Truly man of the people.
Elon Musk | Owner of X
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He died because he thought eating fruit would cure his cancer didn't he?
Yup. Jobs was a quack, who probably wouldnt have taken well to the reappraisal of his genius as simply a marketing dude who didn’t in fact fart all the actual products out of his arse…. He probably wouldn’t have gone down the Groyper rabbit hole though, but who knows?Incidentally, I’d like to add Bill Hicks & John Lennon to the “probably died at the right time because they’d be fecking awful in later life” crew
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he refused treatment for his cancer and was convinced his special diet would cure him or something along those lines. which only made his condition worse and accelerated his death. he’d have strong opinions about vaccines too I bet.
He wouldnt megaphone his views the way the man child with desperate need for approval does.
Yea, Musk isn't special in being the first multi-billionaire to have insane views, but he is probably the first one who is this thirsty for attention of random people.
This...can't be the true story, can it?
Spot on - Tesla shareholders cannot be happy about the whole Twitter involvement / acquisition / debacle.
He tried some kooky homeopathic treatments instead of undergoing aggressive cancer treatment
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Jesus fecking Christ..... We as a species are doomed.
got to hear, respect, and give precedence to the oppressed voices about their own oppression 
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"it's not anti-semitism if we class specific Jewish people as non-human because of their political beliefs"got to hear, respect, and give precedence to the oppressed voices about their own oppression
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The 2024 campaign will be brutal in social media. I am so glad that I never been and never will be in twitter. buckle up.
Last couple weeks my 'For you' timeline's lost almost any correlation with my interests. It's suddenly around 50% superhero movies and US sports, neither of which I ever engage with as I know nothing about them. I don't follow enough accounts for the Following timeline to be worth bothering with, so this is gonna see me off quite quickly at this rate.
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I mean... just don't believe anything a blue tick puts out any more. The system is dead so assume it's all fake unless you see it on a reputable website. It's honestly not that difficult and I feel like people are unnecessarily hung up on this now.
All its done is devalue the old blue tick system. The subdued gray ticks that are supposed to replace it are harder to spot and generally useless. This won't change until Musk gets bored fecks off and Twitter gets a "normal' owner again.
Hopefully the new CEO bins this immediately. Musk’s explanation that it was to verify people and fight bots (cause everyone needs to have a phone number, a credit card and pay) has proven to be a bunch of ridiculous nonsense.
Agreed. It was just a blatant way for him to monetize Twitter. I recall at the beginning he wanted to charge 19.95/mo for it until everyone laughed at him. He then brought it down to $7. Its basically generating enough money to keep Twitter running, but not much more, all the while mainstreaming extremism.
Yep. It has not affected me cause I probably follow just 10-20 non-academic accounts, so I do not get much (if at all) politics there, but I guess for people who use Twitter mostly for news and politics, this has seriously damaged their experience.
Would be very interesting to see if the revenue from blue tick has offseted the losses from advertisement.
I was listening to an interview with that "godfather of AI" bloke which quit google couple weeks back. I think he made a very interesting point, that this kind of thing should potentially be regulated like counterfeiting of cash. To use AI/fake political/social things that have an impact on people's lives, investigate and chuck them in jail for probably longer than counterfeiting
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Almost every single time someone from the right accuses the left of something, it's because they are doing it themselves.
It's almost the only infallible scientific absolute in the Universe.
Musk will surely face some advertiser pressure on Twitter over this, so unless of course he is going to rely on MyPillow going forward, he may want to rethink this.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure
Don't take it personally, because I read it so many times from others here. But it seems now that businesses are only left wing? They are plenty of right wing businesses, actually I think they are a majority for obvious reasons and the only ones that project a left wing image are full of right wing old timers
For each that he will lose, he will win another one and he will have even more influence if he helps the future POTUS
Most companies try to avoid going all political for obvious reasons (it risks antagonizing your client base, it might cost losing sales to public vendors and it exposes your business to the almost certain future backlash of being associated with doomed public figures). That's like PR 101, nevermind left wing or right wing.
The association with nutjobs, cryptobros, neonazis and the rest of the twittersphere doesn't help tough, as they are the ones scaring advertisers away.
Who do you all give this numpty so much attention? Would have thought the world would have gotten bored my Musks antics by now
I see it’s been reported Elon Musk is a paedophile
Depends how you define the left/right wing spectrum. Seems to me nowadays that if you don't act like a cnut, you're labelled left wing. No large corporation can afford to act like a cnut. So, I guess your right.
Fiscally yes, most businesses are right-wing.
Socially, it is a different issue. I think most tend to be heavy left wing.
In big ones it is quite weird. You have giant corporations like Google, Meta, Twitter before Musk etc which are as capitalist as a company can be, but on the other hand, socially are as left as it can possibly be.
Finally, many companies (and people) seem to be quite centric. Which do not like extremism from any side. So, Twitter going 4chan is not appealing for them too.
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I'm sorry but I must ask, what would you consider to be "socially heavy left wing"? Fiscally I imagine you're thinking about taxes, right?