Musk says "Go f**k yourselves" to advertisers

[The Black Forrest]

Good for Musk. Maybe, just maybe, Twitter will become less of a cesspool.

No. It’s like Trump’s claims to clean the swamp; he significantly enlarged it.

[Vassenor]

So you’re not for free speech, just speech that makes you feel comfortable.

Threats of violence have never been considered free speech.

So it’s not a violation of free speech to ban people over Jan 6th.

[Esternial]

More and more, Elon Musk is just looking like a 21st century, politically correct Caligula. Dude was pretty popular as well before he started getting weird.

[The Alma Mater]

More and more, Elon Musk is just looking like a 21st century, politically correct Caligula. Dude was pretty popular as well before he started getting weird.

Define "weird". Politicians who claim Jews have space lasers, vaccines contain satan controlled sentient squid, that women have abortions because Satan whispers to them it will result in marriage etc. are all considered perfectly fit to perform their function.

Making a horse a senator seems pretty sane in comparision.

[Necroghastia]

More and more, Elon Musk is just looking like a 21st century, politically correct Caligula. Dude was pretty popular as well before he started getting weird.

...Musk? Politically correct?

[Esternial]

More and more, Elon Musk is just looking like a 21st century, politically correct Caligula. Dude was pretty popular as well before he started getting weird.

...Musk? Politically correct?

Relative to Caligula.

[Moroniland]

Okay, let me introduce a reality check on you, bucko: You are not being persecuted by the "Gaystapo", and it is extremely disingenuous to compare the Mod team, who punished you for breaking the site's rules, to a version of the Nazi regime's hateful and downright evil secret police who helped support one of the worst genocides in modern history

I was referring to a common criticism of Twitter moderation on a thread about Elon Musk buying Twitter, but hey, if the shoe fits.

[Moroniland]

Your reminder that Liberalism is capitalist, not leftist

Leftism is not inherently anti-capitalist. You're thinking of Marxism, which is only part of the Left. If we want to describe the Left as having one consistent idea across time, it is a position in the politics of revolutionary-era France, which predates the birth of Karl Marx by 30 years, that the power of the King should be limited and that he should not have unlimited veto power over the legislature. The original 18th century left-right distinction was that liberalism is on the left while monarchism is on the right.

Leftists dabbled with anti-capitalism in the 19th century, went full hog with it in the 20th century, failed and are now back to being capitalist again.

[Ifreann]

Your reminder that Liberalism is capitalist, not leftist

Leftism is not inherently anti-capitalist. You're thinking of Marxism, which is only part of the Left. If we want to describe the Left as having one consistent idea across time, it is a position in the politics of revolutionary-era France, which predates the birth of Karl Marx by 30 years, that the power of the King should be limited and that he should not have unlimited veto power over the legislature. The original 18th century left-right distinction was that liberalism is on the left while monarchism is on the right.

Leftists dabbled with anti-capitalism in the 19th century, went full hog with it in the 20th century, failed and are now back to being capitalist again.

Your bad takes are very entertaining, please continue never knowing anything.

[Concejos Unidos]

Leftism is not inherently anti-capitalist. You're thinking of Marxism, which is only part of the Left. If we want to describe the Left as having one consistent idea across time, it is a position in the politics of revolutionary-era France, which predates the birth of Karl Marx by 30 years, that the power of the King should be limited and that he should not have unlimited veto power over the legislature. The original 18th century left-right distinction was that liberalism is on the left while monarchism is on the right.

Leftists dabbled with anti-capitalism in the 19th century, went full hog with it in the 20th century, failed and are now back to being capitalist again.

Leftism is defined by anti-capitalism, whether Marxian or non-Marxian. Republicanism and classical liberalism is a separate political tradition that has had some mutual exchange of ideas with leftism, but fundamentally, there is a difference between them. Leftists are anyone who critiques and opposes liberal democracy from the left, which necessarily requires anticapitalism.

[Antipatros]

Musk's $44 billion Twitter buyout challenged in shareholder lawsuit

[Hamidiye]

Well, Musk is a *****, twitter is a haven for *****... kinda fitting.

[Ifreann]

Musk is reportedly securing more and more funding for his Twitter buyout from various other investors, potentially eliminating the need for him to take out a loan against his Tesla stock.

Apparently this means that the Muskening is going to load Twitter up with debt, on top of the billions it already owes, which will be a problem as Twitter is not exactly bringing in big money as it stands. It doesn't seem likely that Musk is going to discover some heretofore unimagined means to monetise the bird site, so this will probably just kill the company.

So like, what is the point of any of this? $44 billion to slowly ruin a website. And people tell me that this is the best way to allocate scarce resources.

[Ethel mermania]

Musk is reportedly securing more and more funding for his Twitter buyout from various other investors, potentially eliminating the need for him to take out a loan against his Tesla stock.

Apparently this means that the Muskening is going to load Twitter up with debt, on top of the billions it already owes, which will be a problem as Twitter is not exactly bringing in big money as it stands. It doesn't seem likely that Musk is going to discover some heretofore unimagined means to monetise the bird site, so this will probably just kill the company.

So like, what is the point of any of this? $44 billion to slowly ruin a website. And people tell me that this is the best way to allocate scarce resources.

And is reportedly putting the deal on hold

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart ... f469af5670

Something something, bots.

[Ifreann]

Musk is reportedly securing more and more funding for his Twitter buyout from various other investors, potentially eliminating the need for him to take out a loan against his Tesla stock.

Apparently this means that the Muskening is going to load Twitter up with debt, on top of the billions it already owes, which will be a problem as Twitter is not exactly bringing in big money as it stands. It doesn't seem likely that Musk is going to discover some heretofore unimagined means to monetise the bird site, so this will probably just kill the company.

So like, what is the point of any of this? $44 billion to slowly ruin a website. And people tell me that this is the best way to allocate scarce resources.

And is reportedly putting the deal on hold

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart ... f469af5670

Something something, bots.

Weird reason to put the deal on hold. Musk must have known that Twitter has a bunch of bot accounts, since he's complaining about them and talking about how he wants to get rid of them. What could the exact number matter?

I wonder if the agreement Musk already signed to buy Twitter has an escape clause he might be trying to trigger.

[Galloism]

And is reportedly putting the deal on hold

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart ... f469af5670

Something something, bots.

Weird reason to put the deal on hold. Musk must have known that Twitter has a bunch of bot accounts, since he's complaining about them and talking about how he wants to get rid of them. What could the exact number matter?

I wonder if the agreement Musk already signed to buy Twitter has an escape clause he might be trying to trigger.

I'm led to believe if Twitter materially misrepresented a number of things to him, he gets out and Twitter owes him a billion dollars.

Also, if he cancels without one of those things, he owes twitter a billion dollars.

[Ethel mermania]

And is reportedly putting the deal on hold

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart ... f469af5670

Something something, bots.

Weird reason to put the deal on hold. Musk must have known that Twitter has a bunch of bot accounts, since he's complaining about them and talking about how he wants to get rid of them. What could the exact number matter?

I wonder if the agreement Musk already signed to buy Twitter has an escape clause he might be trying to trigger.

Possible. Apparently removing ithe number of bots who pay for services impacts the financials Musk was given for analysis.... Or something like that the articles I am reading are fuzzy on the thing.

[Sordhau]

More and more, Elon Musk is just looking like a 21st century, politically correct Caligula. Dude was pretty popular as well before he started getting weird.

Friendly reminder Caligula wasn't actually crazy. All the weird shit he did were power moves to intimidate and humiliate his rivals. Everything from appointing a horse as consul, to declaring war on Poseidon and ordering his men to stab the water, to loudly and jubilantly reminding everyone attending his feast he could have them executed at any given time. All of it was political maneuvering.

[Ifreann]

Musk has also been tweeting about his Elden Ring build and it sounds like he's bad at the game. This isn't really relevant, I just think it's funny.

[The Alma Mater]

And is reportedly putting the deal on hold

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart ... f469af5670

Something something, bots.

Weird reason to put the deal on hold. Musk must have known that Twitter has a bunch of bot accounts, since he's complaining about them and talking about how he wants to get rid of them. What could the exact number matter?

Perhaps he is shocked that only 5% are bots - meaning that 95% really is that trash ?

[Michel Meilleur]

More and more, Elon Musk is just looking like a 21st century, politically correct Caligula. Dude was pretty popular as well before he started getting weird.

Friendly reminder Caligula wasn't actually crazy. All the weird shit he did were power moves to intimidate and humiliate his rivals. Everything from appointing a horse as consul, to declaring war on Poseidon and ordering his men to stab the water, to loudly and jubilantly reminding everyone attending his feast he could have them executed at any given time. All of it was political maneuvering.

That's... A bold claim. Now, it's fair not to take Suétone at his word for everything but qualifying every of Caligula... "eccentricities" as being political moves rather than him being a sadistic, lunatic little shit is a bit too generous.
It's also forgetting that we kinda know he was a sister-fucker and took pleasure in tormenting the pleb in the amphitheater by removing the cloth used as "roof" and forbidding anyone from leaving during hot summer days.

I think you'd agree both moves definitely can't be construed as political in nature, and most definitely aren't coming from someone too well in his head.

[Kerwa]

Dead internet confirmed.

Social media companies all worth $0.

[Europa Undivided]

I hope Elon Musk deletes Twitter. Disgusting place.

[The Black Forrest]

Weird reason to put the deal on hold. Musk must have known that Twitter has a bunch of bot accounts, since he's complaining about them and talking about how he wants to get rid of them. What could the exact number matter?

Perhaps he is shocked that only 5% are bots - meaning that 95% really is that trash ?

He may have realized; how do you validate a bot versus a person when declare no banning freedom of speech uber alles.

Remember when Trumps follower numbers took a dump when they did a bot elimination? Musk probably thought they were people.

[Rostavykhan]

Musk has also been tweeting about his Elden Ring build and it sounds like he's bad at the game. This isn't really relevant, I just think it's funny.

He's not a Vigorlet, is he?