OT: The News Thread

[MindzEye]

Seems like his grievance is just that Twitter is too woke.

Here's where this conversation is going to get scary. We're all going to be expected to ignore that the Overton Window has swung so hard to the right that authoritarianism passes for "conservatism" so any organization that doesn't have a 50/50 split of Authoritarians/ThoseOpposedToAuthoritarians is obviously biased.

 

[hockeylover]

lol both sides!

 

[zeke]

Elon says "Twitter should be politically neutral"

What Twitter needs to be is "Bullshit neutral", and not care about politics at all.

"Bullshit neutral" should be the only guiding principal, and if a political movement has more bullshit than others than too bad.

 

[zeke]

wait Elon might be backing out of his offer now.

 

[worm]

lol both sides!

sounds a lot like limiting free speech to me (in the right wing sense of "free speech" )

 

[worm]

wait Elon might be backing out of his offer now.

sounds right - 44 billion is a lot of money just to get trump back on

 

[hockeylover]

wait Elon might be backing out of his offer now.

Are you getting that from this tweet?



That's just the article someone posted here earlier.

 

[Wayward DP]

lol both sides!

this statement is just idiocy.

I honestly read his tweets and wonder how the hell he became one of the richest people in the world...

 

[Wayward DP]

Are you getting that from this tweet?



That's just the article someone posted here earlier.

'someone', psha

 

[zeke]

Are you getting that from this tweet?



That's just the article someone posted here earlier.

if zeke didn't post it, did it even really happen?

but there's actually other articles out there suggesting the same thing I think.

 

[hockeylover]

He was pretty fucking loaded to start with wasn't he? Kid of an emerald mine owner?

 

[Wayward DP]

He was pretty fucking loaded to start with wasn't he? Kid of an emerald mine owner?

funny how many 'billionaires' have that in common, eh?

 

[Deckie007]

funny how many 'billionaires' have that in common, eh?

must be a cowinkidink

 

[CH1]

Huuuuge advantage having family money, of course.

Allows a risk taker to take a massive swing without fear of ending up destitute.

Still, I give Elon credit for no resting on his first homerun (PayPal)...doubled down on his generational fuck you money to start an electric car company that everyone thought would be financial suicide

 

[axlsalinger]

pulled himself up off the couch by his bootstraps.

then asked dad for a couple million bucks for a startup.

it's the (south) American Dream.

 

[CH1]

African-American Dream?

 

[Volcanologist]

lol. it must remain politically neutral....how, Elon?? BY ERASING MESSAGES. And what's another word for that???

 

[axlsalinger]

African-American Dream?

i think that may be racist. Post it on Twitter just to be sure

 

[leafman101]

lol. it must remain politically neutral....how, Elon?? BY ERASING MESSAGES. And what's another word for that???

i don’t think he means deleting posted so there is an equal amount of stupidity from both sides, just processes that don’t unfairly target and silence political ideologies. Which is good for lefties and righties really.

 

[zeke]

Wait until he realizes that twitter never did any of that.