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beejmi THE BIG KAHUNA 
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44 billion I can't even think of another transaction that comes close |
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Principal_Raditch
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I bought the stock 4 weeks ago at 38.75 and sold it today for 51.88. I've never had an account. I just jumped on it when the rumours started circulating. |
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srossi HALL OF FAMER
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I’m loving the hysterical fall-out from this. |
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Jim_Irish
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Yes. Already saw a headline about the 'fear' that large numbers of Irish twitter workers will resign in protest. If they do, fuck them. There are hundreds of thousands more that could fill those jobs in the morning. |
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KGB
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srossi wrote: I’m loving the hysterical fall-out from this. I'd love to see him reinstate Trump's account for no other reason than to see the budding brownshirts collectively bleed from their eyeballs. |
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Married Jo
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This is a great day… |
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srossi HALL OF FAMER
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KGB wrote: srossi wrote:I’m loving the hysterical fall-out from this. Trump already said he won’t go back, even though we all know he won’t be able to resist. |
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WongLee HALL OF FAMER 
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Married Jo wrote: This is a great day…Not agreeing or disagreeing but what makes you say that? |
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Dr. Strangelove
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To this day I've not used Twitter once. |
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KGB
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srossi wrote: KGB wrote:srossi wrote:I’m loving the hysterical fall-out from this. I would assume he has some sort of non-compete clause with his homebrew site, but you're right, he'd probably say "fuck it" and start posting on Twitter anyway. |
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Infamous 必 勝 
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Never had Twitter account & even avoided links. $44 billion sounds like an overpayment |
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Married Jo
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WongLee wrote: Married Jo wrote:This is a great day…Not agreeing or disagreeing but what makes you say that? I'm enjoying seeing the self-righteous hypocrites cry and whine all over twitter...makes me smile... |
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Married Jo
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srossi wrote: I’m loving the hysterical fall-out from this. It's great isn't it? |
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srossi HALL OF FAMER
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Married Jo wrote: srossi wrote:I’m loving the hysterical fall-out from this. It makes me sad for humanity. Even on my wrestling Twitter I have to hear Mock Foley whine that he might have to leave, like he's a message board poster from OSW announcing his departure 15 years ago. I rarely go on Twitter and it doesn't affect my life at all, and shouldn't really affect anyone else's either. |
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Married Jo
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My favorite is the people that have no issue with Bezos owning the Washington Post scream that THIS is unfair lol.. |
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srossi HALL OF FAMER
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Married Jo wrote: My favorite is the people that have no issue with Bezos owning the Washington Post scream that THIS is unfair lol.. The best part is people screaming that billionaires shouldn't control the content on social media platforms...um, who controls them now, including on Twitter? One is opening up speech, the others are shutting it down. And even if he wasn't, how would that be any different? |
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KGB
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Not coincidentally, Obama gave a speech last week in which he urged big tech to censor even more viewpoints. He said he's pretty close to being a First Amendment absolutist, but... He compared it to the FDA's ability to inspect meat packing plants. You know, because reading someone's opinion that men can't get pregnant or that mRNA vaccines have demonstrable drawbacks is clearly as dangerous to one's health as contracting salmonella. |
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srossi HALL OF FAMER
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KGB wrote: Not coincidentally, Obama gave a speech last week in which he urged big tech to censor even more viewpoints. He said he's pretty close to being a First Amendment absolutist, but... Fuck the FDA too. |
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KGB
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srossi wrote: KGB wrote:Not coincidentally, Obama gave a speech last week in which he urged big tech to censor even more viewpoints. He said he's pretty close to being a First Amendment absolutist, but... Ha. I deal with the FDA and I can't really argue. The Food Safety Modernization Act of a few years ago was a completely unnecessary bit of legislation that, naturally, expanded the FDA's size and gave them far too much authority over private business. I'm not against setting basic standards for the production and labeling of items that are ingested into one's body, but, as always, the people in charge are never satisfied with the reasonable. An FDA inspector can now walk into your plant unannounced and determine that you're making products under conditions that are "potentially" deleterious and have you shut down. No evidence is required that you've harmed a single person, just that the inspector that day didn't like the looks of your operating conditions. |
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Jim_Irish
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srossi wrote: Married Jo wrote:Exactly this!My favorite is the people that have no issue with Bezos owning the Washington Post scream that THIS is unfair lol.. |
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WongLee HALL OF FAMER
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This seems strange. Musk paid a premium price for this. It came to 1/5 his total wealth. Twitter is not a moneymaker in and of itself. What's his end game because on the surface it seems like at best a very mediocre business deal. |
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Angelic Assassin
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WongLee wrote: This seems strange. Musk paid a premium price for this. It came to 1/5 his total wealth. Twitter is not a moneymaker in and of itself. What's his end game because on the surface it seems like at best a very mediocre business deal. I dunno. Paying 44 billion so you can add and edit button seems like sound business to me.  Ultimately I think it gives him a forum to say whatever he wants without fear of reprisal or his tweets being removed. All I've ever needed to know about Twitter is the first four letters spell TWIT. I have no use for it and only read a tweet if it's posted here or somewhere else I frequent. This is just his latest plaything and if he wants to spend his money on it, then fill your boots. |
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srossi HALL OF FAMER
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WongLee wrote: This seems strange. Musk paid a premium price for this. It came to 1/5 his total wealth. Twitter is not a moneymaker in and of itself. What's his end game because on the surface it seems like at best a very mediocre business deal. It's just a power play. He has more money than he could ever spend in 50 lifetimes, but he gets off on pissing people off and can pretty much print money from his other businesses at will. This gives him a seat at a different table. The Twitter name is worth more than money. |
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Jim_Irish
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Yes, I imagine he does like Twitter and doesn't like what it's become. But mischief is a big part of it. |
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Jim_Irish
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It is funny to see videos on twitter if CNN coverage about how dangerous it could be if, for example, one party is silenced, or one party gets 'dialed up' while another is 'dialed back', as if this shit hasn't been happening since day 1. |
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Jim_Irish wrote: It is funny to see videos on twitter if CNN coverage about how dangerous it could be if, for example, one party is silenced, or one party gets 'dialed up' while another is 'dialed back', as if this shit hasn't been happening since day 1. Iirc, MBS slung up 1 of his billionaire cousins upside down by his ankles for a shakedown at a Ritz-Carlton, who I think was one of the biggest investors in Twitter |
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beejmi THE BIG KAHUNA
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I check my email here hourly awaiting Elon's offer to buy 'S & W' If he offers $44 its a done deal. I'll take it. |
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WongLee HALL OF FAMER
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beejmi wrote: I check my email here hourly awaiting Elon's offer to buy 'S & W'Maybe we can get him to bankroll Qaenos's Rocky Raymond project. |
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gwlee7 HALL OF FAMER 
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Married Jo wrote: My favorite is the people that have no issue with Bezos owning the Washington Post scream that THIS is unfair lol.. I have an issue with both. It’s two guys in a dick measuring contest where we could be the ones getting pissed on. Sometimes I feel like we are being toyed with by the Duke brothers like Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd in “Trading Places”. All this bullshit over a $1 bet. |
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KGB
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beejmi wrote: I check my email here hourly awaiting Elon's offer to buy 'S & W'  |
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Spatulapup
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Musk is blocking people on twitter right now. So much for free speech.  |
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Franchise Low key big hog 
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Spatulapup wrote: Musk is blocking people on twitter right now. So much for free speech. Unless they are being suspended or banned, they are still free to speak, and he is free to not listen. I've had you on ignore for years and choose to look at what you have to say from time to time and that has never stopped you from posting. |
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khawk HALL OF FAMER 
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Franchise wrote: This is a good call |
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Spatulapup
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Franchise wrote: Spatulapup wrote:Musk is blocking people on twitter right now. So much for free speech. Keep me on ignore forever please. Then there will be no need to talk ever again. The fact you choose to check on me every now and then is hilarious. |
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Franchise Low key big hog
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Spatulapup wrote: Franchise wrote:Spatulapup wrote:Musk is blocking people on twitter right now. So much for free speech. You need checking on from time to time as evident by your “so much for free speech”comment. |
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Franchise Low key big hog
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I’m seeing a few people in indy media talk about how recently a size able chunk of banned people have been allowed back on the platform and some conservative leaning people have had their follower count spike in some cases as much as 65,000 new followers in a day. |
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brodiescomics
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Spatulapup wrote: Musk is blocking people on twitter right now. So much for free speech. Who? |
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Jim_Irish
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Spatulapup wrote: Musk is blocking people on twitter right now. So much for free speech.What are you talking about? |
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Spatulapup
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Franchise wrote: Spatulapup wrote:Franchise wrote:Spatulapup wrote:Musk is blocking people on twitter right now. So much for free speech. Go back to ignoring. |
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Spatulapup
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People are noticing they are losing a ton of followers all of a sudden. Thousands in some cases. |
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srossi HALL OF FAMER
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Spatulapup wrote: People are noticing they are losing a ton of followers all of a sudden. Thousands in some cases. This sounds suspiciously like a Trump quote: “Lots of people are saying…” Seems like complete unsubstantiated nonsense, and I doubt Musk personally even has operational control yet. But on the off-chance this is even remotely accurate, Musk did say that one of his goals was to get rid of the bots, so that would probably account for the loss of followers, although again it’s doubtful that anything is really happening yet. But if tens of thousands of people were getting banned from Twitter in the past 2 days, I bet you’d know some of their names and be hearing a lot about it. Use some common sense. |
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Franchise Low key big hog
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srossi wrote: Spatulapup wrote:People are noticing they are losing a ton of followers all of a sudden. Thousands in some cases. It's not Musk it is being proposed that Twitter is reversing the algorithmic suppression. In the words of some "burning evidence before the take over" |
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Spatulapup
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Mark Hamill claims he lost 8000 followers in a couple hours. Then people in his thread said they lost a lot as well. Last edited on Fri Apr 29th, 2022 12:54 am by Spatulapup |
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Franchise Low key big hog
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Interesting https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23046170/twitter-miscounted-daily-users-three-years-q1-2022-earnings |
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Jim_Irish
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Spatulapup wrote: People are noticing they are losing a ton of followers all of a sudden. Thousands in some cases.If that is true it is certainly not a new claim. Last edited on Fri Apr 29th, 2022 06:47 am by Jim_Irish |
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Franchise Low key big hog
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Jim_Irish wrote: Spatulapup wrote:People are noticing they are losing a ton of followers all of a sudden. Thousands in some cases.If that is true it is certainly not a new claim. The discussions i’ve seen regarding losses believe it is related to the removal of bots and sock puppet accounts. |
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Jim_Irish
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Yes. Not uncommon to hear that, not new and nothing to do with Elon Musk. |
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Jim_Irish
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Although I would guess Elon Musk has an interest in improving bot detection. |
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srossi HALL OF FAMER
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Roger Stone, who was permanently banned from Twitter in 2017, created a socko account yesterday and announced he was back and wanted to see if Musk's commitment to free speech was real. His account remained active for less than 8 hours before he was banned again. Musk is not pushing the buttons yet so all this talk is amusing. |
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srossi HALL OF FAMER
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This tweet by Musk is so spot-on. Attachment: AE9CA3C9-476C-4E30-9988-E82881618D9F.jpeg (Downloaded 95 times) |
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Jim_Irish
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And completely misunderstood by many on twitter. |
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Franchise Low key big hog
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Hilarious Elon tweet https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1520152887090892800?cxt=HHwWgMCy9eS_1ZgqAAAA |
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srossi HALL OF FAMER
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Franchise wrote: Hilarious Elon tweet It's frightening when the elected officials are saying this type of stuff that only the mental patients in their parties used to say. This goes for both the left and the right. AOC's tweet is completely unhinged and outside of the realm of reality, and she's supposed to represent the people. |
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Jim_Irish
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Anyone who talks about 'collectively' stressing is a fucking idiot. |
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Kriss Citizen of nowhere 
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Looking less and less likely that Musk will ever buy Twitter. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61433724 |
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srossi HALL OF FAMER
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Kriss wrote: Looking less and less likely that Musk will ever buy Twitter. But I thought he had already banned all the liberals! I'm beginning to worry that Spatulapup might not be the authority I thought he was. |
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Franchise Low key big hog
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The great elongate to go along with all the other less long gates https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1527525498460508160?cxt=HHwWgMC4kaCW7rIqAAAA Elon commenting on RussiaGate https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1527719915666526208?cxt=HHwWgMC-menKxrMqAAAA Last edited on Fri May 20th, 2022 08:38 pm by Franchise |
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Qaenos
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I get where Musk is coming from. A Pope-following Catholic would have probably been considered "liberal" and voted Democrat in the 1950s and earlier, primarily due to our stance on social issues like welfare, immigration, civil rights etc. Now, thanks largely to abortion and LGBTQ+ and white demonization, we do not belong in the Democrat party and are considered right-wing extremists. Catholic teaching hasn't changed a bit, society has. Good example is racism. Catholics believe it's wrong to choose someone for a job just because of skin color. In the 1950s, we thought that the policy of "blacks need not apply" was wrong so we were considered left-wing. Today the "only blacks need apply" (e.g. the latest job at the Supreme Court) is also wrong, but we are now considered right-wing for thinking that. Last edited on Sat May 21st, 2022 02:31 am by Qaenos |
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Franchise Low key big hog
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Qaenos wrote: I get where Musk is coming from. A Pope-following Catholic would have probably been considered "liberal" and voted Democrat in the 1950s and earlier, primarily due to our stance on social issues like welfare, immigration, civil rights etc. Now, thanks largely to abortion and LGBTQ+ and white demonization, we do not belong in the Democrat party and are considered right-wing extremists. Catholic teaching hasn't changed a bit, society has. Good example is racism. Catholics believe it's wrong to choose someone for a job just because of skin color. In the 1950s, we thought that the policy of "blacks need not apply" was wrong so we were considered left-wing. Today the "only blacks need apply" (e.g. the latest job at the Supreme Court) is also wrong, but we are now considered right-wing for thinking that. It certainly seems like there has been an interesting reshuffling of the deck when it comes political parties. I think Elon is going to be the gateway for a lot of high profile people to stop towing the Dem party line. He is the heat magnet and will stay it especially if he does end up buying twitter. Last edited on Tue May 24th, 2022 07:52 pm by Franchise |
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gwlee7 HALL OF FAMER
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I wish we could just stop the two party nonsense altogether. Neither are worth a fuck. |
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Franchise Low key big hog
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Video of the twitter video call with Elon courtesy of project veritas via a leaker https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FLvTcRrzy20 |
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srossi HALL OF FAMER
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Franchise wrote: Video of the twitter video call with Elon courtesy of project veritas via a leaker I don't even want to sit through meetings at my own job much less watch a 45-minute meeting for another job unrelated to my life. Did he shoot laser beams out of his eyes? |
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brodiescomics
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srossi wrote: Franchise wrote:Video of the twitter video call with Elon courtesy of project veritas via a leaker Not this time. |
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Jim_Irish
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Did he buy it yet? |
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gwlee7 HALL OF FAMER
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srossi wrote: Franchise wrote:He certainly is as big of a douchebag as Homelander is on “The Boys”.Video of the twitter video call with Elon courtesy of project veritas via a leaker https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FLvTcRrzy20I don't even want to sit through meetings at my own job much less watch a 45-minute meeting for another job unrelated to my life. Did he shoot laser beams out of his eyes? |
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srossi HALL OF FAMER
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gwlee7 wrote: srossi wrote:Franchise wrote:He certainly is as big of a douchebag as Homelander is on “The Boys”.Video of the twitter video call with Elon courtesy of project veritas via a leaker https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FLvTcRrzy20I don't even want to sit through meetings at my own job much less watch a 45-minute meeting for another job unrelated to my life. Did he shoot laser beams out of his eyes? Not really, but this reminds me that I have to start watching "The Boys" again this weekend. |
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Jim_Irish
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srossi wrote: gwlee7 wrote:srossi wrote:Franchise wrote:He certainly is as big of a douchebag as Homelander is on “The Boys”.Video of the twitter video call with Elon courtesy of project veritas via a leaker https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FLvTcRrzy20I don't even want to sit through meetings at my own job much less watch a 45-minute meeting for another job unrelated to my life. Did he shoot laser beams out of his eyes? I've watched the first 3 or 4 (i forget how many were out bu last weekendl. It's very good, I think. Anyone who looked the first two seasons should like it. Elon Musk isn't anything like Homelander. Last edited on Fri Jun 17th, 2022 05:09 pm by Jim_Irish |
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Franchise Low key big hog
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Twitter broke its own rules by allowing a persons “deadname” to trend yesterday. https://mobile.twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1544403239117869057 |
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Jim_Irish
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So on twitter can someone say Ellen Page starred in Juno and Eliot Page starred in the new season of Umbrella Academy ? This shit is fucking nonsensical. |
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KGB
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Jim_Irish wrote: So on twitter can someone say Ellen Page starred in Juno and Eliot Page starred in the new season of Umbrella Academy ? Much like the pronoun circus, the intent isn't to soothe the brittle feelings of the freak cohort. It's intended to frustrate and humiliate normal people like you and me. |
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srossi HALL OF FAMER
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Musk has officially backed out, and now the lawsuits will begin. What a shit-show. Still laughing at the people who thought Musk was banning people when he never even had the slightest bit of control at the company. |
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dr_papufnik
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I'm legitimately confused. A month or so ago Musk announced he was trying to buy Twitter. Their board, not to mention the media and posters on twitter, said it simply cannot happen. It would be the end of democracy. He'd platform disinformation and that would ruin society. People were adamant. Now he says he doesn't want to buy and they're going to sue to force the sale? Last edited on Sat Jul 9th, 2022 04:31 am by dr_papufnik |
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gwlee7 HALL OF FAMER
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Is it possible that he never had any real intention of buying it? |
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Spatulapup wrote: People are noticing they are losing a ton of followers all of a sudden. Thousands in some cases. LOL |
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Franchise Low key big hog
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SEC filing shows twitter in material breach https://mobile.twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1545520694955581449?cxt=HHwWkoC9_cW45fIqAAAA Last edited on Sat Jul 9th, 2022 11:41 pm by Franchise |
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gwlee7 HALL OF FAMER
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Franchise wrote: SEC filing shows twitter in material breach https://mobile.twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1545520694955581449?cxt=HHwWkoC9_cW45fIqAAAAShows or claims? I am not a Lawler. |
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Franchise Low key big hog
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gwlee7 wrote: Franchise wrote:SEC filing shows twitter in material breach https://mobile.twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1545520694955581449?cxt=HHwWkoC9_cW45fIqAAAAShows or claims? I am not a Lawler. My name is not Jerry but it looks like Twitter failed to turn over the information requested for over a month and counting. To be precise i suppose i should have said it appears to or they are claiming it shows. Last edited on Sun Jul 10th, 2022 04:56 am by Franchise |
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