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

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The bot get out , still sounds like a pretext on Musk's part he always knew it was exploitable if he got cold feet and the states of the economy(&tesla business),or EU legislation both make the purchase unpalatable now.

First portrayal I've seen on the tv screen of Russian twitter subversion in c4 drama 'undeclared war',
it's more woke than doctor Who, but the russian twitter factory is an unexpected twist.
(ticks - black prime minister who has taken over after Boris, MI5 misognyism/racism, Muslim femalel bisexual)
 
I'm not too invested in the story here as it's an obvious vanity project for Musk, but to those who are surprised that he is "right wing" now --- well, I don't think I've ever heard of a single billionaire who is left wing. The closest are liberals, which IIRC are right of centre.

What's more interesting for me is when (if ever) Twitter is going to implement some form of an edit button.
 
opethian said:
What's more interesting for me is when (if ever) Twitter is going to implement some form of an edit button.
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they say "it's on the way", so make of that what you will.

opethian said:
I'm not too invested in the story here as it's an obvious vanity project for Musk, but to those who are surprised that he is "right wing" now --- well, I don't think I've ever heard of a single billionaire who is left wing. The closest are liberals, which IIRC are right of centre.
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trump was a democrat until they rejected him when he tried to run with them, and then after became a republican.

musk said he was a democrat until only a couple months ago, the second a bad story was about to be released, he then announced he is no longer democrat and now republican.

based on those 2, i'd say there's plenty billionaire democrats.

with all that said, the democrats aren't even left wing any way so perhaps you're right.
 
dowie said:
Who do you think funds stuff like this?

Open Society Foundations—Who We Are

We are the largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights.
www.opensocietyfoundations.org www.opensocietyfoundations.org
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They're not left-wing if they've partaken in worst excesses of capitalism, at best they might have a conscience but more likely they just see an opportunity to exploit a tribe for their own profit.
 
Trump rips into Musk at a rally in Alaska, dismissing him as a '******** artist.' Being Trump, he can't even get the name right.

“Leon’s, I’ll tell you what,” Trump began. “Elon, Elon, is not going to buy Twitter. … He’s got himself a mess. He said the other day, ‘Oh, I’ve never voted for a Republican.’ I said, ‘I didn’t know that. He told me he voted for me.’ So, he’s another ******** artist. But he’s not going to be buying it.”

...Musk has also said that he’s leaning toward supporting Ron DeSantis for president in 2024, which may be part of why Trump went so hard at him on Saturday night. DeSantis is widely seen as the only person who could stand in Trump’s way of the Republican nomination, should they both choose to run.

Rolling Stone reported last month that Trump is even considering launching his 2024 campaign in Florida specifically to stick it to the Florida governor.
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You love to see it!

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Meanwhile, on Truth Social, they're approaching levels of cope that shouldn't even be possible!

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StriderX said:
They're not left-wing if they've partaken in worst excesses of capitalism, at best they might have a conscience but more likely they just see an opportunity to exploit a tribe for their own profit.
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That's just nonsense, look at who they fund and look at how much the far-right types and conspiracy types hate that organisation + Soros himself. He's up there with Bill Gates as far as the conspiracy types are concerned and he's another example of a left-wing billionaire, in fact, he's pledged to give away, essentially, all of his fortune*.

As for the supposedly profiting from this - how? That just seems to be a silly throwaway comment along the line "probably just a tax write-off" that comes out when a rich person makes a charity donation... sort of implying also that they've somehow magically benefitted financially but without any substantial explanation of how.


*spot another name on here, Elon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge obvs he's more of a centrist/swing voter than right or left-wing but he's signed up to that pledge too, that's in part what is particularly dumb about these demands that he needs to pay some additional tax that doesn't exist or that he should give away stuff now, currently he's invested in projects that are valuable to the world/humanity in general, he's the richest man in the world and demonstrated several times now that he's perhaps a better custodian of the wealth/assets he's created than anyone else... Imagine if someone had the sort of naive/short-sighted view seen in this thread a few years ago, that once he'd reached 1 billion or a few hundred million then that was enough and he ought to retire or pay 100% tax on any more... he'd not be where he is today with 200+billion and most of that pledged to charity. And that's got plenty of potential to grow further still.
 
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I love how this has turned from Musk buying twitter to allow free speech and get Trump back on twiitter and the alt righters/lites screamed the left are in melt down.

Now its Musk isnt going to buy Twitter but wants them to reveal how many bots are on there. The alt righters are still claiming victory. We know there are bots on twitter and we also know that they are mostly pushing right wing nonsense.

From big claims come small victories that are largely meaningless.
 
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Colonel_Klinck said:
Yeah right Elon. Its almost like he's trying too hard to look good coming out of what has been a disaster. From refusing DD to signing a contract that could force him to buy it at $44b. If he goes much further he's going to start looking like My Pillow guy :(
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To be fair it is kind of funny - they had a major melt down over him potentially acquiring it and now trying to enforce him buying.
 
Tony Edwards said:
I love how this has turned from Musk buying twitter to allow free speech and get Trump back on twiitter and the alt righters screamed the left are in melt down.

Now its Musk isnt going to buy Twitter but wants them to reveal how many bots are on there. The alt righters are still claiming victory. We know there are bots on twitter and we also know that they are mostly pushing right wing nonsense.

From big claims come small victories that are largely meaningless.
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Can you substantiate anything about your post? You decided it was about Trump which is why you're so concerned about Musk buying it - this despite the fact that Trump said he wasn't rejoining Twitter. Yes the number of bots are important because active users are linked to viability of revenue from advertisers. Can you substantiate your claim that bots are pushing mostly right wing nonsense? How did you decide that? You're literally just making things up
 
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