Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter may soon go through

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Whooo, Free Market! Let the market decide!

Market decides...

Nooo, not like that!
 
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Whatever, just wash your hands.

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To Musk and its ilk, ideals like free speech, free market or democracy are means to an end, or more specifically, means to its ends.

You could think of them as just more assets in its portfolio, to be exploited when beneficial, discarded when not.
 

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To Musk and its ilk, ideals like free speech, free market or democracy are means to an end, or more specifically, means to its ends.
Yes. Musk is like every fascist ever: bang on and on about free speech and how unfair it is to be silenced right up until the point they're running things and can shut up everyone else.
 
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How un-selfaware of Musk...

Imagine being a billionaire controlling a media business thinking that YOU are the Resistance and not the thing to resist
Or maybe he does, and he's saying it for his cultists. I'm pretty sure Trump he isn't the "common man" or whatever, but still claims to be.
 

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Elon can't pull that sort of bullshit over us: we all know that no-one watched "Divergent".
I haven't seen Hunger Games either. I have no resistance

(My daughter is reading the first book so this might actually change soon)
 
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Musk really, really, REALLY wants to be able to say it was the victim of something, doesn't it?
I know if I were in charge of marketing for a firm that I'd think twice about continuing to advertise on a platform that irrationally sued advertisers.