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1. afavou+n6[view] [source] 2022-12-16 02:16:28
>>prawn+(OP)
So this is how Twitter goes out: not with a bang but with a seemingly endless stream of stories about the little ways Elon is ruining the service each day.

Just staggers me that Elon could have just… not done any of this. And yet here we are. He’s had to sell billions in Tesla stock to finance this ongoing mayhem, this is surely going to be up there as one of the greatest examples of hubris in modern business.

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2. abraae+U7[view] [source] 2022-12-16 02:25:14
>>afavou+n6
Elon's slide into max doucheness is a real shame. I used to tell my kids he was one of the most admirable people around for jump starting the EV industry (yes, I know he didn't do it all).

Then came the pedo guy comments. I cut him slack, he must be tired/strung out, he'll apologise. He never did.

Now he's become like a meme of himself, or perhaps just himself as he always was but now right out there, and it's not good to see.

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3. walrus+M8[view] [source] 2022-12-16 02:31:33
>>abraae+U7
Maybe three or four years ago I thought that musk was basically something like the second incarnation of Howard Hughes. Some sort of eccentric high tech aerospace industry misunderstand genius.

Now I can clearly see he's just some guy who is both smart and also a raging narcissistic asshole who came from daddy's apartheid era emerald mine money.

Turns out that shitposting your way through life like an edgelord 14 year old boy on the internet is not an admirable lifestyle unless you are a hardcore musk stan.

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4. coldte+Fd[view] [source] 2022-12-16 02:56:35
>>walrus+M8
>Turns out that shitposting your way through life like an edgelord 14 year old boy on the internet is not an admirable lifestyle

Unless you do it to the outgroup. Then it's fine! Laudable even!

Same as shutting down journalists and other accounts. It was nothing to fret about when the opposite side used to do it, "they were misinforming or borderline bad anyway, and they could always start their own blog or something, so it wasn't censorship" and so on.

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5. SamBam+1h[view] [source] 2022-12-16 03:12:57
>>coldte+Fd
Who was the opposite side who were shutting down journalists?
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6. coldte+th[view] [source] 2022-12-16 03:15:19
>>SamBam+1h
The Twitter of yore shutting down conservatives and other such "controversial" opinions. I don't care much for bipartisan politics, but the partisan bias in all this is palpable, as is a "the tables have turned and we don't like it so we revert to general principles we pissed on before" vibe ...

It's also comic: pundits pissing on free speech (tons of cheering when people were cancelled before, and lots of articles on how it's justified and free speech is not the be all end-all) making a u-turn to call for free speech and condemn Musk's account shutdowns now, while Musk and co that was defending free-speech before is now censoring accounts, while the "free speech" proponents in the previous round are now cheering him for it...

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7. SamBam+tk[view] [source] 2022-12-16 03:30:24
>>coldte+th
Again, what journalists were censored? And for what reason?
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8. coldte+md1[view] [source] 2022-12-16 10:52:08
>>SamBam+tk
The bad ones. For good reasons of course! How could it be any other way?
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