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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #325 on: May 20, 2022, 12:09:39 PM »
Just read some of the allegations by the individual involved...

The allegation was supposedly made FOUR years ago, but is now just coming to light.

The complainant alleged that Musk offered to buy her a horse if she performed sex acts (no specifications as to exactly what, but I'm guessing he wanted her to ride his pony?).

And it gets even better... apparently the person who disclosed this allegation wasn't the woman who was allegedly promised a horse... It was a friend of hers who apparently felt it to be her duty to disclosed this information for purely non-selfish and completely altruistic reasons...

Yeah...  this is starting to stink worse that the $3 shrimp buffet at a 4th rate Atlantic City casino...
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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #326 on: May 20, 2022, 12:18:41 PM »
2. I also don't have a problem believing that these allegations against Musk could be real. Money, power, and fame go a long way towards making people think that they are invulnerable.

Yeah, there could easily have been some interaction. In the age of "me too" and "I don't like him anymore, so I'm going to accuse him of sexual misconduct", we have no idea just what it was. Could have been something as innocent as him putting his hand on her shoulder (old guys consider that innocent, I guess millennials consider it a form of rape) to bawdy talk, to actually pulling out his wiener. Though for a bazillionaire to pay only $250K with an NDA, I'm gonna say that no wieners were involved.

This just has the Blasey-Ford playbook written all over it.
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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #327 on: May 20, 2022, 01:00:22 PM »
This is making me wonder what Michael Avenati has been up to lately....  :rofl:
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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #328 on: May 20, 2022, 01:25:52 PM »
This is making me wonder what Michael Avenati has been up to lately....  :rofl:

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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #329 on: May 20, 2022, 01:32:05 PM »
This is making me wonder what Michael Avenati has been up to lately....  :rofl:

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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #330 on: May 20, 2022, 03:19:20 PM »
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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #333 on: May 20, 2022, 11:20:41 PM »
And he needs at least one total ahole who thrives on libel and slander stuff - because counterbattery fire is how you stop incoming...
 
And I suspect he already is aware of that.
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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #334 on: May 21, 2022, 03:28:28 AM »
"It seems @elonmusk actually understands the forces that are mobilizing against him and is preparing for battle. https://t.co/7hb44Dktkd

— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) May 20, 2022"

Well, many of us understood those forces a long time ago.  We just didn't have a big enough stick to do anything about it beyond pointing it out frequently and loudly.

I done my bit, as pitiful as it wuz.

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« Reply #335 on: May 21, 2022, 10:14:16 AM »
"It seems @elonmusk actually understands the forces that are mobilizing against him and is preparing for battle. https://t.co/7hb44Dktkd

— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) May 20, 2022"

Well, many of us understood those forces a long time ago.  We just didn't have a big enough stick to do anything about it beyond pointing it out frequently and loudly.

I done my bit, as pitiful as it wuz.

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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #336 on: May 21, 2022, 11:59:38 AM »
^ Thanks, Woody.

I was thinking about it later and my refrain about "control the language and you control the issue." I realized that if a person is still afraid to call a "progressive" a communist, there's much fighting still to be done.

And remember there's a difference between strategic awareness and clinical paranoia, so don't start throwing that "paranoia" word around like an idiot.

Senator Joe McCarthy had a lot going for him on this issue, it's too bad he went too far ("Have you no shame?") and the media crucified him to the point of getting him censured.

I rather think the "fellow travelers" in the Senate should have been censured for their tactical blindness but that's an <ahem> "extreme" viewpoint.

Terry said that.  But I lived through the so-called "McCarthy Era."

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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #337 on: May 21, 2022, 12:22:31 PM »
I was thinking about it later and my refrain about "control the language and you control the issue." I realized that if a person is still afraid to call a "progressive" a communist, there's much fighting still to be done.


I believe AOC prefers to use the term "Democratic Socialist."

In other words -- Communist
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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #338 on: May 21, 2022, 04:40:08 PM »
^ Good one, Hawkmoon.

Control the language and you control the issue.

Another irk:  "Children."  Yeah, up to seventeen years and 364 days and 200 pounds of muscle.

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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #339 on: May 21, 2022, 04:42:38 PM »
I wouldn't really call it a coincidence, he knew the story was coming and got his spin out there first. He was clearly trying to get ahead of it.
BuT hE dIdNt Respond.  That is a standard hatchet job character assassination phrase and here you are trying to spread it around like it means anything other than "I'm muckraking."

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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #340 on: May 21, 2022, 04:54:04 PM »
And I wouldn't mind seeing somebody's "hardcore litigation department" going after a bunch of politicians for violation of their oaths of office.

Ticklish, and would involve some SCOTUS-level arguments in lower courts, but it might make a lot of people think about what's "Constitutional" beyond the high-falutin' legalese of the lawyers' stratosphere.

Hey, "infringe" (2A) means just about the same thing as "abridge" (1A).

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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #341 on: May 21, 2022, 05:33:56 PM »

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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #342 on: May 21, 2022, 06:09:28 PM »
Twitter quote I just read:

"You all treat @elonmusk like a hero, but with $43 billion, he could have easily revived and produced a second season of Firefly and he hasn't even talked about it.  #disgusting"

He has a point.
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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #343 on: May 21, 2022, 06:10:18 PM »
Oh, "woke."  I guess that means "awakened" in pre-awakened English.

What a bullshit ignoramus corruption of the language.  But "control the language and you control the issue."

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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #344 on: May 21, 2022, 09:22:14 PM »
I was thinking about it later and my refrain about "control the language and you control the issue." I realized that if a person is still afraid to call a "progressive" a communist, there's much fighting still to be done.

Thing is, that doesn't matter anymore. The progressives are HAPPY when you point out that they are communists.
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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #345 on: May 21, 2022, 09:57:20 PM »
Oh, "woke."  I guess that means "awakened" in pre-awakened English.

[snip]  "control the language and you control the issue."

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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #346 on: May 21, 2022, 10:01:45 PM »
"As Orson Welles once said, "He who controls the past controls the future"
"It was George Orwell that said that"
"Well, for now, maybe"   -- The X-Files  :rofl:

Nah. All the past did was bring us to the present. From here on it is up to us.

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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #347 on: May 21, 2022, 11:51:53 PM »
Twitter quote I just read:

"You all treat @elonmusk like a hero, but with $43 billion, he could have easily revived and produced a second season of Firefly and he hasn't even talked about it.  #disgusting"

He has a point.
He didn't have billions in 2002 when Firefly aired. 


..20 years. 
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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #348 on: May 22, 2022, 09:06:30 AM »
He didn't have billions in 2002 when Firefly aired. 


..20 years. 

The tweet was talking about reviving Firefly in the present, not twenty years ago.  I think Disney+ is getting something in a Firefly reboot together, but no doubt it will be woke and worthless if they follow through.
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Re: Musk and Twitter
« Reply #349 on: May 22, 2022, 09:08:25 AM »
The same people going after Musk now that he’s been red pilled are the same people that cover up for corrupt politicians, defend child molesters, have a million excuses for the race pimps funneling wealth out of BLM, cover up the absolute incompetency and evilness of the left and gas light us over it.

Their accusations mean nothing to me and the only good journalist is a dead one.
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