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Old 11-02-2023, 01:07 PM
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Billionaire simps are just cringe
Elon has warts guy. Flaws. And foibles. Simps don't talk like that. When I said I wish there were 10x more inventors like him, I wouldn't care if 9 of them all talked shit about him. I just want there to be way more innovator types and genius types out there. People willing to take risks for better technology.

Considering you used to simp for Twitter before Elon purchased it you are simply expressing sour grapes.

You didn't talk shit about Jack Dorsey, also a billionaire, when he was CEO of Twitter.
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Old 11-02-2023, 01:08 PM
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you can't think big enough to comprehend the scope of what all these companies together will amount to

he's been working on this since before paypal

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Old 11-02-2023, 01:15 PM
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Oh no the stock valuation went down oh no I get to claim huge losses on my tax filings.
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Old 11-02-2023, 01:16 PM
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are a Feast for Conspiracy Theorists

Musk bought it because he didn't like getting trashed on in the platform. He got swindled on it by his own admittance.

Speech found offensive to some portion of the public can be turned against minority and dissenting views to the detriment of all.

All I hear is X meets your outlet for your rage where you can relate to their short phrases of soap-boxing propaganda.
Conspiracy Theories. Okay pal. They are great intellectual exercises to explore. Do I need to mention the "conspiracy theories" that have turned out to be true in the last 5-10 years?

Your ideas only thrive when communication is throttled.
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Old 11-02-2023, 01:17 PM
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Oh no the stock valuation went down oh no I get to claim huge losses on my tax filings.
buys twitter

gets the US taxpayer to pay him back

and they call him stupid
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Old 11-02-2023, 01:21 PM
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It's been incredibly revealing to watch how far lefties have responded to the Twitter change of ownership to X. Botten is pro-censorship of voices he disagrees with. He doesn't want adults to have all the information available to make decisions with and instead wants adults to have only corporate sponsored information. Elon, who owns X, claimed on JRE that Twitter censored conservative voices 10x compared with liberal or left voices.

As someone that is a liberal I find the calls for censorship by the far left appalling. People like Origen and Botten are acting against the concepts in John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. The willingness to encourage the kind of extreme left biased censorship that was occurring on Twitter before the purchase is revealing in its depravity against the concept that sunlight is the best disinfectant. This is far left marcusian repressive tolerance type shit.

Individuals such as Botten have adopted an anti-American way of looking at speech. Botten is indicating that he doesn't trust adults to decide what is best for themselves. He is claiming that the information must be curated because humans are gullible to "one good talker" etc who can convince them of something Botten doesn't like. The mainstream media model believes this as well and has championed the concept of misinformation from sources that are not 'authoritative'. The USA public has responded by mostly stop watching mainstream media and instead getting info online.

Botten is indicating he believes there is one correct way for this information to be disseminated and that we Americans must all digest what we are told. Botten is unwittingly for the status quo. He does not want humans to progress to become better versions of themselves by holding their corrupt Govts and corrupt businesses that take advange of corrupt Govt to account.

As a business decision, Musk lost most of X's value. It has been a business failure. Elon is a business man and from a business perspective X hasn't been a win. Whether there is some cultural value to what he did is in the eye of the beholder and it appears Elon seems to think the consolation prize is good enough for him according to his last interview. Elon paid tens of billions of dollars so far lefties couldn't rely on Twitter to brigade and shame people on the internet.
Human rights groups raise hate speech concerns after Musk's takeover of Twitter


Twitter is the worst major social media platform when it comes to LGBTQ+ safety


Careful there you are letting your supposed centrist left mask slip. Probably cheap extreme right glue.
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Old 11-02-2023, 01:22 PM
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buys twitter

gets the US taxpayer to pay him back

and they call him stupid
It has impact Tesla's valuation negatively as well. As in some folks that were on the fence about purchasing a Tesla used the Twitter to X purchase as an excuse to buy an EV from a legacy car company instead of Tesla.

See most recent Tesla shareholder meeting where Elon sweated more than normal from some investors questions. Will Tesla be fine in the long run? Sure, but whether it'll reach the heights it was previously predicted it will reach is the question. Stock price in theory has all future earnings built into it.

Only SpaceX is currently still bulletproof.
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Old 11-02-2023, 01:23 PM
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Read On Liberty.

You regressive censorious extreme lefty.
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Old 11-02-2023, 01:23 PM
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Conspiracy Theories. Okay pal. They are great intellectual exercises to explore. Do I need to mention the "conspiracy theories" that have turned out to be true in the last 5-10 years?

Your ideas only thrive when communication is throttled.
The extreme right needs conspiracy theories to be true.
Too bad most of them have been challenged and is a big reason the MAGA movement is losing so much tread going into 2024.

It is just a shame it took this long to take the bad soapbox actors down. The court system can be slow for justice.
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Old 11-02-2023, 01:25 PM
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Human rights is when you don't restrict speech I disagree with.
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