@elonmusk The only offensive thing is having a minority group of people, not only denying basic biology, but attempting to force others to deny it as well..
@leeharris@jk_rowling What's offensive is a minority group of people, not only denying basic biology, but attempting to force others to deny it as well..
@elonmusk It's about farming votes. Biden could care less about American citizens. The left only cares about the money they can stuff in their pockets. It's time for a revolution
@libsoftiktok@AldiUSA North America loves discrimination. It's why we're becoming the laughing stock of the entire world. North Korea is more democratic
@catturd2 I'm from the future. Brandon and the leftists will start WWIII needlessly murdering thousands of US soldiers and citizens, cause as much local destruction as possible, then point their fingers at Trump while he's POTUS 2024 and blame him for everything
@MattWallace888 Honestly.. People 'holding back' evidence of crimes helps no one but yourself. Just stop with the click bait and spend more time thinking about humanity. Release that shit!
@atensnut Any private citizen would have had the FBI at their door by now.. Wtf is going on with the American government? Seriously? Corruption at its finest
@michaelcaserta2 Damn.. So sorry to hear.. My daughter (20) wanted to as well for the same reason, but we were lucky enough to be able to persuade her not to... Wishing her a speedy recovery!
@FortniteGame The mechanics have never been better IMO. Shots are on, bloom isn't ridiculously horrible and the movement is seamless. By far my favorite season rn
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.