Originally published at: Nancy Pelosi's husband undergoes surgery for skull fracture after hammer attack | Boing Boing
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I would like to not think that this act of political violence that occurred on the day Elon took over Twitter was a sign, but well, it probably is.
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I would just like to say : Get Well Soon.
I look after my dad, who is the exact same age, and I cannot imagine the trauma he went through.
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Indeed, old folk can be so frail and birdlike. All the best, Mr Pelosi and family.
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Dollars to donuts this will be considered an acceptable political interaction by the right. The republicans will see the assailant as the victim because the press doesn’t see this as a reasonable political conversation.
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ETA: /s just in case anyone was confused
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They’ve fully embraced stochastic terrorism as a means to an end. Unfortunately, this brutal won’t be the last or most awful example we’ll see in the coming years.
They’re already victim-blaming Pelosi for not locking his door and trying to baselessly pin the assailant’s actions on “mental illness”.
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Yeah, when I read he was attacked with a hammer, I thought, “Oh shit, they’re actually downplaying the seriousness of his injuries.” These are the kinds of injuries that, at that age, you probably never fully recover from, even assuming there aren’t future complications, which are likely.
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They’re putting a brave face on things; but these are very serious injuries. He must be in terrible pain & recovery will be difficult.
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I’m sure that all of the support flowing from QGOP will help him in this terrible time 
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Elon Musk is just asking questions. /s
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It’s funny you should mention that, I saw on reddit this is nothing more than a customer who didn’t want to pay a prostitute for services rendered. They say you can clearly hear the truth in the the 911 call.
They must have the secret decoder ring for 911 calls.
Also, the fact that they refuse to release the video from inside the house confirms this is nothing more than the democrats rigging the election.
You won’t find that in the fake media, you have to do your own research.
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I think this is way off. Elon might be a moron, but he understands exactly what he is doing here. He thinks it’s very clever and hilarious to spread this kind of garbage. His he has an audience of millions that loves this shit and he is feeding that demand very effectively
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Either way, he’s an immature arsehole.
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Oh for sure. But, I think for his purposes, an extremely digitally literate one (just his purposes are evil)
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What’s being discussed in terms of a Twitter CEO’s digital illiteracy is that on Thursday he begs advertisers to stay with the platform by promising he won’t turn it into a “free-for-all” cesspool for tr0lls and then on Saturday personally dives in with a tr0llish post. That 48-hr turnaround may please the edgelord billionaire’s fanbois but it’s not going to impress the advertisers (some of whom have already left) and probably not his creditors. Keeping those evil and childish purposes rolling requires cash that even he alone doesn’t have.
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That is business literacy…which we already know he does not have - he bought Twitter! 
ETA: I honestly think that one of the long-time problems with Twitter is that the people running it didn’t use it the same way that it’s users used it and were extremely digitally illiterate regarding Twitter. Elon on the other hand is extremely good at Twitter. All of which is my circular way of getting back to Twitter is bad, bad people are good at it, and it should not exist
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It’s as if Kibo were running the place. Except Kibo was very transparently goofing on people.
