Elon: “100% free speech, always!”
MediaMatters: “Here’s evidence Musk is an antisemite.”
Elon: “I’m suing you for speaking freely!”
Ok can we agree to stop talking about MuskyBoy?
Who’s upvoting this shit?
i think it’s pretty funny to see this guy destroy everything he comes into contact with. we already have agreed that this guy is an idiot, so we can just circlejerk until this all goes away.
The word you’re looking for is schadenfreude
What if I’m not actually ashamed to enjoy it?
I’m not sure it applies when the guy is the sole source of all his problems
This is a funny way to spell ‘frivolous’ when describing a lawsuit
Barratry should still be illegal
Well I just learned a new word. Also wikipedia says it is in some places.
Interesting. Essentially, the act of supporting a barrister. Clever.
Musk throws thermonuclear tantrum
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I wouldn’t put it past him to eat grandiose for breakfast even if it’s some bacon and eggs wrapped in edible gold and glass full of his own magnificent piss.
Why do we keep giving this guy a platform? Do we really care that much about twitter and his stupid shenanigans
Well, he owns and operates his own platform, where he’s making it terribly easy for fascists to fasc. His space vehicles and communications satellites are being depended on by major world powers. He’s got the largest electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the western hemisphere, if not the world.
Like it or not, his shenanigans affect us all.
Because as someone with an obscene amount of money, power and influence he needs to be scrutinised and his every word and action examined.
We are forced to care because Twitter and the twit running it have political influence. I sure would like for that to cease to be the case, but until it is we don’t have the luxury of ignoring it.
The media and celebrities continue to legitimise him and his antisemitism. They are complicit.
We as in Lemmy users probably don’t care about Twitter at all. But there are 100s of Millions of active Twitter users, so it’s no surprise this is in the news.
If we as Lemmy users didn’t care, it wouldn’t be posted and upvoted.
It’s sitting at 2 points as the time of writing this. Not very popular
It may only show as two points on your instance. On mine it’s at 34 ups and 2 downs.
Sorry, I’m still learning how Lemmy works! Lol
It is pretty entertaining…
Some say Orson Wells Citizen Kane is the best movie ever made. We love to see the mighty fall.
I don’t know that many people say that because of the story though. It created many of the cinematography methods we still use today. Before it, movies were generally just recreating stage plays in front of a camera. Every scene a stationary shot framing the whole room. No real transitions. For Citizen Kane they tore apart the roof and floor to allow for a camera to get moving shots zooming into a scene and angles not often used before. It changed the way people thought of movies and what they could be. People do love watching the slow decline of the powerful, but that movie is considered one of the best movies for other reasons.
Citizen Kane is recognized for many different reasons, and that’s one. But, in essence, the story is the film. Wells masterpiece was the result of a feud he had with William Randolph Hearst, so he brought him down on film. Wells also had the strange habit of divorcing wives and killing them off in one of his movies.
as he has clearly abandoned his handlers, his outward communication gets worse and worse. hes like a stroke victim that refuses assistance, and is declining.
Sounds like every maga republican. Strange they share the same ethos.
Never huff your own hype.
i bet he sits in his car smelling his own farts
Musk, the richest man in the world, said today that he will be ‘holding his breath until everyone is nice to him’. The statement came as advertisers grew concerned about being associated with blatant antisemitism. A statement released by Apple claims that Musk is ‘acting up for attention and needs a timeout and possibly a nap.’ Musk responded with a post to X, formerly a semi-legitimate social media platform, that 'Apple is a big meanie who is in bed with the Jews. ’
Oh Elon, this shit happens when you think you’re so damn smart. Should have follow suit with The Onion
Gods, season 1 Sansa was such a snarky bitch. Crazy she went from that to the Lady of Winterfell.
Tbh, If someone cut my dad’s head off and forced me to marry the murder I’d be snarky too
She was snarky well before that happened.
I thought early Sansa was quite timid.
Except this shot is before that. She says this line to Septa Mordane in season 1 episode 6.
thermonuclear lawsuit
Downvoted, ignored, bad journalism. This is frivolous
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This is a win for the status quo bloods and crips.
To me, there is a lot to bash Musk on, but the twitter files confirmed and should have enlightened many of the problems we currently have with politicians/media/corporations being in bed with each other.
This seems similar to the Russiagate stories pushed by legacy media.
Smearing opposition of the status quo, then once the population believes the lies, the truth starts to comes out years later by MSM journalists.
I make mistakes and I am willing to learn, so please if anyone can articulate and explain in detail?
Why all the baseless hate against Musk, while we already know enough about how he treats his workers to be against him. No need to be hostile or to lie when talking about him.
I read these threads for the butthurt responses from the muskovites. They never disappoint.
I won’t kink shame you, you do you!
Have a great day!
but the twitter files confirmed
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I know, right? I can’t believe someone is still unironically citing the twitter files, as if they did anything but prove that musk and his acolytes were just creating drama
Do you think the same of leaks done by journalists of how our military functions?
Your comment does not help, you should have tried to use sentences to help educate me or to state your thinking process.
The twitter files were a bunch of nothing.
The releases were cherry picked and still didn’t show anything wrong.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/tech/twitter-files-content-moderation/index.html
Then there’s the literal Nazi content that musk is allowing.
Thank you for the links and the reply!
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Why is it anyone’s job to educate you?
I am willing to learn,
Ok , this is the Musk strategy:
When in trouble?: throw shit at the wall and see what sticks, it distracts the people from the main issue.
The main issue now is his endoresement of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_genocide_conspiracy_theoryThat’s a lot of hurrr durr.
Not sure what your point is.
Good luck!
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Politicians were pushing for censorship in social media.
Matt Taibbi writes on this.
Munk Debate - Mainstream Media ft. Douglas Murray, Matt Taibbi, Malcolm Gladwell, Michelle Goldberg [1:40:24 | Truthspeak (YT channel)] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nvaf7XOOFHc
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Twitter files shows a direct line of gov’t censorship on certain topics in social media.
These also includes our alphabet agencies in this censorship.
Many like to watch debates on such topics, I am one that does.
I assume you don’t like such videos, so that is my bad.
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Video is a debate, so it would require to make time for it or to treat as podcast and listen while on the move.
I do not agree with Musk.
Have a great day!
Why all the baseless hate against Musk
Well, you managed one of many reasons yourself…
we already know enough about how he treats his workers to be against him.
Yes, but this article seems to be a smear of MSM.
Due to not siding with Israel and instead talking of ceasefire or peace, same with Ukraine/Russia.
Looking at the talk he had with Lex Fridman.
SHOCKED that you’re in here tongue-punching his balloon knot
Go back to rumble dude
Did you not read all of my response.
Consistency is required when looking at the problems we have.
This is happenong to Musk, but the same happens to people on the left.
Smears happen without proof, just for going against the status quo.
This seems to be a smear for not siding with Israel, and calling for peace.
Your response does not help make your point, it does the opposite.
I am not sure what you are trying to get across.
Reminds me of Trump derangement syndrome.
Again, we have enough to bash Musk as is, no need to lie or make up things.
What do you mean without proof? Did you see the post the Musk said “is absolute truth”. Even Musk is not denying that that happened.
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It seems you pointed something out, but failed to explain your thought process.
What did I miss?
That no one is making up a) his glowing endorsement of an antisemitic tweet and b) that advertisers have had their ads show up next to antisemitic (and otherwise racist) tweets, which is not a look many brands want to go with. We don’t have to make this shit up; it’s just what ol’ musky does. And if it walks like an antisemite, and it quacks like an antisemite…
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Trump derangement syndrome is where a person believes that Trump can do no wrong, is exceptionally strong and intelligent, and has been anointed by god to save the world from liberal vermin. It is rampant on twitter and among musk fanatics.
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Yes, that may be so.
That is why I commented, to educate myself on what I did not know, and what I thought it was about.
People that know or are confident in opposing what I say will hopefully teach me a different point of view.
Yeah right, as if anybody parroting your trumptard garbage is looking to “learn the truth”
Russian collusion with Trump is real, several of his employees went to prison over it. Then he pardoned them. Then he continued to publicly kiss Putin’s ass even while trashing the American military and intelligence agencies.
Trump lost the 2020 election and failed to present any tangible evidence of widespread election fraud causing the vast majority of his legal cases to fail. He had his day in court about that and lost as hard as possible.
Then he incited the 2021 insurrection purely out of his own hubris from being a sore loser, and now he’s on trial for that and will be going to prison.
Blue MAGA or MAGA
I am neither.
Thanks for the info!
Only Trumpers believe in Blue MAGA so you’re telling on yourself.
Is it really thermonuclear if it can easily be dismissed with a couple of screenshots? And he is trying to allege fraud. This is the flimsiest crybaby tantrum he has had yet.
Right? The media matters article screenshots clearly prove it’s allegations. Unless he tries the angle that they were photoshopped (and obviously he needs proof for it) this gets dismissed immediately.
Hoping it doesn’t cost media matters anything or that they can recoup any fees they may incur from this. Nice to have real reporting with proof to back it up like they showed.
Maybe he meant thermonuclear in the sense that it is mutually assured destruction because, as most trigger happy lawsuit threats tend to forget, a lawsuit means discovery. So a lot more dirt about Xitter and Musk would have to become public record.
It’s not even mutually-assured, though. It’s a kamikaze attack doomed to miss.
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I really want to see him fall on his face suing people who choose to not do business at the nazi bar, then try to sue the ADL for pointing out he runs the nazi bar. Please, please, let him spend whatever he has left on this…
"Above everything, including profit, X works to protect the public’s right to free speech. But for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable,” he added.
Good to know you believe in free speech. Elmo. So you won’t mind if companies exercise that right by choosing not to advertise on your racist, apartheid-loving network.
Freedom of speech is connected to freedom of association, which also includes the freedom to not speak and to not associate (ie. halting advertising)
But for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable,” he added._
And the freedom to say “that’s objectionable” and choose not to be associated with it.
Elon wants people to have the freedom to hear and see shit that makes them sick, but doesn’t want them to have the freedom to leave it’s presence.
Elon’s a pretty twisted little shit, isn’t he?
That’s not freedom of speech, that’s freedom of association. Different freedoms. Your point remakns though, I’m not arguing, just pointing that out.
Also doesn’t freedom of speech not apply to companies
Pretty sure it only applies to the government
