Musk's Twitter Purchase

[sidcow]

Talking about making the whole thing a paid for service. 

Probably can't understand how the thing is still going despite his best efforts so he's just going down the blatant route to end it. 

[Genie]

If I were him i’d go back to the people he bought it off and take the best offer he could for it. 

Write it off as a bad investment and move on.

[StefanAVFC]

On 29/09/2023 at 18:20, bannedfromHandV said:

Can you image how tired zelensky must be? I’m tired at the end of a standard week in work, shit I’m tired on a Monday evening tell the truth. 
 

Imagine having to lead a country through an invasion and subsequent war when you have no experience whatsoever in doing anything like that. I bet he hasn’t had an hour ‘off’ since it began.

Only to get shit like this aimed at him from a childish billionaire who's never worked for anything in his life

 

[sidcow]

Anyone still using Twitter needs to ditch it ASAP man. 

This guy is trash 

[magnkarl]

21 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

Only to get shit like this aimed at him from a childish billionaire who's never worked for anything in his life

 

It's especially fun considering Elon's companies received something like 10 billion dollars in subsidies from the U.S state in a year.

As with all things Elon Musk, it's about as thoughtful as sending an elephant into a china shop and hoping he'll bring out a nice set of cups.

Edited October 2, 2023 by magnkarl

[avfc1982am]

38 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

Only to get shit like this aimed at him from a childish billionaire who's never worked for anything in his life

 

Musk is in the top list for scummiest individuals on planet earth. One of the devils bitches. 

[avfc1982am]

I like this version...

 

[Keyblade]

Bit the bullet. It's completely unusable.

[AvfcRigo82]

Musk is one of the biggest p****s on the planet. Utter freak!

[osmark86]

On 02/10/2023 at 10:22, sidcow said:

Anyone still using Twitter needs to ditch it ASAP man. 

This guy is trash 

Yup, I quit it a couple of months ago. **** that piece of shit human trash.

[osmark86]

5 hours ago, Keyblade said:

Bit the bullet. It's completely unusable.

Glad you came to your senses

[Genie]

In a story about his ex taking him to court it mentioned he has at least 11 kids.

BoJo would be proud.

You ain’t a proper playa until the media can’t be sure exactly how many children you have.

[Captain_Townsend]

What puts people off leaving is the idea if further amplifies the toxic, fascistic, pro Russian, and bot voices beginning to dominate it.

[magnkarl]

Sorry to say it Elon, but you're officially the dullest tool in the shed. You bought a social media platform to amplify racist, bigoted idiotic shit. You even boost it by replying to openly racist, bigoted tweets from accounts that are proven and in some cases previously banned individuals.

No one should ever be using X for anything, and hereby all things previously called tweets should be called Xcrements.

[chrisp65]

Welp, I’m happy to use twitter.

I’ve said it before, I don’t get this shit on my feed. I don’t follow many, not many follow me. I see sales in record shops, I see the local football chatter. There’s a bit of local council level politics and some shops. I talk to my mates in the private messaging bit.

I think you maybe get out of it, what you put in to it.

There are adverts for crappy chinese remote control toy planes, and a tiny telescopic fishing rod. But they are easily ignored. Far less invasive than the adverts on youtube.

It’s free, they don’t have my name or my date of birth, I can’t see how it’s any more or less bad than the rest of the internet. I don’t use facebook, but my understanding is that can be fairly grim if you make it that way?

There was an evening I went researching people we were discussing on here and they were clearly scumbags and I could see a lot of the trash that people talk about. But surely you have to go looking for it, or follow it, or follow the sort of people that like or repost the stuff.

The place I keep seeing Musk tweets and Laurence Fox tweets, and Andrew Tate stuff? VillaTalk. Should we all leave?

 

**edit, I forgot historians, I follow a couple of historians, and taphologists. And space stuff, mostly just notice that the space station is coming over whether you can see the northern lights this evening.

But none of them post right wing filth, anti trans stuff, or general nasty shite.

Edited October 6, 2023 by chrisp65

[bobzy]

6 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

Welp, I’m happy to use twitter.

I’ve said it before, I don’t get this shit on my feed. I don’t follow many, not many follow me. I see sales in record shops, I see the local football chatter. There’s a bit of local council level politics and some shops. I talk to my mates in the private messaging bit.

I think you maybe get out of it, what you put in to it.

There are adverts for crappy chinese remote control toy planes, and a tiny telescopic fishing rod. But they are easily ignored. Far less invasive than the adverts on youtube.

It’s free, they don’t have my name or my date of birth, I can’t see how it’s any more or less bad than the rest of the internet. I don’t use facebook, but my understanding is that can be fairly grim if you make it that way?

There was an evening I went researching people we were discussing on here and they were clearly scumbags and I could see a lot of the trash that people talk about. But surely you have to go looking for it, or follow it, or follow the sort of people that like or repost the stuff.

The place I keep seeing Musk tweets and Laurence Fox tweets, and Andrew Tate stuff? VillaTalk. Should we all leave?

Are you in favour of sportswashing generally?

Because there, we can see that the countries involved have laws and cultural norms which we would deem to be offensive at best - but the sports involved (be it football clubs or golfers or whoever) are simply playing sports.  I don't see the Saudi state enacting beheadings, so why should I care about Saudi Arabia owning Newcastle?  It's just football.

Why should I care if a platform actively promotes hate speech?  I, personally, don't see it.

 

(Edit:  Of course, I don't believe everyone should leave Twitter.  Personal choice innit).

Edited October 6, 2023 by bobzy

[chrisp65]

1 minute ago, bobzy said:

Are you in favour of sportswashing generally?

Because there, we can see that the countries involved have laws and cultural norms which we would deem to be offensive at best - but the sports involved (be it football clubs or golfers or whoever) are simply playing sports.  I don't see the Saudi state enacting beheadings, so why should I care about Saudi Arabia owning Newcastle?  It's just football.

Why should I care if a platform actively promotes hate speech?  I, personally, don't see it.

 

I don’t think any of the local clubs I’m following are involved in sports washing? I guess Llantwit Major might be, I’ll check them out.

Would you ban the internet? Newcastle United have information freely available on the internet without using twitter. I dare say Israel do too. Even some pornographers and gambling companies might be using the internet to spread bad stuff. 

You should disconnect from the internet, or you’re condoning it.

[Seat68]

7 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

Welp, I’m happy to use twitter.

I’ve said it before, I don’t get this shit on my feed. I don’t follow many, not many follow me. I see sales in record shops, I see the local football chatter. There’s a bit of local council level politics and some shops. I talk to my mates in the private messaging bit.

I think you maybe get out of it, what you put in to it.

There are adverts for crappy chinese remote control toy planes, and a tiny telescopic fishing rod. But they are easily ignored. Far less invasive than the adverts on youtube.

It’s free, they don’t have my name or my date of birth, I can’t see how it’s any more or less bad than the rest of the internet. I don’t use facebook, but my understanding is that can be fairly grim if you make it that way?

There was an evening I went researching people we were discussing on here and they were clearly scumbags and I could see a lot of the trash that people talk about. But surely you have to go looking for it, or follow it, or follow the sort of people that like or repost the stuff.

The place I keep seeing Musk tweets and Laurence Fox tweets, and Andrew Tate stuff? VillaTalk. Should we all leave?

 

**edit, I forgot historians, I follow a couple of historians, and taphologists. And space stuff, mostly just notice that the space station is coming over whether you can see the northern lights this evening.

But none of them post right wing filth, anti trans stuff, or general nasty shite.

What drove me away wasnt that I followed Fox, or Musk or any right wing commentators, it was the people I follow amplifying them. They would criticise by retweeting it so my fluffy world of country music singers and slight left authors brought hateful tweets into my otherwise pleasant world. I suspect what you are saying is that you don't get that on your feed. 

[bobzy]

4 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

I don’t think any of the local clubs I’m following are involved in sports washing? I guess Llantwit Major might be, I’ll check them out.

Would you ban the internet? Newcastle United have information freely available on the internet without using twitter. I dare say Israel do too. Even some pornographers and gambling companies might be using the internet to spread bad stuff. 

You should disconnect from the internet, or you’re condoning it.

You're not answering about the sports washing then?  That's fair.

 

And Llantwit Major sound dodgy as ****!

[chrisp65]

Just now, Seat68 said:

What drove me away wasnt that I followed Fox, or Musk or any right wing commentators, it was the people I follow amplifying them. They would criticise by retweeting it so my fluffy world of country music singers and slight left authors brought hateful tweets into my otherwise pleasant world. I suspect what you are saying is that you don't get that on your feed. 

Correct.

If someone is getting that stuff on to my feed, they’re gone.

I’ve just checked, and I’m following 239 other accounts. None of them are putting that stuff in front of me. If one of them did, I’d be following 238.