The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP

[Enrico_sw]

Vijaya Gadde was the " head of legal, policy, and trust at Twitter".

 

In short, she was the boss of the Stasi

 

[Enrico_sw]

^ at least, she was kinda cute.

[Enrico_sw]

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Elon Musk Reportedly Wants Twitter Verified Users to Pay $20 per Month — or Lose Their Blue Check Marks

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/twitter-verified-users-subscription-price-blue-check-mark-musk-1235418285/

 

In the end, Elon is the one taxing the rich

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17 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

Is it true that Gisele divorced him because she is angry he won't retire? It does seem weird he is clinging to his career this deep into his forties, especially since he has nothing more to prove. He has even answered the "can he win withouth Belicheck" question.

 

Maybe one of them did adultery?

[SympathysSilhouette]

10 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

In the end, Elon is the one taxing the rich

 

Seems unlikely most people will pay for this.

Like why would large publications pay the 100Ks a year it would cost them to buy blue ticks for all of their staff? Doesn't seem worth it.

[SympathysSilhouette]

11 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

Vijaya Gadde was the " head of legal, policy, and trust at Twitter".

 

In short, she was the boss of the Stasi

 

 

Aah yes, people can finally use the N-word with impunity on the bird app again, that will make it such a better place.

 

[SympathysSilhouette]

11 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

$122 million.............................

 

For these useless creeps. Oh, it pays well to be a progressive. Leftists always were the biggest thieves

 

They already made much more than that. Remember that all of these folks had a substantial amount of shares.

 

In essence, after Elon overpaid with his initial offer and then tried to get out of it, the current (well now previous) management made him uphold the deal.

The timing of the purchase is no coincidence, some deadlines were about to run out (at which point they could have sued Elon).

Elon getting rid of all of them is his "revenge", but it's a paltry one considering they fleeced him  majorly on the deal.

The most optimistic analysis suggests the purchase was overvalued by 14 dollars a share, but other analysts claim this is still overvaluing the company's actual worth and he actually overpaid by more than 14 dollars a share.

 

In essence the only winners in this thing are the twitter shareholders (including the now fired board of directors).

[Enrico_sw]

4 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

Aah yes, people can finally use the N-word with impunity on the bird app again, that will make it such a better place.

 

 

If you like the thought police so much, you can emigrate to China or Venezuela... Maduro would love to get new citizens, since his own are fleeing his socialist nightmare

[Enrico_sw]

4 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

Seems unlikely most people will pay for this.

Like why would large publications pay the 100Ks a year it would cost them to buy blue ticks for all of their staff? Doesn't seem worth it.

 

That's exactly what happens with heavy taxation... the middle class pay, but the uber-rich can emigrate, get tax evasion or loopholes.

 

You can share this on twitter. With all the SJWs that lurk there, that'd be useul. Maybe they would learn a thing or two about economics.

 

(be careful they don't call you a "reeecist" for disagreeing with them though )

[Enrico_sw]

4 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

Aah yes, people can finally use the N-word with impunity on the bird app again, that will make it such a better place.

 

 

That's what I hate with the Americanisation of the world. Every conversation is irremediably brought back to race.

 

I didn't mention race for one second here... but you had to bring this up. It's like the new Godwin's law.

 

[SympathysSilhouette]

16 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

If you like the thought police so much, you can emigrate to China or Venezuela... Maduro would love to get new citizens, since his own are fleeing his socialist nightmare

 

Explain to me why brands would want to be on a platform where each tweet they make can be bombarded with racial slurs? I'm talking about how this is supposed to work in the real world, the one we are currently inhabiting.

[Enrico_sw]

4 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

They already made much more than that. Remember that all of these folks had a substantial amount of shares.

 

In essence, after Elon overpaid with his initial offer and then tried to get out of it, the current (well now previous) management made him uphold the deal.

The timing of the purchase is no coincidence, some deadlines were about to run out (at which point they could have sued Elon).

Elon getting rid of all of them is his "revenge", but it's a paltry one considering they fleeced him  majorly on the deal.

The most optimistic analysis suggests the purchase was overvalued by 14 dollars a share, but other analysts claim this is still overvaluing the company's actual worth and he actually overpaid by more than 14 dollars a share.

 

In essence the only winners in this thing are the twitter shareholders (including the now fired board of directors).

 

True. And all these scammers that became uber-rich are all self-labelled leftists.

 

Leftism is full of scammers. The peons in the socialist sects don't get nothing. Oh, but the socialist masters always get uber-rich and powerful.

 

That's a huge part of the 20th century history.

[SympathysSilhouette]

12 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

That's what I hate with the Americanisation of the world. Every conversation is irremediably brought back to race.

 

I didn't mention race for one second here... but you had to bring this up. It's like the new Godwin's law.

 

 

I bring up race because it's one of the major changes that has already been noticed since Musk's takeover.

 

 

 

 

[Enrico_sw]

1 minute ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

Explain to me why brands would want to be on a platform where each tweet they make can be bombarded with racial slurs? I'm talking about how this is supposed to work in the real world, the one we are currently inhabiting.

 

I have not mentioned racial slurs or race for one second. You brought that topic up. Not me.

 

Race is the obsession of the Woke, and this obsession creates more racism.

[SympathysSilhouette]

2 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

I have not mentioned racial slurs or race for one second. You brought that topic up. Not me.

 

Race is the obsession of the Woke, and this obsession creates more racism.

 

We are discussing the twitter take-over (at least I thought we were).

The discussion about what content can be allowed whilst also keeping advertisers on board is pretty central in that discussion.

Elon agrees with me, he already put out a statement trying to reassure advertisers that he wasn't going to turn twitter into a totally unregulated space.

[Enrico_sw]

1 minute ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

I bring up race because it's one of the major changes that has already been noticed since Musk's takeover.

 

 

 

 

 

This is people trolling to test the system. That's what this institute says; they are trying "to test the limits".

 

It's highly speculative to take long term conclusions based on this. Also, you would need to analyse what is the content of these posts on twitter. Some bots can do these analyses, they can even interpret the intention of the post (though it's probably still imprecise).

[SympathysSilhouette]

1 minute ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

This is people trolling to test the system. That's what this institute says; they are trying "to test the limits".

 

It's highly speculative to take long term conclusions based on this. Also, you would need to analyse what is the content of these posts on twitter. Some bots can do these analyses, they can even interpret the intention of the post (though it's probably still imprecise).

 

The point is that it doesn't matter why these posts are being made. Whether it is trolling, testing the limits or if they are actually broadcasting racist ideas.

No respectable advertiser is going to spend money on a platform where like 10% of all content contains racial slurs.

[Enrico_sw]

1 minute ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

We are discussing the twitter take-over (at least I thought we were).

The discussion about what content can be allowed whilst also keeping advertisers on board is pretty central in that discussion.

Elon agrees with me, he already put out a statement trying to reassure advertisers that he wasn't going to turn twitter into a totally unregulated space.

 

Advertisers are heavily influenced by what specific stakeholders think: the mainstream media associations (like the sleeping giants who are very biased) and above all, what their ESG score will be in the end.

 

The rest is meaning less to them.

 

This race obsession is probably part of the discussion, since it's the American Zeitgeist.

[Enrico_sw]

2 minutes ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

The point is that it doesn't matter why these posts are being made. Whether it is trolling, testing the limits or if they are actually broadcasting racist ideas.

No respectable advertiser is going to spend money on a platform where like 10% of all content contains racial slurs.

 

 

Maybe, but free speech should be essential on such a platform. If people aren't free to speak their mind, if there's a thought police (on whichever partisan side it is), then it's a worthless platform for democracy.

 

But then again, America is not a functioning democracy. And I'm sure powerful stakeholders will do everything they can to compel speech.

[SympathysSilhouette]

3 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

 

Maybe, but free speech should be essential on such a platform. If people aren't free to speak their mind, if there's a thought police (on whichever partisan side it is), then it's a worthless platform for democracy.

 

But then again, America is not a functioning democracy. And I'm sure powerful stakeholders will do everything they can to compel speech.

 

This isn't really hard to understand.

Advertisers spend money and part of the equation is that they do not want to be associated with controversial things.

This isn't just limited to race.

Like when Mason Greenwood was accused by his girlfriend of serious domestic violence and abuse, it was the Man U sponsors who applied a lot of pressure on the football club to have him removed from the squad. Which makes sense. Because why would you want a guy that people now associate with domestic violence standing next to your brand name? That's not what you play millions of euros a year for.