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Freeze peach always seems unimportant until you lose it. Good thing that goes hand in hand with economic improvement, based on historical evidence, and make gr

Freeze peach always seems unimportant until you lose it. Good thing that goes hand in hand with economic improvement, based on historical evidence, and make greenhouses on Mars more likely.

AlexandrB 4y ago
If our free speech rights depend on the whims of billionaire media owners we don't have those rights in any meaningful sense. I don't think that Twitter changing hands moved the needle one way or the other.
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
  Twitter is just one, now fully exposed, symptom of a larger problem, which will be easier to deal with now that more people are watching.
- throwawaylinux 4y ago
  It definitely moved the needle as you can see from the wailing and gnashing of teeth by a lot of the billionaire owned politicians, bureaucrats, institutions, and legacy media corporate "journalists". It's funny how angrily and desperately they insist that nothing really changed and everything is a "nothing-burger", but they're gaslighting you as usual. Speech and public opinion is still under the control of billionaires, and Musk is not likely to be particularly less greedy, self-serving, or egomaniacal as Murdoch or Soros or Bezos, but he is not in lock step with them. The enemy of my enemy is... quite possibly still my enemy, but it's beautiful to watch them fight one another. And if it can distract them from starting new wars or stealing more money and rights from people for just one minute, that's a wonderful bonus.
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
  "Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannoy humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the person who is not afraid anymore." —Cesar Chavez
c54 4y ago
People have high hopes that Musk is some kind of principled arbiter but it's wishful thinking. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/tech/elonjet-twitter-suspended/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/tech/elonjet-twitter-suspende...

Freeze peach always seems unimportant until you lose it. Good thing that goes hand in hand with economic improvement, based on historical evidence, and make greenhouses on Mars more likely.

AlexandrB 4y ago

If our free speech rights depend on the whims of billionaire media owners we don't have those rights in any meaningful sense. I don't think that Twitter changing hands moved the needle one way or the other.

TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
Twitter is just one, now fully exposed, symptom of a larger problem, which will be easier to deal with now that more people are watching.
throwawaylinux 4y ago
It definitely moved the needle as you can see from the wailing and gnashing of teeth by a lot of the billionaire owned politicians, bureaucrats, institutions, and legacy media corporate "journalists". It's funny how angrily and desperately they insist that nothing really changed and everything is a "nothing-burger", but they're gaslighting you as usual. Speech and public opinion is still under the control of billionaires, and Musk is not likely to be particularly less greedy, self-serving, or egomaniacal as Murdoch or Soros or Bezos, but he is not in lock step with them. The enemy of my enemy is... quite possibly still my enemy, but it's beautiful to watch them fight one another. And if it can distract them from starting new wars or stealing more money and rights from people for just one minute, that's a wonderful bonus.
TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannoy humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the person who is not afraid anymore." —Cesar Chavez

c54 4y ago

People have high hopes that Musk is some kind of principled arbiter but it's wishful thinking. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/tech/elonjet-twitter-suspended/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/tech/elonjet-twitter-suspende...