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Elon Musk takes over Twitter

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Alma, Apr 25, 2022.

  1. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

  2. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

  3. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

  4. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Karma for what? It happened in 1996.

    What havoc had 25-year-old Elon wreaked at that time?
     
  5. matt_garth

    matt_garth Well-Known Member

  6. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

  7. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    His car company is seeing sales drop, and in particular Tesla's market share in China is slipping, as the communist party pushes Chinese brands and has been kind of hostile to Tesla lately. BYD is eating Tesla's lunch there now, selling 3 cars for every 1 Tesla has been selling.

    So as transparent as he always is. ... this is him trying to make nice to the Chinese.

    It's not even likely to help him much.
     
  8. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

  9. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    The "fact check" was beyond dishonest. The number of migrants coming in has skyrocketed and so has the number of proceedings. Of course way more people are being deported. With the surge in migrants, the courts are seeing way more cases.

    What I am saying is easily illustrated by the dip in numbers during the pandemic on his graph, when there weren't any cases being heard.

    The same site, https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/court_backlog/deport_outcome_charge.php, also allows you to look at the outcomes on a percentage basis (what he purposely didn't do because Mr. "fact check" is more interest in a narrative than being honest). ... And that shows that while Trump was president, a higher percentage of outcomes in those courts ended with a deportation than it has with Biden as president, even if in 2023, the percentage of deportations has risen quite a bit compared to 2021 and 2022.
     
  10. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    I don't think it's beyond dishonest to directly rebut "Dems won't deport."
     
  11. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    The courts are not "dems."

    Still. ... the button to switch to a percentage basis was sitting right there (as he knew, and probably clicked on), which would actually have demonstrated something very different than what he was trying to imply. i.e. "Since Biden has been president, those courts have deported a smaller percentage of migrants than they had been."

    Of course what he was trying to do is beyond dishonest.
     
  12. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

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