Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share.

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    Uh, oh.
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    Purge of journalists in progress.

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    Free speech absolutism!!
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    (:brood:)
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  8. Diacanu

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    The meme of the superhero not knowing what button to push wouldn't work with "free speech" and "owning libs" cuz the "owning libs" one gets pressed without blinking.
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  9. Diacanu

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    If Elon had gotten into medicine instead of business, he'd be the Human Centipede doctor.
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    These are mostly left-wing voices. Fuck Elon.
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    A week after Alex Jones was brought back because of Freeze Peach.
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    It was always arbitrary and biased. Y'all are just buttsore that you can't rely on the bias to break your way anymore.
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    Nonsense. I am against censorship of any free expression, other than where material is blatantly illegal.
    However this purge is specifically directed and that needs pointed out.
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  14. Diacanu

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    Don't let reality get in the way of his precious grievance narrative.
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    And so you are equally outraged at any pattern the silencing of non-liberal expression, I'm sure.
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  16. Diacanu

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    Just screech "you're lying!! I know you are!! I just know!!" at everyone, and get it over with.
    Your sneering incredulity shtick is hollow as fuck.
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  17. RickDeckard

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    These are lefties, not liberals. Liberals have it easy. So yeah.
    The principle is that if you don't agree with free expression for people who disagree with you, you don't agree with it at all. You'll find no examples anywhere of me wanting to silence anyone.
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    A friend of mine just tweeted and called him Apartheid Clyde. :lol:
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    Wait.

    @zei_squirrel and @kenklippenstein are back now. Any others?
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  21. Diacanu

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    Remember, UA lives in the universe where the righties who were banned were banned for telling jokes with poo-poo words, and not criminally threatening, or inciting.
    And nothing we say or do is going to make him leave that universe.
    Apparently, that universe has a Cronenberg-ian living toilet that licks out your asshole.
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  24. Diacanu

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    Fair enough. Accepted at face value.
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  26. Uncle Albert

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    Diluting the concepts of incitement and menacing to mute people you dislike is neither a new tactic nor a particularly clever one.
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  27. Diacanu

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    Keep your tinfoil hat on good and tight to keep those Jewish lasers out.
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  28. Uncle Albert

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    Right. You had reasonable applications in mind. That's why you kept them to yourself and went the vague route.

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  29. Diacanu

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    Because "criminal threatening" and "incitement" are blurry and smeary, and don't have dictionary definitions.
    It could be anything.
    In right-wing conspiracy land.
    Oh, but UA isn't a right-winger, cuz he says so.
    Quacking things with feathers aren't always ducks.
    It might be a highly trained and surgically transformed cat.
    Because that's a reasonable hypothesis.

    Joking aside, own being right-wing, you fucking coward.
    Goddamn.
    You're like Mister Garrison and his gayness.
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    Eat a dick with your fucking weasel words. If there was a crime, cite the law. If there was incitement, towards what specific and imminent action? Once you have established that, you can point out where I demanded someone proven guilty of anything like that should be spared consequences.


    I predict you will do none of that. If you're not full of shit or flinging it, you are probably asleep under a layer of Cheetos crumbs. It's going to be poo flinging in clown shoes.
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