American Politics

[M3J]

Musk isn't going to do shit, he's an asshole who likes to talk big and deliver little. Probably because he knows he can get away with it thanks to his dumb cult following.

 

[kkck]

Welp, musk backed out of the twitter board. So um... dead end story? The only takeaway from this is that people place way too much value on what people with money have to say.

In other redundant news, Putin-russia quadrupling down on the war.

 

[xi0]

Welp, musk backed out of the twitter board. So um... dead end story? The only takeaway from this is that people place way too much value on what people with money have to say.

Not really, it only opens the door up to a hostile takeover scenario potentially.

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It's funny that I have to remind myself that people looked at this moron as an intellectual with something of value to say. Just another grifter in the end.

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It's funny that Biden bothers tweeting these meaningless platitudes though. Where's the legislation?

 

[kkck]

LOL, I don't think peterson knows how rights work...

 

[xi0]

LOL, I don't think peterson knows how rights work...

He knows that he has the right to make an entire career out of refusing to use people's pronouns, making himself cry on camera by talking about esoteric Jungian archetypes or the "dragon of chaos", and claim to be an expert on the Soviet Union despite never reading the Communist Manifesto.

The guy can be entertaining, but how any goes to him for political commentary is funny to me. He's tweeting like that from Canada, a place where healthcare is a right too...

 

[kkck]

He knows that he has the right to make an entire career out of refusing to use people's pronouns, making himself cry on camera by talking about esoteric Jungian archetypes or the "dragon of chaos", and claim to be an expert on the Soviet Union despite never reading the Communist Manifesto.

The guy can be entertaining, but how any goes to him for political commentary is funny to me. He's tweeting like that from Canada, a place where healthcare is a right too...

He hasn't? That's a super short read... Peterson is a bit of a mystery to me. He feels like someone who believes his own hype maybe? I've seen some of his videos on behavioral psychology and they are pretty interesting but yeah, his social commentary pretty much consistently misses the mark. Then again conservative social commentary is, well, conservative, so it's hard to break new ground there...

 

[M3J]

LOL, I don't think peterson knows how rights work...

I'm pretty sure 95% of the right don't know how rights work, but again they're probably employing the good old double standards here. Like I've said before, the right will cry about freedom of speech when ideas they agree are held accountable, no matter how horrid it is, but when ideas they disagree with get silenced or something, they don't care.

 

[xi0]

He hasn't? That's a super short read... Peterson is a bit of a mystery to me. He feels like someone who believes his own hype maybe? I've seen some of his videos on behavioral psychology and they are pretty interesting but yeah, his social commentary pretty much consistently misses the mark. Then again conservative social commentary is, well, conservative, so it's hard to break new ground there...

He made a name for himself by being an "apolitical" free speech warrior, but I don't know why anyone would have bought into that. There was just too much potential grift there to ignore.

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[M3J]

simply because he just needs to say the things that people want to hear, no matter how full of shit it is. People love having their shitty views validated.

 

[McNuss]

Not really, it only opens the door up to a hostile takeover scenario potentially.

Honestly Twitter, as people know it, is pretty fucked up anyways, the most toxic place in the internet. Don't think even Musk can make it worse.

But that is not the true Twitter anyways. As long as he doesn't touch the true Twitter, you know, the thing that has all the categories and all the talents, easily being as large as the other sites of that kind combined...

I don't care.

The public Twitter is overrated anyways, YouTube is probably the most influential political plattform, Twitter is only used by weirdos and (lazy) journalists.

The true Twitter however is heaven <3 I don't know how that thing happened to be but please let it never end. Not another Tumblr...

 

[xi0]

Honestly Twitter, as people know it, is pretty fucked up anyways, the most toxic place in the internet. Don't think even Musk can make it worse.

But that is not the true Twitter anyways. As long as he doesn't touch the true Twitter, you know, the thing that has all the categories and all the talents, easily being as large as the other sites of that kind combined...

I don't care.

The public Twitter is overrated anyways, YouTube is probably the most influential political plattform, Twitter is only used by weirdos and (lazy) journalists.

The true Twitter however is heaven <3 I don't know how that thing happened to be but please let it never end. Not another Tumblr...

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this is about porn...

 

[kkck]

imagine being so deluded that you think a billionaire buying an add data mining company will fight for free speech..

 

[xi0]

All he has to do is say "free speech" or say he's "pathological about the truth" and every conservative soyfaces about how based he is because they assume that means their favorite unscrupulous grifter will be allowed back on the platform.

Meanwhile this is a guy whose entire brand is about obfuscation and taking credit for things he had no part in. Most of his acts of "generosity" are PR stunts that usually fail or under-deliver. Oh, and somehow he's allowed to call random people pedophiles and get away with it.

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Plus, the obsession with this pseudo-conservative turn by him moving from California to Texas.... he's doing it because he was facing a shitload of lawsuits there. Like insanely racist allegations at Tesla in California.

 

[Sanity Check]

 

[McNuss]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this is about porn...

Yeah it was very weird back in the day when people where speculating wether Twitter could afford banning Trump with his 80M followers and I switched over to incognito tabs and hehehe.

I wonder how much of Twitter's income is actually due to porn. Everyone knows this is gold. There's everyone from any site gathered on Twitter, it always has fresh content, commentary from and direct interaction with the artists, sounds like a brilliant concept but it is much harder to quantify than public Twitter as obviously only a small minority of followers actually press the "follow" button, this is private obviously.

 

[xi0]

This is just the Trump argument over again. Somehow any option that can be seen as a foil for the "establishment" is preferred, without actually examining this in a granular way.

He's the richest man on Earth. Any sort of business acumen he has was formed while he was nursed by taxpayers. He routinely and brazenly lies because no one holds him accountable. This is not some God Emperor Libertarian we're dealing with here.

--- Double Post Merged, Apr 17, 2022, Original Post Date: Apr 17, 2022 ---

Yeah it was very weird back in the day when people where speculating wether Twitter could afford banning Trump with his 80M followers and I switched over to incognito tabs and hehehe.

I wonder how much of Twitter's income is actually due to porn. Everyone knows this is gold. There's everyone from any site gathered on Twitter, it always has fresh content, commentary from and direct interaction with the artists, sounds like a brilliant concept but it is much harder to quantify than public Twitter as obviously only a small minority of followers actually press the "follow" button, this is private obviously.

It's not unique to Twitter really, it's the internet as a whole

 

[kkck]

 

[xi0]

I like how his wording is used to absolve himself of participating in it. It's the same bullshit Trump used by saying "I know how these guys operate".

 

[kkck]

oh yeah. mo brooks is a saint here. You'd think this would be the sort of thing that gets some media coverage and start protests and such...

 

[xi0]

Independent media has certainly covered it, but yeah, we all know why it isn't on any of the major outlets.

--- Double Post Merged, Apr 20, 2022, Original Post Date: Apr 19, 2022 ---

"Please don't blame me guys..."