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    https://youtube.com/watch?v=hM0Ms0M777U

    Twitter says they are “in a very difficult position” post buy out and expects a mass exodus of users and employees due to Musk’s “questionable ethics” and his “disagreements” with moderation policy. What are Musk’s ethics supposed to be relative to Agrawal or Dorsey? Meanwhile the talking heads on TV say Musk is buying Twitter because he “misses” apartheid, a reference to the fact Musk is African American. Other left wing activists have made similar comments about how Musk is a white supremacist seeking to dominate the commons.

    https://nypost.com/2022/04/27/joy-re...ica-apartheid/

    Looks like the systemical racisms scam has come full circle. In the same vein, it’s interesting to see how this situation has blown the lid off what we already knew but were called conspiracy theorists for even talking about:
    Quote Originally Posted by OP
    That’s the terrifying part. Leftist institutional dominance is so pervasive, its manifestation is entirely organic, self-perpetuating, and mob-like. There’s no Publicity Department censoring the news and elevating puff pieces friendly to the Party. The people in position to propagate and reinforce this bias genuinely believe their bias is righteous and good. It’s not a shortcoming. It’s a badge of honorable activism. The truth doesn’t matter, only the mission to defeat the “bad.” And that’s what’s dangerous. I don’t see how something like this could ever be unwound in the foreseeable future. The country is increasingly worse off for it, as more and more “counter revolutionaries” find themselves in the proverbial gulag, which in turn feeds radicalization of its own kind.
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    Of these facts there cannot be any shadow of doubt: for instance, that civil society was renovated in every part by Christian institutions; that in the strength of that renewal the human race was lifted up to better things-nay, that it was brought back from death to life, and to so excellent a life that nothing more perfect had been known before, or will come to be known in the ages that have yet to be. - Pope Leo XIII

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    Twitter over the past few years has become a heaven for all kinds of bigots masquerading as "tolerant". Hopefully Elon has a bit of common sense and outright bans politics from the platform.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Adrian View Post
    Twitter over the past few years has become a heaven for all kinds of bigots masquerading as "tolerant". Hopefully Elon has a bit of common sense and outright bans politics from the platform.
    Wouldn't that make it Instagram without the sassy pics?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wiki
    The Disinformation Governance Board is a Department of Homeland Security board announced 27 April 2022 during a 2023 budget hearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.
    Just like that, the mask is all the way off. And wouldn’t you know it, the head of the Board is a veteran of the Democrat Party machinery and mainstream media echo chamber, and former adviser to at least one foreign government with zero national security experience or credentials. She called the Post’s Biden laptop story Russian disinfo at the time, and says she “shudders” to think what Musk will do to “marginalized communities” online. I guess I’ll have to retract my observation that the Democrats don’t need a Publicity Department like in communist China, because they’ve evidently decided they do.
    Of these facts there cannot be any shadow of doubt: for instance, that civil society was renovated in every part by Christian institutions; that in the strength of that renewal the human race was lifted up to better things-nay, that it was brought back from death to life, and to so excellent a life that nothing more perfect had been known before, or will come to be known in the ages that have yet to be. - Pope Leo XIII

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    “The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
    Nineteen Eighty-Four

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    Quote Originally Posted by Infidel144 View Post
    “The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    On top of that:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q

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    Quote Originally Posted by Infidel144 View Post
    “The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    A good read:

    https://taibbi.substack.com/p/twitte...e-to-roost?s=r


    Elon Musk has reportedly attempted to purchase Twitter, and I have no idea whether his influence on the company would be positive or not.
    I do know, however, what other media figures think Musk’s influence on Twitter will be. They think it will be bad — very bad, bad! How none of them see what a self-own this is is beyond me. After spending the last six years practically turgid with joy as other unaccountable billionaires tweaked the speech landscape in their favor, they’re suddenly howling over the mere rumor that a less censorious fat cat might get to sit in one of the big chairs. O the inhumanity!
    A few of the more prominent Musk critics are claiming merely to be upset at the prospect of wealthy individuals controlling speech. As more than one person has pointed out, this is a bizarre thing to be worrying about all of the sudden, since it’s been the absolute reality in America for a while.
    David Sirota @davidsirota
    as someone who isn't a fan of Elon Musk, I still find it darkly funny that billionaire-owned media is suddenly having a moral panic about a billionaire possibly buying Twitter
    April 14th 2022
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    Probably the funniest effort along those lines was this passage:
    We need regulation… to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication.
    That was Ellen Pao, former CEO of Reddit, railing against Musk in the pages of… the Washington Post! A newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos complaining about rich people controlling “channels of communication” just might be the never-released punchline of Monty Python’s classic “Funniest Joke in the World” skit.

    Many detractors went the Pao route, suddenly getting religious about concentrated wealth having control over the public discourse. In a world that had not yet gone completely nuts, that is probably where the outrage campaign would have ended, since the oligarchical control issue could at least be a legitimate one, if printed in a newspaper not owned by Jeff Bezos.
    However, they didn’t stop there. Media figures everywhere are openly complaining that they dislike the Musk move because they’re terrified he will censor people less. Bullet-headed neoconservative fussbudget Max Boot was among the most emphatic in expressing his fear of a less-censored world:
    Max Boot ���� @MaxBoot
    I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.
    April 14th 2022
    3,461 Retweets22,071 Likes

    In every newsroom I’ve ever been around, there’s always one sad hack who’s hated by other reporters but hangs on to a job because he whispers things to management and is good at writing pro-war editorials or fawning profiles of Ari Fleischer or Idi Amin or other such distasteful media tasks. Even thatperson would never have been willing to publicly say something as gross as, “For democracy to survive, it needs more censorship”! A professional journalist who opposed free speech was not long ago considered a logical impossibility, because the whole idea of a free press depended upon the absolute right to be an unpopular pain in the ass.
    Things are different now, of course, because the bulk of journalists no longer see themselves as outsiders who challenge official pieties, but rather as people who live inside the rope-lines and defend those pieties. I’m guessing this latest news is arousing special horror because the current version of Twitter is the professional journalist’s idea of Utopia: a place where Donald Trump doesn’t exist, everyone with unorthodox thoughts is warning-labeled (“age-restricted” content seems to be a popular recent scam), and the Current Thing is constantly hyped to the moronic max. The site used to be fun, funny, and a great tool for exchanging information. Now it feels like what the world would be if the eight most vile people in Brooklyn were put in charge of all human life, a giant, hyper-pretentious Thought-Starbucks.
    My blue-checked friends in media worked very hard to create this thriving intellectual paradise, so of course they’re devastated to imagine that a single rich person could even try to walk in and upend the project. Couldn’t Musk just leave Twitter in the hands of responsible, speech-protecting shareholders like Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal?





    Another one:

    https://taibbi.substack.com/p/savor-...nic?r=5mz1&s=w

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    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2075278.html

    Looks like the MAGAs get their wish. Soon they will once again get to read page after page of screeds letting the world know how unfair life is for Donald Trump and begging for money on Twitter instead of through emails. I sure feel owned.

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    https://thehill.com/policy/technolog...o-buy-twitter/

    Elon Musk terminated his agreement to buy Twitter on Friday, less than three months after reaching a deal to acquire it.

    “Mr. Musk is terminating the Merger Agreement because Twitter is in material breach of multiple provisions of that Agreement, appears to have made false and misleading representations upon which Mr. Musk relied when entering into the Merger Agreement, and is likely to suffer a Company Material Adverse Effect,” a lawyer wrote on his behalf in a letter to Twitter’s chief legal officer, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing.


    The letter alleged that the social media platform had rejected or ignored Musk’s requests for information he sought to “make an independent assessment of the prevalence of fake or spam accounts on Twitter’s platform.”
    The letter further claimed that data that was given to Musk was “incomplete” and that it was not “sufficient to perform such an independent assessment.”

    The chairman of Twitter’s board, Bret Taylor, said they would be pursing legal action.
    I guess once Musk got all of the narcissistic supply he was going to get from the right over this, there was no longer a reason for him to pretend anymore.

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    Nah, its just that buying Twitter and Facebook today is like buying MySpace in 2010. Musk did it for the clout, I'd wager.

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