Elon Musk is already spreading dangerous lies on the platform he owns.

[kpete]

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Link to tweet

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[al_liberal]

1. It's one of the reasons he bought it.

Narcissists need megaphones to sooth their egos.

[Meowmee]

2. What is he trying to say here exactly?

I can’t even tell for sure and I am not going to twitter to try to figure it out. This country has gone f crazy. 😖

[GoCubsGo]

10. He's trying to say, "What happened is okay because the victim might have been drunk."

The South African Donald Trump is trying to say that Paul Pelosi had it coming to him. He's despicable, and may HE get what he deserves.

[Walleye]

24. Seems like Mr. Pelosi showed pretty clear thinking and ingenuity for someone who was "drunk".

[GoCubsGo]

34. Yes. It's also a moot point.

Even if he was drunk, and as you point out, he obviously was not, it's not grounds to break into his home and beat him with a hammer, while intending to go after his wife to harm her. There is no excuse for that behavior, and Chief Twat is making excuses.

[Walleye]

38. Correct. Making excuses is exactly what they're doing. Sounds so mealymouthed

Oh and don’t forget Steves Scalise. As if anybody had ever demonized him. Nobody hardly had heard of him before he got shot.

[Takket]

50. but what was he wearing?

the victim is ALWAYS the problem for the party of "law and order"

[Meowmee]

69. Yes that seems to be it

What a slime he is… 😖

[Jack the Greater]

30. He is saying that Paul Pelosi brought David DePape home from a gay bar

and what happened afterward was all Paul's fault.

[KS Toronado]

54. That was the last line in the article

MAGAts now have a theory why Paul Pelosi deserved what happened to him,
just like they have theories why Der orange Fuhrer is innocent of everything.

[irisblue]

60. Even if you bring a trick home, that is NOT a reason for a hammer to a skull

[Meowmee]

72. Exactly

Hard to believe we are now going to be subjected to the South African dump now too as some one called him above.

[Meowmee]

70. That is what I thought

if you didn't know how crazy and despicable m is now you know 😖

[Walleye]

3. Paul Pelosi is a private citizen, he should sue the shit out of Musk.

[GoCubsGo]

8. Absolutely, he should sue.

Not to mention that it's fucking irrelevant. This fuckstick broke into the Pelosi's home. He came in uninvited and attacked Mr. Pelosi. That's all that is relevant here.

This cretin is going to drive Twitter into the ground. All he's doing is creating a place where only the worst scumbags in existence will want to be. May he lose his ass over this.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

19. Which is why Advertisers should BAIL and BAIL now.

Because the RWNJs are going to be out in full force thinking Musk is going to protect their right to spew shit and possibly get people killed in the process.

I am sure the likes of MTG, Boobert, Gosar, Gaetz, Graham, and others of that ilk are frothing at the mouth to get their 2 cents in.

If violent rhetoric from these users result in deaths, Musk will be held liable for allowing a platform for such hate and violence.

[keithbvadu2]

33. Who will take up the advertising slack? Pillow Guy of course.

Who will take up the advertising slack?

Pillow Guy of course.

His target market.

[bullimiami]

14. should sue the twitter out of him. 40 billion in damages.

[Walleye]

22. 40 billion sounds about right, and Pelosi can afford lawyers unlike some other targets

[Meowmee]

71. I hope he does

And wins

[PCIntern]

4. ... And there is a tiny possibility that

You bought a pig in a poke.

$44 billion for a site which provides politicians and journalists with a form of faux-intellectual, faux-reporting masturbation.

[CentralMass]

5. The only way I'm going to see twitter threads are through post like these.

I've deactivated my account. I suspect it is going to turn into z complete shitTV fest quickly with boy genus leading the pack.

[vlyons]

15. I deactivated my account last week

nt

[ratchiweenie]

40. Me too. I don't want any part of anything that puke owns.

[stonecutter357]

43. +1000 I deactivated my account .

[dalton99a]

6. And some people on here worship that piece of shit.

Yeah, he'll pivot

[ratchiweenie]

41. He's brilliant, that does't mean he is a moral human being. He scum.

He's a racist from South Africa.

[tenderfoot]

44. He is not brilliant

eom

[2naSalit]

65. +1

[PSPS]

48. Born into wealth, shady government subsidies and paying no tax makes him rich, not "brilliant"

[2naSalit]

66. +1

[GoCubsGo]

55. He's not brilliant. He's a con man, just like Trump.

He another Lucky Sperm Club member who takes other peoples' hard work and stamps his own name on it, and pretends that he's the genius.

[yankee87]

77. Spot on

+1

[Meowmee]

74. He is NOT brilliant

At all, by any means.

[BootinUp]

7. He wastes no time executing his shitty plans, Ill give him that. nt

[TigressDem]

9. TRY getting accquainted with the ACTUAL TRUTH Musk, lies don't resolve any problems. nt

[Me.]

11. He's JUst Another Kanye

and both need help

[JohnSJ]

12. Yeah jackass musk, that is why they arrested someone and charged him with attempted murder, and

why he had surgery for a fractured skull

If trump believes that his right wing magas are going to buy his overpriced cars, he is an idiot. In fact, with competition coming down the pike in the next 2-3 years, he might be losing his base of consumers

What a marketing genuis

[GreenWave]

13. I have been saving up for years to get an electric car, but it sure won't be a Tessla.

[Heather MC]

16. Reason number 37.5, why I deleted my Twitter account the day it was announced Musty

Was definitely going to purchase Twitter
🖕🏾

[markodochartaigh]

17. There is a tiny possibility

that Elon Musk actually IS an alien from another planet sent to destroy humanity. I say TINY possibility, because we are pretty good at destroying humanity ourselves.

[CentralMass]

26. I suspect that he is just a terrestrial asshole.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. The source cited by Musk is a RWNJ conspiracy source

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

21. He has the same critical thinking skills as the other very stable genius

[GoCubsGo]

39. That's not all they have in common.

They're both a couple of trust fund babies who suck at business, and only have the ability to exploit other peoples' hard work for their own benefit. That fucker didn't even create Tesla. He used Daddy's money to buy up a majority of shares of it.

[PortTack]

20. The Saudis are the #2 investor in twitter. A match made in hell. They want to influence the

Political landscape…the RW conservatives and twitter is their new tool. This is the new Trump, spread a lie, retract it…but it’s already stuck. This is just the beginning.

Advertisers will drop them, but it won’t matter when you’ve got pockets as deep as the saudis.

Musk is more than a bit of trouble.

[dalton99a]

25. Yep, he is using the same M.O. as Trump

It will be "What Did Elon Say Today?" every damn day from now on

[BootinUp]

31. sigh

[PortTack]

45. You're right..it's already seeming that way...sigh

[WarGamer]

47. Just to clarify, here's the finance break-down.

Musk $27B

Investment Funds including Larry Ellison $1B, Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund $1.9B, Qatar Holdings... totaling $5.2B

Banks $12B







So... the Saudis are indeed the 2nd largest investor if you don't count the Banks.

So put it in perspective, the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund owns less than 5% of Twitter.

This isn't surprising as the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund also is a major share holder in Amazon, Google, Paypal, JP Morgan Chase, Meta, Zoom and many more.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

57. You would think musk would be more circumspect with his goofy Qanon shit since...

… he reportedly is trying to lay off some of his big investment on other investors.

[Celerity]

58. +1

[yankee87]

23. Already?

This crap is starting already? Twitter will be another Reich Wing site like Truth Social within a year. Only the nutters will be on it.

[WarGamer]

49. Remember... Twitter is what YOU make it.

Don't want to see what Musk writes? Then don't look.

Want to spend all day reading about gardening on Twitter? Then you'll see ONLY gardening.

Twitter doesn't force feed MAGAT content to accounts that follow gardeners, garden centers and such topics.

If you see MAGAT content... it's because you consume volatile political content.

[superpatriotman]

27. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW !1!

Nancy is Q.

[leftyladyfrommo]

28. The Rightwing are being absolutely horrible about

Paul Pelosi's attack. Insinuations are flying everywhere.

[UTUSN]

29. K&R

[TheDemsshouldhireme]

35. Well Bill Maher just loves this "genius"

See its just free speech kids. Sarcasm

[bringthePaine]

36. so, I hear he & Kanye have a hot thing going - people are talking, the best people...

[Marthe48]

42. Just deactivated my twitter account

after 30 days of inactivity, they'll delete it. I think it'll be a cool thing to cancel twitter

[usonian]

46. Why I don't use Twitter

https://democraticunderground.com/100217294467

Short:
In life, PULL WORKS, PUSH DOESN'T

Life is like a rope. Pushing on a rope moves nothing but a short piece of rope.
That is like arguing with idiots. The best you can do is "run up some numbers".

By associating with like-minded and GOOD people, you can have some influence in order to make things better.
That would include (hopefully) friends, family, work colleagues, fellow hobbyists and so on.
Unlike the binary "It's you or me" world of Twitter, YOU STAND A CHANCE of making positive change.

IMO, Musk is impulsive, reckless and unconcerned about consequences of his decisions and actions.
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17295221

[ramapo]

51. I'm done

Was waiting but this inspired me to delete my twitter account

[Hermit-The-Prog]

52. How many communications tools are owned by sociopaths now?

[sabbat hunter]

56. Jesus Herbert Christ

If you thought Twitter was a shit show before, this is what it is going do devolve in to now.

[sakabatou]

59. I'd love to see Musk banned due to breaking the TOS

[MichMan]

68. Twitter posts here should be alerted on for breaking the DU TOS

[Hortensis]

61. Mistake. This is SO bad he's outed, with no excuses possible.

Users are reporting him to Twitter for posting misinformation.

It's far better that he do this than that he be able to hide what he is and deceive a few billion usefully confusable people about what he's up to.

How many of the LW/Democratic markets targeted by CNN and MSNBC would watch if their programs were deceiving half this blatantly? Subversion of viewer attitudes and beliefs requires disguising disinformation and feeding it with what viewers do believe and come for. Maintaining credibility and trust are critical.

Fwiw, unlike Twitter (so far), there's no way to respond directly to a CNN lie as we watch, neither right then verbally, nor by reporting it to CNN as disinformation to be blocked.

[Sogo]

62. Guess what, Jerkface....In a couple of years, when I'm ready to buy an electric vehicle,

there's a tiny possibility that I'll even consider a Tesla....

Carry on, Jerkface.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

63. One way to get Musk's attention is an advertiser boycott

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It may be time for an advertiser boycott for twitter

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[dalton99a]

64. +1

[LetMyPeopleVote]

67. Yo @elonmusk there might be more to this story than meets the eye

Link to tweet

[sky_masterson]

73. Elon-Ye

feel free to chuckle and use.

[Meowmee]

75. M is NOT a genius

Please understand that. With this he has also revealed himself for what he really is at base. An unhinged, deranged, pathetic person with too much money. He is also an obvious CON ARTIST.

[bdamomma]

76. What an ass

he is, that's it I'm off Twitter he's a twit!!!


Deactivated account. I don't need it.