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"Aryan Anime Fans"? Dude, I broke out a protractor to measure this and you are owning yourself from every possible angle.
This fucking retard must forgot that most these characters in that show (and I am assuming) are Japanese, and ain't Aryan/white to begin with. Also, the fucktard must have forgotten about Samurai Jack (voiced by Phil Lamar), or this full himself to know. Not an anime example, but it still takes plenty influence from Japanese media in general
 

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Not to mention some governments don't think free speech is a thing. And that would cause a lot more conflict about who's countries rules to enforce or whatever.
Certainly...even nations that nominally care about free speech tend to have all sorts of interesting ideas about what free speech is.

The question is...would twitter be better if Elon bought it and just kept it. And Elon seems like a kind of chill guy so I think it still might be better in his hands, or at least a bit more "free" in his hands. Maybe not better depending on who you ask, but I would like it being less ideological tbh.
Musk would be pushing his own ideology, which is about how wonderful Musk is, without actually being remotely wonderful. He's an awful person who's a problem with the power he has now (which is not inconsiderable), any more is making things worse.
 

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Musk would be pushing his own ideology, which is about how wonderful Musk is, without actually being remotely wonderful. He's an awful person who's a problem with the power he has now (which is not inconsiderable), any more is making things worse.
I don't know about any of that. I've not really seen Elon do anything that makes him such a villain to people. But I also don't really watch much news these days because the state of the world is depressing.

So maybe Elon is the new Hitler, I dunno. But even if he wanted Twitter to create a bot that tweets how awesome he is everyday, I still think it's a better deal than the total shutdown of ideas that the people who run twitter now simply don't like. I mean they fucking banned the president of the united fucking states for god's sake. Even if the dude was a stupid asshole, that's a bad look when you are literally banning a world leader.
 

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I don't know about any of that. I've not really seen Elon do anything that makes him such a villain to people. But I also don't really watch much news these days because the state of the world is depressing.

So maybe Elon is the new Hitler, I dunno. But even if he wanted Twitter to create a bot that tweets how awesome he is everyday, I still think it's a better deal than the total shutdown of ideas that the people who run twitter now simply don't like. I mean they fucking banned the president of the united fucking states for god's sake. Even if the dude was a stupid asshole, that's a bad look when you are literally banning a world leader.
He ain't the new Hitler (yet I'm sure he'll have no problem letting Neo Nazis & the KKK run rampant on the site, if he took over Twitter), but he's an insecure douche that can't take criticism and there's an over-controlling butthole. I don't watch that much news, but even I can tell from his attitude alone and how he acts on Twitter. Not somebody you want trying to take 100% control over Twitter. You can say goodbye to free speech.

If he's that rich, he can make his own version of Twitter and say whatever he wants on that. Someone claiming to be that smart, he sure is stupid to not figure that out. The site wouldn't last long and crash and burn anyway. It would be hilarious to watches on site fail.
 

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I don't know about any of that. I've not really seen Elon do anything that makes him such a villain to people. But I also don't really watch much news these days because the state of the world is depressing.

So maybe Elon is the new Hitler, I dunno. But even if he wanted Twitter to create a bot that tweets how awesome he is everyday, I still think it's a better deal than the total shutdown of ideas that the people who run twitter now simply don't like. I mean they fucking banned the president of the united fucking states for god's sake. Even if the dude was a stupid asshole, that's a bad look when you are literally banning a world leader.
He's not the new Hitler, but comparing him to a younger Mr Burns from the Simpsons with better PR isn't that far off.

As for banning a world leader, if you have rules and the PotUS breaks those rules, repeatedly and obviously, you either follow your own rules or ignore them because he's powerful. Either way, awkward position to be in. Having said that, twitter is notoriously bad with how it deals things, just I don't think that's a good example.

I wouldn't be surprised if Musk was to ban people criticising him.
 
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I mean, he's probably just trying to deflect attention away from whatever atrocious thing Tesla has proven guilty of this week. 'Cause he might have to pay back $40 billion dollars if his stock price collapses.

Which is how the scam works: you don't get taxed on stock as long as you don't sell it, but you can use it as collateral for a big ass loan, which counts as debt instead of income so you get a tax write off, then you take out a second bigger loan to cover the first loan and then some, occasionally selling small enough amounts of stock to not actually make the income go above the loan, rinse and repeat until you die
 
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So maybe Elon is the new Hitler, I dunno.
No, he's just another spoiled brat of a rich man's son. He's never worked an honest day in his life and he surrounds himself with people who never tell him, "No."

I mean they fucking banned the president of the united fucking states for god's sake. Even if the dude was a stupid asshole, that's a bad look when you are literally banning a world leader.
You know what else is a bad look? Using a public platform to incite violence and overturn a fair and square democratic election. Trump was banned for repeatedly flouting the rules of the site and they let him get away with it for years until he finally did something they couldn't look the other way on. Twitter is a cesspool, but let's hate it for what it's actually doing and not fake culture war bullshit, okay?
 
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I mean, he's probably just trying to deflect attention away from whatever atrocious thing Tesla has proven guilty of this week. 'Cause he might have to pay back $40 billion dollars if his stock price collapses.

Which is how the scam works: you don't get taxed on stock as long as you don't sell it, but you can use it as collateral for a big ass loan, which counts as debt instead of income so you get a tax write off, then you take out a second bigger loan to cover the first loan and then some, occasionally selling small enough amounts of stock to not actually make the income go above the loan, rinse and repeat until you die
So should a normal person put all their savings in stocks then do this trick, or is it only the megarich this works for?
 

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So should a normal person put all their savings in stocks then do this trick, or is it only the megarich this works for?
A normal person won't have enough stock to get the almost-no interest loan big enough to live on for several lifetimes
 

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No, he's just another spoiled brat of a rich man's son. He's never worked an honest day in his life and he surrounds himself with people who never tell him, "No."



You know what else is a bad look? Using a public platform to incite violence and overturn a fair and square democratic election. Trump was banned for repeatedly flouting the rules of the site and they let him get away with it for years until he finally did something they couldn't look the other way on. Twitter is a cesspool, but let's hate it for what it's actually doing and not fake culture war bullshit, okay?
An amendment. LOTS of people said no to him. Many of them knew more than him. But because they said it wasn't possible, they got fired

Then Musk wonders why he can't win the space race and electric cars even though he started a decade earlier. He fired those that were trying to stop him from wasting his time and money.