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Elon Musk officially buys Twitter, DONE DEAL !

Elon Musk: "I'm buying twitter to make it a true platform for free speech"

Also Elon Musk:

Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on YouTube​


https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/15/tes...-fsd-beta-videos-as-ai-addict-on-youtube.html

(TL;DR the employee was just filming himself in his car on auto drive and it made a minor error and ran into a traffic cone... then posted it to youtube, he didn't even say anything particularly bad about the feature)
 
Twitter is fucking weird, I don't really use it the way its supposed to be used. Its more like the National Enquirer than a news source, like complete "its aliens" memes yet, people were posting legit footage from the war on ukraine that no one else was posting. It really is something I don't pay attention to.

I can legit see if you are a company or something it may be of some use, better than Facebook. Musk buying it just...seems odd.
 
Why is it scary? What should be scary is knowing this happens in society anyway. Private interests is all you need to know and they unfortunately influence much of your life from science to education, economy to healthcare etc.

People are only making a fuss about it because Elon doesn't follow hide away behind the scenes like most wealthy and powerful people who make things happen out of sight. Elon has gone public and has been public for a long time and so people feel they have the capacity to make decisions on what he does. You never see Bill Gates for example being so public. Bill doesn't convey the same messages nor interacts with his audience like Elon does. Nobody questions someone who doesn't reveal much and so most billionaires fly under the radar avoiding the chance for the public to challenge them. I wonder why that is?

Elon Musk is not sent from above to rescue free speech. He doesn't possess the silver bullet. What buying Twitter symbolizes is purely the potential for a HUGE entity like Twitter to be taken over in the first place. It is like a fuck you to power but in a way related to information and the powerful that possess the highest positions of authority over that information. Twitter can be challenged. All it takes however is over 40 billion dollars and anyone can do it! It sets a precedent. If you want to at least show that these giants can be walked with, you can make it happen and until now that's been unheard of. Twitter is an entity within its own kingdom and its own rules, until now.

Also what is shows is what we know already and that is - money talks. With enough money you CAN buy anything and that includes keys to the digital realities we all consider to be untouchable and not phased by the external world. If anything remains consistent its the digital world's we know we can return to. This shows it to be otherwise
 
I don't mind Twitter as far as social media goes. As long as you stay well away from certain extremists. I got involved in something in 2020 and got called things that amazed me so much I left with my eye twitching. I've gone back on bc it's good for political stuff and we have an election next month, but other than that I follow philosophers, poets, artists, etc. I also followed Elon Musk bahaha
 
he bought twitter so he can un-ban trump

freedom baby

:USA:



but yea i only use twitter for sports injury reports

and pr0n

:)
 
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Mr. Krinkle said:
he bought twitter so he can un-ban trump
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Trump was pretty funny on Twitter. I saw him tweet every couple of hours one day about whatever the hell he felt like haha.

There was some organisation filling in for him since he got banned but I just looked at what it is exactly and it's changed. But still has 32.5m followers.

The Donald will be back, I'm sure of it.. Not just on Twitter but maybe even in the White House.

 
imo_incolae said:
Why is it scary? What should be scary is knowing this happens in society anyway. Private interests is all you need to know and they unfortunately influence much of your life from science to education, economy to healthcare etc.

People are only making a fuss about it because Elon doesn't follow hide away behind the scenes like most wealthy and powerful people who make things happen out of sight. Elon has gone public and has been public for a long time and so people feel they have the capacity to make decisions on what he does. You never see Bill Gates for example being so public. Bill doesn't convey the same messages nor interacts with his audience like Elon does. Nobody questions someone who doesn't reveal much and so most billionaires fly under the radar avoiding the chance for the public to challenge them. I wonder why that is?

Elon Musk is not sent from above to rescue free speech. He doesn't possess the silver bullet. What buying Twitter symbolizes is purely the potential for a HUGE entity like Twitter to be taken over in the first place. It is like a fuck you to power but in a way related to information and the powerful that possess the highest positions of authority over that information. Twitter can be challenged. All it takes however is over 40 billion dollars and anyone can do it! It sets a precedent. If you want to at least show that these giants can be walked with, you can make it happen and until now that's been unheard of. Twitter is an entity within its own kingdom and its own rules, until now.

Also what is shows is what we know already and that is - money talks. With enough money you CAN buy anything and that includes keys to the digital realities we all consider to be untouchable and not phased by the external world. If anything remains consistent its the digital world's we know we can return to. This shows it to be otherwise
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I get some of y'alls points that if it wasn't one billionaire owning Twitter, it would just be another. And I get that Musk putting himself out in public also leaves him more open to public scrutiny.

What pisses me off is that billionaires in general think they can leech off the government on one hand and not pay their fair share in taxes on the other hand. People like Musk, Bezos, Gates, none of them are contributing to society and infrastructure as much as the folks, us, who bust our asses every day and pay way more in taxes than the people with the most money and the most fucking bailouts and subsidies from the government. Musk got millions of subsidies for Tesla. Bezos got millions for his space hobby. All of them can afford this shit out of pocket but they are laughing as Uncle Sam ie., the American people foot the bill.

All that aside from the fact that Musk has outright lied about committing to actually do some good in the world with his excess wealth. Remember when he said he would fix Flint, MI's water crisis? Remember when he said he would contribute enough money to end world hunger? But hey, I got $44 billion laying around, fuck Flint and world hunger, I wanna see Trump on Twitter again.

I like Twitter because I can get up to date news from various sources (and now pr0n). And I'm not so butthurt about Musk buying Twitter that I'm going to quit using it. If anything, I will prolly start following him just so I can troll him. lol. I'm sticking around so I can help fight against the evil that is about to happen on the platform. Pitchforks and torches, baby!
 
Jerry Atrick said:
I get some of y'alls points that if it wasn't one billionaire owning Twitter, it would just be another. And I get that Musk putting himself out in public also leaves him more open to public scrutiny.

What pisses me off is that billionaires in general think they can leech off the government on one hand and not pay their fair share in taxes on the other hand. People like Musk, Bezos, Gates, none of them are contributing to society and infrastructure as much as the folks, us, who bust our asses every day and pay way more in taxes than the people with the most money and the most fucking bailouts and subsidies from the government. Musk got millions of subsidies for Tesla. Bezos got millions for his space hobby. All of them can afford this shit out of pocket but they are laughing as Uncle Sam ie., the American people foot the bill.

All that aside from the fact that Musk has outright lied about committing to actually do some good in the world with his excess wealth. Remember when he said he would fix Flint, MI's water crisis? Remember when he said he would contribute enough money to end world hunger? But hey, I got $44 billion laying around, fuck Flint and world hunger, I wanna see Trump on Twitter again.

I like Twitter because I can get up to date news from various sources (and now pr0n). And I'm not so butthurt about Musk buying Twitter that I'm going to quit using it. If anything, I will prolly start following him just so I can troll him. lol. I'm sticking around so I can help fight against the evil that is about to happen on the platform. Pitchforks and torches, baby!
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The problem is they DO contribute. If they didn't, why are we talking about one man buying one of the biggest tech giants in the world? That's a contribution 99% of the population will never match in endless lifetimes. Its just a contribution THEY want to make as opposed to what WE want. That's why it's called "private interests" because private individuals tied to their own interests, relationships, business goals, political goals etc get to decide for themselves what they want, hence interests. You choose your interests. They choose theirs. Theirs just happens to have far greater global implications than ours do. I have interests but the implications only go so far as the impact mine make, which is very little compared to billionaires. When a billionaire takes action and with sufficient planning, everybody can be affected.
Private interests are everywhere not just with Twitter.
Its funny because much of the reality people believe is real, including the belief IT IS real, are fabrications by private interests. MSM is one huge example. They serve themselves despite what people think and above the top of the pyramid are key players who control all the chips. They don't serve you or I and yet we pretend like they do just because we have been conditioned to believe the news is good and exists to serve us. Granted, the idea of the news as an archaic form of communication of information isn't corrupted. But news today is. Its bought and paid for and yet people complain when someone buys out real estate with their vast fortune and seeks to do what every other private interest does. This is the craziness of the world we live in!

That is the problem. Should we be allowing this to happen in the first place? Either way we HAVE allowed it to happen. Musk or any other billionaire makes no difference. We have a hierarchial structure in society and most of us will never have invites to the rungs of the ladder that enables us to have what they have. Why is that? And do we want that? How have we allowed it to happen? Shouldn't we be pushing back?

And now you're talking about the age old question of standing up to innate deeply woven problems in our society. Problems we didn't create but now find ourselves victims of, as well as passengers, just merely sharing posts on a forum like we are now unable to truly affect the world around us in beneficial ways for each other and all the while one man can spend more money than 99% of the population and control something that gives him the ability to define and shape peoples realities globally. This is happening all the time! Its nothing new. Musk is just a different flavour of what has existed in our modern world for a very long.

Instead of looking at Musk we should be looking at what this means as a potential problem on a much deeper level socially for us all. Don't blame one man. Blame the system that allows one man to do what he does. We might change things then :)
 
@Jerry Atrick

Do you think the whole globe can survive on all his 300 billions dollar wealth? I don't think so, think that a pack of tampons is about 2 and half euro. What'd you want him to do? like give someone a blow while standin up? he's taking us to Mars and from there in years to come, maybe after him unless he's developing some form of technology and I think it comes hand to hand with space colonization to all other available constellations containing super earths. Musk isn't a leech, we don't deserve him!
 
I think both left and right have lost their minds on this one. The nutty woke lefty liberals because they think Elon's move is some fascism crap ("Reeeee!!"), the right-wing/fanboys because they think Elon actually gives a fuck about democracy and the people.

I don't understand Elon fanboys. The guy puts batteries in cars and uses the surname of perhaps the greatest actual genius who ever lived to market his 'brilliant idea'. That's impressive? Really? This is the best we can come up with after almost a century since Nikola Tesla.. fucking duracell cars? Personally I think Elon is nothing more than a front man like Bill Gates or Bezos, someone who sold out in exchange for being the front man of huge industry that had its initial seeding (financial and technological) by the intelligence agencies/military industrial complex that have their own agendas.

The guy wants to link your brain to machines for christ sake. How do you square that circle with his apparent concern over free speech lmao.
 
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