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seems like tony was right.

As @bariweiss clearly describes, the rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/...dqXlrCzig&s=19
Just another nothingburger

Nothing to see here, just Twitter suppressing accounts due to politics its management didn't agree with, banning accounts which hadn't broken any rules and then lying about doing so.

At least the BBC have a story on Twitter based on nothing more than the word of some former disgruntled employees. MSM in the mud.

Fired Twitter cleaning staff 'treated like garbage'

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63912116
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Just another nothingburger

Nothing to see here, just Twitter suppressing accounts due to politics its management didn't agree with, banning accounts which hadn't broken any rules and then lying about doing so.

At least the BBC have a story on Twitter based on nothing more than the word of some former disgruntled employees. MSM in the mud.

Fired Twitter cleaning staff 'treated like garbage'

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63912116
Your BBC quote was incomplete, here is the full quote "A California state senator said Mr Musk was treating the former staff "like garbage"."

I agree with you that Elon's behaviour is appalling.
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Your BBC quote was incomplete, here is the full quote "A California state senator said Mr Musk was treating the former staff "like garbage"."

I agree with you that Elon's behaviour is appalling.
Exactly my point. If key bits of information are omitted, it can follow any narrative it likes.
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The usual statistics quoted for intrasexual babies born with both male and female sex organs are around two in ten thousand so with a world population of around eight billion there are millions of them.
Yes but my point was that there may be very few known cases when intersex persons can get pregnant because they would need a fully functioning set of reproductive female organs whereas most intersex persons have incomplete reproductive organs and a pregnancy would be extremely rare. In fact most if not all have troubles conceiving. Moreover, not all of them identify as a transgender and are willing to undergo surgeries, hormonal therapies etc albeit there's a medical bias that pushes them towards this course of action....until very recently, surgeries were being done during very early infancy, which means they basically had someone else decide what or who they are. Again, it's an extremely rare condition/spectrum ("disorder of sex development") according to the sources I have read but maybe you know more about this subject, I was never really interested in it.
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Old 11.12.2022, 18:00
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Elon Musk - the world's richest troll.
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Old 11.12.2022, 18:13
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Yes but my point was that there may be very few known cases when intersex persons can get pregnant because they would need a fully functioning set of reproductive female organs whereas most intersex persons have incomplete reproductive organs and a pregnancy would be extremely rare. In fact most if not all have troubles conceiving. Moreover, not all of them identify as a transgender and are willing to undergo surgeries, hormonal therapies etc albeit there's a medical bias that pushes them towards this course of action....until very recently, surgeries were being done during very early infancy, which means they basically had someone else decide what or who they are. Again, it's an extremely rare condition/spectrum ("disorder of sex development") according to the sources I have read but maybe you know more about this subject, I was never really interested in it.
"Rare" is not the same as "does not happen".

Winning the lottery is also rare but many millions buy tickets.

Actually, it is not a subject I know more about. I simply stated the fact that there is a narrow biological border between human males and females and posted some scientific articles on that topic.
That triggered an avalanche of unscientific claptrap.

Anyway back to Elon, now Tesla shares have fallen to half their recent price (apparently due to a loss of investor confidence in Elon due to his Twitter mess) he is close to losing his title of the world's richest man.

Elon Musk’s Twitter Plans Show He’s Lost Focus on What Got Him This Far

Edit: In a phrase I rather like; Time says Elon's Twitter adventure is his "Russian Campaign"
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Actually, it is not a subject I know more about. I simply stated the fact that there is a narrow biological border between human males and females and posted some scientific articles on that topic.
That triggered an avalanche of unscientific claptrap.
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What really happened is Vushka trolled us again...
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What really happened is Vushka trolled us again...
That clever Russian dumpling.
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Old 11.12.2022, 22:48
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Re: Cancel Culture

It's like Elon Musk is losing his mind in front of all the world to see...

He must have either changed his meds or needs to. I guess he recently tweeted a photo of his bedside table with guns on it and many empty cans of Coca cola.

I remember reading not long ago that he said he gets very little sleep. I think it's showing, and when people go for a while with sleep deprivation, their neurotransmitters build up, essentially causing cognitive impairments and brain damage.

He needs to step away from the Twitter and get more sleep and stop behaving like an attention-starved teenager.
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Old 12.12.2022, 00:38
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It's like Elon Musk is losing his mind in front of all the world to see...

He must have either changed his meds or needs to. I guess he recently tweeted a photo of his bedside table with guns on it and many empty cans of Coca cola.

I remember reading not long ago that he said he gets very little sleep. I think it's showing, and when people go for a while with sleep deprivation, their neurotransmitters build up, essentially causing cognitive impairments and brain damage.

He needs to step away from the Twitter and get more sleep and stop behaving like an attention-starved teenager.
Seems you are correct, he is now calling on Twitter for Fauci to be prosecuted.

One of many replies;
"“Dr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness & many contributions to public health
Despite your business success, you will be remembered most for fueling public hate & divisions.
You may have money, but you have no class,” Former CIA Director John Brennan said. "

Edit: Why is America unique in attacking their medical advisers and not the people who made the decisions which they do not agree with?

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Old 12.12.2022, 09:59
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Re: Cancel Culture

Part 3 and 4 of the Twitter Files dropped over the weekend.

Part 3 focused on censorship of the then President in the run up to the 2020 election (also known as interference). As well as dodgy interactions with government agencies.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281

Part 4 told us how Twitter tried to change their own rules then started making things up as they went along in order to ban President Trump.

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/...20455005511680

All this does is just confirm what people like me have accepted for a long time. It's also safe to assume that the same is going on at Google/Youtube and Facebook.

It's quite telling that this largely isn't being reported on the MSM. Almost as if by collaborating in remaining silent means this story won't get credibility. Ironic thinking back to the time between 2016 to 2020 when the MSM would jump at the tiniest story, true or not, on Russian election interference.

At least now there are signs that this story just can't be ignored any longer. Whether it changes anything remains to be seen. Remarkable to think Elon Musk has done more to expose this imbalance in a couple of months than the GOP has ever done.

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One assumes this relates to the next load of files which will detail the level of collaboration between Government and social media to silence dissenting voices (especially scientists who questioned the whole Covid narrative). Or perhaps it's related to Dr Fauci's alleged involvement in Gain of Function research. Either way, Dr Fauci ain't no saint.
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Old 12.12.2022, 10:49
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Re: Cancel Culture

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There is a lack of evidence in the "Twitter files", despite the huge volume of information provided to the authors there are no links to documents or emails proving their sensational claims.
It is all a web of dubious allegations which amplify the hate and divisions in American society.

Elon's dream of supporting free speech has descended into an alt-right rumour shop, how sad
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Either way, Dr Fauci ain't no saint.
Saint or not, he simply has been an adviser to the decision makers. Be that Trump during 2020 or Biden from 2021 onwards.

Either way, Elon Musk has fully become a right-wing troll, and any potentially important revelations about questionable Twitter behavior are totally compromised by Elon behaving like a MAGA activist.
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It's like Elon Musk is losing his mind in front of all the world to see...

He must have either changed his meds or needs to. I guess he recently tweeted a photo of his bedside table with guns on it and many empty cans of Coca cola.

I remember reading not long ago that he said he gets very little sleep. I think it's showing, and when people go for a while with sleep deprivation, their neurotransmitters build up, essentially causing cognitive impairments and brain damage.

He needs to step away from the Twitter and get more sleep and stop behaving like an attention-starved teenager.
Or maybe it's a carefully crafted persona in order to get a good baseline following.

He's basically the same as any old social media influencer; pitching at the low-hanging fruit.
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I remember reading not long ago that he said he gets very little sleep. I think it's showing, and when people go for a while with sleep deprivation, their neurotransmitters build up, essentially causing cognitive impairments and brain damage.
Pills to wake up and pills to go to sleep at will. There are plenty of stories where the outcome is erratic behavior and untimely death.
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Or maybe it's a carefully crafted persona in order to get a good baseline following.

He's basically the same as any old social media influencer; pitching at the low-hanging fruit.
Agreed but unlikely to cause a mass return of advertisers.
The new "blue tick" program will likely drive more advertisers away like Eli Lilly after a fake blue tick account knocked billions off their share value.

Possibly much of his recent erratic behaviour is driven by the value of his hobby $44B purchase collapsing.
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Possibly much of his recent erratic behaviour is driven by the value of his hobby $44B purchase collapsing.
That's why I think he's going all in to drum up as many base supporters as possible. Going by his dog-whistle style tweets he knows how to bait and manipulate the right people (why even bring in pronouns when tweeting about Fauci, unless you are maximising the manipulation of those that love a bit of pronoun-bashing?).

He's a total clown but it's quite funny watching it all.
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Covid19 expert, Dr. Musk:

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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/...9SfTPwFzHwm8XQ

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Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/...9SfTPwFzHwm8XQ

Well, I'm just waiting for the first Black Rifle Coffee Company promoted tweet to be displayed in my phone
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Elon blamed the Trump administration for helping Biden

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Replying to @hodgetwins and @micsolana

Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is

2:36 AM · Dec 3, 2022

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That's why I think he's going all in to drum up as many base supporters as possible. Going by his dog-whistle style tweets he knows how to bait and manipulate the right people (why even bring in pronouns when tweeting about Fauci, unless you are maximising the manipulation of those that love a bit of pronoun-bashing?).

He's a total clown but it's quite funny watching it all.
There are various numbers floating around but most show around 400 million Twitter users today. There are at most a few million alt-right users of other right-wing orientated social media (Parler, Gab, Truth Social). Likely most have kept their Twitter accounts for non right-wing contacts so even if all those who deleted accounts came back it would not make a big impact on the total activity.
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