@RepMTG I think you’re a cracked - snake oil salesperson whos only intention is to divide and conquer.
How awful it must be to live in your head, feeling like you’re always a victim. Take some accountability for yourself.
“I wanted to address my senators, Cruz and Cornyn.. I would like for them to know that what happened to me is a direct result of the policies they support. I nearly died on their watch and I may have been robbed of the opportunity to have children in the future”
@chardoranks@CalltoActivism Some people are so wounded that they think it’s what they deserve and it feels safe and normal to them. It’s incredibly sad.
Dear @elonmusk I've paid for the checkmark just to tell you this:
1. It doesn't work.
2. You cannot support "free speech" by forcing people to pay for the privilege of speaking as themselves.
3. And at the same time, if we do not pay for the checkmark, then you allow others to pretend to be someone they are not at the cost of authenticity.
4. So, it is both hypocritical and dangerous to take away the legacy checkmarks.
5. Make everyone register in their real name - not a "handle" - to encourage transparency and honesty.
In addition;
6. Anonymity is not transparency.
7. You are not an experienced journalist - nor, it seems, do you understand the difference between "fair" and "factual."
8. It is debatable whether you understand the difference between an opinion and a vetted fact.
9. By your actions, you confuse the difference between public media and state supported media. And being in this business for 40 years, I can say with no doubt that you really do not understand the many problems in today's press. (I can recommend a book to read that will help you get an idea)
10. You cannot support free speech either by suppressing it or giving cover to those who make obstreperous accusations without identification or attribution.
And:
11. You are sacrificing the integrity and profitability of this platform at the expense of anonymous trolls and bots.
12. Either this move is by design or from ignorance. It is still debatable whether it is one or the other - or both. If it's by design you've paid enough money for the platform that it compels one to believe you are ignorant - unless you are getting a boat load of side money from ads and bots, or your goal is to destroy the platform at the cost of what you paid to purchase it. That's an entirely different level of silliness.
13. While I know many who have fled this platform, I have not. I have vowed to stay until the bitter end. Call me stubborn or call me stupid. Don't call me late for dinner. But, that being said, the end seems near - and more and more you look like Slim Pickens at the end of Dr. Strangelove.
- and unfortunately so do I.
14. That being said, it is not yet too late.
15. Restore the legacy check mark. Force real transparency among participants. And support the publication of vetted facts. (see "Fox News" if you want to understand why). Otherwise you've destroyed the village town square and replaced it with the village idiots convention. (See Woody Allen's "Love and Death" for a reference.)
Peace. Love. Rock n' Roll.
And you are not D.D. Harriman. (though count me in on a trip to the stars)
Brian J. Karem
@rexmjohn@Iamtammytavares@elonmusk None of his businesses are his ideas. He purchases other peoples inventions when they are desperate to sell, or he’s forced to honor a contract. He buys, rips apart, and Frankensteins. Sometimes it’s successful, sometimes it’s not.
@Iamtammytavares@elonmusk He absolutely broke Twitter.
Suddenly, people like you who I don’t follow and don’t want to see, your posts are showing up on my feed. I bet people like me with my kind of views are not showing up on yours.
Twitter = newly rehabbed Right wing propaganda machine
@TennesseeMAGA13@budlight Whytf is your bs post showing up on my feed. Twitter has been destroyed. This place sucks now. I am inundated with posts from people I don’t follow and don’t care to follow.
Keep it up with performative outrage. 🙄
@RD84101@Daneeta@williamlegate How did you even jump to this conclusion. No where in this story did they mention the government. This is a lesson about the time value of money.
A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow. That’s it. Nothing about milking the government.
THIS is how you respond to Republicans. Call them out directly and point out their lies. Sad that this even has to happen, but bravo, @ManhattanDA, for doing what’s right. Read his full statement below 👇
@CalltoActivism I think this shows the lack of integrity we’ve been screaming about for a while now.
He’s suppose to be a judge, one of the highest in the land and he didn’t know what he was doing was wrong? That’s proof that his discernment cannot be trusted to uphold our constitution.