In 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter, one of the world's largest social networks, for $44 billion. From a financial perspective, it has not worked out well. Over the last two years, the value of Twitter — which Musk renamed X — has plunged. Internal documents reveal that company executives believed it was worth
Elon Musk calling out Kamala Harris for not being a "mother" when he's a serial deadbeat father to his own biological children, including a trans daughter he repeatedly deadnames and treats as if she's dead to him, is such on-the-nose villainy that, if it were presented to an editor as a work of fiction, would be summarily rejected as implausible.
I ask the same thing about much of social media, be it FB or X. The rationalizations and cognitive dissonance required to be educated about the damage they cause vs the 'benefits' is difficult to fathom.
If I hadn’t been banned, I would have quit when Must took over. All should and watch his power dissipate like a stuck balloon. If there were another option, that would happen, same with FB. I miss some connections. Substack is good but different. Spoutible tries but not the numbers and options of others. That said, the negatives weigh heavy.
This type of big money interference is really hard to fight. Technology makes that even harder. If you control a “social media” platform you control the low information voter , the historically ignorant ,the gullible , the bigots and misogynists and radical religious groups and most frighteningly the minds of the young who only know news and information and well reasoned analysis only fleetingly, if at all. Money has bought this dangerous egomaniac a large platform to support another dangerous egomaniac. We have to fight like hell to make a government that works for the people and not the fantasy of trickle down economics and rule by self appointed elites
Elon Musk was born and raised in Apartheid South Africa and only emigrated after it was clear White Supremacy in South Africa was coming to an end. He has been programmed to actually believe his white skin makes him superior to all others.
Right. And I believe his family his fortune comes from emerald mines. I can only imagine the suffering that was involved in that. Suffering not by the white owners.
His grandfather was a ‘technocrat.’ The group was pushed out of CAN and so the family went to South Africa. Although the grandfather died while Musk was very young, Musk’s actions & statements reflect his technocracy beliefs — although not overtly about changing the US. A world where robots do the work and a few ‘experts’ make the decisions.
—In 2019, Musk tweeted, “accelerating Starship development to build the Martian Technocracy.” —
Stephen, I agree. Don’t support this..I had over 700 followers and left the minute muskolini bought it. We’ve all lived without this before, it’s not as needed as people convince themselves it is. I know some people have 20k followers..or more! I get that…tell them where you’re moving..if the don’t follow…🤷🏻♀️
There are people on twitter that have not moved to another platform, and I want to know what they're saying. Elie Mystal, Katie Phang, and Empty Wheel are just three of the people I follow. I've blocked Musk and any MAGAt that comes to my page.
Instead of whining and complaining about being "banned" from X, why don't ALL OF YOU just leave? Only the dregs and hangers on of short form hatred and fearmongering stay on a platform this horrible! Find another way to spread your 180 characters. X is SO OVER! simply a hatefest for the unoriginal thinkers who've stayed too long at this disrespectful dangerous place. GTFO it!
Yes. I want to learn what John Flannery, Laurence Tribe, and Andrew Weissman (and some others including the wonderful Lakota Man) so I stay on X. I've tried without much success to get established on Mastodon, Threads, Reddit, Post...and don't know how to go further.
Today would be an excellent day for an en masse deleting, of that app, wouldn't it? I joined it Jan 8 '21 (the day the Dolt was banned "for life") and certainly learned a lot, I understood the appeal, but deleted the app when Elno first started messing with checkmarks as that was a clear indication of his intent to disrupt the platform in favor of hate.
I do not use Twitter, and am waiting for people to tank the platform by switching to something else. Leave it for the right wing fascists, so that it goes the route of obsolescence. Also, I would like to point out that Musk is one of the Tech Bros who are backing Juvie Vance. I hear whispers that their plan is to install Juvie as VP, and then have him file article 25 so that he can take over as Pres by claiming Trump is unfit. Since Thiel and Musk want to run the US through virtue of being White Supremacist Billionaires, we can imagine that Project 2025 will be their playbook, but so will other rich, egomaniac things. They see Vance as their puppet in the White House, and in this interview Musk can gather a lot of stuff to later show Trump is unfit, after he gets done talking it up as being a good reason why Trump should be president. He should just come out and say, "Vote for Trump because he is White and Male and nothing else matters!" However, the Heritage Foundation seems to have a plan for implementing Project 2025, whether or not unreliable Trump wants to, but placing one of their guys into the role of Chief of Staff. If they have their way (read Chapter 1 of Project 2025 called The White House Office), where the COS has been given enormous powers as the gatekeeper to access to the president, and the VP is there to serve at the Whim of. The COS also talks about the auto signature. Clearly the COS plans to use that to make sure everything is signed whether or not Trump wants it. So, there seem to be 2 plans to circumvent Trump once getting him in power. Both should be avoided since Juvie is a nasty piece of work as is Trump. Let us get a win-win with The Prosecutor and The Coach, instead of the Criminal and the Couch!
Depends what you have stuck between the cushions. An unclean .... could do it. I remember working in a French deli and cutting my thumb with a sharp knife while cutting liver pate, and going to the ER. In the next curtained section I heard a doctor very harshly telling an old man that his penis was so gangrenous it would have to be amputated. The man started to make some moans of protest and the doctor told him he could get a second opinion anywhere but they would concur with him (arrogant White doctor with old Black man who looked poor to me when I got a glimpse). Needless to say the old man was not the only one traumatized by his news and bedside manner. When my mom took me home I asked her why his penis would be gangrenous and infected and she said probably from syphilis that had gone untreated. My daughter had to hear that story, as did her friends, when talking about using condoms to protect from STDs. It does not sound like our Juvie friend, who has the social emotional development of a stunted teenager, is the kind to use condoms. However, I guess we have to ask his wife. It reminds me of how the mom of one of my daughter's friends, who is from China, planned for her daughter to go to Yale so she could marry a Yalie. No caring about her daughter having her own career, which she plans on doing, but just go to Yale to marry a Yalie. Wondering if that was the goal for JDVs wife too. When my friend said this to me about her daughter I just said, the reputation of Yale is that the men are so arrogant that the fraternity chant is "No means yes, and yes means anal." So, I just think that she should be glad that Juvie is not her daughter's "successful marriage."
Hahahaha! Yep. And from humpin hamberders to wearing a tie that's longer than your, ahem... member ALL are symptoms of the same dread STD called JDV.
From what I understand, symptoms also include the nads drawing back up into and beyond the scrotal sack, nigh up into the brain-house proper. Kinda makes for skewed thinking, ya know? Or should that be "screwed?"
Yes it does. Although I think of the initials standing for Juvenile Delinquent, Juvie for short, and it reminds me of my friend's mom, who called kids at our school that she did not like GD, JDs! As in warning us to stay away from them. That is how I feel about JD, and there is no antibiotic against that.
Effectiveness and efficiency is what I prefer to use. Someone posted this simulation of Trump with subtitles that are saying something relevant to this election coming from Jeff Tiedrich's Substack. It is pretty apropos of the situation. https://youtu.be/WiEO9p8OVMQ?si=xd4XCsWwuks6Z6Tx
It was Kenneth Boulding, the late president of the American Association for the advancement of science, who explained in his presidential address to the AAAS, that veracity, or telling the truth as best we can, is a core underlying value of both science and democracy.
His lengthy but elucidating address can be found in the February 1980 issue of Science magazine.
When I found this, I better understood why anti-democracy forces also attack science and question scientific methods of inquiry.
Thank you Judd, Rebecca, and Noel for investigating the unrelenting cruel distortion of Eon Musk's use of his billions to promote Donald Trump. He has seized upon Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as his targets for false political slander. We need to know and promote truth that clears away what stands in the way of electing admirable and wise people who can do much good for our country, and thus for the rest of the world (especially Ukraine and Gaza).
I read so many comments that focus on the negative. That is important, but remembering what we are FOR may be more important. That is why Kamala and Tim are generating joyous energy.
Everyday he does these outrageous, dishonest tweets and nothing ever happens. He's incredibly dangerous. I'm disgusted that the federal government has done nothing when his companies are so deeply involved with the government and national security
As a well-known sports commentator here in the Cleveland, Ohio area is fond of saying, "Ain't nothing good ever comes from up there on the Twitter." I've followed that sage advise from the beginnings of the Twit.
Anyone who stays on X and supports Musk is nuts. I left the day he purchased it, is perhaps the only person worst the DonOld tRump. Please leave immediately
I left Twitter the day he bought it and never looked back; don't miss it a bit. Is there any way to know if it has any influence beyond the most MAGA of the lot these days? I don't understand why people are still there. Are people of integrity and intelligence hoping to change minds, or are they just going about their business and ignoring the muck along the way?
Back in the day, these vile, weird, entitled, racist sickos would have been wearing white robes with hoods. We’re not going back. Never again. So I tell these assholes, we’re not afraid of you, nor do you deserve our pity. Take your money and your warped minds somewhere we never have to hear your name again.
I believe in free speech, but I also believe that there should be laws that ban deep fakes that have not been labeled as such...not with fines, but with jail time for the CEO if the company continues to break the law. Just sayin'
Musk is a child. Anyone needing that much money and that much attention, and who is incapable of seeing the negative effects of lying while expressing those lies, is a threat to society and to the world. He is a national security risk and has proven it by his support of fellow oligarch Vladimir Putin and his illegal meddling in state affairs, both as a commentator and a strategic partner to the state and defense departments. He is exhibit #1 in the need to abolish dark money by suitable legislation or constitutional amendment. Assuming we last that long.
This looks like a political contribution worth, if not $44 billion, somewhat over the FEC’s $3,300 limit. And if Citizens United ruled that $$$ - speech, might not the converse be true? DoJ and FEC - be alert !
Elon Musk calling out Kamala Harris for not being a "mother" when he's a serial deadbeat father to his own biological children, including a trans daughter he repeatedly deadnames and treats as if she's dead to him, is such on-the-nose villainy that, if it were presented to an editor as a work of fiction, would be summarily rejected as implausible.
Glad I got banned four years ago. I liked Twitter but would never go back
I don't understand why it hasn't been abandoned en masse. I've never used it and given what it has become, I am glad I dodged that bullet.
I ask the same thing about much of social media, be it FB or X. The rationalizations and cognitive dissonance required to be educated about the damage they cause vs the 'benefits' is difficult to fathom.
If I hadn’t been banned, I would have quit when Must took over. All should and watch his power dissipate like a stuck balloon. If there were another option, that would happen, same with FB. I miss some connections. Substack is good but different. Spoutible tries but not the numbers and options of others. That said, the negatives weigh heavy.
Have you tried Threads? It's quite the happy place.
Owned by Meta, is it not.
It is. But, so far, Zuck is leaving it alone.
I bailed when the Moscvitch bought it. Lost contact with all my British Antarctica Survey folks.
I miss my contacts too. A great resource with possibilities totally turned into a weapon by the greedy bastard
This type of big money interference is really hard to fight. Technology makes that even harder. If you control a “social media” platform you control the low information voter , the historically ignorant ,the gullible , the bigots and misogynists and radical religious groups and most frighteningly the minds of the young who only know news and information and well reasoned analysis only fleetingly, if at all. Money has bought this dangerous egomaniac a large platform to support another dangerous egomaniac. We have to fight like hell to make a government that works for the people and not the fantasy of trickle down economics and rule by self appointed elites
Elon Musk was born and raised in Apartheid South Africa and only emigrated after it was clear White Supremacy in South Africa was coming to an end. He has been programmed to actually believe his white skin makes him superior to all others.
Right. And I believe his family his fortune comes from emerald mines. I can only imagine the suffering that was involved in that. Suffering not by the white owners.
But huge wealth gives a kind of confidence I can't pretend to understand!
His grandfather was a ‘technocrat.’ The group was pushed out of CAN and so the family went to South Africa. Although the grandfather died while Musk was very young, Musk’s actions & statements reflect his technocracy beliefs — although not overtly about changing the US. A world where robots do the work and a few ‘experts’ make the decisions.
—In 2019, Musk tweeted, “accelerating Starship development to build the Martian Technocracy.” —
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk/
I blocked him on July 13 and while Twitter is still a cesspool, I’m free of his BS.
If it's a cesspool why are you still on it?
Nothing personal but I don't understand how anyone other than a MAGAt would be onany soxial media platform, especially that one. Please explain!
Stephen, I agree. Don’t support this..I had over 700 followers and left the minute muskolini bought it. We’ve all lived without this before, it’s not as needed as people convince themselves it is. I know some people have 20k followers..or more! I get that…tell them where you’re moving..if the don’t follow…🤷🏻♀️
“Muskolini”
That is a good one!
There are people on twitter that have not moved to another platform, and I want to know what they're saying. Elie Mystal, Katie Phang, and Empty Wheel are just three of the people I follow. I've blocked Musk and any MAGAt that comes to my page.
I'm also on Threads, which is gaining more ground.
That’s still FB isn’t it. Banned from there too. Didn’t like criticism of chump four years ago.
Instead of whining and complaining about being "banned" from X, why don't ALL OF YOU just leave? Only the dregs and hangers on of short form hatred and fearmongering stay on a platform this horrible! Find another way to spread your 180 characters. X is SO OVER! simply a hatefest for the unoriginal thinkers who've stayed too long at this disrespectful dangerous place. GTFO it!
Yes. I want to learn what John Flannery, Laurence Tribe, and Andrew Weissman (and some others including the wonderful Lakota Man) so I stay on X. I've tried without much success to get established on Mastodon, Threads, Reddit, Post...and don't know how to go further.
Today would be an excellent day for an en masse deleting, of that app, wouldn't it? I joined it Jan 8 '21 (the day the Dolt was banned "for life") and certainly learned a lot, I understood the appeal, but deleted the app when Elno first started messing with checkmarks as that was a clear indication of his intent to disrupt the platform in favor of hate.
Because it’s useful to know what the Crazy Right is saying.
Plus, we have a good community of Mainers that isn't political and stays We get good Maine Weather forecasts, and local happenings.
also don't cede ground in an information warfare
I do not use Twitter, and am waiting for people to tank the platform by switching to something else. Leave it for the right wing fascists, so that it goes the route of obsolescence. Also, I would like to point out that Musk is one of the Tech Bros who are backing Juvie Vance. I hear whispers that their plan is to install Juvie as VP, and then have him file article 25 so that he can take over as Pres by claiming Trump is unfit. Since Thiel and Musk want to run the US through virtue of being White Supremacist Billionaires, we can imagine that Project 2025 will be their playbook, but so will other rich, egomaniac things. They see Vance as their puppet in the White House, and in this interview Musk can gather a lot of stuff to later show Trump is unfit, after he gets done talking it up as being a good reason why Trump should be president. He should just come out and say, "Vote for Trump because he is White and Male and nothing else matters!" However, the Heritage Foundation seems to have a plan for implementing Project 2025, whether or not unreliable Trump wants to, but placing one of their guys into the role of Chief of Staff. If they have their way (read Chapter 1 of Project 2025 called The White House Office), where the COS has been given enormous powers as the gatekeeper to access to the president, and the VP is there to serve at the Whim of. The COS also talks about the auto signature. Clearly the COS plans to use that to make sure everything is signed whether or not Trump wants it. So, there seem to be 2 plans to circumvent Trump once getting him in power. Both should be avoided since Juvie is a nasty piece of work as is Trump. Let us get a win-win with The Prosecutor and The Coach, instead of the Criminal and the Couch!
"...then have him file article 25 so that he can take over..."
Makes sense over offering TFG (Tubby Fat Gelatinous) daily cheeseburgers and waiting for nature to take its course.
Yet another reason to vote Blue (as if you needed another) !
Nice reporting PI !
So, we can wonder whether the Republicans are all gathering data on his weirdness to use for an article 25 case.
It does explain the Republicans' allowing (assuming they have any control options) Trump to keep digging the dementia hole.
I heard the same of JDV (sounds like a sexually transmitted disease don't it?) and would not discount that possibility at all.
Do you get this STD from couches? Asking for a guy from Ohio.
Depends what you have stuck between the cushions. An unclean .... could do it. I remember working in a French deli and cutting my thumb with a sharp knife while cutting liver pate, and going to the ER. In the next curtained section I heard a doctor very harshly telling an old man that his penis was so gangrenous it would have to be amputated. The man started to make some moans of protest and the doctor told him he could get a second opinion anywhere but they would concur with him (arrogant White doctor with old Black man who looked poor to me when I got a glimpse). Needless to say the old man was not the only one traumatized by his news and bedside manner. When my mom took me home I asked her why his penis would be gangrenous and infected and she said probably from syphilis that had gone untreated. My daughter had to hear that story, as did her friends, when talking about using condoms to protect from STDs. It does not sound like our Juvie friend, who has the social emotional development of a stunted teenager, is the kind to use condoms. However, I guess we have to ask his wife. It reminds me of how the mom of one of my daughter's friends, who is from China, planned for her daughter to go to Yale so she could marry a Yalie. No caring about her daughter having her own career, which she plans on doing, but just go to Yale to marry a Yalie. Wondering if that was the goal for JDVs wife too. When my friend said this to me about her daughter I just said, the reputation of Yale is that the men are so arrogant that the fraternity chant is "No means yes, and yes means anal." So, I just think that she should be glad that Juvie is not her daughter's "successful marriage."
Hahahaha! Yep. And from humpin hamberders to wearing a tie that's longer than your, ahem... member ALL are symptoms of the same dread STD called JDV.
From what I understand, symptoms also include the nads drawing back up into and beyond the scrotal sack, nigh up into the brain-house proper. Kinda makes for skewed thinking, ya know? Or should that be "screwed?"
Yes it does. Although I think of the initials standing for Juvenile Delinquent, Juvie for short, and it reminds me of my friend's mom, who called kids at our school that she did not like GD, JDs! As in warning us to stay away from them. That is how I feel about JD, and there is no antibiotic against that.
Chump is too self-obsessed to realize that he is a place-holder for competence, albeit evil too.
Effectiveness and efficiency is what I prefer to use. Someone posted this simulation of Trump with subtitles that are saying something relevant to this election coming from Jeff Tiedrich's Substack. It is pretty apropos of the situation. https://youtu.be/WiEO9p8OVMQ?si=xd4XCsWwuks6Z6Tx
Absolutely love this. I called him a Hitler wannabe four years ago. FB and T were so offended.
It was Kenneth Boulding, the late president of the American Association for the advancement of science, who explained in his presidential address to the AAAS, that veracity, or telling the truth as best we can, is a core underlying value of both science and democracy.
His lengthy but elucidating address can be found in the February 1980 issue of Science magazine.
When I found this, I better understood why anti-democracy forces also attack science and question scientific methods of inquiry.
Thanks for this update on an old problem.
Thank you Judd, Rebecca, and Noel for investigating the unrelenting cruel distortion of Eon Musk's use of his billions to promote Donald Trump. He has seized upon Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as his targets for false political slander. We need to know and promote truth that clears away what stands in the way of electing admirable and wise people who can do much good for our country, and thus for the rest of the world (especially Ukraine and Gaza).
I read so many comments that focus on the negative. That is important, but remembering what we are FOR may be more important. That is why Kamala and Tim are generating joyous energy.
Everyday he does these outrageous, dishonest tweets and nothing ever happens. He's incredibly dangerous. I'm disgusted that the federal government has done nothing when his companies are so deeply involved with the government and national security
As a well-known sports commentator here in the Cleveland, Ohio area is fond of saying, "Ain't nothing good ever comes from up there on the Twitter." I've followed that sage advise from the beginnings of the Twit.
Thanks for pointing out all this disgusting and disgraceful behavior and lies. Hopefully mainstream sources pick This up too.
Anyone who stays on X and supports Musk is nuts. I left the day he purchased it, is perhaps the only person worst the DonOld tRump. Please leave immediately
I left Twitter the day he bought it and never looked back; don't miss it a bit. Is there any way to know if it has any influence beyond the most MAGA of the lot these days? I don't understand why people are still there. Are people of integrity and intelligence hoping to change minds, or are they just going about their business and ignoring the muck along the way?
Back in the day, these vile, weird, entitled, racist sickos would have been wearing white robes with hoods. We’re not going back. Never again. So I tell these assholes, we’re not afraid of you, nor do you deserve our pity. Take your money and your warped minds somewhere we never have to hear your name again.
I believe in free speech, but I also believe that there should be laws that ban deep fakes that have not been labeled as such...not with fines, but with jail time for the CEO if the company continues to break the law. Just sayin'
Monetary fines mean nothing to people like Musk.
Musk is a child. Anyone needing that much money and that much attention, and who is incapable of seeing the negative effects of lying while expressing those lies, is a threat to society and to the world. He is a national security risk and has proven it by his support of fellow oligarch Vladimir Putin and his illegal meddling in state affairs, both as a commentator and a strategic partner to the state and defense departments. He is exhibit #1 in the need to abolish dark money by suitable legislation or constitutional amendment. Assuming we last that long.
This looks like a political contribution worth, if not $44 billion, somewhat over the FEC’s $3,300 limit. And if Citizens United ruled that $$$ - speech, might not the converse be true? DoJ and FEC - be alert !