Import the Third World, become the Third World. That’s what we just saw. This won’t stop Trump. He’ll win the election if he’s not killed first. But it does mark the end of the fairest justice system in the world. Anyone who defends this verdict is a danger to you and your family.
I thought @elonmusk’s interview with @andrewrsorkin was one of the great interviews ever. Musk is a free speech absolutist which I respect. I think he is entirely correct that he and @X are treated unfairly and inconsistently by advertisers.
@tiktok_us@instagram@facebook and others have enormous amounts of problematic content, antisemitic and otherwise, but the advertisers don’t boycott those platforms.
Musk is targeted because the other media organizations view @X as a competitor and any time his name is in an article about controversies, it draws clicks. MSM is incentivized to attack him as it actually drives attention to their sites and therefore more revenues. It is these attack articles by other media organizations that put pressure on the @Disney’s of the world to stop advertising on X.
If Bob Iger would carefully examine the facts, he would likely continue to advertise on X, but Disney caves to public pressure rather than do the right thing. Meanwhile Disney invests heavily on TikTok, likely alongside videos of kids teaching other teenagers to be anorexic and worse. I am sure Nelson Peltz can fix this when he joins the Disney board.
X presents the opportunity for advertisers to access an incredible global audience that is not available elsewhere. And it is cheap compared to other alternatives because of current circumstances.
On Musk and antisemitism:
After examining the facts, it was clear to me that Musk did not have antisemitic intent when he responded with the ‘actual truth’ tweet, and further clarified thereafter.
I thought he made what he meant extremely clear in the @andrewrsorkin interview, namely, that Jews are drawn to support ‘oppressed’ groups and causes through various non-profits due to our history of being an oppressed minority.
Musk points out correctly that a number of these organizations and their members support Hamas. And he is correct in saying that Jews should rethink support for organizations that seek their elimination.
Many Jews are doing that right now.
To use a Muskism, Earth is fortunate that @X is owned by an individual that is largely insulated from financial and other influence. That said, perhaps some form of very carefully governed trust would be a better forever owner than any individual.
@PershingSqFdn invested in the Twitter privatization in support of free speech. Whether we make a profit on our investment is not important to us as we never intend to sell our interest.
I am more inclined to like and support companies that advertise on the platform because I appreciate their support for free speech. I have actually bought products I learned about from ads on @X. I can’t think of another example of my responding to direct advertising other than on X.
Unfortunately, recent (and society’s long-term experience) with non-profit governance, see @OpenAI, certain private universities etc. should not give anyone confidence that a traditional non-profit would be a better owner of X than Musk.
Perhaps some day the ownership of X should be distributed to each American, one share for each American during their lives and one for each person born, with a charter which permanently vests the free speech principles by which it operates.
Until then, we all should be grateful that X is owned by Musk.
@reddit_lies I do believe traditional beliefs of stable family units will make a comeback, I'm just sad that I probably won't be around to witness it.
This "free spirit", sleep around stuff is unsustainable and self destructive.
When Cybertruck comes out next week, it will be the biggest people magnet vehicle we’ve ever seen. Wherever Cybertruck goes, people will surround it, take selfies of themselves on it, next to it, and inside it, and post them on social media for all the world to see. If you can’t see that Cybertruck will spark a huge halo effect of interest in the entire $TSLA franchise unlike any vehicle we’ve seen in years, you really don’t have a clue about how social media works. @MartinViecha@elonmusk
The biggest rocket in the world just flew further than it ever has before.
But if you listen to the media, you’d think it was a big fat flop.
The reality: The magnitude of this accomplishment by SpaceX makes the entire career of those critics look like a joke by comparison.
I’m with Elon on this. The moronic mob constantly shitting their pants over his tweets says more about what’s wrong with our culture than what’s wrong with elon
let the people tweet 🐣
@elonmusk@tesla Tesla Service is still in need of major improvements. My car has been at Tesla Jacksonville for 6 days now for an issue that should’ve been resolved same-day. Communication has been terrible; it feels like I have to pry information from them. Please help!
@JustStarman Wow that’s crazy lol, props to you. I got my SR+ in Nov 2021 and am just about to hit 30k miles, need to go on more trips and pump that up for sure
@JustStarman Congrats on the successful trip, how many miles are you at now? Thought you hit 50k a couple months ago and have to imagine it’s quite a bit higher now