Matt Allison Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 10 hours ago, Ron Bulman said: I guess this may have Matt in a meltdown mode. We Are Witnessing a Full-Blown MAGA Implosion (msn.com) No no no!!! Aargh! We need that guy! Trump = Democrat Victories C'mon man, pull it together, let's go!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Koch Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Ron Bulman said: The vaccine involves just a little pin xxxxx. It protects us from each other. I'll pass.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Some real news here. Is the chump coming soon? Two Oath Keepers, including founder, found guilty of seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 case (msn.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Cole Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 I am not expert on twitter, so who knows if these figures are right. But twitter is publicly held, so Musk would face serious consequence for not being truthful. "A month after completing his takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk says new user signups are at an “all-time high.” On Saturday evening, the billionaire shared a slide deck that details the current state of Twitter and his vision for the platform. As of November 16th, Twitter was adding more than 2 million new users per day over the last seven days, according to one of the graphs Musk shared. He added daily signups are up 66 percent compared to the same seven-day period in 2021. Musk said user active minutes were also at an all-time high, with Twitter’s userbase averaging nearly 8 billion active minutes per day over the last seven days as of November 15th – representing a 30 percent increase from the same period last year. He also used a graph to claim hate speech impressions recently decreased." ---30--- https://www.engadget.com/twitter-user-signups-hit-all-time-high-says-elon-musk-180252792.html I suppose it is possible twitter will become the right-wing, red, or 'Phant, conservative, populist social media platform, and globally. Maybe the left-wingers will bleed off into another platform. Is that a good business model? I dunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Ben- after Musk bought Twitter it ceased to be a publicly held company. Musk is a serial confabulist and fraud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Cole Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 27 minutes ago, Matt Allison said: Ben- after Musk bought Twitter it ceased to be a publicly held company. Musk is a serial confabulist and fraud. Matt--- Shame on me! Of course, you are right, Musk took twitter private. I would not define Musk as a fraud. He started up a new auto company, and succeeded, something few, if any, had done in decades. That was a gigantic accomplishment. Since then other battery-car companies have been founded. Musk has provided a fleet of satellites to Ukraine. That is hardly small potatoes. But Musk has a curious personality. And Musk is now a vassal of Beijing, or at least must be regarded as such, since he opened up his Shanghai auto plant. As goes Disney-Apple-NBA...so goes Musk? Putin loathes, detest and reviles Musk. What do you think of that? Musk still has to be cautious about twiiter subscribers and other numbers, or advertisers might sue. In general I wish Musk success on twitter, and in developing a more-neutral platform. Will, or can, he do it and survive? I dunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Barnard Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 9 hours ago, W. Niederhut said: Get a clue, Mathew. You are committing libel here on the forum-- making false statements that inaccurately impugn the reputation of a forum member. At what point have you crossed the line for acceptable forum behavior here at the "water cooler?" I posted this data about COVID mortality rates and party affiliation because you claimed (above) that no one had analyzed COVID mortality data based on party affiliation. You were wrong. 80% of deaths in this study is a fairly comprehensive U.S. database-- correlating with the epidemiological data from other sources that have clearly documented higher COVID death rates in U.S. counties that voted for Trump. This isn't surprising, given the way that Trump and Fox News have politicized resistance to proper public health management of the COVID pandemic since 2020. The CDC mortality data that I posted for you (above) about death rates and vaccination status is a somewhat different issue than party affiliation, per se. There has been a NINEFOLD increased incidence in excess deaths in unvaccinated adults over age 65 in the U.S. since mid-2021. Obviously, some Republican voters got vaccinated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Barnard Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 15 hours ago, Kirk Gallaway said: Isn't it interesting how the "corporate fan boys' always end up siding with corporate elites. November 3: Koch-funded legal group fights to protect online Covid misinformation (CMD News) A litigation group funded by billionaire Charles Koch is helping support several scientists, who are known for promoting COVID-19 misinformation, in a lawsuit against the Biden administration that is claiming “censorship” regarding their social media posts. Justin Feldman, research associate at the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center of Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, said that right-wing organizations, like the group funded by Koch, “want their policies to seem legitimate to the public, so they find scientists who have opinions that are viewed as fringe or discredited by mainstream science.” The Koch Foundation was one of the entities who carried out a pandemic simulation. The others being the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. These happened between 2012 and late 2019. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Benjamin Cole said: He started up a new auto company, and succeeded, something few, if any, had done in decades. That was a gigantic accomplishment. Ah, except the problem is... he didn't. Elon Musk is not one of the founders of Tesla. https://insideevs.com/features/486635/tesla-founders-talk-early-days/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Cole Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 23 minutes ago, Matt Allison said: Ah, except the problem is... he didn't. Elon Musk is not one of the founders of Tesla. https://insideevs.com/features/486635/tesla-founders-talk-early-days/ I can't claim to be an expert on Tesla, but Musk is considered key to that company's early and tremendous success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Varnell Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Fascists gin up big lies. It’s what they do. https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/ ELON MUSK CLAIMS to be “fighting for free speech in America” but the social network’s new owner appears to be overseeing a purge of left-wing activists from the platform. Several prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had their accounts suspended in the past week, after right-wing operatives appealed directly to Musk to ban them and far-right internet trolls flooded Twitter’s complaints system with false reports about terms of service violations. </q> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Koch Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Cliff Varnell said: Fascists gin up big lies. It’s what they do. https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/ ELON MUSK CLAIMS to be “fighting for free speech in America” but the social network’s new owner appears to be overseeing a purge of left-wing activists from the platform. Several prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had their accounts suspended in the past week, after right-wing operatives appealed directly to Musk to ban them and far-right internet trolls flooded Twitter’s complaints system with false reports about terms of service violations. </q> Funny a guy who supports the government forcing people to take a corporation's vaccine would call others Fascist. lol But that's part of being a leftist, alarmism is part of the show. I remember you guys saying Trump was going to put people in camps! Meanwhile when China does it, it's OKAY because they aren't capitalist fascist America! You are so out of touch Cliff you shared article about how Antifa Activists who violate the terms of service for violence are being kicked off of Twitter (Oh heavens! Sarcasm Added) Edited November 30, 2022 by Matthew Koch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Burrows Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Matthew Koch said: Funny a guy who supports the government forcing people to take a corporation's vaccine would call others Fascist. lol But that's part of being a leftist, alarmism is part of the show. I remember you guys saying Trump was going to put people in camps! Meanwhile when China does it, it's OKAY because they aren't capitalist fascist America! You are so out of touch Cliff you shared article about how Antifa Activists who violate the terms of service for violence are being kicked off of Twitter (Oh heavens! Sarcasm Added) You lose all credibility when you post anything by a charlatan like Tucker Carlson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Koch Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 16 minutes ago, Robert Burrows said: You lose all credibility when you post anything by a charlatan like Tucker Carlson. What was factually inaccurate with the report, Robert? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bauer Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Elon Musk is immediately turning Twitter in the FOX NEWS of social media. Just what we need. Another massive influence nation dividing wedge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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