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He owns Twitter/X and he can name it anything he wants. I had not been using Twitter much before he bought it, and I use Mastodon a bit, but ironically I start

He owns Twitter/X and he can name it anything he wants. I had not been using Twitter much before he bought it, and I use Mastodon a bit, but ironically I started using Twitter/X more after he bought it. There are a few things that give me hope for the future: Twitter/X strongly supporting free speech, and the presidential campaigns of Kennedy and Cornel West. I think the corporate-democrats and the corporate-republicans are a sign of a ruined country. Our country is being looted as we watch. That is just my opinion, which is only important to me. I am not trying to tell anyone else how to vote or how to think.

DonHopkins 3y ago
You're just glad an anti-vax conspiracy theorist has a platform.
- terly 3y ago
  You're just glad that you never get downvoted or flagged because your name protects you.
  - DonHopkins 3y ago
    How is that even supposed to work? Go ahead and downvote and flag and try to deplatform and cancel me all you want (even though it would disprove your conspiracy theory that my name somehow protects me, and make you a hypocrite). So you actually created that brand new green account just to say that, huh? You're so ridiculously and ignorantly wrong, no wonder you don't want to associate your own name with your comment. You're so addicted to conspiracy theories, you even make them up about me. I invite everyone to downvote and flag this comment just to prove how wrong you are.
- mark_l_watson 3y ago
  I am glad everyone has a platform. Yeah, I disagree with some of what Kennedy says, but I also believe he has a kind heart and good intentions. You know that he has had his children vaccinated, etc., right? I took the time to listen to his long interview on the All In podcast and it seems like his big complaint was rushing the Covid vaccines. You might want to look into Pfizer’s interactions with the Indian government recently. They wanted some limited efficacy double blind tests and Pfizer decided to ignore the Indian market. Anyway, I am an old man, and I was happy getting the Covid vaccination, but I always thought that everyone should get to make the choice for themselves. There are really too many people in the world who are hung up on telling other people what to do.
threatofrain 3y ago
Elon does not have principled notions of speech -- his only principle is power and money. When Kanye starts to piss off advertisers? He gets banned. When reporters piss on Elon during live audio chat? The entire feature is immediately shut down, right as the event is ongoing. PG got his account disabled just for mentioning his other social media presence. When most people are thinking about the thresholds for speech they most certainly aren't drawing the line around whether you can talk about competing products. This is coming from the guy who thinks it's fair play in speech to repeatedly accuse an emergency rescue worker of pedophilia, which he clarified as having sex with underaged Thai boys.

DonHopkins 3y ago

You're just glad an anti-vax conspiracy theorist has a platform.

terly 3y ago
You're just glad that you never get downvoted or flagged because your name protects you.
- DonHopkins 3y ago
  How is that even supposed to work? Go ahead and downvote and flag and try to deplatform and cancel me all you want (even though it would disprove your conspiracy theory that my name somehow protects me, and make you a hypocrite). So you actually created that brand new green account just to say that, huh? You're so ridiculously and ignorantly wrong, no wonder you don't want to associate your own name with your comment. You're so addicted to conspiracy theories, you even make them up about me. I invite everyone to downvote and flag this comment just to prove how wrong you are.
mark_l_watson 3y ago
I am glad everyone has a platform. Yeah, I disagree with some of what Kennedy says, but I also believe he has a kind heart and good intentions. You know that he has had his children vaccinated, etc., right? I took the time to listen to his long interview on the All In podcast and it seems like his big complaint was rushing the Covid vaccines. You might want to look into Pfizer’s interactions with the Indian government recently. They wanted some limited efficacy double blind tests and Pfizer decided to ignore the Indian market. Anyway, I am an old man, and I was happy getting the Covid vaccination, but I always thought that everyone should get to make the choice for themselves. There are really too many people in the world who are hung up on telling other people what to do.

threatofrain 3y ago

Elon does not have principled notions of speech -- his only principle is power and money. When Kanye starts to piss off advertisers? He gets banned. When reporters piss on Elon during live audio chat? The entire feature is immediately shut down, right as the event is ongoing. PG got his account disabled just for mentioning his other social media presence. When most people are thinking about the thresholds for speech they most certainly aren't drawing the line around whether you can talk about competing products. This is coming from the guy who thinks it's fair play in speech to repeatedly accuse an emergency rescue worker of pedophilia, which he clarified as having sex with underaged Thai boys.