Aren’t you supposed to capitalize FAKE?
He’s still learning the nuances of this new persona. Give him a couple of years and he’ll be right in line with Trump
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His advisors must be throwing an apoplectic fit (I suspect Musk is ignoring them)
He is destroying X in Brazil because he is unable to figure out that Brazil does not operate like the US when it comes to the legal landscape.
Going after a Supreme Court judge in Brazil will just make things even worse for you. They have a lot more leeway to make your life very difficult vs US (where you can stall just about any legal decision for years).
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He tried to do the same thing with Starmer over the racist riots. He is flexing his ownership of X in a way that is worrisome.
I also don’t get why he did the Trump interview. Why risk an enemy like Harris?
Brazil is an odd case for sure, as Musk is generally fine with censoring certain material on Twitter when required by other countries. He does it regularly without complaint. He’s made a special case with Brazil. My thought is that his own beliefs align closely with the handful of far right accounts he was asked to block, so he’s making a stand.
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Exactly the same reason he was against the prosecution of the racists in UK after the riots.
He is sort of driving social media into the space where media houses are now. Nothing neutral.
Interesting take.
I have evidence that former employees of my company were engaged in the illegal influence of the election of a sovereign nation.
I will not be releasing names and will provide no evidence, although I have a growing pile of evidence. Please validate me.
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Problem with Musk is that he is impulsive and doesn’t run decisions via his lawyers first (like the “funding secured” tweet). I personally think he has a sort of childish emotional need to move global opinion by being provocative online. Its not on the same level as Trump but close.
He is now losing tens of millions of $$$ as Brazilians leave X to post on a substitute app.
Musk proposes replacing democratic government with a group of high-“testostrone”, high-status alpha males. 
That kind of shit is usually confined to redpill/incel/mens’ rights activist corners of the internet.
(Men’s rights activism not meaning reasonable equality of genders, more like freedom to not pay child support.)
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You mean “The ‘other’ pro-choice party”?
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"Hmm, let’s see… high-testosterone… I’ll just assume that … high-status, duh… alpha male, well I don’t see anyone challenging my pack authority… aneurotypical, my doctor says so, so it must be true because I believe it.
“That leaves, well, me as king of the world.”
The elite also included autistic people b/c we apparently don’t have emotions and are more objective (note: that’s not what autism actually is)
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Musk sure is making a mess out of things.
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If this kerfuffle helps create a more competitive social media landscape that’ll be amazing
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It would be nice if one of the alternatives picked up enough steam to be generally useful.
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My Twitter account has been flagged as spam and my likes no longer counted. I guess I liked too many Harris campaign posts.
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you are a bot now!!!
It would be weird if the spam flag was due to likes given that they are no longer publicly visible. However I wouldn’t put it past elmo to flag accounts as spam that are boosting Dems.
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I doubt that the spam flag is for the occasional post about Star Wars. I did respond to Mark Hamill recently making fun of Trump supporters but that’s about it.