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Rhiannon12866

(205,664 posts)
Tue May 10, 2022, 05:30 PM May 2022

Musk On Bringing Trump Back To Twitter: 'It Was Not Correct' To Ban Him - MSNBC Reports



Tech billionaire Elon Musk said he intends to bring former President Donald Trump back on Twitter after he completes his plan to buy the company. Musk said he does not think it was right to ban Trump from the platform. Aired on 05/10/2022.


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Musk On Bringing Trump Back To Twitter: 'It Was Not Correct' To Ban Him - MSNBC Reports (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 May 2022 OP
Why do I get the impression he is only talking out of one of his faces... Thomas Hurt May 2022 #1
My sentiments also. Altho I'm thinking his mouthpiece just blubbers based on the time. erronis May 2022 #5
don't you freaking dare.... YoshidaYui May 2022 #2
Any system that enables this guy to make that determination is itself fucked. FreepFryer May 2022 #3
"Moral shitsplat..." dixiechiken1 May 2022 #15
Translate: My Twitter investment is a bad one without more hype than I can give it bucolic_frolic May 2022 #4
Why does he want to bring back trump's Dangerous Misinformation? magicguido May 2022 #6
All I gotta say is: bobalew May 2022 #7
He's a Trumper. Could it be any clearer folks? Evolve Dammit May 2022 #8
Yes, and its frightening. Twitter will become a Facist propaganda platform. LiberalLovinLug May 2022 #9
The power of these platforms is unprecedented. Musk knows it, and now controls it. What Evolve Dammit May 2022 #17
Don't you just love a "guy" that is a venture capitalist that used taxpayer money to turbinetree May 2022 #10
If he has nothing better to do with his money, I'd suggest world hunger, the environmental crisis Rhiannon12866 May 2022 #11
Yepper spot on.... like his ego couldn't have been used more wisely and to make a "good" impact.... turbinetree May 2022 #12
Exactly. Well said... Rhiannon12866 May 2022 #14
The orange traitor (in the real-life sense, not the Constitution's) doesn't want to... Justice matters. May 2022 #13
Good reminders! Rhiannon12866 May 2022 #16
I bookmarked them for later use. Justice matters. May 2022 #18

erronis

(15,313 posts)
5. My sentiments also. Altho I'm thinking his mouthpiece just blubbers based on the time.
Tue May 10, 2022, 05:56 PM
May 2022

Try him at 11:15 vs 20:23. Different ideas.

Scary how someone like him has "apparently" done so well....

YoshidaYui

(41,833 posts)
2. don't you freaking dare....
Tue May 10, 2022, 05:35 PM
May 2022

do you want to give him another platform to destroy this country?? FUCK TRUMP send him to prison where he belongs!

FreepFryer

(7,077 posts)
3. Any system that enables this guy to make that determination is itself fucked.
Tue May 10, 2022, 05:46 PM
May 2022

Elon Musk is a moral shitsplat with bad hair too.

He is clearly biased towards other sociopaths w the same qualities.

bucolic_frolic

(43,227 posts)
4. Translate: My Twitter investment is a bad one without more hype than I can give it
Tue May 10, 2022, 05:47 PM
May 2022

This is about money, people. Musk overpaid for a platform that has little growth left in it.

 

magicguido

(6,315 posts)
6. Why does he want to bring back trump's Dangerous Misinformation?
Tue May 10, 2022, 06:00 PM
May 2022

so now trump is free to Lie out his ass multiple times a day?

LiberalLovinLug

(14,175 posts)
9. Yes, and its frightening. Twitter will become a Facist propaganda platform.
Tue May 10, 2022, 06:24 PM
May 2022

With no standards for spreading falsehoods.

And I also fear this Trumper will ban liberal voices. In Musk's warped brain, they have gained way too much ground, and the playing field needs to be "balanced".

I used to respect Musk. He almost single handedly forced the US automakers to start to build electric vehicles if only to compete with him. Even after the regretful statement about the Thai rescuer, I forgave him, and put it off as a kind of one time envious eccentricity.

But I never expected him to be so stupid and gullible to the same RW lies and conspiracy theories as Aunt Peggy from Arkansas. He's a doorknob

Evolve Dammit

(16,747 posts)
17. The power of these platforms is unprecedented. Musk knows it, and now controls it. What
Tue May 10, 2022, 08:54 PM
May 2022

could possibly go wrong, given his support of the Orange Chosen One?? This is very telling which way we are heading. FU Elon.

turbinetree

(24,709 posts)
10. Don't you just love a "guy" that is a venture capitalist that used taxpayer money to
Tue May 10, 2022, 06:36 PM
May 2022

to fund this buyout, ( gets to launch spacecrafts from a federally funded area) ( has contracts funded by taxpayers to launch things into space) ( got money from taxpayers to help with his electric cars) and the Twitter board was all in on the greed in the end....no principles, nothing just plain old fashion greed...and I keep forgetting money, is fucking free speech, I was told that by a US Supreme Court really.....

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/tesla-motors-free-ride-elon-musk-government-subsidies/

Rhiannon12866

(205,664 posts)
11. If he has nothing better to do with his money, I'd suggest world hunger, the environmental crisis
Tue May 10, 2022, 06:41 PM
May 2022

The global pandemic or rampant drug addiction. But instead he decides to blast into space and take over a discussion platform...

turbinetree

(24,709 posts)
12. Yepper spot on.... like his ego couldn't have been used more wisely and to make a "good" impact....
Tue May 10, 2022, 06:48 PM
May 2022

but nope his idea is money is free speech....watch me, watch me, watch me ....

Justice matters.

(6,936 posts)
13. The orange traitor (in the real-life sense, not the Constitution's) doesn't want to...
Tue May 10, 2022, 06:52 PM
May 2022

go back there, because he's afraid of full-length replies to his BS the likes of:




and


&t=13s


Over and over and over again: He wouldn't be able to block 'em all in a full day.

Rhiannon12866

(205,664 posts)
16. Good reminders!
Tue May 10, 2022, 07:51 PM
May 2022

And whenever I see this old footage, I'm struck by TFG's disturbing resemblance to Mussolini...

Justice matters.

(6,936 posts)
18. I bookmarked them for later use.
Wed May 11, 2022, 06:50 PM
May 2022

1) If the orange groper comes back to Twitter (he knows what a tsunami of them will show up)

2) If the orange groper runs again for the gQP nomination.

3) The upcoming midterms.

I want all DU to bookmark them.

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