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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,005
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    The Juggler said:
    Is anyone else's twitter feed cluttered with a constant barrage of ads now? It's like every 3-5 tweets are followed by a huge ad. Even the replies to tweets are littered with ads. 
    Which products and services are being advertised? Maybe I'll email them and tell them I'm boycotting their product/service for supporting a douchebag? Does anyone buy a product or service because they saw it on Twatter?
    that is how they track you with them cookies, bro.
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  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,610
    The Juggler said:
    Is anyone else's twitter feed cluttered with a constant barrage of ads now? It's like every 3-5 tweets are followed by a huge ad. Even the replies to tweets are littered with ads. 
    I haven't really noticed it. I feel like my feed's about 10% more MAGA but that's about it (and probably due to some people leaving and some MAGA coming back).

    Also, there's about 1000% more talk about Twitter than there used to be, which is getting old.
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  • mickeyrat
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    not on there much at all but I am seeing more posts from folks I dont follow than folks I do follow.
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  • The Juggler
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    I've blocked over a hundred ads in the last month or so. But they keep coming. Relentless sons of bitches!
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,306
    op-ed gift article....


     Opinion | Musk’s ugly attack on Fauci shows how right-wing info warfare works

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  • static111
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    edited December 2022
    mickeyrat said:
    op-ed gift article....


     Opinion | Musk’s ugly attack on Fauci shows how right-wing info warfare works

    Every time I read an article where John Brennan criticizes anyone I think to myself fuck that guy and his drone program, defense of torture, spying and lying.  Fuck Elon too of course but couldn't they have cited someone better than John Brennan for lecturing someone about class?

    Good read otherwise.  Thanks for the share
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,005
    i believe that musk's inevitable fall from grace will make howard hughes' descent look like a cakewalk.
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  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    Any mention as to the reason Chappelle invited Musk onstage? Was it a transphobic communion? Is Chappelle going the way of Kanye? I mean, during his SNL monologue he didn't exactly denounce Kanye. The criticism was that Kanye spoke about it openly. Are we a day or two away from Chappelle appearing with Alex Jones?
  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,753
    Hobbes said:
    Any mention as to the reason Chappelle invited Musk onstage? Was it a transphobic communion? Is Chappelle going the way of Kanye? I mean, during his SNL monologue he didn't exactly denounce Kanye. The criticism was that Kanye spoke about it openly. Are we a day or two away from Chappelle appearing with Alex Jones?

    To own the libs? I genuinely can't think of any other reason. 


    It was fun hearing Chappelle suggest the people booing Musk must have been employees he fired. Then he suggested the boos were coming from the cheap seats (AKA poor people). Then he finally told his crowd to shut the fuck up. 

    What a fucking asshole. 
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    gimmesometruth27 said:
    i believe that musk's inevitable fall from grace will make howard hughes' descent look like a cakewalk.
    I agree with you.  Hubris like he is showing always invites karma.  And every time the right wing goes all chips in on someone, it blows up in their face.  
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,336
    Hobbes said:
    Any mention as to the reason Chappelle invited Musk onstage? Was it a transphobic communion? Is Chappelle going the way of Kanye? I mean, during his SNL monologue he didn't exactly denounce Kanye. The criticism was that Kanye spoke about it openly. Are we a day or two away from Chappelle appearing with Alex Jones?
    That was a Twitter event if I'm not mistaken.  They hired Chappelle to do that show.
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    Anyone remember this tweet?  It was put up after Kanye went on Tucker.  2/3 of these people are certified scum.  The last one just hasn't imploded yet.  But it's getting there...


  • The Juggler
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    tempo_n_groove said:
    Hobbes said:
    Any mention as to the reason Chappelle invited Musk onstage? Was it a transphobic communion? Is Chappelle going the way of Kanye? I mean, during his SNL monologue he didn't exactly denounce Kanye. The criticism was that Kanye spoke about it openly. Are we a day or two away from Chappelle appearing with Alex Jones?
    That was a Twitter event if I'm not mistaken.  They hired Chappelle to do that show.
    I think it was just a regular gig of Chappelle's in San Fran. 
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,336
    The Juggler said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Hobbes said:
    Any mention as to the reason Chappelle invited Musk onstage? Was it a transphobic communion? Is Chappelle going the way of Kanye? I mean, during his SNL monologue he didn't exactly denounce Kanye. The criticism was that Kanye spoke about it openly. Are we a day or two away from Chappelle appearing with Alex Jones?
    That was a Twitter event if I'm not mistaken.  They hired Chappelle to do that show.
    I think it was just a regular gig of Chappelle's in San Fran. 
    You are correct.  I read the phones were locked up so thought it was a private event.
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,144


    Musk is so full of shit...honestly I don't blame him since it's kind of an invasion of privacy but he did state that he wouldn't ban the account.
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  • tempo_n_groove
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    Gern Blansten said:


    Musk is so full of shit...honestly I don't blame him since it's kind of an invasion of privacy but he did state that he wouldn't ban the account.
    Is there still the poop account in San Francisco?
  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 41,988
    Elongitaint and Q. Some excerpts:

    Twitter owner Elon Musk’s boosting of far-right memes and grievances has injected new energy into the jumbled set of conspiracy theories known as QAnon, a fringe movement that Twitter and other social networks once banned as too extreme.

    The billionaire has spread bogus theories about the violent attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband to his 120 million followers, and he called for the criminal prosecution of infectious-disease expert Anthony S. Fauci. He has thrown around baseless accusations about adults sexualizing children, helping stir up an angry online mob against Yoel Roth, a former Twitter safety executive Musk praised in October for his “high integrity.”

    And on Tuesday, he tweeted a message with an emoji that many people interpreted as saying “follow the white rabbit,” possibly harking back to “Alice in Wonderland” or “The Matrix.” But many QAnon believers saw the rabbit as a wink to one of their foundational icons, a secret indicator shared in one of QAnon’s earliest online prophesies, known as “drops.”

    Musk mocked the suggestion that the tweet could be interpreted negatively but offered no clarification. Among QAnon promoters, though, the message was clear: Musk was speaking to them.

    Logan Strain, a conspiracy theory researcher who uses the name Travis View on the podcast “QAnon Anonymous,” said Musk’s “conspiracist dog whistles” have galvanized a group that was fractured after 2020, when major social networks including Twitter started banning QAnon accounts and Trump lost the White House.

    “He’s responding to and validating a rogues’ gallery of right-wing conspiracists … [and] going through a checklist of far-right grievances in a way that has certainly energized them,” Strain said. For QAnon believers, “what they view as a major battlefield in the information war just opened up again.”

    Musk has never explicitly supported QAnon, and some of his closest allies say they doubt he believes some of the wilder things he says online. One person in Musk’s inner circle, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Musk’s views, said he uses the claims merely to win the internet’s most prized currency: attention. “He wants to muck it up,” the person said.

    Since launching his $44 billion takeover of the company, Musk has become so popular in QAnon circles that some regard him, not Trump, as the savior-like figure they had been waiting on to usher in “the Storm,” a quasi-biblical moment in which the cabal that runs the American government, media, technology industry and education system would be vanquished through public executions.

    Musk was once portrayed as a hero of the American left, an environmentally focused innovator who vowed to use science and engineering to take on Big Oil and save the world through ambitious ventures such as SpaceX’s reusable rockets and Tesla’s electric cars.

    But in the years since, Musk has become one of the internet’s most prominent trolls, needling his enemies with extreme messages and off-color memes that often dovetail with far-right messaging.

    Musk, who has said he is “neither conventionally right nor left,” has chatted and joked on Twitter with prominent right-wing influencers and commentators, sometimes expressing outrage about how they have been treated by the “woke mob.” Musk has said the “woke mind virus” — a vague term generally referring to liberal advocacy, social justice and political correctness — is “pushing civilization towards suicide” so that “humanity will never [reach] Mars.”

    He has also echoed far-right causes, including saying Fauci should face criminal punishment for lying to Congress and funding infectious-disease research “that killed millions of people.” Musk’s claims lack real evidence, and the White House has said Musk’s attacks are “divorced from reality.” (“My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk tweeted Sunday in a jab at transgender identity, which he has also criticized.)

    But like Q, he has often framed current events as titanic spectacles of apocalyptic grandeur. Musk on Monday agreed that the world is facing a “mass awakening event or total collapse of society,” and he tweeted that buying Twitter is a way to combat the “woke mind virus,” which must be “defeated or nothing else matters.”

    Musk’s erratic behavior has sent some advertisers scrambling for the exits, and Tesla’s stock price has plunged nearly 50 percent this year, costing Musk his title as the world’s richest person.

    But he has gained in other ways. On Twitter, he is now picking up an average of 200,000 followers every day.


    QAnon sees new life in Musk's Twitter ownership - The Washington Post

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  • mickeyrat
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    tempo_n_groove said:
    The Juggler said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Hobbes said:
    Any mention as to the reason Chappelle invited Musk onstage? Was it a transphobic communion? Is Chappelle going the way of Kanye? I mean, during his SNL monologue he didn't exactly denounce Kanye. The criticism was that Kanye spoke about it openly. Are we a day or two away from Chappelle appearing with Alex Jones?
    That was a Twitter event if I'm not mistaken.  They hired Chappelle to do that show.
    I think it was just a regular gig of Chappelle's in San Fran. 
    You are correct.  I read the phones were locked up so thought it was a private event.

    Dave always does that. So does Jack White.
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,144
    It sure seems like Musk is in a nosedive. Money has a way of saving idiots from themselves but I'm not sure if will save him.


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  • The Juggler
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    mickeyrat said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    The Juggler said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Hobbes said:
    Any mention as to the reason Chappelle invited Musk onstage? Was it a transphobic communion? Is Chappelle going the way of Kanye? I mean, during his SNL monologue he didn't exactly denounce Kanye. The criticism was that Kanye spoke about it openly. Are we a day or two away from Chappelle appearing with Alex Jones?
    That was a Twitter event if I'm not mistaken.  They hired Chappelle to do that show.
    I think it was just a regular gig of Chappelle's in San Fran. 
    You are correct.  I read the phones were locked up so thought it was a private event.

    Dave always does that. So does Jack White.
    I do the same thing. 
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