Elon Musk buys 73 million shares of Twitter, becomes largest stockholder
I love the Podcast of the Lotus Eaters. One of the hosts is Carl Benjamin, who is known on youtube as Sargon of Akkad. Really on-point commentary from these guys in the UK, always a pleasure to watch.
In this segment, Benjamin notes that Musk is considering making Twitter mostly remote, with a global headquarters in Miami. Isn't that just delicious?
BTW, Carl Benjamin is one of the people who has been banned from Twitter and something tells me he will be back.
It's only going to get better, folks. Much better.
April 27, 2022, 03:12 PM
MikeinNC
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Originally posted by smlsig: I may just have to join Twitter just to follow the hilarities..;-)
I did and it’s glorious.
There’s a woman who has been at it for over a day, just spewing truth.
Sara Gonzales
She’s had a bunch of one sentence tweets that are awesome….
Nancy Pelosi is a drunk Joe Biden is a racist who eulogized a KKK leader. Hunter Biden is a crackhead. Black on black crime is a greater problem than white supremacy. The only systemic racism that exists in this country is against white people.
You gotta go check her out.
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein
“You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020
“A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker
April 27, 2022, 03:18 PM
911Boss
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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
There’s a woman who has been at it for over a day, just spewing truth.
Sara Gonzales
She’s had a bunch of one sentence tweets that are awesome….
...
You gotta go check her out.
Just added her to my "Follow" list, good stuff!
What part of "...Shall not be infringed" don't you understand???
April 27, 2022, 03:45 PM
SIGnified
^^^ ha ha ha
No tweeeter here … but by proxy, funny as hell!
"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein
April 27, 2022, 04:04 PM
oddball
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Originally posted by MikeinNC: I did and it’s glorious.
There’s a woman who has been at it for over a day, just spewing truth.
Sara Gonzales
She’s had a bunch of one sentence tweets that are awesome….
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
April 27, 2022, 04:09 PM
gearhounds
^^^^ Fantastic! I can only imagine the leftists losing their minds since I don’t twitter; i might have to join now that it’s leaning away from lunacy and towards sanity.
“Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown
April 27, 2022, 04:23 PM
stoic-one
It's not lost on most anyone on the right that EVERY DAMN ONE of those Sara Gonzales tweets would have got you removed from twatter just a few short days ago, yet the left just can't seem to figure out how to move forward when you are actually "allowed" to speak the truth.
Remember that only about 22% of American adults use Twitter, and of those people a mere 10% of *them* do 80% of all tweeting. Right... only 10% of only 22% of American adults are responsible for 80% of *all tweets*. It's a tiny, tiny, group, of primarily Democrats, and primarily folks in their 20s and 30s, doing the tweeting.
Or at least that's been the case, heretofore, in the pre-Elon era of the company.
Be interesting to see if and how these things change now and moving forward.
April 27, 2022, 06:18 PM
cyberiad
Twitter will eventually fade into irrelevance like Usenet, Friendster, Myspace, Meta, etc, etc. They all turn to shit, it's inevitable
April 27, 2022, 07:40 PM
PowerSurge
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Originally posted by cyberiad: Twitter will eventually fade into irrelevance like Usenet, Friendster, Myspace, Meta, etc, etc. They all turn to shit, it's inevitable
So enjoy it while it lasts. I know I will.
——————————————— The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1
April 27, 2022, 10:27 PM
slosig
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Originally posted by MikeinNC: There’s a woman who has been at it for over a day, just spewing truth.
Sara Gonzales
Hmmm, I wonder if that is the Sara Gonzales that did the ABCDEFU song about the covid insanity?
April 28, 2022, 06:44 AM
Bassamatic
Dang, I don't belong to any of the social media outlets but I might have to look at Twitter just to enjoy the meltdown.
.....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress.
April 28, 2022, 09:57 AM
ensigmatic
Elon Musk trolling...
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
April 28, 2022, 10:03 AM
Krazeehorse
I saw one today....imagine the meltdown if Elon bought Dominion Voting Systems.
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Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you.
April 28, 2022, 10:09 AM
Infidel
A.F. Branco is spot on as usual ...
I hate offended people. They come in two flavours - huffy and whiny - and it's hard to know which is worst. The huffy ones are self-important, narcissistic authoritarians in love with the sound of their own booming disapproval, while the whiny, sparrowlike ones are so annoying and sickly and ill-equipped for life on Earth you just want to smack them round the head until they stop crying and grow up. - Charlie Brooker
April 28, 2022, 10:23 AM
lastmanstanding
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Originally posted by cyberiad: Twitter will eventually fade into irrelevance like Usenet, Friendster, Myspace, Meta, etc, etc. They all turn to shit, it's inevitable
Disagree. Those were all early forerunners to social media then along came Facebook, Instagram Twitter and a few others that cemented social media into the culture fabric. There may be others that come along but I think these are the stalwarts that are going to be around long term.
People just can't get enough of themselves and social media is what scratches the itch of the addiction.
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton
April 28, 2022, 10:45 AM
PGT
An alternate reality....
April 28, 2022, 10:58 AM
parabellum
Do we know for a fact that that is not a parody account? Don't get me wrong- I have seen this type of bizarre statement several times since all this began, but the way it is stated in this "realtworoosters" account tweet is such blatant nonsense, it's difficult to believe it was posted in earnest.
Several times, Musk has stated that by free speech he means free speech within the limits of the law. IOW, there are things which are not protected speech, such as threatening the POTUS, or declaring you are going to murder someone or harm their family, etc.
It's obvious what they are worried about. They are worried about people saying things such as voicing their opinions which may offend or "trigger" leftists. Well, tough shit, cupcake. People are entitled to their opinions and those opinions are not dependent upon your approval.
April 28, 2022, 11:02 AM
ensigmatic
The Twit @realworoosters must have deleted his Twitter account in embarrassment, because it appears to exist no longer
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
April 28, 2022, 11:09 AM
PGT
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Originally posted by parabellum: Do we know for a fact that that is not a parody account? Don't get me wrong- I have seen this type of bizarre statement several times since all this began, but the way it is stated in this "realtworoosters" account tweet is such blatant nonsense, it's difficult to believe it was posted in earnest.
I did my best to go through that account yesterday and he/she posts 10x a day and it's so scatter-brained, I couldn't get a sense of intent or sentiment. I don't believe it to be clearly parody or I wouldn't have shared.
