• Human Crayon@sh.itjust.works
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        25 days ago

        I would laugh if Dorsey bought it back for pennies on the dollar and turned it right back into what it was before. Playing the long game.

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      26 days ago

      Please, please, sue the World Bank Mr. Musk. I am so sure that will go well, and totally won’t result in anything bad for all of your massively debt financed businesses.

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    25 days ago

    That tweet is so racist that I’m surprised Elon didn’t tweet a thinking face emoji reacting to it.

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    Hmmm. Which organization actually empowers the march to fascism globally more? The neo liberal loan sharks or digital Der Stürmer.

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      25 days ago

      Trust us, we are printing all this money for your own good.

      Your. Own. Good.

      Something like that I assume.

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        The world bank isn’t involved so much in printing money - that’s central banks like the US Federal Reserve or European Central Bank.

        They do love to force developing nations to adopt US-style capitalism by withholding loans for needed development projects. They also focus far too much on increasing GDP at all costs and do not give really any weight to increasing living standards or reducing inequality. Basically, think loans to institute Reaganomics and you won’t be too far off.

        The loans pay for large capital projects (power plants, large-scale irrigation, etc) that are built by the state and then mandated to he handed over to private entities that then charge rents and extract wealth. Not every loan and program is bad, but there’s plenty to give pause when they are involved in a project.

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          lol who would downvote this?

          The - I’m pro World Bank and I’m on Lemmy guy?

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          This is also the way of the UN in general oftentimes. Trump’s PPP plan came right from the UN playbook with a few tweaks so that even more of his pals could get money.

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    Who would have guessed that a social media platform owned by an apartheid-loving fascist would trend right wing? I mean, Musk is such a stable genius.

    /s just in case.

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      And all he had to do was act like he wanted to back track on the offer and the courts forced the sale through quickly rather than slow things down and consider whether social media should even be a privately owned thing run at the whims of a guy that used that same platform to try to ruin someone’s life with a baseless pedophilia accusation because they hurt he’s feelings when telling him his sub idea wouldn’t work and he was just getting in the way rather than helping anything.

      I just wonder if the courts fell for his ploy or if they just played the part they were supposed to and the whole thing was an act.

      Also, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that he spent 44 billion on Twitter and then, after pretty much ruining it, for some reason Tesla shareholders (which are majority institutional shareholders) vote through a 50 billion compensation package for him.

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    I love how, despite Musk’s best efforts, 3/4 of the internet still calls the site Twitter.

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      “They call it deadnaming because it’s dead. My [Twitter] is dead.”

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      We were going to keep calling it Twitter no matter what, but it feels even better knowing how much he loves deadnaming.

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      25 days ago

      I also like Xitter, because in my head that can only be pronounced Shitter, which is a good name for it.

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      Because just saying X is dumb and will always be dumb. Twitter was so popular at one point, it ingrained itself to where everyone said ‘I’m tweeting on twitter’.

      Do you see anyone but shills say “I’m X’ing on X?” No, because it’s dumb as fuck to be saying that.

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    Am i the only one confused about what they thought would happen? Have they not been following the news about twitter for the past year or so? Or were they fine with twitter being covered in nazi stuff until their ad appeared next to one and someone notified them?