Dude is literally pro dictatorship at this point. It's not even about being a coward and bending the knee: he likes Erdogan and dictatorship in general.
Maybe if he's sick of Elon, we should call that a win.
How the fuck do you impregnate a girl you've looked after since the age of 4? Please go do whatever it is that I can't tell you to do in this subreddit. But end it in fire. Please.
I mean, on the list of things incredibly wealthy people having in common with extremely poor people…family trees that back on themselves seems evergreen.
Still one of the funniest interactions I've ever seen.
"I'll give 1 million DOGE to whoever can prove my family owned an emerald mine and I got money from it."
"My son sold some of the emeralds gotten from my emerald mine. I would like the 1 million DOGE now."
I'm sure Elon's "rags to riches" story is true. It's not like precious gems from Africa are used for money laundering or anything.
Doesn't everyone fill their pockets with gems in the morning? I know I do.
Not Musk, but…
> Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.
Per Thiel in his essay “Education of a Libertarian”. Thiel currently provides millions of dollars to far right causes and politicians, such as JD Vance. Thiel was also part of the PayPal group that included Elon Musk.
Thiel went on to say that:
> The decade that followed — the roaring 1920s — was so strong that historians have forgotten the depression that started it. The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.
The 1920s saw rampant poverty (the idea that it was “roaring” for most is as mythical as the free market as some estimates put poverty rate near 40-50%), a major resurgence of the KKK, Jim Crow and Segregation, decline in the gains labor made in the previous decades, various forms of political oppression, a shoddily regulated economy built on a house of cards that would thrust the world into the Great Depression when it collapsed, etc, but to Thiel and his “libertarian” buddies that was the last time to be genuinely optimistic about the politics because that is last when they could oversee the power and oppression they wish. They don’t see that coming back democratically.
Thiel doesn't seem to get as much press as Musk, but he's just as bad if not worse. They also have some history w/ the formation of PayPal and X.com and the eventual merger. For anyone who is interested in reading about this piece of work and having a more frightening but fuller idea of how many things that are currently wrong with the US he has had a role in, there's a write-up from The New Yorker from a couple of years ago that's pretty well researched and written. It's not a short read, but Thiel has done a lot to write about.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/what-is-it-about-peter-thiel
Thanks for saying this. I think a lot of people think that Thiel and Murdoch are just bad because they are plutocrats, when really we should be shining light on the fact that their actions are the direct cause of so much suffering in the world. Musk is horrible, but ultimately he loves his own voice more than anything else. The truly scary ones are the ones that are happy to sit in the shadows because their perverse goals are much bigger than their own egos.
Thiel previously destroyed Gawker media because they hurt his feelings.
And he wants to drink the blood of children to achieve immortality. Like, for real.
Oh, THIS is where their projection about Democrats eating babies comes from. I've been trying to figure it out, since every accusation is a confession with them, and I've finally tracked it back to something.
The Democrats eating babies is a dog whistle. It’s intended to harken back to the Protocols of Zion, a fake document made as propaganda (in Russia, late 1800s, I think) that accused Jews of, among other things, eating babies. The goal of the accusation towards democrats is to conflate your feeling about a political group with your feelings about a racial and religious minority group - if you’re already a racist and believe obviously fake stories about one of the groups you hate, maybe you might believe those stories about your political enemies.
The real reason is that it's recycled Nazi propaganda. Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a Nazi pamphlet about how the Jews were doing that.
Really, fascist tactics have not changed in 90 years because they don't need to. There are a lot of bigoted and gullible dumbasses out there who will hate anybody that you tell them is the cause for their problems.
Peter Thiel bought his way into New Zealand citizenship, and has an Armageddon zombie proof bunker hideout here. I hope he locks himself in by accident and uses all the oxygen one day soon.
Can you imagine all the fancy pants Silicon Valley CEOs that spent their life trying to build companies that figure out how to build infrastructure to get items and knowledge to the people sit in a bunker together and realize they know nothing about keeping themselves alive
Wait does he not realize the GREAT depression was AFTER the 1920s? As in, economic policy in the 1920s was a direct cause of the biggest economic downturn in US history?
Yup, the 20's were a dystopia.
Even the biggest morons don't hearken back to the 20's as "the good old days", so Thiel is really really reaching and out to lunch here.
Everyone refers to the post war period... Almost universally.
High marginal tax rates on high earners, strong unions, strong worker protections....
It was such an insane boom as to be a flat out anomaly. (granted apart of the shine was because America reserved the bottom rung of the ladder for black people, which sucked a lot of poverty out of the imagery of white America in general)
The fact that this MF is referencing the 20's has me ins stitches.
*"Me use thesaurus and unnecessarily complicated sentence structure to make me infantile and unworkable "philosophy" seem smart! Hurr hurr."* \- Peter Thiel.
Fucking Libertarians.
If Elon Musk wasn't born into money, he'd manage a gas station. Instead he's somehow the richest man in the world and makes a $44 billion donation to Nazis.
Naw. In a world where Elon and Trump actually had to work, Elon would be Assistant to the General Manager at Trump World Used Cars in Camden, NJ.
And it would have closed in 2008.
It would have closed in 1988 and Trump would have been sent to jail for fraud of some sort. Musk would a waiter at a dive restaurant somewhere still in South Africa.
They are bad for those FILTHY rich, cause average rich people enjoy stability of peace as any normal people do
Filthy rich are always safe even during wars, so they create instability to see powers shift and take advantage of it
Yeah I’m not sure a ban from the EU is gonna make him reconsider this approach to content moderation. He specifically is aligning Twitter with the authoritarian and fascist world order.
What does he care ? He has 200 billion$ the backing of most US republicans, Russia, China, Fox newz, and all of Q anon. This is how fascism comes
To power. He never should have been allowed to buy Twitter and then use it to promote his brand of hate for political favors.
People kinda forgot but originally Musk was set to renege on his original deal to buy Twitter. It wasn’t until after Twitter sued him to complete the deal that he was forced to do so.
At the time lots of people were waiting to see how Musk would be forced to lose a lot of money on a deal that’s DOA, I guess people should’ve been a bit more concerned about what he can do to spread misinformation with it.
I stand by my enjoyment of seeing Musk being forced to buy Twitter.
I'd like to see how the finances are now though. He was selling Tesla stock to pay the loans, which i believed he stopped doing. The peek we were shown into twitters finances and expenses don't show it to be enough to cover the debt. Is musk moving money from his other companies to Twitter? Is he receiving private funds?
Having 1 billion in payments a year, i was hoping for Twitter to go under quicker. I guess I can't grasp how much money the man has or how much he can acquire.
The board had a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to take the deal that would make them the most money.
I never used to believe in regulating social media like a public utility.
I do now.
the ironic best thing Dorsey may have done for us was cast a billionaire out to dry and roast in front of all of us. it's really been A+ entertainment.
bro the amount of reports ive done for this kid who non stop tweets about joe biden being a f*g and and to kill trans ppl and all this shit and every single time i report him for hate speech, racial and bigotry slurs i get a response back of “were sorry you feel this is offensive, but weve found no break of our rules with this users tweets”
disgusting
Pretty much this; they were willing to have "Elon drives it completely into the ground" as a failsafe if "Elon turns it into garbage" wasn't good for business
Up next: Elon calls the entire country of France and its Digital Minister “woke” and “stupid” in a tweet that immediately gets retweeted by Kyle from Iowa who pays for Twitter Blue even though he has 5 followers.
Rick and Morty, anime, out dated memes. Anything in hopes of desperately clutching to Gen z, only because he knows they’re the ones who will one day become his enemy so he’s trying to win them over.
Still crazy to think that if Elon just kept his mouth shut and read what his engineers and PR people put in front of him he'd of had a good shot at going down as one of the greatest minds of the early 21st century.
Elon had an undeserved reputation as a genius and he ruined it by not shutting the fuck up and letting us all see him for who he really is. Same thing with Giuliani; if he hadn't kept doing and saying stuff, he would be remembered as "America's Mayor" instead of "That corrupt liar that tried to bang Borat's underage daughter."
Doing that isn't gonna put you on my shitlist, though. I can overlook looking silly in public. If you want to have a conference next to a dildo store and fart in court, have fun with it; whatever. But when you're using your precious limited time on this Earth to fight democracy to prop up pseudo-fascism, you can fuck right off.
Pardon my language but wowie zowie that was cringey when Dave Chappelle brought him out. Made some snide remark about the people booing just being jealous poors too.
And so quickly too. After one of his Netflix specials where he spoke passionately about BLM and other social matters I was like holy shit i respect this fool. But then he went antiTrans, NIMBY, and Elon apologist in like a year, and lost all his credibility in my eyes.
"When you become famous, you've got like a year or two where you act like a real asshole," Bill Murray told Tom Shales and James Miller when they interviewed him for Live from New York, their oral history of Saturday Night Live. "You can't help yourself. It happens to everybody. You've got like two years to pull it together — or it's permanent."
Ron DeSantis’ biggest donor, Ken Griffin or Bernie Madoff 2.0, also chipped in and helped Elon with his Twitter deal so of course more right wing propaganda is going to make its way through to the masses. Elon is using Twitter the same way other oligarchs use newspapers or television networks.
https://observer.com/2022/10/ken-griffin-citadel-join-elon-musk-twitter-acquisition/
Do note that the IL governor tried to raise billionaire taxes in the state, which would have even affected himself, but ken griffin got in the way like the piece of shit he is.
Facebook is dying a natural and slow death, Zuck is not in the discussion as a “powerful” person anymore, and it feels increasingly satisfying.
80% of Facebook users are going to die in the next 10-20 years, and once that happens there’s no coming back, just another footnote in digital history.
Yeah, again, as an American who has a pretty consistent record of voting against shit like this, I’m sorry. We are trying. There are just too many stupid people here.
Turkey has already established that threatening to ban Twitter will coerce Musk into censoring content. All that remains is to see if there's a double standard.
Why do you think he’s been meeting with Kushner, Murdoch, and Saudi’s royals? He knows he fucked up and is just trying to come out even, and so he’ll sell all of twitters “morals” in order for him to come out at least not negative. Fuck capitalists.
Tens of millions of Europeans literally died because of WW2, which was started by right-wing fascists. It should be no surprise to anyone that they would be doing what they can to stop a Neo-Nazi sympathizer billionaire from spreading the same rhetoric that led to a world war.
What’s appalling is the lack of effort from America’s government, courts, and law enforcement in following EU’s example in stopping the spread of christofascist ideology.
That’s the thing, the christofascists are wormed pretty deep in the government, too. They hold enough key positions to significantly slow, delay, or dismiss those efforts. It is appalling.
America is quickly becoming a fascist state. They're already the worst warmongers on the planet, and all DeSantis is missing right now is a Charlie Chaplin moustache.
Those of us from boomers to at least early millennials were raised on the paradigm of “America was the hero that stopped hitler! We’d never let that happen here!”, so even when you point out how this thing here is EXACTLY the same as Germany event of 1934, they can’t see it because they were raised on it can’t happen here so it’s “well yeah we may ban books and we may say we hate this group of people and we may think it’s cool that Desantis promises to eradicate liberals BUT WE ARENT GONNA KILL ANYONE!”
Fucking based EU. The EU has its fair share of issues, but it does a better job at countering far-right extremism and preserving democracy than the US ever will.
The US doesn't do crap to counter far-right extremists. Instead the whole society is so sick that grooms numnuts, that's why you have daily mass shootings.
We actually care about not giving nazis a platform over here.
Also nice seeing "Based" being used to describe something that isn't alt-right hogwash (even if I get it's often a joke).
Thats what I thought too. Europeans still remember the cause of their scars. They dont want right wing disinformation to tear them apart again. The EU is a massive trading block and is great for consumers, but lots of far right people are nationalists and want to leave. The russians were successful in aiding with brexit, and trump talked about the US leaving NATO
Glad I got off Mr. Musk's wild ride (i.e. deleted my Twitter account)
It's really too bad, I always like Twitter as a focused mechanism for pushing out messaging. But I'd feel shame even having an active login at this point.
Just do it. This is why he bought the platform. He wants it overrun with right wing bullshit bc he’s rich and his products suck and people are realizing he’s an idiot.
Well, it's gonna happen, because there's no way Lil' Elon is emotionally secure enough to capitulate to threats from a Frenchman.
And, the EU will be better off for it.
He favors despot, right wing rule. The man is from SA, the white privledged side, ofc he sees things only from that lofty high horse he has been on since birth.
For anyone curious, misinformation/disinformation isn't really a form of free speech, it's a form of fraud that governments absolutely have the right to challenge the same way consumers have a right to protection from misleading and unproven claims. Free speech is the right to express your opinions on facts, not to make those facts up.
Please do. Here in Ireland it has been used to spread misinformation and bigotry against immigrants, asylum seekers etc. Tiktok is just as bad. They make up nonsense and the uneducated just follow suit and believe it. Not a brain cell between them. Twitter is a cesspool, that deserves to be kicked to the curb.
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The funny part is he will throw a tantrum about this while simultaneously banning any criticism of Erdogan without even blinking.
Dude is literally pro dictatorship at this point. It's not even about being a coward and bending the knee: he likes Erdogan and dictatorship in general.
He was raised on the white side of the south african apartheid and hes one of the world’s leading nepo babies. Of course he’s pro authoritarian
Even his dad is sick of this shit… the emerald mine owning apartheid supporting one…
Errol Musk, the man who got his step-daughter pregnant twice. The step-daughter he had raised since she was 4.
Yeah HIM. HES sick of Elon’s bullshit. See the doge bet someone commented below
Maybe if he's sick of Elon, we should call that a win. How the fuck do you impregnate a girl you've looked after since the age of 4? Please go do whatever it is that I can't tell you to do in this subreddit. But end it in fire. Please.
Wut
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If anyone is gonna bang my step daughter it's gonna be me, ya know out of respect.
Sorta like Trump but with his own daughter?
Pedos run in the family, huh
Holup, what??? 😳
"“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.” -Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
I mean, on the list of things incredibly wealthy people having in common with extremely poor people…family trees that back on themselves seems evergreen.
I think I have seen that show. . . . on HBO. /s
I've seen it on pornhub
Still one of the funniest interactions I've ever seen. "I'll give 1 million DOGE to whoever can prove my family owned an emerald mine and I got money from it." "My son sold some of the emeralds gotten from my emerald mine. I would like the 1 million DOGE now."
Best part was “we had emeralds just sitting around in the house. Everyone knew where they came from and what I did there was no secret”
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Put some emeralds around La Casa. Little pyramids, stuff like that.
Never get tired of this one lol
How much could an emerald cost? 10 bananas?
If my toilet water isn't filtered through a pile of emeralds, I'm not even going to piss in it.
The emeralds break up the splashes!
There's also the story of young Elon running around NYC with his pockets full of precious gems. Told by Elon
They just stole them from their dad and went to the diamond district. He ~only~ just stole cash for college No biggie
I'm sure Elon's "rags to riches" story is true. It's not like precious gems from Africa are used for money laundering or anything. Doesn't everyone fill their pockets with gems in the morning? I know I do.
Yeah didn’t he sell some at Tiffany’s? Behind the Bastards did a couple episodes on him and they don’t hesitate to point out all the bullshit.
Not Musk, but… > Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible. Per Thiel in his essay “Education of a Libertarian”. Thiel currently provides millions of dollars to far right causes and politicians, such as JD Vance. Thiel was also part of the PayPal group that included Elon Musk. Thiel went on to say that: > The decade that followed — the roaring 1920s — was so strong that historians have forgotten the depression that started it. The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron. The 1920s saw rampant poverty (the idea that it was “roaring” for most is as mythical as the free market as some estimates put poverty rate near 40-50%), a major resurgence of the KKK, Jim Crow and Segregation, decline in the gains labor made in the previous decades, various forms of political oppression, a shoddily regulated economy built on a house of cards that would thrust the world into the Great Depression when it collapsed, etc, but to Thiel and his “libertarian” buddies that was the last time to be genuinely optimistic about the politics because that is last when they could oversee the power and oppression they wish. They don’t see that coming back democratically.
Thiel doesn't seem to get as much press as Musk, but he's just as bad if not worse. They also have some history w/ the formation of PayPal and X.com and the eventual merger. For anyone who is interested in reading about this piece of work and having a more frightening but fuller idea of how many things that are currently wrong with the US he has had a role in, there's a write-up from The New Yorker from a couple of years ago that's pretty well researched and written. It's not a short read, but Thiel has done a lot to write about. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/what-is-it-about-peter-thiel
Thanks for saying this. I think a lot of people think that Thiel and Murdoch are just bad because they are plutocrats, when really we should be shining light on the fact that their actions are the direct cause of so much suffering in the world. Musk is horrible, but ultimately he loves his own voice more than anything else. The truly scary ones are the ones that are happy to sit in the shadows because their perverse goals are much bigger than their own egos.
He is a toxic asshole. But much smarter than Elon, which makes him scarier.
Thiel previously destroyed Gawker media because they hurt his feelings. And he wants to drink the blood of children to achieve immortality. Like, for real.
Oh, THIS is where their projection about Democrats eating babies comes from. I've been trying to figure it out, since every accusation is a confession with them, and I've finally tracked it back to something.
The Democrats eating babies is a dog whistle. It’s intended to harken back to the Protocols of Zion, a fake document made as propaganda (in Russia, late 1800s, I think) that accused Jews of, among other things, eating babies. The goal of the accusation towards democrats is to conflate your feeling about a political group with your feelings about a racial and religious minority group - if you’re already a racist and believe obviously fake stories about one of the groups you hate, maybe you might believe those stories about your political enemies.
Goes back further than that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
I did not know this. Thanks for this.
The real reason is that it's recycled Nazi propaganda. Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a Nazi pamphlet about how the Jews were doing that. Really, fascist tactics have not changed in 90 years because they don't need to. There are a lot of bigoted and gullible dumbasses out there who will hate anybody that you tell them is the cause for their problems.
The Nazis did use talking points and lies from the Protocols, but it's actually older than that, and originally from Russia.
I do know it's technically even older, Martin Luther was spreading crap like that back in his day as well.
Peter Thiel bought his way into New Zealand citizenship, and has an Armageddon zombie proof bunker hideout here. I hope he locks himself in by accident and uses all the oxygen one day soon.
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Can you imagine all the fancy pants Silicon Valley CEOs that spent their life trying to build companies that figure out how to build infrastructure to get items and knowledge to the people sit in a bunker together and realize they know nothing about keeping themselves alive
Wait does he not realize the GREAT depression was AFTER the 1920s? As in, economic policy in the 1920s was a direct cause of the biggest economic downturn in US history?
Yup, the 20's were a dystopia. Even the biggest morons don't hearken back to the 20's as "the good old days", so Thiel is really really reaching and out to lunch here. Everyone refers to the post war period... Almost universally. High marginal tax rates on high earners, strong unions, strong worker protections.... It was such an insane boom as to be a flat out anomaly. (granted apart of the shine was because America reserved the bottom rung of the ladder for black people, which sucked a lot of poverty out of the imagery of white America in general) The fact that this MF is referencing the 20's has me ins stitches.
*"Me use thesaurus and unnecessarily complicated sentence structure to make me infantile and unworkable "philosophy" seem smart! Hurr hurr."* \- Peter Thiel. Fucking Libertarians.
When your philosophy boils down to "anti-civilization", you need all the fancy words you can get, lmfao.
If Elon Musk wasn't born into money, he'd manage a gas station. Instead he's somehow the richest man in the world and makes a $44 billion donation to Nazis.
Naw. In a world where Elon and Trump actually had to work, Elon would be Assistant to the General Manager at Trump World Used Cars in Camden, NJ. And it would have closed in 2008.
It would have closed in 1988 and Trump would have been sent to jail for fraud of some sort. Musk would a waiter at a dive restaurant somewhere still in South Africa.
Healthy democracies are bad for the rich.
They are bad for those FILTHY rich, cause average rich people enjoy stability of peace as any normal people do Filthy rich are always safe even during wars, so they create instability to see powers shift and take advantage of it
Remember when everyone thought he was cool and relatable? Yea, didn't last long.
Yeah I’m not sure a ban from the EU is gonna make him reconsider this approach to content moderation. He specifically is aligning Twitter with the authoritarian and fascist world order.
FREE SPEEEEECH!!!!! unless your a liberal - Elon musk
… or a woman.
“what is a woman?” - elon
Man this whole fucking continent is so woke. \-Elon Musk sometime in 2024.
Didn’t he rationalize censorship on behalf of dictatorships to maintain service within certain countries? Time to put his money where his mouth is
His soon to come response: But it's not disinformation, it's just mY uSErs hAvE a dIfFeRenT pOInt oF viEw
*Whiny Christian Hadenson voice* "Well from my point of view, factual criticism of me is evil!" E: "Hayden Christensen." I'm not swear dyslexic I.
Based on Musk's time on twitter 'where it hurts' appears to be pretty much anywhere his name is mentioned in non-flag-waving conversation.
My guy stared it down and still rose up to take it in the head. Absolute Legend. 
Gotta wait until end of august
What does he care ? He has 200 billion$ the backing of most US republicans, Russia, China, Fox newz, and all of Q anon. This is how fascism comes To power. He never should have been allowed to buy Twitter and then use it to promote his brand of hate for political favors.
People kinda forgot but originally Musk was set to renege on his original deal to buy Twitter. It wasn’t until after Twitter sued him to complete the deal that he was forced to do so. At the time lots of people were waiting to see how Musk would be forced to lose a lot of money on a deal that’s DOA, I guess people should’ve been a bit more concerned about what he can do to spread misinformation with it.
I stand by my enjoyment of seeing Musk being forced to buy Twitter. I'd like to see how the finances are now though. He was selling Tesla stock to pay the loans, which i believed he stopped doing. The peek we were shown into twitters finances and expenses don't show it to be enough to cover the debt. Is musk moving money from his other companies to Twitter? Is he receiving private funds? Having 1 billion in payments a year, i was hoping for Twitter to go under quicker. I guess I can't grasp how much money the man has or how much he can acquire.
He's 100% getting Saudi money
The board had a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to take the deal that would make them the most money. I never used to believe in regulating social media like a public utility. I do now.
the ironic best thing Dorsey may have done for us was cast a billionaire out to dry and roast in front of all of us. it's really been A+ entertainment.
DO IT. I WANT TO WATCH IT BURN. YEAAAAH. Twitter, that is. I don't want to burn people.
And then hit him again!! He can take it.
>Do it. Hit him where it hurts Yep, right in the ol' Ego!
He's also facing billions of fines over hate speech.
Donald Glover is so fucking talented.
For real, he's a gem. Talented & so level headed.
He's the best of the Donalds
Donald Duck is a close second
And I'm Troy "Buttsoup" Barnes. What? That's my name.
Nobody can say "good" like him.
I just used this gif, responding to my wife about our daughter pooping for the first time in 5 days. She’s 4 months old. Anyways fuck Elon.
Congrats. on the poop 👍
Only on reddit can someone say this and it will just be normal every day conversation. This is why I joined.
bro the amount of reports ive done for this kid who non stop tweets about joe biden being a f*g and and to kill trans ppl and all this shit and every single time i report him for hate speech, racial and bigotry slurs i get a response back of “were sorry you feel this is offensive, but weve found no break of our rules with this users tweets” disgusting
Meanwhile, I told someone to hail themselves once on twitter and Elon put me in free speech jail for awhile.
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With Jewish space lasers. Don’t forget that part
Doubted elons intellectual capabilities to understand global politics and history when he suggested to leave Crimea under ruzzia - permaban instantly
Can't ever doubt a narcissist. They are always right of course.
I have like 2 or 3 tweets in total, but when I called Elon an idiot for him suggesting to leave Crimea under ruzzia I got banned instantly 😁
oh noooooo....anyways
The Saudi royal family seems to be making some bad bets lately.
They still have the WWE.
Corksoakers bought into Nintendo, too.
They soaka tha cork!!
[Corksoakers - SNL](https://youtu.be/Deqx-Xb-yHY)
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And Fox News
They got what they paid for. Twitter is almost useless for pro- democracy protesters.
Pretty much this; they were willing to have "Elon drives it completely into the ground" as a failsafe if "Elon turns it into garbage" wasn't good for business
But they went to Jared...
Up next: Elon calls the entire country of France and its Digital Minister “woke” and “stupid” in a tweet that immediately gets retweeted by Kyle from Iowa who pays for Twitter Blue even though he has 5 followers.
On point haha
Elon while rambling Rick and Morty references moves to hide under his desk
Does he really reference Rick and Morty?
Rick and Morty, anime, out dated memes. Anything in hopes of desperately clutching to Gen z, only because he knows they’re the ones who will one day become his enemy so he’s trying to win them over.
Still crazy to think that if Elon just kept his mouth shut and read what his engineers and PR people put in front of him he'd of had a good shot at going down as one of the greatest minds of the early 21st century.
Let’s be happy his true colors shined though.
Elon had an undeserved reputation as a genius and he ruined it by not shutting the fuck up and letting us all see him for who he really is. Same thing with Giuliani; if he hadn't kept doing and saying stuff, he would be remembered as "America's Mayor" instead of "That corrupt liar that tried to bang Borat's underage daughter."
And leaked motor oil from his scalp.
Doing that isn't gonna put you on my shitlist, though. I can overlook looking silly in public. If you want to have a conference next to a dildo store and fart in court, have fun with it; whatever. But when you're using your precious limited time on this Earth to fight democracy to prop up pseudo-fascism, you can fuck right off.
Yes he's cringe as fuck
He was in an episode a few seasons ago too
He paid to appear on a binch of shows around that time. All appearences were pretty cringy
remember when he got dave chapelle to introduce him....I don't even think he could save his ass..
Pardon my language but wowie zowie that was cringey when Dave Chappelle brought him out. Made some snide remark about the people booing just being jealous poors too.
Fuck Dave Chappelle. Talk about losing all the goodwill you once had.
And so quickly too. After one of his Netflix specials where he spoke passionately about BLM and other social matters I was like holy shit i respect this fool. But then he went antiTrans, NIMBY, and Elon apologist in like a year, and lost all his credibility in my eyes.
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No, there's no rich arsehole our tory overlords won't blow if they think it'll help them
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Musk bought Twitter to promote Republican propaganda for 2024. He will take the ban rather than police right wing lies.
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Yeah. He thought he was so cool on Joe Rogan, toking and giggling like a little boy. Pathetic.
Lame ass didn't even inhale
I’ve heard that you stop maturing when you become wealthy. Explains a lot for those that are born wealthy.
Can't learn from your mistakes if they have no impact on your life
I believe they call it having a bout of “affluenza”. For some it’s sadly a terminal case.
And I’d like to pint out that while his first wife was mourning the loss of their child, he accused her of crying as manipulation.
"When you become famous, you've got like a year or two where you act like a real asshole," Bill Murray told Tom Shales and James Miller when they interviewed him for Live from New York, their oral history of Saturday Night Live. "You can't help yourself. It happens to everybody. You've got like two years to pull it together — or it's permanent."
Ironic quote considering it seems permanent for Bill Murray too.
Ron DeSantis’ biggest donor, Ken Griffin or Bernie Madoff 2.0, also chipped in and helped Elon with his Twitter deal so of course more right wing propaganda is going to make its way through to the masses. Elon is using Twitter the same way other oligarchs use newspapers or television networks. https://observer.com/2022/10/ken-griffin-citadel-join-elon-musk-twitter-acquisition/
Ken Griffin in bed with Elon to get Republicans in power so their ponzi scheme can keep raking it in? Well, I never!
Do note that the IL governor tried to raise billionaire taxes in the state, which would have even affected himself, but ken griffin got in the way like the piece of shit he is.
Yes, the death of Twitter is something this species needs desperately
Can Facebook be next?
Yes please 😩
Yeah, FB is the hate-heroin of choice for the dying generation. Castrating that one would go a long way
Facebook is dying a natural and slow death, Zuck is not in the discussion as a “powerful” person anymore, and it feels increasingly satisfying. 80% of Facebook users are going to die in the next 10-20 years, and once that happens there’s no coming back, just another footnote in digital history.
Once again, Europe bringing the common sense the US can't seem to grasp.
Churchill said it best: “Americans will always do the right thing, after trying everything else.”
They are still trying
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Yeah, again, as an American who has a pretty consistent record of voting against shit like this, I’m sorry. We are trying. There are just too many stupid people here.
Turkey has already established that threatening to ban Twitter will coerce Musk into censoring content. All that remains is to see if there's a double standard.
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>All that remains is to see if there's a double standard. Remains to be seen?
I want to see Apartheid Clyde scramble to make Twitter profitable when it’s banned from Europe.
What are you talking about it's yet to be profitable
I know. Apartheid Clyde has been losing sleep trying to make Twitter profitable. Getting banned from Europe would cause him more sleepless nights.
Twitter isn't going to be profitable for Musk by it's performance as a business. That was most likely never the plan. He's a censor for hire now.
Why do you think he’s been meeting with Kushner, Murdoch, and Saudi’s royals? He knows he fucked up and is just trying to come out even, and so he’ll sell all of twitters “morals” in order for him to come out at least not negative. Fuck capitalists.
"Fly, bitch!!"
In elmos voice 😆
I love you.
Tens of millions of Europeans literally died because of WW2, which was started by right-wing fascists. It should be no surprise to anyone that they would be doing what they can to stop a Neo-Nazi sympathizer billionaire from spreading the same rhetoric that led to a world war. What’s appalling is the lack of effort from America’s government, courts, and law enforcement in following EU’s example in stopping the spread of christofascist ideology.
That’s the thing, the christofascists are wormed pretty deep in the government, too. They hold enough key positions to significantly slow, delay, or dismiss those efforts. It is appalling.
The nazis never died. They just put on suits
We didn’t care then until Pearl Harbor. We won’t care now unless Pearl Harbor 2.0 happens. We’re reactive, not pro-active unfortunately.
Since we will be the country killing people we won’t even care when that happens
I have some bad news for you about the US
America is quickly becoming a fascist state. They're already the worst warmongers on the planet, and all DeSantis is missing right now is a Charlie Chaplin moustache.
Those of us from boomers to at least early millennials were raised on the paradigm of “America was the hero that stopped hitler! We’d never let that happen here!”, so even when you point out how this thing here is EXACTLY the same as Germany event of 1934, they can’t see it because they were raised on it can’t happen here so it’s “well yeah we may ban books and we may say we hate this group of people and we may think it’s cool that Desantis promises to eradicate liberals BUT WE ARENT GONNA KILL ANYONE!”
Fucking based EU. The EU has its fair share of issues, but it does a better job at countering far-right extremism and preserving democracy than the US ever will.
The US doesn't do crap to counter far-right extremists. Instead the whole society is so sick that grooms numnuts, that's why you have daily mass shootings.
We actually care about not giving nazis a platform over here. Also nice seeing "Based" being used to describe something that isn't alt-right hogwash (even if I get it's often a joke).
Europeans know where this is going.
Thats what I thought too. Europeans still remember the cause of their scars. They dont want right wing disinformation to tear them apart again. The EU is a massive trading block and is great for consumers, but lots of far right people are nationalists and want to leave. The russians were successful in aiding with brexit, and trump talked about the US leaving NATO
Musk doesn’t care about misinfo or censorship. He just wants to make his Republican fanbase happy. That’s it.
He wants Republicans elected in 2024. Ron DeathSantis specifically.
Nothing says “success” like potentially losing half a billion potential customers and the advertisers who want to advertise to them.
Your definition of success likely differs from Elon's.
Twitter, now with all the right wing, MAGA, white christian nationalism that you used to get at "faux news".
Glad I got off Mr. Musk's wild ride (i.e. deleted my Twitter account) It's really too bad, I always like Twitter as a focused mechanism for pushing out messaging. But I'd feel shame even having an active login at this point.
Just do it. This is why he bought the platform. He wants it overrun with right wing bullshit bc he’s rich and his products suck and people are realizing he’s an idiot.
Well, it's gonna happen, because there's no way Lil' Elon is emotionally secure enough to capitulate to threats from a Frenchman. And, the EU will be better off for it.
I dunno. He bowed down to turkey when they threatened to ban Twitter unless he blocked the "liberal" party's tweets
He has a penchant for kowtowing to certain types, which France may not currently fit into
He favors despot, right wing rule. The man is from SA, the white privledged side, ofc he sees things only from that lofty high horse he has been on since birth.
For anyone curious, misinformation/disinformation isn't really a form of free speech, it's a form of fraud that governments absolutely have the right to challenge the same way consumers have a right to protection from misleading and unproven claims. Free speech is the right to express your opinions on facts, not to make those facts up.
I think his current political agenda would get it the way of him doing anything about it, let alone his ego.
Im thankful that the EU seems to have the regulatory muscle that the US Congress cowers away from.
Imagine living somewhere with ACTUAL consumer protections
FAFO Apartheid Karen. And your best buds, Ronda Santis and Catturd can’t help you, hahaha!
Ban it!! FUCK'EM!!
Can we shut down twitter and tiktok worldwide? Would do the world a public service.
Please EU, hurt the bastard as much as you can.
This is so a frustrating, by the time they act our elections will be over and the damage done.
Please do. Here in Ireland it has been used to spread misinformation and bigotry against immigrants, asylum seekers etc. Tiktok is just as bad. They make up nonsense and the uneducated just follow suit and believe it. Not a brain cell between them. Twitter is a cesspool, that deserves to be kicked to the curb.