It’s already a bigger s***show than we thought it would be. They’ve created a department to house Musk and named it after an unfunny meme from years ago
What Elon Musk has done since buying Twitter:
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he unblocked all anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, Russian propagandists and Russian official media - all huge accounts of influential accounts with millions of subscribers;
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he canceled the labeling of profiles that work for foreign propaganda media (Russia, Iran, China) such as Russian Television and others;
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he destroyed the system of control and verification of fake information (Community notes work very selectively and in an extremely small part of the lies) and even if there is a community note, the lie still continues to be broadcast in the feed for millions;
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the official Twitter RULES work very rarely and selectively. Almost never work for Russian propagandists and MAGA.
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Elon systematically adds hundreds of thousands of views with his comments on the posts of the most popular liars and propagandists (for example, Tucker Carlson, Wall Street Silver, David Sachs …), whom he called “citizen journalists”;
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he provided a very easy opportunity for liars and propagandists to make money from lies, fakes and propaganda - in a system where there is no punishment for outright lies and propaganda, the false posts themselves get millions of views. That is, in such a system, the more and cynically you lie, the more money you make from views as a content creator.
He is not stupid. And it was a consistent and well-thought-out plan to help Russia and Trump from the very beginning.
I posted this morning that they wouldn’t. Please try to keep up.
Wow, they REALLY have to dumb it down now, don’t they?
Americans are in for a wild ride . lol .
it won’t take very long for buyer regret to kick in . this will be like nothing they have ever dreamed of
It’s going to be magnificent
I was initially angry and dumbfounded that anyone would let him back in the door, he’s like an orange turd that won’t flush.
But now I figure it’s a good opportunity to remind the world how quickly a fascist can wreck things and how precious democracy is.
What happened to my free speech! Why are the left trying to keep us quiet?! Damn elites.
Jan6 was that moment. This is nothing short of catastrophe, and couldn’t happen at a worse time
I don’t think that there is ever a time that the world needs a real time reminder of such a thing.
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Not at all. We could have a smaller public service here. It just gets progressively and progressively bigger.
Smaller(as in more efficient) government is a good thing. It’s certainly very easy to get too big, cumbersome and expensive.
But yeah who knows how trump and musk will do it in America, Doesn’t feel like it will be done well.
Why would Trump and Musk be interested in helping Russia?
i thought most mainstream political commentary was this last election was remarkably free of russian interference. - the feds were onto it.
What it was, was a damning rejection of the last 4 years of the democrats. They need to change.
Trump just did Trump.
But isn’t ’at least 50%’ (ie could be exactly 50%) not a majority?
Shouldn’t it be >50%
I can remember the razor gang. Every Dept ordered to cut staff and expenditure by X%, with staff numbers frozen at the new level.
Robodebt was a consequence.
Given in any case of a tie (which there won’t be for this given R’s have 53 in the senate) it gets broken by the VP, the at least 50% will hold.
So what do all the non trump aligned politicians do?
Fall into line and see out his 4 years, or kiss the ring and grift like a ■■■■?
That’s just the last “razor gang”
The first time I remember hearing that term was back in the days of Malcolm Fraser.
And then that little turd Howard came along and did even worse.

So what do all the non trump aligned politicians do?
Fall into line and see out his 4 years, or kiss the ring and grift like a ■■■■?
Most will opt for option 2 if the previous term is anything to go by.
Most of the Republicans with a sense of decency have already either quit or been kicked out by Trump sycophants.
Collins and Murkowski are still in the senate and they have sided with Dems before.
But I think anyone who claims to know exactly what happens from here is lying. Trump is unpredictable: McConnell said Republicans won’t remove the filibuster, but maybe Trump sees it differently. As would be his right as President, there have been Democrat leaders who have mulled that idea too.
ADD: There is also discussion that a lot of what this administration wants to achieve can be done with simple majorities and executive orders. In which case, filibuster doesn’t matter.
so what do we think trump will do from what he’s said so far, even before he starts?
he’s going to cut the ■■■■ out of the public service
probably wind back or repeal Medicare
fire a lot of generals . make the military much harder and less woke
start a trade war with china
give the Ukraine to Russia
purge Latinos and some other non white minority groups
drill baby drill
massive tax cuts to the rich
square up with a lot of the legal establishment and some dems whom he feels persecuted him