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I have zero understanding of corporate law.

Back when Elon agreed to buy Twitter, then realized it wasn’t worth $44B, then wanted out, only to learn he was already contractually obligated to purchase… Real question here… Did his end game change to that of bankrupting the company as fast as possible and get out from under this? Is that a thing that happens?
 
I have absolutely no idea what even the issue is with Elon and Twitter. From what I see what so far happened is that the guy is trying to slim down the company and try new things to find a better balance in terms of moderation. Yeah, he's doing it in his own provocative way, and yeah, I don't like his communication style either for the most part. Honestly, nothing much has changed effectively. The site runs fine and it's still the same mix of poor quality content it always has been, as much as people now retroactively claim that it was ever different

Yet, when you listen to mainstream media and companies, it feels like they are trying to push the perception that Twitter is somehow at the brink of death. That strikes me as a classic reflexive tactic: if enough people buy that, it will happen (which is really how most people work; nobody actually checks for themselves, if their favorite people sound negative, they will uncritically adopt that attitude). In the end, what's really going on is pretty simple and obvious: it's social progressives that can't handle that once in a long while someone who doesn't appear to celebrate every single thing they come up with has control over something that they perceive as a key instrument for their social engineering efforts. This is purely political, there's no substantial danger in any of this, no matter how much people who don't like Elon for whatever reason wish for it.

This is all untrue, for decades this country has seen a smaller and smaller minority trying to turn the United States into a theocracy. Right wing billionaires have bought up most of government in order to do so and of course, conservatives can’t figure out why there’s pushback. This isn’t a Christian nation, we aren’t a theocracy, and nobody likes seeing some whack job guy with too much money buy something like Twitter and turn it into 4chan.
 
Yes.
Compared to much of the world the USA is heading to the far right and twitter is part of that.
Countries that are more democratic, more free, have greater free speech , education, health, Universal healthcare , welfare, social equality, greater life expectancy, are happier, have less crime, far less violent crime, less drug issues, etc etc etc are all left of the USA.
You gave no facts. So you are just slurring Twitter with the word Nazi.
I think you need to maybe realign your definitions of "left" and "right". Fascism comes in all flavors.
Since you are unbiased, can you name some left wing fascists?
Part of the problem is that's you're trying to change something that functions on a plane to something that functions on a line. It doesn't work for what should be obvious reasons.

I agree. But somehow all the bad attributes get attributed to the right and the left is considered all rainbows and unicorns. Can you name an evil left wing ideology?
Fascist economic policy incorporates elements of both capitalism and socialism. NAZI's partnered with big business and supported private property rights and the existence of a market economy especially for very wealthy individuals. Political philosophies aren't black and white they often incorporate elements of ideologies one would consider to be antithetical. The concurrence of beliefs/policies that made up Nazi ideology relegated it to the far right of the spectrum. The far right of the political spectrum and far left of the political spectrum can have many things in common. One tends to focus on racial purity, the other on idealogical purity.
The concurrence of beliefs? What in the world is that? Where do you even get that the right wing tends to focus on racial purity? That’s just a slur. Would you agree with this statement, World War Two was a battle between the left wing United States, right wing Nazi German, and the right wing Soviet Union? Was I wrong in categorizing any of those countries?
 
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Right, the Nazis weren't socialist at all. They controlled the economy. They created government corporations like Volkswagen. All these big government actions and ideas are perfectly consistent with the right wing and its limited government philosophy.

I guess communism is also a right wing philosophy? I think I figured it out. If the political system is bad or kills people it is right wing, no matter any other aspects of that system. Left wing = good. Right wing = bad? Am I doing it right?
No need to be sarcastic. Hitler was actually neither a left or right wing. He both endorsed capitalism and fought against it (believing it was core to Jews). And you can thank Goebbels for that. But he also believed Marxism wasn’t actually Socialism. Yet he started "martial ruling" to try and enforce the "Spirit of 1914". Nazism started off as a "people party" yet with the influence of right wing conservatives Göring, Himmler and Heydrich, Hitlers movement changed from what had some socialist goals to one of control and most definitely a right wing government.

At its core, socialism is pro-humanism (in its definition), whereas Nazism is anti-humanism with its anti-semantic purposes. But it also has pro socialist aspects as well.

I have never said Left is good, right is bad, and I don’t think that. You can look at any spectrum and say the far right is bad, as is the far left. Extremism is bad. For example, we only have to see what goes on in places like Afghanistan or Nepal to see extremist doing bad things From opposite ends of the spectrum.

People get held up on this stupid Leftist and Right Wing stuff. Socialism is a form of society, in the same way as Monarchy is a form of society. Capitalism is a form of market. It comes down to lack of knowledge and populist rubbish, just like Hitler's "men" and people like Trump. Don’t believe the hype is what I would say, and please, please don’t be the hype.
 
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Did you not see all the kiddie porn that had to be removed from Twitter? Apple never said a word until Elon bought it. Totally fake outrage from Apple.

That's what Apple require of social media apps: An effective moderation team and functionality.

If there were a lot of child pornography on Twitter and Twitter failed to remove it, they would receive warnings from Apple before the app being removed.
 
Right, the Nazis weren't socialist at all. They controlled the economy. They created government corporations like Volkswagen. All these big government actions and ideas are perfectly consistent with the right wing and its limited government philosophy.

I guess communism is also a right wing philosophy? I think I figured it out. If the political system is bad or kills people it is right wing, no matter any other aspects of that system. Left wing = good. Right wing = bad? Am I doing it right?
I can clear it up for you.

Nazis are people who are authoritarians and extreme nationalists whose politics are built around putting their own people first, above all others. Their key beliefs are the idea of national rebirth ("make Germany great again," as Hitler said in Feb 1940) and the conspiracy that a global cabal of elite cultural marxists (Jews) are controlling the world to their own ends. It is universally understood to be a far-right ideology.

Communists are people who believe in common ownership of the means of production and the abolition of government in favor of direct democracy. They hope that protecting personal property but abolishing private property will bring an end to class structure and traditional hierarchies, to the benefit of the working class. It is universally understood to be a far-left ideology.
 
Free speech is so easy...but why do so many people fear it? So Trump is on twitter? Dont read his idiot tweets. What could be easier. If you are upset because you think he should be suppressed...you are the villain in the story. We should block Holodomor denial, explicit threats of violence, pornography. All the things we block in community spheres but everything else .... free speech. Its so easy.

That’s not what he’s doing though, he’s been allowing some of the worst offenders back into Twitter, which has led to a surge from the worst of humanity to flood the place. And at the same time he’s literally banning accounts given to him by these same vile people. There are neo-Nazi’s giving Elon blacklists to target and Elon immediately banned those people. So yea, all this hoopla about free speech was BS from the beginning.
 
The concurrence of beliefs? What in the world is that? Where do you even get that the right wing tends to focus on racial purity? That’s just a slur. Would you agree with this statement, World War Two was a battle between the left wing United States, right wing Nazi German, and the right wing Soviet Union? Was I wrong in categorizing any of those countries?

I said the 'far right'. Don't set up strawmen only to knock them down yourself.

"We chose to call ourselves the National Socialists. We are not internationalists. Our socialism is national. We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the state on the basis of race solidarity. To us state and race are one" - Adolf Hitler
 
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Banning the Babylon Bee was one of the dumbest moves in history 🤣 That is before Elon bought it. He’s changing the course. Let’s go!
 
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That’s not what he’s doing though, he’s been allowing some of the worst offenders back into Twitter, which has led to a surge from the worst of humanity to flood the place. And at the same time he’s literally banning accounts given to him by these same vile people. There are neo-Nazi’s giving Elon blacklists to target and Elon immediately banned those people. So yea, all this hoopla about free speech was BS from the beginning.

Name a few?

Which vile people gave him names, and which names did they give to ban?
 
It's lucky his cars are good.
His ego has allowed him to spread himself too thin and making stupid decisions too quickly.

Twitter was never worth buying.
His BitCoin comments after buying some showed his business acumen isnt great.

He was better when he was a lovable idiot. Eccentric.
Now he's just bought into his own delusions... sad.
Too many around his happy to tell him what he wants to hear and not what he needs to.
 
I find it amusing that people suddenly don’t want anything to do with Twitter now that Elon owns it. Twitter (and pretty much any other social media) has always been a cesspool and toxic to society.
He basically ended common sense moderation which kept the platform out of serious trouble.

Why are you surprised?
 
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It's lucky his cars are good.
His ego has allowed him to spread himself too thin and making stupid decisions too quickly.

Twitter was never worth buying.
His BitCoin comments after buying some showed his business acumen isnt great.

He was better when he was a lovable idiot. Eccentric.
Now he's just bought into his own delusions... sad.
Too many around his happy to tell him what he wants to hear and not what he needs to.
His cars aren't good.
 
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Do you? It is the National Socialist German Workers Party. Socialism is left wing. It’s right there in the name.
Remember that North Korea is also known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Would you say North Korea is Democratic?
Reading all ur comments is sad. Apple should support free speech. God bless elon
God supports free speech? 😂😂😂
 
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