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Lazy8

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Posted: Dec 14, 2022 - 8:08am

 islander wrote:

So where does this fall on the partisanship spectrum?


Appears to be fixed.

Also appears to have been collateral damage in the battle against bots.

As for the partisan content...are you referring to the outage (which affected a lot of users in a lot of places) or the conspiracy theories that popped up immediately after people started reporting this? Should we assume that the man who provided Starlink internet service (and hardware) to Ukraine and it's military for free for months is now trying to make the country disappear from the world conversation?

And now he appears to just not be paying his bills:

https://fortune.com/2022/12/14...

Twitter is reportedly not paying rent for its offices as Musk warns users to ‘beware of debt’

Which is undoubtedly a bold/outside the box strategy to helping the bottom line, but I don't think it counts as business genius until we see if there might be some consequence to these actions.

Clearly a partisan act. No other possible explanation. This clearly shows his bias against...um...

islander

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Posted: Dec 14, 2022 - 6:02am

 Steely_D wrote:


Man's gotta have a hero, a role model.

Dozens of lawsuits accuse Trump of not paying his bills




We know it's a strategy, but is it a smart one?  The don tended to do this in secret and threatened people who sued him with years of court battles so the info wouldn't become public. This gave him some cover while he went forward and screwed more vendors and banks before his reputation became more widespread. Elon just announced to the world that contracts and commitments mean little to him. Are you going to be the next guy to extend credit to him now?

Yeah, yeah, he's made billions so he's clearly a genius. Never mind the billions he's lost for him and his investors as well. As long as we are on the winning side none of it matters.  

/snark if needed. 
Steely_D

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Posted: Dec 14, 2022 - 5:53am

 islander wrote:

And now he appears to just not be paying his bills:



Man's gotta have a hero, a role model.

Dozens of lawsuits accuse Trump of not paying his bills


islander

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Posted: Dec 14, 2022 - 5:50am

So where does this fall on the partisanship spectrum?
And now he appears to just not be paying his bills:

https://fortune.com/2022/12/14...

Twitter is reportedly not paying rent for its offices as Musk warns users to ‘beware of debt’

Which is undoubtedly a bold/outside the box strategy to helping the bottom line, but I don't think it counts as business genius until we see if there might be some consequence to these actions. 



haresfur

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Posted: Dec 13, 2022 - 10:29pm

 Lazy8 wrote:

I heard that once, so it's true.


If you only heard it once and there's no other evidence, then the error bars are pretty large

R_P

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Posted: Dec 13, 2022 - 10:22pm

 Lazy8 wrote:
He hosts a show on MSNBC. I doubt he has any on his Christmas card list.

Which doesn't prevent him from knowing them. He likely watches/reports on them more (and did in the past before he joined the Anti-Fox).

Lazy8

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Posted: Dec 13, 2022 - 8:42pm

 haresfur wrote:
Anecdotal evidence is useful

I heard that once, so it's true.
haresfur

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Posted: Dec 13, 2022 - 3:49pm

 Lazy8 wrote:

He's not wrong, but he's using the weakest possible evidence to generalize from one Republican on twitter to Republicans in general.

Is there anyone on this earth as politically irrelevant as the chair of the San Francisco Republican Party?


Anecdotal evidence is useful
Lazy8

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Posted: Dec 13, 2022 - 1:54pm

 R_P wrote:
Likely because A. it happened that day, B. he knows Republicans.

He hosts a show on MSNBC. I doubt he has any on his Christmas card list.
R_P

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Posted: Dec 13, 2022 - 1:30pm

 Lazy8 wrote:
He's not wrong, but he's using the weakest possible evidence to generalize from one Republican on twitter to Republicans in general.

Is there anyone on this earth as politically irrelevant as the chair of the San Francisco Republican Party?

Likely because A. it happened that day, B. he knows Republicans.

ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Dec 13, 2022 - 10:06am

 Lazy8 wrote:

Is there anyone on this earth as politically irrelevant as the chair of the San Francisco Republican Party?

lol not unless you get down to Wyoming county-level Democratic leadership. And then it's neck and neck.

westslope

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Posted: Dec 13, 2022 - 9:14am

Part of my fascination with Twitter is the heavy use modern journalists make of the social media platform.   It does appear to play an agenda setting role that historically was reserved for well-financed elite media like the New York Times.

So, imagine that Twitter somehow fails and fades into irrelevance.   What will take Twitter's place in the media agenda setting role?

In recent years, it would appear that news agencies have taken up something of an agenda setting role (thanks again to the Internet).  The news agencies, however, function very differently from elite media and a platform like Twitter.
westslope

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Posted: Dec 13, 2022 - 9:09am

 Lazy8 wrote:

.....
Is there anyone on this earth as politically irrelevant as the chair of the San Francisco Republican Party?

Nice put down.

Lazy8

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Posted: Dec 13, 2022 - 7:57am

 R_P wrote:

He's not wrong, but he's using the weakest possible evidence to generalize from one Republican on twitter to Republicans in general.

Is there anyone on this earth as politically irrelevant as the chair of the San Francisco Republican Party?
kcar

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Posted: Dec 13, 2022 - 7:01am

 kurtster wrote:

I see that you have graduated from Ronald.

This may be your finest moment.

Darling! You're too kind.

Merry Xmas and
Happy New Year.

kurtster

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Posted: Dec 13, 2022 - 4:34am

 kcar wrote:

But let's just whack off over Hunter's laptop. That's the real story. 

 
I see that you have graduated from Ronald.

This may be your finest moment.
kcar

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Posted: Dec 12, 2022 - 10:36pm

 kurtster wrote:

Here try this ...
FBI warned Twitter during ‘weekly’ meetings of Hunter Biden ‘hack-and-leak operation’ before censoring The Post

Moving on ... So is everyone ok that shadow banning at Twitter is no longer a CT ?


Gosh maybe Twitter also tried to fix the 2020 battleground state votes and create fake Electors and get DOJ to nullify the election and commit seditious conspiracy and overthrow our democracy. 

But let's just whack off over Hunter's laptop. That's the real story. 


kurtster

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Posted: Dec 12, 2022 - 9:40pm

 rgio wrote:
 kurtster wrote:

It is more than Hunter's laptop. Umm, the former FBI agent, whose name I forget that ended up working for Twitter was basically a direct link back to the FBI, one of many but the primary one.

Private companies recently hired a LOT of former FBI and CIA officials, primarily because of their experience in dealing with foreign governments and disinformation.  It doesn't mean that the government is conspiring with Twitter. I guess we can assume that Truth Social colludes with Congressional Republicans via Nunes.  Hmmmm.... maybe you're right about this stuff after all.
 
Here try this ...
FBI warned Twitter during ‘weekly’ meetings of Hunter Biden ‘hack-and-leak operation’ before censoring The Post

Moving on ... So is everyone ok that shadow banning at Twitter is no longer a CT ?
R_P

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Posted: Dec 12, 2022 - 8:55pm


Red_Dragon

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Posted: Dec 12, 2022 - 6:48pm

 Coaxial wrote:

Just a quick question...How does it affect your life one way or the other? It certainly doesn't change mine one iota. What was it that buzz used to say about not sweating the small stuff and not petting the sweaty stuff or something like that.
{#Good-vibes}
 Life is way too short, D!
{#Meditate}


In as much as he controls one of the largest social media platforms on the planet in an era in which that matters, yeah, it matters. That makes it kinda big stuff.
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