Elon Musk buying Twitter exposes the great divide

JimBob1952 said:
So you're not on Twitter but you're complaining about the direction it's taking under Musk. If you were on Twitter, you would leave.

Got it.

I don't eat ice cream, but if I did eat ice cream, I wouldn't eat Ben and Jerry's ice cream because I hate their politics.

Wow, that was easy.
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Where, pray tell, did I say I wasn't on Twitter? I hardly ever use it, and I don't follow anyone, but I do have an account and have for several years.

And I wouldn't eat ice cream made by someone whose politics I hated. There are other options. I don't shop at Home Depot because I don't like the owner's politics. I shop at Lowe's instead.

That's the nice thing about living in a free society; we can shop where we want and boycott businesses we don't like.
 
SeniorBen said:
Where, pray tell, did I say I wasn't on Twitter? I hardly ever use it, and I don't follow anyone, but I do have an account and have for several years.

And I wouldn't eat ice cream made by someone whose politics I hated. There are other options. I don't shop at Home Depot because I don't like the owner's politics. I shop at Lowe's instead.

That's the nice thing about living in a free society; we can shop where we want and boycott businesses we don't like.
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I love Lowe’s
 

Pepper said:
SHAME ON YOU! Who doesn't eat ice cream?

Wow, that was easy.
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Actually, I do eat ice cream. I was trying to make the point that it's easy to give up something you don't use anyway. But I would never eat Ben & Jerry's ice cream, even if they did sell to a big multinational conglomerate years ago.
 
I probably said this before, but there is a local radio station that plays Grateful Dead performances all Saturday morning.

When I was young I thought the Dead were fantastic. When I tune in now I can't believe how awful they sound -- out of tune, unrehearsed, can't sing, boring playing. I must have been really stoned at the time.
 
The richest man is pleading with advertisers to stay with Twitter. I guess demeaning himself is no problem if he can get ad buys. I hope they let him continue to grovel.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/tech/musk-twitter-brands-interview

In the meantime, he told current workers, work from home is over. Good luck with that as some/many may end up moving on to greener pastures. Next up, some investors will bolt Twitter. Some investors see Twitter as Musk's albatross.

https://fortune.com/2022/11/09/elon-musk-tesla-investors-stock-share-sale-twitter-acquisition/
 
I'm not so excited to see him not do well. There's always the possibility that advertisers who were not using Twitter due to its -- shall we say -- enforced one-way political bent, will now see it as a place to advertise. This is early days. We'll see what happens.
 
SeniorBen said:
Elon Musk, in his first address to Twitter Inc. employees since purchasing the company for $44 billion, said that bankruptcy was a possibility if it doesn’t start generating more cash, according to people familiar with the matter.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...staff-social-network-s-bankruptcy-is-possible
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Of course it is a possibility. Did anyone thing Musk would keep throwing money at Twitter if if became obvious that it can't be fixed? Musk is way to smart to do that. In fact, even my Shih Tzu is smarter than that :LOL:
 
Buckeye said:
And yours is just an attempt to deflect instead of answering the question - why all the hate for Elon Musk?
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Why are you so offended when Musk is criticized?

To me, it doesn't seem smart to buy a company that's going bankrupt.

Venture (vulture) capitalists often buy up businesses, laden them with debt by sucking millions of dollars out of them, and then file for bankruptcy or they sell the company. I wonder if that's what Musk has in mind.

When a company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the companies that are owed money often have to settle for pennies on the dollar. The little guy winds up getting screwed. It seems like that's the American way.
 
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Buckeye said:
And yours is just an attempt to deflect instead of answering the question - why all the hate for Elon Musk?
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I actually didn't see a question, just a snarky comment. The post I made that you quoted was in response to what someone else had said, and had no connection to Musk.
I'm not aware of "all the hate" for Elon Musk, I don't have a stake in that conversation. I can tell you that I see Musk for what he's obviously attempting to do,(along with Kanye West) buying up social media and stifling free speech of those with opposing views. That's real obvious. So, you can count me as not being a 'fanboy' but I personally have better things to do with my mental health, than hate someone I don't even know.
 
IMHO: I think there are two emotions from the heart that are capable of harming humanity.
HATE and APATHY
Hate is probably the meanest thing a person can do to himself.
Apathy is the death of hope, of love, of forward movement.

There are political figures I think of as idiots. I don't like what they do or say.
But, to HATE them is to take this to an entirely different level.
Mankind should have risen above both of these emotions by now.
Even the lowest of souls.
 

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