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He wasn’t placed there, he saw it and dove right in. Objectively, from a financial standpoint, this deal was a terrible idea from Day 1, Twitter is NOT a sound investment.
𝕏 / Twitter / X, the Social Media Platform Formerly Known as Twitter / "MUSK OWNS TWITTER"
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InsolentGaylord
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Much of the critiques are subjective and hysteria based though, and aren't actually based on reality or necessarily are an issue.
Like, they believe viewing imagery of sexy women makes you want to rape women in real life.
So sorry press X to doubt on this.
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Well, considering Facebook is going the way of the dinosaur, most forums are dead or niche and Tumblr will never regain its early 2010s high point for reasons discussed on this thread ad nauseum, the only “certified place” left was Twitter. It has proven to be the only platform that allows, if not actively encourages, people to type up their retarded thoughts multiple times a day with post counts in the hundreds of thousands, all for a dopamine hit that is effectively ensured to go on forever so long as they continue to post. These people are either too stupid to figure out decentralized services or think they’re too good for them. They will either leave Twitter and fail to regain their relevance in service to their addiction, or stay on and be forced to adapt to a platform that no longer directly caters to them while the site continues enable their socially detrimental posting habits.
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on the other hand "o no bankruptcy" is a great excuse to downsize until there's not a gender specimen left in the building, and Musk has been greased-up, naked and serpentine this entire saga so he could still be playing checkers with these retards.
I'm not going to be amazed by the amazing recovery of Twitter the moment he's cleaned house
I'm not going to be amazed by the amazing recovery of Twitter the moment he's cleaned house
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Does anyone know how the debt-side of the deal was actually structured? Did Elon borrow from himself? Because there can be fun shenanigans in that case.
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Yes some are hysterical. However there is little doubt that healthy males are sexually aroused by imagery of sexy women (we are able to measure this by EEG in brain activity, but also we can measure blood flow to penile erectile tissue, and the results are quite conclusive).
There is also little doubt that men are more impulsive, more violent and are less able to control their sexual urges. We have statistical data.
Now, we have some data, so we have to answer - what do you do with it?
- more extreme feminist scholars would indeed argue as you said going as far as to demand controlling men moving after dark like it was the case with some British murder
- or you could argue that these behaviors are obviously biological and driven by hormones, and they are a large contributor for human reproduction, which considering the below replacement levels in most European countries, should be a net good. Add to this the legal framework that criminalizes rape, and then laugh at feminists.
You did choose a niche example and quite the less charitable one.
I think this is the wrong path to go on, the right leaning people should simply focus on political power chasing and state authority the exact same way leftoids do. I am rather disappointed at the "we're not actually sexist/racist" etc. discourse, this is weakness. Instead, point out that sexist and racist stereotyping comes from the middle of the bell curve representation which generates stereotypes, and that we should not use exceptions from the stereotype that are situated at the extremities of the bell curve to justify some social justice policy.
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The western art available on Twitter is just as degenerate, only in a different, worse way.
Anyways, here are some screenshots of people imitating official accounts. I can't verify if these all actually happened or not but we've seen casese of this happening already so most of them probably are. Why Elon didn't create a similar yet distinct symbol for Twitter blue is beyond me.
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It looks like the purple hairs and trannies are trying to cancel Twitter.
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Tumblr was ground zero for a lot of the gender insanity. It was full of impressionable young kids collecting gender labels and diseases like Pokemon cards, and adults who like spending time around sexually confused children.
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Believe it or not, I think that's a delightful feature of Fediverse and it's absolutely perfect for handling any potential "mass exodus" from Twitter to Fediverse. I'll explain.
Pre-Musk, Twitter was a leftist hugbox and censor's dream. It wielded absurd levels of influence and power over social interaction (it still does, in fact, and it will until it finally dies) and was (and probably still is) heavily infested by glowies, woketards and other "backchannel colluders" -- all acting with evil intent against the best interests of modern society -- and was routinely used to destroy inconvenient people, places and businesses. Canceling someone exhibiting "wrongthink" was a simple matter of rallying just a handful of "approved" people to report the offender and their insider contacts would obligingly purge the target. Twitter's value as a propagandist's tool was immeasurable. For its "blessed" participants, it was endless dopamine hits because they could effectively ban and destroy anyone they wanted, and circle the wagons as one unit to defend themselves against any external challenge.
Post-Musk, that's all gone. Practically overnight almost all of those control mechanisms were either removed entirely or at least taken away from the formerly blessed. It took less than an hour of less-censored posts (not even uncensored since the site did continue moderation activities, just not as intensely) to make these people completely lose their shit, crumble to pieces and start planning their mass exodus.
That leads them (and us) to the Fediverse. Those Twitter addicts with enough willpower to actually try it out to see if it can possibly replace Twitter (most don't have it, and their threats of leaving Twitter are as genuine as every libtard's threat to leave America when Trump won the election in 2016) did so, and discovered (often within minutes) that there was practically no effective censorship on Fediverse and many of its inhabitants absolutely fucking hate the people flowing in from Twitter. Most of the would-be immigrants retreated quickly back to their safe space (despite their belief that it's being destroyed).
Some of them will undoubtedly tough it out, especially once they figure out that instances can actually block other instances, and that there are lots of instances out there. They'll find some that are as censorious as Twitter used to be, run by the same kind of people who used to infest Twitter and had access to its censorship tools, and they'll happily join and start to build a new "community" on those instances.
Initially they'll be quite happy that all the "bad" people are locked out. But then it'll start to dawn on them: there's no bad people left on their balkanized instance they can gang up on and cancel, because they're on other (blocked) instances where they have absolutely zero influence. They won't even see them and the horrible unpleasant things they say unless they willingly step out of their hugboxes and venture into the "dark places" they've deliberately gone to great lengths to block and avoid. Even then, if they want to gripe about something they see, they'll have to settle for screenshots or archives; no retweets or other interactions unless they're willing to sign up on that instance directly to do so, which brings back the risk that someone might call them "nigger" or "kike" and chase them right back to their hugbox.
Back in their hugbox, they can post all the screenshots and rants they want about those bad people on those naughty instances, but those people (and instances) will never see it. They're blocked, after all. They won't be able to bait bad people into arguments, dogpiles and struggle sessions. They won't be able to "ratio" bad people, at least from their hugbox instances, because blocking works in both directions (to my knowledge an instance that's "blocked" by another won't listen to any posts, updoots, retweets, mentions or whatever else even if the blocking instance is misconfigured/rigged to try sending them anyway).
The Fediverse absolutely can balkanize to create hugboxes, but those hugboxes have none of the power or influence that Twitter had. They can only wall themselves off behind their own iron curtain; the rest of the Fediverse will carry on as normal without them. Their only chance of replicating a "Twitter-like" social media network is to not blacklist other instances and hope the rest of the Fediverse doesn't blacklist them when they spill out of containment and start shitting up the real network with woketard complaints and endless whining.
I can't wait to see their minds break trying to choose which "lesser evil" they prefer. Especially once they realize that there's not really any reasonable way to compromise the whole network and make it some grand unified "everybody uses it so getting banned is life-ending" playground like Twitter was for them.
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The only incorrect part of your post. They'll turn to the tried and true pastime of leftists the world over for well over a century now -- they'll gang up on and cancel each other.
The only incorrect part of your post. They'll turn to the tried and true pastime of leftists the world over for well over a century now -- they'll gang up on and cancel each other.
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They'll try because various garbage journalists will try and hail that cornered area as their second great coming and anyone who is "it" will be in there talking to people.
Ya know, like whatever the fuck replaced that gaming forum nobody gives a shit about and gets the odd Kotaku or whatever article when it's a slow news day.
It'll be far more amusing whatching the crab bucket.
Ya know, like whatever the fuck replaced that gaming forum nobody gives a shit about and gets the odd Kotaku or whatever article when it's a slow news day.
It'll be far more amusing whatching the crab bucket.
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At least that’s funny and leaves regular people who just want to shitpost out of it.
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Hell I go to tumblr for fandom related stuff sometimes and there was SO MANY gender questioning posts all over the damn place that I had to stop and think really hard about myself... but then it's like, no.
I am how I am, thankyouverymuch.
A lot of the gender special types need to go watch some old sitcoms from the 70s and 80s so they can realize that not every girl has to wear fluffy pink dresses and not every boy has to play all the sports.
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The thing is that teenagers (and children before, but especially teens) are biologically geared to mimic what they see around them. This works great in a normal society where people are outside and NOT segregated by age (i.e, not schools) because they see people doing people things and they mimic them and they grow up and into their adulthood.
When that is artificially switched so that the only people they interact with are either their age (school) or people online, they get fucked in the head.
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Would be hilarious if Musk died suddenly in the near future (he's vaccinated after all) and all his maladjusted children and bipolar whores end up jointly controlling Twitter like they're the Bluth family from Arrested Development.
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If I'm late and gay then my b, but
However, the option is still there under "More" and apparently it's been limited to iOS users
I wonder what he did to piss off google other than exist
However, the option is still there under "More" and apparently it's been limited to iOS users
I wonder what he did to piss off google other than exist
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Yeah, if you figure the average Twitter employee was making $200k/yr (probably a lowball estimate for silicon valley) and he laid off 3,500 of them, that's a savings of $700 million per year right there from a single round of layoffs. Now imagine he chops another 3,500 out (the company had what, 10k+ employees when Musk bought it?), and that's $1.4 billion per year just by reducing head count. There is no conceivable reason in any parallel universe that it should require more than about a hundred technical and creative people to operate, maintain, develop and expand Twitter. Add another 50-ish for meatware handling (HR, legal, marketing & sales, managers) and that leaves a lot of fat to be trimmed.
If saving $1.4 billion or more per year isn't enough to save Twitter, it doesn't deserve to survive.
Please God let them continue doing this. They complained about endless shitposting "ruining" Twitter after Musk took over, and yet here they are shitposting themselves and breaking the rules while they do it. And they're impersonating big companies with deep pockets instead of the usual targets (right-wingers, politicians, etc.). Such companies like to sue sometimes when they think they have a brand protection issue they need to resolve. Somehow I doubt they'll go after Twitter if they decide to act. Nintendo is particularly litigious and I can easily see them suing individual impersonators for fucking with their brand.
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