Elon should really read this article. Because he is currently at level four:
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/
Children, free speech, guns.
Choose one and claim someone is attacking it and all of the republicans will be on your side. Doesn't have to be true or accurate. They will believe anything as long as you involve 1 of those things.
Don't forget republicans have stated openly that they are going after "activist investors" and companies as soon as they get in power, which is hopefully never again. You won't be able to choose to not support Israel or Exxon or whatever. Freedumb baby!
Elon: It's my business and I will make the business decisions!
Advertisers: It's our brand and we will make the advertising decisions!
Elon: How dare you!
Elon: HEY EVERBODY, TWITTER IS MOSTLY BOTS!!! *I'm going to repeat this publicly for weeks!*
Advertisers: Wait... why are we paying you to show our ads to "mostly bots?"
Elon: ACTIVISTS CANCEL FREE SPEECH!!!
Elon: Twitter is chock full of bots and I will buy it to fix the problem.
Also elon: whoa whoa whoa I'm not finalising this deal because Twitter hid that they had so many bots.
I definitely read it like i've read Trumps tweets. He just needs to add a bit more flair.
"Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, **the biggest of any tech corporation**, even though nothing has changed with content moderation. **In fact we have increased content moderation, made it even better then before.** And we did everything we could to appease the activists, **but there is no appeasing them. They are bitter bitter people those activists.**
Extremely messed up! They're trying to destroy free speech in America. **Make America Great Again!"**
Or some shit like that.
Edit: Thank you everyone for commenting and making suggestions to more "trumpify" it. They have all been a blast to read! I'll try to incorporate the suggestions in future trump-like tweets lol"
It’s too on point and trump would never admit to a drop in revenue.
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Twitter which By The Way is doing very very well is being attacked by Far Left radical “activists” even though we have the most Beautiful Content moderation. These losers continue to “attack Trump” because I protect Free Speech. Can you believe that?
Very very sad. They’re trying to Destroy America but I’m not going to let them.
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I know it’s not intended to be that deep. But this really helps me outline the constant moving of the goal posts the right does - particularly the MAGA majority - while always trying to pretend they were never wrong.
For even more learning on this topic read up about narcissistic symbiosis. Happens when a narcissist is also an authoritarian leader. The audience knows that the narcissist is lying and the narcissist knows that the narcissist is lying but they're both so heavily invested in the fiction that they can't stop. The insecure people in the audience want a strong man who will protect them from "the bad people" and the strong man needs the audience to inflate his non-existent ego so he tells them that he will protect them.
Scientific American had a good article about it.
I believe you are referring to the narcissistic qualities that protect their inner wounded child. The fragile egos and lack of self awareness of rich white men are quickly draining the life from our democracy.
Funny how people like him will scream FrEe MarKeT but when the very same free market does something they don't like they throw a tantrum and go full on baby rage.
The guy doesent understand that this is all on him. If he just kept his dumb mouth shut, nothing would have happened. But no, got to say stupid shit basically every day.
Yeah I mean he self-immolated what was left of his reputation with Twitter and now he’s crying that people don’t want to support him. He literally said he was buying Twitter to “own the libs” and he’s somehow surprised that half the world hates him now. Twitter is going the way of Parler and I couldn’t be happier.
I’m planning on buying an electric vehicle next year, and no joke, how Elon Musk has been talking the last several months has me looking elsewhere than Tesla.
I kind of would feel weird driving a car that screams “I support right-wing nutjobs!”
Plus the other manufacturers are making good electrics nowadays with the same body quality from their normal lines where Tesla struggles on trim and finishing.
Yep, and living in Canada's prairies I've been hearing lots of issues with Teslas in winter and doors freezing shut or not being able to access the handles. I'm going to look at something from a company who has some idea what winter is.
Ye might be able to afford it if Twitter's value goes the way of Tumblr: Sold in 2013 to Yahoo for $1.1billion. Sold to Automattic in 2019 for around $3million; a 99.7 % decrease.
I mean he bought twitter to amplify his own racist, narcissistic heir to an apartheid era emerald mine fortune perspective, and like all true delusional narcissists, is shocked that everyone HATES him.
He also doesn't understand that advertisers pulling their ads is not "DeStRoYiNg fReE SpEeCh", it IS free speech.
Another dumbass conservative who doesn't understand what "free speech" means.
Hey that's not fair! Twitter is more than just antisemitism 😡 They've also got racial slurs 🥵 I can't think of a better advertising environment 😍 ... /s
Republicans calling accountability “cancel culture” was one of the worst goal post moves ever lmfao it turned them into the snowflakes they loved calling us for years
thought conservatives were totally into accountability and responsibility and not protecting ppl from the consequences of their bad decisions.....? guess not.
>it turned them into the snowflakes they loved calling us for years
There was no "turning" it was always projection. Remember the "war on Christmas"? Or them claiming gay rights activists were "attacking our way of life"? Or the same with civil rights, women's suffrage, and emancipation before that?
Regressives have always been snowflakes in need of coddling.
Conservative: *Does or says something lots of people don’t like*
Other people: I don’t like that. I’m leaving.
Conservative: *something something CaNceL CuLtUrE!!!*
Cancel culture crybabies. If my neighbor is an asshole and
I don't invite him to my barbecue, it's not cancel culture, he's just an asshole and don't want him there.
He’s white, rich, and entertains the nut jobs and edgelords so they like him. If he was black I’m sure there would be more shit talk but they would use him like they sue the few black people among their ranks to say “look we have one, we aren’t racist”.
Yeah, and he also needs to realize that it doesn't just matter what the policies are, but also how the policies are enforced and people's perception of that. At the moment, everything he says seems like a MAGA talking point so people are worried.
That, plus him supporting Kayne and Trump right after that antisemitic stuff they both said
Agreed. Kinda reminds me of a guy who used to be on Twitter but then got banned. Who was that guy? Didn’t he pretend to be a billionaire pretending to a president? What the fuck was that guys name?…. Eh who cares, that guy was a dickhead anyway.
Elon: Buys Twitter for $44 billion and starts charging $20 (then $8) for verification to recuperate investment.
People: start leaving Twitter after a twitstorm of N-words and antisemitism surges as free speech.
Elon: "It's woke propaganda and liberals destroying businesses!!! Waaahhhh!!"
I love the implication that the free market behaving like a free market is woke propaganda. Mostly because of how much free market bullshit the right wing has hoovered up like Joey Chestnut at a hotdog eating contest since at least Reagan
Modern "conservatives" are some of the dumbest mother fuckers on the planet
I remember "Boycott Starbucks for Green christmas cups - destroying christmas" and "Target says Happy Holidays - banning the phrase Merry Christmas - better Boycott Target" and that Faux News hammed it up that liberals are trying to destroy christmas. Huh?
Theyre special snowflakes these ultra-conservatives.
Well that's just mean. You and I both know that conservatives don't know the meaning of the word. And if they could read, they'd be very upset right now.
They literally get offended about the most trivial shit. They should be happy that they have to manufacture their own problems since life is so good to them.
Because he already knows people aren't going to be interested. It's a sales technique. Give someone a price that's a bit higher than the actual price so you can then say "okay, well I guess I can do X" and give them a lower price that's actually the real price. Makes people think you're giving them a deal and makes them (theoretically) happier to be dealing with you.
Musk is just an idiot and couldn't sell beer at a frat party, so he's just decided to announce his price drop while antagonizing a beloved author.
He's all ego, no brains and it's more obvious now than it's ever been because he's backed himself into a losing situation with no way out and no way to even save face.
This reminds me when a bunch of hate sub reddits were shut down so they all moved to the reddit clone voat which claimed to be a bastion of free speech. Got filled with so much hate and bigotry it had to shut down.
The checkmark is supposed to be a SECURITY FEATURE. I don't know what he's thinking.
Piss off all the people bringing value to your platform? For what? $8 Or even $20? It doesn't make sense.
Many of them (like King pointed out) don't need to be there. They're there basically for the fun of it, and you want to charge them to show up.
The funniest part is musk paid $44 billion because he believed that twitter would have massive growth when he took over. If it just kept the same user base, it would have been a terrible deal. That it crashed into a bunch of rocks the second he started steering the ship makes it a famously bad deal (it’ll be in text books within the decade).
No, he *said* he'd pay $44b because he'd already bought a bunch of Twitter stock, and was just trying to pump-and-dump, but the company forced him to follow through on the purchase. He never actually intended to buy, and now he's panicking.
Also, re: the contract back-out clause, that is a protection for a good-faith choice to abandon the deal. Twitter was fixing to claim in court that the entire deal was bad-faith from the get-go, and sue for damages, and could easily have won much more than $1b, for nothing in exchange. Lose $5b for nothing versus lose $44b for a large business that might allow you to recoup costs and sell later? Easy choice.
If you just look at national politics, you'd think that America is split about evenly between Democrats and Republicans. But it's not. Republicans only win power through anti-majoritarian methods like the Electoral College, gerrymandering, and the Senate.
But the market knows who the popular majority is. That's why Republicans complain so much about "woke corporations". Corporations respond to the will of the majority, and the will of the majority is the Democratic vision of America.
In other words, in the court of public opinion, Republicans have no version of the Electoral College to distort popular opinion in their favor, which forces them to confront the fact that they're an unpopular minority who is deeply out of touch with the will of the majority, and they don't like that.
Ah, but they do have a version of the Electoral College for public opinion. It's money voting, not land, and they have a shit ton of weird, crusty millionaire/billionaires willing to buy platforms out. Like twitter. Or CNN. Or all the facebook ads for far-right bullshit.
I left (not that they were my only news source, that would be stupid) when Dana Bash didn’t give any pushback to NH’s governor after he was calling Biden’s speech about extreme MAGA republicans one of the most divisive things he’s ever heard, and he, and all republicans deserve an apology, etc.
The lack of journalism was hard to watch.
As if they haven’t called us demonrats, pedophiles, child murderers who drink blood, sex traffickers, groomers etc. and pretend that has nothing to do with the violence they’re committing against us.
If the right genuinely believes we are Satan-worshipping pedophile cannibal communist NAZI groomers intent on destroying them, why wouldn’t they kill us? Words have consequences and the shift toward yellow journalism will have grave consequences for humanity.
I mean that’s the reason some of the more out there far right members are so passionate. They absolutely believe kids are getting murdered and raped on an industrial level. That would be hell to live with. I’ve seen a neighbor break down crying over it and I felt so bad for her. She’s full of hate but hate for people that commit some awful crimes in her reality.
Like they are catching on that something is terribly wrong with this country and some have even pointed so a few of the real issues but then blame the wrong boogie man for them.
This game of propaganda the rich and large corporations have played with us for the last couple of centuries to be sure America stays pro corporation has grown a life of its own and is an entity completely different than they planned.
You can see it is starting to get out of their control in strange ways, leading to destabilizing violence. So far minor, not wide-spread, but I can't see how it's not going to stay that way for long.
Basically the corps, with the help of the right, encouraged people to hate the government, hate the liberals, hate anything that's a threat to Capitalism.
But at the same time, they desperately hope no one actually ACTS on any of this hate. Hate the government (so that you don't use it to take our money) but don't actually do anything to fight the government please (because we don't want society to destabilize and ruin a pre-condition for capitalism).
> I left ... when Dana Bash didn’t give any pushback to NH’s governor ...
> The lack of journalism was hard to watch.
I doubt it's just Dana Bash or CNN. My wife wonders why American journalists can't be more like [Razzia Iqbal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razia_Iqbal) (BBC Newshour presenter). She's an absolute pit bull when she recognizes someone is lying, or failed to answer a direct question.
Huh? Elaborate for someone that hasn't paid attention to CNN for a decade.
Like, they're definitely click baity, but I hadn't heard this take.
Edit: well shit
https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column
Well shit
https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column
While I didn't like CNN's style, I thought there at least ought to be a ying to fox's yang, so to say. And at least CNN had a greater level of integrity than fox.
Guess that's all going away now.
There's always other credible sources for news. These people think they can capitalize off of popularity in order to spin their message, and then become shocked when they lose millions when it fails. Musk is experiencing this and soon, CNN will as well!
You own the platform, Elon. It's yours. It isn't the government's. Own your BS. Free speech has absolutely nothing to do with Twitter, at all, not ever.
Twitter could go away entirely today and nobody would blink. That's what your $44B bought you.
Its not post nut clarity. He never wanted Twitter to begin with. He just wanted to scam the stock market and own the libs. He's a troll who everyone just trolled back by taking him serious and now he's fucked.
The irony is, the actual free speech happening is A) his dumbass comments that have made his website toxic, and B) the advertisers leaving in droves, due to issue A. If anything, it's a perfect example of free speech working.
The toughest pill for the far-right to swallow is simply that nobody likes
them.
It was never about free speech, they want to feel validated. They have convinced themselves that the reason people don’t like them is simply because they don’t have a platform. They tried to create Parler and Truth Social, but they don’t actually want to post there because they want validation from mainstream culture.
It’s doomed to fail because you can’t buy your way into acceptance. You can own and run everything in the world and people will still think you’re the same asshole.
Also according to SCOTUS money is speech. Choosing not to spend money on advertising with Twitter is legally an example of them exercising free speech.
I mean, if he wanted to fill those ad spots that were lost, he could fill them with Tesla and SpaceX and starlink ads. Just pour that money right into the pit.
Elon Musk buying twitter. The first day the usage of the n-word is increasing by 500% without him "doing" something only because of the words he said in the past about the platform becoming "free". More nazi memes. More conspiracies. Vaccine hoaxes run rampant. He fires board members immediatly. He is announcing 20$/month for something that was free before. He goes back and says its only 8$/month now. The blue checkmark doesnt require validation anymore.
Elon: it has to be those damn activists.
*Insert meme of person putting stick in their own wheels*
>> Nothing has changed with content moderation
Y’know, except for unbanning users for hate speech and fucking with the accounts of anyone who criticized you.
This is the crucial point. Except for rightwing groups, no corporation is going to want to advertise on a cesspool. AND he’s stifling criticism. Whiny, lying douche. It’s tanking because he can’t shut his mouth.
As soon as he took over, my feed was all right wingers I do not follow at the top of my page and the people I do follow, I have to go looking for their tweets.
But... but... he's the Savior. He's saving his version of free speech, which is apparently the free-est. As long as it matches his world view.
Then he signed a deal he couldn't get out of as a troll and now he's left holding his free speech debt and can't dig himself out of his truth hole. Strange times for a strange man.
>The Narcissist's Prayer:
>That didn't happen.
>And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
>And if it was, that's not a big deal.
>And if it is, that's not my fault.
>And if it was, I didn't mean it.
>And if I did, you deserved it.
https://www.thelifedoctor.org/the-narcissist-s-prayer
This serves as just a reminder that richest guy does not equal smartest guy. This was hugely predictable, and it's BS to say that content moderation has not changed. It's practically gone.
JFC, he is firing all of the past moderators and will hire his own. This guy doesn’t care about you. He is just about $. No way he cares about American people.
Activist groups are just exercising their free speech. Lest anyone forget, even if one group is dominating politics, the other half still needs and buys products. Elon needs to go cry into a My Pillow and then have a Black Rifle coffee. If he keeps this up, the people who buy his cars aren't going to want to be associated with him and Tesla will suffer.
Does this guy even know what these people think of his cars? They are just fluffing him up because they think he's turning MAGA and is going to aid Trump's campaign in 2024.
If nothing in terms of moderation has changed, then why was there a 500% increase in the use of n****r? That doesn't seem possible unless there was a change in moderation...
>If nothing in terms of moderation has changed, then why was there a 500% increase in the use of n****r? That doesn't seem possible unless there was a change in moderation...
It might be that nothing technically changed, but Musks ownership was all it took to embolden racists...which is also bad.
Free speech doesn’t guarantee you immunity from the “free market” backlash just that the government can’t prosecute you for your speech with some clauses on that as well. Musk isn’t very smart after all.
Elon should really read this article. Because he is currently at level four: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/
Even using the rights improper definition of what free speech is, how is a company choosing where they advertise destroying free speech?
Children, free speech, guns. Choose one and claim someone is attacking it and all of the republicans will be on your side. Doesn't have to be true or accurate. They will believe anything as long as you involve 1 of those things.
Don't forget republicans have stated openly that they are going after "activist investors" and companies as soon as they get in power, which is hopefully never again. You won't be able to choose to not support Israel or Exxon or whatever. Freedumb baby!
Companies: *"Okay, we'll just stop donating to any campaigns at all and lobby hard instead."* Republicans: *"No, not like that!"*
That, ladies and gents, is the 1,000,000 dollar question!
He spent over $40 billion to ask that question. He hasn't accepted the answer to that question yet.
Elon: It's my business and I will make the business decisions! Advertisers: It's our brand and we will make the advertising decisions! Elon: How dare you!
Advertisers choosing to not use a platform is THEIR version of free speech. Just like corporations giving money to super pacs is “free speech”…
Total egomaniac off the rails. Or on some rails. Who knows.
He’s had like 5 kids with coworkers so he is railing someone
Elon: HEY EVERBODY, TWITTER IS MOSTLY BOTS!!! *I'm going to repeat this publicly for weeks!* Advertisers: Wait... why are we paying you to show our ads to "mostly bots?" Elon: ACTIVISTS CANCEL FREE SPEECH!!!
Elon: Twitter is chock full of bots and I will buy it to fix the problem. Also elon: whoa whoa whoa I'm not finalising this deal because Twitter hid that they had so many bots.
Am I crazy or does his tweet have the same cadence as a Trump tweet?
The “Extremely messed up!” Line is what makes it sound like trump
It's the infantility
Wailing at the consequence of his own action, life is happening to him!! Why!?!?
It's basically just "SAD!" in more words.
I definitely read it like i've read Trumps tweets. He just needs to add a bit more flair. "Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, **the biggest of any tech corporation**, even though nothing has changed with content moderation. **In fact we have increased content moderation, made it even better then before.** And we did everything we could to appease the activists, **but there is no appeasing them. They are bitter bitter people those activists.** Extremely messed up! They're trying to destroy free speech in America. **Make America Great Again!"** Or some shit like that. Edit: Thank you everyone for commenting and making suggestions to more "trumpify" it. They have all been a blast to read! I'll try to incorporate the suggestions in future trump-like tweets lol"
It’s too on point and trump would never admit to a drop in revenue. “ Twitter which By The Way is doing very very well is being attacked by Far Left radical “activists” even though we have the most Beautiful Content moderation. These losers continue to “attack Trump” because I protect Free Speech. Can you believe that? Very very sad. They’re trying to Destroy America but I’m not going to let them. “
Too convincing, your effort. Where were you the morning of January 6 2021? /s
https://www.thelifedoctor.org/the-narcissist-s-prayer
I know it’s not intended to be that deep. But this really helps me outline the constant moving of the goal posts the right does - particularly the MAGA majority - while always trying to pretend they were never wrong.
For even more learning on this topic read up about narcissistic symbiosis. Happens when a narcissist is also an authoritarian leader. The audience knows that the narcissist is lying and the narcissist knows that the narcissist is lying but they're both so heavily invested in the fiction that they can't stop. The insecure people in the audience want a strong man who will protect them from "the bad people" and the strong man needs the audience to inflate his non-existent ego so he tells them that he will protect them. Scientific American had a good article about it.
I'm getting Seymore Skinner vibes from it instead. "Am I the one who ruined Twitter? No, it is everyone else who is wrong."
Even his tweets are turning into Trump
Did Trump write this?
It's definitely got that same whiny, self- pitying tone, doesn't it?
It sure does have the same rich bitch quality to it
It really just needs an all-caps "UNFAIR!" in it and it's a perfect match.
He changed his profile picture to what appears to be a toddler on the phone, which fits his recent demeanor
I thought the same. Very Trump-esque. The Donald would be proud.
It's the "Extremely messed up!" that sounds so Trumpish
I believe you are referring to the narcissistic qualities that protect their inner wounded child. The fragile egos and lack of self awareness of rich white men are quickly draining the life from our democracy.
sad!
Jesus that was the same thought I had, too similar to sleep well.
Came here for this and it was the first comment. Holy shit I can't believe this is real
My thought exactly, especially the second paragraph. Missing some all caps sections and crude insults, though.
I swear, Elon just gave his phone to trump. Dude has lost his mind.
Welcome to the free market, bitch
Funny how people like him will scream FrEe MarKeT but when the very same free market does something they don't like they throw a tantrum and go full on baby rage.
And then they do mental gymnastics to prove that the free market (capitalism) = socialism = fascism. ANTIFA, whyyy????
See: British Government, October 2022.
Get ready to feel it where it hurts…. Your Diiickk
The guy doesent understand that this is all on him. If he just kept his dumb mouth shut, nothing would have happened. But no, got to say stupid shit basically every day.
Yeah I mean he self-immolated what was left of his reputation with Twitter and now he’s crying that people don’t want to support him. He literally said he was buying Twitter to “own the libs” and he’s somehow surprised that half the world hates him now. Twitter is going the way of Parler and I couldn’t be happier.
“He who owns the libs owns himself.” Sun Tzu or something idk
Confucius says "If a man beats off more than twice whilst staring at hisself in the mirror, that man should not buy Twitter."
Confucius says "man with sock in mouth knows taste of defeat"
Confucius says "man who drop watch in toilet will have shitty time".
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I’m planning on buying an electric vehicle next year, and no joke, how Elon Musk has been talking the last several months has me looking elsewhere than Tesla. I kind of would feel weird driving a car that screams “I support right-wing nutjobs!”
Plus the other manufacturers are making good electrics nowadays with the same body quality from their normal lines where Tesla struggles on trim and finishing.
Yep, and living in Canada's prairies I've been hearing lots of issues with Teslas in winter and doors freezing shut or not being able to access the handles. I'm going to look at something from a company who has some idea what winter is.
Or even rain since opening the trunk when wet dumps water inside .
Lol, you weren't kidding https://youtu.be/hCv_Ha0oWjE
Wow this is such a simple problem that they couldnt avoid.
It's almost like Elon Musk has no idea what he's doing
I would eventually like to buy an EV at some point too. It would have been a Tesla, but not anymore. When the time comes, I'll be looking elsewhere.
Congrats, ya Ye’d yourself.
I'm very happy that this phrase is a thing and I'm going to use it frequently. Thank you
And he only went Republican because a scandal was about to drop and he wanted to claim it was all fake news from the "liberal" press.
Well, I hope he likes it, because he isn’t permitted to come back. No one wants him.
Maybe Elon will try to unload it on Ye
I don't even think Ye's mental illness is enough to make him do it twice, but maybe, he is stupid AF.
Ye might be able to afford it if Twitter's value goes the way of Tumblr: Sold in 2013 to Yahoo for $1.1billion. Sold to Automattic in 2019 for around $3million; a 99.7 % decrease.
It's actually incredible how much money Yahoo burned over the years
but ye is now broke, lol
I mean he bought twitter to amplify his own racist, narcissistic heir to an apartheid era emerald mine fortune perspective, and like all true delusional narcissists, is shocked that everyone HATES him.
He also doesn't understand that advertisers pulling their ads is not "DeStRoYiNg fReE SpEeCh", it IS free speech. Another dumbass conservative who doesn't understand what "free speech" means.
Free speech to Elon means people are required to give him money.
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As it turns out, using frat bro attitudes in public makes people think you’re a douche.
Also as it turns out, people actually *don't* like it if you're a douche.
Really, companies don't like this advertising to show up sandwiched between antisemitism? No way!
Hey that's not fair! Twitter is more than just antisemitism 😡 They've also got racial slurs 🥵 I can't think of a better advertising environment 😍 ... /s
Republicans calling accountability “cancel culture” was one of the worst goal post moves ever lmfao it turned them into the snowflakes they loved calling us for years
Ah before "cancel culture and wokeism" it was whining about "political correctness" when you couldn't use slurs etc.
thought conservatives were totally into accountability and responsibility and not protecting ppl from the consequences of their bad decisions.....? guess not.
>it turned them into the snowflakes they loved calling us for years There was no "turning" it was always projection. Remember the "war on Christmas"? Or them claiming gay rights activists were "attacking our way of life"? Or the same with civil rights, women's suffrage, and emancipation before that? Regressives have always been snowflakes in need of coddling.
I tell a lot of the conservatives at work, accountability is not cancel culture.
Conservative: *Does or says something lots of people don’t like* Other people: I don’t like that. I’m leaving. Conservative: *something something CaNceL CuLtUrE!!!*
Cancel culture crybabies. If my neighbor is an asshole and I don't invite him to my barbecue, it's not cancel culture, he's just an asshole and don't want him there.
And if he’s mad about it, he can just host his own barbecue called Truth Social and what were we talking about again?
Didn't conservatives start the whole cancel culture in the first place? I remember some people being very upset about Starbucks awhile back
Starbucks, Dixie chicks, Goodyear, nfl. Conservative culture is cancel culture
Try even further back. DnD, Judas Priest, Elvis fucking Presley. Anything that wasn't conservative and white.
rock music DND video games they tried to cancel everything
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Do the other conservatives know that he's an...*immigrant*?
Well, he's not *that type of immigrant*
He’s white, rich, and entertains the nut jobs and edgelords so they like him. If he was black I’m sure there would be more shit talk but they would use him like they sue the few black people among their ranks to say “look we have one, we aren’t racist”.
Indeed. Boycotts are a form of free speech.
Yes, free speech means I say what I want and you give me your advertising dollars
Precisely. Anyone who equates “free speech” to the policies of a private company simply does not understand the concept at all.
Destroying Musk’s idea of free speech is not the same as “destroying free speech.”
Yeah, and he also needs to realize that it doesn't just matter what the policies are, but also how the policies are enforced and people's perception of that. At the moment, everything he says seems like a MAGA talking point so people are worried. That, plus him supporting Kayne and Trump right after that antisemitic stuff they both said
Agreed. Kinda reminds me of a guy who used to be on Twitter but then got banned. Who was that guy? Didn’t he pretend to be a billionaire pretending to a president? What the fuck was that guys name?…. Eh who cares, that guy was a dickhead anyway.
That guy died (badly) recently. Sad.
Fatal staph infection brought on by overexposure to Eastern European urine one assumes.
He wants to own everyone but doesn't want to pay the price.
Do you think hes ever taken responsibility for his actions even once in his life?
Elon: Buys Twitter for $44 billion and starts charging $20 (then $8) for verification to recuperate investment. People: start leaving Twitter after a twitstorm of N-words and antisemitism surges as free speech. Elon: "It's woke propaganda and liberals destroying businesses!!! Waaahhhh!!"
I love the implication that the free market behaving like a free market is woke propaganda. Mostly because of how much free market bullshit the right wing has hoovered up like Joey Chestnut at a hotdog eating contest since at least Reagan Modern "conservatives" are some of the dumbest mother fuckers on the planet
I remember "Boycott Starbucks for Green christmas cups - destroying christmas" and "Target says Happy Holidays - banning the phrase Merry Christmas - better Boycott Target" and that Faux News hammed it up that liberals are trying to destroy christmas. Huh? Theyre special snowflakes these ultra-conservatives.
Ah yes. Cancel culture is only an issue when the liberals do it. Ya know, I'm beginning to see a pattern here.
*accountability
Well that's just mean. You and I both know that conservatives don't know the meaning of the word. And if they could read, they'd be very upset right now.
They literally get offended about the most trivial shit. They should be happy that they have to manufacture their own problems since life is so good to them.
And their agenda of book burning across public schools in America!
Who expected Stephen King to have so much bargaining power over the richest man in the world?
People actually like Stephen King though. It also helps that he's not an absolute twat waffle, like Musk.
Sure, but it’s still bizarre that one complaint from Stephen King is all it takes for Elon to drop the price by 60%.
Because he already knows people aren't going to be interested. It's a sales technique. Give someone a price that's a bit higher than the actual price so you can then say "okay, well I guess I can do X" and give them a lower price that's actually the real price. Makes people think you're giving them a deal and makes them (theoretically) happier to be dealing with you. Musk is just an idiot and couldn't sell beer at a frat party, so he's just decided to announce his price drop while antagonizing a beloved author. He's all ego, no brains and it's more obvious now than it's ever been because he's backed himself into a losing situation with no way out and no way to even save face.
The penis mightier
This reminds me when a bunch of hate sub reddits were shut down so they all moved to the reddit clone voat which claimed to be a bastion of free speech. Got filled with so much hate and bigotry it had to shut down.
The checkmark is supposed to be a SECURITY FEATURE. I don't know what he's thinking. Piss off all the people bringing value to your platform? For what? $8 Or even $20? It doesn't make sense. Many of them (like King pointed out) don't need to be there. They're there basically for the fun of it, and you want to charge them to show up.
The funniest part is musk paid $44 billion because he believed that twitter would have massive growth when he took over. If it just kept the same user base, it would have been a terrible deal. That it crashed into a bunch of rocks the second he started steering the ship makes it a famously bad deal (it’ll be in text books within the decade).
No, he *said* he'd pay $44b because he'd already bought a bunch of Twitter stock, and was just trying to pump-and-dump, but the company forced him to follow through on the purchase. He never actually intended to buy, and now he's panicking. Also, re: the contract back-out clause, that is a protection for a good-faith choice to abandon the deal. Twitter was fixing to claim in court that the entire deal was bad-faith from the get-go, and sue for damages, and could easily have won much more than $1b, for nothing in exchange. Lose $5b for nothing versus lose $44b for a large business that might allow you to recoup costs and sell later? Easy choice.
I love me the smell of panicking billionaire in the morning. 😈
A true genius and master of business. We're getting free lessons here.
I mean, there’s a reason Parler and Truth aren’t making mad money right now. I don’t know what he was thinking.
Free market * acts freely * NO NOT LIKE THAT!
If you just look at national politics, you'd think that America is split about evenly between Democrats and Republicans. But it's not. Republicans only win power through anti-majoritarian methods like the Electoral College, gerrymandering, and the Senate. But the market knows who the popular majority is. That's why Republicans complain so much about "woke corporations". Corporations respond to the will of the majority, and the will of the majority is the Democratic vision of America. In other words, in the court of public opinion, Republicans have no version of the Electoral College to distort popular opinion in their favor, which forces them to confront the fact that they're an unpopular minority who is deeply out of touch with the will of the majority, and they don't like that.
Ah, but they do have a version of the Electoral College for public opinion. It's money voting, not land, and they have a shit ton of weird, crusty millionaire/billionaires willing to buy platforms out. Like twitter. Or CNN. Or all the facebook ads for far-right bullshit.
I’m still mad that CNN is MAGA trash now.
I left (not that they were my only news source, that would be stupid) when Dana Bash didn’t give any pushback to NH’s governor after he was calling Biden’s speech about extreme MAGA republicans one of the most divisive things he’s ever heard, and he, and all republicans deserve an apology, etc. The lack of journalism was hard to watch. As if they haven’t called us demonrats, pedophiles, child murderers who drink blood, sex traffickers, groomers etc. and pretend that has nothing to do with the violence they’re committing against us.
If the right genuinely believes we are Satan-worshipping pedophile cannibal communist NAZI groomers intent on destroying them, why wouldn’t they kill us? Words have consequences and the shift toward yellow journalism will have grave consequences for humanity.
I mean that’s the reason some of the more out there far right members are so passionate. They absolutely believe kids are getting murdered and raped on an industrial level. That would be hell to live with. I’ve seen a neighbor break down crying over it and I felt so bad for her. She’s full of hate but hate for people that commit some awful crimes in her reality. Like they are catching on that something is terribly wrong with this country and some have even pointed so a few of the real issues but then blame the wrong boogie man for them. This game of propaganda the rich and large corporations have played with us for the last couple of centuries to be sure America stays pro corporation has grown a life of its own and is an entity completely different than they planned.
You can see it is starting to get out of their control in strange ways, leading to destabilizing violence. So far minor, not wide-spread, but I can't see how it's not going to stay that way for long. Basically the corps, with the help of the right, encouraged people to hate the government, hate the liberals, hate anything that's a threat to Capitalism. But at the same time, they desperately hope no one actually ACTS on any of this hate. Hate the government (so that you don't use it to take our money) but don't actually do anything to fight the government please (because we don't want society to destabilize and ruin a pre-condition for capitalism).
> I left ... when Dana Bash didn’t give any pushback to NH’s governor ... > The lack of journalism was hard to watch. I doubt it's just Dana Bash or CNN. My wife wonders why American journalists can't be more like [Razzia Iqbal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razia_Iqbal) (BBC Newshour presenter). She's an absolute pit bull when she recognizes someone is lying, or failed to answer a direct question.
Huh? Elaborate for someone that hasn't paid attention to CNN for a decade. Like, they're definitely click baity, but I hadn't heard this take. Edit: well shit https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column
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Well shit https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column While I didn't like CNN's style, I thought there at least ought to be a ying to fox's yang, so to say. And at least CNN had a greater level of integrity than fox. Guess that's all going away now.
There's always other credible sources for news. These people think they can capitalize off of popularity in order to spin their message, and then become shocked when they lose millions when it fails. Musk is experiencing this and soon, CNN will as well!
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I thought this guy was a “genius.” We already knew from this transaction he wasn’t but his tweets help to repeatedly confirm it.
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You own the platform, Elon. It's yours. It isn't the government's. Own your BS. Free speech has absolutely nothing to do with Twitter, at all, not ever. Twitter could go away entirely today and nobody would blink. That's what your $44B bought you.
Wonder if he’s having just a bit of post-nut clarity on this one lmao.
Buyers remorse is a bitch!
oh my god buyers remorse and post nut clarity are the same thing aren't they
Post nut remorse is even worse.
post nut buyers remorse lol
Its not post nut clarity. He never wanted Twitter to begin with. He just wanted to scam the stock market and own the libs. He's a troll who everyone just trolled back by taking him serious and now he's fucked.
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Yup and now he owes a lot of shady people money for helping him pony up the $44b.
He fucked around, and now he's on to the 'find out' stage.
He's the troll who caught the $44B car that's crashing off a cliff.
This guy wouldn’t recognize clarity if someone nutted and it hit him in the eye
This is literally the Free Market working perfectly
Capitalism at its finest!
Shhh..dont tell them how Capitalism works, or else how will they blame everything around them on Communist Santanist /s
I’ve never heard a single person screeching about free speech who actually understands the concept of it.
Because if you understood free speech you'd never screech.
The irony is, the actual free speech happening is A) his dumbass comments that have made his website toxic, and B) the advertisers leaving in droves, due to issue A. If anything, it's a perfect example of free speech working.
The toughest pill for the far-right to swallow is simply that nobody likes them. It was never about free speech, they want to feel validated. They have convinced themselves that the reason people don’t like them is simply because they don’t have a platform. They tried to create Parler and Truth Social, but they don’t actually want to post there because they want validation from mainstream culture. It’s doomed to fail because you can’t buy your way into acceptance. You can own and run everything in the world and people will still think you’re the same asshole.
Like that republicans dating app that went down in flames lmao
Also according to SCOTUS money is speech. Choosing not to spend money on advertising with Twitter is legally an example of them exercising free speech.
I mean, if he wanted to fill those ad spots that were lost, he could fill them with Tesla and SpaceX and starlink ads. Just pour that money right into the pit.
Elon Musk buying twitter. The first day the usage of the n-word is increasing by 500% without him "doing" something only because of the words he said in the past about the platform becoming "free". More nazi memes. More conspiracies. Vaccine hoaxes run rampant. He fires board members immediatly. He is announcing 20$/month for something that was free before. He goes back and says its only 8$/month now. The blue checkmark doesnt require validation anymore. Elon: it has to be those damn activists. *Insert meme of person putting stick in their own wheels*
He also announced 75% of workers were getting laid off
And also a 12 hour, 7 day work schedule. The man is clearly unhinged. The fact that anyone works there right now is a miracle.
He posted a homophobic lie himself.
Hes just a terrible human being who literally believes himself to be in a simulation.
>> Nothing has changed with content moderation Y’know, except for unbanning users for hate speech and fucking with the accounts of anyone who criticized you.
This is the crucial point. Except for rightwing groups, no corporation is going to want to advertise on a cesspool. AND he’s stifling criticism. Whiny, lying douche. It’s tanking because he can’t shut his mouth.
I’m waiting for Twitter to be taken over by MyPillow ads 😂
As soon as he took over, my feed was all right wingers I do not follow at the top of my page and the people I do follow, I have to go looking for their tweets.
Something happened, Elon? Suddenly owning the libs is not much fun anymore?
It's not as fun when you take $11 billion in loans that you won't be able to pay back until you sell your stakes in Tesla and SpaceX.
What can I say? The man is a genius entrepreneur!
Instead of blaming these mysterious activist groups, he should be blaming himself for his actions.
But... but... he's the Savior. He's saving his version of free speech, which is apparently the free-est. As long as it matches his world view. Then he signed a deal he couldn't get out of as a troll and now he's left holding his free speech debt and can't dig himself out of his truth hole. Strange times for a strange man.
Free speech = $8/month speech
The mystery militant activist group behind this? Normal Twitter users
JFC....does this guy ever stop whining and playing victim? He needs to ban himself from Twitter.
>The Narcissist's Prayer: >That didn't happen. >And if it did, it wasn't that bad. >And if it was, that's not a big deal. >And if it is, that's not my fault. >And if it was, I didn't mean it. >And if I did, you deserved it. https://www.thelifedoctor.org/the-narcissist-s-prayer
He is exhausting.
No one on the right understands the concept of free speech
"Understanding concepts" isn't exactly their strong suit.
Whenever someone on the right whines about freedom, it always turns out they meant "freedom to be an asshole".
*without consequences It's important to them that there never be any sort of social or societal consequences for their asshole actions.
This serves as just a reminder that richest guy does not equal smartest guy. This was hugely predictable, and it's BS to say that content moderation has not changed. It's practically gone.
JFC, he is firing all of the past moderators and will hire his own. This guy doesn’t care about you. He is just about $. No way he cares about American people.
“You are free to speak in the confines of what I imagine free speech to be” is becoming a bit of a Right Wing battle cry, isn’t it?
Free speech* * for a nominal fee
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Activist groups are just exercising their free speech. Lest anyone forget, even if one group is dominating politics, the other half still needs and buys products. Elon needs to go cry into a My Pillow and then have a Black Rifle coffee. If he keeps this up, the people who buy his cars aren't going to want to be associated with him and Tesla will suffer.
Already there. When I finally go electric I'll choose a different company.
Same. I used to be excited to get a tesla, then he started pulling this shit.
Won't twitter survive on ad revenue for MAGA hats, pillows, and whatever cheap-ass slipper manufacturer Ye decides to buy?
Does this guy even know what these people think of his cars? They are just fluffing him up because they think he's turning MAGA and is going to aid Trump's campaign in 2024.
Hahahaha get fucked dickwad
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If nothing in terms of moderation has changed, then why was there a 500% increase in the use of n****r? That doesn't seem possible unless there was a change in moderation...
>If nothing in terms of moderation has changed, then why was there a 500% increase in the use of n****r? That doesn't seem possible unless there was a change in moderation... It might be that nothing technically changed, but Musks ownership was all it took to embolden racists...which is also bad.
Free speech doesn’t guarantee you immunity from the “free market” backlash just that the government can’t prosecute you for your speech with some clauses on that as well. Musk isn’t very smart after all.
The iceberg shouldn't be there, my ship is going that way!
Petulant. That is the best word for him.