I don't trivialize the influence a 9.2% shareholder normally has. But how dug in are the other 90.8%? They believe they're saving the planet. From us.
Musk himself has proven himself to be unpredictable. He's made all kinds of grandiose predictions that didn't work out. My brother is a Musk fanboy. He talked me into making a trip to the launch area in Boca Chica. Have to admit, I came away impressed by what he's accomplished.
Really, I hope for the best. But I'm not banking on it.
Honestly I just love the interference - Musk is unpredictable and often not successful- a bag of cats in a shopping cart with a bad wheel - love to see it cause it’s guys like these who upend the Top dogs - they are caught by surprise and misstep out of sheer rage. 😂😂😂
Totally agree...you know their heads are exploding, and he loves saying the least little thing like "should there be an edit button" just to send them into a tizzy. I think it's hilarious.
All true, but I still can't figure out why anybody would actually use the Twitter app in the first place when there are so many really excellent third party apps that work so much better and NO ADS. If you aren't already there, I highly suggest you take a look at Tweetcaster and albatross just to name a couple.
I don't think it should have an edit button only because people could respond to a tweet and then the original author completely change what they said in their original tweet. I don't think there's an elegant solution to that, but that's just me.
For someone like Musk, who’s super creative and prone to trying things that have rarely or never been tried, of course there have to be failures. Doesn’t matter. He has underlying good intent, and however it all works out, it’ll all be for the good.
Shareholders are about money, most of them. If Musk can prove to them it's more profitable to open up the platform and avoid government regulation, they'll go along with him.
Not true anymore. Blackrock and Vanguard vote their shares but don't actually own them - they are owned passively by the holders of their ETFs. Blackrock makes their profit on fees, so there's really no coupling between Blackrock's profit from holding shares of Twitter on behalf of passive investors, and how they might vote to control the behavior of the company. If Twitter loses money or goes bust, all those 401K suckers are the ones holding the bag.
And Blackrock votes to support their WEF goals, sustainability garbage, social responsibility, communism, slavery (the new, good kind: own nothing and be happy, slaves, eat the bugs).
I think it's actually passive index-tracking ETFs that are the fundamental problem.
If stocks are held by individuals, or by active-management mutual funds, then there is a feed back loop whether by selling the stock or participation in the decisions of the board through voting, and the people making those decisions care about the value of the company.
With ETFs, nobody cares and there's no feedback. The ETF manager is just tracking the index; the passive investor is just expecting it to track the index. There's no market forces that feed back good or bad decisions into the market. So when 1/2 the market is in ETFs, it massively dilutes the control of the "invisible hand" to make sensible allocations of capital.
What is worse is, the manager of the ETF (e.g. Blackrock) gets to vote the shares with no real skin in the game (since all the risk is held by the ETF unit owners), so they have huge centralized control over the decisions companies make with no impact on their bottom line from the performance of the company. Thus, no agenda is too woke, and social engineering via "ESG" (Environmental Social Governance) scoring is the order of the day.
So while Blackrock is definitely evil, it's the reliance on ETFs that's at the root of the problem, because it breaks the market feedback mechanisms.
used to be - these days it seems like corporations and shareholders (not to mention celebrities) are more about agenda and don't mind offending and/or losing up to half of their customers. How can that come down to money?
Don’t be a hater. At least he didn’t waste the subsidies like so many other companies did. He at least came out with useful products and advances in technology The subsidies are there for a reason. Maybe you should ask your congressman.
Director terms are staggered so that the whole board is not up for election at the same time time. There are arguments pro and con but staggered terms are generally beneficial to entrenched interests.
I have felt the same way about Elon Musk. A brilliant man no doubt, but in this age of deception it takes more than being a genius or making a better widget. We've seen corporations crush men like this. Remember Preston Tucker. On the flip side if he is to be trusted it could be the beginning of the end for the woke left and their cronies. He will own more stock in Twitter than Jack Dorsey.
There's a big difference between Preston Tucker and Elon Musk. Musk has multiple successful endeavors and he grew up/worked with a lot of those guys running these bigtech companies. I'd be more concerned about him having only a passing interest in this and not following through then him be undermined by fellow tech board members or even shareholders.
Indeed. Those who say he was only successful because Govt paid for it, seem unaware that free money is no guarantee of success. To the contrary. Those gifted free money by Govt tend to be wasteful & incapable.
Regardless of source of money, and the quantity of it, most of us would have no chance whatsoever of creating Tesla cars & SpaceX vehicles.
exactly think Solyndra, the renewable energies company that the Obama administration gave $535 million to for renewable energy research, the company went bankrupt. Takes more than just money to make something successful. That said money helps A LOT when you have something that has potential success.
Very good point and your right he's has a much higher pedigree than Tucker. He's such an intelligent guy I hope he'll stick with this, and it overflows into Facebook but as you say, keeping him interested may be an issue.
Musk is a dolphin amongst the sharks. You think he's Flipper, but in reality he's bigger, faster, smarter, and ultimately every bit as ruthless as they are.
Yes. He can be underestimated easily. In many ways he comes off as not all that, but there is something magical about him, something the greedy thugs all around him don’t possess and never will. He probably won’t do this the usual way, as that’s not how he rolls, but I think he’s quite serious about this and sees the unrelenting censorship as a very real threat to actual democracy. He’s gonna make a change. I believe in him! Am I a fangirl?
Of course you are, but that doesn't make you wrong. Now I hear that Dorsey is already supportive of giving Musk his seat on the board when he vacates it next month. While the media says his 9% stake doesn't qualify him as an "activist investor", I'd say that 80 million Twitter followers would exert quite a bit of influence.
It's not the other %90 of shareholders running Twitter, as long as Twitter is profitable large interest shareholders usually leave leave how the business is run to the CEO and their staff. That said there is something called the ESG ( Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance - Google it ) that has infected the private sector and is the corporate version of the Chinese Social Credit Score system for Chinese citizens. The US Government can't enact a Social Credit Score like system, at least not yet so as a work around the globalist's pushing for these systems have created one for the corporates world. So far its voluntary but a number of globalist own/run investment firms like Blackrock are making any companies the invest in adhere to the ESG. A number of financial institutions are adhering to it making it harder for a company with out a good score with the ESG to get loans. Sadly its a case where government involvement to put an end to this needs to happen. In a free market you would never want that kind of government involvement but the US has not had a true free market in a long time. Its more of a Crony Capitalistic Open Market where you can get in as a small guy as long as your not costing a big player too much money or you're bringing something new but if you're trying to be a competitor to an existing business, like a new cab company in a major locale like NYC, forget it being a free market because the system is rigged to prevent competition in existing fields like the cab business.
So when it comes down to it the other shareholders could ban together to over ride Elon but it would need to be enough who together have more than Musk and that whatever they are trying do won't result in less profitability else many of the even smaller shareholders may then join with Musk to stop the others from over riding Musk. That is where Musk's power is, with the many mid & smaller size shareholders who aren't interested in woke non-sense or the ESG BS, they just want profitability and a more free speech like platform is definitely going to draw more people.
Musk has said: "increasingly convinced that corporate ESG is the devil incarnate." So he is concerned about it. He tweeted this as recently as April 3rd.
Musk was increasingly critical of Twitter's stance on free speech, or lack thereof. Next we know, he is the biggest shareholder. I sincerely believe a change is coming, and it will be for the better.
Via crony cataplasm tactics like getting the city to create some special medallion or the like you have to acquire before you can operate a cab in the city and the medallion is like 1 million dollars. I know its sounds ridiculous but its true. DC does something like this as does NYC. All to keep small independent cabbies from competing with the big boys. The corrupt politicians who put that into effect claim its to keep citizens safe from bad people which is of course total BS.
@Jack only owns 2.9%, to put things in perspective. Elon was a co founder of PayPal. He sold his stake and started a new car company from scratch. Tesla is now worth more than any other car company in the world. He then started SpaceX and revolutionized the space launch industry with reusable rocket boosters, reducing the cost to place a cargo in orbit by 75%. He developed a vehicle for NASA to transport American astronauts to the ISS, breaking the Russian monopoly. I think he can handle the Wokesheviks at Twitter.
9.2% is quite a bit. Many of the other shareholders may have other goals and a targeted return. If changes bring about that targeted return faster, Mr. Musk will have allies on the board. He may be able to convince enough that the CEO is actually destroying value in the company and that unless Twitter reacts, Twitter will be left behind as a decentralized social media business model comes into existence.
I'm sure his purchase alone drove the bulk of that stock increase but it being him also probably added to that as people know that he can have that magic touch and unlike some shady investment group like Blackrock people know Elon Musk is investing in twitter because he believes it needs course correcting where as a group like Blackrock either wants to just squeeze money out of it or worse make it adhere more strictly to the ESG so it gets even more ideological correct than it is.
But it's not that he bought it when the news broke; he had already bought it. So that jump in price had to be *other* people buying, and driving the price up, because they were now bullish on TWAT, I mean TWTR.
He’s on the Board now. I am hopeful for Alex but I hate the importance placed on those bunch of censoring, elitist. legends in their own minds. That CEO should be fired and deported.
So billionaires don't get to participate in the democratic process? What about millionaires, are they excluded too or is there wealth such that it's OK to let them participate?
Like I said, I like what he is doing, but hate the idea of the wealth of an individual giving him power over individual freedom and liberty. That kind of power can be used for good or evil and who will be the next wealthier than Musk savior king?
The Founders had wealth and power. They wielded that power over individual freedom and liberty. Just happened to be in a good way.
I don't know that this paradigm will ever be different, if it hasn't been different for our entire 246-year existence.
The meek shall *not* inherit the earth. It's up to US, and the four boxes, to help ensure that the power is wielded benevolently, or as benevolently as the first three boxes enforce.
The Founders also had to hide behind trees and shoot at the British. They also created a Constitution that gave the governing power to the people as much as is possible, grounded in the idea of it having a foundation based on God or at least a power higher than that of prideful, greedy, power hungry individuals. We are living in a post Constitutional America now. No coincidence that the decline in the value and practice of religious observance
has been declining exponentially as this has occurred. Not sure Jesus was talking about worldly things like power and money when he said that the meek will inherit the Earth. We are all equally meek before a loving Creator God who saves. Faith requires the lack of certainty. Even if their is no God, people living as if there is one would create a better world. IMHO. (that means in my humble opinion)
Well, one of them is. And the billions are gonna help. At this point in time, that may be what’s needed. Let’s not get stuck in ideologies. I think we know where that leads.
I applaud what he is doing. I just don't think this "King of the money pile" is a good long term strategy for how we should live and be governed if we want continued freedom and liberty. Just like not all billionaires are bad, not all ideologies are bad. I am and will continue to be a stick in the mud confessional Lutheran and a conservative, free market endorsing, Constitutional originalist, freedom and liberty loving American who aint leaving the country if it is attacked. Put me in jail I will remain principled.
Totally with you, aside from the Lutheran thing, but of course we all don’t have to believe the same. It’s just that it’s a semi conscious belief that all really rich people are somehow suspect and we probably shouldn’t trust them. Undoubtedly that’s often true, but I just like to open my eyes and see what people are actually doing, or even trying to do before judging them by prior, popularly held beliefs. But that’s just me.
They will BBQ him. He is not good at corporate politics. He was tossed out as the CEO of Paypal. Still had his shares but lost control. He is an autist, not a politician.
Good. What we need right now is decidedly NOT a politician. These are pretty special times, needing a pretty special guy, meaning someone who’s not afraid to stride right out there and try something different, and not afraid to call out the obvious truth. You might say, oh, he has the $ to back him up, unlike most. But that’s how he got it.
Its %100 certain it's the woke staff at twitter doing all this non-sense. Shareholders care only about returns unless its a woke encouraging shareholder like Blackrock which adheres to the ESG BS
Musk is involved with the WEF. I wouldn't count on Alex being back on twitter too soon. Don't forget Blackrock & Vangard hold shares also. I understand they are brutal to deal with.
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Most of the shares of Twitter are held by mutual funds who don't really give a sh*t about whether Twitter bans conservatives or not. But many of those mutual funds have made big money with Musk, so they will likely give him the benefit of the doubt. He's already increased the value of their holdings dramatically. They are unlikely to balk at his proposed changes. I'd say current management has much more to worry about.
I don't care what any ADULT person chooses to call themselves, BUT they have no right to tell anyone else what to think or say. I have a friend who is a cross dresser, always hid it until recently. I support him but he also doesn't have the right to make me think it's "normal" and just another regular old choice. Or to make me think of him as a woman. Still, it's a free country and he can do as he pleases.
woke white women are ringleading every bad social trend in society. I don't know if it's spoiled girls with daddy issues or what, but they need to shut up and unplug.
The public schools got a hold of the girls and coached them to see everything through the lens of abortion as their holy grail. We could be nuked and they would still be screaming my body my choice. And their mothers said “amen” because they were also indoctrinated when they were in school. I’m 58 and was told in 5th grade health class that abortion was a good thing that was my right and that men were irrelevant- that’s over 4 decades ago. And all the Dads were told to shut up because the Disney “family” sitcoms, who portrayed every father as a bumbling idiot, trained the whole family to be dysfunctional. Men, we need you more than ever.
Veronica, you got it right in every detail!!! I grew up in South America and Germany, married a Canadian and travelled and worked all over the world until our Little Prince in Canada decided not to allow anyone board a plane. And it is amazing the global agenda playing exactly the same in every country...even in India. And even though my daughters grew up attending IB schools in a real multicultural environment, it has been tough to keep them away from the mass hypnosis, especially during the years in Canada. I am glad my intuition worked in many areas of motherhood where I did not follow the "New Age" pack, but listened to my grandparents and their parents teachings.
Men portrayed as bumbling weaklings worthy of only contempt
Remember to include the mindless, violent idiocy of Spongebob to the nuking of the public's thinking, or movies like Fast Times @ RH that praising rebellious idiocy
Fast forward to today where kids own and operate pocket internet portals with full data access and relatively no supervision, getting bombarded with pron, age 18 down to primary school.
"Mah body, mah choice" however, we derailed when the clotshots were issued Now it's
Nothing but nothing irritated me more than Married with Children. I inherently knew as a young person this was totally messed up. Jesus take the wheel!!
I watched a marathon of Father Knows Best. So refreshing - still the same problems we all have with our kids but the dad is so human and respected/respectable. I didn't see a thing wrong with it, although the daughters were heading in the direction described above already.
Father Knows Best!! It was soothing to watch as a young kid in 70's Manhattan, hoping I could one day build a sweet household like theirs! And I promised myself that I'd always be as self-effacing as he was on every show, and I'm sure I sometime fail because I always do, but I keep on trying!
Veronica, right on ("write on" too!) The steady drip drip drip of anti-male sentiment has had a pernicious effect on boys and young men in this country. It's like a constant low grade almost sub-clinical anxiety for young men constantly hearing about their complicity in the systemic oppression of others. Sorry to mansplain. I know we currently have bigger problems in this country, but it's nice to see an occasional shout out!
These woke women have been sold a bill of goods and they have bought into it. . . . similar to the "vaccine good" propaganda that many have been sold on.
A movement it is. A bowel movement. I do not know one woman from young-ins to gray hairs that buys that crap. Scream at them. They are fools. Check out the Lt. Gov of NC, Robinson. He trashed the idiots this past week.
Robinson came out of nowhere to replace Dan Forest who was Lt. Gov under Cooper and ran for Gov in 2020. Cooper beat Forest. D machine here as good as MI, WI, GA, AZ. Maybe Zuck money too. Robinson will be Gov in 2024. Represents the folks. Cooper is a disaster. Hates working class.
Double amen textbat!! And Jenner on Fox now. Can you imagine them hiring a 73 year old actual woman? Stopped watching Fox when they called AZ and threw the election.
I was banned for life from Twitter for stating that exact thing. I will only be allowed back on if I say that statement is false and of course I never will because it is not false, it is a 100% accurate. Plastic surgery and hormones do not change a biological sex .
I have a feeling much of that BS & Non-sense at Twitter will be gone or at least changed soon. With Musk on board its not whether he believes in free speech so much as he knows that what Twitter is doing now is actually harmful to the companies share price/value. That idiot who took jack's place is a woketopian General about to be replaced by the new big guy
They can say that now and real men won't be the least bit bothered because we aren't trying to claim to be women. It's not just these emotionally & psychologically damaged trans & gay men supporting this non-sense its supported by a large percent of western women.
It's also worth nothing that feminism laid the path for the trans activist movement. Without successfully applying the same tactics against men a few years earlier the trans activist would not be in the position to have picked up where the feminist left off and continue the oppression Olympics. The feminist believed they would always be the in vogue oppressed group and then the trans activist took that away from them.
Once again women get screwed. If you want to wallow in victimhood, they are the most oppressed group, and it appears always will be. It's incredible these feminists aren't up in arms. Craziest thing I've ever seen. And all for this 1% of the population (or less) being used to divide society again. Pretty amazing.
Western women are not the most oppressed group. Real oppression is in places like Islamic countries where women are actually subservient to their husbands/fathers. Like the trans movement the modern feminists movement created oppression where there was none because they didn't have any real oppression to complain about but needed it so they justify the power grab moves they made. One-off abuses like Harvey Weinstein are not justification of "all men". In the case of Weinstein there were women helping keep him in the position he was in. The same goes for Epstein and the horrors he was putting on young women, a women was helping him recruit and sell under age girls into sex slavery but let's still somehow put it all on the men.
Feminist like JK Rowling are up in arms its just that most are too scared to say much for fear of cancel like repercussions. They don't have the resources that JK Rowling does to risk speaking up. Its very much like the men when the feminist movement was in full swing, had the power, if they challenged feminist claims or ideas they risked being cancelled because everyone was supporting the feminist movement whether they wanted to or not. They supported it out of fear of what could happen to them if they didn't support feminism. The power the Feminist movement was able to wield against men in the early 2010's was here recently taken over by the trans activist movement. Had the feminist not used these same tactics for power grabs the trans activist would not have had the chance to then grab that for themselves. Everything has been about incremental movements to move the line of normalcy from decency to perversity and the modern feminists helped make that possible.
The modern feminist movement made the trans activist movement possible because the feminists never imagined that what they were doing , the tactics they were using on men would be turned against them by another group. If your angry about what the trans movement is doing then you should be angry at the feminist that laid the groundwork for it.
And BTW, western women were more oppressed that you think. In US, they couldn't vote like 30 years or more after black men. Which means they had no power until 1920. I love how they get blamed for US slavery usually by white men who think white women had it made. And of course, the vote didn't solve all the issues. I just don't believe social activism solves things much and too often it's used to divide often causing problems where none existed or not to the extent they cause the divide -- individuals have to do that. But no, western women are far from the most oppressed. Still, it's women.
Your speaking of the past not the present and I did say "Modern" feminism/feminist. It's NOT the feminists who fought for the right to vote that are the problem but the modern western women who don't have any actual oppression and thus must find some to justify the power grab.
The Trans community as a whole aren't actually oppressed in Western society and yet they are claiming to be so they can get power, preferential treatment and I bet you have no problem agreeing with that. Like women the Trans community did see oppressions many decades past but not anytime recent. Any real oppressions women faced is far further back than what the trans community has faced because the societal norm of women being equal came about far sooner than the acceptance of non-heterosexual persons. Western Women are far from the most oppressed because they are not oppressed at all in way shape or form. Are some individual women being oppressed? Yes but as a whole they are not. Isolated incidents, outliers, don't change the rule they are the expectation to it. We will occasionally have a child born with both sexual reproductive organs but that doesn't mean there are more than 2 sexes because those are the outliers.
Social activism doesn't solve anything, its a weapon for change where the smart & powerful wield it and the gullible become their weapon.
Uh not exactly. Women don't get paid the same as men for many of the same jobs. I suspect you might not be a woman. But if you are, you don't appreciate subtleties. Women are oppressed in religious households and in households in general because they are usually intimidated by the size of men. If for no other reason. My father was a male chauvinist and did not treat my brother and me the same at all. Not that he exactly held me back, but for instance I take care of my father (even though I have a terminal professor's degree) who has Parkinson's. I want to do it (been doing it three years), but I am supposed to give him enemas and wipe his ass without a thank you -- while he worries that my brother has to drive an hour or two to see him in the hospital. He'd be apologizing and thanking him profusely for doing what I do. And my father ran things. Just one tiny example. That doesn't mean I feel like a victim or want activists involved in my life. I'm capable of telling him off and I do quite a bit--doesn't change his attitude much, but he also is afraid to push me too far. I finally have the power. Ha. I'm kidding some here. Sad but true dynamics. But this is more complicated than you are making it. Social activism is necessary sometimes, but it's now being misused. And yes, western women can be in many circumstances, oppressed.
all good points in this thread. On both sides. I would make a greater distinction than just western women. There is a point to be made that even western women in the lower classes are getting oppressed/abused or at least are bearing a much heavier burden than they should. I would lay this at the feet of the upper class, well educated progressives who are pushing this drivel and all the other crap that keeps people oppressed at the expense of the flavor of the month cause they are pushing at the moment.
I heard about this. Not only are they doing this but if you act like this is absurd or say anything your racist and or homophobic or some similar non-sense.
Musk is very good at distractions and PR. It takes months to decide and launch a edit button in a company the size of twitter. The legal team alone would drag it out for months. It sounds like a twitter PR stunt that has been in the works for a long time to help stockholders. What twitter really needs is a filter or key word blocker that indidual users can set to prevent offensive content from showing up. Don't want to see antivaxers? no problem. Don't like Trump? block the word Trump. Let people decide what content they want and don't want to see. I know why this will never happen.
It may take time but I'm hoping you're wrong. He sat down with satirist Babylon Bee and he's been pretty vocal about all this. So I'll hold a good thought.
A woman with some real balls. That's why you trounce the competition. You clearly have better form. If the other swimmers can't man up, that's not your fault. I'm sure you'll win the gold at the Olympics. I do have a suggestion as to where to hang the medal.
Not male rage, beta rage. Real heterosexual men as a whole love & protect women. There are men pushing back against the Trans in women's competition non-sense but there probably men you politically disagree with so you are either unware of their doing this or unwiring to concede it because they are the other side. if you are on the left don't expect much help on this from anyone on the left because Trans oppression is the in vogue oppression group right now and the feminist who say anything are being labeled as evil TERFS.
On social media platforms like Twitter, Texbat could risk being banned for speaking the truth. It all depends on how much influence texbat has, if they are on Twitters radar or not. You can post a tweet that speaks the truth and fly under the twitter radar by being small and yet if yo post that same thing in a reply to a Tweet from a large account that Twitter doe monitor it can get you banned, happened to me with saying something truthful about the Government Approved, Corporate Sponsored, Narrative on Covid.
And in related news, a judge reaffirms the Oberlin KS College $36 million dollar settlement payment to the bakery that it attacked and slandered. And DeSantis goes to war with Disney. Do we dare hope that the woke project is starting to get enough attention and forces are building to send it to the garbage heap where it belongs?
The woke movement went too far to fast. When they got caught (exposed) during covid for what they were doing to kids in school they should have pulled back but instead they doubled down because that's how this ideological movement has always done things. They double down when there is resistance. This effort to move society's norm from decency to perversity, to make normal that which is not normal has been in effect for far longer than the last few years. It's gotten a lot of visibility in the last few years because of covid and the advancement of remote learning (which means recording) and video conferencing (ie the Disney execs meeting where they showed a side you'd never see them show in public) but it's been in the works for decades.
The Gay Marriage movement was never just about giving gays the right to marriage but moving the line of what is acceptable. Yes there were many who genuinely wanted gay marriage solely for the purpose of being able to get married but those seeking to change societal norms highjacked it for their own purposes, they used that movement so that the next move, the acceptance of trans, would be easier to bring about. Once trans is normalized the next step is the softening of pedophilia and we can already see the seeds of that in what teachers in public education are doing with very young kids, wanting to discuss sex with them. The current SCOTUS nominee has a record for being soft of pedophiles; its not coincidence that she was selected as the nominee by a Democrat run administration.
The Woke/Authoritarian Left has been working for decades to change western society from one of primarily heterosexuals nuclear families with 1 man & 1 women into a nation of individuals confused about who & what they are. Why? A society of confused and psychologically damaged people are much easier to control and manipulate then healthy families.
The worlds elite have repeatedly said that the world is over populated and that the average person does not know how to govern themselves. They see us a dumb peasants they need to rule over but they can't do that without changing society because we've become accustom to Democratic & Representative like governance. If you want to change a society like that into one where the few can rule over (absolute rule) without resistance than you must change what society is made up of. A society of scare, confused and damaged individuals who are triggered and need safe spaces will result in a very quick reduction in population over just 1-2 generations and they will be easily manipulated to do whatever is desired by the few at the top. Doesn't that description sound a lot like how much of the Millennial generation acts like?
I know the Democrats are trying to think of ways they can keep mail in ballot harvesting going for the next election. They would love a new very deadly COVID-22 to hit the shelves about now.
That's due to Covid Narrative Collapse Syndrome. LIke the woke are now doing with sexualizing kids, the covid/vaccine pushers over reached. Instead of backing off when they realized covid was not going to be the lethal virus needed to justify the restrictions they were planning to enact they opted to try and market the virus to the public instead of backing down. At that point it was more of a 50/50 chances of them succeeding. They had a large percent of the populace buying into the lies but an equal large percent wasn't buying it so it was a fight. As the virus mutated and became less lethal but more contagious it was just a matter of time & mutations before it was no longer feasible to justify what they were doing but they doubled down (ie vaccine mandate) and it blew up in their faces with one loss after another from court battles to exposure of just how risky the so called safe & effective vaccine was. It also didn't help that they had to keep changing the narrative from the vaccine stops the spread to the vaccine reduces hospital admissions.
Even with most of the media backing the narrative and Bigtech protecting the narrative it eventually collapsed under it's own weight of BS. There are still believers, mainly those who can't admit the truth because it means admitting they helped not just propagate a lie that could have risked peoples lives but in some case helped pressure and coerce others into appetence. It's easier to just keep pretending it was all true then to admit what one has helped do.
There are areas that will be like this possibly for a very long time. They have a larger than normal percent of self-enlightened persons, typically millennials , who know they are smarter and wiser than any one else regardless of that persons experience/wisdom. To them anyone who thinks it's OK to drop the restrictions just "doesn't get it" , does not understand how lethal this thing still is and that like with climate change there no price to high to pay to combat it.
As Peacemaker (from Suicide Squad) says " I will kill as many men, women and children as is necessary to bring peace & liberty to the world" , these people will sacrifice as many men, women & children as is necessary to combat the <<list current thing here>>.
They do. But here it’s across all age groups. Gen X, boomers, gen z and millennials all in. A few of us norms are out here 😆. Now San Francisco abs Berkeley dropped all requirements when Oakland instated them. I had no idea walking into a place last week and was told no vax card no food, not even outside. Drove back to my side of the bridge and could eat in peace. It was absolutely nuts. I didn’t realize Oakland is the new epicenter of the vaccine mafia. 🤮
There are definitely woketopianss in generations other than Millennials is just that the bulk are Millennials as they were the first generation that those within the public education system cranked up the indoctrination to levels that would emotionally and psychologically break or damage kids. AS a Gen-Xer I was indoctrinated in school about climate change and how mankind was killing mother earth. The ozone layer was the bog thing being pushed as justification for more government control/power. What they (teachers & admins within public education) were not yet doing at least not on a large scale is sexualization of kids, pushing the gay agenda and convincing kids they may not be heterosexual. It was the Millennials that these people cranked everything up and by more than what they did in previous generations.
In order to take control of society so can reset it you must first break the wills and minds of the majority so you have little resistance and a society made up of scared (ie trigger warnings & safe spaces) and confused (ie gender) adult juveniles is much easier to control/manipulate. A society of healthy nuclear style families is not. The problem is you can't in one generation do what is necessary to break everyone because it will be noticeable so you do it incrementally with each generation. First generation you work with you convince them to question traditions. When they are grown up with kids you teach their kids to question their elders/parents. When those kids grown up and have kids you teach those kids to question normalcy. And so on and son slowly moving the line of normalcy.
I needed no early treatment with pharmaceuticals for Omicron. Two days of flu-like symptoms and my immune system did just fine. I don't need or want the government forcing any treatments on me or mandating that my physician do so.
Alex is all about the Money. Period. (I can't say I blame him when it comes to Money, but he lacks principles. Dude is a total hypocrite when it suits his narrative.)
He insulted many subscribers with his comments on Ukraine calling them "useful idiots". I hope he's happy if he gets back on Twitter. I will not follow.
Trump is a relatively stupid egomaniac who just happens to think the same way that many of us do. Who to run in 2024? Not Trump, I hope. Where is Nixon when you need him (or Ike!).
Agree. But, we don't want to lose him as our Governor - just yet! We have a deep bench, so I'm hoping someone else steps up... but have to confess a DeSantis/Pompeo ticket would be amazing.
A Florida friend has said the same to me--about not losing DeSantis. However, the longer "Brandon" fumbles around and the more the Giggling Dipshit spews her "word salads," my friend has changed her mind.
I am not an "insider" but I believe the support system for Florida Governor was much easier to come by than running for President of the USA. DeSantis will face the challenge in swapping support basis. He needs to start a PAC...say to Oppose "Don't Say Gay."
Inarticulate, yes. Stupid, no. He has great instincts, and knows how to get shit done. Nixon was a head case. Ike was a go along to get along, more of a diplomat.
We can agree to disagree about Trump, but the above is my take on your take in a few short words.
I think Trump learned his lesson after he did that when on the Trump/O'Reilly dog and pony show. I've not heard him mention getting the poison boost since then, but I could be mistaken.
Huh?...I listen to all the rallies on Newsmax...haven't heard him telling anyone to get the boost (I may have missed that part). He does brag about the success of Warp Speed, but during the last rally he was talking about how they developed anti-virals. Dude is a bullshitter, that is for sure. And he will most likely never admit the fact that the vax is poison. That's on him, but I'll take the 5% bad with the 95% good when it comes to Trump.
Trump is his own worst enemy. Biden has dementia. When Biden still had most of his marbles, he was an opportunist. And that is the nicest thing I can say about "Brandon" et al.
Just a thought...and I am very opposed to censorship...BUT...
Suppose Twitter lifts all restrictions & becomes a forum for free flow of information and discussion.
Then the screwballs--the socially retarded & unemployed 40-year-olds who live in their mothers' basements with three cats--start attacking everyone/anything with which they disagree or just to pick a fight...
The whole thing descends into unbridled chaos...
And then it becomes a virtual lunatic asylum and disintegrates. People stop looking at it because it's just too insane.
I am on the fence about the truth of that statement about the First Amendment. Our government has coerced Twitter and other big tech companies to censor and therefore it is (they are) acting as an unofficial arm of our government. For evidence, look at what happened with the lab leak "conspiracy theory" that was summarily banned even though it is the most likely cause of COVID. I believe when the government uses a 3rd party to squash speech that there is case law that makes it illegal for violating the 1st amendment. The other part that perplexes me is that they are supposed to be a platform like a phone company yet clearly have become a publisher. I am not a lawyer, but I do believe that the first amendment should apply to Twitter because the Federal government is telling them what to censor in many cases.
There is a tragic lack of freedom of speech in America across multiple venues. I pray Musk can help turn this around...not solely on Twitter, but it would be a great start.
Love her! Talk about the opposite of a woke white woman--and the left hates her because she's a smart, conservative, and outspoken woman who HAPPENS to be a lesbian! And she doesn't ever play the LGBT card unless it's relevant to the discussion. Tammy rocks!
Even if Alex Berenson is immediately reinstated, he should take his suit to trial and a permanently enforceable verdict. Freedom of online speech needs to be enshrined, and not be at the whim of whoever is in charge of the anti-social social forums.
Completely disagree here. While I'm a proponent of free speech, I'm an even bigger proponent of private property rights. That means that if I own servers and provide a service, I have the right to control speech on it. It's as simple as that.
I’m of the belief if you think Twitter suppressed our freedom of speech one of our most coveted articles in our Constitution and you were American that you would have dropped this App long ago? Guess I was wrong!
I dropped out of twitter/erased my profile about 1.5 years ago. Anything noteworthy usually gets posted at my prefered news sources, so I don't think I'm missing much, but would still love to see the twisted algorithms and lopsided enforcement reined in, if not eliminated.
Somewhere I ready a good explanation for what is wrong with the Twitter Tweet model. It had to do with the limited text and the interface design as an asynchronous flow of comments and not really a conversation. It is like a fire-hose of snarky and mean headlines with subheadlines without the need for any detailed content to back up the headlines.
The language psychology of this is that people immediately tend to run hot in reaction to something they read that they like or dislike... but would otherwise cool down a bit to a more rational actor if having a conversation about the topic.
It is a bullying platform in my opinion... and some people are very good at bullying and revel in Twitter's existence. Frankly, I would be happier if Twitter just went away... or else got redesigned into something where people could share cat pictures.
These tech "giants" are like all large organizations - the real control rests with the HR departments and managers cooperating with each other to screen individuals with the same viewpoints, including gender, race, political leanings, etc.
Tech companies tend to hire very young people that for many reasons, have not experieinced real life challenges and the affects of liberal policies. They can be right out of college, which is the equivalent of brain-washing theses days and therefore view employment as a mission driven by group-think.
In most large organizations you can exist for years without doing anything productive as long as your boss ends up looking good and his boss . . . . all the way to the top guy
It is very rare for a CEO to have an affect on the day-to-day stuff and their goals are to keep the board of directors and the largest shareholders happy through compensation, which includes dividends.
The CEO typically rides out the normal business cycles, taking the stage when things are good, and then retreating to backrooms when things turn south. That's when the damage control starts which typically takes the form of stock buy-backs and other accounting tricks to support the stock's price - again keep the largest share-holders happy.
That is not to say that the right person can't make a difference. A good example of this was GE. When Jack Welsh was in charge the company prospered. Then Emelt took over and being a rock-star was more important than running the company. The company has never recovered and in many was is considered a has-been.
Musk seems to be the kind of person that could turn this around. He is direct and capable of executing a vision. He is not a 1-trick pony like Zuckerberg or Bezos and doesn't really seem to care about what people think of him. He is not obsessed with popularity or going to high profile meetings in Europe to rub elbows with others who have become rich through trusts,, endowments, and other none-productive means.
Above all he does not seem to care about which way the wind is blowing as a means of determining his next move. Twitter has to be changed from the bottom up and big tech needs to be striped from their platform protection.
Musk should push congress for getting rid of all special treatment of these large platforms and that single move would make a huge difference in improving free speech. He has to make changes from the bottom up and top down. The people that are making the big decisions are there because they believed in restricing free speach - they are not going to change. Their underlings are also marching to the same toon so he will have a big challenge and there will most certainly be "sabotage" efforts at every turn.
Is Elon the George Washington of tech? Accumulates a ton of power and wealth in order to wrest control away from the overlords to give back to the people.
I think this move by Elon is a start in reaffirmation that the Great Experiment continues to work as individual patriots can rise to positions of influence to help thwart the tyranny of totalitarianism.
However, here is where the rubber needs to to meet the road for the final defeat of the woke project which is part of the Globalist Great Reset Project.
And look to Hungary with the landslide re-election of Victor Orban and his party who campaigned on national identity, controlled borders, Christian conservative principles of classic liberalism, and a rejection of George Soros globalism.
What we need is a veto-proof Republican majority in the Senate and House, and then the people should demand that Republicans go to work on a landmark new civil rights bill that would crush any institution that tramples on First Amendment rights, or that gives preference in anything based on race, gender, political orientation, etc.
We need to repeal Section 230 protection for big tech. We need to fire up the anti-trust engine (did you know that four mega companies own 90+ percent of all the tens of thousands of brands in the supermarket!?)... break those mega companies apart and reinvigorate the small business economy of smaller producers... were everyman has an opportunity to work his ass of, take a few risks and be a millionaire.
The Democrats need to be knocked so far back that they go to war internally to decide what ideology they want to pursue... woke Marxist victimology, big business globalism. or American working class advocacy. We would be doing the party a favor by electing a Republican super majority.
The problem is some Republicans are actually Democrats and vote with them regularly. Romney, Collins, Murkowski all will vote to confirm Brown-Jackson for SCOTUS. Graham was the only Republican to vote for her last year as Appeals Court Judge and his vote sealed her appointment.
It seems inevitable that Republicans will clean up in the 2022 midterms, as the first chunk of the Biden presidency can be accurately described as a dumpster fire of monkey shit floating on a chunky sea of word vomit spewed from our lying media presstitutes. (Totally off topic: Congrats to Jen Psfactchecker on her new gig!)
Hopefully Alex will eventually get back onto Twitter. He's insightful about 75% of the time and his voice needs to be heard (even if he is egregiously wrong on the Ivermectin issue).
The real "town square" is Facebook. People who think like me often diss me for even using it (or trying to use it), but it is the forum where a cross-section of the country communicates with each other. So if anyone wants to change or challenge dubious narratives, he or she really needs to be able to communicate with their neighbors. As far as I can tell, Facebook is being far more "proactive" in banning speech than Twitter. I'm currently off because I have not signed up for "Facebook Protect" - this after having my account suspended for different periods of time for posting the proverbial correct "misinformation." I wish Musk had bought a controlling interest in Facebook. This said, I doubt Twitter will become even more Orwellian with Musk being the largest shareholder. Then again, once you start censoring, it's hard to stop.
That's probably true, but a ton of people over 40 use it. I think 1/3 of the country uses it. The people who vote use it ... so if you are going to try to change minds (and thus change narratives), these are the people you need to reach. The whole purpose of censorship is to prevent those who may be able to change minds of others from being able to do so. Facebook (and to a lesser extent Twitter) are culling critical thinkers and dissenters from their "community."
Why bother? It's infested. It has no hope of rehabilitation. It's like Elon and you are trying to revive a stinking, fly blown, maggotty, disease riddled carcass. Get outta there.
One, Alex seems to have an unhealth obsession with being in the lefty cool kids club, i.e. Twitter. It's just weird. He acts like a man still lost and wandering in the Sahara without it.
Two, while the Musk involvement seems a positive development generally, I'd temper expectations. Musk isn't that far removed from the ideology of Jack and Jack ultimately found it a wiser choice to hit the eject button rather than "BOOM" button.
Are we sure he is not a Trojan horse to reduce our steam? The world Mafia wouldn’t let anybody have so much power and money if he doesn’t play along. I don’t exclude that he is playing the good police with the angel face.
Well he has the ability to single-handedly tank their stock if he now dumps his. That's interesting leverage to have over a bunch of champagne socialists.
Yet it does give me pause just how many are hoping for the next superman to fly in and save America. I'd rather see legal precedent used -and further set - regarding the Constitutional rights and privileges, as well as those pesky inalienable rights, we hold (held?) to be self-evident. Hoping for the grace of benevolent tech-narchy is this century's version of hoping your fealty to the local feudal lord will keep your family safe.
Alex.......I will continue to pay to read your writings a on Substack, follow you on Telegram, would follow you on GETTR, and maybe a few other platforms, but I will never return to Twitter notwithstanding whatever Elon Musk's motivations might be. Never
I hope Alex gets back on Twitter, and all this social media banning (censorship) gets stopped, but I don't have much hope. As of about two months ago, I thought I saw some narratives cracking and was thinking about giving my millennial ultra-woke but frustrated grown kids in Boston the copy of Pandemia I bought for them. But it seems like the new standard beliefs: Forever COVID; Forever Masks; when is the next booster?, Trump will win in 2024 and we will all die; STOP Misinformation!!; Talking about freedom makes you a low-class right-winger; Public schools don't need to listen to parents; Children are virus vectors, keep them masked!; We are ashamed we are white, We have to be constantly sad due to Covid, Ukraine, etc; Stay home and watch Netflix; Mom-you sneezed: you are a virus vector, although vaccinated stay away!; Baby has been mostly indoors since birth because we think she will get Long Covid because no baby vax yet........need I continue? The nonsense has quickly seeped into our fabric. Those that see through it walk on eggshells; we are pariahs if we don't play along and fib or we will be disrespected, or worse, rejected. The book remains on my bookshelf. The seemingly permanent reduction in the quality, meaning and usefulness of their lives is what pains me most.
These are your children? Maybe it’s time to rethink how you interact. Maybe you shouldn’t have allowed them to think that they were such special snowflakes. Blowing smoke up their asses never gets you respect, today or tomorrow. Speak up for once!!!
Maybe they’ll just put you back on Twitter, Alex….but they’ll easily limit who can see you and mess around with all kinds of algorithms! The Left never gives up and WILL fight back probably in sneaky ways. Also, who’s to say that Musk (who made lots of money from the Government) is going to make a difference?
Didn't hurt that he got a 30% jump in the stock price after the announcement. Not a bad profit on a 2.9 billion dollar investment. Now... let's see what he can actually accomplish on that Board...
Cautiously optimistic. Let's see where this goes. Musk is a GREEN GUY (climate control advocate?), so I am not in his corner there for sure. His actions will tell us what we need to know.
He filed with the SEC as a “passive” investor, so much for that. I am not confident Musk can fix Twitter without buying more of the company. Most of the board members and the CEO are anti-free speech.
"The number of shares Musk bought was carefully considered. Had he bought a full 10%, he would have been considered an “insider” under SEC rules and it would have greatly limited his ability to talk about the company in public, restricted his ability to buy and sell shares, and it would have opened up new ways for the government to mess with him. The SEC is already “investigating” Musk as an insider over some of his tweets about Tesla, for example."
They are "free speech" for their point of view - which they consider righteous and noble. The Leftist/Communist crowd has convinced themselves that our voices are subversive and dangerous to the country. As such, it is the "price that must be paid" to weed out voices like ours in order to preserve the union.
These people truly believe that protests from our side are actually "insurrectionist" and therefore, whatever they can do to keep such insurrection from happening is proper.
The idea Twitter wouldn't have allowed dirt on trump and his family if it came from hacked sources is one of the most laughable fucking things I've ever heard. I don't know how anyone could say that with a straight face. Had the media not been biased, the hunter Biden story would have sunk Joe Bidens campaign. Oh wait no it wouldn't have since they stole the election anyway.
What percentage of the adult population in the US use Twitter as their primary source of news anyway? Some may use it to reinforce or validate their own views, but I don't think it has much of a major effect on the masses. The local TV news probably has the greatest impact on the views of the general public.
I look forward to the day when women can tell males they are not women and never will be
I hope it works out the way everyone is thinking.
I don't trivialize the influence a 9.2% shareholder normally has. But how dug in are the other 90.8%? They believe they're saving the planet. From us.
Musk himself has proven himself to be unpredictable. He's made all kinds of grandiose predictions that didn't work out. My brother is a Musk fanboy. He talked me into making a trip to the launch area in Boca Chica. Have to admit, I came away impressed by what he's accomplished.
Really, I hope for the best. But I'm not banking on it.
Honestly I just love the interference - Musk is unpredictable and often not successful- a bag of cats in a shopping cart with a bad wheel - love to see it cause it’s guys like these who upend the Top dogs - they are caught by surprise and misstep out of sheer rage. 😂😂😂
Yeah he's a wild card. Even if he can't fix anything, it will take energy just to deal with him.
Totally agree...you know their heads are exploding, and he loves saying the least little thing like "should there be an edit button" just to send them into a tizzy. I think it's hilarious.
👍🏻🤣🤣🤣
All true, but I still can't figure out why anybody would actually use the Twitter app in the first place when there are so many really excellent third party apps that work so much better and NO ADS. If you aren't already there, I highly suggest you take a look at Tweetcaster and albatross just to name a couple.
You can thank me later, lol.
I don't think it should have an edit button only because people could respond to a tweet and then the original author completely change what they said in their original tweet. I don't think there's an elegant solution to that, but that's just me.
I do like your thinking! 😊
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
For someone like Musk, who’s super creative and prone to trying things that have rarely or never been tried, of course there have to be failures. Doesn’t matter. He has underlying good intent, and however it all works out, it’ll all be for the good.
Shareholders are about money, most of them. If Musk can prove to them it's more profitable to open up the platform and avoid government regulation, they'll go along with him.
Not true anymore. Blackrock and Vanguard vote their shares but don't actually own them - they are owned passively by the holders of their ETFs. Blackrock makes their profit on fees, so there's really no coupling between Blackrock's profit from holding shares of Twitter on behalf of passive investors, and how they might vote to control the behavior of the company. If Twitter loses money or goes bust, all those 401K suckers are the ones holding the bag.
And Blackrock votes to support their WEF goals, sustainability garbage, social responsibility, communism, slavery (the new, good kind: own nothing and be happy, slaves, eat the bugs).
The question they don't answer: when we're all renting everything, who will own it? And the answer is Blackrock, Vanguard, and ilk.
But don't worry, think how unhappy that will make them!!!
will the Marxists allow that?
I think it's actually passive index-tracking ETFs that are the fundamental problem.
If stocks are held by individuals, or by active-management mutual funds, then there is a feed back loop whether by selling the stock or participation in the decisions of the board through voting, and the people making those decisions care about the value of the company.
With ETFs, nobody cares and there's no feedback. The ETF manager is just tracking the index; the passive investor is just expecting it to track the index. There's no market forces that feed back good or bad decisions into the market. So when 1/2 the market is in ETFs, it massively dilutes the control of the "invisible hand" to make sensible allocations of capital.
What is worse is, the manager of the ETF (e.g. Blackrock) gets to vote the shares with no real skin in the game (since all the risk is held by the ETF unit owners), so they have huge centralized control over the decisions companies make with no impact on their bottom line from the performance of the company. Thus, no agenda is too woke, and social engineering via "ESG" (Environmental Social Governance) scoring is the order of the day.
So while Blackrock is definitely evil, it's the reliance on ETFs that's at the root of the problem, because it breaks the market feedback mechanisms.
That's exactly why Blackrock is buying thousands of homes
Eating bugs is good for the planet. Fewer pesticides.
I don't mind eating chickens that previously ate bugs
Amen! Or fish etc.
Especially when you eat them with the pesticides in them that they have already become immune to.
used to be - these days it seems like corporations and shareholders (not to mention celebrities) are more about agenda and don't mind offending and/or losing up to half of their customers. How can that come down to money?
I think they're playing the long game.
I think ForkInSocket above is right - the customers aren't who we think they are anymore.
yes, if you mean ForkinSocket said the ‘customers’ are now the ETF asset managers (i.e. Blackrock, etc).
Musk has only made money in industries with extreme government subsidies, nowhere else, really, so maybe he smells an opportunity here again?
PayPal was his start…..
No kidding
And your point is?
dont think he needs anymore money.
Don’t be a hater. At least he didn’t waste the subsidies like so many other companies did. He at least came out with useful products and advances in technology The subsidies are there for a reason. Maybe you should ask your congressman.
Remember Solyndra ?
I agree Marie. I don’t get why so many people think this guy is some kind of savior. He is a strange dude.
Is that the way YOU think, Marie?
Not sure about this anymore. For now it isn't anyway. Maybe reality will come back into focus but corporations are still full on for woke.
We’ll see how it plays out, for sure. I think we may see 2024 give corporations the political cover necessary to stop some of the crazy.
They could stop it now if they had any cojones.
Agreed. Clearly they don't tho
They’re constantly full of “how much can we cram down the little peoples throats” and get away with.
I'm hoping this will be a turning point. Seat on the BOD is a big deal, imo. Dropped my reax via pod this AM:
https://faybomb.substack.com/p/elon-musk-is-the-captain-now?s=w
But his seat is Class ll, whatever that means...Do you know?
Director terms are staggered so that the whole board is not up for election at the same time time. There are arguments pro and con but staggered terms are generally beneficial to entrenched interests.
I appreciate that, but the big news now is that Musk has amended his filing from an inactive seat to an active seat.
Perhaps you can clarify the details of that change?
There ya go.
I believe it means he gets two annual meetings before he’d need to be elected again. Not 100% sure tho
no sexual favors?
That I don’t know!
I know what bod means!!!
I have felt the same way about Elon Musk. A brilliant man no doubt, but in this age of deception it takes more than being a genius or making a better widget. We've seen corporations crush men like this. Remember Preston Tucker. On the flip side if he is to be trusted it could be the beginning of the end for the woke left and their cronies. He will own more stock in Twitter than Jack Dorsey.
There's a big difference between Preston Tucker and Elon Musk. Musk has multiple successful endeavors and he grew up/worked with a lot of those guys running these bigtech companies. I'd be more concerned about him having only a passing interest in this and not following through then him be undermined by fellow tech board members or even shareholders.
Indeed. Those who say he was only successful because Govt paid for it, seem unaware that free money is no guarantee of success. To the contrary. Those gifted free money by Govt tend to be wasteful & incapable.
Regardless of source of money, and the quantity of it, most of us would have no chance whatsoever of creating Tesla cars & SpaceX vehicles.
exactly think Solyndra, the renewable energies company that the Obama administration gave $535 million to for renewable energy research, the company went bankrupt. Takes more than just money to make something successful. That said money helps A LOT when you have something that has potential success.
Well said!
Very good point and your right he's has a much higher pedigree than Tucker. He's such an intelligent guy I hope he'll stick with this, and it overflows into Facebook but as you say, keeping him interested may be an issue.
Musk is a dolphin amongst the sharks. You think he's Flipper, but in reality he's bigger, faster, smarter, and ultimately every bit as ruthless as they are.
"no one, you see, is smarter than he". <sung to the tune of the theme song> Everybody Sing....They call him Flipper, Flipper......
Yes. He can be underestimated easily. In many ways he comes off as not all that, but there is something magical about him, something the greedy thugs all around him don’t possess and never will. He probably won’t do this the usual way, as that’s not how he rolls, but I think he’s quite serious about this and sees the unrelenting censorship as a very real threat to actual democracy. He’s gonna make a change. I believe in him! Am I a fangirl?
Of course you are, but that doesn't make you wrong. Now I hear that Dorsey is already supportive of giving Musk his seat on the board when he vacates it next month. While the media says his 9% stake doesn't qualify him as an "activist investor", I'd say that 80 million Twitter followers would exert quite a bit of influence.
I am a fangirl :-) If he does half of what I think he'll do, I may actually get back on twitter.
Only if you do a fan dance for us. :)
But more ethical.
Dorsey only owns 2.9%
It's not the other %90 of shareholders running Twitter, as long as Twitter is profitable large interest shareholders usually leave leave how the business is run to the CEO and their staff. That said there is something called the ESG ( Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance - Google it ) that has infected the private sector and is the corporate version of the Chinese Social Credit Score system for Chinese citizens. The US Government can't enact a Social Credit Score like system, at least not yet so as a work around the globalist's pushing for these systems have created one for the corporates world. So far its voluntary but a number of globalist own/run investment firms like Blackrock are making any companies the invest in adhere to the ESG. A number of financial institutions are adhering to it making it harder for a company with out a good score with the ESG to get loans. Sadly its a case where government involvement to put an end to this needs to happen. In a free market you would never want that kind of government involvement but the US has not had a true free market in a long time. Its more of a Crony Capitalistic Open Market where you can get in as a small guy as long as your not costing a big player too much money or you're bringing something new but if you're trying to be a competitor to an existing business, like a new cab company in a major locale like NYC, forget it being a free market because the system is rigged to prevent competition in existing fields like the cab business.
So when it comes down to it the other shareholders could ban together to over ride Elon but it would need to be enough who together have more than Musk and that whatever they are trying do won't result in less profitability else many of the even smaller shareholders may then join with Musk to stop the others from over riding Musk. That is where Musk's power is, with the many mid & smaller size shareholders who aren't interested in woke non-sense or the ESG BS, they just want profitability and a more free speech like platform is definitely going to draw more people.
I don't think Musk cares about ESG. Despite Tesla being the market driver for electric cars, I believe Tesla is ranked low on ESG.
Musk has said: "increasingly convinced that corporate ESG is the devil incarnate." So he is concerned about it. He tweeted this as recently as April 3rd.
Musk was increasingly critical of Twitter's stance on free speech, or lack thereof. Next we know, he is the biggest shareholder. I sincerely believe a change is coming, and it will be for the better.
And in an earlier tweet he said: "ESG rules have been twisted to insanity."
I pray you are correct.
I believe he doesn't care about the ESG either but other investment firms who own interest in twitter do and that is the problem or potential problem.
You'll never get the 90% to agree on anything. The biggest fish in the pond wields the most influence.
He wouldn't need to get all %90 or even a large share of it only enough to over come any other combined effort.
Uhhh. Heard of Uber?
Yes... and?
They’ve put cab companies out of business.
Via crony cataplasm tactics like getting the city to create some special medallion or the like you have to acquire before you can operate a cab in the city and the medallion is like 1 million dollars. I know its sounds ridiculous but its true. DC does something like this as does NYC. All to keep small independent cabbies from competing with the big boys. The corrupt politicians who put that into effect claim its to keep citizens safe from bad people which is of course total BS.
BlackRock et al needs to be broken up like Teddy Roosevelt did to Standard Oil et al.
Put not your trust in billionaires.
@Jack only owns 2.9%, to put things in perspective. Elon was a co founder of PayPal. He sold his stake and started a new car company from scratch. Tesla is now worth more than any other car company in the world. He then started SpaceX and revolutionized the space launch industry with reusable rocket boosters, reducing the cost to place a cargo in orbit by 75%. He developed a vehicle for NASA to transport American astronauts to the ISS, breaking the Russian monopoly. I think he can handle the Wokesheviks at Twitter.
wokesheviks. Love it.
Almost as good as Branch Covidiots.
I call'em woketopians
9.2% is quite a bit. Many of the other shareholders may have other goals and a targeted return. If changes bring about that targeted return faster, Mr. Musk will have allies on the board. He may be able to convince enough that the CEO is actually destroying value in the company and that unless Twitter reacts, Twitter will be left behind as a decentralized social media business model comes into existence.
Stock price already up 25% or so just on his arrival, that suggests he might have some support.
Just having Musk speak out could be enough to encourage other board members to do the same.
It may be true, too.
Enough of the 90.8% (or enough of new investors) seem to be pleased, because the stock price jumped around 30% on the news.
I'm sure his purchase alone drove the bulk of that stock increase but it being him also probably added to that as people know that he can have that magic touch and unlike some shady investment group like Blackrock people know Elon Musk is investing in twitter because he believes it needs course correcting where as a group like Blackrock either wants to just squeeze money out of it or worse make it adhere more strictly to the ESG so it gets even more ideological correct than it is.
But it's not that he bought it when the news broke; he had already bought it. So that jump in price had to be *other* people buying, and driving the price up, because they were now bullish on TWAT, I mean TWTR.
Just be an intelligent human who values common sense, and keep your eyes and ears open.
I think common sense is actually uncommon of late.
Ya think?
He’s on the Board now. I am hopeful for Alex but I hate the importance placed on those bunch of censoring, elitist. legends in their own minds. That CEO should be fired and deported.
So the billionaire is now the savior king. And I thought I lived in a Democratic Republic. Dopey me.
So billionaires don't get to participate in the democratic process? What about millionaires, are they excluded too or is there wealth such that it's OK to let them participate?
Yeah, weren't most of the Founders wealthy men ("billionaires" of their day)?
Are you attacking the messenger rather than the message?
How does his wealth indict his motives?
Like I said, I like what he is doing, but hate the idea of the wealth of an individual giving him power over individual freedom and liberty. That kind of power can be used for good or evil and who will be the next wealthier than Musk savior king?
The Founders had wealth and power. They wielded that power over individual freedom and liberty. Just happened to be in a good way.
I don't know that this paradigm will ever be different, if it hasn't been different for our entire 246-year existence.
The meek shall *not* inherit the earth. It's up to US, and the four boxes, to help ensure that the power is wielded benevolently, or as benevolently as the first three boxes enforce.
The Founders also had to hide behind trees and shoot at the British. They also created a Constitution that gave the governing power to the people as much as is possible, grounded in the idea of it having a foundation based on God or at least a power higher than that of prideful, greedy, power hungry individuals. We are living in a post Constitutional America now. No coincidence that the decline in the value and practice of religious observance
has been declining exponentially as this has occurred. Not sure Jesus was talking about worldly things like power and money when he said that the meek will inherit the Earth. We are all equally meek before a loving Creator God who saves. Faith requires the lack of certainty. Even if their is no God, people living as if there is one would create a better world. IMHO. (that means in my humble opinion)
Well, one of them is. And the billions are gonna help. At this point in time, that may be what’s needed. Let’s not get stuck in ideologies. I think we know where that leads.
I applaud what he is doing. I just don't think this "King of the money pile" is a good long term strategy for how we should live and be governed if we want continued freedom and liberty. Just like not all billionaires are bad, not all ideologies are bad. I am and will continue to be a stick in the mud confessional Lutheran and a conservative, free market endorsing, Constitutional originalist, freedom and liberty loving American who aint leaving the country if it is attacked. Put me in jail I will remain principled.
Totally with you, aside from the Lutheran thing, but of course we all don’t have to believe the same. It’s just that it’s a semi conscious belief that all really rich people are somehow suspect and we probably shouldn’t trust them. Undoubtedly that’s often true, but I just like to open my eyes and see what people are actually doing, or even trying to do before judging them by prior, popularly held beliefs. But that’s just me.
They will BBQ him. He is not good at corporate politics. He was tossed out as the CEO of Paypal. Still had his shares but lost control. He is an autist, not a politician.
Good. What we need right now is decidedly NOT a politician. These are pretty special times, needing a pretty special guy, meaning someone who’s not afraid to stride right out there and try something different, and not afraid to call out the obvious truth. You might say, oh, he has the $ to back him up, unlike most. But that’s how he got it.
He's a wog...
ok, add to list of things I don't know the meaning of, autist and wog.
Just thinking the same thing.
I think that 90% of the 90.8% are uninterested investors. The woke employee base and executives are too blame for the censorship.
Its %100 certain it's the woke staff at twitter doing all this non-sense. Shareholders care only about returns unless its a woke encouraging shareholder like Blackrock which adheres to the ESG BS
“Woke” staff everywhere if acting on their own “narrative” are part of “the Deep State,” though not “officially” government workers.
Musk is involved with the WEF. I wouldn't count on Alex being back on twitter too soon. Don't forget Blackrock & Vangard hold shares also. I understand they are brutal to deal with.
Elon Musk and the WEF
A Brief Recap and Analysis of What's Been Said About Elon Musk
https://medium.com/technology-hits/elon-musk-and-the-wef-dcaf4bec2084
Conclusion:
Take away what you will from this. In my view, Elon is deeply involved with WEF. Be aware of this fact.
With Elon’s autism and Intelligence, like President Trump, they can not control him…
…attempt to reign him in, but like his belief in Human population expansion, both on Earth and beyond
WEF?
Most of the shares of Twitter are held by mutual funds who don't really give a sh*t about whether Twitter bans conservatives or not. But many of those mutual funds have made big money with Musk, so they will likely give him the benefit of the doubt. He's already increased the value of their holdings dramatically. They are unlikely to balk at his proposed changes. I'd say current management has much more to worry about.
Agreed
Agree. While I don’t see Musk as any kind of savior, I do think there’s a good chance Agrawal will be out in the next couple of months.
His first idea was to build a site. Perhaps that’s his ace in the hole. He gets to work behind the scenes to know his competition.
Amen to the TexBat
I don't care what any ADULT person chooses to call themselves, BUT they have no right to tell anyone else what to think or say. I have a friend who is a cross dresser, always hid it until recently. I support him but he also doesn't have the right to make me think it's "normal" and just another regular old choice. Or to make me think of him as a woman. Still, it's a free country and he can do as he pleases.
Lekimball, I agree. My ex, who beat the kids(spare the rod spoil the child), would disagree. /I appreciate the quick therapy session. 👀
I doubt this will happen. So many women (on social media) are the leaders of that movement.
woke white women are ringleading every bad social trend in society. I don't know if it's spoiled girls with daddy issues or what, but they need to shut up and unplug.
Affluent
White
Female
Urban (Unfulfilled)
Leftist
It's women cancelling women and they're too woke to realize the harm they're doing to their own daughters.
But their mediocre sons can be superstars so it all works out
Unfortunately not for us.
And often lesbian.
Bingo
They're not lesbian. In fact, the lesbians were the first group to speak out against trans identified males.
Just think, we almost had one for our president.
Yes. I predict she will try again.
Busybodies.
The public schools got a hold of the girls and coached them to see everything through the lens of abortion as their holy grail. We could be nuked and they would still be screaming my body my choice. And their mothers said “amen” because they were also indoctrinated when they were in school. I’m 58 and was told in 5th grade health class that abortion was a good thing that was my right and that men were irrelevant- that’s over 4 decades ago. And all the Dads were told to shut up because the Disney “family” sitcoms, who portrayed every father as a bumbling idiot, trained the whole family to be dysfunctional. Men, we need you more than ever.
Veronica, you got it right in every detail!!! I grew up in South America and Germany, married a Canadian and travelled and worked all over the world until our Little Prince in Canada decided not to allow anyone board a plane. And it is amazing the global agenda playing exactly the same in every country...even in India. And even though my daughters grew up attending IB schools in a real multicultural environment, it has been tough to keep them away from the mass hypnosis, especially during the years in Canada. I am glad my intuition worked in many areas of motherhood where I did not follow the "New Age" pack, but listened to my grandparents and their parents teachings.
New age is not so bad. A lot of new agers questioning the Big Pharma regime which has captured the medical system around the world.
Good point
bart simpson
homer simpson
family guy
al bundy married with children
Men portrayed as bumbling weaklings worthy of only contempt
Remember to include the mindless, violent idiocy of Spongebob to the nuking of the public's thinking, or movies like Fast Times @ RH that praising rebellious idiocy
Fast forward to today where kids own and operate pocket internet portals with full data access and relatively no supervision, getting bombarded with pron, age 18 down to primary school.
"Mah body, mah choice" however, we derailed when the clotshots were issued Now it's
grandma killer = bad
Baby killer = still alright
Let's return to God
Nothing but nothing irritated me more than Married with Children. I inherently knew as a young person this was totally messed up. Jesus take the wheel!!
I watched a marathon of Father Knows Best. So refreshing - still the same problems we all have with our kids but the dad is so human and respected/respectable. I didn't see a thing wrong with it, although the daughters were heading in the direction described above already.
Father Knows Best!! It was soothing to watch as a young kid in 70's Manhattan, hoping I could one day build a sweet household like theirs! And I promised myself that I'd always be as self-effacing as he was on every show, and I'm sure I sometime fail because I always do, but I keep on trying!
And the constant portrayal of men as bumbling incompetents in the commercials. . . .
My favorite is Clark griswold.
Veronica, right on ("write on" too!) The steady drip drip drip of anti-male sentiment has had a pernicious effect on boys and young men in this country. It's like a constant low grade almost sub-clinical anxiety for young men constantly hearing about their complicity in the systemic oppression of others. Sorry to mansplain. I know we currently have bigger problems in this country, but it's nice to see an occasional shout out!
"We could be nuked and they would still be screaming my body my choice."
But only about exactly ONE issue. For all the others, government gets to decide.
Well, two issues:
My body, my choice <- Infanticide check (Mol0ch approved)
Your body, not your choice <- C0vid Karen Clotshots (approved by many other demonic entities)
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Nobody in that cackle of insanity club ever thought that there are two more bodies in that equation that don’t get a choice...
Veronica for the win.
these girls 🙄: https://www.prageru.com/video/what-is-a-woman
Isn't it interesting that the only person interviewed who isn't woke is also the only one not wearing a mask--outdoors!
Love Prager!!
Did you just assume their gender?
/s
What are they even doing in college other than getting fleeced for money?
They cannot think
Amen
Thankyou for saying this. The self righteousness is disturbingly palpable.
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You are 100% correct!
It’s unbelievable …they are actually encouraging delusional biological men to destroy biological female sports.
These woke women have been sold a bill of goods and they have bought into it. . . . similar to the "vaccine good" propaganda that many have been sold on.
There's plenty of jogger women too.
Yuck. You could have just said Black women, Joe.
I sure could have, but I think jogger better reflects the black's unearned privilege's in the US.
A movement it is. A bowel movement. I do not know one woman from young-ins to gray hairs that buys that crap. Scream at them. They are fools. Check out the Lt. Gov of NC, Robinson. He trashed the idiots this past week.
Yes he did, why isn't he the governor instead of the rodeo clown?
Robinson came out of nowhere to replace Dan Forest who was Lt. Gov under Cooper and ran for Gov in 2020. Cooper beat Forest. D machine here as good as MI, WI, GA, AZ. Maybe Zuck money too. Robinson will be Gov in 2024. Represents the folks. Cooper is a disaster. Hates working class.
😂😂😂💯💯💯👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️
Remember when Meghan Murphy was permabanned from Twitter in 2017 for referring to a male sex offender as “him”
I'm not so sure. I suspect it's a small group of very LOUD, obnoxious people.
I think feminist have done a lot of harm but my god can they at least stop these cheats from hurting women?
The world or at least Anerica is going crazy.
You have to wonder if that’s just an attempt to be Relevant.
Double amen textbat!! And Jenner on Fox now. Can you imagine them hiring a 73 year old actual woman? Stopped watching Fox when they called AZ and threw the election.
Judge Jeanine Pirro is 70. Looks younger.
I was banned for life from Twitter for stating that exact thing. I will only be allowed back on if I say that statement is false and of course I never will because it is not false, it is a 100% accurate. Plastic surgery and hormones do not change a biological sex .
I have a feeling much of that BS & Non-sense at Twitter will be gone or at least changed soon. With Musk on board its not whether he believes in free speech so much as he knows that what Twitter is doing now is actually harmful to the companies share price/value. That idiot who took jack's place is a woketopian General about to be replaced by the new big guy
They can say that now and real men won't be the least bit bothered because we aren't trying to claim to be women. It's not just these emotionally & psychologically damaged trans & gay men supporting this non-sense its supported by a large percent of western women.
It's also worth nothing that feminism laid the path for the trans activist movement. Without successfully applying the same tactics against men a few years earlier the trans activist would not be in the position to have picked up where the feminist left off and continue the oppression Olympics. The feminist believed they would always be the in vogue oppressed group and then the trans activist took that away from them.
Once again women get screwed. If you want to wallow in victimhood, they are the most oppressed group, and it appears always will be. It's incredible these feminists aren't up in arms. Craziest thing I've ever seen. And all for this 1% of the population (or less) being used to divide society again. Pretty amazing.
Western women are not the most oppressed group. Real oppression is in places like Islamic countries where women are actually subservient to their husbands/fathers. Like the trans movement the modern feminists movement created oppression where there was none because they didn't have any real oppression to complain about but needed it so they justify the power grab moves they made. One-off abuses like Harvey Weinstein are not justification of "all men". In the case of Weinstein there were women helping keep him in the position he was in. The same goes for Epstein and the horrors he was putting on young women, a women was helping him recruit and sell under age girls into sex slavery but let's still somehow put it all on the men.
Feminist like JK Rowling are up in arms its just that most are too scared to say much for fear of cancel like repercussions. They don't have the resources that JK Rowling does to risk speaking up. Its very much like the men when the feminist movement was in full swing, had the power, if they challenged feminist claims or ideas they risked being cancelled because everyone was supporting the feminist movement whether they wanted to or not. They supported it out of fear of what could happen to them if they didn't support feminism. The power the Feminist movement was able to wield against men in the early 2010's was here recently taken over by the trans activist movement. Had the feminist not used these same tactics for power grabs the trans activist would not have had the chance to then grab that for themselves. Everything has been about incremental movements to move the line of normalcy from decency to perversity and the modern feminists helped make that possible.
The modern feminist movement made the trans activist movement possible because the feminists never imagined that what they were doing , the tactics they were using on men would be turned against them by another group. If your angry about what the trans movement is doing then you should be angry at the feminist that laid the groundwork for it.
I said WOMEN. I did not say WESTERN women. And I'm not sticking up for feminists; I'm just shocked how stupid they are that they are fine with this.
Again, they (at least most) are not fine with it but scared to say soo. Its not hard to find feminist subtly saying something about this.
And BTW, western women were more oppressed that you think. In US, they couldn't vote like 30 years or more after black men. Which means they had no power until 1920. I love how they get blamed for US slavery usually by white men who think white women had it made. And of course, the vote didn't solve all the issues. I just don't believe social activism solves things much and too often it's used to divide often causing problems where none existed or not to the extent they cause the divide -- individuals have to do that. But no, western women are far from the most oppressed. Still, it's women.
Your speaking of the past not the present and I did say "Modern" feminism/feminist. It's NOT the feminists who fought for the right to vote that are the problem but the modern western women who don't have any actual oppression and thus must find some to justify the power grab.
The Trans community as a whole aren't actually oppressed in Western society and yet they are claiming to be so they can get power, preferential treatment and I bet you have no problem agreeing with that. Like women the Trans community did see oppressions many decades past but not anytime recent. Any real oppressions women faced is far further back than what the trans community has faced because the societal norm of women being equal came about far sooner than the acceptance of non-heterosexual persons. Western Women are far from the most oppressed because they are not oppressed at all in way shape or form. Are some individual women being oppressed? Yes but as a whole they are not. Isolated incidents, outliers, don't change the rule they are the expectation to it. We will occasionally have a child born with both sexual reproductive organs but that doesn't mean there are more than 2 sexes because those are the outliers.
Social activism doesn't solve anything, its a weapon for change where the smart & powerful wield it and the gullible become their weapon.
Uh not exactly. Women don't get paid the same as men for many of the same jobs. I suspect you might not be a woman. But if you are, you don't appreciate subtleties. Women are oppressed in religious households and in households in general because they are usually intimidated by the size of men. If for no other reason. My father was a male chauvinist and did not treat my brother and me the same at all. Not that he exactly held me back, but for instance I take care of my father (even though I have a terminal professor's degree) who has Parkinson's. I want to do it (been doing it three years), but I am supposed to give him enemas and wipe his ass without a thank you -- while he worries that my brother has to drive an hour or two to see him in the hospital. He'd be apologizing and thanking him profusely for doing what I do. And my father ran things. Just one tiny example. That doesn't mean I feel like a victim or want activists involved in my life. I'm capable of telling him off and I do quite a bit--doesn't change his attitude much, but he also is afraid to push me too far. I finally have the power. Ha. I'm kidding some here. Sad but true dynamics. But this is more complicated than you are making it. Social activism is necessary sometimes, but it's now being misused. And yes, western women can be in many circumstances, oppressed.
all good points in this thread. On both sides. I would make a greater distinction than just western women. There is a point to be made that even western women in the lower classes are getting oppressed/abused or at least are bearing a much heavier burden than they should. I would lay this at the feet of the upper class, well educated progressives who are pushing this drivel and all the other crap that keeps people oppressed at the expense of the flavor of the month cause they are pushing at the moment.
Leximball agree👆👆👆
I look forward to the day when Congress grows a pair.
http://www.opensourcetruth.com/clown-world-uk-hospitals-are-now-being-encouraged-to-ask-all-men-under-60-if-they-are-pregnant-before-getting-medical-procedures/
I heard about this. Not only are they doing this but if you act like this is absurd or say anything your racist and or homophobic or some similar non-sense.
I do that already.
Not on Twitter
Would you tell this delicate flower?
https://twitter.com/margueritestern/status/1386656193490337796?lang=bg
Musk is very good at distractions and PR. It takes months to decide and launch a edit button in a company the size of twitter. The legal team alone would drag it out for months. It sounds like a twitter PR stunt that has been in the works for a long time to help stockholders. What twitter really needs is a filter or key word blocker that indidual users can set to prevent offensive content from showing up. Don't want to see antivaxers? no problem. Don't like Trump? block the word Trump. Let people decide what content they want and don't want to see. I know why this will never happen.
It may take time but I'm hoping you're wrong. He sat down with satirist Babylon Bee and he's been pretty vocal about all this. So I'll hold a good thought.
If they haven’t done it by now what makes anyone think they will? Women & fathers are sitting back quietly allowing this insanity to continue
A woman with some real balls. That's why you trounce the competition. You clearly have better form. If the other swimmers can't man up, that's not your fault. I'm sure you'll win the gold at the Olympics. I do have a suggestion as to where to hang the medal.
Wait. Out loud?!
What is stopping you?
Twitter (which is what this post is about so I don’t know why I have to even state that)
also male rage
https://twitter.com/margueritestern/status/1386656193490337796?lang=bg
Not male rage, beta rage. Real heterosexual men as a whole love & protect women. There are men pushing back against the Trans in women's competition non-sense but there probably men you politically disagree with so you are either unware of their doing this or unwiring to concede it because they are the other side. if you are on the left don't expect much help on this from anyone on the left because Trans oppression is the in vogue oppression group right now and the feminist who say anything are being labeled as evil TERFS.
You currently can't ?
On social media platforms like Twitter, Texbat could risk being banned for speaking the truth. It all depends on how much influence texbat has, if they are on Twitters radar or not. You can post a tweet that speaks the truth and fly under the twitter radar by being small and yet if yo post that same thing in a reply to a Tweet from a large account that Twitter doe monitor it can get you banned, happened to me with saying something truthful about the Government Approved, Corporate Sponsored, Narrative on Covid.
Exactly. I got permabanned from Twitter for calling a man a man. Is he a man? Yes. Does that matter to Twitter? No.
I never joined Twitter or Facebook, and I would not join TikTok or any other NWO Totalitarian site.
And I have no idea why you felt compelled to "inform me" as to the theme of this thread.
congrats mang https://twitter.com/my_real_name/status/1272718417863139329
Not on Twitter
Matters not to me.
And in related news, a judge reaffirms the Oberlin KS College $36 million dollar settlement payment to the bakery that it attacked and slandered. And DeSantis goes to war with Disney. Do we dare hope that the woke project is starting to get enough attention and forces are building to send it to the garbage heap where it belongs?
The woke movement went too far to fast. When they got caught (exposed) during covid for what they were doing to kids in school they should have pulled back but instead they doubled down because that's how this ideological movement has always done things. They double down when there is resistance. This effort to move society's norm from decency to perversity, to make normal that which is not normal has been in effect for far longer than the last few years. It's gotten a lot of visibility in the last few years because of covid and the advancement of remote learning (which means recording) and video conferencing (ie the Disney execs meeting where they showed a side you'd never see them show in public) but it's been in the works for decades.
The Gay Marriage movement was never just about giving gays the right to marriage but moving the line of what is acceptable. Yes there were many who genuinely wanted gay marriage solely for the purpose of being able to get married but those seeking to change societal norms highjacked it for their own purposes, they used that movement so that the next move, the acceptance of trans, would be easier to bring about. Once trans is normalized the next step is the softening of pedophilia and we can already see the seeds of that in what teachers in public education are doing with very young kids, wanting to discuss sex with them. The current SCOTUS nominee has a record for being soft of pedophiles; its not coincidence that she was selected as the nominee by a Democrat run administration.
The Woke/Authoritarian Left has been working for decades to change western society from one of primarily heterosexuals nuclear families with 1 man & 1 women into a nation of individuals confused about who & what they are. Why? A society of confused and psychologically damaged people are much easier to control and manipulate then healthy families.
The worlds elite have repeatedly said that the world is over populated and that the average person does not know how to govern themselves. They see us a dumb peasants they need to rule over but they can't do that without changing society because we've become accustom to Democratic & Representative like governance. If you want to change a society like that into one where the few can rule over (absolute rule) without resistance than you must change what society is made up of. A society of scare, confused and damaged individuals who are triggered and need safe spaces will result in a very quick reduction in population over just 1-2 generations and they will be easily manipulated to do whatever is desired by the few at the top. Doesn't that description sound a lot like how much of the Millennial generation acts like?
Fantastic analysis. Absolutely spot on. Well said, sir.
When I was in HS, a student won a scholarship from the VFW for a speech she gave .
She showed how the communists had achieved their goals on time and in order , from before the Bolshevik Revolution through 1974.
And even then, it was all about fostering decadence here, while strictly punishing it at home.
Krushchev wasn't kidding.
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I would have guessed no. I would also not have guessed that the pro-vax regime would have crumbled and fled for the exits the way it has so far
I know the Democrats are trying to think of ways they can keep mail in ballot harvesting going for the next election. They would love a new very deadly COVID-22 to hit the shelves about now.
WWIII with nukes so we all have to sit in basements and vote online, no paper trail? Or did I just come up with an idea for "them"? Is Putin in on it?
I would not be surprised if that is driving Dem policy.
The Electi-con Variant
That's due to Covid Narrative Collapse Syndrome. LIke the woke are now doing with sexualizing kids, the covid/vaccine pushers over reached. Instead of backing off when they realized covid was not going to be the lethal virus needed to justify the restrictions they were planning to enact they opted to try and market the virus to the public instead of backing down. At that point it was more of a 50/50 chances of them succeeding. They had a large percent of the populace buying into the lies but an equal large percent wasn't buying it so it was a fight. As the virus mutated and became less lethal but more contagious it was just a matter of time & mutations before it was no longer feasible to justify what they were doing but they doubled down (ie vaccine mandate) and it blew up in their faces with one loss after another from court battles to exposure of just how risky the so called safe & effective vaccine was. It also didn't help that they had to keep changing the narrative from the vaccine stops the spread to the vaccine reduces hospital admissions.
Even with most of the media backing the narrative and Bigtech protecting the narrative it eventually collapsed under it's own weight of BS. There are still believers, mainly those who can't admit the truth because it means admitting they helped not just propagate a lie that could have risked peoples lives but in some case helped pressure and coerce others into appetence. It's easier to just keep pretending it was all true then to admit what one has helped do.
It’s still alive and well in the Bay Area. Oakland won’t allow non vaccinated to eat at restaurants.
There are areas that will be like this possibly for a very long time. They have a larger than normal percent of self-enlightened persons, typically millennials , who know they are smarter and wiser than any one else regardless of that persons experience/wisdom. To them anyone who thinks it's OK to drop the restrictions just "doesn't get it" , does not understand how lethal this thing still is and that like with climate change there no price to high to pay to combat it.
As Peacemaker (from Suicide Squad) says " I will kill as many men, women and children as is necessary to bring peace & liberty to the world" , these people will sacrifice as many men, women & children as is necessary to combat the <<list current thing here>>.
They do. But here it’s across all age groups. Gen X, boomers, gen z and millennials all in. A few of us norms are out here 😆. Now San Francisco abs Berkeley dropped all requirements when Oakland instated them. I had no idea walking into a place last week and was told no vax card no food, not even outside. Drove back to my side of the bridge and could eat in peace. It was absolutely nuts. I didn’t realize Oakland is the new epicenter of the vaccine mafia. 🤮
There are definitely woketopianss in generations other than Millennials is just that the bulk are Millennials as they were the first generation that those within the public education system cranked up the indoctrination to levels that would emotionally and psychologically break or damage kids. AS a Gen-Xer I was indoctrinated in school about climate change and how mankind was killing mother earth. The ozone layer was the bog thing being pushed as justification for more government control/power. What they (teachers & admins within public education) were not yet doing at least not on a large scale is sexualization of kids, pushing the gay agenda and convincing kids they may not be heterosexual. It was the Millennials that these people cranked everything up and by more than what they did in previous generations.
In order to take control of society so can reset it you must first break the wills and minds of the majority so you have little resistance and a society made up of scared (ie trigger warnings & safe spaces) and confused (ie gender) adult juveniles is much easier to control/manipulate. A society of healthy nuclear style families is not. The problem is you can't in one generation do what is necessary to break everyone because it will be noticeable so you do it incrementally with each generation. First generation you work with you convince them to question traditions. When they are grown up with kids you teach their kids to question their elders/parents. When those kids grown up and have kids you teach those kids to question normalcy. And so on and son slowly moving the line of normalcy.
Likely just regrouping.
Speaking of Kansas, here is a legislative rebuke to the covidians:
https://colleenhuber.substack.com/p/covid-care-about-face
As goes Kansas, so goes the nation?
I needed no early treatment with pharmaceuticals for Omicron. Two days of flu-like symptoms and my immune system did just fine. I don't need or want the government forcing any treatments on me or mandating that my physician do so.
Excellent post! And...let's hope so!
Oberlin College is in Ohio, not Kansas.
A slight correction...Oberlin College is in Ohio. Good article https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/04/04/oberlin-college-loses-appeal-suit-filed-local-bakery
Also, they have required the booster, masks have been required outside, and won't be "mask optional" until April 21.
Thanks for the correction. I think there is also a college in Oberlin KS if not mistaken... but it is not this woke excuse for a campus.
what is a Twitter?
Hahahahaha....great one. Not only what is a twitter, but who gives a fuck?
You got that right Gdog!
Add Stupidbook to the list. I call Facebook "Stupidbook" because it's like going back to the 7th grade.
yuppers-everyone has 2K friends, give me a break.......
That's 2K intimate friends. Fucktarded losers.
Something very important to Alex, apparently.
Alex is all about the Money. Period. (I can't say I blame him when it comes to Money, but he lacks principles. Dude is a total hypocrite when it suits his narrative.)
He insulted many subscribers with his comments on Ukraine calling them "useful idiots". I hope he's happy if he gets back on Twitter. I will not follow.
The little man is a self-righteous prick.
Maybe it's time for you to move on since he has so triggered you.
Hey Ted, I'll say what I want, when I want. Nobody is forcing you to read my posts.
Addiction? The need to be considered important? The money?
The need to have his ego massaged?
exactly...
Right !!!!!!
Let's have a bet, Trump or Alex back first?
After Alex's outright lies about ivermectin, I bet they'd be a bit more ambivalent about him, even with the current mgt.
Nobody gives a shit about Alex. Trump is another story.
Trump is a relatively stupid egomaniac who just happens to think the same way that many of us do. Who to run in 2024? Not Trump, I hope. Where is Nixon when you need him (or Ike!).
Gimme a break. PLEASE do not invoke Nixon.
As for 2024, it really looks like DeSantis is the best bet.
Agree. But, we don't want to lose him as our Governor - just yet! We have a deep bench, so I'm hoping someone else steps up... but have to confess a DeSantis/Pompeo ticket would be amazing.
A Florida friend has said the same to me--about not losing DeSantis. However, the longer "Brandon" fumbles around and the more the Giggling Dipshit spews her "word salads," my friend has changed her mind.
Giggling dip shit is a perfect description of our vp! Love it!
I thought Jeb Bush was the best Governor we have had in Florida...and you see what happened to him.
Jeb was a weaker version of W.
"Please clap" cracks me up because it was so pathetic...and so Jeb.
Absolutely. Total fucking wimp.
Jeb Bush is another swamp creature, besides being a boring, low energy pussy.
That was then...this is now.
I am not an "insider" but I believe the support system for Florida Governor was much easier to come by than running for President of the USA. DeSantis will face the challenge in swapping support basis. He needs to start a PAC...say to Oppose "Don't Say Gay."
Inarticulate, yes. Stupid, no. He has great instincts, and knows how to get shit done. Nixon was a head case. Ike was a go along to get along, more of a diplomat.
We can agree to disagree about Trump, but the above is my take on your take in a few short words.
I like it.
Trump is going to lose a lot of support if he keeps telling people to take the boosters. Good Lord...
I think Trump learned his lesson after he did that when on the Trump/O'Reilly dog and pony show. I've not heard him mention getting the poison boost since then, but I could be mistaken.
He does it at the live rallys, still! He wants the vax to be a success because he got it done but it's a mistake to be promoting it now
Huh?...I listen to all the rallies on Newsmax...haven't heard him telling anyone to get the boost (I may have missed that part). He does brag about the success of Warp Speed, but during the last rally he was talking about how they developed anti-virals. Dude is a bullshitter, that is for sure. And he will most likely never admit the fact that the vax is poison. That's on him, but I'll take the 5% bad with the 95% good when it comes to Trump.
Nobody is perfect.
Nixon, really???
My thought exactly.
And he thinks Trump is stupid. Yikes! Does he think Biden is a genius?
Trump is his own worst enemy. Biden has dementia. When Biden still had most of his marbles, he was an opportunist. And that is the nicest thing I can say about "Brandon" et al.
Saving America 1 billion at a time. GO ELON. ❤️
Babylon Bee, soon back on Twit.
I would love to be a fly on that Twitter board room wall for the first meeting.
Where have we come that this announcement *literally* brings tears to my eyes?
As long as that character who despises the 1st Amendment is in charge at Twitter, nothing will change until EM swallows the whole thing.
Maybe EM can swing the board against Agrawal and send him packing.
It won't take much as he is destroying value.
Just a thought...and I am very opposed to censorship...BUT...
Suppose Twitter lifts all restrictions & becomes a forum for free flow of information and discussion.
Then the screwballs--the socially retarded & unemployed 40-year-olds who live in their mothers' basements with three cats--start attacking everyone/anything with which they disagree or just to pick a fight...
The whole thing descends into unbridled chaos...
And then it becomes a virtual lunatic asylum and disintegrates. People stop looking at it because it's just too insane.
Wow. That would be grand.
First Amendment does not apply to Twitter. Better phrasing would be: "as long as that character who despises free speech is in charge at Twitter..."
I am on the fence about the truth of that statement about the First Amendment. Our government has coerced Twitter and other big tech companies to censor and therefore it is (they are) acting as an unofficial arm of our government. For evidence, look at what happened with the lab leak "conspiracy theory" that was summarily banned even though it is the most likely cause of COVID. I believe when the government uses a 3rd party to squash speech that there is case law that makes it illegal for violating the 1st amendment. The other part that perplexes me is that they are supposed to be a platform like a phone company yet clearly have become a publisher. I am not a lawyer, but I do believe that the first amendment should apply to Twitter because the Federal government is telling them what to censor in many cases.
There is a tragic lack of freedom of speech in America across multiple venues. I pray Musk can help turn this around...not solely on Twitter, but it would be a great start.
I would still say that all should leave Twitter. They will probably remain a despicable organization
Tammy Bruce said you should be allowed back on when she was on Gutfeld last night
Love her! Talk about the opposite of a woke white woman--and the left hates her because she's a smart, conservative, and outspoken woman who HAPPENS to be a lesbian! And she doesn't ever play the LGBT card unless it's relevant to the discussion. Tammy rocks!
Twitter who?
Even if Alex Berenson is immediately reinstated, he should take his suit to trial and a permanently enforceable verdict. Freedom of online speech needs to be enshrined, and not be at the whim of whoever is in charge of the anti-social social forums.
"Freedom of online speech needs to be enshrined"
Completely disagree here. While I'm a proponent of free speech, I'm an even bigger proponent of private property rights. That means that if I own servers and provide a service, I have the right to control speech on it. It's as simple as that.
I know this is important to you, Alex, but I do hope you won't give up your 'stack. And please don't give up the lawsuit! There's a precedent to set.
Also, let's wait-and-see what Elon Musk will do on Twitter's board. Don't be so quick to see him as a White Knight.
It's too soon to celebrate.
I’m of the belief if you think Twitter suppressed our freedom of speech one of our most coveted articles in our Constitution and you were American that you would have dropped this App long ago? Guess I was wrong!
I did.
I dropped out of twitter/erased my profile about 1.5 years ago. Anything noteworthy usually gets posted at my prefered news sources, so I don't think I'm missing much, but would still love to see the twisted algorithms and lopsided enforcement reined in, if not eliminated.
Maybe. But they'll still ban all kinds of other dissident points of view. Like anybody who doubts the veracity of Ukraine's Bucha propaganda.
Somewhere I ready a good explanation for what is wrong with the Twitter Tweet model. It had to do with the limited text and the interface design as an asynchronous flow of comments and not really a conversation. It is like a fire-hose of snarky and mean headlines with subheadlines without the need for any detailed content to back up the headlines.
The language psychology of this is that people immediately tend to run hot in reaction to something they read that they like or dislike... but would otherwise cool down a bit to a more rational actor if having a conversation about the topic.
It is a bullying platform in my opinion... and some people are very good at bullying and revel in Twitter's existence. Frankly, I would be happier if Twitter just went away... or else got redesigned into something where people could share cat pictures.
There's FB and Instagram for the cat pictures.
Since I don't like to waste my time on Twitter, I hope Alex keeps the Substack going.
Substack is so refreshing after censorship everywhere and too many trolls elsewhere
These tech "giants" are like all large organizations - the real control rests with the HR departments and managers cooperating with each other to screen individuals with the same viewpoints, including gender, race, political leanings, etc.
Tech companies tend to hire very young people that for many reasons, have not experieinced real life challenges and the affects of liberal policies. They can be right out of college, which is the equivalent of brain-washing theses days and therefore view employment as a mission driven by group-think.
In most large organizations you can exist for years without doing anything productive as long as your boss ends up looking good and his boss . . . . all the way to the top guy
It is very rare for a CEO to have an affect on the day-to-day stuff and their goals are to keep the board of directors and the largest shareholders happy through compensation, which includes dividends.
The CEO typically rides out the normal business cycles, taking the stage when things are good, and then retreating to backrooms when things turn south. That's when the damage control starts which typically takes the form of stock buy-backs and other accounting tricks to support the stock's price - again keep the largest share-holders happy.
That is not to say that the right person can't make a difference. A good example of this was GE. When Jack Welsh was in charge the company prospered. Then Emelt took over and being a rock-star was more important than running the company. The company has never recovered and in many was is considered a has-been.
Musk seems to be the kind of person that could turn this around. He is direct and capable of executing a vision. He is not a 1-trick pony like Zuckerberg or Bezos and doesn't really seem to care about what people think of him. He is not obsessed with popularity or going to high profile meetings in Europe to rub elbows with others who have become rich through trusts,, endowments, and other none-productive means.
Above all he does not seem to care about which way the wind is blowing as a means of determining his next move. Twitter has to be changed from the bottom up and big tech needs to be striped from their platform protection.
Musk should push congress for getting rid of all special treatment of these large platforms and that single move would make a huge difference in improving free speech. He has to make changes from the bottom up and top down. The people that are making the big decisions are there because they believed in restricing free speach - they are not going to change. Their underlings are also marching to the same toon so he will have a big challenge and there will most certainly be "sabotage" efforts at every turn.
I Hope he is successful.
Hopefully the lawsuit sets a legal precedent. Benevolent oligarchs only get us so far
Careful what you wish for.
Margaret Anna Alice 😉🧐
Fantastic. Cheaters NEVER prosper. Elon should put everyone they banned back on at once. Boom.
Is Elon the George Washington of tech? Accumulates a ton of power and wealth in order to wrest control away from the overlords to give back to the people.
I think this move by Elon is a start in reaffirmation that the Great Experiment continues to work as individual patriots can rise to positions of influence to help thwart the tyranny of totalitarianism.
However, here is where the rubber needs to to meet the road for the final defeat of the woke project which is part of the Globalist Great Reset Project.
And look to Hungary with the landslide re-election of Victor Orban and his party who campaigned on national identity, controlled borders, Christian conservative principles of classic liberalism, and a rejection of George Soros globalism.
What we need is a veto-proof Republican majority in the Senate and House, and then the people should demand that Republicans go to work on a landmark new civil rights bill that would crush any institution that tramples on First Amendment rights, or that gives preference in anything based on race, gender, political orientation, etc.
We need to repeal Section 230 protection for big tech. We need to fire up the anti-trust engine (did you know that four mega companies own 90+ percent of all the tens of thousands of brands in the supermarket!?)... break those mega companies apart and reinvigorate the small business economy of smaller producers... were everyman has an opportunity to work his ass of, take a few risks and be a millionaire.
The Democrats need to be knocked so far back that they go to war internally to decide what ideology they want to pursue... woke Marxist victimology, big business globalism. or American working class advocacy. We would be doing the party a favor by electing a Republican super majority.
The problem is some Republicans are actually Democrats and vote with them regularly. Romney, Collins, Murkowski all will vote to confirm Brown-Jackson for SCOTUS. Graham was the only Republican to vote for her last year as Appeals Court Judge and his vote sealed her appointment.
Yep.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/democrats-have-gone-crazy-but-freedom?s=w
It seems inevitable that Republicans will clean up in the 2022 midterms, as the first chunk of the Biden presidency can be accurately described as a dumpster fire of monkey shit floating on a chunky sea of word vomit spewed from our lying media presstitutes. (Totally off topic: Congrats to Jen Psfactchecker on her new gig!)
I'll believe it when I see it. Republicans have a way of shooting themselves in the foot.
Read the whole article. It is not kind to the GOP.
I agree with you about the GOP. There are not enough with the courage to work for their constituents instead of special interest groups.
So true!
Yep
Hopefully Alex will eventually get back onto Twitter. He's insightful about 75% of the time and his voice needs to be heard (even if he is egregiously wrong on the Ivermectin issue).
The real "town square" is Facebook. People who think like me often diss me for even using it (or trying to use it), but it is the forum where a cross-section of the country communicates with each other. So if anyone wants to change or challenge dubious narratives, he or she really needs to be able to communicate with their neighbors. As far as I can tell, Facebook is being far more "proactive" in banning speech than Twitter. I'm currently off because I have not signed up for "Facebook Protect" - this after having my account suspended for different periods of time for posting the proverbial correct "misinformation." I wish Musk had bought a controlling interest in Facebook. This said, I doubt Twitter will become even more Orwellian with Musk being the largest shareholder. Then again, once you start censoring, it's hard to stop.
Almost no one under 40 uses Facebook. It's boomers sharing their grandma photos.
That's probably true, but a ton of people over 40 use it. I think 1/3 of the country uses it. The people who vote use it ... so if you are going to try to change minds (and thus change narratives), these are the people you need to reach. The whole purpose of censorship is to prevent those who may be able to change minds of others from being able to do so. Facebook (and to a lesser extent Twitter) are culling critical thinkers and dissenters from their "community."
Twitter sets the precedent for banning people. FB and Youtube follow Twitter's lead.
He can offer input, but he can be outvoted on key issues still, no?
Honestly I’m kinda hoping he just torpedoes Twitter. And then tanks the market. Come on Muskie get the party started
Yes, give them an enema the strength of a torpedo!!!!! time to clean out the stinking pipes!
Wtf would you want to go back. Sub stack is so much better. Let twitter keep turning into a cesspool.
Why would you go back? Have you no standards?
Why bother? It's infested. It has no hope of rehabilitation. It's like Elon and you are trying to revive a stinking, fly blown, maggotty, disease riddled carcass. Get outta there.
Why would you want to?
Alex, I say this without understanding the financial implications to you, but for Gods sake stay off Twitter. Don’t help them make money!
Couple of things............
One, Alex seems to have an unhealth obsession with being in the lefty cool kids club, i.e. Twitter. It's just weird. He acts like a man still lost and wandering in the Sahara without it.
Two, while the Musk involvement seems a positive development generally, I'd temper expectations. Musk isn't that far removed from the ideology of Jack and Jack ultimately found it a wiser choice to hit the eject button rather than "BOOM" button.
Are we sure he is not a Trojan horse to reduce our steam? The world Mafia wouldn’t let anybody have so much power and money if he doesn’t play along. I don’t exclude that he is playing the good police with the angel face.
Well he has the ability to single-handedly tank their stock if he now dumps his. That's interesting leverage to have over a bunch of champagne socialists.
Yet it does give me pause just how many are hoping for the next superman to fly in and save America. I'd rather see legal precedent used -and further set - regarding the Constitutional rights and privileges, as well as those pesky inalienable rights, we hold (held?) to be self-evident. Hoping for the grace of benevolent tech-narchy is this century's version of hoping your fealty to the local feudal lord will keep your family safe.
Alex.......I will continue to pay to read your writings a on Substack, follow you on Telegram, would follow you on GETTR, and maybe a few other platforms, but I will never return to Twitter notwithstanding whatever Elon Musk's motivations might be. Never
I hope Alex gets back on Twitter, and all this social media banning (censorship) gets stopped, but I don't have much hope. As of about two months ago, I thought I saw some narratives cracking and was thinking about giving my millennial ultra-woke but frustrated grown kids in Boston the copy of Pandemia I bought for them. But it seems like the new standard beliefs: Forever COVID; Forever Masks; when is the next booster?, Trump will win in 2024 and we will all die; STOP Misinformation!!; Talking about freedom makes you a low-class right-winger; Public schools don't need to listen to parents; Children are virus vectors, keep them masked!; We are ashamed we are white, We have to be constantly sad due to Covid, Ukraine, etc; Stay home and watch Netflix; Mom-you sneezed: you are a virus vector, although vaccinated stay away!; Baby has been mostly indoors since birth because we think she will get Long Covid because no baby vax yet........need I continue? The nonsense has quickly seeped into our fabric. Those that see through it walk on eggshells; we are pariahs if we don't play along and fib or we will be disrespected, or worse, rejected. The book remains on my bookshelf. The seemingly permanent reduction in the quality, meaning and usefulness of their lives is what pains me most.
These are your children? Maybe it’s time to rethink how you interact. Maybe you shouldn’t have allowed them to think that they were such special snowflakes. Blowing smoke up their asses never gets you respect, today or tomorrow. Speak up for once!!!
Maybe they’ll just put you back on Twitter, Alex….but they’ll easily limit who can see you and mess around with all kinds of algorithms! The Left never gives up and WILL fight back probably in sneaky ways. Also, who’s to say that Musk (who made lots of money from the Government) is going to make a difference?
I left Twitter but still on Facebook.. usually in “ jail “
Didn't hurt that he got a 30% jump in the stock price after the announcement. Not a bad profit on a 2.9 billion dollar investment. Now... let's see what he can actually accomplish on that Board...
Cautiously optimistic. Let's see where this goes. Musk is a GREEN GUY (climate control advocate?), so I am not in his corner there for sure. His actions will tell us what we need to know.
His actions burn tons of fossil fuel every time a SpaceX rocket is launched, so there's that.
haha!!! Yep!
He filed with the SEC as a “passive” investor, so much for that. I am not confident Musk can fix Twitter without buying more of the company. Most of the board members and the CEO are anti-free speech.
"The number of shares Musk bought was carefully considered. Had he bought a full 10%, he would have been considered an “insider” under SEC rules and it would have greatly limited his ability to talk about the company in public, restricted his ability to buy and sell shares, and it would have opened up new ways for the government to mess with him. The SEC is already “investigating” Musk as an insider over some of his tweets about Tesla, for example."
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/-coffee-and-covid-tuesday-april-5?s=r
interesting
They are "free speech" for their point of view - which they consider righteous and noble. The Leftist/Communist crowd has convinced themselves that our voices are subversive and dangerous to the country. As such, it is the "price that must be paid" to weed out voices like ours in order to preserve the union.
These people truly believe that protests from our side are actually "insurrectionist" and therefore, whatever they can do to keep such insurrection from happening is proper.
That's how twisted the minds of these people are.
Me too
All Alex cares about is getting back on Twitter.
No one said he was the savior. and if you think we are living in a democracy or constitutional republic I'm afraid I've got some bad news.
The idea Twitter wouldn't have allowed dirt on trump and his family if it came from hacked sources is one of the most laughable fucking things I've ever heard. I don't know how anyone could say that with a straight face. Had the media not been biased, the hunter Biden story would have sunk Joe Bidens campaign. Oh wait no it wouldn't have since they stole the election anyway.
What percentage of the adult population in the US use Twitter as their primary source of news anyway? Some may use it to reinforce or validate their own views, but I don't think it has much of a major effect on the masses. The local TV news probably has the greatest impact on the views of the general public.
Or post hunter biden pictures.