While I would prefer to live in a country with the rule of law, I don't particularly care if foreign countries do or do not use legal means to reduce the wealth of the world's richest man.
It needs to be Tesla. That stock props up the whole empire. Basically need to be banned globally to choke him off. Like 200% tariff on Tesla and shut down the factories globally.
Given the damage Musk is doing to western European democracies through the misinformation and outright Russian propaganda he's pumping out through Xitter, I could see a justification for using foreign intelligence services to push back.
People who are still there need to leave. Especially the very large accounts with millions of followers. Just being there is supporting fascism. It’s a propaganda machine.
Its worth remembering that the right utterly lost its mind when it was revealed that the govt tried to lean on Twitter to tweak the algorithm during covid times to push certain info, and now its literally an open propaganda platform with blatant lies pushed incessantly by the owner
I was permanently suspended fm X for posting pics of Elon before he got his hair plugs, so X is dead to me & I can care less about what happens to it. Was ready to close out my acct anyhow, since it's a total MAGA cesspool, but I'm glad I was able to get Elon pissed enough to get suspended.
The US gov and the whole billionaire-asshole cartel is now an acknowledged existential threat to global economic security, this is gonna be innnteresting
And all he had to do was shut up, play with his exploding grain silos, pay tax and open hospitals & schools… but NOOO ..can’t do that.
Gotta breed the ‘master race’ by wanking into test tubes, rob the poor, buy politicians & corrupt the planet 🤦♂️
What an utter wanker!
#NAZIMuskRat
Every company owned and directed by a Nazi promoting, Putin allied, constitutional dismantling corrupt, greedy billionaire must be held accountable and boycotted.
Time for a reckoning against the 26 year Putin reign, Trump, Musk and their allies has arrived.
I think it is up to us to abandon those platforms. We are the gears good or bad. The power comes from us as a collective.
Think of x as an out dated style of “wire push up bra“ that leaves red marks every time you wear it. Don’t put it on again. Celebrate your freedom.
A billion dollar fine would be great. I just don't understand why the EU doesn't ban 'X' from its shores. It is a fascist media that Musk uses to attempt to undermine European govts and possibly undermine free elections. I expect that Russia uses 'X' to spread its propaganda.
If the Democrats had a lick of brains, they would immediately announce that everyone in the party was leaving X and coming to Bluesky. There’s no one there but Nazis now, anyway. They also need to start investigating him for EV subsidy fraud. We know he did it in Canada, why wouldn’t he here?
They are corporate-owned managed opposition. We need to purge them all. They have finally revealed via their inaction that they’re in on it. Any one senator can withdraw unanimous consent and bring the Senate to a complete halt. Instead they say they’re helpless and do performative BS like Booker.
You’re not wrong about the Nazi part. While looking at the Twitter feed of some of my favorite artists that still haven’t made the jump to Bluesky or elsewhere, saw my first white supremacist/neo-nazi ad
It’s true, but I opted to omit that for the sake of clarity of the argument. The only thing we “should” ever have been a standard for was making a quick unethical buck.
Throw in SpaceX while you're at it. It's not as if the scientists can't move on to work for democratic countries, again, after ze war, like Werner von B
This standfirst mentions "weighing the risk of antagonizing" but I'm sure the regulators don't give a stuff about how it looks politically. That's not their bailiwick. They enforce the law.
I loved my 2018 but sold it a few weeks ago. I don't need a car right now, otherwise as much as I loathe Musk, I wouldn't have been in a position to sell then take on a new car payment just to "stick it to him."
I purposely got myself permanently suspended from X .... so I wouldn't be tempted to go back there.
I was going to close out my acct anyhow, but this way I CAN'T go back, even if I wanted to. That was how I got X out of my life. I highly recommend more ppl do this.
X is very clearly a cancer. It intentionally makes democracies sick. If you're worried about what this means for free speech, you've bought into right-wing framing around speech issues, entirely animated by the most blatant bad faith you've ever seen.
Agreed. If you protect propaganda and it becomes the vast majority of what is heard then that is basically killing free speech by drowning it in raw sewage. That being said, we have to be very careful laws and such created, or amendments, if that is what it takes (somehow), don't become the problem.
I would also say the same about Murdoch’s news organizations, they’ve taken advantage of weakening standards in the Anglosphere to dumb down and divide almost all of us who natively speak English.
Wow!…just seeing your post today…I am still straddling both platforms and just saw this re someone I am following who is somewhat politically outspoken, but not in an evil way.
This is crummy stuff! 😠
Yes this. Rupert Murdoch’s disinformation empire needs to be dealt with.
Democracies around the world need to react and deal with fascist threats from within. We’ve allowed these horrible, cancerous ideas to flourish for too long in the dark corners of free societies.
I'm so mad more isn't been done. No one should be in schools. Concerts. Churches. Anything elon related should be banned. No one should be going to or buying America where they best can. America is a fascist bully.
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Germany learned the hard way.
They outlawed propaganda
ANTAGONIZE AWAY, chums! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Given the damage Musk is doing to western European democracies through the misinformation and outright Russian propaganda he's pumping out through Xitter, I could see a justification for using foreign intelligence services to push back.
get the shares down to $120 and it's margin call time.
then he is fucked.
On that grounds alone it can be lawfully banned
Just saying.
The "it" here is fascism
Gotta breed the ‘master race’ by wanking into test tubes, rob the poor, buy politicians & corrupt the planet 🤦♂️
What an utter wanker!
#NAZIMuskRat
Time for a reckoning against the 26 year Putin reign, Trump, Musk and their allies has arrived.
That'd probably be enough to end twitter
Think of x as an out dated style of “wire push up bra“ that leaves red marks every time you wear it. Don’t put it on again. Celebrate your freedom.
(Hopefully I'm not arrested by the FBI for suggesting this)
Typical EU going for half measures.
Throw in SpaceX while you're at it. It's not as if the scientists can't move on to work for democratic countries, again, after ze war, like Werner von B
Said as a Tesla owner (bought in 2019, and I love, and I will never buy another).
Put the perps in prison! Freeze/seize assets.
I was going to close out my acct anyhow, but this way I CAN'T go back, even if I wanted to. That was how I got X out of my life. I highly recommend more ppl do this.
which I'm sure you already know, but we don't need to help them with their framing
This is crummy stuff! 😠
Democracies around the world need to react and deal with fascist threats from within. We’ve allowed these horrible, cancerous ideas to flourish for too long in the dark corners of free societies.
Because it holds the most influence over the younger (and less conservative) generations.
Don't call it a penalty. Call it a tariff on services.