remember the real reason he bought Twitter was to influence the 2024 election and stop any kind of leftist organizing on the site
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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I honestly think he bought twitter accidentally when he was trying to do another pump and dump like he did when he announced he was taking Tesla private at $420/share and like he did over and over with crypto. He bid a meme price ($54.20) that was way overvaluing the stock (as was his TSLA $420 at the time), and they had to go after him legally when he tried to pull out.
Being a malignant narcissist with increasing unhinged tendencies, almost as if he is using again, he decided to make it into a $44B joke, because he can. He wasn’t, and isn’t, taking it seriously. He’s shooting from the hip, announcing major policy shifts via spontaneous tweets rather than talking to his senior staff. He whipsaws between policies, changing or reversing them at a moment’s notice. He does not, in the words of the Joker, look like a guy with a plan to me.
It looks like classic narcissistic rage. There’s a reason why it feels like Trump is in charge of twitter now.
Probably also why his fan boy Huffman is trying to sink Reddit
That’s a bingo!
I never thought it was just a coincidence that he bought it in the middle of the mid-terms, and immediately started trumpeting about how people should vote rep. Every move he has made only confirms that suspicion, and stuff like this article is blatant 'mask-off' behaviour.
He's a partisan piece of shit whose only interest is trying to force society to match his shitty views.
Given that he is close to the likes of David Sacks says it all
I think that might be too thoughtful for him. To me at least, he seems like hes insecure talked himself into a corner about buying twitter. All the free speach stuff was probably parioting people without really thinking it through.
lol
By that point, Twitter won't be relevant enough to influence a lemonade stand.
Unfortunately I don't know where else people are organizing in mass.
Catholic churches
that's a good mass joke.
There were places to organize before Twitter. There will be places after. They could use Mastodon Lemmy or any other activity pub client. They could use a BBS or a php powered forum or an email mailing list. The only thing special about Twitter was that so many people were accessible via it. But musk doesn't want them there anymore. He's doing everything he can to tell everyone that. So there's no reason to stay for the sake of the platform.
Well that's sure infuriating to read today.
I like that he's being very blatant about it. If you haven't already adjusted the X social network into the same column as Truth Social in your brain, you should
I like the way you phrased that. Maybe the rebranding will help people realize the thing they knew as Twitter is gone.
I never really used Twitter. I let the client stay on my phone or of laziness. Soon as I saw the X icon. I uninstalled it faster than high energy neutrinos decay into muons in the upper atmosphere.
Get. Off. Twitter.
Right
"I hate this site but I'll make sure to keep showing up in traffic reports and provide content so they can get advertising dollars"
Deleted that shit last year. I really don’t get why people would stay after the rebranding especially
May as well stay on it at this point. It's absolutely hemorrhaging money, and each user seems to cost them more than they make. And without voices of reason it'll become even more of an alt-right shithole
It's linked in the article, but the ad is really great, I think. On point and effective.
A government so small it can fit in your bedroom!
The level of hypocrisy is really astounding. I might be more centrist if conservatism really was about personal freedoms (though I still firmly believe that some things are better off handled by socialist programs, including health care). But Republicans don't want small government except as applied to corporations - they don't want federal regulations impinging on profits. As applied to individuals, they want to regulate everything you do.
It's not really hypocrisy it's just a bald-faced lie. They know if they use terms like "small government" they'll distract rubes who don't think past slogans.
They know perfectly well what they're doing and they just don't care.
I wonder if the removal is just Streisland effecting it? Cause certainly no way I would hear about an ad on Twitter otherwise.
Yeah, I had seen the ad because my wife saw it on YouTube and showed it to me, but it's getting lots more coverage because Musk removed it, like you say.
Loving the 'free speech absolutist' in action
Just going to leave this here:
Musk, who is known for being a self-assigned “free speech absolutist”, has previously claimed that he is “against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask the government to pass laws to that effect”.
He has also claimed that “free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.”
Free speech for everyone who agrees with him
Just going to leave this here:
Why are you even here if you STILL believe any demonstrably false thing that the guy says?
What part of my post gives you the impression I believe anything Musk says, let alone something demonstrably false?
Did I need to put a /s on my post? Also, define "still here" when this was a hot post breifly in the top 6 hour slot, and not a community I'm subbing. I just don't understand how someone can misunderstand a post this badly. I guess the jokes on me and /s needs to be provided for those who miss context.
It has been a long time. I think the statute of limitations has expired on my requirement to reply. I am glad that you also don't believe Musk.
“Free speech!” he proclaimed, while thinking, “Only for me”.
Press X to doubt.
Oh no please stop pushing X now.