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Prove to the end consumer - and hopefully not to industrial complexes that may somehow lobby politicians for regulatory capture to give the power to a handful v
by loceng 2y ago
Prove to the end consumer - and hopefully not to industrial complexes that may somehow lobby politicians for regulatory capture to give the power to a handful vs. the consumer's "voting" power via their distributed-individual buying power.
I highly disagree that the free market has no mechanisms, exhibit A being Elon Musk who had the credibility to rally $44 billion to buy Twitter to take that social media platform out of the hands that the establishment clearly had as a core pillar for their censorship-suppression-narrative control apparatus, of which the Twitter Files exposed the government's illegal suppression of Americans et al for anyone who wasn't toeing the acceptable narrative talking points of the last 3+ years.
- MeImCounting 2y agowoof, The conspiracy theories abound in this thread.
- loceng 2y agoOof, the ad hominem and laziness is abound in this thread. Attack the arguments and not the person by indirectly calling me a conspiracy theorist. Are you even aware of the Twitter Files I referenced, the specifics for what I'm referencing? Here's Matt Taibbi's specific work on the Twitter Files: https://twitterfiles.substack.com/ https://twitterfiles.substack.com/
- troupo 2y ago> I highly disagree that the free market has no mechanisms, exhibit A being Elon Musk 1. I didn't say "no mechanisms" in general. Re-read what I wrote 2. Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter doesn't show anything you pretend it shows, it doesn't show the mechanisms I specifically talked about, and since you jumped off of a cliff into deep conspiracy theories, I don't even care what you think it shows. Adieu.
- loceng 2y agoI understood what you wrote. Your logic and interpretation is off, why you don't understand what I said. Thanks for the ad hominem and being too lazy to engage except to tell us that indirectly, clearly "not worth my time" either - so let's say it's mutual - if you're arrogant enough to think the unreferenced "conspiracy theories" I've brought up have no truth or validity to them - you must clearly know better, especially with how much effort you put into things. /sarcasm And if you're referencing the Twitter Files "conspiracy theories" - here you go, enjoy, but I doubt you have the patience to actually "dive" into it, or even bother to lookup the US senate hearings on the issue: https://twitterfiles.substack.com/ https://twitterfiles.substack.com/ - Matt Taibbi's articles on it, one of the journalists Elon Musk gave access to Twitter's data including their staff communications/emails with the FBI et al.