Oso planning to go pro
Yeah, this is the right-wing's hero, a guy that when disagreed with calls people pedophiles."We’ve discussed at some length in the past how there’s is a far-right alternative universe in which pedophilia and child sexual exploitation are not those actual things but cudgels to be used against political enemies, ‘globalists’ and anyone even proximate to supporting the rights of the LBGT community. This is the well spring of things like the ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy theory and much of what is now labeled Qanon.Roth stayed on during Musk’s early weeks at Twitter and Musk frequently put him forward to defend against claims he was opening the floodgates of hate on the platform. Roth was awesome. But then in recent days Roth took the fateful step of mildly criticizing Musk in public. Last night Musk retaliated by insinuating that Roth himself might be a pedophile and that that might explain Twitter’s purported laxity toward ‘groomers’ and pedophiles before he acquired the company.There’s really no limit to the levels of predation and malevolence Musk is capable of. This is simply an alternative ecosystem in which charges of pedophilia are merely cudgels in far right ideological combat. Musk actually notoriously did the same thing, though with less attention to a British caver in 2018 when the man had the temerity to decline Musk’s DYI submarine suggestion during the effort to save a group of Thai youths trapped in a flooded cave.Six weeks ago Musk’s Twitter takeover was still apparently about ‘free speech’ and the ‘woke mob’ and unbanning Donald Trump. In a period of about a week it’s become a kind of Lord of the Flies of pedophilia smears. These campaigns were dangerous and vile in the past. When they’re led by a guy with 120 million followers who owns the platform it’s a different matter entirely."Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TPM.
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You are more clever than resigning yourself to be just be a “reply guy”.
Is he though?
Eh, might as well let him go, he is literally a zero. Roqqet's posts are more interesting and valuable. He's the -4.0 replacement value player.
You posts seals, I post pig emojis. Usually two pigs, but maybe I'll spice it up for you.
Musk now taking down accounts that post the video of him getting booed at the Chappelle show last night.
Oops.Per the WSJ:"Earlier this month the New York Times reported that as of October, Twitter's roster of advertisers had fallen nearly 42% since May. Similarweb's data paint an even worse picture: Activity on Twitter's ad manager, a subdomain of Twitter's ad platform sites that specifically hosts those creating or monitoring ad campaigns, declined nearly 74% in October from a year earlier, according to the firm's data. In November, visits fell 85% on the same basis—the largest ad traffic decline since Twitter's change of hands."And:https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/1601970481325756416"The ads you see on Twitter, for the most part, are PI deals. PI means Per Inquiry. They are free ads, Twitter only earns revenue when people click to order the dumpling maker, shoehorn, or toothpaste squeezer. The lowest end advertising. What an embarrassment for Twitter and Musk"
To echo Rocky's post, why are folks linking to Twitter stories about how things are going badly for Twitter? Doesn't that only prove Twitter's ongoing importance? I'd love to see Twitter die on the vine, it's a social ill. But, sharing Twitter stories about Twitter's predicted demise seems to contradict the feast of schadenfreude people are having about it.