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fecking hell, the writers for this penultimate episode of season 2022 are all over the place.
 

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fecking hell, the writers for this penultimate episode of season 2022 are all over the place.
It's shaping up to be a banger of a finale, with the US Midterm elections next week. The US might feasibly have a majority far-right parliament in a week. Well, the House anyway. The Senate is going to take a few more years.
 

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I am very happy with his take over. It's an end to politically biased censorship on the platform. People will find him more centrist than they imagine. Plus the platform will actually have free speech and ban people for the right reasons. No longer for political whims
If I had your national background, I'd think twice about endorsing this, but that's just me


 

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Think he meant Stacks.
These usernames...

@Stack Can you say that Charlamagne tha God would get 99 % of the black vote if he ran for president? It would make it a lot easier for me not having to separate the two of you in my mind, thank you.
 

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Blocking the head of one of the organisations responsible for twitter's ad revenue makes sense
 

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It'll probably be good for humanity to see how disgusting people really are again, rather than pretending we're all amazing by banning people from public view.

We're not good people. Why on earth were we pretending we were?!
 

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In a way, I'm glad this is happening. People love free speech as an abstract value. Many (me included) would dislike spending lots of time in a site with actual free speech.

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I don't agree. Twitter moved from being politically neutral and moderating actual bad behavior on its platform. To increasingly playing clear favorites about who to punish and who's views to quash or promote as truth.
Not only are you just wrong in general, but one side of the political spectrum lies far more than the other(this has been proven on many occasions), so what you call 'playing clear favorites' is actually just proper moderation.
 

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He has been acting like a child for years at this point and his net worth keeps going up. Why would it change now?
He won't go bankrupt, but his Twitter investment will hurt his wealth. There's no way for him to get government subsidies or contracts with Twitter the way he does with Tesla and SpaceX.

He's clearly got serious personality issues. The amount of time he spends on Twitter is indicative of someone with no actual life or anyone willing to tell him to log off. It's like he's going through his mid-life crisis by trying to be a teenage edgelord who happens to be the wealthiest man in the world.
 

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He has been acting like a child for years at this point and his net worth keeps going up. Why would it change now?
Because this time he bought a failing company for $40 billion, several times what it's actually worth, and within a week he's publicly complaining that advertisers are fleeing in droves.

He's not going to go broke or anything, because just being a billionaire is enough to make money, but this is so far looking to be a massive failure which even threatens his other (actually profitable) businesses.
 

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Will hurt economically but even more his ego
 

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Yes it is. Nobody cares about this as a consequential thing except liberals or corporations who fear that they're going to lose liberal business if they don't duck out early.
"I don't care, therefore only X and Y care". It's the next evolution of "I don't do X, therefore everyone who says they do X is lying". This post says a lot more about you than it does anyone else.
 

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He makes this deal in December instead and the pushback is at least 70% less severe
No it is not, its people screaming ni***r ni***r ni***r, "Shut up jew" etc and not getting banned or taking forever to get banned, or in fact reinstated. Not to mention the increase of Q-level shit being shared some of which by the CEO himself.
 

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No it is not, its people screaming ni***r ni***r ni***r, "Shut up jew" etc and not getting banned or taking forever to get banned, or in fact reinstated. Not to mention the increase of Q-level shit being shared some of which by the CEO himself.
That was already happening for years and years. Loads of screenshots of racists laughing at people posting failed reports on them where overt racist language didn't get them kicked off