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

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Roar87 said:
Do you like Nancy Pelosi? Do you think there any issues around her husband buying and trading shares? It's kind of bad that she could be using insider knowledge for her husbands trading, no?
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No I don't like her and politicians and their family members using inside information to make money is rampant, it should be illegal to trade shares and be an elected to Congress and anyone suspected of using such information should be investigated and prosecuted if found to have done so. The US needs to get over its fear of prosecuting politicians. If they break the law they should face the consequences.

Quite what that has to do with Elon posting a CT that her husband was in a gay consensual act that went wrong when it was in fact a nut job that smashed his way into the house and then attempted to cave his head in with a hammer I'm not sure. Maybe you could enlighten us? Of course remembering that Elon loves to tweet out his thoughts on shares himself, Tesla going private comes to mind and his many tweets on Dogecoin and Bitcoin that made those coins jump and fall massively depending on what he said. I'm sure he wasn't taking advantage of that with his own holdings was he.
 
Jono8 said:
What has that got to do with the price of peanuts.
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Even then its not fact its just opinion.
Its a little iffy but its not by any means a slam dunk because if it was it WOULD be investigated and charges laid.

Its some of the strongest legislation in the US and they absolutely do use it.

Problem is some people are susceptible to the hype and always will be. Taking some randoms thoughts on twitter when they suit their beliefs.
Often the same sort who accuse others of exactly that funnily.
Northern based strong of arm but not of brain gym goers probably more than likely will be susceptible ;)
 
Roar87 said:
I just don't really care that some corrupt millionaire politician was robbed, they're dumb not to have security with the millions they've got.
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Didn't you get really upset when someone allegedly jumped on Elon's car's bonnet? I don't believe you, of all people, would be a hypocrite lacking self awareness, so I must have that wrong.
 
JRS said:
I didn't realise 'choosing not to pay for access to an API in order to make a non-monetised whimsical Twitter account continue to function when that access up until now has been free' was virtue signalling. You learn something new every day.

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What you haven't learnt new today, is that roar will find a way to defend Elon to the very end, no matter the cost
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
No I don't like her and politicians and their family members using inside information to make money is rampant, it should be illegal to trade shares and be an elected to Congress and anyone suspected of using such information should be investigated and prosecuted if found to have done so. The US needs to get over its fear of prosecuting politicians. If they break the law they should face the consequences
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www.theguardian.com

Elon Musk and brother under investigation for alleged insider trading

Kimbal Musk sold Tesla shares the day before his brother asked Twitter if he should sell
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has reportedly opened an investigation into whether recent stock sales by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal Musk violated insider trading rules.

The SEC inquiry – first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday – was sparked in part by the Tesla CEO’s own tweets.

It centers on an incident last year when Kimbal – who sits on Tesla’s board of directors – sold $108m of shares in the electric carmaker. The exchange took place just a day before before Musk polled Twitter users asking whether he should offload 10% of his stake in Tesla, sending shares falling.

The investigation escalates Musk’s battle with regulators as they scrutinize his social media posts and Tesla’s treatment of workers, including accusations of discrimination.

Last week, Tesla and Musk accused the SEC of harassing them with an “endless” and “unrelenting” investigation to punish Musk for being an outspoken critic of the government.
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Victimhood!
 
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wesimmo said:
Didn't you get really upset when someone allegedly jumped on Elon's car's bonnet? I don't believe you, of all people, would be a hypocrite lacking self awareness, so I must have that wrong.
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I think the concern was that his toddler was in a car, not actually him, and tracking was being used to track his where abouts. That's something most parents should be able to relate to wessimo?
 
Roar87 said:
I think the concern was that his toddler was in a car, not actually him, and tracking was being used to track his where abouts. That's something most parents should be able to relate to wessimo?
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Except that the "tracking" was utter nonesense.

The "tracking" was publically available information about his aircraft, which was in a different state to where his kid was.
 
@Roar87 - okay, I really can't keep up with your flip-flop'ing here.

One moment it's...

Roar87 said:
I'm sure if the guy wasn't just virtue signaling against Elon Musk he could easily get funded to pay for API usage
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...and the next...

Roar87 said:
It isn't, but if it's a popular account I'm sure there are enough people to crowd fund the API use.

lol, it has 580k followers.
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Throw me a bone here. Is it virtue signalling or isn't it?

Help me to help you, help me to help you, help me to help you...

 
wesimmo said:
Meh, it was the kid of a corrupt billionaire anyway so who cares, he should have been in an armoured Tesla guarded by some AR wielding security.
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Exactly.

Rich person gets attacked. Roar "they should have had security"

Richest person in the entire world has their kid followed. Roar "oh no, how could this happen, poor child, won't somebody think of the children, things need to change on twitter"
 
JRS said:
@Roar87 - okay, I really can't keep up with your flip-flop'ing here.

One moment it's...



...and the next...



Throw me a bone here. Is it virtue signalling or isn't it?

Help me to help you, help me to help you, help me to help you...

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Yes it's virtue signaling, it's a massive account with 580k followers, the amount of money required to pay will be insignificant for an account that size. You do realise Twitter accounts can be quite easily monetised?
 
Musk has no idea what he's doing with Twitter. Planning to charge bots that use the API, which in most cases are adding fun, whimsical content to users Twitter feeds and thus keeping their eyeballs on Twitter (and it's adverts) for longer, is stupid. It's like if Google decided to make YouTube creators pay to upload videos. In fact I wouldn't be at all surprised if his next genius move was to introduce Pay As You Go tweet charges for non blue tick users.
 
Roar87 said:
Yes it's virtue signaling, it's a massive account with 580k followers, the amount of money required to pay will be insignificant for an account that size. You do realise Twitter accounts can be quite easily monetised?
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And how many people that you follow on twitter would you pay money to? I know myself its exactly zero. You think people would pay to see that account? Maybe if it had 5 million followers it could find enough people willing to pay. 99.99 of people will not pay for that kind of content, its just fun and offers nothing other than a bit of fun.
 
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Is it me, guys?

Roar87 said:
I'm sure if the guy wasn't just virtue signaling against Elon Musk he could easily get funded to pay for API usage
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JRS said:
I didn't realise 'choosing not to pay for access to an API in order to make a non-monetised whimsical Twitter account continue to function when that access up until now has been free' was virtue signalling. You learn something new every day.
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Roar87 said:
It isn't, but if it's a popular account I'm sure there are enough people to crowd fund the API use.

lol, it has 580k followers.
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JRS said:
@Roar87 - okay, I really can't keep up with your flip-flop'ing here.

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Throw me a bone here. Is it virtue signalling or isn't it?
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Roar87 said:
Yes it's virtue signaling, it's a massive account with 580k followers, the amount of money required to pay will be insignificant for an account that size. You do realise Twitter accounts can be quite easily monetised?
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I reckon I'll just wait for you to pick a position and stick with it before engaging any further, tbh :p
 
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