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« Reply #1260 on: November 19, 2022, 08:42:00 AM »
When people say he used Twitter to do this no one means that it was because he organized the thing directly in a single tweet, but the months of unhinged election misinformation he constantly posted between losing the election and the Capital attack where he purposefully worked people into a frenzy.  You're looking at a drop of water while standing in an ocean and going 'is this water?'

Yes, he has other options for doing bad things, therefore the reach of those options doesn't matter is a silly argument.   Literally, you can see that banning him from Twitter worked just by looking at Nintex posts here.  Whereas he would repost every dumbass thing Trump said 11 times a day before the ban, after he had to post second hand-tweets from Jared Kushner or some shit that went "Just spoke to the president, ..." or post the stupid Trump press releases that no one looked at but Nintex.  If the cat is out of the bag you don't just let it wander the house, you put it back in the bag and drown it.     


Also, yes AOC is a known exaggerater, so let's give uncharitable readings to everything she says just to further show what an exaggerater she is.  What a fun game to do.  It's not like repeatedly doing this day in day out is the reason why Nintex has the reasoning skills of a wombat.   


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« Reply #1261 on: November 19, 2022, 08:45:14 AM »
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1593790066987442176

This had me look up the evidence that Trump incited the riot on Twitter and it seems... quite flimsy? https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/12/23205723/donald-trump-twitter-tweets-january-6th-us-capitol-rally-riot-stop-the-steal
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The employee, whose identity remains anonymous, specifically pointed to a December 19th tweet from Trump, which asked his supporters to join him in “protest” of the 2020 election results. “Be there. Will be wild,” the tweet said. According to the anonymous employee, that message was seen by many within Twitter as directly responsible for the violence that followed, which left five dead and has resulted in more than 700 arrests.


Basically he announced the rally on Twitter and then people came. Seems like something he would have been able to do through a ton of other avenues as well? He's been successfully organizing rallies after his Twitter ban too. Twitter definitely played a big role in his rise during the presidential campaign but I think it's also fair to say that the cat is already out of the bag, whether he has an account or not

The attempt on Mike Pence is a Q-level conspiracy from the people that told you Iraq had WMD's.

Basically the story goes that Mike Pence refused to leave with the Secret Service detail present as they were under orders to abduct, torture and/or kill him. Either at a remote location or simply by delivering him to the crowd.
While at the same time Trump had a fight with them in the car(?).

Not to mention the riot at the Capitol had already begun before Trump had ended his speech and called for a peaceful protest at the Capitol. By the time Alex Jones and the other protestors or those attending the rally arrived the Capitol was already breached.
In fact, the worries about security is why the Secret Service didn't allow Trump to join the protest. All in all January 6 was a string of unrelated events organized by different groups, including extreme right wing groups, former cops, anarchists, veterans and professional protestors.

Now you could argue that Trump created the opportunity for them to head for the Capitol under false pretenses. But that's like saying that the George Floyd protest was also a coup attempt (after all Trump had to hide in the White House bunker for security reasons). You could also blame Trump for not acting fast enough, however days or weeks prior they had specifically told him not to use emergency powers, call up the national guard or indeed involve the military at all. Thus on January 6th you had the strange situation where Nancy Pelosi and Schumer were watching the protest unfold and calling on Trump to send in the troops which is something they had specifically tried to prevent. After all they didn't approve the Trump administration way of cracking down on the protestors during the summer.
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« Reply #1262 on: November 19, 2022, 09:29:42 AM »
Do you have evidence of her directly referring to this Q-anon-level conspiracy that Mike Pence refused to leave with the Secret Service detail present as they were under orders to abduct, torture and/or kill him?  Does that make more sense than her referring to some of the committee testimony like https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/mike-pence-was-danger-jan-6-who-n1296424 or the chants to hang him by the crowd, even if it is phased hyperbolically as an 'assassination'?

Because, just from an outside observer, it looks like the reasoning here is 1) AOC is a nut job,  2) I believe Pence was never in danger 3)  she said the keyword 'assassination', 4) I know about a Q-anon-level conspiracy 'assassination' of Mike Pence because I constantly read stuff like that 5)  therefore she must be referencing this Q-anon-level theory that I know about. 

Also yes if you slice the time frame a certain way, of course, Trump did not do anything wrong.  Like, let's just focus on the fact that he said he wanted a peaceful demonstration after the fact then we can ignore all the stuff leading up to that.  Besides [Capital attack comparison with Floyd riots] and [it's actually about Nancy Pelosi and Schumer]. 

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« Reply #1263 on: November 19, 2022, 10:05:23 AM »
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« Reply #1264 on: November 19, 2022, 10:24:48 AM »
It's wild to see trending topics working again as intended.
No more curated shit for weeks on end, just the thing that's currently trending, trending. No matter the angle.

Enough with the nutjob shit. 
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Back to it-

https://mobile.twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1593770866457853957
The less of the sell outs and censors remain, the better.
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« Reply #1265 on: November 19, 2022, 10:48:50 AM »
You really love your stable geniuses, don't you? So many years of dick riding, and you weren't even promised a horse. :(
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« Reply #1266 on: November 19, 2022, 01:07:03 PM »
Trump should come back and his first and only tweet should be

"elon is a sad little nerd and he bought a broken website. Come find me on Truth Social where freedom is free."
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« Reply #1267 on: November 19, 2022, 01:11:48 PM »
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« Reply #1268 on: November 19, 2022, 01:31:47 PM »
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1593790066987442176

This had me look up the evidence that Trump incited the riot on Twitter and it seems... quite flimsy? https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/12/23205723/donald-trump-twitter-tweets-january-6th-us-capitol-rally-riot-stop-the-steal
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The employee, whose identity remains anonymous, specifically pointed to a December 19th tweet from Trump, which asked his supporters to join him in “protest” of the 2020 election results. “Be there. Will be wild,” the tweet said. According to the anonymous employee, that message was seen by many within Twitter as directly responsible for the violence that followed, which left five dead and has resulted in more than 700 arrests.


Basically he announced the rally on Twitter and then people came. Seems like something he would have been able to do through a ton of other avenues as well? He's been successfully organizing rallies after his Twitter ban too. Twitter definitely played a big role in his rise during the presidential campaign but I think it's also fair to say that the cat is already out of the bag, whether he has an account or not

The attempt on Mike Pence is a Q-level conspiracy from the people that told you Iraq had WMD's.

Basically the story goes that Mike Pence refused to leave with the Secret Service detail present as they were under orders to abduct, torture and/or kill him. Either at a remote location or simply by delivering him to the crowd.
While at the same time Trump had a fight with them in the car(?).

Not to mention the riot at the Capitol had already begun before Trump had ended his speech and called for a peaceful protest at the Capitol. By the time Alex Jones and the other protestors or those attending the rally arrived the Capitol was already breached.
In fact, the worries about security is why the Secret Service didn't allow Trump to join the protest. All in all January 6 was a string of unrelated events organized by different groups, including extreme right wing groups, former cops, anarchists, veterans and professional protestors.

Now you could argue that Trump created the opportunity for them to head for the Capitol under false pretenses. But that's like saying that the George Floyd protest was also a coup attempt (after all Trump had to hide in the White House bunker for security reasons). You could also blame Trump for not acting fast enough, however days or weeks prior they had specifically told him not to use emergency powers, call up the national guard or indeed involve the military at all. Thus on January 6th you had the strange situation where Nancy Pelosi and Schumer were watching the protest unfold and calling on Trump to send in the troops which is something they had specifically tried to prevent. After all they didn't approve the Trump administration way of cracking down on the protestors during the summer.

How much of a "conspiracy" is it when hundreds were chanting "HANG MIKE PENCE" as they were breaking into the Capitol and attempting to find him + Pelosi?

Trumpers wanted Pence dead on Jan 6th, that shouldn't be in dispute.

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« Reply #1269 on: November 19, 2022, 01:33:11 PM »
Trump should come back and his first and only tweet should be

"elon is a sad little nerd and he bought a broken website. Come find me on Truth Social where freedom is free."

That's the smart business decision. Trump doesn't make smart business decisions.

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« Reply #1270 on: November 19, 2022, 01:34:08 PM »
Enough with the nutjob shit. 
:tinfoil

Back to it-

https://mobile.twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1593770866457853957

90% sure Musk "begging" her was just a mindgame so he could say he fired her, she didn't quit.

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« Reply #1271 on: November 19, 2022, 01:35:03 PM »
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1593790066987442176

Fucking hell I hate Twitter. Elected federal representaties writing "Idk man" and following with pure snark is just fucking pathetic for our nation.

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« Reply #1272 on: November 19, 2022, 01:51:55 PM »
That is not really a twitter thing though.  The under-dignified language used by an official is no different to GW Bush putting on a fake Texan accent and speaking real dumb because it appeals to his voting demographic.  The fact that she is using sarcasm to describe a serious event, and hence seemingly, lowering its seriousness is a result of the fact that serious statements about serious events no longer gain any traction.  Part of that is twitter sure, but to blame twitter without also blaming the likes of fox news is wrong.  Hypothetically, what would you like to see here?  Musk says lets make a game of bringing back a guy who did serious damage to the credibility of US democracy and got people killed.  Representatives who don't want this can be professional and remain silent, be professional and make a serious statement about why this is bad, which they have done a 1000 times, or frame the message in a way that might potentially engage their followers to potentially make a difference.  Like the content of the message is more important than the aesthetics here.     

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« Reply #1273 on: November 19, 2022, 01:56:24 PM »
tasty you shouldn't have posted just one sentence like that, you should've also blamed fox news in the same breath, and this is your downfall
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« Reply #1274 on: November 19, 2022, 01:58:49 PM »
You understand being contrarian doesn't make you smart Uncle?  As well as engaging in the very low-effort snark comments that supposedly is the problem of other social media sites.
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« Reply #1275 on: November 19, 2022, 02:37:55 PM »
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1593790066987442176

Fucking hell I hate Twitter. Elected federal representaties writing "Idk man" and following with pure snark is just fucking pathetic for our nation.
That's not really Twatter's fault though. That's all on her
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« Reply #1276 on: November 19, 2022, 02:41:33 PM »
When people say he used Twitter to do this no one means that it was because he organized the thing directly in a single tweet, but the months of unhinged election misinformation he constantly posted between losing the election and the Capital attack where he purposefully worked people into a frenzy.  You're looking at a drop of water while standing in an ocean and going 'is this water?'

Yes, he has other options for doing bad things, therefore the reach of those options doesn't matter is a silly argument.   Literally, you can see that banning him from Twitter worked just by looking at Nintex posts here.  Whereas he would repost every dumbass thing Trump said 11 times a day before the ban, after he had to post second hand-tweets from Jared Kushner or some shit that went "Just spoke to the president, ..." or post the stupid Trump press releases that no one looked at but Nintex.  If the cat is out of the bag you don't just let it wander the house, you put it back in the bag and drown it.     


Also, yes AOC is a known exaggerater, so let's give uncharitable readings to everything she says just to further show what an exaggerater she is.  What a fun game to do.  It's not like repeatedly doing this day in day out is the reason why Nintex has the reasoning skills of a wombat.   
Without the amplification all of Trump's tweets received from left leaning media and the hysterical reaction to them, Trump would never have even been elected, let alone been able to organise what was a pretty poorly organised insurrection.

Don't blame the medium, blame the people who facilitated these things, both intentionally and unintentionally.
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« Reply #1277 on: November 19, 2022, 02:41:50 PM »
You understand being contrarian doesn't make you smart Uncle?  As well as engaging in the very low-effort snark comments that supposedly is the problem of other social media sites.

Idk man

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« Reply #1278 on: November 19, 2022, 03:35:53 PM »
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« Reply #1279 on: November 19, 2022, 03:42:03 PM »
Ignoring speculating on Elon's personal proclivities for a second, a single private owner may more easily resist the threat of a hypothetical future administration led by a man with an open desire to use the state to punish his perceived enemies. Targeting the other businesses of such an owner is a more difficult game if you're constrained by the law as Trump found out with Bezos.

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« Reply #1280 on: November 19, 2022, 03:56:33 PM »
When people say he used Twitter to do this no one means that it was because he organized the thing directly in a single tweet, but the months of unhinged election misinformation he constantly posted between losing the election and the Capital attack where he purposefully worked people into a frenzy.  You're looking at a drop of water while standing in an ocean and going 'is this water?'

Yes, he has other options for doing bad things, therefore the reach of those options doesn't matter is a silly argument.   Literally, you can see that banning him from Twitter worked just by looking at Nintex posts here.  Whereas he would repost every dumbass thing Trump said 11 times a day before the ban, after he had to post second hand-tweets from Jared Kushner or some shit that went "Just spoke to the president, ..." or post the stupid Trump press releases that no one looked at but Nintex.  If the cat is out of the bag you don't just let it wander the house, you put it back in the bag and drown it.     


Also, yes AOC is a known exaggerater, so let's give uncharitable readings to everything she says just to further show what an exaggerater she is.  What a fun game to do.  It's not like repeatedly doing this day in day out is the reason why Nintex has the reasoning skills of a wombat.   
Without the amplification all of Trump's tweets received from left leaning media and the hysterical reaction to them, Trump would never have even been elected, let alone been able to organise what was a pretty poorly organised insurrection.

Don't blame the medium, blame the people who facilitated these things, both intentionally and unintentionally.

This is an example of the point I'm trying to make.  The blame is also people who uncritically consume the media and the people who facilitate it.

When you read every exaggerated SJW tweet that you find in the Culture War thread (and like every other Bore thread these days) and then read a dumb Ted Cruz take every once in a while, are you really just laughing at both sides?  How many bad takes from basement dwelling SJWs are equal to a post by someone in actual power, before you start thinking that it's really both sides?  Where are Nintex and co. finding all these tweets, and are you both actually laughing at the same thing?  You read enough of these and you start to get a sense of what the 'left' is really like, and it's all nut jobs, so you develop an intolerance to hyperbole.  You know the kind of thing those nutjobs say and anyone who says anything with the same aesthetic gets lumped into the group.  O God, just AOC being one of those people again.  So then you read a bunch of other Nintex posts that get scattered in that are seemingly centrist and rational.  Tweets like 'It's actually the left's fault that Trump got elected because all their hysteria amplified his tweets which made him more divisive which in turn traditional media picked up on and ran with in nefarious ways' start making sense.  Note only because, sure there is truth there, but because you have seen that hysteria first hand so many times and you know exactly the kind of people to blame. 

But really does that make sense?  Like it sure sounds smart to blame the left for getting Trump elected.  But what is actually more important, the amplification or the actual votes cast?  I know you're not dumb Potato, so why are you repeating platitudes like 'it's really the left's fault'?  I'm not arguing that what you said is wrong, (it's true in a lot of ways, and in hindsight it's absolutely true) just that these factors are not outweighed by the obvious factor that the left didn't actually vote for the guy, to the point that statement doesn't need repeating.  So why does it get said?  Because AOC is doing the exact thing that got Trump elected right here right now, correct?  Like she is just being hysteric like she was in 2016.  Because if you look back at Trump's term, what was there to worry about?  I mean other than significantly impacting the legitimacy of US elections and trying to start an insurrection?   And that wasn't a real insurrection because it failed and because those over-the-top SJWs use term 'insurrection' and I know them to be hyperbolic liars, so the situation really can't be serious.  In hindsight, clearly the hysteria in 2016 was not justified and the more reasonable hindsight is to say that the left amplifying Trump is the cause of this all.  Do you actually believe that or would you rather just go 'LOL AOC said 'assassinate' what a tard'?

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« Reply #1281 on: November 19, 2022, 04:44:39 PM »
I don't have a problem with AOC's tweet at all, and would not consider her "part of the problem" regarding Trump, but I think the symbiotic relationship between Trump and the media which is driven by Twitter had far more to do with Trump's appeal to those who eventually voted for him (once or twice) than anything Trump personally ever tweeted. Most Trump voters never looked at his feed, the media couldn't stop themselves to where Trump openly tweeted just to see CNN interrupt to report his tweets.

In general, related to this conversation, I'm not a fan of pointing to off-platform actions as a basis for moderation decisions. Traditionally Twitter had usually agreed. (edit: Though I do not remember what particularly Trump tweeted that day and am not going to bother to look it up to mildly modify this post.)
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« Reply #1282 on: November 19, 2022, 05:43:03 PM »
15 million votes

51.8% for
48.2 against

2 hours left
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« Reply #1283 on: November 19, 2022, 06:03:00 PM »
If you spend your days constantly looking at bullshit, it eventually starts to influence you.
That goes for both Nintex and the people wasting all their time reading Resetera and posting about it here. It's not healthy.
You gain nothing of value. It just makes your mind rot away slowly. And you end up with a distorted view of reality, prone to stereotyped thinking.
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« Reply #1284 on: November 19, 2022, 06:08:32 PM »
That theory presupposes that Nintex was ever otherwise.

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« Reply #1285 on: November 19, 2022, 06:13:16 PM »
Maybe he wasn't, but he certainly amplified it to such an extreme level he turned himself into some kind of caricature. Maybe his faculties predisposed him to this, but I don't think it was predetermined.
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« Reply #1286 on: November 19, 2022, 06:58:55 PM »
I'm not really into stereotypes tbh

51.8%
48.2%

15 million votes

40 minutes remaining.

It's closer than you would expect

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594122225585893383
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« Reply #1287 on: November 19, 2022, 07:51:51 PM »
Reinstate former President Trump

Yes 51.8%
No 48.2%
15,085,458 votes

Biggest intenet poll in history?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594131768298315777
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« Reply #1288 on: November 19, 2022, 07:52:42 PM »
When people say he used Twitter to do this no one means that it was because he organized the thing directly in a single tweet, but the months of unhinged election misinformation he constantly posted between losing the election and the Capital attack where he purposefully worked people into a frenzy.  You're looking at a drop of water while standing in an ocean and going 'is this water?'

Yes, he has other options for doing bad things, therefore the reach of those options doesn't matter is a silly argument.   Literally, you can see that banning him from Twitter worked just by looking at Nintex posts here.  Whereas he would repost every dumbass thing Trump said 11 times a day before the ban, after he had to post second hand-tweets from Jared Kushner or some shit that went "Just spoke to the president, ..." or post the stupid Trump press releases that no one looked at but Nintex.  If the cat is out of the bag you don't just let it wander the house, you put it back in the bag and drown it.     


Also, yes AOC is a known exaggerater, so let's give uncharitable readings to everything she says just to further show what an exaggerater she is.  What a fun game to do.  It's not like repeatedly doing this day in day out is the reason why Nintex has the reasoning skills of a wombat.   

I can totally understand the argument that just because there are other ways for him to organize we still don't need to hand him the easiest one, that makes sense.There's also plenty of reasons besides the riot that suggest that banning him was a good idea

 But I think what puts me off is this unique focus on Twitter and this kind of suggestion that this riot wouldn't have happened without it, which I don't really agree with and that panic of the sky falling if Trump ever comes back

Btw. I didn't try to uncharitable read her. Like I bothered to Google the January 6 Twitter statements she referred to because I thought maybe I had missed something

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« Reply #1289 on: November 19, 2022, 08:34:31 PM »
This is the first boner that Nintex had since January 6 :jeb
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« Reply #1290 on: November 19, 2022, 08:37:20 PM »
Trump won't come back but more advertisers will leave

Brilliant strategy
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« Reply #1291 on: November 19, 2022, 08:41:26 PM »
I did not think he'd really leave it up to a poll

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« Reply #1292 on: November 19, 2022, 09:01:20 PM »
How do you do a poll with 15 million global responses on any issue and get a near 50/50 split? :lol

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« Reply #1293 on: November 19, 2022, 09:03:14 PM »
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« Reply #1294 on: November 19, 2022, 09:04:05 PM »
Should have added a third option like "ban Joe Biden too" or "ban Ye too" or something.

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« Reply #1295 on: November 19, 2022, 09:22:04 PM »
I probably would not set the precedent of overturning permanent bans with simple majority votes on polls even though Elon is likely prominent enough to get good size numbers of responses whenever. For when he checks The Bire for advice I would suggest saying this was an unique situation where he wanted larger consultation and that he did not consider the poll result binding.

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« Reply #1296 on: November 19, 2022, 10:40:15 PM »
The council has 15 million members, it appears

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« Reply #1297 on: November 20, 2022, 12:26:31 AM »
If you spend your days constantly looking at bullshit, it eventually starts to influence you.
That goes for both Nintex and the people wasting all their time reading Resetera and posting about it here. It's not healthy.
You gain nothing of value. It just makes your mind rot away slowly. And you end up with a distorted view of reality, prone to stereotyped thinking.

 :snob
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« Reply #1298 on: November 20, 2022, 03:58:50 AM »
If you spend your days constantly looking at bullshit, it eventually starts to influence you.
That goes for both Nintex and the people wasting all their time reading Resetera and posting about it here. It's not healthy.
You gain nothing of value. It just makes your mind rot away slowly. And you end up with a distorted view of reality, prone to stereotyped thinking.

I'm getting strong "violent video games are destroying our youth!" vibes tbh
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« Reply #1299 on: November 20, 2022, 05:10:51 AM »
Both posters are ironically not that dissimilar, except Nintex's frequently predictable takes sometimes have some humor :doge

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Re: Muskrat to Buy Twitter. Time to Abandon it.
« Reply #1304 on: November 20, 2022, 02:05:22 PM »
https://twitter.com/ManMadeMoon/status/1594201559612608512

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hope don does go back to twitter

imagine the 24/7 musk/de santis shit talk

probably will be the first person to be banned on nu-twitter
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Re: Muskrat to Buy Twitter. Time to Abandon it.
« Reply #1305 on: November 20, 2022, 02:49:35 PM »
We need to wait for something to happen before he jumps back in.

Here's hoping he keeps the politics exclusive to TRUTH but starts to tweet about random people like the Pope and Kristen Stewart or whatever is on Fox News again.

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1594386046149529600

Kanye's back  :lol

Trump better start Tweeting again, he already has 86.3M Followers  :o
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Re: Muskrat to Buy Twitter. Time to Abandon it.
« Reply #1306 on: November 20, 2022, 03:54:55 PM »
85.1 million of them are left wing blue check marks
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« Last Edit: November 20, 2022, 06:27:49 PM by Nintex »
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Re: Muskrat to Buy Twitter. Time to Abandon it.
« Reply #1310 on: November 20, 2022, 07:57:14 PM »
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1594484086055522304

"Dad, Elon made a funny Tweet!"

Elon is terrible at memes or comedy, case in point that SNL trainwreck. So of course Jr finds it funny.
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Re: Muskrat to Buy Twitter. Time to Abandon it.
« Reply #1311 on: November 20, 2022, 08:22:13 PM »
I'm glad that he clarified that what he was saying wasn't a lie
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Re: Muskrat to Buy Twitter. Time to Abandon it.
« Reply #1312 on: November 20, 2022, 08:25:42 PM »

Btw. I didn't try to uncharitable read her. Like I bothered to Google the January 6 Twitter statements she referred to because I thought maybe I had missed something

So I didn't mean to jump on you, but I saw it as an example of what many people do, which is to have a hyper-specific reading of something, and then go well actually that doesn't match the truth (under this hyper-specific interpretation).

In this case, it is hyper-specific to take 'last time he was here this platform was used to incite an insurrection' as only referring to tweets he made on the day of the intersection while ignoring the months of tweets that lead up to the day, which is uncharitable.  Like this would only make sense if you think the only way to incite an insurrection on Twitter is to literally tweet 'I president Trump, of sound mind, declare the insurrection is a go.' And even IF you thought this, it's still uncharitable to not consider that many people would not think this. 

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“Be there. Will be wild,” the tweet said. According to the anonymous employee, that message was seen by many within Twitter as directly responsible for the violence that followed, which left five dead and has resulted in more than 700 arrests.

Sure sounds flimsy if you take that to 'directly responsible' to mean that this single employee who is summarizing the feelings of others, is saying that this single tweet was the sole cause of the intersection and not that it was a contributing factor and one that probably escalated the situation.  Maybe lawyers will be like but you said the exact words 'directly responsible' therefore you mean exactly, but that is not the way language actually works where people are imprecise with their language because it's expected that you will give them the benefit of the doubt to interpret their words in the most sensible way.  Also, they didn't actually say 'directly responsible' the author of the article did to summarize what the employee was trying to summarize.     

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Re: Muskrat to Buy Twitter. Time to Abandon it.
« Reply #1313 on: November 20, 2022, 08:27:44 PM »
I'm glad that he clarified that what he was saying wasn't a lie
He seems to be implying that he falsely claims things are funny quite regularly.

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Re: Muskrat to Buy Twitter. Time to Abandon it.
« Reply #1315 on: November 20, 2022, 09:36:59 PM »
twitter.com/triketora/status/1594348646396559361

 :doge


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Re: Muskrat to Buy Twitter. Time to Abandon it.
« Reply #1316 on: November 21, 2022, 01:53:00 AM »
She wrote she only wants to read books written by authors of a specific color of skin and gender. Horseshoe theory in action?
Anyway,
https://twitter.com/joinmastodon/status/1594436908154748929
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I just read something interesting on mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@aallan/109375952405660456
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Re: Muskrat to Buy Twitter. Time to Abandon it.
« Reply #1318 on: November 21, 2022, 05:40:34 AM »
How bad can you handle a service?  :mindblown Musk: yes.

I wouldn't even care about all this nonsne, I just want to keep using Twitter as a gaming newsfeed, from which I've banned everything that smells like culture war early on. Now I get Musk's dad jokes and his takes on Trump in my notifications without even following him. It's literally impossible to escape now.

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Re: Muskrat to Buy Twitter. Time to Abandon it.
« Reply #1319 on: November 21, 2022, 05:49:26 AM »
And now you know why he bought Twitter.
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