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Captain Wiggles

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14 minutes ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

Not 100 percent sure but I think all business loan internet is tax deductible because interest expense is an expense.

 

Musk won't be the person running Twitter tho? Isn't he keeping on the current CEO? If so the loan shouldn't be tax deductible since it'll be a private investment basically. 

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I don't think that the subset of people declaring they are leaving Twitter would account for the sudden, dramatic drop in numbers of followers of Dems - and the big upswing on the right.  Something else is happening, though nobody seems to know just yet what it is.

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1 hour ago, Captain Wiggles said:

 

Bots n Bots n Bots n Bots 

 

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lol that makes no sense despite how much you may want it to be true.  Nothing about Twitter's policies have changed, so why would there be more bot accounts today than a week ago?  Second, one of Musks stated top 3-4 goals is to remove all bots from the platform, so them signing up before the purge makes even less sense.  Third, its clearly just a lot of people coming back to the platform, because if you hadnt noticed a ton of conservative people left Twitter in the past few years due to their policies and the perception that it was a heavy handed liberal platform.  It only makes sense they would now be looking to come back.

 

The reality is once account authentication happens you will really see Twitter and its userbase as it is.

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1 hour ago, Captain Wiggles said:

 

Bots n Bots n Bots n Bots 

 

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17 minutes ago, Peregrine said:

lol that makes no sense despite how much you may want it to be true.  Nothing about Twitter's policies have changed, so why would there be more bot accounts today than a week ago?  Second, one of Musks stated top 3-4 goals is to remove all bots from the platform, so them signing up before the purge makes even less sense.  Third, its clearly just a lot of people coming back to the platform, because if you hadnt noticed a ton of conservative people left Twitter in the past few years due to their policies and the perception that it was a heavy handed liberal platform.  It only makes sense they would now be looking to come back.

 

The reality is once account authentication happens you will really see Twitter and its userbase as it is.


 

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CousinsCowgirl84

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2 hours ago, Captain Wiggles said:

 

Musk won't be the person running Twitter tho? Isn't he keeping on the current CEO? If so the loan shouldn't be tax deductible since it'll be a private investment basically. 

Private business still deducts interest expense. Most businesses aren’t publicly traded. No finance guys here??

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Spaceman Spiff

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This is a giant nothingburger.  

 

What would actually matter is the amount of likes/retweets and overall engagement.  No one gives a **** if someone has 500k followers if a good chunk of them are bots, another segment of them are inactive and there's another swath who just doesn't engage.  

 

Fake accounts on twitter are a thing, unfortunately.  Obama lost 2 million followers back in 2018. https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-loses-2-million-followers-in-twitters-crackdown-on-fake-accounts

 

More:  https://www.verizon.com/business/small-business-essentials/resources/10-people-won-t-believe-fake-followers-twitter-215539518/

 

Why are we supposed to **** ourselves when OMG A CONSERVATIVE GAINED A FEW THOUSAND FOLLOWERS WHILE A LIBERAL LOST A FEW THOUSAND when odds are they're not even real?  

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CousinsCowgirl84

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2 hours ago, Renegade7 said:

Sure it's completely unrelated, but Tesla stock is down 11% today alone right now.

 

 

 

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I think will musk will be spending a lot of time in courts in the future. The complaints don’t even have to be legitimate to cause him lots of problems.  

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Musk is a "free speech absolutist" except when he's not

 

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, bought Twitter yesterday for about $44 billion. "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy," Musk said in a press release announcing the deal. "Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated." Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, recently described himself as a "free speech absolutist." 

 

Musk has criticized Twitter's current leadership for an insufficient commitment to free speech. Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump's account "due to the risk of further incitement of violence." It also banned the use of "Twitter’s services to share false or misleading information about COVID-19 which may lead to harm." That policy has resulted in the suspension of a small number of accounts that have repeatedly spread misinformation about COVID-19. 

 

Musk's own commitment to free speech, however, has its limits. While Musk has criticized Twitter's leadership, he has repeatedly attempted to squelch speech that could negatively impact his economic interests. Musk's history underscores the risks of giving near-complete control of one of the world's most powerful communication networks to one extremely rich individual.

 

Tesla, Musk's electric car company, is extraordinarily sensitive to any public criticism. China is an enormous market and in 2020 there were "reports on Chinese social media, vigorously disputed by Tesla, about the brakes failing in its vehicles." 

 

According to people familiar with the matter, [Tesla] also complained to the government over what it sees as unwarranted attacks on social media, and asked Beijing to use its censorship powers to block some of the posts.

 

A free press is at the center of any society that values free speech. Musk, however, has attacked journalists who write stories that are critical of Tesla. Business Insider reporter Linette Lopez, for example, has written numerous critical stories about Tesla. 

 

Musk responded by repeatedly suggesting that Lopez was conspiring with short sellers to trade on insider information, which is a crime. Musk did not offer any evidence to substantiate his claims. 

 

It is unknown how Musk will manage Twitter moving forward. His statements about protecting free speech, for now, are just promises. And those promises are complicated by his historical hostility toward speech he perceives as damaging toward his economic interests. 

 

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27 minutes ago, China said:

Musk is a "free speech absolutist" except when he's not

 

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, bought Twitter yesterday for about $44 billion. "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy," Musk said in a press release announcing the deal. "Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated." Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, recently described himself as a "free speech absolutist." 

 

Musk has criticized Twitter's current leadership for an insufficient commitment to free speech. Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump's account "due to the risk of further incitement of violence." It also banned the use of "Twitter’s services to share false or misleading information about COVID-19 which may lead to harm." That policy has resulted in the suspension of a small number of accounts that have repeatedly spread misinformation about COVID-19. 

 

Musk's own commitment to free speech, however, has its limits. While Musk has criticized Twitter's leadership, he has repeatedly attempted to squelch speech that could negatively impact his economic interests. Musk's history underscores the risks of giving near-complete control of one of the world's most powerful communication networks to one extremely rich individual.

 

Tesla, Musk's electric car company, is extraordinarily sensitive to any public criticism. China is an enormous market and in 2020 there were "reports on Chinese social media, vigorously disputed by Tesla, about the brakes failing in its vehicles." 

 

According to people familiar with the matter, [Tesla] also complained to the government over what it sees as unwarranted attacks on social media, and asked Beijing to use its censorship powers to block some of the posts.

 

A free press is at the center of any society that values free speech. Musk, however, has attacked journalists who write stories that are critical of Tesla. Business Insider reporter Linette Lopez, for example, has written numerous critical stories about Tesla. 

 

Musk responded by repeatedly suggesting that Lopez was conspiring with short sellers to trade on insider information, which is a crime. Musk did not offer any evidence to substantiate his claims. 

 

It is unknown how Musk will manage Twitter moving forward. His statements about protecting free speech, for now, are just promises. And those promises are complicated by his historical hostility toward speech he perceives as damaging toward his economic interests. 

 

Click on the link for the full article


 

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-fake-brake-failure-apology-china/amp/

 

A Tesla owner in China issued a public apology on social media and admitted to staging a “brake failure” incident with his Model X. The recent TikTok video was among a recent wave of public apologies in China, as Tesla’s legal team initiates a crackdown on inaccurate reports and false posts that could damage the company.


In his apology, the Tesla owner admitted that his Model X never had any issues with regards to its brakes over the three years he owned the vehicle. The EV owner also remarked that the TikTok skit, which was supposed to show a Model X “brake failure” incident, was for entertainment purposes only.

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CousinsCowgirl84

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Well then, they are fools. I don’t even use Twitter, but if I did, I would not leave Twitter because someone I didn’t like was gonna buy it in 6 months. The deal won’t close until October, if it even happens. And Elon hasn’t said what he plans to do.

 

Personally I think if your Twitter existence centers around your political party identity then good riddance.

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