The value of TSLA is more relevant to his debt financing than whether Twitter is operating or not.

They didn’t put new money into the purchase, they rolled their pre-existing shares over. Dorsey did the same FYI.

Y’all are giving this idiot waaaay too much credit when it comes to scheming behind the scenes. It was a really poorly thought out pump and dump, nothing more. There’s no big evil master plan; he’s just really that stupid, and rich enough to constantly fail upwards. With Xitter we’re just seeing his xitty ideas in their purest form, without the influence of the handlers he has to manage his bullxit at his other companies.

Although I have to say, the accidental brilliance of going with branding that’s so phonologically flexible is pretty fantastic, the jokes can write themselves now. But I doubt advertisers are going to appreciate the fact that their interactions on Xitter are colloquially becoming known as xcrements now…

I think it’s more along the lines of the “it’s a bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for 'em” sentiment

I mean… take your pick on who he hasn’t paid, there are pleeeeenty of examples out there. He even lost the ability to engage in arbitration over the unpaid severance because he didn’t pay the mediators lmfao. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=twitter+unpaid+bills

Serious question for you- why are you defending him? Like, the information demonstrating he’s kind of stupid and a terrible person is so easily available to you. At this point you have to actively work to remain ignorant of it, and his history of trying to claim accomplishments that aren’t his own. Why bother?

Red pill/blue pill was written as an analogy to the experience of trans people, as well. The ignorance with how they’ve co-opted the concept runs quite deep.

He literally fired the team in charge of that 😆

omg I COMPLETELY missed the user name and didn’t recognize who it was 🤣🤣🤣 thank you bahaha. I like you, Lemmy friend

Oh just stop with this nonsense. Your statement about “convoluting factors” demonstrates your complete and total ignorance of the strength and weight and sheer amount of evidence behind mRNA technology available at this point. Antivaxx talking points rely on these fundamental misunderstandings and ignorance, lmfao at your attempt to condescend to lay people in this way when you clearly don’t even know how RCTs are run or fundamentally work. There are actually decades of research behind this stuff at this point, this misinformation is tired and old. And so easily disproven by listening to people who understand the science, who work with the science, who have engaged with the evidence. And to pre-emptively rebuttal against the appeal to authority you might be chomping at the bit to make- being a pioneer a few decades ago in the field means nothing if you haven’t kept abreast to new discoveries, innovations, and evidence. I can just see you being “part of the community” as a lab manager or something, a pencil pusher at best, nothing more and certainly not someone with the training to understand the statements you’re making.

The fun part of this whole issue is that since SCOTUS has recently established people can bring forward made-up cases based on “what ifs” for violating fundamental rights and causing harm, someone in the US could plausibly sue people like you for the potential harm you may cause, because we’re talking not just about a mountain of biological and medical research, but an overwhelming amount of epidemiological data as well. Literal population-level bodies of evidence concerning how much harms views like yours have caused. Fun, eh?

Medical doctors who didn’t follow the evidence deserved to be spoken over and shut down by their peers. If you fail in your fundamental understanding of what your job is, the basic science behind medicine, you shouldn’t be practicing anymore.

And if we’re talking about comparisons to things like lobotomy, again, and I’ll say it slow for you so you can follow closely- The. Strength. Of. The. Evidence. Matters. When the evidence that lobotomy is incredibly harmful and not treating the issues it was purported to treat in any way became overwhelming, guess what? The standards changed. When the evidence is overwhelming yet you still cling to conspiracies, you deserve to be shut down, no one owes you a platform for your deceit and lies and misinformation.

I’m curious about this as well, because the lurkers in the montreal sub sure are quick to come out of the woodwork whenever the protest is mentioned. I can’t see how it’s not bots, but I’m curious about how that would work exactly and how you determine that

lpt- reuters only uses a soft paywall, you can bypass it pretty easily by opening articles in an incognito/private window