Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44 billion

[devil21]

Yes.

I doubt the timing of the announcement of a new "Disinformation Governance Board" was entirely coincidental.

Psaki claims that it's part of new Trump era (2018) DHS agency: CISA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecurity_and_Infrastructure_Security_Agency

Dunno if true but believable.

 

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

Maybe we don't really believe it. Maybe we're just trying to get in, and get a slice, and dip back out before it all falls down.

Maybe it's like a card game, you know?

You can say the game is rigged. You can throw a fit. Flip the card table over. Swear on your life you'll never be back. You've got it figured out and you won't be a party to it.

But same time next weekend, they're playing cards again. With or without you. What actually makes it worse is that the card game involves all of us whether we want it to or not (whether we think it does or not). [Even the agorists aren't safe, sorry guys]

Maybe a few others join you in boycotting card night, but it's never enough to stop it from continuing. Not even close.

Then one day someone goes back to the game and says, 'you know what, hell with it! I might actually win.' They probably won't. It's very likely they won't. But they might. Their odds of winning are still higher than the guys who flipped over the card table and left, who aren't even playing at all (so they think). —So are their odds of losing but, they don't care anymore. They've been losing anyway. They're literally losing so much that they won't know the difference.

Are they really 'duped' if they go into it not expecting much? Isn't that what really makes all the difference?

I think you and devil (and probably others) seem to think this is just a lapse in judgement, and it is—*if people take it too seriously. And I guess it gives you the opportunity to run around admonishing everyone for their transgressions. I'm out of feathers, or I'd give you one for your cap.

But things have changed since 2007. At least for me, I don't see much benefit in wasting around with all this empirical knowledge about the inner-workings of the machine, ruminating into some dusty corner for all my thought's echos to hear.

It simply no longer becomes important for me to know what they're up to. I no longer need to know the details of who deals with who behind closed doors, because I approach it with the standard assumption that it is probably not what it seems, and no amount of further analyzation is going to reveal any true surprises.

But trying to get what I can get, when I can get it, while I can get it, I don't think meets the threshold of useful idiotry. That actually seems pretty smart at this point.

Years ago I went fishing with a son. He had quit fishing long before I did. At one point I reeled in and there was no bait on the hook. My son mocked me saying, "you aren't going to catch anything with that." My response was, "my bare hook in the water has a better chance of catching a fish than your empty hook out of the water."

 

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

Elon should buy the US and then elect himself Pres

Hunter might be able to arrange that.

 

[nobody's_hero]

Years ago I went fishing with a son. He had quit fishing long before I did. At one point I reeled in and there was no bait on the hook. My son mocked me saying, "you aren't going to catch anything with that." My response was, "my bare hook in the water has a better chance of catching a fish than your empty hook out of the water."

A more succinct parable. +rep for you

Although I think we're not even well off enough to have a hook and a reel, and a probably down to using our bare hands.

 

[Firestarter]

So a moderator of RPF, proclaimed libertarian, is a fan of boiling the frog now eh? Drinkin' a bit too much of your own Kool-aid lately, I fear. Post up memes of the same tired 2016 election reactions and a handful of twittersphere pundits and watch everyone embrace their loss of a little more privacy and anonymity. Then after everyone is required to have the "Verified Internet ID" just to use email, we'll wonder "How did we get here???"

I once saw a thread on Ronpaulforums.com about the husband of a granddaughter of Ron Paul being prosecuted for his corrupt dealings, even though he had been pardoned by president Donald at the request of Rand Paul...

I sometimes think that Donald Trump is intentionally used for a decoy.
In the whole thread no connection to the Paul family was mentioned, but Trump was mentioned over and over and over again...

 

[ClaytonB]

It simply no longer becomes important for me to know what they're up to. I no longer need to know the details of who deals with who behind closed doors, because I approach it with the standard assumption that it is probably not what it seems, and no amount of further analyzation is going to reveal any true surprises. (and there again, even if it was revealed, what exactly would you have me do with this knowledge? Most people don't seem to care. And if I brought it here to RPF, I can guarantee there would be someone who flipped it around and deconstructed it in some attempt to enlighten me that I've been swindled and bamboozled, and it's actually the opposite of what I interpreted . . . and we're back to square one.)

Emphasis added... Very well said!!

 

[vita3]

Musk has worked well with Pentagon

You know it’s a free site when Assange tweets are green lighted

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1521183425914417158

 

[Brian4Liberty]

... Then after everyone is required to have the "Verified Internet ID" just to use email, we'll wonder "How did we get here???"

Do you have any quotes of Elon Musk supporting "Verified Internet ID"?

I know about the Tweet about "verifying humans", but that was vague, and in the context of battling bots.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Re-quoted for truth. This site has come along way since 2007. Sadly RPF seems mostly onboard in believing the fake magic show provided by the elites wholly own propaganda arms as well as their nationally known pundits-podcasters, their friends and the chorus from countless useful idiots that believe it all.

Before anyone says that is snobbish again, well, I have been a useful idiot as well in my life including here. No one is immune to it from time to time.

Yeah, Ron Paul should quit talking about this stuff.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

 

[pcosmar]

 

[devil21]

Do you have any quotes of Elon Musk supporting "Verified Internet ID"?

I know about the Tweet about "verifying humans", but that was vague, and in the context of battling bots.

Fwiw, I have received 100% confirmation for myself that Musk is indeed being engineered into a cult figure for the right, a la Donald. Obviously there would be a reason for that and Musk's tweet about verifying all humans gives it away, since they must make the truth/intention known for karmic reasons (see: Donald's snake story at rally right before election). Basis of my 100% confirmation wouldn't mean anything to you so don't bother asking me for further evidence or explanation. We will see soon enough...

 

[dannno]

 

[ClaytonB]

 

[CaptUSA]

https://www.the-sun.com/tech/5261566/musk-make-twitter-users-pay-slight-fee-to-tweet/

Seems like a decent idea to me. I'm sure it'll get into questions about where to draw the line, but if corporations and governments want to enter the "town square" to spread their corporate/government message, it seems reasonable to have them pay for the privilege.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/teslaownersSV/status/1522091802316066816

 

[ClaytonB]

 

[devil21]

nm, was a limited time only post

 

[Firestarter]

Are we supposed to believe this BS that Elon Musk is a real-life crusader for "free speech"? Unless of course you criticise Tesla or the green energy fraud that is more polluting than "dirty" fossil fuels!


In March and December of 2021, a whistleblower complaint about the fire risk of Tesla solar panels leading to a SEC investigation got some publicity, but is now forgotten by just about all our wonderful media.
Shortly after the whistleblower, Steven Henkes, filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Elon Musk blatantly covered this up by a BS tweet (in the tradition of Donald Trump), on 30 November 2021 Musk (first) tweeted “Blow the whistle on Tesla!” (actually selling a steel whistle).

Steven Henkes wroked as a SolarCity and Tesla field quality manager and was fired in August 2020 after he had filed a whistleblower complaint about the solar panels in 2019. Henkes sued Tesla arguing that he dismissal was in retaliation for raising safety concerns.

Without disclosing the fire risk, Tesla began a program to replace "defective" solar panel parts.
Several customers or their insurers have sued Tesla over fires caused by their solar systems, In 2019, Walmart filed a lawsuit against Tesla claiming that its roof solar system led to 7 store fires. They ultimately reached a settlement: https://www.reuters.com/markets/com...blower-claims-solar-panel-defects-2021-12-06/


Henkes said that Tesla 'knew about the problem well before 2017' of the solar panel fire risk.

https://archive.ph/LEUHH



Henkes wasn't the only whistleblower that was silenced by Tesla.
Cristina Balan, who worked at Tesla from 2010 through 2014, foolishly sent an email directly to Musk, complaining about contracts being awarded based on personal relationships, safety issues with interior floor mats, and such problems being covered up by managers. She was threatened by human resources personnel into resigning.
She learnt that the email she sent to Musk, in 7 minutes after opening was forwarded to Tesla’s human resources manager.

Also in December 2021, 6 (current and former) employees at Tesla’s San Francisco Bay Area electric auto factory filed a lawsuit about sexually harassment at work. In November Jessica Barraza, also accused Tesla of of “rampant sexual harassment”: https://progressive.org/latest/tesla-history-silencing-whistleblowers-cords-220115/