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[SCLaxAttack]

Lately I've just checked in on Fanlax's Politics pages for the pure enjoyment of seeing afan eat the troll's lunch. And breakfast. And brunch. And dinner. And snacks.

[Peter Brown]

Elon Musk, Baloney King

You can call Elon Musk a lot of things. Agent of chaos. Savvy investor. Obsessive workaholic. But the tech-industry analyst Benedict Evans has a different suggestion. He calls Musk a “bullshitter who delivers.” I’d go even further: Musk exemplifies a new kind of bullshitter, one we haven’t really seen before. Call it the “bullionaire,” maybe: an unusual purveyor of infantile jackassery, whose unfathomable wealth makes it possible, and even likely, that he’ll carry out even the most ridiculous plan.

"Bullionaire" Good one, right? Like trump, the ersatz bullionaire...

The philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote a famous article about nonsense in the 1980s, which became a bestselling 2005 book called On nonsense. Both bullshitters and liars are trying to get away with something. But unlike the liar, who demonstrates an awareness of and concern for the truth in order to evade it, Frankfurt argues that bullshitters just don’t care about truth at all. Instead, a bullshitter strives to achieve their goals, whatever those goals are. For some of them, that amounts to hearing themselves talk. For others, it involves deception or even fraud.

At first blush, the Muskian variety looks very different. He doesn’t seem like a man who is indifferent to the truth so much as one who is passionately devoted to the act of blowing raspberries. He named the models of Tesla S, 3, X, and Y, a leetspeak rendition of sexy. He made a pot joke about taking the company private. He joked (maybe?) about renaming Twitter as “Titter”—you know, like breasts?

But his raspberries serve another function: They fill up a flotilla of trial balloons that, bound together by his wealth, can lift a house into the sky. Money talks, and nonsense floats. That’s how Musk turned a dumb pot gag into a government investigation into a hundred-billion-dollar payday. It’s how he got all of Twitter’s power users to accept that he was their new overlord this morning. Musk is indifferent to the truth because he has dominion over it.

trump has brought us the "post-truth era" in American politics...guys like Musk pick that up and RUN with it.

Push back: mandatory.

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“When liberals actually subscribed to liberalism, they worried about society succumbing to authoritarian instincts from extreme social conservatives who wished to use censorship against speech they disliked.”

Time have changed.

[dislaxxic]

Lately I've just checked in on Fanlax's Politics pages for the pure enjoyment of seeing afan eat the troll's lunch. And breakfast. And brunch. And dinner. And snacks.

Rope a Dope!

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[Kismet]

Twitter board is going for the Musk fake - They adopted a poison pill in response to Musk’s $43 billion bid to buy the company.

I think its all Musk BS - something he's famous for.

[Seacoaster(1)]

Twitter board is going for the Musk fake - They adopted a poison pill in response to Musk’s $43 billion bid to buy the company.

I think its all Musk BS - something he's famous for.

Here's an article; could be a nice little knife fight:

https://apnews.com/article/technology-b ... _medium=AP

[Peter Brown]

Twitter board is going for the Musk fake - They adopted a poison pill in response to Musk’s $43 billion bid to buy the company.

I think its all Musk BS - something he's famous for.

Here's an article; could be a nice little knife fight:

https://apnews.com/article/technology-b ... _medium=AP

No matter how it plays out, Musk wins.

1). Twitter attracts another acquirer at a higher price, Musk makes $billions and launches a proper free speech platform, paid for by his Twitter profits!

2). Other acquirers would need special dispensation from Biden’s DOJ AntiTrust unit (almost no company would evade anti trust here): showing the libs hypocrisy and further watering down anti-trust laws-! Two for one-!!

3). Libs and Twitter staff openly adoring the Saudi shareholders for saying no to the deal. Anyone remember the name Jamal Khasshoggi? Hmmmm, guess libs don’t love journalism!

4). Current shareholders sure to see falling stock price Monday! Most stockholders aren’t too keen on unoptimized share prices!

5). Libs appealing directly to Blackrock and Vanguard, index fund shareholders who openly admit they’re not smart enough to beat the market, but smart enough to guide a global social media company!!!

6). Elon acquires the company and fires the Marxist safety teams, and free speech is restored!!!


More popcorn please!!!

[a fan]

What he’s simultaneously bemoaning is the blatant politicization of the Twitter ‘town square’ by the unaccountable uber-lefty ‘safety’ team there, folks you no doubt cheer on, as they purposely suspend conservative political voices SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THEIR POLITICS. Not dangerous, not criminal, not harassing. Just conservative.

Easiest thing in the world to disprove. Tell you what, I"m going to head on over to twitter. And for every conservative political post I find, you donate $100 to a charity of my choice.

Hey Pete.....how come you didn't take my wager? Don't feel like blowing all of Dad's money?

DeSantis twitter: Our bill protects unborn babies from abortion after 15 weeks – these are babies with beating hearts, who can move, taste, see and feel pain.

Proud to defend life!

That's strange, Pete. You were just telling us that twitter deletes conservative political speech simply because it's conservative. And yet in .01 seconds, I found this VERY conservative tweet from DeSantis from yesterday.

What gives?



https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/stat ... 9151101959

[Peter Brown]

What he’s simultaneously bemoaning is the blatant politicization of the Twitter ‘town square’ by the unaccountable uber-lefty ‘safety’ team there, folks you no doubt cheer on, as they purposely suspend conservative political voices SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THEIR POLITICS. Not dangerous, not criminal, not harassing. Just conservative.

Easiest thing in the world to disprove. Tell you what, I"m going to head on over to twitter. And for every conservative political post I find, you donate $100 to a charity of my choice.

Hey Pete.....how come you didn't take my wager? Don't feel like blowing all of Dad's money?

DeSantis twitter: Our bill protects unborn babies from abortion after 15 weeks – these are babies with beating hearts, who can move, taste, see and feel pain.

Proud to defend life!

That's strange, Pete. You were just telling us that twitter deletes conservative political speech simply because it's conservative. And yet in .01 seconds, I found this VERY conservative tweet from DeSantis from yesterday.

What gives?

https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/stat ... 9151101959

I just learned today my dad, who died when I was 17, set me up in life!!! I really got the full benefit of him when i needed him most. Glad a fan is here to tell us things he knows absolutely nothing about!

Also, let me know where that trust fund is; I could have avoided those 20-hour work days!


Okay, back to reality here folks. Twitter hasn’t removed EVERY conservative, but they are particularly sensitive to some. And Desantis hasn’t (yet) triggered their mechanic to silence him. But you’re delusional if you can’t admit what’s plainly obvious to any rational observer: Twitter’s safety team is made up by almost all hardcore far leftists with a Jones to silence conservatives. .

[a fan]

I just learned today my dad, who died when I was 17, set me up in life!!! I really got the full benefit of him when i needed him most. Glad a fan is here to tell us things he knows absolutely nothing about!

Also, let me know where that trust fund is; I could have avoided those 20-hour work days!

YOUR claims, not mine, Pete. Next time, don't brag about you Dad giving money to Loyola. Or that you were educated by socialists on the backs of taxpayers like me. Or that you have a "life coach" at your firm....remember that one?

Okay, back to reality here folks. Twitter hasn’t removed EVERY conservative, but they are particularly sensitive to some.

Uh oh, Pete's caught lying again. So they aren't as you claimed, deleting posts simply because they espouse conservative political ideas.

So where are the goalposts now, Pete, after you're caught with your buffalobagels?

And Desantis hasn’t (yet) triggered their mechanic to silence him.

Oh....there they are. Goalposts are now "the libs at Twitter haven't deleted DeSantis tweet (yet).

Neat.

So they do indeed allow conservative political speech just fine. Glad you can admit it, Pete. Well done!

But you’re delusional if you can’t admit what’s plainly obvious to any rational observer: Twitter’s safety team is made up by almost all hardcore far leftists with a Jones to silence conservatives. .

Whoops, Pete changed his mind again. Back to claiming the libs are silencing conservatives.

So we're back to: why didn't they delete DeSantis abortion tweet?

I know, I know, Pete. Being consistent is hard.

Oh well. I'm sure Elon Musk will save you, and won't delete any posts.....even though he told you just yesterday that, yep, if he's in charge, Twitter will continue to delete posts, and put posters in Time out. But hey, why listen to Elon Musk about what Elon Musk will do, right?

[Peter Brown]

I just learned today my dad, who died when I was 17, set me up in life!!! I really got the full benefit of him when i needed him most. Glad a fan is here to tell us things he knows absolutely nothing about!

Also, let me know where that trust fund is; I could have avoided those 20-hour work days!

YOUR claims, not mine, Pete. Next time, don't brag about you Dad giving money to Loyola. Or that you were educated by socialists on the backs of taxpayers like me. Or that you have a "life coach" at your firm....remember that one?

Okay, back to reality here folks. Twitter hasn’t removed EVERY conservative, but they are particularly sensitive to some.

Uh oh, Pete's caught lying again. So they aren't as you claimed, deleting posts simply because they espouse conservative political ideas.

So where are the goalposts now, Pete, after you're caught with your buffalobagels?

And Desantis hasn’t (yet) triggered their mechanic to silence him.

Oh....there they are. Goalposts are now "the libs at Twitter haven't deleted DeSantis tweet (yet).

Neat.

So they do indeed allow conservative political speech just fine. Glad you can admit it, Pete. Well done!

But you’re delusional if you can’t admit what’s plainly obvious to any rational observer: Twitter’s safety team is made up by almost all hardcore far leftists with a Jones to silence conservatives. .

Whoops, Pete changed his mind again. Back to claiming the libs are silencing conservatives.

So we're back to: why didn't they delete DeSantis abortion tweet?

I know, I know, Pete. Being consistent is hard.

Oh well. I'm sure Elon Musk will save you, and won't delete any posts.....even though he told you just yesterday that, yep, if he's in charge, Twitter will continue to delete posts, and put posters in Time out. But hey, why listen to Elon Musk about what Elon Musk will do, right?

There’s so much I could address here but don’t have time.

Is it ‘bragging’ or just pride in a man who died when I was young? Why are you such a presumptuous person?

You pay Florida taxes like me? Sure, UF is a public university but I’m not sold you paid for anything in Gainesville.

The rest of your post, I’ll address later.

[a fan]

There’s so much I could address here but don’t have time.

Is it ‘bragging’ or just pride in a man who died when I was young? Why are you such a presumptuous person?

You're trolling, and pretending like you're not. You toned it down for, oh, about a week a couple of months ago. I did the same.

And then you got right back on the horse. So if you don't like getting trolled? Don't troll. I'll treat you with respect, no problem.

But you can't help yourself, and enjoy being a d*ck. So here we are.

You pay Florida taxes like me?

1. yes....I'm sure you can't figure out why
2. Federal taxes....where do you think Florida gets it' nearly half a billion dollars in ANNUAL Federal money from, Pete?

Sure, UF is a public university but I’m not sold you paid for anything in Gainesville.

I know. You, like most State University students, think that (snicker) your tuition is what keeps the school running. Nope. State taxpayers, and Federal taxpayers do that.

Anytime want to put your "11 point plan to rescue america" in effect, and stop taking that $490+ Billion dollars from Federal Taxpayers to keep UFlorida running? Let me know.

This will NEVER happen, of course, because DeSantis and your party know full well that guys like you simply take that Federal money, and then pretend like you "earned it"....when in reality, it's the very Big Government handout you keep telling us is bad. So they get to feel independent-----while they fleece taxpayers from other States to keep tuition low.




https://news.ufl.edu/2022/02/uf-researc ... 0-million/

[youthathletics]

Friday humor....only in Cali: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcY0gbGl3Qj/

[jhu72]

Elon Musk, Baloney King

You can call Elon Musk a lot of things. Agent of chaos. Savvy investor. Obsessive workaholic. But the tech-industry analyst Benedict Evans has a different suggestion. He calls Musk a “bullshitter who delivers.” I’d go even further: Musk exemplifies a new kind of bullshitter, one we haven’t really seen before. Call it the “bullionaire,” maybe: an unusual purveyor of infantile jackassery, whose unfathomable wealth makes it possible, and even likely, that he’ll carry out even the most ridiculous plan.

"Bullionaire" Good one, right? Like trump, the ersatz bullionaire...

The philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote a famous article about nonsense in the 1980s, which became a bestselling 2005 book called On nonsense. Both bullshitters and liars are trying to get away with something. But unlike the liar, who demonstrates an awareness of and concern for the truth in order to evade it, Frankfurt argues that bullshitters just don’t care about truth at all. Instead, a bullshitter strives to achieve their goals, whatever those goals are. For some of them, that amounts to hearing themselves talk. For others, it involves deception or even fraud.

At first blush, the Muskian variety looks very different. He doesn’t seem like a man who is indifferent to the truth so much as one who is passionately devoted to the act of blowing raspberries. He named the models of Tesla S, 3, X, and Y, a leetspeak rendition of sexy. He made a pot joke about taking the company private. He joked (maybe?) about renaming Twitter as “Titter”—you know, like breasts?

But his raspberries serve another function: They fill up a flotilla of trial balloons that, bound together by his wealth, can lift a house into the sky. Money talks, and nonsense floats. That’s how Musk turned a dumb pot gag into a government investigation into a hundred-billion-dollar payday. It’s how he got all of Twitter’s power users to accept that he was their new overlord this morning. Musk is indifferent to the truth because he has dominion over it.

trump has brought us the "post-truth era" in American politics...guys like Musk pick that up and RUN with it.

Push back: mandatory.

..

“When liberals actually subscribed to liberalism, they worried about society succumbing to authoritarian instincts from extreme social conservatives who wished to use censorship against speech they disliked.”

Time have changed.

.. nothing has changed except the volume of authoritarian bullsh*t from grifters like you.

[jhu72]

Twitter board is going for the Musk fake - They adopted a poison pill in response to Musk’s $43 billion bid to buy the company.

I think its all Musk BS - something he's famous for.

Here's an article; could be a nice little knife fight:

https://apnews.com/article/technology-b ... _medium=AP

... he is oh so concerned about "freedom of speech". My fat aunt Ida's ass!

[cradleandshoot]

Elon Musk, Baloney King

You can call Elon Musk a lot of things. Agent of chaos. Savvy investor. Obsessive workaholic. But the tech-industry analyst Benedict Evans has a different suggestion. He calls Musk a “bullshitter who delivers.” I’d go even further: Musk exemplifies a new kind of bullshitter, one we haven’t really seen before. Call it the “bullionaire,” maybe: an unusual purveyor of infantile jackassery, whose unfathomable wealth makes it possible, and even likely, that he’ll carry out even the most ridiculous plan.

"Bullionaire" Good one, right? Like trump, the ersatz bullionaire...

The philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote a famous article about nonsense in the 1980s, which became a bestselling 2005 book called On nonsense. Both bullshitters and liars are trying to get away with something. But unlike the liar, who demonstrates an awareness of and concern for the truth in order to evade it, Frankfurt argues that bullshitters just don’t care about truth at all. Instead, a bullshitter strives to achieve their goals, whatever those goals are. For some of them, that amounts to hearing themselves talk. For others, it involves deception or even fraud.

At first blush, the Muskian variety looks very different. He doesn’t seem like a man who is indifferent to the truth so much as one who is passionately devoted to the act of blowing raspberries. He named the models of Tesla S, 3, X, and Y, a leetspeak rendition of sexy. He made a pot joke about taking the company private. He joked (maybe?) about renaming Twitter as “Titter”—you know, like breasts?

But his raspberries serve another function: They fill up a flotilla of trial balloons that, bound together by his wealth, can lift a house into the sky. Money talks, and nonsense floats. That’s how Musk turned a dumb pot gag into a government investigation into a hundred-billion-dollar payday. It’s how he got all of Twitter’s power users to accept that he was their new overlord this morning. Musk is indifferent to the truth because he has dominion over it.

trump has brought us the "post-truth era" in American politics...guys like Musk pick that up and RUN with it.

Push back: mandatory.

..

“When liberals actually subscribed to liberalism, they worried about society succumbing to authoritarian instincts from extreme social conservatives who wished to use censorship against speech they disliked.”

Time have changed.

.. nothing has changed except the volume of authoritarian bullsh*t from grifters like you.

Spoken like a hardcore FLP bullchit artist who understands bullchit when he reads it. Pot meet kettle.

[Kismet]

Twitter board is going for the Musk fake - They adopted a poison pill in response to Musk’s $43 billion bid to buy the company.

I think its all Musk BS - something he's famous for.

Here's an article; could be a nice little knife fight:

https://apnews.com/article/technology-b ... _medium=AP

... he is oh so concerned about "freedom of speech". My fat aunt Ida's ass!

More like let's increase the stock value so I can make a killing on the 9% stake I already took when I now dump it. Musk is a greedy jerk.

[jhu72]

Twitter board is going for the Musk fake - They adopted a poison pill in response to Musk’s $43 billion bid to buy the company.

I think its all Musk BS - something he's famous for.

Here's an article; could be a nice little knife fight:

https://apnews.com/article/technology-b ... _medium=AP

... he is oh so concerned about "freedom of speech". My fat aunt Ida's ass!

More like let's increase the stock value so I can make a killing on the 9% stake I already took when I now dump it. Musk is a greedy jerk.

... yep. Like Trump, he also loves the limelight.

[Peter Brown]

Twitter board is going for the Musk fake - They adopted a poison pill in response to Musk’s $43 billion bid to buy the company.

I think its all Musk BS - something he's famous for.

Here's an article; could be a nice little knife fight:

https://apnews.com/article/technology-b ... _medium=AP

... he is oh so concerned about "freedom of speech". My fat aunt Ida's ass!

More like let's increase the stock value so I can make a killing on the 9% stake I already took when I now dump it. Musk is a greedy jerk.

Most Americans, when they purchase a stock, prefer the share price increase.

[youthathletics]

Love this....turn up the volume: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ccp3s5Gg ... _copy_link

[Peter Brown]

Love this....turn up the volume: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ccp3s5Gg ... _copy_link

Brilliant tech investor Marc Andreesen, upon his review of who is trying to stop Musk from buying Twitter, followed by listening to Obama’s speech at Stanford yesterday demanding more censorship by tech companies, exposing the current political effort by the Democratic Party to censor and suppress speech:
:

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He’s correct of course. Clear and concise.

Why anyone affiliates with the Democratic/leftist urge to suppress voices is beyond me.