Ye "permanently" suspended from Twitter, Elon fanboys furious

[FelineOverlord]

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[FalloutShelter]

1. Space Karen....

Love that!

Gonna use it.

[FelineOverlord]

7. Twitter HQ

Someone projected it onto Twitter HQ and he’s been Space Karen ever since.

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[FalloutShelter]

21. LOLOLOL

[live love laugh]

9. Wonder who's gonna grab that Twitter handle and wonder if

Musk bans them too.

[Hiawatha Pete]

11. +1000 n/t

[dalton99a]

18. +1

[uponit7771]

39. RIGHT !?!?

[FelineOverlord]

2. War

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[Chautauquas]

3. Not only did he post a swastika

It's a swastika intertwined with a Star of David.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

33. WTF

Thats fucking disgusting.

[FelineOverlord]

4. 12 Hours!!!

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[Maru Kitteh]

36. My gosh he actually does look like a squishy soft little NAZI under those tailored clothes.

You can see clearly he's never worked.

[Beetwasher.]

5. Reality is Getting too Fucking Weird for me, Man, I Can't Keep Up

I mean, yeah, it's entertaining as hell, but it's also frighteningly insane and I mean, holy shit, WTF is going on? Seriously?

[Hortensis]

6. Amen to that!

[Kennah]

19. Re-read Fahrenheit 451

[gab13by13]

25. Re-read 1984 and A Brave New World, and maybe

Stranger in a Strange land for the religious right.

[jcgoldie]

20. Yeah plus

When narcissistic assholes like Trump, Kanye, Musk, Fuentes, et al start eating each other its impossible to tell who to root for.

[gratuitous]

22. In this case, I'll root for debilitating injuries

Although the combatants are already pretty debilitated.

But yeah, "free speech absolutist" Nome Skul is maybe not so absolute.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

34. I root for all of them

To destroy each other. I hate narcissism and if they all go down the better.

[dweller]

26. What Is Even Happening ?

Nevilledog posted this today:
https://johnganz.substack.com/p/what-is-even-happening

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217427201



✌🏻

[Beetwasher.]

31. Thanks For Pointing That Out

Good read!

[3Hotdogs]

8. Getting suspended by Musk would, almost have the prestige of being on Nixon's enemies list.

Oh, how I wanted to be on that list.

[niyad]

10. It was fun.

[Mad_Machine76]

12. This whole episode proves the point

that you can't have a completely unlimited and unrestricted "free speech" platform because people like Ye will eventually start promoting the worst stuff like this and that the platform/owners starts feeling the heat of liability/complicity

[Celerity]

13. AmazonEve is not amused, lolol

[Hortensis]

14. :) Besides posting an extremely unflattering picture of Eloon,

West was also on Infowars letting Jones, who's banned, tweet from his account.

“I got a Twitter account and today I’m gonna have Nick and Alex tweet from my account,” Mr West, who now goes by Ye, said on Jones’s Infowars show, part of an antisemitic rant where he praised Hitler and attacked Jewish figures in Hollywood.

“I do find it a little bit hypocritical that Elon Musk said he was purchasing Twitter to create a free speech environment,” Mr Fuentes, West’s 2024 presidential campaign adviser, added.

“He says that free speech is the thing that’s going to save the West and our civilization, but yet he has taken exception to you Alex for some seemingly specific reason, maybe personal to him but certainly not principled.”

I'm not about to find myself agreeing with Fuentes and am at least comfortably sure we have extremely different ideas of what "principled" means.

[KewlKat]

15. Kanye is just Trump 2.0...same play book. Control the media, all about him, he has his own agenda

the faux run in 24, etc...wouldn't doubt the two of them are in this media control blitz together.

[suegeo]

17. What are they trying to distract us from?

I read somewhere that they are like pro-wrestlers. None of the feuds are real, just entertainment.

This is bad entertainment, but I have little doubt they are up to something no good.

[onecaliberal]

16. "Space Karen" omg... I got a very hearty laugh from that.

[dlk]

23. Hate speech is not free speech

In many ways, it’s the opposite.

[Ford_Prefect]

24. I don't recall a character on Lost In Space called Karen, but I could be mistaken...

[gab13by13]

27. It was mentioned today on Stephanie Miller,

that there is the suggestion that wealthy anti-democratic people across the globe wanted to bring Twitter down.

Twitter, like it or not, is a very powerful communication tool.

[Fiendish Thingy]

28. I haven't seen any reports specifically stating Ye has been *permanently* suspended

Only that his account has been suspended in response to the swastika tweet.

[hibbing]

29. I give it a week

He'll get hype from this for a few days, get a lot of traffic, then let him back on, rinse and repeat.

Peace

[twodogsbarking]

30. The 21st century sure is silly at times.

[Warpy]

32. Musk is getting a good lesson in how libertarianism doesn't work

when you apply it to the real world. Oh, it looks great on paper, at least to unsophisticated people, and espouses lofty ideals, but like so many new paradigms dreamed up by ivory tower types, it fails miserably in practice.

The sun is also beginning to set on it as any sort of viable paradigm, it has failed miserably in Honduras, Iraq, Russia, and anywhere else a bunch of theorists have gone in to try it out.

You know, just like we old lefties told them it would.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

35. Time

People stopped thinking Ayn Rand was a "philosopher" she's just an asshole.

[Warpy]

37. I think evrybpdy at DU noticed that about her

I actually finished "Atlas Shrugged" because I wanted to see where the silly plot line went. I confess I skipped most of the polemics that she substituted for rational conversation. I can't for the life of me remember how that thing ended, only the sense of relief I felt when it did and I could go on to something a little less psychotic.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

38. I could hardly read it

Nausea would force me to stop.
Sometimes I get visceral reactions to what I read. A course in miracles was the worst. It pissed me off and made me feel ill. I figured go ahead and read it and use it to counter the bullshit believers may toss around.

[Warpy]

40. I was a teenager and no book had defeated me yet

I had already kicked and clawed my way through Marx and Rand's crap was lighter reading than that. I did skip the idiotic sermonizing after the first couple of ten page screeds. I hated her premise, I hated her cardboard cutout characters, and I was only in it for the plot, which I did find somewhat entertaining in an alternate universe sort of way (new steel? Really? No testing for tensile strength, brittleness, deformity under load? My mother was a metallurgist, I knew better than that even if Rand didn't).

A classmate, a know it all kid from NYC, thought I was going down the rabbit hole since I was obviously finishing the book. I pronounced it a massive load of bollocks and made a fast friend.