Must Read about “Two Bumbling Titans”
We all saw it (or at least heard about it) when Elon Musk posted an easily manipulated poll asking if TFG should be reinstated at Twitter. Recall that Musk, just a week ago, announced that any decisions about reinstating any toxic user would be deferred until he convened a “content moderation council” of outside experts. Well, like almost everything Musk announces, that didn’t come true, and after Musk got a very split decision (52/48) to his poll, including votes from who knows how many bots he regularly criticized before buying the platform, he ordered that TFG be reinstated using the Latin term, Vox Populi, Vox Dei, translated “Voice of the People, Voice of God.” With the dramatic flare of a Caesar granting a pardon, Musk unleashed TFG back on normal people. Jesus H. Christ.
This morning, Quinta Jurecic of The Atlantic published a piece about the stupidity of Musk’s decision and it is a must read. The operative quote that says it all:
“You are reading this, and I am writing it, because a very rich man who desperately wants people to pay attention to him posted an easily rigged poll on the website he’d just bought for $44 billion. The answers to many of the questions I have just posed will depend on the fancies of another rich man who desperately wants people to pay attention to him. There’s an indignity to having one’s attention jerked around this way. Demanding that people simply ignore these bumbling titans is too simplistic: Their flailing has a tendency to wreck the world that the rest of us live in.”
Amen. One can only hope that the media has learned something from the last train wreck of a presidency, but my confidence is at a low ebb.
Sadly, the media learned that billionaires acting out may be ruinous for the country, it increases the mainstream media’s short-term profits.
1Our worst nightmare (s) is coming back to haunt us.
2Damn, there outta be a law…
Conjures the image of two giant but skinny inflatable figures- side by side. The ones at shopping centers, flailing about. Occasionally one randomly slaps the other one on the back.
3Yes, well I see you and The Atlantic haven’t learned that lesson yet.
4Not just billionaires, there are apparently a lot of mini-titans too, several from Texas, who have funded 45s so-called “Truth Social” twitter substitute, including the appropriately named fruitcake manufacturer Bob McNutt from Collin Street Bakery, in Corsicana, TX; Karl Pfluger, president of Midland, Texas oil and energy company Oryx Midstream Services; Texas telecom billionaire Kenny Troutt; and Roy Bailey, the chief executive officer of Bailey Deason Capital Investments in Dallas, TX.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/who-funded-trumps-truth-social-some-answers-2022-10-28/
5The only thing the media has learned is that the Old Pretender generates eyeballs.
6Musk had this all planned out. Fire people that might not agree with him and many who were involved in overseeing twitterers that tweet violence and dangerous crap. The remaining “loyal” employees likely had to sign strict NDA’s to keep his secrets from the public. Then, bring back TFFG to add/bring back twitterers from his cult, thus building his numbers to keep and add advertisers. I’m also sure he is hoping TFFG becomes potus #47. He and Musk have a lot in common. Among their commonalities would be malignant narcissism, greed and need for power. Neither care about any damage they cause to this country or the world.
7I hope advertisers continue to jump out of his ship.
We had a company here in the islands go bankrupt. They were bought out by another company who fired all the employees, told them they could submit applications for the same positions. Almost all were hired back – – at half the wages and much reduced benefits package. They were all happy they had jobs, not grumbling that they were working for less. Not saying this was Musk’s initial plan, but he has to pay the interest on his $44 billion purchase with cutbacks somewhere.
“Two Bumbling Titans”
8The next time one bumbler launches a Tesla convertible to Mars with a dummy in the drivers seat, let’s hope the other one volunteers for the ride.
Twitler is the new propaganda site for the GOPedophiles .
9So I’m gonna show my out-of-touchedness again.
10Twitter has seemed to me to have become accepted by the world as the place where any meaningful conversation happens.
Far as I can tell, every politician, corporation, etc. announces everything there.
Whether or not they also do so anyplace else is irrelevant.
The universal conversation happens on Twitter.
Making it the legitimate reality for millions.
No matter that that conversation can be manipulated by so few. So much so that up is down, red is blue, or diagonal smells purple.
Legitimate people can’t make it better IMHO.
But there’re always ways of making it worse.
11So, many questions come to mind. Twitter used as the dog whistle, sane people leaving twitter, and when will Musk be growing the tiny mustache? I believe that during the last election all social media was used and abused by TFFG so that’s back. Sane users leaving the site really cuts back on the rest of of just plain crazy people knowing what the next attack on humanity will be. And I think now that the tiny mustache is implied.I so agree with you lex @2. Oh, and did Musk forget the insult that Trump hurled at his Mother? Probably, it seems that retention of facts and the last ten seconds of your life is a side effect of being a bullionaire.
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