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Holman wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 5:48 pm https://twitter.com/ch_uff/status/17592 ... 57060?s=20

(It's also true. Footage from Musk's border trip a few months back shows him wearing his new cowboy hat backwards.)

Jaymann wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:48 pm I wonder if Musk saw that the border is not quite the shit show the Banana Republicans are making it out to be.

Alefroth wrote: Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:10 pm https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-f ... -elon-musk

Holman wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:25 pm

Holman wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 5:48 pm https://twitter.com/ch_uff/status/17592 ... 57060?s=20

(It's also true. Footage from Musk's border trip a few months back shows him wearing his new cowboy hat backwards.)

Apparently Liam Nissan also somehow figured out that one of Musk's most fervent disciples was actually a Musk sock-puppet account. Maybe some others as well.

This may actually have been the bannable offense.

LawBeefaroni wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:42 pm Hey, look, Musk's sockpuppet calling in to Alex Jone's Infowars.


(Last 25 mins or so - this isn't a link to Infowars but a podcast about Infowars/Alex Jones)

“We’re sad that it’s come to this with someone whom we’ve deeply admired—someone who inspired us to aim higher, then told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then sued us when we started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI’s mission without him,” the company said in its blog post.

Donald Trump has sued two co-founders of his newly public Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., claiming they set the company up improperly and shouldn’t get any stock in it.

In the latest legal skirmish over who gets how much of the hot but flailing meme stock, Trump alleges that Andy Litinsky and Wes Moss violated an agreement about the setup and don’t deserve their 8.6% stake, currently valued at $606 million.

The lawsuit, which was filed on March 24 in Florida state court and hasn’t previously been reported, comes after the pair brought their own suit against the former president in Delaware Chancery Court over their promised stake in the the social media company.
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Trump claims Litinsky and Moss failed to properly set up the corporate governance structure of Trump Media, launch his Truth Social platform and find an appropriate merger partner. That failure hurt the company, he argues. He says they then “began ceaseless attempts to thwart” the blank check deal in the struggle for their respective stakes. In their own suit, the two say Trump was planning to seek millions of extra shares, diluting their stake.
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The Delaware judge, Sam Glasscock III, declined to fast-track Litinsky and Moss’s suit after Trump’s lawyers agreed to avoid lessening the value of their shares. But at a hearing Monday the pair told the judge they plan to seek an order barring the Florida suit from going forward while they litigate claims that Trump planned to target their stake all along.

The judge said he was “gobsmacked” to learn of Trump’s Florida suit — which he filed instead of bringing counterclaims against the two in Glasscock’s own courtroom — and would consider possible sanctions against the former president in the Delaware case.

Jaymann wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:39 pm The leopard would never rip my face.

LordMortis wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2024 12:21 pm Without judgement on Brazil, per se, I do have to wonder why he would shut down X in Brazil but cave to government pressures in China. I wonder what the difference between the two nations is.

Alefroth wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:54 pm "It is not an exaggeration to say that Brazil is on the brink of dictatorship at the hands of a totalitarian Supreme Court Justice named Alexandre de Moraes."

It certainly seems like an exaggeration. This guy was also involved in the Twitter Files.

Zarathud wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:03 pm Apparently the Texas attorney who beat Alex Jones just deposed Musk, whose lawyer screwed up so it’s not sealed. Absolute shit-show I’ve heard.

"An Australian judge on Monday ruled that social media platform X must block every user in the world from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church, extending the prohibition beyond users in Australia," noted the AP.

"Our concern is that if ANY country is allowed to censor content for ALL countries, which is what the Australian 'eSafety Commissar' is demanding, then what is to stop any country from controlling the entire Internet?" responded X owner Elon Musk. "We have already censored the content in question for Australia, pending legal appeal, and it is stored only on servers in the USA."

Moliere wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:46 pm I know this is the "I hate Elon" thread, but unfortunately he did another good thing

Our concern is that if any COUNTRY is allowed to censor content for all countries

LordMortis wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:57 pm

Our concern is that if any COUNTRY is allowed to censor content for all countries

Because he is very much about independent billionaire interests controlling the flow of content.

Moliere wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:19 pm

LordMortis wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:57 pm

Our concern is that if any COUNTRY is allowed to censor content for all countries

Because he is very much about independent billionaire interests controlling the flow of content.

What other reference besides "country" is he supposed to use? Why does Australia think they can censor U.S. speech? There should be an uproar at the very suggestion, instead we get independent billionaire just wants to control the flow of content. I am more worried about billionaires working with the government to control the flow of data. No concern about Google, FB, et al falling in line?

LordMortis wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:26 pm

Moliere wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:19 pm

LordMortis wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:57 pm

Our concern is that if any COUNTRY is allowed to censor content for all countries

Because he is very much about independent billionaire interests controlling the flow of content.

What other reference besides "country" is he supposed to use? Why does Australia think they can censor U.S. speech? There should be an uproar at the very suggestion, instead we get independent billionaire just wants to control the flow of content. I am more worried about billionaires working with the government to control the flow of data. No concern about Google, FB, et al falling in line?

He had to bold any to call attention to the idea that nations shouldn't control the flow of information on app, while he has been using his app to control the flow of information after saying he needed to save the "public square."

YellowKing wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:24 pm You guys are crazy if you think Elon is against this for the same reason you and I are against it. His history has more than proven that his crusade for "free speech" only applies to things he agrees with. Everyone else he'll ban, censor, or paywall out of existence. He sees someone else trying to encroach on his control. He's "right" only in that his thirst for power happened to intersect with our thirst for freedom of information.

YellowKing wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:24 pm You guys are crazy if you think Elon is against this for the same reason you and I are against it. His history has more than proven that his crusade for "free speech" only applies to things he agrees with. Everyone else he'll ban, censor, or paywall out of existence. He sees someone else trying to encroach on his control. He's "right" only in that his thirst for power happened to intersect with our thirst for freedom of information.

Holman wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:50 pm You do know why we hate Elon, right?

Alefroth wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:01 pm

YellowKing wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:24 pm You guys are crazy if you think Elon is against this for the same reason you and I are against it. His history has more than proven that his crusade for "free speech" only applies to things he agrees with. Everyone else he'll ban, censor, or paywall out of existence. He sees someone else trying to encroach on his control. He's "right" only in that his thirst for power happened to intersect with our thirst for freedom of information.

I don't think he cares Musk did the right thing for the wrong reason, he just needs to show Musk did something right.

Holman wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:50 pm You do know why we hate Elon, right?

Moliere wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:36 pm

Alefroth wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:01 pm

YellowKing wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:24 pm You guys are crazy if you think Elon is against this for the same reason you and I are against it. His history has more than proven that his crusade for "free speech" only applies to things he agrees with. Everyone else he'll ban, censor, or paywall out of existence. He sees someone else trying to encroach on his control. He's "right" only in that his thirst for power happened to intersect with our thirst for freedom of information.

I don't think he cares Musk did the right thing for the wrong reason, he just needs to show Musk did something right.

I don't think you care Musk did the right thing, unless you can spin it to a cynical reason.

Moliere wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:46 pm I know this is the "I hate Elon" thread, but unfortunately he did another good thing in standing up to Australia trying to censor the entire world's online content.

GreenGoo wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:16 pm I feel like we have more than just this thread to hate Musk with? It's hard to contain all the hate he generates in a single thread.

Moliere wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:36 pm

Alefroth wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:01 pm

YellowKing wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:24 pm You guys are crazy if you think Elon is against this for the same reason you and I are against it. His history has more than proven that his crusade for "free speech" only applies to things he agrees with. Everyone else he'll ban, censor, or paywall out of existence. He sees someone else trying to encroach on his control. He's "right" only in that his thirst for power happened to intersect with our thirst for freedom of information.

I don't think he cares Musk did the right thing for the wrong reason, he just needs to show Musk did something right.

I don't think you care Musk did the right thing, unless you can spin it to a cynical reason.

Bring Nick Fuentes back on Twitter

@NickJFuentes

He has been banned since 2021, what happened to your promise big guy?

Very well, he will be reinstated, provided he does not violate the law, and let him be crushed by the comments and Community Notes.

It is better to have anti whatever out in the open to be rebutted than grow simmering in the darkness.