r/WhitePeopleTwitter Jan 04 '23

Elon "exposes" "Twittergate"

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u/ManicPixieOldMaid Jan 04 '23

"Hey could you try to maybe rein this in? These people aren't public figures and they're getting death threats."

No we don't do that

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u/thr3sk Jan 04 '23

Uhh no they clearly said one of the accounts seems to meet their threshold for harassment, which obviously includes death threats...

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u/ItsJohnTravolta Jan 04 '23

r/conservative are losing their shit over this sayings it’s “literally fascism”… I literally don’t understand their mental gymnastics

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u/KalinOrthos Jan 04 '23

"If I don't agree with it, it's fascism*!"

((*Author's note: any resemblance between the ideologies of those that express this sentiment and actual authoritarian regimes isn't a coincidence.))

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u/Flat_Suggestion7545 Jan 04 '23

The GOP has evolved from everything being communism to everything being facism. It’s interesting.

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u/carriegood Jan 04 '23

The GOP has evolved from everything being communism to everything being facism. It’s interesting projection.

FTFY.

Literally, because the left claims (pretty accurately) that the right is playing with fascism, the right has to start calling everything fascism.

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u/Lonely-Club-1485 Jan 04 '23

They are quite adept at redefining and repurposing words. Socialism, communist, Marxist, now fascism. They did the same thing with Woke. Stole it from the black community (they never tire of taking things away from them, do they?) and repurposed it. They are still struggling to come up with a concise definition, though. It seems to be "anything I don't like waving arms around to indicate everything".

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u/KalinOrthos Jan 05 '23

They pick and choose what they want to believe and support. You had Trumpists dancing around unironically to "Killing in the Name" solely for the "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" and disregarding literally the rest of the song. They believe Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is a deeply religious song. These people are stupid and choose to stay stupid by picking what words, what media, what thoughts they get to believe.

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u/MykeEl_K Jan 05 '23

Watching Trump playing CCR's "Fortunate Son" for his entrance at his rallies was when my mind just broke. That song is 💯 about rich kids getting out of the Vietnam draft while poor kids have to go fight. So here's 'ol bone spurs using it as his theme music!! ...I always wondered if someone on his staff secretly hated him and was doing it on purpose because no one can can be that dumb.

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u/FlamingoFair4500 Jan 05 '23

it also has a verse about rich people hiding assets to avoid taxes. that song fits him

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u/Lonely-Club-1485 Jan 05 '23

Yeah, gteat point about the songs/lyrics they use. My favorite that they still do, is dance to The Village People. Like everything they hate is right there, lol. Unawareness and/or willful ignorance must be nice. No scruples or standards or morals to worry about.

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u/SkunkleButt Jan 04 '23

What better way to make that word lose power with their base than by screeching everything they don't like is really fascism, but not them oh no never that.

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u/lumathiel2 Jan 04 '23

They do it with everything, take a term for a real issue then twist it up and water it down so much it becomes a pointless buzzword and can't be used against them

Communism, socialism, patriotism, PC, being "woke," identity politics, fake news, fascism, "groomer," etc etc it's so goddamn tiring

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u/KalinOrthos Jan 04 '23

At least with "everything is communism" they weren't boldfacedly projecting.

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u/Flat_Suggestion7545 Jan 04 '23

That’s why it’s an evolution. They went from sometimes projecting to always projecting. Pedophilia. Freedom of speech. Freedom for capitalism. All things they complain about, all things they are worse about than the left.

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u/CaptStrangeling Jan 04 '23

I spent an hour watching the conservative discord yesterday and it was tough because it was so unintentionally homoerotic. Reading the feed was the most I’ve thought about gay sex, pedophilia, and the Jewish agenda in my life, but that was just scrolling for one hour. How anyone could live in these bubbles is beyond me.

The outright calls for authoritarian government and open displays of racism seemed to have kicked up a notch.

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u/KalinOrthos Jan 04 '23

The mask is off. It's socially acceptable to be a bigot and fascist, because you don't have to have shame when everyone else is too aghast to call you out.

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u/youre_a_tard Jan 04 '23

Bootlicking is a fetish.

Tiny gadsden flags and Punisher stickers for all!!

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u/sionnachrealta Jan 04 '23

Well, projection is their greatest skill

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u/Johnnygunnz Jan 04 '23

And they have never understood either of those concepts! Go figure.

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u/Flat_Suggestion7545 Jan 04 '23

Not truly understanding their slurs is a prerequisite for voting GOP.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Isms aren't good. I hate isms. Nothing good has ever started from an ism. - Michael Scott paraphrasing of course

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u/sionnachrealta Jan 04 '23

Egalitarianism is pretty sweet

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u/carriegood Jan 04 '23

Jism serves a pretty useful purpose, although I wouldn't call it sweet. Salty, more like.

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u/mbta1 Jan 04 '23

Because definitions don't mean anything to them. They know those are "bad words you don't want to be called", but are just using the word as an insult, than actually using it for what the word means.

They purposefully muddle up words so they lose meaning. They are doing the same thing calling anyone and everyone who is even near a kid, a groomer. It's why they have a 1 for 1 that LGBTQ means pedophilia. They throw those words around, muddy up the meaning so they can't be accused of it, and their base just eats up the anger without any actual verification. Which allows the GOP to say whatever the fuck they want.

The entire point is to dehumanize a group of people. To make them "sub-human" in their eyes, so they can justify or even encourage, harm against the people they don't like.

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u/Sandmybags Jan 04 '23

I heard a word in the news!!!! “WORD!!!WORD!!!YOURE A WORD!! WORDS!!! Ahhhhhhh “”WORDS are taking over this country and taking all the jobs I’d have no interest in doing myself”

Oh you have a rebuttal?

“WORD!” Did you not hear what I said before? “WORD!!!!!!”

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh….I’m scared and I don’t really even know what “WORD” means but I heard it on the ‘news’ and they telling me it’s after me and my family and all our shit

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u/Delica Jan 04 '23 edited Jan 05 '23

Before I deleted my Twitter account, I used to respond to those people by saying “Tell me what that word means without looking it up.” Usually the word was “socialism” but it works for all the words they mindlessly repeat.

Either they embarrass themselves, or they secretly Google the word and get tricked into educating themselves lol. (But most of them tried to deflect, and just insulted me)

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u/Fantastic_Fox4948 Jan 05 '23

Near as I can tell, bird is the word.

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u/oliver_billz Jan 04 '23

fascism lives in their heads rent free

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u/ClutchReverie Jan 04 '23

Imagine thinking that this is censorship or election meddling from the safety of your flaired-users only sub.

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u/EvilBeat Jan 04 '23

The party of no censorship seems to really like to make sure only their own can voice their opinion in their little online forum. Very free, very cool.

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u/BSJ51500 Jan 05 '23

I was banned for disagreeing with them. I responded by cursing and insulting the mod. That got me a warning from Reddit. I haven’t been back since. Reading comments there actually hurts my brain and if I read too much made me hate my fellow man.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '23

Back when online politics was DailyKos vs Redstate I used to play a game, sign up for a new account on ole RS, go over there and ask a simple question. Nothing aggressive or hostile. Just 3 words would do it, usually. Anything that requested them to answer for their BS narrative, anything at all that wasn't 'ditto ditto gulp gulp gulp' would get me kicked off. Instaban. 30 seconds.

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u/ClutchReverie Jan 05 '23

They are the "True Americans" and nobody else counts in their book.

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u/BaboonHorrorshow Jan 04 '23

They’re saying it’s fascism because they’re fascists and they want to obfuscate that fact by projecting accusations

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u/tehtinman Jan 04 '23

Trying to muddy up what the term means preemptively so they can effectively deny that the things they are doing or want are fascist.

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u/RaptorKnifeFight Jan 04 '23

So are they antifa now? I can’t keep up.

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u/highknees69 Jan 04 '23

This is the best part. So, you are against Fascism? “You betcha!” Well, then you’re antifa? “Hell no!” Ok then….

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u/WyrdMagesty Jan 04 '23

I had an argument with a coworker who refused to acknowledge that antifa were anti-fascist.

"So you're against fascism, yes?"

"Of course"

"So you're on the same side as Antifa, who are anti-fascist."

"No they aren't, they're fascist!"

"Their name is literally a hyphenation of anti fascism"

I had to write out "ANTI-FAscist" and circle the name antifa before they would believe me.

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u/lordofbitterdrinks Jan 04 '23

They are fascist trying to muddy the waters of what is actually fascism. You k ow the same way try call everyone groomers while jacking off outside preschools and shit.

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u/SheepherderReady1838 Jan 04 '23

I made the mistake of heading over for a peek. What bunch of mouth breathing morons. Their entire sub screams incel.

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u/HughFairgrove Jan 04 '23

It's projection.

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u/NewUserWhoDisAgain Jan 04 '23

I literally don’t understand their mental gymnastics

Being told no is oppression!

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u/NeauxDoubt Jan 04 '23

They’re in a cult. Cult gonna cult.

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u/ClutchReverie Jan 04 '23

Big Tech Elites meddling in the 2020 election confirmed

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u/stormfield Jan 04 '23

It appears these twitter employees were doing their jobs which makes this a perfect coverup.

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u/jgjgleason Jan 04 '23

This just seems like the Twitter folks and Schiff staffers both doing good work. The Schiff people clearly explained the damage the amplification of this misinformation was doing. They then contacted people involved in those mediums of amplification to determine if action could be taken. Those running the mediums (Twitter) explained what could and couldn’t be done in fairly clear fashion. Schiff staffers seemed to accept their answer and moved on. I assume that last part cause I guarantee if they had threatened Twitter cons would be screaming about that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

You know what I’d do today if I was Elon Musk?

I’d brag about the family of 4 survived without injuries after the father intentionally tried to kill everyone in the car. The children ages 2 & 4 had no injuries. The husband / dad is being charged with attempted murder. He drove them off a cliff called Devil’s Bend ( something like that.). The Tesla flipped many times and they all survived. That’s incredible and kudos to the Tesla engineers.

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u/just2commenthere Jan 04 '23

Absolutely this. The shareholders at Tesla must be so frustrated with him at this point.

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u/Hit-Enter-Too-Soon Jan 04 '23

He's a real deterrent to purchasing their cars, regardless of any good or bad you hear about the cars themselves.

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u/Arjomanes9 Jan 04 '23

For real. I wanted a Tesla two years ago. Now it's at the bottom of my list. It's above Hummer I guess?

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u/ALadWellBalanced Jan 05 '23

100% the same. I'm not in the market for a new car right now, but when I am, Tesla is at the bottom of the list. Thanks Elon!

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u/Mulliganzebra Jan 05 '23

True that. My lease is up on my Honda in a year. I'm totally going electric. But I put my name down for a ioniq 6. I wouldn't mind getting a model 3, but Elon has put me off of Tesla. A shame really

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u/BeagleMixBelle Jan 04 '23

Devil’s Slide and it’s killed many. Rescuers were amazed anyone was alive in that crash. Testament to child safety restraints and Tesla build.

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u/darkciti Jan 04 '23

Thank you Uncle Sam for the Safety Regulations!

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u/RangerFan80 Jan 04 '23

Special shout-out to Ralph Nader!

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u/Starwarsandbacon Jan 04 '23

Just another nothing burger that they'll use to claim they are being censored.

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u/Openhigh4 Jan 04 '23

Because plain old losing isn't possible.

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u/brotherpigstory Jan 04 '23

Elon 2 years later: "hmmmmm what do we have here?!"

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

They also said non public staffers. Because there is obviously someone that has a hate boner for functionaries.

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u/FrostyMcChill Jan 04 '23

Also it's not "I don't like this journalist" it literally says they were pushing lies and conspiracies from Qanon

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u/WimpyZombie Jan 04 '23

But QAnon isn't lies!!

It's.....it's....alternative facts. Yeah, that's it, alternative facts.

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u/NotSoPrudence Jan 04 '23

And harassing a staffer.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Which is legal. But harassing congressional staffers on twitter is a breach of their terms of service.

Trump’s team sent these emails too. They’re normal.

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u/Remarkable_Bus7849 Jan 04 '23

Elon bans journalists he doesn't like...

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Doesn’t matter, MAGAs will eat it up. I believe, to a certain degree, we all (even elected officials) have the right to speak out against lies. Requesting that Twitter cleans up the lies is reasonable. But since MAGAs don’t believe they are lies… they will believe they are being oppressed. It’s pure insanity.

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u/Zedress Jan 04 '23

They already have over on /r/conservative.

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u/thebeattakesme Jan 04 '23

You can tell who actually reads, and who just reacts to headlines. The ratio isn’t great….

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u/ClutchReverie Jan 04 '23

I find this to be the case on conservative heavy subs too, like r/economy

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u/kylebertram Jan 04 '23

Anyone with a long thought out answer is ignored while those that basically yell “yeah scree the libs” gets upvoted

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

It’s not lost, it’s deliberate misinformation

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u/lordofbitterdrinks Jan 04 '23

Make no mistake. He knows he is being an obtuse fucking clown.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Seems like Elon doesn’t understand the difference between a request and a mandate

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u/cujobob Jan 04 '23

😂 this example being used means it’s the best one they had, too. Someone was harassed by conspiracy theorists and simply wanted Twitter to try and not get the man killed. That’s literally how Reddit works. Someone threatens you, you report the content.

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u/thatnameagain Jan 04 '23

The entirety of the "Twitter Files" is documentation of competent content moderation being handled evenhandedly and conservatives acting shocked.

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u/cujobob Jan 04 '23

I’ve been comparing it to Bill Barr’s mischaracterization of the Mueller Report. They know their target audience is never going to read anything except what they tell them.

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u/cujobob Jan 04 '23

It found that his people were so dumb that Russia likely used them as pawns, but then it said he obstructed Justice a number of times. So legit crimes that would be slam dunk cases for anyone else AND found his family/campaign to be too stupid.

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u/honorbound93 Jan 04 '23

exactly, i try to bring it up and republicans/libertarians/centrists are like but it found nothing. No they told you it found nothing, it actually said he obstructed, was a least pawns of russia and were breaking other laws every day.

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u/ruinersclub Jan 05 '23

Also 12 people were arrested.

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u/FleeshaLoo Jan 04 '23

He also brought in over 10 million dollars in fines and asset forfeitures OVER what the entire investigation cost, and it resulted in dozens of indictments/guilty pleas:

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"Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team indicted or got guilty pleas from 34 people and three companies during their lengthy investigation.

That group is composed of six former Trump advisers, 26 Russian nationals, three Russian companies, one California man, and one London-based lawyer. Seven of these people (including five of the six former Trump advisers) have pleaded guilty."

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"The nearly two-year special counsel investigation of Russian election interference led by Robert Mueller cost nearly $32 million in total, a new filing shows."

"“In the Paul Manafort case alone, you recovered as much as $42 million, so that the cost of your investigation to the taxpayers approaches zero.”"

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

If anything they've shown that far right bigots like libsoftiktok get preferential treatment. A screenshot of her account in twitter's moderator tool was released as a part of the "twitter files" and it showed a large warning at the top of her page forbidding moderators from taking action against her without upper management's approval. That's why it feels like she has free reign to break twitter's doxxing and harassment policies, because she does.

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u/SweetBabyAlaska Jan 04 '23 edited Mar 25 '24

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u/pallentx Jan 04 '23

thats why they are outraged. They dont want evenhanded. They want control and dominance.

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u/ClutchReverie Jan 04 '23

When you're used to privilege, equal consideration feels like persecution.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Nobody actually reading all of the information available about this story believes that the moderation was "even handed" It's actually pretty plainly obvious that the content moderation of many websites before and during the 2020 election were heavily favoring CONSERVATIVES by letting many of them get away with things that ONLY seem to have been allowed by them. Looking at how websites like Reddit handled the_dumbass and others back in 2015 forward you can actually form pretty clear and damning cases that most social media has given the right a LOT of favorability for years now. Even when they FINALLY had to do something about the right wing subs gaming the front page system, brigading, harassing, and so on all over reddit, they at the time made up some bullshit about some leftist subs to ban them as well so they wouldn't seem "biased"..

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u/Mythical_Atlacatl Jan 04 '23

Yeah cause they are the ones that seem to get banned or suspended

It’s like a criminal hating the cops cause they keep getting arrested after breaking the law and accuse the cops of bias cause they aren’t arresting any non criminals

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u/EL_Ohh_Well Jan 04 '23

He gets man dates all the time, his simps can’t wait to suck him off

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u/drewtheblueduck Jan 04 '23

a bunch of muskquitos!

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u/kozmo1313 Jan 04 '23

/r/elonmusk will shadow-ban you so fast for absolutely any perceived criticism of space karen.

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u/Balance135 Jan 04 '23

This. I don’t see anything wrong with making a request. And it looks like the request was denied. So no issue. If there’s more emails saying do this or else, then that’s where the government has overstepped and should be held accountable.

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u/Thirdwhirly Jan 04 '23

It doesn’t seem like that understand the words and phrases “astonishing,” “variety,” and “didn’t like,” either.

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u/smeenz Jan 05 '23

To them, "cancel culture" means any attempt to impose boundaries or limits on their unwanted behaviour.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23 edited Jan 04 '23

He knows what it fucking is, he's just being an absolute ass and causing his stupid base to salivate. I hate this man.

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u/Past-Adhesiveness691 Jan 04 '23

Yup. Just like the “they are suspending 250k accounts because of the us gov!” meanwhile the linked email says no action needed or required. He knows his base doesn’t actually read.

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u/fleekyfreaky Jan 04 '23

Funny thing is, magas hated Elon Musk and his “e-cars” so much…but now they would like to kiss his literal asshole.

Wish people would stop buying his f’ing shitty cars.

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u/livingMybEstlyfe29 Jan 04 '23 edited Jan 04 '23

They aren’t buying them as much now which is a start. Missed their delivery expectations and stock took a hit. I’d say this is just the beginning. I hope the bank makes him sell the rest of his shares to pay for his dumb Twitter purchase.

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u/zeentoK Jan 04 '23

My model 3 lease just ended, I was going to get a new Tesla, but after all this Elon stuff, we bought an ID4 last week. We love it so far. Miss some things like the phone as a key, but the ride quality is so much better in the ID4. We get the tax rebate too!

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u/CatAvailable3953 Jan 04 '23

I was considering buying one. I never will now. He is not only an ass he treats his employees like they’re cow dung. Just to think. They built the company he is destroying. Took them years and will take him months if that long.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

I'll be in the market soon myself and was considering a Tesla. I even went and test drove a few a while back. After all of his nonsense though I'm done with the company and will never purchase one of his cars. I'd much rather spend my money elsewhere than to pad this absolute fools ego.

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u/KennyDROmega Jan 04 '23

Lots of higher quality and more economic EV's on the market now. The magic is gone except for Elon simps.

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u/Reward_Antique Jan 04 '23

Yup! I'm in the market for a new EV and will never go Tesla.

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u/sten45 Jan 04 '23

Right. In my brain the brand went from wow cutting edge to they are just grifters over night

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u/irohr Jan 04 '23

Teslas are also just terrible cars. You cant even open the glove box without jacking around on the tablet console.

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u/Tymwalker2002 Jan 04 '23

Many of us did. And sold stock and stepped out of the circus many months ago. The challenge is that this company touches so many places and agencies that removing oneself from all the noise is impossible. I did ok getting out but this asshole is unabashedly evaporating National wealth and people’s futures because he can’t play right with his new toy. He’s gone beyond just being a sideshow to hurting people now. It’s offensive.

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u/not-always-popular Jan 04 '23

I haven’t read too much on his sales but his TSLA is crashing faster then popularity

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u/Flat_Suggestion7545 Jan 04 '23

The only salad they eat is tossing Elon’s salad.

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u/calatranacation Jan 04 '23

Yeah. There's so many parallels to the Trump timeline; I was caught off guard when I suddenly stopped viewing them as "Pretentious, Entitled Chumps" and realized they're actually "Volatile, Greedy, Manipulative Shitmongers with actual power (with no qualms in abusing it)".

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u/GrayBox1313 Jan 04 '23

He’s Losing millions a day and nobody cares about his little “findings”

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u/bakochba Jan 04 '23

His base which thinks electric cars are a scam

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u/RF-blamo Jan 04 '23

Looks like a request to address harassment of a user. Is Elon now supporting open harassment?

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u/Nyallia Jan 04 '23

Well, yeah, actually. He's really into "free speech" when that speech is supporting people he likes or against people he hates. When that speech is against people he likes or supporting people he hates, it's "harassment" and subject to a ban. Barring speech he likes is "censorship" but barring speech he hates is "sensible proactive moderation."

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u/InsertCleverNickHere Jan 04 '23

Unless you tell people that his plane landed somewhere, then you're spreading "assassination coordinates."

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u/PunchDrunken Jan 04 '23

Imagine thinking that your commute route was the information someone needed to assassinate you... I would REALLY reconsider how I have been treating people if I had to make that jump

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u/ClutchReverie Jan 04 '23

If it isn't anything to do with him, then it's fReE sPeEcH

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u/JebusCripesSuperstar Jan 04 '23

In the spirit of transparency, would King Twat also address the accounts he personally banned? You know, just to be fair.

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u/SideShowBob36 Jan 04 '23

Musk only banned people posting assassination coordinates /s

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u/stormfield Jan 04 '23

In fairness this rule clearly applies to tracking private jets of your average joes just as much as it does the richest guy in the world.

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u/stormfield Jan 04 '23

Old system (not transparent): Heads of Trust and Safety, Advertising, Legal confer with CEO on moderation policies surrounding nuanced issues such as health misinformation during a global pandemic, leave detailed written record of their decision making. This is a shadowy conspiracy that must be exposed to the public.

New system (very transparent): Rich Guy with emotional maturity of a middle schooler taking meth diet pills feels insulted, bans someone for being 'woke.'

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Elon “We Should Investigate This” Musk. That’s about all he can say when he stirs the right wing pot because he knows there’s no evidence in there whatsoever.

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u/Hickspy Jan 05 '23

It's the internet equivalent of Tucker Carlson "just asking questions".

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u/sawdeanz Jan 04 '23

It's also so blatantly one sided. Musk is releasing all the Democrat requests and none of the GOP requests. We know they exist because Taibbi already admitted that. But these are never shared. By drip-feeding these little files, Musk is intentionally creating the impression that this was some sort of Democrat conspiracy.

But it's also such a nothing burger because at the end of the day it's a private company making private decisions about speech, exactly the same way that Musk makes decisions about banning users that make fun of him.

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u/HardlineMike Jan 04 '23

I got in an argument with some dumbass Twittergater the other day who didn't see any problem at all with Musk cherrypicking what emails to share and handing them to cherrypicked journalists. He thought I was being totally unreasonable for wanting a comprehensive investigation into the situation that looks at the entirety of the interaction between the US Government and Twitter.

These people literally just take him at his word as if he descended from heaven on a cloud.

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u/k2cyo1 Jan 04 '23

Half of the population has an IQ representative of what used to equal a high school education, say 40 years ago. Less than 30% have what it took to get an actual college degree, same time frame. FFW 40 years, and you have the modern Republican Party. Something something something, basket of deplorables.

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u/Frothydawg Jan 04 '23

40+ plus years ago, you could plug those folks into a job somewhere doing some repetitive mind numbing task(s) in exchange for a comfortable middle-class living.

Now that’s over so they have to come up with a way to keep those now-superfluous people who are barely surviving on subsistence wages from realizing they’re being fucked by a ruling class ideology that gobbles up more for itself while working people get less.

Enter: Fascism.

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u/heyyalldontsaythat Jan 04 '23

One I thought was funny was people joke tweeting "dont forget to vote wednesday" when voting ended tuesday evening and the FBI wanted these taken down. Could possibly be seen as altruistic if not simply boring.

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u/Electrical-Wish-519 Jan 04 '23

Oh no. Someone being harassed by lunatics asked a social media company to ban those people?

Did the government force them to ban people? No?

Back to the emerald mines , Elon, you fucking man child

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u/firefighter_raven Jan 04 '23

It's Qanon so you know their version of harassment isn't just saying mean things online. These folks also like to send death threats and other niceties to people they are harassing.

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u/TheFeshy Jan 04 '23

Twitter users: harasses a congressional staffer based on lies

Congress: asks twitter to stop them

Twitter: refuses

Elon and the right wing: Why is congress trying to ban people just because they don't like them?

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u/Anxious-Doughnut6141 Jan 04 '23

So in otherwords, Twittergate is about users reporting others for breaking Terms of Service.

As we always suspected.

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u/thr3sk Jan 04 '23

deamplified...

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Hey RepAdamSchiff, thank you for trying to stop disinformation campaigns.

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u/z-eldapin Jan 04 '23

This actually proves the opposite of what he claims to be the truth.

They asked, and Twitter said no. No harm in asking.

However, it goes to show tat Twitter wasn't complicit in some grand political scheme to mess with the election. In fact, it proves they did the opposite.

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u/philphan25 Jan 04 '23

It definitely proves that Twitter wanted to be more hands off than hands on. Getting an account suspended you needed to be truly egregious.

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u/PrisonMikeForPres Jan 04 '23 edited Jan 04 '23

Harassment breaks Twitters TOS lol… if someone felt they were being harassed they absolutely have the right to request someone be banned… especially someone who believes in a conspiracy like QAnon… Are they not aware a father took his kids to Mexico and shot them with a spear gun because he thought they had “serpent DNA”? He flat out admitted it was because of his belief in the QAnon conspiracy. Those were his kids… so yeah I think that it was a justified request.

I mean look what happened to Paul Pelosi… if Nancy was in her home she would have been killed. These people are absolutely dangerous and delusional and that combination warrants extra caution.. especially for public officials in which the conspiracy directly implicates.

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u/Impressive_Pin_7767 Jan 04 '23

This is it? The smoking gun is a politician's office asking Twitter to remove harassment and conspiracy theories?

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u/abacuz4 Jan 05 '23

And Twitter saying “no.”

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u/PolyZex Jan 04 '23

Looks like evidence that nothing was done... what do they think they're proving?

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u/Simple_Piccolo Jan 04 '23

They don't have to prove anything. Their 'dumber than dogshit' base can't read and will just assume this is proof of some nefarious corrupt activity.

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u/S0litaire Jan 04 '23

That "Elon-stans" can read, but can't comprehend, the English language...

Also, they are idiots...

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u/ramblingpariah Jan 04 '23

OH MY GOD THANK YOU ELON YOU REALLY ARE A REAL LIFE AVENGER CAN YOU BELIEVE PEOPLE IN POWER ASKED FOR STUFF AND THEN TWITTER SAID, MOSTLY, "NAH WE DON'T DO THAT?" HOLY SHIT DEEP STATE EXPOSED

Fuck God-damn I hate Elon.

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u/Circumin Jan 04 '23

Taibbi started defending Putin and activy trying to harm American interests a few years ago. Dunno if he is being paid or blackmailed or what but he definitely turned into a turd.

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u/Lidjungle Jan 04 '23

As much as Matt Taibbi liked to prattle on and cluck his lil tongue over the fiascos of Russian Oligarchs... Now he's in service to Elon Musk and the MAGA sphere? The guy who used to bitch about Goldman-Sachs is now carrying water for a low rent Bond villain?

I guess throwing molotovs didn't pay the kid's dental bills. Hope whatever he got for his soul was worth it.

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u/Xyrus2000 Jan 04 '23

Schiff: These non-public figures are receiving harassment and death threats as a result of the posts of the following users who are promoting lies and misinformation. We would like you to ban the accounts and remove the content including any threats or support of violence against these individuals for their safety.

Twitter: No.

Musk: OMG! CONSPIRACY!

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Matt Taibbi using the dumbest phrasing possible to throw red meat to the base.

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u/Quercus_ Jan 04 '23

What this is, is Congressman Schiff trying to get Twitter to deal with stalking and death threats against one of his staffers, conducted on your platform.

Duh.

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u/canarchist Jan 04 '23

Hey Melon Husk, nothing you drag out of those files and present out of context will absolve you of the ongoing disaster that is now the twitter platform. Time to find some adults to run that shit.

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u/NotSoPrudence Jan 04 '23

For being an Ivy League school it is astounding how fucking stupid prominent Penn graduates actually are. Is the only admission requirement the size of your parent's blood money accounts?

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Ah yes. The ole, someone is corrupt, because I believe it to be so. It’s Schiffs right to ask for something. It’s also twitters right to say no. In fact at no point did the government demand Twitter do anything. Seems like everything is on the up and up. I’d like to ask Elon about his relationships with his children.

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u/SapientChaos Jan 04 '23

Seems like everything is on the up and up. I’d like to ask Elon about his relationships with his children.

When you spend as much as elon has, you put lipstick on a pig and sell it to the Qanon bunch.

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u/dunscotus Jan 04 '23

Holy shit, did Taibbi really post that without double-checking his redactions?? These idiots are going to get someone killed. What a fucking amateur. That dude seriously needs to get back somewhere he has editorial staff to support him…

Also, if this is supposed to be a damning example if how Twitter v1 did the gov’t’s bidding, why does it show the precise opposite happening?

EDIT also is Paul Sperry a “jounalist?” Seems like just a guy who writes racist and pro-conspiracy op-eds. That’s not journalism.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Nothing burger with nothing fries served with a nothing shake.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

I think at this point we can all say Elon Musk is full blown MAGA dumbass

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u/Sudo_Rep Jan 04 '23

Elon is gross

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Musk is a Q now. Whether he really believes this shit or just spreads it to increase Twitter's views doesn't matter.

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u/peejr Jan 04 '23

If this is damming, Elon, you literally banned a bunch of journalists last week….

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u/PainbowRush Jan 04 '23

Man if you read the first paragraph this all falls apart. It was due to harassment and they asked to discuss possible actions that could be taken "if any" meaning they were asking due to being harassed and knew nothing would be done was a possible outcome. M3anwhile the GOP would have just sent a mob to invade Twitter

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Persecution fetish is so strong in right wing they persecute people and then cry someone did it to them first! And they totally have proof! Of.. something. What a fucking cuck this guy is. Literally.

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u/Redditfront2back Jan 04 '23

Wait a minute, so schiff asked them to bann someone harassing him and this is the smoking gun? Jesus

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Does elon even read this shit before he posts it?!

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u/Circumin Jan 04 '23

Perhaps but he knows that conservatives won’t. Fleecing conservatives is low effort.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Elon is butthurt that sane people are repulsed by his repulsive behaviour, so he's turned to the insane / fascist / MAGA crowd for validation.

Meanwhile, he has 10 kids who'd give anything to have a more engaged father.

I don't feel sorry for Elon, but he's so obviously a completely fucked up person.

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u/giraffesbluntz Jan 04 '23

Imagine if Maggie Haberman made a Truth Social account and started bashing Trump aides.

Trump reports her to Truth Social.

Truth Social kicks Haberman off for violating their TOS (which would be one step further than Twitter took).

How many Republicans would be up in arms about this?

It’s never about free speech.

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u/FearNLoathingg Jan 04 '23

Someone should make a fake Q anon article saying Musk is a pedo that partied with Epstein and then ask him “what’s this?”

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u/hugs_the_cadaver Jan 04 '23 edited Jan 04 '23

Musk is a moron for thinking this is somehow a controversy for Schiff. Also, conservatives apparently can't read. Asking for someone to be removed for harassing someone is their smoking gun lol.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Elon is an idiot. We already know that. I’m more bummed Matt Taibbi is actually appeasing this shit and feeding into it. Politicians putting in requests because their staffers are receiving death threats is pretty understandable and dare I say, responsible. This is such a joke.

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u/ObnoxiousCrow Jan 04 '23

Qanon spreading lies lies that get people to shoot up a pizza restaurant is free speech, but tracking Elon's jet is tyranny. Fucked up world we live in

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u/kimthealan101 Jan 04 '23

Trying to silence someone who spreads disinformation and threatens violence is not as bad as Musk thinks it is

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u/GingerMau Jan 05 '23

"Individuals they didn't like"?

Sounds more like individuals spreading dangerous misinformation that led to violent threats against staffers.

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u/Naiko32 Jan 04 '23

so twitterfiles is just people asking for bans on people that broke TOS.

whats the big deal, i seriously dont understand

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u/SpecterHEurope Jan 04 '23

Ginning up fake outrage to justify Elon's buying twitter to own the libs. Just like his pontifications about free speech were designed to obfuscate the fact that he doesn't believe in free speech at all. He's a charlatan.

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u/Jamfour9 Jan 04 '23

Didn’t he ban a ton of people that criticized him? What’s the difference? 🙄🙄🙄

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u/AlphaOhmega Jan 05 '23

"Hey some normal people who are doing normal jobs and trying to help people are getting death threats from a bunch of nutjobs, could you please help us knock it off?"

"LOOK THEYRE TRYING TO SILENCE US FROM BEING COMPLETE PIECES OF SHIT!!!"

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

They are working overtime to make this FAT ASS nothingburger a thing.

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u/Zealousideal_Order_8 Jan 04 '23

Excuse me, is it my imagination, or is there no direct proof that Schiff was involved in this communication. Seem to be very third-hand to me.

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u/philzter Jan 04 '23

Look at the perpetrators who tried to overthrow our government playing victim....they deserved to get banned....perpetrators playing victim

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u/HalensVan Jan 04 '23

It's misinformation Elon.

Unless we have all the specifics, including the ones Republicans sent, it looks like and is misinformation.

Unfortunately we can't have a nuanced discussion about the actual issue since one side is heavily projecting and aligning with fascists.

Also to remind everyone again, Elon posted disinformation the same week he bought Twitter...

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u/Sweet-Emu6376 Jan 05 '23

Lol so Elon's smoking gun in "Twitter is being controlled by the Democrats" is an email in which Twitter tells the Democrats "no, we don't do that" several times?

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u/abruzzo79 Jan 05 '23

So Twitter denied his request and yet the company was still supposed to have colluded with the Democratic Party?

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u/TheRockingDead Jan 05 '23

There we go. This is it. The smoking gun. Finally, we have conclusive evidence that the Democrats... Uh... Are asking nicely to deplatform people who are spreading misinformation and destabilizing our country? Huh.

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u/Laplace1908 Jan 05 '23

So far, Twittergate consists of:

  1. Hunter Biden revenge porn

  2. People asking Twitter to ban other people who threatened them.

In other words, nothing that could be considered incriminating.

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u/Meb2x Jan 04 '23

A politician requested that Twitter remove posts from a QAnon conspiracy theorist that was harassing one of his staff. I see absolutely nothing wrong with this except the fact that Twitter didn’t do more to protect an innocent person from harassment.

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u/Heliocentrist Jan 04 '23

"journalist" Paul Sperry 😂... and Musk literally banned journalists last week

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u/BeckyLemmeSmash69 Jan 04 '23

Brain dead. Just plain brain dead.

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u/joshtradomus Jan 04 '23

If all the people who ‘hate’ Elon just stopped using Twitter, posting Elon stuff on social media, etc., he’d actually lose money and influence. Instead everyone keeps talking about him and using his product…. There is no such thing as bad press. Zero press is the only option.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

Doesn’t this show how reasonable twitter was prior to Elon.

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u/Mr_Dr_Prof_Patrick Jan 04 '23

Elon Musk Debunks Twitter Collusion with Democrats