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I’m not sure Chapelle try-harding to throw his own fans under the bus makes the moment better or worse.
On the hand, it makes Musk’s humiliation even greater and I’m all for that.
On the other, it’s another masks off moment for the bourgeois AF Dave Chappelle, hating anyone or anything with less than a 6 figure income.
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After being booed off the stage at Chapples comedy show, Elon is now going on Twitter to complain about people being infected with a “Woke Mind Virus”
This s one of the richest people in the world and the head of multiple companies btw.
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Trump has already declared that since he was president once that he’s now immune to all laws all the time.
I’m sure if it’s a bigger indictment against him and his current lawyers that this is the best defense they can come up with or for our legal system that he’s not already behind bars when this is the level they’re working with.
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When even Chappelle fans are sick of your shit…
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You have to understand, this stuff is intensely personal to ol’ Muskrat Love. Not only did Grimey leave him for Chelsea Manning, but one of his thousand kids came out as trans and took her mother’s maiden name to distance herself from Elron. As far as he’s concerned, “the woke mind virus” (that is, the continued existence of LGBTQ people) is to blame for his family life falling apart.
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Curse myself for continuing this debate, but here’s a perspective from a disabled person:
Here’s the thing: Twitter is the best tool for this stuff around. and it’s a hellsite that has ruined the internet. It’s in large part twitter’s influence, and other social media things like it, that have turned the internet into its current form where people need platforms like it.
But that doesn’t mean we don’t need platforms like it.
I mean. You’re not wrong that Twitter is actively making things worse. But just killing Twitter, while it might help in the long term (Debateable at best, something even worse will likely grow out of the situation), fucks over a huge amount of people in the short term.
The cars analogy is a good one too, just in the opposite direction: The way our society works around cars is terrible - but cars themselves are still the best option for some situations, including for some disabled people so the analogy fits even there.
Our cities being built around cars, cars being the main or only method of transport, is all fucked, but there’s some things for which they are still the best option. Also planes. there’s things for which planes are the best option! Mostly just for crossing one of the Big Fuckoff Oceans, but that’s still an important role.
These things as they currently are are absolutely awful but getting rid of them entirely would cause huge problems in some circumstances. Which is absolutely not to say do nothing, there is a vast spectrum between “do nothing” and “yeet the entire thing”.
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Twitter is just proof that one rich person can take what was ostensibly the ‘public town square’ for much of the planet and do whatever they want with it. No matter who, or how many, it hurts or inconveniences.
It doesn’t matter what your service agreement with Twitter was, or what their promises to you were. Capitalism permits one person to simply purchase any publicly traded company and then all previous commitments and agreements are null and void.
And given how much money is being cached by the super rich, this is probably only the first of many to come.
It’ll be interesting if even the federal government of the US will be able to hold Twitter to its obligations now. The EU is already trying, but I don’t see Twitter or its new owner reacting at all - Musk isn’t even twitching. He just keeps saying one thing to one group, and something different to another.
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TBH saying that Twitter is “necessary” or “ needed” is too essentialist
The only reason why it’s needed or necessary is because society is so broken people have to resort to a site that only allow 240 characters to express a message(which can limit how disabled people express themselves)
Sure, it sucks that Twitter is going down like the Hindenburg, but we should spend much more effort building alternatives than maintaining it imo
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Precisely that last point.
At this point, maintaining Twitters place as “essential” feels a lot like West VAs attempt to keep coal alive.
Instead of diversifying, investing, and growing new opportunities, they’re desperately trying to keep the “working” one afloat.
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Inflation report came out and it’s good news across the board.
Inflation cooled much more than expected. Maybe now the feds will ease up on the rate hikes.
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After being booed off the stage at Chapples comedy show, Elon is now going on Twitter to complain about people being infected with a “Woke Mind Virus”
This s one of the richest people in the world and the head of multiple companies btw.
It’s a combination of a mental breakdown from his fragile ego getting shattered and a cynical ploy to bring back the neo-Nazis…doubt it’ll work because he banned Kanye.
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Battlefield analysis by western experts has revealed that Russia is starting to use 40 year old Soviet era ammunition and shells, indicating a deep ammo crisis starting to develop.
Meanwhile the US plans on sending Patriot missle defense platforms to Ukraine, one of the most effective systems in the world.
To reiterate, the supposed “second most powerful military in the world” is now having to use decades old ammo against some of the most advanced defense platforms in modern warfare.
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24 hours after Dave Chappelle introduced Musk as “the richest man in the world” Tesla stock price dropped another 12% causing Musk to lose that title.
Chappelle fans booing you is no joke.
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Elon Musk is no loner the worlds richest man, after investors dropped a ton of stock they had in Tesla.
How long until he starts removing posts telling him that?
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