Let's be serious here folks. If your psyche is so fragile that the very existence of disagreement troubles you and the idea that this disagreement might have a forum to be seen or heard makes you cry (among other things) then the issue is not with others...
it's with you.
If you realistically look at the disinformation that has been allowed (and is still allowed on Twitter) it becomes obvious that disinformation is not what is being censored. You can still post about Trump being a Russian asset. You can still claim that masks work and attack anyone who claims otherwise. You can still tweet about how there is no evidence of any 2020 election issues. You can offer that someone is QAnon if they don't believe that Jan 6th was an "insurrection". But you could be banned for bringing up Hunter Biden's laptop, citing statistical election anomalies, or citing a legitimate international medical study about Covid.
Ironically liberals demanded that there as no shadowbanning of conservatives for quite some time before Twitter basically out and out admitted it and then justified it over "disinformation". So even Twitters own lack of honesty on their own oversight was disinformation.
Bottom line: It's not disinformation that has been banned and censored. It has been disagreement with the liberal status quo beliefs that has been banned. To be clear, if they were really banning just "disinformation" then why are only conservatives taking issue? Since conservatives have been proven correct about Trump and Russia, proven correct in regards to many Covid issues, and have been validated on many of their election fraud claims (even if Twitter deletes tweets that link you to a Judge's ruling because Judicial ruling is disinformation apparently). The true disinformation on the 2016 and 2020 election, Covid, QAnon, and a slew of other things resides almost exclusively from the lying left.
Yet nobody has censored their lies?
I just want to go to Twitter and post the truth. I don't want to worry that someone will be offended and that the Twitter police will come and suspend my account and claim it is about purging QAnon as they did when I went from nearly 12,000 followers to about 5000. I believe Elon Musk will do his best to make Twitter a forum that people can openly engage in without fear of being persecuted for a "non-woke" idea that upsets the snowflake left. You know what else? I don't care if the left lies on Twitter. I really don't. They openly lie everywhere else, why try to stop it on Twitter.
And let's be clear... anyone from the left who leaves Twitter will do so voluntarily, not because they will be banned for disagreement with Elon Musk or anyone else.
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Donating half his money to charity
A decade ago, Musk signed the Giving Pledge, joining billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in promising to donate at least 50% of his money to charity.
At age 50, Musk is relatively young, and the Giving Pledge does not put a timeline on when or how billionaires shed their wealth. But as of January 2021, Musk had given away only about 0.05% of his net worth, according to Vox. He earmarked a large chunk of Tesla stock, $5.7 billion worth, for unnamed charities in late 2021, according to Fortune, which pointed out the huge tax break that comes attached. But it’s unclear whether he has actually given any of that money away.
In November, when the United Nations responded to Musk’s challenge to outline a plan for combating world hunger, the price tag came to $6.6 billion ― somewhat close to the earmarked amount. But it’s still unclear what Musk means to do with that money.
He appears to have a larger plan. Musk tweeted in 2018 that he would sell smaller amounts of Tesla stock “every few years” but save “major disbursements” for 20 years down the line, when Tesla is in a “steady state.” He’ll use what he accumulates by then to “make life multiplanetary,” splitting his donations equally between Earth and Mars, where he said he’d like to be buried.
Critics say that while going to Mars might sound exciting, it distracts from the urgent problems facing the Earth due to climate change.
I think that he's a talented con artist 🎨
Axios shows the same thing I said
A federal judge on Wednesday denied Elon Musk's request to scrap a 2018 settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that required some of his tweets to be preapproved.
Why it matters: The decision means Musk could remain barred from freely tweeting about Tesla despite reaching an agreement to buy Twitter for $44 billion.
Musk asked a federal judge in March to terminate the consent decree, which required Tesla's counsel to vet his tweets about the company after he had claimed on Twitter to have "funding secured" to take Tesla private.The settlement also required him to step down as Tesla's chair and pay a $20 million fine.
Between the lines: Musk said in court papers that he was coerced into making the deal with the SEC, claiming that he "never lied to shareholders" in his initial tweet that he had secured funding to take Tesla private.
Since asking the court to end the SEC settlement, Musk launched a campaign to take over Twitter that resulted in him purchasing the company for $54.20 a share.
What they're saying: "Musk, by entering into the consent decree in 2018, agreed to the provision requiring the pre-approval of any such written communications that contain, or reasonably could contain, information material to Tesla or its shareholders," U.S. District Judge Lewis Linman said in the written opinion.
Ah, so the character assassination of Musk begins, because he's not spending his money in ways the left approves of.
LOL.
You assholes are so fucking predictable alky.
What I want to know is when does the Sloppy Joe regime sic their STASI/FBI on Musk to try and nail him on some fabricated accusation?
Guess what!!
Breakingviews: Elon Musk probably won’t buy Twitter
By Lauren Silva Laughlin
and Gina Chon
3 minute read
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory groundbreaking ceremony in Shanghai, China January 7, 2019.
NEW YORK, April 27 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Four years ago, Elon Musk vowed to set up a peanut brittle company to take on Warren Buffett’s iconic U.S. confectioner See’s Candies. Then he changed his mind. It wouldn't be surprising if Musk's $44 billion deal to buy social network Twitter went the same way.
Sure, the Tesla boss was clearly serious about acquiring Twitter as of recently. The financing from Morgan Stanley is shored up. The agreement includes a fee of $1 billion that he – or Twitter – would have to pay if they renege on the contract. And Twitter’s lawyers even wedged in a so-called “specific performance” clause, which could theoretically force Musk to buy the company if he threatens to back out, though in practice this could probably be settled by adding to the break fee.
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There are good reasons for him to get cold feet. The biggest is Tesla. The electric-vehicle maker’s stock has fallen around a fifth since Musk first revealed his stake in Twitter, partly because Musk may sell shares to fund his new adventure. If Tesla’s stock bounces back – likely if the Twitter deal falls away – the $40 billion of recouped wealth would more than make up for the break fee.
China is a major sticking point too. Tesla produces half of its vehicles there, as well as a quarter of its revenue. But Twitter is no friend to the People's Republic, most recently for defying Beijing in its handling of content related to Hong Kong protests. China could easily hold Tesla to ransom if a Musk-owned Twitter didn’t play ball. That’s uncomfortable for a self-professed “free speech absolutist.”
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In reality, Musk’s absolutism probably won't survive a Twitter deal anyway. European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton told the Financial Times this week that the company must police illegal or harmful content or risk being banned. In the United States, where regulators are less aggressive, other technology firms could effectively create the same threat. Apple, for example, gets to decide which apps appear in its influential store.
Lmao
One thing makes it easier for Musk to walk away before any of this becomes a problem: The market partly anticipates it already. Twitter’s stock is currently trading 11% below his offer price – a fairly wide spread for a deal with little antitrust pushback. Musk’s tweets criticizing some company actions – potentially flouting the merger agreement - already suggest he might be starting to lose interest. Most likely, Musk's attention will wander elsewhere. It wouldn't be the first time.
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/elon-musk-probably-wont-buy-twitter-2022-04-27/
He conned you like Trump 👍
And now planting FAKE NEWS stories that he's not going to buy Twitter at all.
Man, this whole thing has certainly fucking WRECKED the DNC Steno Pool (MSM).
Cry harder motherfuckers.
And then die in a fucking FIRE.
Fucking shitstains.
And DeSantis
Ron DeSantis says ending Disney's self-governing status will be a 'process.' Here's what might happen next
The law's vague language and the threat of parental lawsuits have raised fears that it will lead to discrimination against LGBTQ students and will have a chilling effect on classroom discussion. DeSantis' spokesperson Christina Pushaw, however, said the legislation would protect kids from "groomers," a slang term for pedophiles, and described those who oppose the law as "probably groomers."
Disney CEO Bob Chapek initially declined to condemn the law but reversed course after facing employee criticism. A company spokesperson released a statement last month stating its goal is for the law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts.
"Florida's HB 1557, also known as the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law," the statement said. The company said it was "dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family, as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and across the country."
Earlier last week, DeSantis challenged lawmakers to unravel the 55-year-old Reedy Creek Improvement Act as part of a special legislative session. The impact of that legislation -- as well as its legality -- remains unclear.
If they file a suit????
Muskism
To me, Elon Musk is really simple. He really likes attention. He really likes to be at the center of the discourse,” White said.
White said that’s a contrast with railroad barons who bought newspapers in the 19th century to serve narrow financial interests, often in secret. Musk’s move into social media doesn’t seem to serve a business purpose, and he’s not hiding his influence.
If anything, Musk seems to relish his role in the culture as much as his impact on industry. He’s hosted NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” makes regular cameos on television and in films and inserts himself into global hot spots by offering help in places such as Ukraine and Thailand. He has dated pop star Grimes and has drawn analogies to a comic book superhero.
That attention combined with his businesses have resulted in an aggressive online army of fans and made him an idol among many in the tech community. Last year the Harvard historian Jill Lepore devoted a podcast series to Musk, saying he had established a new kind of capitalism rooted in science fiction. She called it “Muskism.”
Muskism
A religion in which the followers worship the all mighty god and true daddy, Elon Musk (Founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, Boring Company) Followers are devoted and obsessed with the creations and actions of Elon and will do anything to help the earth become clean and humans become a multi-planetary species.
The more I read about this guy, he is the best con artist in this world
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
He conned you like Trump 👍
The only person I know who got conned by Trump is YOU, alky.
How many dozens of times did you "really have him THIS time!!!11!"?
Walls closing in with bombshells that were bringing the beginning of the end...
And Trump walked every fucking time.
LOL @ YOU alky.
Roger did Hillary lose to Trump ?
Or did the Russians work hand in Glove with Trump ?
Roger you said musk is not buying Twitter, you will be proven wrong, again.
Roger predicted Biden would lower gasoline to below 3 dollars, that was last fall.
Idiot is always so fucking wrong.
I'm a populationist.
Voters are smarter than you think
Voters do have a fairly finely tuned radar for disingenuousness, and I think one way to screw up when attempting popularism is to come across as, well, lying to the public while trying to distract them from your actual priorities.
I do think that a sense that the media, politicians, and experts are being disingenuous — advocating policies they didn’t really believe in or care about, or toeing the line for the sake of apparent unity while privately having doubts — has done a ton of damage to social trust and various institutions in the US today.
So I think people who are trying to make the world a better place through research and communication shouldn’t themselves stop saying extremely weird stuff when they sincerely think that stuff is true and important. They shouldn’t publicly agree with anything they privately disagree with, even if they’re trying to preserve their credibility.
They should engage with things that matter to the general public, if only because that’s how to prove they’re worth listening to, but they should spend a lot of time trying to figure out what’s actually going on and tell people that.
That’s my logic for why I personally haven’t shut up about my stances on open borders or artificial intelligence or factory farming, even though they’re all deeply unpopular, and a candidate who talked about them as much as I do would lose elections.
It’s important for weird conversations to happen in the open, even if it’s also important for politicians in a democracy to run on the issues the voters care about. Presenting a united front by papering over real disagreements simply isn’t worth the damage it does to public trust, or to our ability to solve problems in the real world, where sky-high approval ratings don’t substitute for an understanding of what’s actually going on. (And sky-high approval ratings won’t last if you screw up in the real world.)
It’s obviously very important to win elections, and doing the popularist thing is definitely a strong way to do this. But when it comes to advancing ideas — and being more flexible for a future that may change in ways we can’t anticipate — it helps to be open to the unusual, even the unliked.
Voters are smarter than you think, and so am I!
Twitter requires its users to comply with a terms of service agreement that bans certain types of speech — harassment, in particular. It also has moderation policies in place to combat disinformation. The value of these measures isn’t always apparent to powerful people such as Mr. Musk because if you’re a white man on the internet, you’re far less likely to get a rape threat, and you’re also heavily insulated from the possibility of real-world violence.
Mr. Musk insists that the company’s policies are too restrictive. But this is not about free speech in the sense that the First Amendment is — ensuring that the state can’t censor its citizens. What Mr. Musk seems to seek is a kind of infinite license to say almost anything, anywhere. It’s an absolutist definition of free speech that says corporations are obligated to let things that may be harmful to their users or bad for their businesses remain on their platforms because any limitation on speech is de facto censorship and censorship of any kind is worse than the consequences of hate speech, harassment and disinformation.
Of course, getting rid of policies that restrict hate speech will likely affect women and minorities much more than it does white men like Mr. Musk, and unlike him, most people on the receiving end of threats and harassment can’t afford personal security. Twitter’s rules already allow for a broad range of abuse, much of which falls into a kind of gray area between personal insult and harassment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/opinion/elon-musk-twitter-cesspool.html
Plagiarism writ large -
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/opinion/elon-musk-twitter-cesspool.html
Elon Musk's ruthless business practices have put him in a different class of robber barons.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Elon Musk's ruthless business practices have put him in a different class of robber barons.
And the alky's ruthless assault on his liver have put him in a special class of nursing home/insane asylum.
LOL.
New York's highest court strikes down Dems' 'partisan' redistricting in 'big time' defeat
A lower court also ruled the new lines were unconstitutional earlier this month
...
The GOP lawsuit against the new district lines cited computer simulations by election analyst Sean Trende, who found the maps were gerrymandered.
"NY’s Court of Appeals just tossed the hyper-partisan, gerrymandered Congressional and State Senate maps for the state," New York Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin tweeted. "This is excellent news for the people of New York and yet another big time defeat for Kathy Hochul and her Dem allies."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-yorks-rejects-democrat-redistricting-plan-unconstitutional
in case you missed this CHT
So when it comes to enemies of the left -
OId and Busted: Vladimir Putin
New Hotness: Elon Musk
LOL.
Funny story attacking Musk....
Since Elon Musk is not a white man?
Who writes this stuff without understanding what race Musk even is?
Since Elon Musk is not a white man?
He's a legitimate African-American and that drives the left nuts.
LOL.
The left has moved on to phase two of their reaction to the Musk purchase of Twitter. Now he must be defamed and destroyed, and he's going to create a massive "unsafe" space for bed-wetting leftists who want to be left to attack without fear or reprisal.
So when it comes to enemies of the left -
OId and Busted: Vladimir Putin
New Hotness: Elon Musk"
Lol
Yep, Roger has a history of Attacking people unlike him.
Roger is showing himself to be just an ignorant parrot. He went years not posting about musk. Now he can't stop.
Biden Administration Creates "Disinformation Governance Board" Under Department Of Homeland Security to Fight "Homeland Security," Citing Zero Legislative or Constitutional Authority
The Department tasked with internal national security enforcement in the United States has now been additionally charged with patrolling the speech of Americans for speech the US government deems threatening or unhelpful to its narratives.
Everyone have that? The Kommissars of the Internal State Security Police will now be inspecting your writings and utterings.
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/398871.php
NY court of appeals, our highest court, just rejected the dems ridiculous map gerrymandering. Of course they did. It's democrat arrogance at its finest.
Roger has a long and violent history of obsession, from booze, to drugs to lashing out against his wife.
"AnonymousApril 27, 2022 at 3:29 PM
Roger is showing himself to be just an ignorant parrot. He went years not posting about musk. Now he can't stop."
He can't control his emotions
Biden could make American Wealth by pumping our oil and extract our has to the world.
He doesn't know how.
If this gets to the Supreme Court???
New York’s highest court on Wednesday rejected the state’s new congressional district maps, which had been widely seen as favoring Democrats.
The legal fight over New York’s redistricting process could be a factor in the battle between Democrats and Republicans for control of the US House.
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New York is set to lose one seat in Congress in 2021. New York’s new maps would give Democrats a strong majority of registered voters in 22 of the state’s 26 congressional districts. Republicans now hold eight of the state’s 27 seats.
Democrats had been hoping that a redistricting map favorable to their party in New York might help offset expected losses in other states where Republicans control state government.
The state’s court of appeals agreed in a ruling with a group of Republican voters who sued, saying that the district boundaries had been unconstitutionally gerrymandered and that the legislature hadn’t followed proper procedure in passing the maps.
The court said it will “likely be necessary” to move the congressional and state senate primary elections from June to August.
A lower-level court had also ruled that the maps were unconstitutional and had given the legislature a 30 April deadline to come up with new maps or else leave the task to a court-appointed expert.
NBC News cites ‘experts’ to warn about Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase (guess who the ‘experts’ are)
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/04/27/nbc-news-cites-experts-to-warn-about-elon-musks-twitter-purchase-guess-who-the-experts-are/
This one is particularly hilarious.
And other things that the Democrats have a chance of keeping the Senate.
And McCarthy is a better Speaker of the House than some other choices.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
If this gets to the Supreme Court???
Goddamn, alky. Your invincible ignorance never sleeps.
The USSC has to agree to hear it, and there isn't the room or the time on this court's docket between now and the mid term election. And after that it's a moot point until 2024.
Because he was born in South Africa he still isn't black skinned
Every legitimate poll shows the dems in dire straights in keeping the Senate, and McCarthy is a piece of fucking shit. The left supports him because he's one of them.
Democrats are staring down an increasingly difficult Senate landscape as national political headwinds threaten to sweep away what they believe is their best chance to hold at least one chamber of Congress.
With hopes for holding their House majority dimming quickly, Democrats see this year’s Senate map as a relative bright spot, given the fact that they’re defending fewer seats than Republicans and believe they have a strong class of candidates.
But nationally, they’re up against a brutal political landscape — President Biden’s approval rating is well underwater, inflation is the highest it’s been in decades and Republican voters appear far more motivated than Democrats — raising the prospect that some factors that will determine the Senate majority are outside the party’s control.
“I think at the end of the day, I think it’s going to be hard for Democrats if the environment doesn’t change,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “It’s not as bleak of an outlook as it is in the House for Democrats, but it’s still a heavy lift in the Senate.”
Part of the challenge for Democrats, Kondik said, is overcoming Republican enthusiasm and political polarization in an already-unfavorable year for the party and its candidates. Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress, and the party in power almost always loses ground in midterm elections.
In a sign of motivation among GOP voters, an NBC News poll released late last month showed Republicans with a 17-point advantage over Democrats in enthusiasm. Sixty-seven percent of GOP respondents said they have a high level of interest in voting this year compared to just 50 percent of Democrats.
“Politics is just more tribal, I think, and you’re just naturally going to have disproportionate motivation for the side not holding the White House in these off-year elections,” Kondik said.
https://thehill.com/news/3262798-democrats-face-steep-odds-in-bid-to-keep-senate/
If this gets to the Supreme Court???
That was it Roger...
That is the highest appeals court in NY. It doesn't go any further.
An independent Judge will now create the map and the NY primaries will likely be moved back 30 days. Those four extra seats will go bye bye.
Another attempt at Democratic "cheating" is shot down.
Should they all go to jail for treason, Roger?
After all... if you try to do something unconstitutional it's a crime, right? At least that is the argument of the Jan 6th commission?
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Because he was born in South Africa he still isn't black skinned
He's more African-American than 0linsky who's Half-rican - American and was born in Hawaii.
LOL.
THWAP!!!
Another attempt at Democratic "cheating" is shot down.
And stands as yet another example of how the left needs to cheat to win.
Which explains exactly why they're so dead set against voting reform and voter ID.
What do the Republicans do when big business owners become liberals?
Since much of corporate America has swung culturally into liberalism’s camp. That process was well underway a decade ago, but it’s been accelerated by anti-Trump backlash, the more left-leaning commitments of big business’s younger customers and (especially) younger employees, and the relative ease with which the radical-sounding language of identity politics can be assimilated to corporate management techniques.
As a consequence, today’s G.O.P. is most clearly now the party of local capitalism — the small-business gentry, the family firms, what leftists like to call “patrimonial capitalism” — while its relationship with corporate America is increasingly complex.
Much of the party elite wish to continue doing business with big business as before. But the party’s base regards corporate institutions — especially in Silicon Valley, but extending to more traditional capitalist powers — as cultural enemies, with too much consolidated power and too much interest in pressuring, censoring and propagandizing against socially conservative views and policy.
This tension on the right has produced a little policy innovation — a sudden right-wing interest in trustbusting, some vaguely union-friendly forays — and a lot of incoherence. But in the last week we’ve seen two sharper conservative answers to the question: What does the right do when big business turns against conservatism?
One answer is the Elon Musk solution and DeSantis attacked Micky Mouse
His skin color makes him an African-American, according to stupid Alky
Fact, his skin color does not make him more or less African-American.
Damn , there is simply no educating Roger.
No one "attacked" Disney.
God , what a little emotional gurl Roger is.
Lol@this ass🤡
Dr. Anthony Fauci said this week that the U.S. is out of the pandemic phase
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