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  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    239 months ago

    Wow real hard hitting reporting, “billionaire loves money, is voting for the guy giving him free money”. I wish I had a $200 haircut and a job writing these headlines.

    • miz [any, any]
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      129 months ago

      they are selected to frame the problem in terms of individual greed because any indictment of the system will hurt their careers

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    289 months ago

    Pretty cool how he took one of the most widespread platforms for distributing information yet built and completely trashed it in a few years of petty manchild tantrums.

    All he had to do was not change anything to keep twitter as a massively powerful tool, and yet.

    • FortifiedAttack [any]
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      119 months ago

      The sadder part is that this completely trashed platform still hasn’t really been replaced yet.

      9 times out of 10, whenever something’s going on, the link will be to a Twitter post instead of Bluesky or whatever.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]OP
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      189 months ago

      my-hero 's carefully-crafted reputation was unassailable until he started tweeting too much.

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      259 months ago

      Getting people to realize that twitter is bad is possibly the only actual accomplishment that can be attributed to Musk himself

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        129 months ago

        There was an interview a few years ago where Julia Roberts was asked why she didn’t have Twitter. She didn’t know what it was and after it was explained to her, she said “Why would I want that? That’s like…shouting into the wind.”

        I wish everyone had Julia Roberts’ attitude.

    • jaywalker [they/them, any]
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      89 months ago

      completely trashed it in a few years

      I thought it had been months, but it’s been very close to two years now. He took over Oct 27th, 2022.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]
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    159 months ago

    Reminds me of this guy who told me to put all my faith in billionaires because they can’t be bought, and here’s the richest man on earth admitting he got bought.