Terri B.
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Elon managed to chase NPR from his platform. He’s slowly poisoning everything there, yet he remains toxically lacking in self-awareness of his actions.
(The) Ilmi Ilmfurter | 🦊🗺️🇪🇺@georgetakei Omg... 😐
JESSICA B@the_ilmfurter @georgetakei Twitter is basically 4chan now. The nutty non-professors have tainted the well.
Tom CapuderHe's not lacking in self-awareness. His poisoning is deliberate and part of the Russia/Trump/GOP game plan to destroy democracy.
He's evil and a criminal, as are Trump and many GOP House members.
Jan Beta@georgetakei I‘m starting to think that getting rid of all halfway reasonable journalism on the platform is part of the plan. Which is worrying in multiple ways.
@janbeta Worrying, indeed.
Duncan Blues@georgetakei Elon will never - Ever - admit any error on his account. Whatever the topic.
There are only two opinions: His opinion and the wrong opinion.
If something doesn't go his way, it's always someone else's fault.
There are only two opinions: His opinion and the wrong opinion.
If something doesn't go his way, it's always someone else's fault.
@duncan_blues @georgetakei like a true malignant narcissist.
Merle, Queen of Crime, Prince of Birds@georgetakei
If you lose NPR, you're really losing it.
If you lose NPR, you're really losing it.
Bellison22@georgetakei and yet supposedly diligent people remain, as if somehow there will be redemption
gladiola@georgetakei Obviously, all these people who left Twitter are wrong and need to realize Elon Musk is actually Jesus.
That guy will not change, realize, or improve. Maybe one day he might get disillusioned, but that'll probably just be another episode of all this but worse.
Always nice to hear from George Takei. Somehow he didn't get Elon Musk's disease. See how being a good person is possible?
KatAuntieNYC@georgetakei He will remain unaware. Narcissists don't change.
kanjieater@georgetakei
Don't expect self-awareness from someone like that. I suppose he actually is mentally ill, and I mean this in a caring sort of way. Unfortunately he is too rich and powerful to seek and get appropriate therapy.
Don't expect self-awareness from someone like that. I suppose he actually is mentally ill, and I mean this in a caring sort of way. Unfortunately he is too rich and powerful to seek and get appropriate therapy.
The Skeptic's Book of Lists@georgetakei But he called himself Harry Ballz or something. So, you know, the Christian right's new anointed one.
Wells Beach@georgetakei ?Is there a downside to thinking he doesn't know what he's doing? Our dismissing it as him shooting himself in the foot, or wherever, may keep us from seeing where the gun is actually pointing.
DC journalist@georgetakei Unless he's doing it on purpose to appease Saudi investors who still can't get over the Arab Spring.
Lorian Taylor@georgetakei
I think he knows exactly what he's doing.....
I think he knows exactly what he's doing.....
dekoningtan@georgetakei well, a brain drain is happening and soon all the smart people will be over here!
Josh Levinson@georgetakei You hate to see it
Kelley Graham@georgetakei Agreed! I wonder if, from his viewpoint, not being toxic is just unacceptable weakness or some such nonsense. I feel that I can see his approach to the world, and reject it, while he cannot and will not see mine. Or ours as his is in the 3-5% minority on the antisocial spectrum.
Sunwolf@georgetakei I am not entirely convinced he is unaware. I don’t know what the endgame is, but I just can’t help thinking he is deliberately tanking Twitter.
AI6YR Ben@sunwolf @georgetakei "sinking" twitter.
NerdiCorgi@georgetakei Elon has no room for anyone who doesn't blindly and loudly worship him. He'll continue driving Twitter into the ground and then try to socialize his loses by demanding a bailout because "the defacto town square" of "free speech" is "too big to fail."
Dave Swersky@georgetakei I'm afraid things are going exactly as planned over there. He bought Twitter explicitly to destroy it.
MemphisDaPlaya 🎲🎲@dswersky
That's exactly what that is about.
That's exactly what that is about.
Douglas Phillips Books@georgetakei which is why NASA needs to cancel their contract with SpaceX. With oblivious Musk in charge it's an accident waiting to happen.
The Other Doug Jones 🇨🇦😎🖖 Elbows Up!@georgetakei I think Elons plan all along is to run the Twit site into bankruptcy. Then he will claim a huge capital loss that he can use to reduce or eliminate any income tax.
Jim Shoes@georgetakei Sounds familiar…
Brian Dear@georgetakei Now that's just cruel, give the guy a break. One doesn't get to be a multi-billionaire titan of industry without possessing a Bio-Level-4 hazmat-suit-level toxic lack of self-awareness of one's actions.
enmodo ⚛️ 🧬 🇺🇦 🍉@georgetakei now if NPR and PBS would set up their own independent instances on Mastodon it would be 10x the impact. Hopefully soon.
Mastodon isn't just "social" media (too often anti-social media elsewhere) it is people's media. They should be present.
Macramé Owl@georgetakei How does that prayer go? Lord, please grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man 😏
Atnevon@georgetakei Here I am now freshly signed up because of it all! Glad I never got super heavy into Twitter, but, wow this social media landscape is getting to be too much nowadays.
Auriga Tarantino@georgetakei I'm still waiting for him to replace himself after offering to step down after he lost the poll that he himself started.
William Robison@georgetakei "he remains toxically lacking in self-awareness of his actions."
Or he is very well aware of the effects of his actions, and he making Twitter into the misogynistic, homophobic, racist, xenophobic hellscape that he wants it to be.
legumancer Davy@georgetakei or alternatively, NPR chose to leave Elon's platform due to mismanagement and/or the platform being run by a jerk
Judeau (EatTheRich)Mr. Takei,
Let all of our voices be heard and let NPR know they are more than welcome here on Mastodon.
I just sent my e-mail. How about you?
TeeJay Hardin@Judeau @georgetakei to NPR and Co. —-welcome to the Cookout!!! —- grills going, cooler is stocked with your faves, and the tunes are slamming
@FalconFive @georgetakei Haha! Indeed 😎
Rud@georgetakei Tell Mark Hamill to get over here!
EarthOne@georgetakei Except, I think he is doing what he set out to do: destroy Twitter. He's already changed its legal ownership and logo: now it's an "X" owned business and the logo is a Japanese dog. Farewell, Bluebird.
And KISS MY ASS, JACK, YOU FUCKER.
tibbi ✨@georgetakei
Disappointing the BBC just interviewed him and let him control his narrative. He didn't get called out on his bull and his destructive behaviors. He is ruining so many people's lives and livelihoods. No one, at least no one who can make a difference, is doing anything about it
Disappointing the BBC just interviewed him and let him control his narrative. He didn't get called out on his bull and his destructive behaviors. He is ruining so many people's lives and livelihoods. No one, at least no one who can make a difference, is doing anything about it
Shield Maiden@georgetakei So what? It's his company and he can do what he wants with it...surely? It's up to those not happy about it to leave.
Ann Bindley 🏳️🌈@georgetakei Perhaps this will finally usher in a tsunami wave of companies to abandon Twatter. One can only hope.
Darwin Woodka@georgetakei I think Elon is quite self aware. He simply does not care what anyone else thinks.
eyebrowsgerri will not comply@georgetakei Borrowing anti-fascist language (protecting his users from “state-affiliated media”), Musk’s handlers are steadily ensuring Twitter is rendered useless as a global tool of dissent.
Wade Wainio@georgetakei National Public Radio doesn't include white nationalist talking points in its “editorial coverage” so they have labeled it "state-affiliated" media.
ZZ Bottom@georgetakei He poisons everything he touches, pure Evil reincarnated.
Any can easily imagine him on the role of a slave owner or Nazi concentration camp guard.
Any can easily imagine him on the role of a slave owner or Nazi concentration camp guard.
Sparkymike@georgetakei Does Elon remind you of anyone else in the news?
johnhansarick@georgetakei Then there's the people who say "This is part of this plan - to chase away legit news!"
I don't think it was part of his plan - just his excuse.
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John Yates@georgetakei I logged out of twitter last November. I still have no intention of ever logging back in. #Politics
ruthlessone@georgetakei I think he is aware indeed
counterintuit@georgetakei The rest of the media outlets need to leave him as well, to stew in his own juices, just like the orange menace on that other so-called social media platform.
ThomasTGnome@georgetakei It's a simple formula, you'd think he'd understand it. The more accounts that are driven away/leave, the less valuable you become.
Casper 👻@georgetakei Stupid is …
Frank Wheeler@georgetakei that’s because Musk is probably a narcissist with psychopathic tendencies.
Drtuck@georgetakei Elon is not self aware, it’s true
Hughster@georgetakei Unfortunately, I don't think he cares, because he probably assumes most media orgs will stay so long as they themselves aren't directly targeted—and sadly he may be right.