The billionaire wants to advance his political program while preserving his power and wealth

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    2 years ago

    If you didn’t think this was the point of him buying twitter…

    It was never about the money, its about growing and empowering a movement that the global oligarchy think they can control.

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      It was never a clever ploy. He’s an idiot that said something he shouldn’t have it may ruin far more than Twitter before all is said and done.

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        I didn’t say it was clever, just that it was obvious. This was an opportunity for a foreign government (Saudis) to buy media/ narrative control over US media. A rightwing/ fascist government is easier for them to work on, so they do things that support its creation.

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      Which is exactly the same plan as last time. Then, the ultra-rich were afraid of communism so they propped up nationalism. Now though, they are after democracy as such.

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        What’s the downside for them? They either win big or things stay roughly the same and they might pay some extra tax but not much. No one (of them) is losing their bulk of their wealth or their freedom. Might as well roll the dice.

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          Yeah, if I ever disagree I get called a MAGA, so literally the left has become what they used to hate.

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            Dude, you support Trump. You’re a maga.

            People criticizing you does not violate your free speech. Getting banned from a website does not violate your free speech. Nobody is arresting you.

            What right wingers mean by free speech is they want the law to protect people using racial slurs and discrimination above the rights of the people they hate to live equitably within society.

            They want to go back to the 1950s, exactly the way they keep saying.

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        We already had it. Musk took it away.

        What right were you looking for? The right to call certain people certain words?

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          Let me guess, users should be banned because they don’t agree trans women are the same as regular women?

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            Maybe. I don’t care if they get banned. But other people definitely should not be banned for telling them to fuck off.

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    2 years ago

    this is what the .1% want - a full Corporatocracy where they, not elected leaders of governments, control countries and people.

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      2 years ago

      Really? Didn’t he impregnate Grimes twice?

      In addition to having kids with like 3 other women?

      Say what you want about Musk, but there’s no denying he’s having a way easier time getting laid and spreading his genes than most of you.

      There’s just something about money that even makes slimeballs like Musk irresistible to the opposite sex.

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    2 years ago

    If he were helping the extreme left, I assure you, that would be ok for the most people here…