The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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With the occasional Labour gov when they get a leader that is electable and the voters are so sick of years of Tory rule. Just look at the previous 50 years.

I'm a bit more optimistic that PR will get implemented eventually, at least the Tories have made a little progress on the voting front by equalising constituency sizes (despite doing it to get them more seats).

Do you think being in the EU would result in a significant libertarian social policies like the legalisation of drugs and sex work?

That picture is the exact opposite of reality though. The right had moved ever further to the right, the left hsve followed. The major left parties are now further right than the right wing parties of 20-30 years ago. The labour party have been especially bsd at trying to be ever so slightly less authoritarian than the Tories, essentially mirroring the Tory party from the previous election. It was only under Corbyn did they return to the center, yet somehow being politically central got thrm branded as Marxists on the British press.

Corbyn unfortunately attracted a large socialist/marxist/communist voter base with both the people running the Labour conference, the speakers and attendees referring to each other as "comrades" and demanding socialism.

 

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You honestly think the Tories will give us another vote on PR or some other electoral reform? They only did it last time because LibDems made it a condition of entering government with them. They along with their mouth pieces the right wing press pushed hard against it. Why would they give us a system that will hurt their chances of keeping power?

The EU isn't going to legalise drugs because that is a decision left to the countries, same with sex workers, they might give protections to sex workers through workers rights but I can't see it going further than that. EU nations are still sovereign after all. Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Portugal and Switzerland have all decriminalised drugs. They are doing better than us.

I don't expect the Tories to give us another vote on PR without a coalition, same with Labour but as the 2010 coalition shows, events like that do happen in our lifetimes. I didn't expect the Conservatives to legalise gay marriage either but that happened to my amazement.

They could make it a condition of entry into the EU and I would certainly have voted remain if they did. An EU with legal drug trade would see GDP go through the roof!

 

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Are those state leaders representing the opinion of the majority of their state though i.e are they doing their job, by only caring about what the people in their state want?

If they are then what they are doing is right for the people who vote for them so to call them "extremists" just because they're following what the majority of their state wants is You putting Your views over the people in Their state who will be directly effected.

Even if they actually were, it falls firmly into the Tyranny of the majority category, it's not acceptable to just do anything the majority want, there has to be limits.

 

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Twitter purchase on hold. Will this turn into Musk pulling out? Tesla share price not great, getting more expensive with every drop.

It's always been questionable as to whether the deal would actually go through, but the drama was well worth it.

 

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In a related story, Netflix tells employees to quit if they are offended by their content. It's rare to hear good news these days.

 

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Lol ironic you see this as good news yet their share price is tanking.

How is that ironic? I am not a shareholder so why would I care what their share price is?

And yes their share price has been going down because of the cost of living crisis resulting in reduced subscriptions, not Dave Chappelle.

 

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Like most billionaires, Musk has become rich by convincing other people to give him their money, not by risking or spending his own. I have no problem with this, nor do I care how much money he makes (I'm opposed to salary caps) but I do believe that 'Musk has paid a lot of tax' belongs in the 'So what?' basket. Everyone's supposed to pay tax, I don't think Musk deserves a medal for doing what the rest of us do.

Elizabeth Holmes being the classic example, perhaps a bit more extreme though as she had no actual talent or merit at all.

I mean if the allegation is libellous then it'd be an easy win for Musk to get rid of the story, so yeah...

For a "public figure" in the US the bar for libel is so high it is next to impossible to successfully sue someone, I will even be surprised if Johnny Depp wins his case.