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

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  1. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    See post 1348 for Lubak laying out your bad logic.
    I just skipped to the end of the book, because I thought it would be self-evident.
    Frankly, I think he was too nice to you.
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  2. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    It's a nothing burger that the FBI was involved in weekly meetings with Twitter over censoring certain people they didn't like? Man, I'd hate see where your line is that makes you question the Democrats.
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    Chapelle is an out of touch rich asshole now. He probably saw Taylor Swift bringing out members of her "squad" at concerts to the excitement of her fans, and thought he could pull off the same thing. But while TS is friends with gorgeous models and popular actresses and other musicians that her audience likes, Chapelle is friends with other rich out of touch assholes that don't even have the decency to be funny.

    You can see it when the crowd turns on him and Dave's only retort seems to be variations on "fuck you poor losers, we're both still rich" over and over. :async:
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  5. Steal Your Face

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    There's obviously people who paid to see Chappelle. San Fransisco is a very liberal city and yet people still went to the show. I don't know what type of point you're trying to make. Yeah Musk got booed, but the cheers outweighed the boos. I don't see why this is a big deal.
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  6. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    I type in "did the FBI censor Twitter?" at Google, and all I get is right-wing partisan shit.
    Lemme guess, the center media is in on the conspiracy?
  7. 14thDoctor

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    I bet. :bergman:
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  8. matthunter

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    Even FOX isn't plugging the Twitter Files shit. Sebastian fucking Gorka isn't hyping the Twitter files shit.

    But FF's slobbering on it like it was Trump's cock poking through a VERY thin wall at a reststop.
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  9. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Is the MSM in on the conspiracy? No, they're just not reporting on it.
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  10. Ten Lubak

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    Seriously?

    You said that Musk got booed because he was in liberal San Fran:
    To which I replied that the libs in San Fran aren't likely at all to spend money and be at Dave's show given his recent jokes about trans folk and the fact they're trying to cancel him

    You then said that people paid to go there an boo Musk:
    Except there's zero evidence anyone knew that Musk was even going to be there and even if there were people that were there to boo Musk they would have been tiny in numbers and not even been heard

    The point is that that place was full of people that weren't/aren't woke or whatever but Musk still got his ass booed off

    The problem here is that you're so fucking binary that you can't comprehend that people who aren't libs/woke or whatever dislike Musk and think he's a fucking douchebag
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  11. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    They're not? Let me speak to you in your native language? What's all this then?
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  12. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    That's what did Wordforge in too.
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  13. matthunter

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    YouTube is your native language. But tit-for-tat:

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  14. Steal Your Face

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    I answered a question with a hypothetical situation. People do go to events to boo other people. It happens all of the time. It's a form of protest. They don't have secret meetings about it. They get fliers in the mail, they sign up for newsletters, they get told about it from friends and family, they see it on Facebook, they belong to a protest group, you name it. It happens and they organize a large group of people and go to events to disrupt them. We've seen this. We saw it with the Kavanaugh hearing. They also get funded by rich donors. They also have money to throw around, especially if they live in San Fransisco. I'm not saying that's what happened in this scenario. You asked If I thought a woke San Fransisco person would go to a Dave Chappelle show and boo Elon Musk and I answered yes, I think that's possible and I gave you a possible scenario as to why.
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  15. Steal Your Face

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    You said Fox News isn't covering the story. I posted a video of Fox News covering it.
    Here's the "nothing burger"
    17. During this time, executives were also clearly liaising with federal enforcement and intelligence agencies about moderation of election-related content. While we’re still at the start of reviewing the #TwitterFiles, we’re finding out more about these interactions every day.
    18. Policy Director Nick Pickles is asked if they should say Twitter detects “misinfo” through “ML, human review, and **partnerships with outside experts?*” The employee asks, “I know that’s been a slippery process… not sure if you want our public explanation to hang on that.”
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    19. Pickles quickly asks if they could “just say “partnerships.” After a pause, he says, “e.g. not sure we’d describe the FBI/DHS as experts.”
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    20. This post about the Hunter Biden laptop situation shows that Roth not only met weekly with the FBI and DHS, but with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI):
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    21. Roth’s report to FBI/DHS/DNI is almost farcical in its self-flagellating tone: “We blocked the NYP story, then unblocked it (but said the opposite)… comms is angry, reporters think we’re idiots… in short, FML” (**** my life)
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  17. Steal Your Face

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  18. 14thDoctor

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    What sort of woke leftists do you think are going to a Dave Chappelle show to boo Elon Musk (when there was no reason to suggest Musk might make an appearance) but not to boo Chapelle himself? :chris:
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  19. Raoul the Red Shirt

    Raoul the Red Shirt Professional bullseye

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    As you should know:
    1. Twitter received requests from the Biden campaign in 2020. The Biden campaign was not "the government."
    2. The requests were largely as to getting removed such things as nudes of Hunter Biden and other things that violated Twitter's terms of service.
    3. People were free and continue to be free to talk about whatever crackpot theories of Hunter Biden's alleged corruption and any connection to Joe Biden on Twitter and any other platform that they want without government interference.

    As you should also know, the alleged but non-existent suppression of free speech by Twitter/the government has nothing to do with whether Musk has torched a good portion of his own investment.
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  20. shootER

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    Part of the reason that traditional media haven’t really covered the story is that they’ve asked to see the files and Egah hasn’t responded.

    They’ve reported on what Taibbi has written but haven’t been able to see the source material themselves.
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  21. Ten Lubak

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  22. Steal Your Face

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    Remember, even Fox News isn't covering the story.
    More at the link that is definitely not Fox News.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitt...what-led-trumps-removal-social-media-platform
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  23. Steal Your Face

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    Then all a reporter has to do at the White House press conference is ask if the FBI was colluding with Twitter during the 2020 campaign. Or ask any type of hardball question, period. They won't because they protect Biden. Of course the White House would probably just lie about it anyway.
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    Peter Doocy is in the White House press corps, a fact you may be aware of from all the videos of Jen Psaki eviscerating him for being a blithering idiot. Is he protecting Joe Biden?
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  25. Diacanu

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    Yep, the same media that beat the war drums for Iraq under Bush just looooves Biden.
    Does it cause you constant chronic pain to be so stupid?
    If not, it should.
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  26. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    If there was any bombshell laptop material it would have still got out elsewhere, but I admire your dedication to wanting to see Hunters dick. Personally I can't see the appeal.
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  27. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    Because at the time of his initial joke bid the amount he offered was way above market value, and after that he spent months in court and online arguing that Twitter wasn't worth what he had contractually agreed to buy it for.
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    Now? I know I was shortsighted about him back when, but I think it is obvious now the guy who made an act out of "I'm rich bitch" was probably a self centered rich asshole way back when he had his first meltdown over poor people saying that catch phrase and quit the business for a while. He does a lot of jokes about his money and name drops more than fluffy. I wanted to think he was down to earth, but he was obviously a rich asshole and enjoying it for a long time.

    However, if you are buying tickets for his shows at this point you should not boo elon. You should recognize you deserve him lording his billionaire friends over you, and you paid him to shit on you for being poor. Remember, he is rich bitch, and you are in the cheap seats while he was fluffing elon on your dime.
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  29. Steal Your Face

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    Oh wow, you found one guy who isn't running defense for them. Next you'll tell me this guy's not on their side either. No shit because they can't handle tough questions.


  30. Steal Your Face

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    The same Joe Biden that voted for the war.
    Does it cause you constant chronic pain to be so stupid?
    If not, it should.:bailey: