By now everyone has heard that Elon Musk has bought a majority stake of 9.2% in Twitter and made an offer last week to buy Twitter at $54.20 per share. This of course sent the liberal mainstream media fanatics into a tizzy, claiming that it would be cataclysmic for the planet, and an end to free speech. So, Elon Musk is an extinction level event? Crazy is as crazy does I guess. The mainstream media hypocrites of course are silent on the fact that the second richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, owns one of the largest newspapers in the world, The Washington Post. But that’s okay, because Bezos has right think and agrees with their political ideologies, so all is right in the world. Elon Musk, however, believes in America and the freedom of speech, so that’s wrong think that must be rectified. Twitter, in response to the potential buyout, has adopted a one year poison pill, to try and thwart Musk’s takeover of Twitter. This is a purely defensive move that could potentially backfire, as this move serves the interest of Twitter, and not its shareholders. The left is scared because if Elon Musk does indeed get a hold of Twitter, they will no longer have a safe space to bully those they disagree with, and will actually have to tolerate opinions they might consider offensive. Boo Hoo…
Twitter is the Rot Gut of Our Society
Twitter has been on a crusade, almost since its inception, to steer the discourse in this country through their platform. They have become, in their own minds, the arbiters of what is right speech and wrong speech, and deemed themselves judge, jury, and executioners, banning and suspending those on the right, for views that they disagree with, or that they think their followers might disagree with. They are cheered when a sitting President is banned permanently from the platform, but remain silent as terrorists that want to do harm to this country are allowed to thrive. They are doing what’s “best” for the country, when they suspend the New York Post for actually demonstrating real journalism, when they reported on Hunter Biden’s Laptop, and labeled any posts or stories as misinformation. And Twitter was protecting us from such hate speech, because the Babylon Bee saying a man was a man and a woman was a woman. Twitter has allowed radical leftist bullies to use their platform as a bullhorn, and instigate crusades against conservatives, that has resulted in a cultural decay of our society. Twitter has not made their platform a safe space for all, but rather a “town Square” to create mobs of tantrum laced children who disagree with an opinion, joke, comment, meme, person, or group that they want cancelled.
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Elon Musk Will be the Catalyst for the End of the World
The mainstream media has responded to Musk’s potential purchase of Twitter, in their own apocalyptic way, and claimed that everything from World War III to massive life and global altering consequences, would result if Musk takes Twitter private. MSNBC’s Katy Tur basically said there would be ramifications to democracy if Twitter allowed people(conservatives)on the platform who would spread lies.
“Twitter is very tricky, and it’s had a large effect on democracies abroad, but also here as we saw last year with the insurrection and as we saw in 2016 with the election. There are real and devastating consequences for using that platform to lie. And we’ve seen it, we’ve seen it happen. It’s kind of funny, Elon Musk wants to buy it but there are massive, life and globe-altering consequences for just letting people run wild on the thing.”
I love how Tur uses broad strokes and generalities to propagandize her point. What democracies did Twitter have a large effect on? Is she saying that Twitter was responsible for Donald Trump’s election in 2016? Everyone knows Twitter is in bed with leftists, so that’s a big claim. And what life and globe altering consequences would occur from an Elon Musk owned Twitter? I would just like to know what I need to prepare for.
City University of New York Professor Jeff Jarvis, compared the announcement of Musk’s bid to the last night in Germany before the Nazi’s took over.
“Today on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany.”
David Leavitt, who has written for CBS and Yahoo basically said the result of Elon Musk purchasing Twitter would be World War III and the destruction of the planet.
“If Elon Musk successfully purchases Twitter, it could result in World War 3 and the destruction of our planet.”
I’m not sure these people actually know what the definition of a democracy is. If they really believe the end of the world or democracy as we know it is nigh, because Elon Musk would make Twitter a bastion of free speech and not a stronghold of censorship, then maybe they should move to a country like China, Russia, or North Korea.
If Elon Musk successfully purchases Twitter, it could result in World War 3 and the destruction of our planet.
— David Leavitt @ PAX EAST (@David_Leavitt) April 14, 2022
Today on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany.
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) April 14, 2022
I don’t want to leave Twitter but it seems a given that if Musk buys it it will become completely uninhabitable for trans people (and lots of other people).
— Lilah Sturges (@LilahSturges) April 14, 2022
Why are the Press and Mainstream Media so Afraid of an Uncensored Twitter?
The problem with Twitter is that it’s not trusted anymore. Users self censor for fear of being cancelled, suspended, or banned. How is that broadly inclusive? No matter what Twitter’s intentions or reasons are for regulating speech, that they deem misinformation, hate speech, violent, abusive, or harassment, is by very definition censorship. Twitter is everything but a free speech advocate. Twitter needs to be a platform that is self regulated by its users, not regulated by tech geeks that arbitrarily use algorithms to cherry pick users who violate Twitter’s very vague rules of conduct. Twitter, the mainstream media, Democrats, and leftist radicals are afraid of Elon Musk, and the actual freedom he would bring to Twitter. It’s ironic that the mainstream media and press are so afraid of freedom of speech, that they have become advocates against it. What would our founders think if they were alive today? They would say it’s a sad state of affairs, when you have people so insecure, and afraid of being offended, that they are willing to say anything to stoke fear and propaganda, to get a result that keeps them happy, content, and in control. That almost sounds like fascism….hmmm.
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The power needs to return to the people if our Republic is to survive. Without freedom of speech the bedrock of our Constitutional Republic, our system of limited government balance of power etc would collapse and devolve into some sort of oligarchy…Elon Musk represents an existential threat to the power elite on the left..