Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44bn

[wanton dwarf]

I know the answer to this.

The answer is that most politicians are either dangerously inept or dangerously corrupt. Or both.

I doubt they make enough "Mistakes" to end up where we are.

Such as a chancellor who just to happens to make IT contractors in the UK pay more tax .. and his wife owns an Indian IT firm.

Still .. we live in a "Democracy" supposedly.

 

[ollie989898]

I doubt they make enough "Mistakes" to end up where we are.

Such as a chancellor who just to happens to make IT contractors in the UK pay more tax .. and his wife owns an Indian IT firm.

Still .. we live in a "Democracy" supposedly.

French had the right idea.

 

[wanton dwarf]

French had the right idea.

Stab Macron ?

 

[bobk]

Not too sure.
I don't use it and can't think offhand of anyone who does use it as much as instagram, facebook etc.
I certainly do see a lot of stuff pulled off Twitter and onto FB, but that's probably the groups I joined for laughs

"Millennials" seem to love the rate at which the likes accumulate on twitter, you know, they've been brought up on a diet of
"you can have/be/do anything you like"
"you're so special"
"you'll go a long way in life"
and when they discover life isn't like that, they gloss over their mental anguish by forming a social media addiction that helps them feel they're achieving what was promised to them?

Long way of saying "dunno, Bob, I'm not really in that crowd"

Me neither

 

[Henarar]

No no, it is a very good thing that Elon and Jeff are building rockets. Maybe one day we can shove them into one and fudge them both off into space? It's cheaper than the trans-dimensional teleporter I was planning to shove undesirables into.

who is making a fortune out of that ?

 

[ollie989898]

who is making a fortune out of that ?

Nobody- my trans-dimensional portal is a one-way venture and not-for-profit. You just need to put your assigned celebrity or oxygen thief on the waiting list to be pushed through. No, you can't have Tony Blair- he's already on the list.

 

[ollie989898]

For someone that has , in your words “ zero real meaning to me” . You aren’t half getting angry and bashing your keyboard about it

No, I said twitter has zero real meaning to me. Keep up at the back, please.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I have parroted no narrative. I have repeated what I have learned and had a great time on that thread.

If companies have made extraordinary profits from their covid activities, vaccines and the like then I expect them to be taxed on them. Simple as that. I still think big companies and billionaires should be taxed heavily, particularly during situations we have seen in recent years. These profits were generated from society at large and it's high time something was done to redress the balance and sort out ridiculous levels of government debt.

Fair enough, not how your posts occurred to me, but that's fine.

The thing is, wealthy people wrote tax laws to suit the corporate world, and it's easy to see that they [corporate entities] can use loopholes to avoid taxation that wage-earners cannot.

But it's likewise easy to find out that despite their massive breaks, they still do pay a heck of a lot of tax, more than the little fish do.

The harder they are taxed, the less innovation happens and the further they strive to reduce recurring expenditure - like investing in automation instead of employing knuckledraggers - and the more tax revenue there is available for governments to waste.

Wealthy people simply have a different relationship with money than less wealthy people do, anyone who says "I don't need the money" is probably saying that they do need it

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Industrialists have always bought the news. Otherwise it gets run by liberal arts students and talks the population into thinking they need more tax. Most news originates on twitter now.

Yes, I do believe that.

Hence why a very one-sided Twitter makes for a very one-sided mainstream media, and politicians then use it to get a handle on how to remain popular, how well the public are buying what they're selling.

Censorship in all its various guises is ultimately damaging and destructive

 

[Henarar]

Fair enough, not how your posts occurred to me, but that's fine.

The thing is, wealthy people wrote tax laws to suit the corporate world, and it's easy to see that they [corporate entities] can use loopholes to avoid taxation that wage-earners cannot.

But it's likewise easy to find out that despite their massive breaks, they still do pay a heck of a lot of tax, more than the little fish do.

The harder they are taxed, the less innovation happens and the further they strive to reduce recurring expenditure - like investing in automation instead of employing knuckledraggers - and the more tax revenue there is available for governments to waste.

Wealthy people simply have a different relationship with money than less wealthy people do, anyone who says "I don't need the money" is probably saying that they do need it

say its someone that is just about to die

 

[Kiwi Pete]

say its someone that is just about to die

Too few realise that we all fit that group, I don't believe we'd spend nearly as much time on our devices if we realised we don't get that time back at the end of our lives

there are few easier ways to get dopamine than clocking a game or seeing 7 people just liked your post, that's perhaps one of Twitter's strengths?

 

[Highland Mule]

Censorship in all its various guises is ultimately damaging and destructive

Disagree - sometimes it’s necessary to deny the oxygen of publicity to the dangerous, the child abusers and the other nasties. I wouldn’t want my kids to be actively targeted by a suicide encourager, for instance.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

If we censor them, how do people discover their motives for themselves?

Because if we're then talking about "someone who doesn't exist and said nothing" our side of the story then loses credibility - IMO censoring someone is equivalent to pointing out they spelled a word wrong, it's a lose-lose

 

[Henarar]

Too few realise that we all fit that group, I don't believe we'd spend nearly as much time on our devices if we realised we don't get that time back at the end of our lives

there are few easier ways to get dopamine than clocking a game or seeing 7 people just liked your post, that's perhaps one of Twitter's strengths?

I wouldn't know as I don't do twitter, I leave that to the twits

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I wouldn't know as I don't do twitter, I leave that to the twits

What I thought was the Twitter is actually called the perineum