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Merged Musk buys Twitter!/ Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold....

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Interesting. I seem to recall Thunderf00t made a video recently claiming that Musk could not buy Twitter because he didn’t have enough money and this was just a PR stunt. I didn’t watch the whole video because frankly he was taking waaay too long to make whatever point or cite whatever evidence he was going to cite, and I just ran out of patience.

Here is what he said on twitter though:

https://mobile.twitter.com/thunderf...7?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AFWKXe221L0
 
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Puppycow said:
Interesting. I seem to recall Thunderf00t made a video recently claiming that Musk could not buy Twitter because he didn’t have enough money and this was just a PR stunt. I didn’t watch the whole video because frankly he was taking waaay too long to make whatever point or cite whatever evidence he was going to cite, and I just ran out of patience.

Here is what he said on twitter though:

https://mobile.twitter.com/thunderf...7?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet
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To be fair, that was a pretty common opinion..given Musk's penchant for publicity stunts that lead to nothing.
 
Venom said:
I really hate this dumb narcissist.
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I don't hate him, but I don'tlike the personality cult that he has going where he is God and can do no wrong.
A couple of people onthis forum are big fans of space travel...(and so am I) that they will forgive Musk anything because of Space X. I like what he has done with Space X, but that does not mean I cannot see his severe charecer flaws and all the mistakes he has made.
I won't name names about the forum members who will not speak ill of Musk because of Space X, but they should be smart enough to know better.
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
The progs are mad because they’re worried they won’t be able to cancel people on Twitter anymore.
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They can always find a new home on TikTok I suppose.

The weird thing is, you could crack a joke: "Elon Musk buys Twitter... And nothing of value was lost", and everyone on both sides of the aisle would laugh and agree that it's funny because it's true. But absurdist politics demands that half the country lose their minds over this anyway.
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
The progs are mad because they’re worried they won’t be able to cancel people on Twitter anymore.
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I think this is one of those delusions that right-wing Musk fans have that somehow Musk is going to make everything okay.

But what do we mean by "cancel on Twitter"?

If, for example, you mean there won't be any more dog-piling or ironic racist tweets going viral and resulting in someone getting sacked, then I don't see any evidence that Musk is going to stop that. In fact, probably the opposite if you can say what you like on Twitter.
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
Then what you’re saying is that the progs who are getting upset are delusional.
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Sure they might be. It depends. Can you post someone’s words and I will tell you if they are correct or delusional. It is one of my powers.

Anyway, my point is that Musk will not be able to please everyone. Either he has ToS s or not. Either way will upset someone.
 
theprestige said:
Honestly I don't think even the progs really know why they're mad about this.
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Perhaps they aren't so much. It looks like it will be same- old, same old. Musk only wants it for a profit-making venture, not any particular political fire-hose. He will encourage / permit that which makes him richer. That's his lodestar.
 
theprestige said:
Honestly I don't think even the progs really know why they're mad about this.
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I'm not upset. it's a private company, and now all the pedophile misogynistic homophobic racist conservatives (I repeat myself) will happily out themselves while injecting bleach because God-Emperor Trump tweeted that they should do so.
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
OK.

Wait, are you sure?
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So do free speech absolutists think it's no big deal that the loudest of the worst are given one of the largest media platforms in modern times, like Trump inciting the January 6 attack? That's a bit more than "cancelling" someone for a bad joke or what they said on social media one time that had to be dug up after a decade. But they've been made equivalent somehow thanks to right-wing propaganda.

Last thing we need is a greedy, narcissistic piece of **** like Elon Musk wanting to ingratiate himself with that crowd.
 
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