Elon Musk $41B offer for Twitter
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Another view on the lawsuit Musk lost against CCDH who "highlight what a cesspool X has become under his ownership, "
"Elon styles himself as championing free speech. That’s only true if you define 'free speech' to mean 'allowing the right wing to take over your platform & turn it into a hellhole.' Actual free speech, however, means not suing orgs for doing reporting."
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/elon-musk-ccdh-lawsu...
"Elon styles himself as championing free speech. That’s only true if you define 'free speech' to mean 'allowing the right wing to take over your platform & turn it into a hellhole.' Actual free speech, however, means not suing orgs for doing reporting."
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/elon-musk-ccdh-lawsu...
Edited by Byker28i on Friday 29th March 06:53
Young men are tired of being sht on by society and are rejecting left wing ideological positions globally. X traffic is predominately young men it seems so I'm not surprised by the articles left wing wibble and crying over free speech being things they consider 'toxic'.
Edited by RichTT on Saturday 30th March 05:49
RichTT said:
Young men are tired of being sht on by society and are rejecting left wing ideological positions globally. X traffic is predominately young men it seems so I'm not surprised by the articles left wing wibble and crying over free speech being things they consider 'toxic'.
Ohh yeah. The famously oppressed ‘young men’ Edited by RichTT on Saturday 30th March 05:49
p1stonhead said:
Ohh yeah. The famously oppressed ‘young men’
The operative word there is young. Men and male Minorities are statistically the most marginalized and disadvantaged people in society. Constantly legislated against and pushed to the bottom of the pile. Failed entirely by the very programs that were supposed to help everyone. We are letting an entire generation of young men become angry and disenfranchised with the world they are growing up in.
https://equi-law.uk/ten-male-disadvantages/
https://www.wokefather.com/egalitarianism/men-not-...
RichTT said:
p1stonhead said:
Ohh yeah. The famously oppressed ‘young men’
The operative word there is young. Men and male Minorities are statistically the most marginalized and disadvantaged people in society. Constantly legislated against and pushed to the bottom of the pile. Failed entirely by the very programs that were supposed to help everyone. We are letting an entire generation of young men become angry and disenfranchised with the world they are growing up in.
https://equi-law.uk/ten-male-disadvantages/
https://www.wokefather.com/egalitarianism/men-not-...
I can’t imagine anything more pathetic than making that website. Absurd levels of incel energy
RichTT said:
Careful, your arrogant and vainglorious superiority complex is showing again.
You might stop to consider - what is the pathway to this swing to the right in young men?Might it be that easily manipulated young men are drawn towards the idea of them being victims to explain all their problems? And that social media platforms and personalities prey on that concept? and that graphs like yours are the result?
dobbo_ said:
You might stop to consider - what is the pathway to this swing to the right in young men?
Might it be that easily manipulated young men are drawn towards the idea of them being victims to explain all their problems? And that social media platforms and personalities prey on that concept? and that graphs like yours are the result?
Why are young men more easily manipulatable than young women in your view? Does the corollary hold?Might it be that easily manipulated young men are drawn towards the idea of them being victims to explain all their problems? And that social media platforms and personalities prey on that concept? and that graphs like yours are the result?
Why does the same viewpoint not hold true for the women that are now swing invariably to the hard left, and consume more social media content. Is it because the men are swinging towards conservative / Christian / traditional family values and rejecting certain notions that keep getting pushed on us by the establishment to their detriment? Ergo, "toxic".
"female users between 16 and 24 years of age spend an average of two hours and 59 minutes on social media every day. In comparison, their male counterparts spend two hours and 32 minutes—27 minutes less."
https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-glob...
dobbo_ said:
You might stop to consider - what is the pathway to this swing to the right in young men?
Might it be that easily manipulated young men are drawn towards the idea of them being victims to explain all their problems? And that social media platforms and personalities prey on that concept? and that graphs like yours are the result?
Young men are consistently seeing themselves being criticised and attacked in the media as dangerous, incapable and the route of societies ills. They are being drawn in by people offering them something else other than constant criticism for things they are not responsible for, and at the same time being failed in many areas, physical and mental health, education, employment opportunities. Of course when someone comes along and gives them a more positive message they are drawn to it. Exactly the same way cults and terror groups have always recruited.Might it be that easily manipulated young men are drawn towards the idea of them being victims to explain all their problems? And that social media platforms and personalities prey on that concept? and that graphs like yours are the result?
Yes, stopping the supply side is part of it, but stopping the demand side is also important.
Electro1980 said:
dobbo_ said:
You might stop to consider - what is the pathway to this swing to the right in young men?
Might it be that easily manipulated young men are drawn towards the idea of them being victims to explain all their problems? And that social media platforms and personalities prey on that concept? and that graphs like yours are the result?
Young men are consistently seeing themselves being criticised and attacked in the media as dangerous, incapable and the route of societies ills. They are being drawn in by people offering them something else other than constant criticism for things they are not responsible for, and at the same time being failed in many areas, physical and mental health, education, employment opportunities. Of course when someone comes along and gives them a more positive message they are drawn to it. Exactly the same way cults and terror groups have always recruited.Might it be that easily manipulated young men are drawn towards the idea of them being victims to explain all their problems? And that social media platforms and personalities prey on that concept? and that graphs like yours are the result?
Yes, stopping the supply side is part of it, but stopping the demand side is also important.
There has been a huge cultural liberalisation across the political spectrum over the last 40 years, and a blurring of the distinction between political "Conservatives" and political liberals. For example, I would see myself as a liberal from a social perspective and a conservative in terms of fiscal policies. Many will have a similar dilemma with over-simplistic categorisation.
I suspect those charts were produced as "evidence" to support some underlying thesis the journalist wanted to write about. But I think they should be treated with some caution.
EddieSteadyGo said:
I suspect those charts were produced as "evidence" to support some underlying thesis the journalist wanted to write about. But I think they should be treated with some caution.
https://www.ft.com/content/29fd9b5c-2f35-41bf-9d4c-994db4e12998 - take from the FT article what you will. Interesting thread here: https://x.com/Andercot/status/1774175317294473539?...
TLDR: "The issue is that the advertising revenue model fundamentally drives a race to the bottom in hacking dopamine, while favoring content that can be digestible to the largest number of people. Clickbait for the lowest common denominator.
The McKinsey-ification of Industry and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human species. A complete Balkanization of civil society"
edit: For the record, I too was liberal. Live and let live. But the more I see of the liberal / socialist left, the more I realise what an absolute disaster we are running towards at full pelt. The Overton window has shifted so far that I am politically homeless. It is a battle between collectivists (both left and right) and individualists. The left are now the statists and walking us towards nineteen eighty four.
Edited by RichTT on Sunday 31st March 09:15
RichTT said:
EddieSteadyGo said:
That's what the person who wants to criticise it is claiming. Much more likely to be related to the number of paid 'blue ticks' who follow a particular person.
Possibly, depends if they are conflating subscriber/followerOliver Alexander knows that of course, but he prefers to misrepresent it so he can get a few more "likes".
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