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Originally posted by parabellum:
The torment of it all.

Musk: I'm gonna buy Twitter

Twitter: I don't think so

Musk: No, really, I'm gonna buy you

Twitter: Never!

Musk: OK, y'know what? I'm not going to buy you

Twitter: You can't back out. You said you were going to buy us, now we'll MAKE YOU buy us!

{lawyerslawyerslawyers. threatslawyerslawsuitlawyerswordswords}

Musk: OK, I changed my mind again. I'm gonna buy you.

Twitter:

Excellent summation.

The fuckers at twatter are going full PTSD again. Love it.

"OH NO!! THE DECK IS NOT STACKED 100% IN OUR FAVOR!!!! THIS IS CRIMINAL!! THE FASCISTS ARE TAKING OVER!!!"

Buncha adolescent assholes.

Media worries as Elon Musk closes deal to buy Twitter: 'Be afraid, be actually afraid'

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Originally posted by parabellum:
The torment of it all.

Musk: I'm gonna buy Twitter

Twitter: I don't think so

Musk: No, really, I'm gonna buy you

Twitter: Never!

Musk: OK, y'know what? I'm not going to buy you

Twitter: You can't back out. You said you were going to buy us, now we'll MAKE YOU buy us!

{lawyerslawyerslawyers. threatslawyerslawsuitlawyerswordswords}

Musk: OK, I changed my mind again. I'm gonna buy you.

Twitter:

That would make a great tweet....

Musk Twitter Purchase Back on Table, Unfortunately with Plan for Everything App

The only thing I can do is research and write about it. With an even stronger degree of certainty than originally expressed, and with all of the subsequent data points falling into alignment with the initial suspicions, the background of Jack’s Magic Coffee shop remains unchanged. {Go Deep}

Six weeks ago, the Twitter security ‘whistleblower’ came forward to congress. The whistleblower is a former technology expert who came from within the research farm of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, is a well-known cybersecurity expert who left government work, entered the public world, and eventually became the head of Twitter security, reporting directly to the CEO. {Go Deep}

According to a recent SEC filing [LINK HERE], Elon Musk is now back to supporting the purchase of Twitter as the first step in creating the “everything app.”



{{{sarcastic voice}}} Gee, what could this be about? I mean what could go wrong?…. We already know the infrastructure of Twitter’s operational database is tied into portals with the Dept of Homeland security {citation}, and now Musk wants to use that central infrastructure to create an all-inclusive “everything app”?

The bigger risk to the surveillance state is discovery that Twitter and the U.S. intelligence community are in a public-private partnership. The Dept of Homeland Security has access by design, not flaw. How the stakeholder media are reporting on the issue shows the nature of the risk, (emphasis mine):

[…] The scathing disclosure, which totals around 200 pages, including supporting exhibits — was sent last month to a number of US government agencies and congressional committees, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. The existence and details of the disclosure have not previously been reported. CNN obtained a copy of the disclosure from a senior Democratic aide on Capitol Hill. The SEC, DOJ and FTC declined to comment; the Senate Intelligence Committee, which received a copy of the report, is taking the disclosure seriously and is setting a meeting to discuss the allegations, according to Rachel Cohen, a committee spokesperson. (link)

How would it damage the U.S. government if previous claims about the Chinese government having access to all user data on TikTok, are shown to be exactly identical to the U.S. government having access to all user data on Twitter?

Let that question settle in for a few moments, because that is exactly what I have been alleging since, well, 2011, when the U.S. State Dept first collaborated with Twitter in a joint public-private partnership to use the platform as a communication tool exploiting the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt, Libya and beyond.

The issue of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop is an issue of financial viability. The business model of Twitter just doesn’t exist as a free social media discussion platform while running the ultra-expensive data processing system needed for millions of simultaneous users. A global chat that requires exponential database responses as an outcome of simultaneous users is just ridiculously expensive. {Go Deep} However, if the computing system and massive database were being subsidized by the U.S. government, then the viability of the ‘free coffee‘ business model makes sense.

https://theconservativetreehou...ing-app/#more-238303

The Left's laughable new tactic to try and destroy Elon Musk; declare that he's a Russian stooge and accuse him of working directly with Putin:

FFS these people

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Musk denies he talked to Putin ahead of controversial tweet

BY CHLOE FOLMAR - 10/11/22 1:44 PM ET
The Hill

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is denying claims by Ian Bremmer, president of political risk research firm Eurasia Group, that he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin before posting a controversial tweet implying that Ukraine should not retake more land from Russia than it has lost this year.

Musk had a “direct conversation” with Putin about the war, Bremmer wrote in a newsletter on Monday, and is convinced that the Russian dictator will use nuclear weapons against Ukraine if the smaller country does not back down.

Bremmer, a well-known foreign policy analyst, wrote that he had spoken to Musk two weeks ago and that Musk had told him of the conversation with Putin.

But a short time after a news story in Vice News about Bremmer’s newsletter was published, Musk tweeted a denial of the claims.

“I have spoken to Putin only once and that was about 18 months ago. The subject matter was space,” wrote Musk.

Bremmer said Putin told Musk he would accomplish certain goals “no matter what,” including Russia’s continued possession of Crimea, Ukraine’s acceptance of a formal status of neutrality, and Ukraine’s recognition of Putin’s annexations of Luhansk and Donetsk and control of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

Putin held widely contested referendums in late September to establish support by the residents of eastern regions of Ukraine for Russia’s annexation of the territory.

According to Bremmer, Musk told him that “everything needed to be done to avoid” a nuclear strike on Ukraine, which Putin allegedly said would occur if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invaded Crimea.

The political scientist also accused Musk of disseminating “disinformation” about Ukraine when he said that some eastern regions of Ukraine “have Russian majorities and prefer Russia” and thus might legitimately vote to be annexed by Russia.

Musk added that “most of Ukraine unequivocally wants to be part of Ukraine,” including the areas that Russia invaded.

“I wasn’t planning on writing about this, but now that Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has gone public with his views on Russia/Ukraine, it feels important to write about what’s happening,” wrote Bremmer of the claims in his newsletter.

Link

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot: Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany tells Elon Musk to fuck off after absurd tweet about Ukraine

And, by this, I mean the Ukrainian Ambassador. I doubt Ukraine's Tesla business is that big a deal, but those StarLink ground stations and the StarLink service Musk has been providing free of charge have been.

Love it. Every single day my decision to completely ignore or outright dissmiss everything coming from the leftist propaganda machine, is confirmed and upheld by these loud lowlifes and their pathetic dribble.

I got starlink hooked up in August.

It's pretty great.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot: Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany tells Elon Musk to fuck off after absurd tweet about Ukraine

And, by this, I mean the Ukrainian Ambassador. I doubt Ukraine's Tesla business is that big a deal, but those StarLink ground stations and the StarLink service Musk has been providing free of charge have been.

He will bluster, but not actually sever the link.

Be awesome if he did, just to make the point.

https://www.businessinsider.co...riday-report-2022-10

Elon Musk promised to close his $44 billion Twitter purchase by Friday in a video call with the banks helping finance the deal, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

The banks, which include Morgan Stanley and Bank of America, are in the process of signing the documents for the debt-financing agreement, multiple people with knowledge of the issue told the publication.

Musk has until the end of the work week to close the deal and avoid a trial. Earlier this month, the Delaware judge overseeing the court case gave the two parties until 5 p.m. ET on October 28 to agree to a new deal or the case will resume in a five-day trial in November.

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Originally posted by sdy:
Elon Musk promised to close his $44 billion Twitter purchase by Friday in a video call with the banks helping finance the deal, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

Oooooh, Black Friday.

And then, there's this delicious morsel:

Twitter workers mocked for open letter saying Musk’s Twitter plans ‘threaten our livelihoods’: ‘So entitled'

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Twitter staff have composed an open letter to billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk protesting his plan to fire nearly 75% of the social media company’s employees once he has completed his purchase of the platform.

The letter, which began circulating the internet on Monday, provided a list of demands employees want Musk to follow should he acquire Twitter, chief among them being a demand that he commits to keeping the current the number of employees.

Wait, here's my favorite part.

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Other demands include that the Tesla CEO not discriminate against employees based on their political beliefs, commit to "fair" severance policies, and be transparent about the company’s working conditions.

My day gets brighter, my night, too, every time I read about these maggots going off the deep end.

Apparently he showed up today, and tweeted this:

Is he stealing a sink?

I was about to post that. He said, "Entering Twitter HQ - let that sink in!"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/s...rB8Go4PGh0G1CSVilcow

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Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!

He's not that funny, but he's reliable for a head scratcher.

Call security