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

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  1. Ten Lubak

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    Matt Taibbi? This Matt Taibbi?

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    That's a quote pulled directly from his memoir "Exile"

    Why is it that all your heroes are either obscene misogynists, conspiracy theory spreaders, racists or Russian sleeper agents? What's up with that?
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    Wow, Elon is as easy to trick with crap memes as FF. :soma:
    Social media has totally exposed that rich people aren't rich because they're smart.
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    And it was a gag meme that Musk shared which Twitter flagged as incorrect.

    As for Steele, he was shocked to discover that the only reason he was picked to run the RNC was because his skin color. He was probably the only person in America to not realize it from the beginning.

    As he points out, the RNC has lost ground under the leadership of Romney-McDaniel, but they still keep electing her to run the party because she listens to Trump. Steele gave the RNC some of their biggest gains while he was in charge and they tossed him out.
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    I guess that gives Steele something in common with Herschel Walker. :chris:
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    How about addressing the content of the video? Yes it was MSNBC and not CNN. My bad.
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    I don't want my YouTube recommendations fucked up, thank you. BTW, don't put much stock in what Steele has to say about this as he's more than happy to appear on Rick Wilson's The Enemies List and trash Trump and the RNC.

    Wilson, you might remember, is one of the founders of The Lincoln Project, who've been accused of taking credit for other people's work, and lining their pockets with money people thought was going to help defeat Republicans. Steele's also said that the only reason he's a Republican and not a Libertarian is that he can troll more people this way. Doesn't sound like a man of strong principles to me.
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    Let's jsut touch on this, shall we. (Being a member of the christie pits hardball league, myself)[​IMG]


    yeah, we totally can still be weighed down with semi and subconscious racist baggage. We may not be actively so, let alone overt, but we're still connected to the cultural biases we grew up surrounded by. That shit's floating around in there with a lot of other deep rooted, fear based responses.

    but you check yourself in the moment, and chide yourself afterwards because you recognize that bigotry as irrational... probably add it to the collection of thoughts that disturb you three years later at 3 am. logical consistency in self reflection and not making excuses. /shrug

    And in the pursuit of being a rational adult, you figure out that the fear aspect of bigotry is paired with societal hierarchies and maintaining them... see, that's why antifa activists are by definition also antira(cist) (and generally anti capitalism).
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    I was specifically thinking about black people being racist towards whites or even whites trying to force white guilt on everyone.
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    Redundant statement when you could have just posted a link to your entire post history which already made this clear.
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    I'm no more or less worried about Twitter's technical existence than I've been all along but Elon is either choosing to go full bore Master Troll for the lols, or dude has legitimately slipped over to the very very dark side. When you're down to approvingly quote tweeting Laura logan who got fired and banned by NEWSMAX for her batshittary, you're WAY beyond the neutral zone.
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    Jesus, I thought you could burst out of John Hurt's chest, and still work at Newsmax.
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    Will @Nova reveal what Laura Logan got fired for? Probably not.
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    Looks like anti-Semitic "elites dine on the blood of infants!" shit to me.

    I'm sure there's some super-secret squirrel reason only you and your YouTube pals know about or dare to mention, though.

    Or are you referring to her FIRST firing (they rehired her until the above) when she compared Fauci to Mengele?

    Again, I'm not seeing the issue with terming either of those "batshittery".
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    Yes, but Bernie Sanders thinks everyone should have health care, so you have to admit there are extremists on both sides.
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    looks like someone sinned by defying God's will for his hairline.
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