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He paid $44 billion for a platform that's just for jokes, and nothing else, is this what you're saying? You're calling him an idiot, then. I distinctly remember
by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
He paid $44 billion for a platform that's just for jokes, and nothing else, is this what you're saying? You're calling him an idiot, then. I distinctly remember him saying the future of the world and free speech depends on Twitter and what not. Is it just for the jokes? This is what we use free speech about, this is what democracy depends on? Fucking around with jokes?
Why do autocratic regimes shut down Twitter in times of unrest? To reduce number of jokes? Why is say former President Trump being sued for promoting insurrection on Twitter? Don't they know it's just for jokes? The accounts of the war crimes in Ukraine that found outlet on Twitter, the news of weather events, earthquakes, crime, scientific news like the LK-99 superconductor candidate, it's all just jokes? The fact the stock price sharply went up when Musk said "I'm taking Tesla private" on Twitter, just jokes?
The only joke here... is you.
And as a matter of fact, Zuckerberg had explicitly asked Musk (not on Twitter, but "in real life") if he's serious about the fight, and he's said "he's dead serious". The problem with Musk being dead serious is that he tends to be dead serious about great many things, and then not deliver. That's not about Twitter, or about jokes. It's who Musk is. He's not reliable.
- rowanG077 3y agoI don't think buying twitter is unserious. He said he bought it so he can remove the insane left wing bias twitter has. Regimes shut down twitter because it's another avenue of communication. Whether the general discourse on twitter is serious or not has nothing to do with that. A rebellion may as well use toy walkie talkies if they would be effective. That doesn't mean toy walkie talkies are a serious product. An unserious product can be used for serious purposes. That doesn't mean you should take that product or service to be, in general, serious. > The only joke here... is you. And here we are. A personal attack. You let yourself get so worked up about a dude who you don't know and probably will never interact with. Anyway this conversation is over. Please try to at least keep conversations civil.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoI don't know you in person, but I'm reacting based on you going around and saying asinine things, which I've already discussed. And that's what the remark is about. Saying "you'll never interact with him" is especially absurd, as you're in the same boat. And no, I have interacted with him. He ruined a service I liked and used, and no longer do so.
- valianteffort 3y agoYou're taking the internet way too seriously. Twitter is and always has been 4chan lite. If you can't understand it's value, it's probably part of the reason you don't see why someone would want to buy it.
- clouddrover 3y agoAh, nihilism. The pointless, dead-end philosophy of choice of the pseudo-intellectual.
- rowanG077 3y agoAnd how exactly is recognizing that twitter is a 4chan like cesspool nihilism?
- clouddrover 3y agoExpecting it to be a cesspool is nihilism. Not having any ambition for it to be more than that is nihilism.