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Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Jim Logajan on May 11, 2023, 07:45:06 PM
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Musk was silent on the person's name. The WSJ claims, as an inside scoop, that Linda Yaccarino is in discussion for the position. I did a quick search and found that she had interviewed Musk just a few weeks ago:
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I'd prefer Jennifer Sey.
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https://twitter.com/USMiniTru/status/1656994086165815297?s=20
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https://twitter.com/USMiniTru/status/1656994086165815297?s=20
Musk is still the owner and boss. Realistically she’s only being brought on to bring in advertising dough.
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Oh Lord.
https://rumble.com/v2ndld2-will-twitter-get-its-own-susan-wojciki-style-girlboss-in-linda-yaccarino.html
“Girl bosses are usually a bad idea in a corporate structure.”
Bwahahahahaha! I love Styx.
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https://twitter.com/Styx666Official/status/1657064920226070545
There goes Twitter. >:(
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https://twitter.com/Styx666Official/status/1657064920226070545
There goes Twitter. >:(
Does that guy have any credentials that I should know about that elevate his opinions over my own analysis?
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https://twitter.com/Styx666Official/status/1657064920226070545
There goes Twitter. >:(
World Economic Forum? The Nazi one? WTF?
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Does that guy have any credentials that I should know about that elevate his opinions over my own analysis?
His and apparently everyone else on Twitter. Or at least 92+ percent of them.
https://twitter.com/Rhami4k/status/1657005356604698625
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https://www.outkick.com/new-twitter-ceo-linda-yaccarino-is-a-vaccine-pushing-pro-mask-wearing-wef-globalist/
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657106200075599874
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Musk has a blind spot when it comes to women.
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https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1657135080630779905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Escreen-name%3Acatturd2%7Ctwcon%5Es1
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https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1656932123411116032
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His and apparently everyone else on Twitter. Or at least 92+ percent of them.
https://twitter.com/Rhami4k/status/1657005356604698625
The day I start letting others do my thinking for me.... You can guess the rest.
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I knew it was too good to be true. Elon Musk outed the federal agencies’ outright interference in the 2020 election by suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story, and embarrassed them by publicizing all their meddling in social media. And he turned Twitter into a free speech platform, the only major one they could no longer control. They weren’t going to let that stand. I’ve been expecting them to make a move and this is it. I agree with this guy:
https://twitter.com/dkmr2008/status/1656934485831876608
Well, girl, I guess. I had thought the same thing myself. They can’t outright kill Musk, it would be too obvious. They had to get him under control. He has like ten children and he loves them. I bet they suggested one or more of his kids might have an unfortunate accident if he didn’t hire a person they picked.
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The day I start letting others do my thinking for me.... You can guess the rest.
Are you suggesting I don’t think for myself and blindly follow the majority on Twitter polls?
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https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1656932123411116032
Anyone that describes themselves as a "philanthropist"......
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Are you suggesting I don’t think for myself and blindly follow the majority on Twitter polls?
I could only assume the reason you posted that link was you expected ME to be swayed by it.
Look, of all the countries in the world to choose from Musk chose the U.S. to pursue his goals. And despite making a fortune in the U.S. he had a massive factory built in communist China. Did he do it because he was a commie, or wanted to become one, or has he been secretly compromised because of that? Negative. This despite the fact that he has not criticized the Chinese government for anything, unlike criticism he made of the U.S. governments (such as during the Covid lockdowns in California.) He seems to make pragmatic decisions where he can and rarely fights battles against implacable foes. He just takes advantage of them.
So just as he uses the Chinese market as means to his ends, he'll use the advertising exec as CEO of twitter as a means to his ends. I assume that, although there are other people with equity stakes in Twitter, he holds a majority position. It's his baby even more so than Tesla or SpaceX or the Boring Company and so on.
Musk is currently laboring under a deal he had to make with SEC where a lawyer has to oversee his tweets regarding Tesla. He has sued to get it undone. I suspect there is nothing like being a victim of censorship to instill a lesson.
Bottom line: I think everyone going ape shit over his choice are over reacting. And non-liberal twitter users who are considering taking their marbles and leaving twitter are as emotionally overwrought as the liberals who engage in similar antics (though the liberals go the extra mile to get such venues shut down.) Why not wait and see what transpires instead of assuming the worst?
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I could only assume the reason you posted that link was you expected ME to be swayed by it.
Look, of all the countries in the world to choose from Musk chose the U.S. to pursue his goals. And despite making a fortune in the U.S. he had a massive factory built in communist China. Did he do it because he was a commie, or wanted to become one, or has he been secretly compromised because of that? Negative. This despite the fact that he has not criticized the Chinese government for anything, unlike criticism he made of the U.S. governments (such as during the Covid lockdowns in California.) He seems to make pragmatic decisions where he can and rarely fights battles against implacable foes. He just takes advantage of them.
So just as he uses the Chinese market as means to his ends, he'll use the advertising exec as CEO of twitter as a means to his ends. I assume that, although there are other people with equity stakes in Twitter, he holds a majority position. It's his baby even more so than Tesla or SpaceX or the Boring Company and so on.
Musk is currently laboring under a deal he had to make with SEC where a lawyer has to oversee his tweets regarding Tesla. He has sued to get it undone. I suspect there is nothing like being a victim of censorship to instill a lesson.
Bottom line: I think everyone going ape shit over his choice are over reacting. And non-liberal twitter users who are considering taking their marbles and leaving twitter are as emotionally overwrought as the liberals who engage in similar antics (though the liberals go the extra mile to get such venues shut down.) Why not wait and see what transpires instead of assuming the worst?
So you are saying everybody is being too black pilled about it. Fair enough. And also fair enough to wait and see what happens. Here’s the test I’ll wait for. As the 2024 election nears I’ll be on the lookout for any hint of shenanigans like Twitter 1.0 did before 2020. Stories being ghosted, fact checking starting to look biased to the left, certain accounts seeming to not show up. If I stop seeing anything from say, Catturd, that’s a sign that the “reach” they talked about in your video is being managed asymmetrically.
Here’s the thing. Musk is out to make a profit. He can’t keep Twitter unless he does. His discomfort treading the fine line between free speech and keeping the advertisers happy was palpable. The elephant in the room was the distinction between “reach”, in service of keeping the audience comfortable, and outright censorship. How they danced around that! To the extent corporations that want to advertise on Twitter are “woke”, and it seems most of them are, is the extent Musk will be pressured to tweak algorithms to deny the “megaphone” to people they don’t like.
But we’ll see what happens, I won’t take my marbles and leave. Yet.
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Rush, understand and agree with your view. In retrospect polls always provide some useful data and that was your intent.
Since Musk unbanned Trump from Twitter when he needed advertisers it is hard to tell what lesson he took from that. He still seems adamant on preserving free-as-possible speech on Twitter I think he'll keep the CEO on a short leash. He's retained all the operational control titles to himself anyway.
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Musk has a blind spot when it comes to women.
Gwynne Shotwell was critical to getting SpaceX to where it is today so I don't think his judgement is that blind.
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Gwynne Shotwell was critical to getting SpaceX to where it is today so I don't think his judgement is that blind.
Maybe I was giving too much weight to his thing with Amber Heard. ;D
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Rush, understand and agree with your view. In retrospect polls always provide some useful data and that was your intent.
Since Musk unbanned Trump from Twitter when he needed advertisers it is hard to tell what lesson he took from that. He still seems adamant on preserving free-as-possible speech on Twitter I think he'll keep the CEO on a short leash. He's retained all the operational control titles to himself anyway.
Well I hope he does. And I hope nobody threatened his kids. I’m getting too cynical in my elderliness.
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Well I hope he does. And I hope nobody threatened his kids. I’m getting too cynical in my elderliness.
I thought you were born the same year I was and I'm not elderly. Just well seasoned. ;)
Ah, a quick search and I found where you (and Becky and some others) admitted to their birth year:
http://www.pilotspin.com/index.php?topic=2161.msg39064#msg39064 (http://www.pilotspin.com/index.php?topic=2161.msg39064#msg39064)
Cynicism is useful when applied in moderation, IMHO.
Back to Musk: he has said several times that he envisions direct democracy for any Martian colony, cutting out the middleman of legislators. I see that as a good sign of not repeating old mistakes. A friend and I had once discussed the technical details of implementation of a direct democracy using modern encryption and authentication techniques. The number of attack vectors probably can be reduced to much less than exists in current systems.
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I thought you were born the same year I was and I'm not elderly. Just well seasoned. ;)
Ah, a quick search and I found where you (and Becky and some others) admitted to their birth year:
http://www.pilotspin.com/index.php?topic=2161.msg39064#msg39064 (http://www.pilotspin.com/index.php?topic=2161.msg39064#msg39064)
Cynicism is useful when applied in moderation, IMHO.
Back to Musk: he has said several times that he envisions direct democracy for any Martian colony, cutting out the middleman of legislators. I see that as a good sign of not repeating old mistakes. A friend and I had once discussed the technical details of implementation of a direct democracy using modern encryption and authentication techniques. The number of attack vectors probably can be reduced to much less than exists in current systems.
Wow, blast from the past. Invflatspin was also born in 1956. I wish he would come back.
Direct democracy? I always thought that was a bad thing.
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Wow, y'all make me feel really old. One of my bosses, Nolan Bushnell, had a bit to do with Pong. First real video game. Tested out in a local bar. There's a story about that.
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I'm willing to wait and see on this.
Hard to imagine EM giving up control. He has a vision for twitter to grow substantially from it's present form and into several forms of media.
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I'm willing to wait and see on this.
Hard to imagine EM giving up control. He has a vision for twitter to grow substantially from it's present form and into several forms of media.
Did you hear how he was saying he wants Twitter to be a platform for encrypted communication between private parties? Where even Twitter can’t see what you’re saying? That would be great however it needs to be zero knowledge, iow Twitter does not have the key and therefore cannot turn over your data even if LE gets a warrant. I wonder how far into that he’ll go?
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Did you hear how he was saying he wants Twitter to be a platform for encrypted communication between private parties? Where even Twitter can’t see what you’re saying? That would be great however it needs to be zero knowledge, iow Twitter does not have the key and therefore cannot turn over your data even if LE gets a warrant. I wonder how far into that he’ll go?
He's on the right path to turn twitter into a media powerhouse. The MSM is now controlled by the state, and is dying. I believe EM sees a potential in that people really want a free and open platform, and he can expand into every aspect of media.
And there will be obvious growing pains and corrections.
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He's on the right path to turn twitter into a media powerhouse. The MSM is now controlled by the state, and is dying. I believe EM sees a potential in that people really want a free and open platform, and he can expand into every aspect of media.
And there will be obvious growing pains and corrections.
As long as he keeps his “free speech absolutism” first and foremost. Maybe, like Trump, he is so rich he can’t be bought off. But he can still be threatened. I don’t put that past the psychopaths running the establishment one bit.
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Direct democracy? I always thought that was a bad thing.
It is a bad thing.
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It is a bad thing.
Very bad.
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We have gone from a Constitutional Republic, to a democracy and now to an authoritarian regime.
And most never noticed.
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We have gone from a Constitutional Republic, to a democracy and now to an authoritarian regime.
And most never noticed.
You would think that would prove that the republican form of government ultimately fails. The U.S. republican government lasted maybe 200 years while the Roman republican era lasted maybe 400 years. Ancient Greek city-state direct democracies seem to have lasted about 200 years.
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So far in history we haven't found a long lasting form of government.
Where we (the US) went wrong was the not defending the original intent of the constitution, career politicians, and ever expanding federal government and the ultimate nail in the coffin are the unelected bureaucratic class that runs our government, known as the "deep state".
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It’s probably not possible to have a sustainable free Republic. They are SO successful that the people get fat, dumb and complacent. They no longer have to worry about daily survival so they invent stupid stuff to grouse about. You called me by the wrong pronoun. You displayed a racist micro aggressive facial expression.
The country eats itself up from the inside over nonsense.
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When the elected figure out they have unfettered access to the treasury, and they can use that treasury to further their goals, the downward spiral begins.
Our country doesn't have a debt problem, we have a spending problem. And the UniParty has profited from it.
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So far in history we haven't found a long lasting form of government.
Yeah, people keep fucking it up.
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Yeah, people keep fucking it up.
Benjamin Franklin once said, in regards to the choice of the first president "The first man put at the helm will be a good one. Nobody knows what sort may come afterwards. The executive will be always increasing here, as elsewhere, till it ends in a monarchy.”
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Benjamin Franklin once said, in regards to the choice of the first president "The first man put at the helm will be a good one. Nobody knows what sort may come afterwards. The executive will be always increasing here, as elsewhere, till it ends in a monarchy.”
George Washington was happy to leave the presidency behind. He was abused and back stabbed by the opposition continuously.
GW was a good president, he was one that led the fight for independence and knew what it took to get to that point, and what was needed to maintain it.
This country has had election woes over it's course, but nothing as bad as 2020 in which an election was stolen in the middle of the night, and a failed demented puppet was installed as president. The stealing of the 2020 election has forever altered the course of the US and the chances of stopping the destruction grow less every day as long as our political class refuse to do anything to correct it.