Originally published at: Musk paid accused rapist and human trafficker Andrew Tate over $20,000 for posting to Twitter | Boing Boing
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So is the Romanian government gonna seize that payment?
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Turning Twitter into an unmoderated cesspool apparently wasn’t enough to attract fascists, white supremacists, and incels. Now Musk is rewarding them (well, at least a handful of them) with cash to stay there.
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Musk is just another example of the principle that money can’t buy class.
Ugghh.
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Missing 3 zeroes in that statement about severance owed?
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I think not only money doesn’t buy class, it seems to buy anti-class.
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While I am not opposed to the concept of paying creators like they do on youtube - based on the posts I have seen, it looks like the model they are reinforcing is some shithead saying dumb and having a bunch of people tell them they are a shithead.
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Straight actors who act in gay porn are sometimes described as “gay for pay”.
Now that Musk is giving away windfalls to his alt-right faves, I wonder if we’ll see the emergence of a new group of opportunists: “fash for cash”.
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Seems like Musk must really like some of the things Tate has done, i wonder what they might be
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You’re off by three zeros, Mark. Twitter supposedly owes ex-employees $500,000,000.
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Needs more @frauenfelder
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I’ve seen people speculate that this is more a “bait the suckers” move, like you’d see in casinos or mobile gaming (but I repeat myself). A few big payouts show the rest of the suckers that they can win, so they keep playing.
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I’m sure the remaining non-horrible advertisers were impressed.
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That’s a lot of prison commissary ramen.
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I mean, I know it’s a cacophony of bad decisions, but this one just seems to hit differently for some reason. I’m not sure I can quite put words to it, but, it feels like an idea that only can be inspired by terminal brainworms.
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Not paying rent, not paying cleaning crew, not paying severance, firing engineers and programmers, all part of his business “strategy”. But remember to pay your rapists and sex traffickers.
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GROSS. 
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To White Nationalist Child Rapers: Your payment will be direct deposited to your account using a secure funds transfer.
To ex-Twitter Employees: Your cheque is in the mail.
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Birds of a feather…
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