can read here for something that goes into a bit more detail: Millennial Inheritance.
 

fskimospy

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What?? The boomer generation will be transferring ~68 Trillion dollars to their children and charities as they die off over the next ~20 years. It's more complicated than that, you can read here for something that goes into a bit more detail: Millennial Inheritance.
This kind of proves my point - boomers will be transferring huge sums of wealth to their kids when they die because when they were alive they hoarded it all.