Elon Musk and Twitter

[Beanz]

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[Kirkland Laing]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-m...-americans-see



Free speech absolutism.


That's just one of the crazy things about Musk buying Twitter. He knows it's secondary to his car and other businesses and that he needs significant support and cooperation from China and Indian regimes to set up factories in those markets and do business there. He knows the price of doing business there is to kowtow to the regimes like other western businesses do, especially media businesses like Hollywood and news businesses. You'd think the last thing he'd do would be to buy Twitter while claiming he was doing it to save free speech because immediately he's in conflict with his main business interests. He really thought he could be Mr. Free Speech Warrior in the west and kowtow to dictators in the east and nobody would notice? He's having some kind of slow blowing mental event it looks like. He'll end up in a hotel penthouse with foot long fingernails.

[Kirkland Laing]

https://twitter.com/jdan/status/1649466728542347266


https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/...53480946786304



Musk only needs to attract another fifty million subscribers to make up for the advertising revenue lost since he took over.





Never mind, the product has improved dramatically recently:



https://twitter.com/JewishWorker/sta...52978026840064

[Beanz]

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[TitoFan]

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Sure. No evidence. Except for this:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tex...ay-2023-05-08/

May 8 (Reuters) - The man Texas authorities say killed eight people in a barrage of gunfire at a Dallas-area shopping mall over the weekend left behind a social media profile filled with white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideology, multiple news outlets reported on Monday.

News reports linking the assailant to language praising Hitler and to diatribes vilifying racial minorities and women emerged as state police named the five adults murdered on Saturday and confirmed that three children also died - two girls, aged 11 and 8, and a 3-year-old boy.

Among the adults who lost their lives, police said, were Kyo Song Cho, 37, and his wife, Cindy Cho, 35, of Dallas. According to local media, they were the parents of the slain 3-year-old and of a 6-year-old son who was wounded and left as the lone surviving member of his immediate family.

The two girls who died, both from Sachse, Texas, were sisters, local media reported.

The deceased also included two other men, Christian LeCour, 23, of Nevada, Texas, and Elio Cumana-Rivas, 32, of Dallas, and a woman, Aishwarya Thatikonda, 26, of McKinney, Texas, police said.

A further 10 people, ranging in age from 5 to 61, were injured in the mass shooting, at least three of them critically.

Authorities have offered no word about a possible motive for Saturday's carnage at the Allen Premium Outlets mall in Allen, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, where the gunman, identified as Mauricio Garcia, 33, opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle.

Police said the attacker, a Dallas resident, was shot dead by police arriving at the scene.

PRAISE FOR HITLER AND 'RWDS' PATCH
Investigators combing social media accounts linked to the gunman found hate-filled posts targeting racial and ethnic minorities, NBC News reported, citing two law enforcement officials.

At the time of the shooting, Garcia also wore a patch bearing an "RWDS" insignia, a symbol associated with violent right-wing extremists, including the Proud Boys, according to news media organizations. RWDS is an acronym known to stand for "Right Wing Death Squad."

The New York Times, citing its own law enforcement sources, reported Garcia was believed to have posted a number of messages on a Russian social media platform praising Hitler, sympathizing with neo-Nazi beliefs and disparaging women.

The author behind some of the posts under investigation repeatedly suggested he was of Hispanic heritage and as recently as last month included a post saying that "white people and Hispanics have a lot in common."

Reuters could not independently confirm the reports.

The Allen Police Department, Collin County Sheriff's Office and the Texas Department of Public Safety did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the reports.

The massacre is among the latest in at least 202 mass shootings recorded in the United States this year, according to the nonprofit group Gun Violence Archive. The group defines a mass shooting as any in which four or more people are wounded or killed, not including the shooter.

In a statement on Sunday, U.S. President Biden renewed calls for the Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, as well as to enact universal background checks and end immunity for gun manufacturers.

In a surprise move, a committee of the state House of Representatives on Monday approved legislation to raise the minimum legal age for purchasing certain semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21 in Texas.

The measure was sponsored by Democratic lawmaker Tracy King, whose district includes the city of Uvalde, where 19 children and two teachers were killed in a mass shooting nearly a year ago. But it is unlikely to pass the Republican-dominated legislature and is opposed by Governor Greg Abbott.

Then again... maybe the social media posts were "planted" by conspirators that only seek to discredit the noble White Supremacist causes.

Also the RWDS patch could've been "planted" by police also (after they shot the shooter to death) as part of that same conspiracy.

I wasn't there... and got no DNA samples. So basically I don't even know whether there was any shooting at all.

The only important thing here is to know whether the 6-year old shot back in self-defense.

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I wasn't there... and got no DNA samples. So basically I don't even know whether there was any shooting at all.

The only important thing here is to know whether the 6-year old shot back in self-defense.

your first sentence is all truth. you weren't there so you don't know what happened. did people die? maybe? is the full story being told? probably not. your second sentence is a made up misrepresentation. which is why my signature remains. you are the kind of person who likes to make up your own facts & then contracdict the fact you just made up

[TitoFan]

I wasn't there... and got no DNA samples. So basically I don't even know whether there was any shooting at all.

The only important thing here is to know whether the 6-year old shot back in self-defense.

your first sentence is all truth. you weren't there so you don't know what happened. did people die? maybe? is the full story being told? probably not. your second sentence is a made up misrepresentation. which is why my signature remains. you are the kind of person who likes to make up your own facts & then contracdict the fact you just made up

I don't see signatures. Must be something in my settings.

Also... why the knee-jerk reaction? Did I touch a nerve or something? What "facts" did I "make up" in the second statement... and then contradict them?