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He's one of them so it's all Bollocks. It's funny how he badgers on about free speech and a healthy democracy but Not Once has he spoke out for Julian Assange...

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“Believing Elon Musk is going to save Twitter is as naive as believing Joe Biden was going to save America.”

False equivalency much?

Riddle me this snowflakes, when has Musk ever called for censorship or more “content moderation”? When? There are literally hundreds of hours of him speaking on podcasts and interviews, sometimes after 4:20. Find me

ONE TIME that he has called for censorship. One time.

And spare me the Neuralink pearl clutching. 99% of you bitching about it haven’t bothered to learn the first thing about it, you’re just parroting bullshit that you hear and read from some “edgy” commentator.

Twitter is currently a toxic shithole full of woke retards, crybullies and bots. You think Musk is going to make that worse? IT CAN’T GET WORSE! The platform is hemorrhaging users by banning everyone who questions the approved narrative of anything. If Musk rolls back the content moderation and makes the algorithm open source, please explain to me how exactly that is bad. How is making the algorithm open source a bad thing? Please, explain this to me.

You think Musk is going to trot around and say that free speech is imperative to the human race and then bad everyone on his new platform? Please explain why this is a reasonable or rational argument. How did you reconcile these two things in your mind? Or are you just parroting the latest “hot take” from something you read.

Musk has done 3-4 longish interviews in the last few weeks. Go watch one or two. Then get back to me about how his possible acquisition of Twitter is somehow bad.

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Your far too negative and your LEFTIST attitude doesn't fit you. You act like a libertarian but spew LEFTIST ideology. It's sad considering with more thought you wouldn't attack right leaning conservatives. Basically you need more years behind you and less insulting to conservatives.

You attack both left and right yet lean extremely left. Maybe if you spend more thought with less insults you would maintain a stronger following.

Instead of insulting you could explain your thoughts more in depth.

I lean left and right yet more conservative nowadays with the American climate threshold.

I would bet that you do not believe in God or any higher Power for that matter. In any case I have been following your threads for sometime now and I overlook your differences from mine so that I can understand your thought patterns and learn from those I deam worthwhile.

I don't have any faith that Twitter can be saved. You see I've been banned from Twitter six times to this date and I do not plan on returning because I lean right lately.

I only want legitimate conversations with those that don't let politics destroy the conversation and are willing to have meaningful discussion without insulting others they disagree with.

PEACE is a start.

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If you think that Elon Musk is going to protect your free speech or that Bitcoin is going to protect your privacy, you might want to check out this great doctor, Albert Bourla, whose amazing injections can protect you from any pandemic—past, present or future!

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Elon Musk is the DoD’s biggest contractor. Hurray, the Pentagon’s top contractor is now in charge of Twitter! Or as Tim Dillon put it, the people cheering hate the idea of “a chip,” but they apparently LOVE neuralink.

This is a good teaching moment for people who consider themselves smart: are you really falling for this kind of theatre, still, in 2022???

C’mon man.

That being said, the ability to force major changes still lies with the people, it just depends on their being a qualitative shift in the discourse, where we just altogether scrap these false left-right binaries and realize that our common enemy, the enemy of the people is not some foreign nation, it’s not any nation, it’s a financial alone mold which has captured government institutions. But the truth is they still belong to the people, and it’s up to people to see past the theatre and facades and actually take them back by raising the level of discourse, which means more people tuning out of the mainstream narrative matrix and tuning into real independent outlets, sharing them, contributing to them, raising the level of dialogue among friends and colleagues, and watching the whole Tower of Babel fall, and actually visualizing what a world without this Tower of Babel would look like.

After all, not being able to imagine what that might look like is arguably one of the main reasons people remain stuck and slaves to the very system they claim they hate.

This is one of the great tragedies of the Boomers.

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Yep, He's part of Silicon Valley, therefore he is MIC, and very much part of the information security section of the NSA.

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100% Caitlin.

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Just finished reading Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber and am now reading Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein. Money as currency is a story that humanity has collectively adopted to the detriment of ourselves, the other species that we share this planet with, and the planet herself. Caitlin is 100% right: billionaires are only super heroes in comic books and movies, and really, are we surprised by that? Hollywood is and has always been a propaganda machine. The war with Russia is a war for who gets to be the world reserve currency and essentially have a blank check with the rest of the world.

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Musk is an American oligarch, a brilliant marketing/confidence man who has made his fortune playing with government subsidies and venture capital. He is sensitive to the will of the DC pols and blob in the same way as the rest of the SiVal oligarchs.

When Zukkerberg so dramatically gave testimony to Congress he had an epiphany. a) FB can no longer sustain the idea that it is a neutral tech platform. b) The feds can ruin FB by regulating it either enforcing exiting laws or making new ones, and explicitly threaten to. c) The Democratic Party and many in the permanent bureaucracy (especially the spys and political police) publicly push an argument that Russia rigged the election of Trump using something called Fake News that spread on FB etc.

In what way is Musk immune to the same kind of pressure? I'm curious to see the reaction of the pols and the blob.

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Musk is far from the richest person on earth. There is still a slew of central banking families who stay out of the limelight who would laugh and slap their knees at the preposterous idea of Musk being the richest person on earth. But, aside from that, we should be thanking Musk for bringing back some sanity to the world.

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my hope is that we will again see the likes of scott ritter and an amplification of guys like daryl cooper and scott horton. twitter truly could see it’s full potential, or it could just be a shittier version of what it is today.

I’m cautiously optimistic but not tleternally hopeful. until I see that isn’t coming to fruition. everybody should be livid at what our government is doing to regular people, but so many just outsource their thinking to the algorithms.

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Elon is a product of The Swamp. Made his fortune with government contracts and incentives to buy his products that nobody would without them. Electric cars are nowhere near as practical as internal combustion cars. And more prone to deadly fires. With greater environmental damage from mining materials used in batteries. With limited range between lengthy recharging. Nice toys for urban driving. That are terrible in mountains and cold weather climates. But making laws that force people into his cars or make them appear to be economical with tax rebates isn’t how free market wealth creation happens. Stacking the deck like he’s done is corporate cronyism. Another word for socialism. Musk is was made wealthy by socialism, a business model given preferential treatment by the state through lobbying by special interests.

That said, he has articulated support for free speech. Which makes him seem to be an ally to those of us on the outside of permitted speech today. But the truth is he only supports *free-er* speech. Now that masking is loosing steam we’re seeing more free speech about masks in permitted speech, like Bill Maher today. So that will be allowed on Twitter in a post-Musk ownership environment. And we’ll begin to feel like free speech is being restored.

But, mark my words, Twitter will have Third Rails of speech that will remain prohibited even in a post-Musk ownership environment. 2020 Election Fraud. Vaccine Efficacy and Injury. Opposition to Ukraine-Russia Intervention. Verbotten. Forbidden. Even under Musk. Unless and until those topics lose steam like masking is beginning to.

So the question is, why the excitement and news frenzy around Musk’s takeover of Twitter? Look at what is happening with Truth Social, DWAC stock today for a clue. Q- Why would The Swamp set a Swamp Creature out to challenge it in the public? A- To deflate a bigger threat it sees rising against it. To give the people clamoring for their right to speak and be heard and illusion of free speech being restored on a platform that is still controlled by The Swamp. An illusion of freedom. Controlled Opposition. This is the why.

The Swamp does a masterful job of building up opponents it actually controls. Like the Bush’s and Cheney’s. War Criminals. Murderers. Nazi’s. Until they join with the Uniparty’s march to authoritarianism. Best friends with the Obama’s and Biden’s now. And BFF’s with the CCP. They had many conservatives suckered into defending them. Did the same thing with the Kavanaugh and Comey-Barrett confirmation hearings. The right defended the nominees only to have them turn on them, their values.

The Swamp strikes again. Musk’s takeover of Twitter is yet another connivance of the Deep State, The Swamp. Don’t be fooled. Truth Social, Substack, etc are the target. Worth a temporary reprieve on free speech restrictions and censorship that avoids the Third Rails. But not true free speech. Not Truth. The shift in the Overton Window towards acceptable censorship will remain on Twitter.

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People are mistaken about Elon Musk.

Elon Musk is government man. The "Richest Man on Earth" wouldn't exist without the vast amounts of American Taxpayer Money (Billions? Trillions?), he receives from all those government contracts. Kind of gives you pause, when you think who the "Richest Man on Earth" reports to, and what they must be like.

Musk is protected. Any company that has attempted to swim in Musk's pool has been drowned.

The Wall Street Journal pointed out that "Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and his company Kingdom Holding, which [has] held big stakes in Twitter, dismissed Elon Musk’s offer to buy the social-media platform." Why? Or better yet: Why not?

Elon Musk is no rogue billionaire. That would be George Soros, and George is no fan of free speech, freedom of expression, a free press, democracy, and sovereign nations in particular. But neither is Elon Musk. George Soros, as far as can be determined, is a rogue billionaire unto himself, an NGO. Elon Musk isn't even a "maverick" as some claim. Elon Musk is what passes for the smartest man alive today; an Albert Einstein and a Robert J. Oppenheimer, a John William Mauchly, Musk is not. No, Elon Musk is a government man.

Musk's boss has been pushing and pushing relentlessly for big-tech to censor dissent, in the name(s) of ending "mis-information" and "dis-information." Musk's boss cannot push hard enough it seems, so it has bought a high-tech firm they can control outright -- Twitter. Things are about to get really interesting.

If you want to look for it, the science Elon Musk is doing probably stopped being science after the Space Shuttle program. Musk's science is playing around with the science of the onion; what you would find if Musk was satirically portrayed in a Marvel comic book. Taking 70-year-old science and pushing it as the latest and greatest. Buying Twitter is like the civilized world blowing up on the launch pad.

The science Elon Musk engages in reminds me of a teenage boy seeing how many batteries he can stuff into something programmed with an algorithm designed with a preference for hitting parked police cars, before it bursts into flames, incinerating the driver. The only person to escape is Elon Musk, protected from consequences by the full faith and credit of the US government. And Musk always walks away. Pyrrhic.

You might as well make a teenage boy the "Richest Man on Earth." Think of the 1984 movie "Amadeus," and Tom Hulce's Mozart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD2XZHnDKvo

If you try imagining Elon Musk as Mozart playing a government man, you can't. That's why Elon Musk is a government man.

Supposing Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter was just the US government expressing their displeasure with the Saudis for siding with Russia, and the Saudis refusal to offset the loss of sanctioned Russian oil exports by pumping more of their oil. Elon Musk: government man as errand boy.

For the Saudis, in all likelihood, this was more about resources than politics. The Saudis just don't have the oil anymore, regardless of how many heads they chop off. The Saudis have been expanding out of the oil market in the same way the organized crime expanded into legitimate businesses. The Saudis owning a large stake in Twitter was just logical. Expanding upon the theme of beheadings, supposing Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter was just sanctioning through other means, and with a rather dull sword.

Not to put too fine a point on the whole deal; it's the head of democracy rolling around on the floor of civilization at the feet of Elon Musk.

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If Elon Musk was a superhero--a moral and honest and compassionate hero--wouldn't he have used his $44 billion to help stop hunger and/or homelessness by now? Isn't that what true heroes do--help out those who need it the most, the poor and oppressed? Getting all hot and bothered about a selfish billionaire buying a social media platform when there are bombs falling on innocents in Yemen and elsewhere is the epitome of childishness, IMO.

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On despicable deeply corrupt Joe Biden – lying us into war while knowing with 100% certainty that WMD in Iraq is a bipartisan fraud (same as with Bucha and other crimes in Ukraine) – a major US war criminal

https://youtu.be/ecH1SI9ufr8

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Yes. I think Elon is a globalist and he's an actor playing the super hero role.

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