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Liberals “Terrified”… Musk’s Big Stake In Twitter “Is Not At All Funny”
Zubu Brothers ^ | 4-5-2022

Posted on 04/05/2022 10:02:21 AM PDT by blam

Elon Musk’s 9.2% stake in Twitter and his newly announced board seat has sent the left into an anti-free-speech tailspin.

Musk has been an outspoken proponent of free speech – which he says that failing to adhere to “fundamentally undermines democracy.”

The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 25, 2022

On Monday, CNN host Brian Stelter said there’s a ‘fear’ over Musk’s move.

“There’s interest in billionaires, there’s celebration of the Musk. There’s also fear, I think, sometimes or wariness of- okay, so here’s the richest man on the planet who just bought a big chunk of one of our most important communications tools,” said Stelter. “”He’s also one of the biggest owners of satellites in the world. So he’s incredibly powerful, incredibly, I don’t know, am I allowed to use the word strange when talking about Elon Musk?”

Except, billionaires have been controlling information for decades and nobody had a problem.

Bring back the good and benevolent oligarchs to police the internet and our political debates for us. Google loves us and knows what is best for us, not like this irreverent ruffian. https://t.co/nnwCB7DaJo

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 5, 2022

Coping is not going well for the anti-free-speech crowd.

Cassie Nick Rumbaugh, a data scientist at Twitter, is among the employees and contractors very upset that @elonmusk is now the largest stakeholder in Twitter.

“A prominent transphobe buying a large stake in Twitter is not at all funny,” she says. pic.twitter.com/gFSy52YsTZ

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 4, 2022

And it’s no wonder why the left is rattled – according to Statista, their biggest problem with Twitter is ‘inaccurate or misleading information,’ while they’re least concerned about ‘Twitter banning users.’

There’s no need to wonder what the US liberal-left thinks about free speech. Polling data proves: they don’t believe in it.

Huge majorities want not only tech oligarchs *but also the state* to censor the internet for them. Can’t argue with the data. It’s right here: pic.twitter.com/ulJml3MP5s

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 5, 2022

More:

Elon Musk is totally unfit to run Twitter! He might not spend every waking hour thinking of new ways to control, monitor, and ban speech

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 5, 2022

“And I still dislike him [Elon Musk].”

Haraldur Thorleifsson, who directs creative services for Twitter, states his dislike for @elonmusk after the billionaire became the company’s largest stakeholder. pic.twitter.com/lvSSdlTtmY

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 4, 2022

It appears the wokerati are more than happy to allow ‘free speech’ when it’s their speech but when ‘free speech’ is contemplated for all speech (even the evil ‘others’), tolerance goes out the window and tantrums dominate (until they get their way). Perhaps the real driver of this ‘fear’ of Elon goes back to his comments (paraphrased) that “wokeness… basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.”

Imagine the cognitive dissonance sweeping the nation as that reality soaks in (like there’s no need to wear a mask in a car when you’re alone).


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; karens; liberals; musk; terrified; twitter; wokerati
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To: blam

How do you suppose he acquired the shares? Did he accumulate over the last few months? Did a big holder sell to him? Does Twitter management want him to be a significant part owner?


21 posted on 04/05/2022 10:42:26 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: blam

Personally I think its hilarious.


22 posted on 04/05/2022 11:02:53 AM PDT by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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Hey Elon, first thing, fire any woman with neon colored hair


23 posted on 04/05/2022 11:03:03 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: blam

Man, this is great!


24 posted on 04/05/2022 11:04:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Bkmk Musk


25 posted on 04/05/2022 11:08:25 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: blam
Leftists sad that maybe ... just maybe ... they won't be allowed to continue censoring everybody they want.

Fascists don't take stuff like this laying down. Expect the staff to walk out. But Musk is a throwback to the old school tycoons like Rockefller and Carnegie, the kind of guy that would probably just fire them, bring in all new guys and have it up and running again a couple of days. Should be fun to watch.

The more leftists we can get going on record as not only being for censorship but insisting it's one of their dearest principles the better. At some point maybe a few people will wake from the tik-tok comas and notice it.

26 posted on 04/05/2022 11:10:28 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: blam

🤣🤣🤣🤣


27 posted on 04/05/2022 11:10:34 AM PDT by SE Mom
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

That was the long-term goal.


28 posted on 04/05/2022 11:29:45 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Miss you Rush!)
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To: dsrtsage

“Hey Elon, first thing, fire any woman with neon colored hair”

And the men too!!


29 posted on 04/05/2022 11:31:10 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: blam

I have some pretty cool business professors and one of them had actually been a day trader for 20 years and he was teaching financial classes...

Anyway, he made a point of saying things like

“if you don’t like the price of gasoline buy stock in whatever company that you purchase your gasoline from”

and this is an example of that. Musk felt the need to purchase Twitter and maybe for a very similar logic, simply that he didn’t like what Twitter was doing, perhaps to him personally or overall.

Elon Musk did signal twitters importance, and why reinvent the wheel? Musk operates a G5 network and twitter is a robust presence. Perhaps a merging of technologies is in progress.

SKYNET now with Twitter!🤸‍♂️🤸‍♀️🎆✨🎇🤸‍♀️🤸‍♂️


30 posted on 04/05/2022 11:31:32 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
The problem is who gets to define who is a Nazi.

Well, there's everyone who voted for Trump.

Everyone who doesn't use a person's preferred pronoun.

Every man who refuses to date a "woman" with a penis.

Every parent who forbids their child to attend Drag Queen Story Hour.

The list is long. The term has been so expanded, there are more Nazis in the world today than in 1940.

31 posted on 04/05/2022 11:34:35 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: blam
Imagine the cognitive dissonance sweeping the nation as that reality soaks in (like there’s no need to wear a mask in a car when you’re alone).

I was sitting at a redlight the other day with my car windows rolled up. There was a woman in the car next to me with her windows up. I coughed, and she immediately grabbed a mask and put it on.

32 posted on 04/05/2022 11:36:35 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: blam

I’ve never cared for the format of Twitter. But I’ll have to check it out again. I’m banned for life from FaceBook.


33 posted on 04/05/2022 11:37:22 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: dljordan
“Hey Elon, first thing, fire any woman with neon colored hair”

And any males with fingernail polish

34 posted on 04/05/2022 11:38:52 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: I want the USA back

I doubt he’ll be able to limit the censorship. His seat on the board was on condition that he own no more than 14.9% of the stock for the two year term and several weeks afterward.


35 posted on 04/05/2022 11:39:16 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: dsrtsage

“first thing, fire any woman with neon colored hair”

And all men and women with hardware in their faces.


36 posted on 04/05/2022 11:46:05 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: blam

Twitter is loaded with blue check misinformation. Five years of the fake trump Russia conspiracy hoax crediting unnamed sources was a long unbroken string of falsehoods or lies.


37 posted on 04/05/2022 12:55:59 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: blam
"Not at all funny"

As if liberals have any idea what funny is.

38 posted on 04/05/2022 2:13:44 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: blam

I tried signing back up for a Twitter account but it wouldn’t let me set up TwitterIsElonsBitch

Don’t know why.


39 posted on 04/05/2022 4:56:01 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Mean Daddy

I’ve been suspended for years (can’t remember it’s been so long). Maybe Musk will let me back in LOL.


40 posted on 04/05/2022 4:57:44 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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