With META basically crashing and burning, I donāt think that twitter will last much longer. Iām pretty sure that a subscription model wonāt work without a costly investment in rewriting the code which he wonāt be willing to pay for. There is a reason we socialize those expenses to shareholders.
If I pay for a subscription anywhere I donāt want to see any ads at allā¦
As opposed to left wing tweet lies?..lol.
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Do you notice how this whole subject has become euphemism city? āWhite Nationalistā is their catch-all euphemism for Nazi. They canāt pin any specific activities Cotton or people like him that push racial superiority, so they use a vague term that can apply to anyone that they dislike.
Misinformation, disinformation is just a euphemism for discordant opinions. Thereās been much more disinformation put out by the New York Times than anyone theyāre crusading against. They veil it with leaks from senior intelligence or DOJ people - most likely Brennan and Comey, maybe through stooges that theyāve left behind. Obama had eight years to saturate civil service with his operatives.
Since 2017 there was an almost daily menu of āNow weāve got himā stories on Russia-gate. Still thereās āNow weāve got himā stories almost once a week, but now they need to focus their smears on DeSantis and others who look like bigger threats. Since 2016, theyāve had an army of operatives turning over every pebble to try and nail Trump for something, and they couldnāt.
Okay, maybe now, they have the goods on him for exaggerating the value of some property, after having several state attorneys general, the DOJ, FBI, and a special prosecutor shake the trees for six years. Not to mention the army of ājournalists.ā Maybe, but I doubt it - the odds say itās just another āNow weāve got himā
If they win a prosecution on some piss-ant charge like this, many years from now, the official liberal history will say that this was the heroic analog to getting Al Capone on tax charges.
If you can manage to step back from the current political commotion on both sides, what can you infer regarding how Musk could approach ongoing debt funding his other businesses? Thatās the real subject of debate.
For example, if youāre a bank, yea, youāll get fees for managing the debt syndication, but do you want the exposure to an imperious and impulsive CEO who, in the course of all this commotion, has dragged things on, tried to walk away from the mess with a very tight binding contract, and generally created commotion and risk. Keep in mind that the magnitude of the risk incurred by funding the debt bonds has only increased due to Muskās delay in completing the purchase since interest rates have continuously and substantially increased during this period. Heās like Trump, an unpredictable partner who will screw you in a heartbeat. The win-win scenario doesnāt exist for him. Perhaps he goes the route that Trump did and effectively become a money launderer via the use of sketchy private equity. All I know is that heās sent plenty of signals that heās a very difficult person to do business with and Tesla stock (which is collateral for the Twitter purchase) remains overvalued by any conventional metric, which creates risk for Muskās entire portfolio.
Progressives hate Elon Musk because heās a successful businessman who isnāt afraid to speak his mind. Heās a genius who has created some of the most innovative companies of our time, and heās one of the few people who is actually working to solve some of the worldās most pressing problems. But Progressives donāt want people to be successful, they want everyone to be equally poor and miserable. Theyāre jealous of Muskās success, and they hate him because he represents everything that theyāre not. Heās a hardworking, self-made man who believes in meritocracy and individual achievement. Heās an optimist who believes that we can create a better future for ourselves and for humanity as a whole. Progressives canāt stand that. If he were parroting their talking points they would love him.
"Progressives havenāt been to war yet, only through imaginary games played on the streets dressed in black hoodies in vane attempts to fill the self loathing voids with a cause they think is worthy. When they finally see what starvation is about or their friends dying in the hands of invaders hanging from street lamp posts within a dystopian of their making, such commentaryās of figures trying to do the good of humanity will be but of a distant thought. Their tears will be their own and theirs only. " ~ E.M. Coolidge
The Left is melting down now because both sides of every story can be heard without being banned.
The days of the lying, propaganda, media fake news narratives are over.
Leftists need to remember that Twitter is a private business and can do whatever it wants. If they donāt like it, they should create their own Twitter.
Twitter isnāt some public utility that leftists are entitled to use however they please. Itās a private business with its own terms of service that users agree to when they sign up. Leftists who violate those terms of service are nothing more than trespassers who deserve to be banned. And if Twitter decides to ban all leftists from its platform, thatās its prerogative as a private business.
So leftist crybabies need to stop whining and realize that Twitter can do whatever it wants. If they donāt like it, they can go create their own Twitter clone. But theyāll never be able to match the scale and reach of the real Twitter, so theyāll always be at a disadvantage. So itās best for them to just accept that Twitter is a private business and deal with it accordingly.
They really do hate getting a dose of their own medicine. I remember this narrative well from the 2016 election cycle, when we were the ones getting banned.
They had no problem using Twitter as a way to cancel people for wrongthink getting them fired and ruining their lives and reputations. I am happy to see these blue haired weirdos getting laid off en masse.
I hesitate to make any person in this age something to idolize, but Iād say that of all of the people I only know thru the media, Musk impresses me about as much as anyone. I would say that I would rather have Musk hold my wallet than Trump. If I had Bill and Hillary hold it, Iād consider my wallet lost.
Just remember what they did and what led up to this point in time.
This is the video that got Project Veritas Banned
I like your optimism, but Iām more inclined to think that weāre on the verge of a new dark age. Iām very disheartened, the lying and propaganda is working.
Well just as I stated earlier, the left having a melt down because in reality their grip on controlling the narrative is slipping away a trend that has been slowly evolving. While I will concede that lying propaganda is not suddenly going to go away over night, however a lot more people are starting to tune out traditional sources to get their news, and its why the left is losing their collective minds over the recent development of twitter and the possibility of presenting two sides of a story in a objective manner, is what this is really about and what a true democracy is suppose to be; something Elon Musk truly believes in and what started the process of him acquiring the platform in the first place (1st Amendment).
The left, has for too long tried to strong arm their detractors without having to defend their arguments or ideas with merit. On the latter, its why progressive candidates are refusing to debate their opponents in various elections, its why progressives here are content to give each other likes and only converse with their own crowd, but very rarely have we seen any of them debate and defend their ideas in any meaningful dialogue. It is also why they resort to cheating in elections because they simply donāt know how to have a conversation, hell they canāt even talk amongst themselves without feeling the need to compete with each other before throwing the next of kin under the bus.
My last point is the 1st amendment is whats really at stake here, and until Musk came along nobody stepped up to defend it, especially members of the right. They just tolerated it and took it up the wazoo. While maybe not much will change with Twitter and how it conducts itself, what is certain to change is that conservative voices will no longer have to fear that they will be banned for having certain beliefs or expressing certain discourse and that is really whats refreshing in all of this.
Iām not exactly sure that this is true. Free speech is at stake, but I donāt see a lot of recourse if thugs from the FBI, for instance, decide to intimidate people at twitter to shut down opinions (or people) that they donāt like. The first amendment says ācongress shall make no lawā not that people in government canāt bully you around.
And letās say that it does prohibit that? What recourse is there? I donāt know of any laws that could punish this behavior. Maybe you might sue for damages, but proving a case that you were silenced by shadowy men in black and it hurt you to the tune of $10 million seems like a difficult thing to do.
Then thereās political operatives in companies that are part of the ātown squareā who just do it on their own, seems like thereās a lot of that going on. I like that Musk is fighting back against these people, but itās like playing whack-a-mole. Then thereās the certain retaliation Musk can expect - every liberal attorney general, and of course our federal DOJ, will put him under the microscope and try to let him know that heās displeased the powers-that-be.
Good luck Elon, donāt expect much more help from Mitch McConnell. At the first sign of adversity, those weasels in the GOP will run and hide.
Yeaā¦ I think Iām feeling what your laying down.