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So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,607 ✭✭✭francois


    Indeed. The ADL is probably the oldest org calling out antisemitism, going after it won't win back reluctant advertisers.

    I've noticed a huge uptick in Jews running the world/banks/governments anti Semitic tropes recently on Twitter



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,007 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    So Elon wants to sue the ADL for telling advertisers Twitter is way more anti semitic since he took over and thus depriving twitter of revenue..... so hes suing them over using their free speech, once again proving he doesnt care about free speech just the consequences of said speech.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,679 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Of course it was the jooze fault, not the stoner man child.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I don't understand how Musk thinks this would have any legs in court: how in the héll would you even prove something like this? And it's not like Twitter has a moderation team anymore to back up Musk's claim with bans, moderation actions, reports etc. lol. Did the ADL seek out each individual advertiser, do the secret handshake and say "Don't give Twitter money"? Reads like the kind of demented lunacy an actual anti-semetic ásshat might come out with



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,007 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    He says he wants to see all the email correspondence via discovery between the ADL and the advertisers who left the platform, but conversely they would also get to do the same so imagine your advertising with twitter still and suddenly all your correspondence shows up in publicly visible court docs?

    Also he wont go through with it its just his new thing, he will probably say hes gonna fly up in a rocket and eat the moon next week cus the tide was wrong when he went to the beach.



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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,841 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    It's all performative - It will never happen , but he's generated a bunch of clicks and views which was what he wants.

    He's a sh!t-posting "influencer" troll , that's it.



  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 7,463 Mod ✭✭✭✭pleasant Co.


    Ouh another fight for him to back out of, unless legally compelled to make good on his word - he probably won't make that costly mistake again, probably.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    But conveniently, his often-prejudiced fanboys will lap it up.

    Musk keeps doing very tangentially bigoted things without ever openly saying something bigoted.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 791 ✭✭✭foxsake


    well the ADL should be banned or maybe burnt at the stake .

    the ADL do a lot more than say "hey did you see , twitter is more anti semitic , watch out there corporation A"

    you think adidas paid them all that money cos kayne went on a solo run cos they felt bad ? really?

    The ADL is a shakedown pure and simple



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,162 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Burning the ADL at the stake, you lot sure know how to flog a dead horse.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,679 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Shirley the base he’s pandering to isn’t big enough to keep xwixxer from going under, someone else migjt come along to keep the pepe meme brigade happy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭nachouser


    A "send to camp" option to hide the posts of "concerning" accounts and organisations can't be too far away.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,007 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    So your against freedom of speech and the free market?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,162 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 791 ✭✭✭foxsake


    no I'm all for it.

    but threatening companies and individuals by using your clout into compliance isn't free speech nor free market. in fact quite the opposite.

    The ADL is a horrible organisation headed by a shower of c8nts.

    This fella said it quite well from a Jewish perspective. He is only thinking of his own people - which is fine.

    https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1699072999012634981

    Speaking as a Jew: ADL is NOT a Jewish organization. It is an ultra-left activist org that pushes radical transgenderism, border erasure, police dismantlement, and the demolition of free speech—deploying rank slander, bullying and character assassination to achieve its aims.


    These views and tactics are expressly contrary to sacred Jewish and biblical teaching.


    When justly criticized, ADL and its defenders falsely claim anti-Semitism, thereby diminishing all past and present victims of anti-Semitism.


    In fact, conflating criticism of ADL with criticism of Jews is itself an anti-Semitic trope.


    Bottom line: ADL is a disreputable organization that has gravely undermined Jewish interests and is worthy of the strongest condemnation.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,607 ✭✭✭francois




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,007 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Its literally free speech and free market. Explain why its not beyond you just not liking the ADL.

    It is pretty funny though that you are trying to just innocently quote stephen miller, trying to sneak one of trumps most bigoted little far right sh1theads past us......

    Yes some of the jewish faith might not agree with them but many do surprise surprise people have differing opinions. Ill stick with the ones that are against bigotry racism and antisemitism in all its forms though thanks very much.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,841 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    Using a tweet from Stephen Miller as an attempt to defend free speech and diss the ADL... That's new.

    Stephen Miller, whos entire extended family have disowned for his hateful anti immigrant rhetoric, if for no other reason than the laws he was advocating she during his time with Trump would have meant his family not being allowed into the US in the first place had they been in place at the time.

    Stephen Miller... Brilliant...



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    It is an ultra-left activist org that pushes radical transgenderism, border erasure, police dismantlement, and the demolition of free speech

    Well that's a total grab-bag of hysterical, American right-wing scaremongering: ooh, the ultra-left are gonna gender swap your kids, remove the cops and let the brown people in en masse! I know this forum is aimed at more "casual" debate, but ye gods this is total nonsense - and spouted by noted nonsense peddler Stephen Miller, lol.

    I'm gonna go ahead and presume the ADL said something mean about Donald Trump, and his fawning sycophant Miller went into Attack Dog mode. Ultra Left! Ultra Left! Woke! Woke!

    "Radical transgenderism". SNORT. What, like just force-convert everyone's gender? Sounds like a great idea TBH: we can all walk a mile in someone else's shoes, might actual solve sexism by tea-time; always wanted an excuse to make myself look pretty. 🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,007 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    So he still hasn't broken 1 million for subscribers, hilarious



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 791 ✭✭✭foxsake


    while I know trump i'm less familiar with todays hero Stephen Miller but I did like his comment on the ADL.

    there is no sneaking anybody past anybody .it may be news to you but it is possible - yes it really is - to take an individual quote for it's own merits regardless of the source. I'd consider that standard adult reasoning.

    Who miller is is irrelevant to me - but your made up label of "most bigoted little far right sh1theads" has intrigued me.Like if you hate him.....and you champion the ADL... you are kinda selling him a bit..

    The ADL goes way beyond racism and drifts into many facets of people life. it sets out to destroy anybody who goes against them . It's their definition of stuff that matters. Their views mould to suit their agenda - for example - jews have a right to an ethnostate like israel but anybody who opposes multiculturism elsewhere is a bad person. odd that.

    And its definitely not free market and free speech to threaten to get corporates blacklisted or public figures unpersoned cos you don't like their views. You only think that cos you like their viewpoint. It's a shakedown gangster org pure and simple. The adidas / Kanye thing isn't the first time.

    Like most here on this forum , when your side does its good . Thats ok just be honest about it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,007 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    The source of a quote absolutely matters, also I don't believe I ever championed the ADL in any of my posts ive simply asked why what they have done is not free speech, so put your strawman down.

    What the ADL does or doesnt do with their free speech is irrelevant to the discussion on free speech which is a key point when discussing anything relating to Elons running of twitter, either you are for free speech or you arent, so which is it?

    And you still have yet to explain why what the ADL do is not free speech or the free market beyond "I'm saying that its not".

    It really feels that as usual what you are looking for is freedom from consequences.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,833 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Looking at his tweet and all the blue tick replies, there's a massive overlap between paid subscribers and russia supporters.

    And the crap they're coming up with is ridiculous. Elon prevented world war 3. Elon saved the war from escalating. Elon prevented a nuclear retaliation.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I've seen this doing the rounds: it's a pretty terrible look, and worth noting that in his "peace plan" Musk explicitly said Crimea was Russia's and quoted some biased historical context to justify this (there were other nuggets in the plan that amounted to the classic "Give Russia what it wants" strategy beloved of those who believe in Peace At Any Cost). Will be very interesting - not that we'll be privy to it mind you - what if anything the Pentagon will say or do about this revelation.

    Of course Ukraine has since attacked Crimea plenty of times, without retaliation, which is an important caveat to Musk's "logic".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,839 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Except you pretty clearly implied who he is, does matter. You implied he was a reasonable Jewish voice on the issue. Meanwhile he had a pretty close relationship with the likes of Richard Spencer in college, a Neo Nazi who is the kind of person who gets called out by the ADL.


    In relation to free market, getting companies blacklisted. It absolutely is. The right recently did this with Budweiser. Adidas dropping West absolutely makes sense given the views he was espousing.


    Anyway, yep the outlets being promoted on Twitter aren't being vetted at all. Alt right accounts get pushed onto your feed on a constant basis. So I'd imagine anti semitism is more rife than ever. Meanwhile Musk himself has engaged in dog whistles around Soros. So ya, the richest man in the world is not being shaken down. He's just a bit of a prick and fawns over some dodgy characters.

    Also not just the ADL saying there's an increase...




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Forget what Elon prevented or didn't prevent, or any of that what-iffery

    He didn't thwart anything here, he kept his private company out of an international conflict, which no private company has any business being in the middle of.

    Using Starlink as a humanitarian tool for displaced and devastated Ukrainians to stay in touch with loved ones was one thing, weaponising it would have been quite another.

    Elon Musk is very often times a dreadful person, with the most awful and egotistical motivations. But he was correct here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,839 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Thing is, he's pretty inconsistent on those principals. Eg a Pentagon contract was signed at start of year to use them in Ukraine and it's most definitely being used for military purposes. So if anything, I'd suspect he was showing off the impact he can have by effectively interfering in an expected attack.


    I agree with you in principal that private companies shouldn't be as critical as they currently are in strategic situations. But they are. And in this case it shows how risky it is for that situation to exist. Cause the Ukrainian military are absolutely reliant on it and pulling that out could be incredible dangerous and change the state of the invasion.


    Also somewhat highlights the general need for public infrastructure over private for things like this.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Using Starlink as a humanitarian tool for displaced and devastated Ukrainians to stay in touch with loved ones was one thing, weaponising it would have been quite another.

    This is not true: Starlink was/is being used by the Ukrainian military, not just as a humanitarian took. Now SpaceX might have had reservations - but they had a path to intervene on that fornt. The Washington Post goes into detail about the whole kerfuffle. But as far as it reads the use of the satellites were for broad military use - only Musk intervened it seems when specifically used on / in Crimea.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,007 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Taken as a single action id agree however when you couple it with his comments on crimea and calls for what is effectively just appeasing Putin and giving him whatever he wants it makes things far less cut and dry in my opinion.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,607 ✭✭✭francois




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