Elon Musk watch (was Elon Muskrat watch)

Bill Maher seems to be bigtime getting redpilled. (complete copy-paste)

BILL MAHER DEFENDS BABYLON BEE AGAINST TWITTER WHILE HIS LEFTIST GUESTS GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO MISS THE POINT​

Bill Maher is not our friend. But the one area where there has always been agreement is when it comes to free speech. He attempted to lead a discussion about the topic as it pertains to Elon Musk buying Twitter. His two leftist guests--former Democrat Senator Doug Jones and current MSNBC stooge Ali Velshi--insist on sticking to the anti-free speech talking points they were given.

Maher brought up the Babylon Bee. The Bee's account is still suspended because they made fun of a Biden Administration official who has a wife, two kids, and a penis. Their EIC Kyle Mann shared a video making fun of overly sensitive Twitter employees. A Twitter employee marked the video as "sensitive content."


"[The Babylon Bee] got flagged for a funny video. [...] 'Sensitive Content,' Twitter said. In the video, they were making fun of Twitter for being too sensitive. [...] [The video] is well within what satire has always been. And the fact that they flagged this for being insensitive shows their complete lack of self-awareness about what their own problem is. If that's where the line is, you have failed Twitter. You need a new sheriff."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1519504946785181697

Maher's guest ignored the clear example of WHY Twitter has gotten out of hand and fell back on his talking point. Jones' point was that we have to do something about Russian bot farms. Great. Everyone thinks we need to do something about bots. Including new owner Elon Musk.

Velshi's point was the platform needs to "do something" about policing misinformation. Except, when Bill Maher brought up two stories that Twitter (and Velshi's employers at NBC News) got wrong--the Hunter Biden laptop and the Wuhan lab leak theory--Velshi didn't respond.

There is also a list of other stories in which Twitter and Velshi's employers at NBC News are actively SPREADING the misinformation. The most recent was Florida's "Parental Rights in Education" bill. Thanks to misinformation spread by Twitter and media outlets like the one that employs Ali, there are people who actually think the law outlawed saying gay. Yet, when Ali Velshi mentions the spread of misinformation, I don't think he means that. Or the misinformation spread about voting rights bills that were passed in Texas and Georgia. Or Georgia's 2018 gubernatorial race. Or Net Neutrality.

I get that Velshi and Jones have their marching orders that free speech is a bad thing. But at least acknowledge the words coming out of Maher's mouth about what the problem really is.
 

Elon Musk Warns He May ‘Die Under Mysterious Circumstances’ After Threat From Russian Official​

Elon Musk warned on Sunday that he may “die under mysterious circumstances” after a Russian politician threatened him for supplying equipment to Ukraine that is being used to fight the Russian military.

Musk supplied Starlink terminals from one of his company’s, SpaceX, that are being used to communicate and to operate drones.

Musk posted a screenshot of a translated message that he says Dmitry Rogozin, Moscow’s space chief, sent to Russian media.

“From the testimony of the captured commander of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Dmitry Kormyankov, it turns out that the internet terminals of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite company were delivered to the militants of the Nazi Azov Battalion and the Ukrainian Marines in Mariupol by military helicopters,” the message states. “According to our information, the delivery of the Starlink equipment was carried out by the Pentagon.”

“Elon Musk, thus, is involved in supplying the fascist forces in Ukraine with military communication equipment,” the message continued. “And for this, Elon, you will be held accountable like an adult – no matter how much you’ll play the fool.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1523464037048020992

“The word ‘Nazi’ doesn’t mean what he seems to think it does,” Musk said.

A short time later Musk added, “If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1523465632502906880

Musk’s Starlink satellite network reportedly fought off in rapid fashion an attempt by Russia to jam the system, something that Musk had acknowledged in late March.

Dave Tremper, director of electronic warfare for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, said late last month that Starlink was able to fight off the attack faster than the U.S. Military would have been able to and that officials could learn something from Musk.

“Starlink had slung a line of code and fixed it,” Tremper said, noting that the quick change rendered the attack “not effective anymore.”

“How they did that was eye-watering to me,” he said. “There’s a really interesting case study to look at the agility that Starlink had in their ability to address that problem. “In the way that Starlink was able to upgrade when a threat showed up, we need to be able to have that agility.”
 
redrumloa said:
“The word ‘Nazi’ doesn’t mean what he seems to think it does,” Musk said.
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"In order to de-Nazify Ukraine, one must first de-Nazify the word Nazi."
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A reminder that Elon still has negative attributes.

That’s One Way to Beat Traffic: Green Hype Master Elon Musk’s Private Jet Takes Flight of Just 31 Miles​

Tesla boss and green energy advocate Elon Musk’s private jet recently took a nine-minute flight of just 31 miles, a distance easily drivable in one of his own electric vehicles.

Futurism reports that the Twitter account ElonJet, which tracks Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s flight patterns — and which Musk attempted to bribe to shut down — has revealed that the billionaire’s plane recently completed a flight of just nine minutes, covering 31 miles in the Bay Area. It isn’t known if Musk himself was aboard.

The flight left San Jose, California on Friday morning and just 9 minutes later landed in San Francisco. The information comes from automated public flight information software connected to the ElonJet Twitter account. Many were quick to criticize the billionaire who has branded himself and many of his companies as “eco-friendly.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1522899960064315393

Last month, Musk took issue with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, stating that Gates was a hypocrite for publicly talking about climate change while holding short positions in Tesla essentially betting against the failure of the company.
 

ELON MUSK SAYS QUIET PART OUT LOUD, BLASTS TWITTER'S 'OBVIOUS' LEFT-WING BIAS​

https://twitter.com/x/status/1523653429410770945

To recap, a fire broke out at the offices of an anti-abortion group in Wisconsin.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1523680169055170561

https://twitter.com/x/status/1523320097993076737

Verified blue-checkmark reporter Caroline Reilly issued a clear call for more domestic terrorism. A clear call for more domestic terrorism is what Twitter would call it (the White House, too, for that matter) if a conservative reporter had said anything similar about a Planned Parenthood. Yet, the tweet stayed up until Reilly deleted her account. No doubt to start the next act in the play where she claims she was a victim of sexism because people criticized her for encouraging violence against people with a different political opinion than her.

The Babylon Bee is still suspended for making fun of a Biden Administration official. Libs of TikTok had someone call for her assassination and threaten to do it themselves, and she was told it didn't violate Twitter's terms of service. Threatening to assassinate someone doesn't reach the level of misgendering or telling unemployed journalismers they should learn to code.

Do I think Musk is on our side politically? No. Ten bucks say he disagrees with overturning Roe v. Wade. But he at least acknowledges the problem with social media platforms and wants to address it.
 

'I DO AGREE': Dorsey Agrees With Musk, Twitter Shouldn't Have Banned Trump​

Elon Musk isn’t the only one who thinks former President Donald Trump shouldn’t have been banned from Twitter —turns out former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the person behind the original ban, thinks it was a bad call as well.

After Musk said he would end Trump’s ban, Dorsey backed the move.

“I do agree. There are exceptions (CSE, illegal behavior, spam or network manipulation, etc), but generally permanent bans are a failure of ours and don’t work, which I wrote about here after the event…” Dorsey tweeted in response to a user comment.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1524096528419274753

Dorsey went on to say “it was a business decision, it shouldn’t have been. and we should always revisit our decisions and evolve as necessary. I stated in that thread and still believe that permanent bans of individuals are directionally wrong.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1524109346711519233

...and the sheeple go REEEE REEEEE REEEEEEE all the way home.
 
cecilia said:
Always an interesting take on Elon
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I don't know whether Elon is just realizing he bought a shit sandwich, or whether the whole drama was just to disrupt twitter because he's really holding a sizeable stake in a twitter alternative or two.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
I don't know whether Elon is just realizing he bought a shit sandwich, or whether the whole drama was just to disrupt twitter because he's really holding a sizeable stake in a twitter alternative or two.
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I think it more or less what he says it's about, free speech. Twitter shit the bed (pun intended) when they censored the richest man in the world. He decided to buy them out, or ruin them in the process. I doubt either outcome will bother him, he'll get his revenge. I don't see a profit motive here. Other news has Elon admitting he will be voting GOP for the first time in the midterms.
 
Robert said:
Until he does something disagreeable and goes back to being Elon Muskrat.
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I haven't called him Muskrat in this thread, even while I have pointed out what I see as questionable or negative still going on. Real people aren't black or white (figuratively). He's not hiding behind a cult of personality any longer just going with "The Message (tm)" and "The One Real Truth (tm)". Real people are attacked by the machine, as he is being attacked.
 
Robert said:
And it wasn't that long ago it was you doing the attacking. ;)
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Questioning someone's value and/or their motives is not "attacking". * T H I S * is attacking:

SpaceX Flight Attendant Says Elon Musk Exposed Himself, Offered Her a Horse: Report​

World’s richest man paid $250,000 for attendant’s silence, according to documents obtained by Business Insider​


They aren't even trying any longer with these fake attacks on anyone who breaks from lockstep. There's a big difference from me questioning the guy and not just blindly deifying him as so many Dems used to do (and a hand full of repubs do now), and straight up attempts at character assassination like are starting now that he broke lockstep from "The Elites" and "The Message (tm)".
 
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redrumloa said:
Questioning someone's value and/or their motives is not "attacking". * T H I S * is attacking:

SpaceX Flight Attendant Says Elon Musk Exposed Himself, Offered Her a Horse: Report​

World’s richest man paid $250,000 for attendant’s silence, according to documents obtained by Business Insider​


They aren't even trying any longer with these fake attacks on anyone who breaks from lockstep. There's a big difference from me questioning the guy and not just blindly deifying him as so many Dems used to do (and a hand full of repubs do now), and straight up attempts at character assassination like are starting now that he broke lockstep from "The Elites" and "The Message (tm)".
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I guess it was inevitable, it had to happen some time. And here it is - Elon Gate!
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
I don't know whether Elon is just realizing he bought a shit sandwich, or whether the whole drama was just to disrupt twitter because he's really holding a sizeable stake in a twitter alternative or two.
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you might be over thinking this. Wouldn't we know if musk had a "stake" in "truth" social? And considering what a failure it is what a waste of money. Is musk that stupid?
 
cecilia said:
you might be over thinking this. Wouldn't we know if musk had a "stake" in "truth" social? And considering what a failure it is what a waste of money. Is musk that stupid?
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Why would it have to be truth social?
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
Why would it have to be truth social?
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it's just one of many failures. You could include getir or any of the other places these wackos run off to after getting kicked out of twitter.


BTW, I don't love twitter. They have been heavy handed in their banning. I know friends who have been banned for no good reason. And they had almost no followers so it's not as if they were a danger to the general public by posting something potentially "rude".

Banning people who lie constantly about a health issue, for example, at least makes some sense.
Banning people for making a joke is stupid.

If anyone thinks musk can be trusted to know who to ban and who to let back in you are kidding yourself. He needs to stay in his lane. Stick with electric cars and space ships.
 
cecilia said:
it's just one of many failures. You could include getir or any of the other places these wackos run off to after getting kicked out of twitter.
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Two main things prevent those sites from really succeeding. One is active denial in that they are often technically sabotaged by hackers or they have their infrastructure services revoked or payment services boycott them, and the other is that Twitter exists. If Twitter crashed and burned then the ecosystem would have a niche that someone could fill.
BTW, I don't love twitter. They have been heavy handed in their banning. I know friends who have been banned for no good reason. And they had almost no followers so it's not as if they were a danger to the general public by posting something potentially "rude".

Banning people who lie constantly about a health issue, for example, at least makes some sense.
Banning people for making a joke is stupid.

If anyone thinks musk can be trusted to know who to ban and who to let back in you are kidding yourself. He needs to stay in his lane. Stick with electric cars and space ships.
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If Musk does what he says he wants to do which is to NOT ban then he is a marked improvement over the gang that currently runs the shop.
 
Cause and effect
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cecilia said:
he might have a point
https://twitter.com/x/status/1527776299451809792
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You seem to be missing a whole lot of steps in between. It is not a straight line from "I'm buying Twitter to protect free speech" directly to "I'm suing sh*t tons of people". Elon went from the left's "real life Tony Stark" super hero that was going to "save the world" and could do no wrong, to what he is portrayed as today. Just in a few short months he suddenly is the worst person who ever walked the face of the earth.

He's been called racist in many ways.
He's been called a sexual predator and accused of sexual assault.
Tesla (TSLA) was removed from the S&P 500.
Tesla stock tanks as a result of above.
Worst of all of course, he's been called a Republican.

I could go on and on. The man is under an attack almost unprecedented, probably only orangemanbad himself experienced more. He broke with lockstep and now the machine is trying to DESTROY him. The problem? Elon is the richest man in the world and is not going to stand for it. For my reservations with him, I certainly don't argue against him fighting against false allegations and the full frontal attack on everything associated with him.
 
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