Musk is inviting his red-state pals to prosecute people who dare to advise advertisers to stay away from his toxic swamp.
This is what right-wing extremists like Musk actually think about free speech. (They hate it when it's directed, unfavorably, at them.)
Is there a list of current deadbird site advertisers? I want to stay current on businesses to avoid in my shopping.
"fREe sPEEch AbsOluTist"
😂 😂 🤣 🤣 🤣
@Doreen32128 @dangillmor
Didn't he tell advertisers to fuck off, or something?
Yeah, he did back in November (at least the ones who were upset about some sort of anti-Semitic thing he did):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXmcq47hVpI
Dud is *fickle* -- "I'mma buy Twitter for 44B" -- "No, I don't wanna buy" -- "I'm for free speech" -- "I'm banning journalists who talk about a thing I don't like" -- "Go fuck yourself, advertisers" --
Jeez, what a whiner.
@mmlvx @Doreen32128 @dangillmor
Elon Musk imitates, but he will never be The Donald from Queens.
they have zero principles
they will scream angrily about some point: abortion, religious freedom, state's rights, the free market, etc, and then, with zero cognitive dissonance, openly defile the same words they were just screaming about a moment before: they'll get an abortion, they'll disrespect someone's religious freedom, they'll impose federal over state, they'll propose draconian market controls, etc
this is conservatism. this is all it is: complete bullshit
@ketmorco @toriver @dangillmor
conservatives don't process their hypocrisy because they don't care. they never did, about any principle they hang their hat on, no matter how fucked up or plausible the principle
the simple truth is they have no coherent principles, except hate and selfishness and sadism. the rest is just performance art
edit: nice sketch 😆
@benroyce @ketmorco @toriver @dangillmor
It's been said that sociopaths don't have a conscience. I'm not saying all Republican in the US are sociopaths but it kind of appears that way to me.
@dnelson @TimBondy @benroyce @toriver @dangillmor "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
It's impossible to find human life important, and vote against free school lunches.
It's impossible to find childhood education important and do anything besides support massive salaries for teachers.
It's impossible to *be* pro-the-above, vote differently without resigning, and still say you are pro-the-above, without being a sociopath.
@toriver @benroyce @dangillmor Yep. That's the whole point.
Those people aren't actually libertarians. They use libertarian tropes when it suits their interests.
The same way populists like trump saying contradicting things not because they're stupid or crazy, but because different statements target different audiences.
Somehow musk's "free speech absolutism" applies only to nazis and crackpots of all kinds, but he's happy to silence Ukrainian accounts, just because he kinda likes putin.
"libertarianism" (the economic kind in the usa, not the social kind in europe) has always been another conservative lying grift
you have people too stupid to understand that without market controls, the largest players dominate and abuse to stay that way
and in a vacuum of power, it doesn't stay a vacuum, violent criminals moves in. you see that playing out on the right with trump
and you have plutocrats who gleefully herd the useful fools for political power
@benroyce @bjeelka @toriver @dangillmor
A libertarian is a fish - unclear on the concept of water.
@tuban_muzuru @bjeelka @toriver @dangillmor
as opposed to a fish needing a bicycle or not, which is a whole other topic 🤭
@benroyce @bjeelka @toriver @dangillmor
The closer I get to a tub-thumping libertarian, the higher my blood pressure.
Can't do it no mo' , Ben.
As varies risk on any given market, so must vary regulation - with this caveat - too much regulation is almost as bad as too little....
@dangillmor "free speech"
cheese this shitclown 🧀
@haploc @dangillmor I would *love* this to got to court.
I'm no lawyer but I should think that the entire defence argument could basically be the video clip of him saying that.
@dangillmor
His bird site is so dead he should have renamed it "Norwegian Blue" but that's probably a bit of a hard one to type given the target audience now. I wonder how many of them are disappointed when the end up at ex.com and it doesn't work?
A toxic fascist, that is what he is. Never ever in my life I will buy anything he has his hands in…
@dangillmor right-wing extremists don’t run businesses or „call for criminal prosecution“.
Right-wing extremists are killing people with guns or bare-handed, dismembering them alive and taking pictures of it, and blowing up bombs in crowded places.
You clearly haven’t met a right-wing extremist in your life, so I’m telling you.
The man you referring to is rather a controversial extravagant entrepreneur who sometimes express contradictory opinions and makes weird decisions.
@Beeks you’re reserving the whole platform for some little dyslexic subculture? Life is a bit more complex than Team Musk on „X“ vs. Team Anti-Musk on Mastodon.
Your words almost make me wish you’d meet a real Nazi and understand the whole absurdity, naivety and outrageousness of your speeches.
I’m not defending Elon Musk (I don’t think he’s in need of any defence) — I’m defending the meanings; losing them puts our common world into chaos, waking real nightmares up.
@Beeks if you’d like to know what real Nazi looks like, google who is Alexey Milchakov, what are his actions and ideas.
If you’d like to know what real Nazi do, google Crocus City Hall terroristic attack suspects detention details.
It’s alright not to like Musk and to oppose what he does, but calling him a Nazi simply means lying. It does increase the degree of hatred in your society, it does create real Nazi’s (and also their just as cruel far-left alternatives).
Couldn't he just sue everyone who hasn't bought stuff from his current advertisers?
At least start with his list of current 𝕏 users.
Then sue everyone who *was* a Twitter/𝕏 user and hasn't bought from his advertisers.
@dangillmor we have a capitalistic society for better or worse
we need to nationalize all musk businesses, revoke his citizenship and deport him
tomorrow
not kidding
@dangillmor He also said "don't advertise and don't blackmail me". What happened?
@dangillmor apparently, if you want to advertise in a Nazi bar X is the place to be 🤷♂️
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