Current Affairs Elon Musk

[Walken]

Listened to the WW2 and bit of the Churchill sections, and it’s pretty remarkable.

He kind of brushes over Hitler’s bombing and invasion of Poland, and subsequent invasion and defeat of France and Northern Europe, but then makes the point that after that, ‘Hitler then made offers of peace with Britain’, but Churchill wouldn’t accept as he wanted to keep the war going, and Churchill then instigated bombing campaigns in Germany which killed many civilians (as if the German conquest of Poland and Europe was free of any civilian casualties)

The new ‘traditional values, conservative right wing’, just asking questions, simply having an open conversation in the marketplace of ideas, wherein they recast Adolf Hitler as the attempted peacemaker of Europe.

Stop the world, I’m getting off.

I think holocaust denial and pro-nazi stance was an inevitable outcome for this new era of right wing populism

 

[Walken]

id have twitter over any msm newspaper everytime.
Both sides are on X, a newspaper just gives a onesided agenda.
Suppose thats why X is now the number 1 news source in the world

How much regulation and culpability or editorial process is twitter enforced by compared to a newspaper in the UK?

 

[Huyton Layne]

Sorry folks. This thread had to be moved to CA

Always inevitable, once he started doing politics, conspiracy theories, and culture wars and not just being a weird needy oddball.

 

[verreauxi]

How much regulation and culpability or editorial process is twitter enforced by compared to a newspaper in the UK?

You know, both sides: Holocaust denial, racism, outlandish conspiracy theories...but on the other side there are also stories about unionization efforts, environmental deregulation, and kids who use they/them pronouns. Both sides!

 

[Bedfordblue]

As toxic as X is, more liberally minded people leaving will only make it worse, not threaten its existence.

 

[tsubaki]

As toxic as X is, more liberally minded people leaving will only make it worse, not threaten its existence.

I disagree - it’s entirely dependent on engagement, take that away and it will turn into a much more indebted Truth Social.

 

[larrygobfiend]

I left X. I’m convinced that its algorithm is rigged to manipulate.

 

[Prevenger17]

I left the minute scrote took over. No way I was having his adolescent incel musings shoved into my eyes every day

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I left X. I’m convinced that its algorithm is rigged to manipulate.

I initially read that as "linked to the menopause". It's that time in life

 

[larrygobfiend]

I initially read that as "linked to the menopause". It's that time in life

I’ve noticed you’ve been a bit angry of late

 

[Amw79]

I left the minute scrote took over. No way I was having his adolescent incel musings shoved into my eyes every day

I stayed for a bit and watched it get worse and worse. Musk blindly promoting the conspiracies after Paul Pelosi was attacked in his home with a hammer was pretty much the point I thought enough was enough.

 

[dublinbluenose]

I deleted the twitter app from my phone about 6 weeks ago, haven't deleted the account yet.

I've been on blue-sky for about a year and the increase in traffic in the last month is absolutely insane, especially from UK accounts.

Quite a few blues on it.

 

[dublinbluenose]

I disagree - it’s entirely dependent on engagement, take that away and it will turn into a much more indebted Truth Social.

It's pretty much 4chan with advertising at the moment

 

[neil999]

I mean he just wants to play less.tax doesn't he? Yes the problem would go away as those people would die

 

[Damo_1878]

I mean he just wants to play less.tax doesn't he? Yes the problem would go away as those people would die

Yes. Less tax. More profit for him and more power for him

Trump gave it away what the plan is

I have Musk muted on twitter as he was being massively over promoted to my timeline

He's got no credibility where I am concerned and as for Trump....

See the Trump threads