(this is seriously getting too meta. or something…)
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thats the good stuff from this thread;
(I couldnt help it, @gracchus 
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And Bing Creator won’t allow any such mash-up. 
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I was waiting for him to blame Jewish Space Lasers for the SpaceX explosion. Seriously, this guy is stuck in his spiteful lower middle-class limbo…all the money in the world didn’t help.
BTW… in Sweden Trade Unions are banning Tesla and everything to do with Musk.
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Looks like JT has something hanging out of a body cavity - that doesn’t appear to be normal human anatomy.
Must admit if i see adds on twitter these days they come with community warning about how they are fake Chinese company that drop ships and you will never get your product…
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He started out with all the money. Emerald mine. Diamonds. Smuggling as a kid. It’s what made him who he is.
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Looks like they might be having trouble getting advertising people to deal with the crisis.
Meanwhile, Semafor reports that Yaccarino has enlisted her son Matt Madrazo to reboot X’s political advertising business, in hopes to make up for the revenue lost by the “temporarily paused investments” of what previously were some of the company’s biggest clients.
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Hoo boy. Emergency nepo hires. Buckle up!
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Nepotism as the solution to a crisis: always the sign of a healthy company.
[A Coke to @anon65652885]
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From the Xitter:
Why the fuck am I getting this as an ad???
Because Twitter. I’m afraid there’s no reason to believe it’ll get better.
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He’s literally one of the wealthiest people on earth… And as @robertmckenna noted, he came from wealth. He’s an elite asshole who thinks the rest of us are there for his amusement.
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INHERIT THE MERIT 
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Read the comments, and there was an interesting one there. They used copilot to ask what Yaccarino was sugar coating.
This person is sugar coating the situation of their company, which is facing a backlash from some advertisers and critics for allowing hate speech and misinformation on their platform. They are trying to make their employees feel good about their work and ignore the negative feedback. Some of the ways they are sugar coating are:
They claim that their platform is the only one that is working hard to protect free speech, which is a vague and subjective term that can be used to justify any kind of content.
They dismiss the article that exposed their platform’s flaws as misleading and manipulated, without providing any evidence or counter-arguments.
They imply that their platform is clear and consistent about their efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination, which may not be true given the criticism they are facing.
They portray the critics as a vocal minority who are trying to use deceptive attacks to undermine their work, while ignoring the possibility that they may have valid concerns or suggestions.
They emphasize the vocal supporters and courageous partners who believe in their platform and the meaningful work they are doing, which may be a biased and selective representation of their user base and stakeholders.
They assert that no critic will ever deter them from their mission to protect free speech, which may be a sign of stubbornness and unwillingness to listen and improve.
They appeal to the emotions and values of their employees and express their pride and solidarity with them, which may be a way of manipulating them to stay loyal and motivated.
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A lot of Musk’s rapid descent into far right tropes is explained by the fact that he grew up a wealthy white man in apartheid South Africa
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Crawling out.
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And chose to move out after South Africa achieved freedom.
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It also sounds that he internalised a lot of the beliefs of his Canadian-American maternal grandfather, Joshua Elon Haldeman. From Wikipedia [my comments in brackets]:
Haldeman was a member of the Social Credit Party of Canada [a conservative-leaning, evangelical-influenced, populist party], possessed antisemitic beliefs [Social Credit openly espoused such views before the war], and supported the Technocracy movement [which holds that engineers should rule society]
Throw in the privileged upbringing in South Africa (his family was anti-apartheid but like any affluent white family there at the time still benefited from it despite their opposition) and, yeah, this is what you get.
A couple of years before. In part (according to him) because he didn’t want to serve in an army that enforced the apartheid regime, but just as much (I suspect) because he had other things he wanted to do besides mandatory military service and had the additional privilege of being able to move to Canada (with the U.S. his ultimate destination).
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