xtcgrrrl
Bluelight Crew
Welcome to hell, Elon
Owning Twitter means owning a host of impossible political problems. Is Elon ready?
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Elon Musk officially buys Twitter, DONE DEAL !
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Jerry Atrick
Bluelight Crew
Don't forget moving manufacturing overseas in order to pay slave wages taking jobs away from hard working Americans, thus further fattening their bankrolls.
Jerry Atrick
Bluelight Crew
Eli Lilly Dives On Twitter Chaos, Taking Novo, Sanofi With it
A fake, but verified, Twitter account impersonated Eli Lilly and claimed insulin is free.www.investors.com
Good job Elon
Apparently someone used a fake verified Eli Lilly account to say that insulin is now free, and their stock like plummeted.
Seems like the 8 dollar verified shit wasn't the smartest move.
I think plummeting Eli Lilly's stock was awesome because fuck Big Pharma.
xtcgrrrl
Bluelight Crew
those fuckers
AbbeyLee
Bluelighter
xtcgrrrl
Bluelight Crew
Yo bestie, how goes itYo biatch
Xorkoth
Bluelight Crew
So... turns out even the edgelords and those who are just looking for lols have no problem paying $8/month. So I think we can safely conclude that those with more nefarious intent will have no problem with it, either.
Buzz Lightbeer
Bluelight Crew
Apparently only ~60k people subscribed, disastrous stuff for Elon. He's gotta make up for like half the advertising income and this is the amount of subscribers....
But besides scaring away investors and hurting some mega corporations the actual harm with this trolling is limited I think. In the end it's all pretty self regulating
Burnt Offerings
Bluelight Crew
"The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1"
That's the kind of thing where, if something like that happened today, I don't think that people would even believe it. Like oh sure, some people created a life-saving medicine that'll help countless people and they're NOT just gonna use it to make themselves filthy rich by exploiting desperate patients? Get real bro, you don't understand how the economy works!
People have been so thoroughly trained to take into account only the most base, self-serving and cynical rationales for the behavior of other people, goodwill or a genuine desire to help others doesn't even factor into the equation for many of them. It's kind of sad actually
"Greed is good" "Society doesn't exist" etc.
Teach people poor lessons and they behave poorly ime.
Jerry Atrick
Bluelight Crew
Las Veghost grower
Bluelighter
Shouldn’t it be pretty easy to spot a fake account ? Can’t you just look at the subscribers or followers or whatever
Las Veghost grower
Bluelighter
Well once again there is nuance to everything, just cause a pharma company shouldn’t be able to gouge patients dosent mean a musician shouldn’t be able to copyright their music, or someone who invents say a humane rat trap shouldn’t be able to patent their idea, it’s just funny watching people make broad generalizations as if it lands evenly across the board, but that’s just the world we live in I suppose
Buzz Lightbeer
Bluelight Crew
According to Elon?
Guy has been getting factchecked every 10 minutes, plus he's been a habitual lier for years. He'll do anything for the narrative.
He just fired a guy for correcting his mistakes in public
Never a quiet day
Well, I can't deny people are prone to generalizing and over-simplifying complex issues, ignoring nuance and pretending everything's binary - I think we all know it and see it being directed and happening (often very intentionally) every day.
But I'd suggest that's a key component of the "teaching people poor lessons" thing:- we've dumbed down culture, binned critical thinking skills, and discredited and silenced many of those whose knowledge, experience and expertise could actually challenge the most toxic aspects of our prevailing socio-economic paradigms.
Buzz Lightbeer
Bluelight Crew
About half I think. 3-4k people + a whole bunch of contractorsDamn how many he fire?
+ a couple more today for talking shit/correcting falsehoods