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Innula Zenovka

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He's moving into the Donald Trump phase of narcissism.
Also using his money (other people's money in the case of Trump) to harass critics with SLAPP lawsuits, which -- even though they eventually fail, are timeconsuming, stressful and expensive for people on the receiving end.
 

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Learned a new term! I do wish our legal system imposed harsher penalties for such things.
Some states have strong anti-SLAPP laws, which is why people like to sue in Texas when they can. California or New York have some of the strongest laws that allow defendants to get a suit thrown out early and recover costs.
 

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At $6.7Billion per George Soros, Musk spent 6.5 George Soroses on twitter.
 
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“Unless the woke mind virus, which is fundamentally anti-science, anti-merit, and anti-human in general, is stopped, civilisation will never become multi-planetary,” Mr Musk told Mr Isaacson
Holy shit what a bunch of backwards stupidity.

Yes, the "woke mind virus" driven primarily by educated, open to literally all whatevers (race, gender, sexuality), progressives, is "anti-science, anti-merit, and anti-human."

What a fucking jackass.

Edit, Nope, nunber 4
 

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Well, it's The Telegraph, so it's not an intentional parody.

Jesus that article. I am surprised it doesn't have little spatters of drool all over it with how deep the writer was sucking Musk's cock on how much spin there is on the Twitter take over. It reads like he is this amazing hero coming in to the rescue.
 

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Jesus that article. I am surprised it doesn't have little spatters of drool all over it with how deep the writer was sucking Musk's cock on how much spin there is on the Twitter take over. It reads like he is this amazing hero coming in to the rescue.
The Telegraph used to be a decent Conservative newspaper. Yes, it was right-wing, and made no secret of the fact it was pretty much the Conservative Party's in-house daily, but it was still a serious newspaper. After Brexit, though, it descended into right-wing populist nonsense and full-on Brexiter denial of reality. I stopped reading it very soon after -- when I want an alternative to The Guardian I now read The Times, which pretty much occupies the space the Torygraph had once made its own.

It's a shame because, politics apart, the old Telegraph was a pretty good newspaper, but I guess that because the outside world has become so scary and inhospitable for their readers, the paper is now filling up the space with bonkers op-eds.

The title is up for sale, so it'll be interesting to see what happens next

 
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Every new revelation about thiprovs guy's actions and behavior at 'X' only help to prove what a fucking child he is.

Last night when the clock struck midnight, nearly 13,000 workers at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis went on strike after the so-called "Big Three" car companies failed to reach an agreement with United Auto Workers (UAW). By Friday morning, UAW discovered that X, the platform formerly known as Twitter—in what appeared to be a petty move by platform owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk—had stripped their account's verified status, The Intercept reported.

The move seemingly makes it harder for UAW to maximize reach for its posts on X, just as workers have begun striking, demanding better wages and other benefits.

Ford has claimed that the deal UAW was negotiating would have doubled automaker labor costs, and the Intercept noted that often wage increases won by union workers "trickle down" to non-unionized workers like Tesla's. That perhaps worried Musk, who seemingly has a financial interest in keeping autoworker wages low and a history of union-busting. Earlier this year, Musk lost a court battle and had to delete a tweet that threatened Tesla workers attempting to unionize.
A UAW official told The Intercept that the union had paid for X verification and confirmed that the account had been marked as verified until earlier today when UAW said it was removed without any notification from X.

By midday Friday, UAW's verified check was reinstated. The Intercept's reporter, Ryan Grim, posted on X, writing, "Elon put the blue check back up. Maybe the Big Three will fold this fast too."