Elon Musk said the account of right-wing extremist Alex Jones would be reinstated on X, formerly known as Twitter, reversing a 2018 decision by the company’s previous management to deplatform the notorious conspiracy theorist after he repeatedly broke rules prohibiting harassment and hate.
“My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat,” Musk tweeted. “I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”
And now he's throwing his own dead kid under the bus. But hey, it's a money bus.
She continued: “Elon made it clear that he did not want to talk about Nevada’s death. I didn’t understand this, just as he didn’t understand why I grieved openly, which he regarded as ‘emotionally manipulative’.
Imagine being so wealthy and powerful you never have to be ashamed. Elmo will never have to be confronted with criticism except on his own terms. Their are legions who will stroke his ego and eloquently explain why he's always in the right.
Never being confronted with your mistakes is worse than making you arrogant... it rots your fucking brain. You become lazy and uncritical of yourself. You become stupid. Being a "great man" is a degenerative neurological disorder.
Do you think he describes himself as a dad or does he require being called a founder?
The best part about rich people is they suffocate just like the rest of us if you put plastic bags over their heads. Same with falling from great heights. You'd think they bounce and be fine but nope, they pop right open
They're not people to be loved, they're just part of his plan to fight the bullshit Great Replacement of white people he and his white supremacist friends are convinced is happening.
Gary Vee once said that he doesn't traffic in money or selling products, he traffics in attention. Thats really stuck with me. Gary Vee is a grifter and a snake oil salesman, but he's 100% right about the modern landscape of capitalism. The money is almost gone. It's almost entirely hoarded by the billionaire dragons. Now the ruling class just pulls stunts like this to anger us and distract us from realizing that our lives would be so much better if these people no longer existed.
It’s more just reporting his plan is still going as planned. This is all part of the signal boosting certain voices in the lead up to the election. Why would anyone want to let this person have the microphone with his appalling track record? For free speech? Why is this point in time so important to let him get his messages out and not 10 months ago or in 10 months for that matter? It’s also a few months away from some more crypto stupidness so he can grift and dump his crap on the public again like last time. He’s just repeating what worked for him so can’t blame him for not being very creative
On Saturday morning, Musk posted an unscientific poll to his account asking users of the platform if Jones should be reinstated. By Saturday evening when the poll closed, about 70% of nearly 2 million respondents had voted “yes.”
When Elton responded initially it had 450,000 votes at 92-8 or something… then it had 1.2 million this morning, and was running 72-28. Then supposedly another 400,000 people voted, and it was 70-30. Then ANOTHER 400,000 votes were recorded and the ratio didn’t budge at all, and it closed at 70-30. Seems suspicious to me. Of course Elron would just have it say whatever he wanted, there’s no doubt.
I just don't get it. If Twitter was ever good, I still don't think I could go back if I had to.
But it was NEVER FUCKING GOOD.
Some of the worst UI ever, the snarkiest, most narcissistic dweebs, lurking in every thread. Fuck Twitter. Fuck Twitter on every single day since it's existed. I tried it. Zero good moments there. It's fucking cancer that should be nuked from orbit.
Part of it is FOMO, but unfortunately, a lot of news is still broken on Twitter and it is still sometimes useful (I don't use it myself, but others do) as a real-time source of news as it unfolds. There are also a lot of governments that use Twitter to post announcements.
Like I said, I don't use it myself, but I think all of those things contribute.
So, what? Musk ran his Xitter botnet to "vote" for Jones' return, both because Musk himself is a conspiracy theorist and because he wants Jones' traffic? Idiocy and greed will be the death of humanity ...
A dollar bill weighs about a gram. So 44 billion dollars is 44 million kg of paper. This would release about 16 MJ/kg upon combustion, so a total of 700 TJ of energy. This is about the same as an 150 kiloton nuclear bomb.
So Elon Musk is destroying Xitter with the equivalent energy of a strategic nuclear warhead. This is some real creative destruction.