Elon Musk takes over Twitter

hondo · Dec 3, 2022

Alma said: ↑

No. Nobody’s thirsty for that on a site that tilts
95% left.

And the story’s not pig shit. It may not be a big story, and it may ultimately have had little to no bearing on the presidential election, but it’s not pig shit.
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So you say. Try not to speak for everyone else.

Smallpotatoes · Dec 3, 2022

Alma said: ↑

No. Nobody’s thirsty for that on a site that tilts
95% left.

And the story’s not pig shit. It may not be a big story, and it may ultimately have had little to no bearing on the presidential election, but it’s not pig shit.
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The story is pig shit.

Deskgrunt50 · Dec 3, 2022

hondo said: ↑

Twitter had every right to do so. It's not the government and not subject to First Amendment protections. If you're asking me if people who worked for Twitter were mostly on the left, I'd agree with you. But whatever they did to suppress the story (and all they were asked to do was take down Hunter's dick pics) was no different than the Washington Post or MSNBC choosing not to run a certain story.
And in regards to Hunter Biden ... I don't give a fuck what he did. If anything rises to the level of indictment, fine, be my guest. But there's one huge difference: Biden hasn't let his trouble child get anywhere near the Oval Office or have anything to do with policy. Trump's evil spawn were all over the joint, with their fingers in the pie.
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Absolutely. And I’ll maintain the action actually amplified the story on other sites. Brought it way more attention to it than it otherwise would’ve gotten.

tapintoamerica · Dec 3, 2022

hondo said: ↑

Once again... for the one-millionth time ... a news outlet or a social media platform not covering a story or burying it, is not, in any way, a First Amendment issue.
Lord have mercy ... some people are sorely in need of 9th-grade Civics textbook.
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100% correct.
I was merely responding to the suggestion that Laptopgate is more egregious than anything Trump did.

Smallpotatoes · Dec 3, 2022

https://propagandaprofessor.net/2022/12/03/twitter-under-elon-from-bad-to-putrid/

Matty Taibbi's Dick Pics - emptywheel

Regan MacNeil · Dec 3, 2022

Yeah, I'm not clicking on a link called "Matty Taibbi's Dick Pics." Thanks.

Smallpotatoes · Dec 3, 2022

Batman said: ↑

As has often been pointed out, Trump really only lost by about 50,000 votes spread across a few swing states. It might not have taken much to swing those to his column, or at least keep those voters from voting for Biden.
Still, I don't know that there was enough time, two weeks before the election, for the scope of the story to fully unravel. Here we are two years later, with several books having been written about the laptop, and I still don't think we comprehend how deep this thing might go. And with the way early and mail-in voting was handled in 2020, even people who might have been swung by it could have already had their votes locked in.
At this point, the troubling part is the way the Democratic Party felt emboldened to manipulate and even suppress the free flow of information, to the point of effectively shutting down news outlets and trying to discredit journalists who were reporting stories that might have negatively affected them. They did this under the demented logic that the ends justified the means, but it seems as if it might have been just another tool in the toolbox. That a board full of journalists and former journalists is saying that's acceptable on any level is alarming.
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The end did justify the means. Trump had no business being president. It was bad enough he was elected in 2016. I would not want to live through a second term. I don’t care how it happened. Thank God he’s gone. Now we need to make sure he never returns.

Azrael · Dec 3, 2022

short thread

Vombatus · Dec 3, 2022

Regan MacNeil said: ↑

Yeah, I'm not clicking on a link called "Matty Taibbi's Dick Pics." Thanks.
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Neither am I.

garrow · Dec 3, 2022

Holy Fail, Holy Dud----the explosive bestseller which inspired the Donald T Code

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