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    Elon: “100% free speech, always!”

    MediaMatters: “Here’s evidence Musk is an antisemite.”

    Elon: “I’m suing you for speaking freely!”

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    Musk, the richest man in the world, said today that he will be ‘holding his breath until everyone is nice to him’. The statement came as advertisers grew concerned about being associated with blatant antisemitism. A statement released by Apple claims that Musk is ‘acting up for attention and needs a timeout and possibly a nap.’ Musk responded with a post to X, formerly a semi-legitimate social media platform, that 'Apple is a big meanie who is in bed with the Jews. ’

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    “Has our company ever made bad business decisions? Well, we once bought advertising from Twitter. Don’t do that. In the calm, rational, well-weighed opinion of our company, Musk is a massive crybaby and dealing with him is such a fucking fucking headache.” - overheard in a business seminar, 2024

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    as he has clearly abandoned his handlers, his outward communication gets worse and worse. hes like a stroke victim that refuses assistance, and is declining.

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      i think it’s pretty funny to see this guy destroy everything he comes into contact with. we already have agreed that this guy is an idiot, so we can just circlejerk until this all goes away.

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    But her boss (Elon) last night endorsed the pernicious antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jewish people are supporting “hordes of minorities” who are “flooding” into the country to replace white people.

    Ouch.

    I think that is called “Immigration” but the nuance might be lost to some people.

    It Also how genetic diversity works. Which the nuance might also be lost to some people. But this is how complex organism cycle out traits they don’t use anymore and adapt to traits they do need. We call this Evolution.

    But to say some population could control this process is laughable. I would think global warming would be our sign, we don’t have nature under control to that degree.

    And for sure, not by people who are bouncing around the idea of population replacement as a real theory.

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    “Above everything, including profit, X works to protect the public’s right to free speech. But for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable,” he added.

    It’s important to note that one of Musk’s lawyers, not Musk himself, made this statement. That’s because lawyers are immune to levels of irony that would be lethal to an ordinary human.

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    he wishes he had actual nukes… that’s the one thing in this world he really, really wants…

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    "Above everything, including profit, X works to protect the public’s right to free speech. But for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable,” he added.

    Good to know you believe in free speech. Elmo. So you won’t mind if companies exercise that right by choosing not to advertise on your racist, apartheid-loving network.

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      But for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable,” he added._

      And the freedom to say “that’s objectionable” and choose not to be associated with it.

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        That’s not freedom of speech, that’s freedom of association. Different freedoms. Your point remakns though, I’m not arguing, just pointing that out.

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    “We’ll, well, well if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions “

    Still don’t think anyone has put it better than Owen Jones .

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    This is a win for the status quo bloods and crips.

    To me, there is a lot to bash Musk on, but the twitter files confirmed and should have enlightened many of the problems we currently have with politicians/media/corporations being in bed with each other.

    This seems similar to the Russiagate stories pushed by legacy media.

    Smearing opposition of the status quo, then once the population believes the lies, the truth starts to comes out years later by MSM journalists.

    I make mistakes and I am willing to learn, so please if anyone can articulate and explain in detail?

    Why all the baseless hate against Musk, while we already know enough about how he treats his workers to be against him. No need to be hostile or to lie when talking about him.

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        Did you not read all of my response.

        Consistency is required when looking at the problems we have.

        This is happenong to Musk, but the same happens to people on the left.

        Smears happen without proof, just for going against the status quo.

        This seems to be a smear for not siding with Israel, and calling for peace.

        Your response does not help make your point, it does the opposite.

        I am not sure what you are trying to get across.

        Reminds me of Trump derangement syndrome.

        Again, we have enough to bash Musk as is, no need to lie or make up things.

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          Smears happen without proof, just for going against the status quo.

          The proof are his tweets.

          This seems to be a smear for not siding with Israel, and calling for peace.

          No, not at all. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

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            Yes, that may be so.

            That is why I commented, to educate myself on what I did not know, and what I thought it was about.

            People that know or are confident in opposing what I say will hopefully teach me a different point of view.

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              Yeah right, as if anybody parroting your trumptard garbage is looking to “learn the truth”

              Russian collusion with Trump is real, several of his employees went to prison over it. Then he pardoned them. Then he continued to publicly kiss Putin’s ass even while trashing the American military and intelligence agencies.

              Trump lost the 2020 election and failed to present any tangible evidence of widespread election fraud causing the vast majority of his legal cases to fail. He had his day in court about that and lost as hard as possible.

              Then he incited the 2021 insurrection purely out of his own hubris from being a sore loser, and now he’s on trial for that and will be going to prison.

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          What do you mean without proof? Did you see the post the Musk said “is absolute truth”. Even Musk is not denying that that happened.

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          Trump derangement syndrome is where a person believes that Trump can do no wrong, is exceptionally strong and intelligent, and has been anointed by god to save the world from liberal vermin. It is rampant on twitter and among musk fanatics.

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      but the twitter files confirmed and should have enlightened many of the problems

      Oh ok, please tell me what they have confirmed. What did the twitter files say?

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          Matt Taibbi writes on this.

          I know you have a shallow understanding about the issue. That’s why you speak in generalities and have to link me a video.

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            Twitter files shows a direct line of gov’t censorship on certain topics in social media.

            These also includes our alphabet agencies in this censorship.

            Many like to watch debates on such topics, I am one that does.

            I assume you don’t like such videos, so that is my bad.

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      Why all the baseless hate against Musk

      Well, you managed one of many reasons yourself…

      we already know enough about how he treats his workers to be against him.

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        Yes, but this article seems to be a smear of MSM.

        Due to not siding with Israel and instead talking of ceasefire or peace, same with Ukraine/Russia.

        Looking at the talk he had with Lex Fridman.

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      I read these threads for the butthurt responses from the muskovites. They never disappoint.