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23 hours ago, ewerk said:

Musk paid $44bn for Twitter. Today it’s worth less than $10bn and he still owes $13bn in outstanding bank loans he took out for the purchase. It has haemorrhaged advertisers and it’s shift to right wing politics means its value is only going to decrease further.

 

I know it has brought him benefits like being closely embedded in the next US government but he has taken a hell of a financial battering over it.

Go woke go bro….oh wait a minute.

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On this twitter debate, I'd just add that if you really believe that Musk is trying to interfere with democracy and the rule of the law globally, but very specifically in the UK at the minute, and that his means of doing all of that is twitter.... Why the fuck would you still have an account on that website, never mind be logging in and scrolling through it. You're  literally a part of the problem. 

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2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

On this twitter debate, I'd just add that if you really believe that Musk is trying to interfere with democracy and the rule of the law globally, but very specifically in the UK at the minute, and that his means of doing all of that is twitter.... Why the fuck would you still have an account on that website, never mind be logging in and scrolling through it. You're  literally a part of the problem. 

 

I would add, if you are so afflicted but want to share a story/tweet from there, please screenshot it and post, so we don't give the cunt the clicks. Ta!

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How far fetched is it to imagine that Trump changes the constitution to permit non-natural born citizen to become President? To me that feels more likely than any sort of coup or dismantling of democracy. 

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2 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

How far fetched is it to imagine that Trump changes the constitution to permit non-natural born citizen to become President? To me that feels more likely than any sort of coup or dismantling of democracy. 

 

Would be an odd one as at the same time one of the first thing he's doing is removing citizenship through birth right. Interesting juxtaposition. 

Under that scenario Musk would still need to be elected and I don't think he's very popular at all. But I can honestly see the end of democracy as we know it anyway, some pretence like in Russia. Probably achieved through extreme voter suppression. 

I mean, nobody thought we'd get where we are so why not? 

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40 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

How far fetched is it to imagine that Trump changes the constitution to permit non-natural born citizen to become President? To me that feels more likely than any sort of coup or dismantling of democracy. 


Again it would require an amendment to the constitution so not going to happen.

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18 hours ago, ewerk said:

It’s not a matter of respecting anything. It’s impossible without an amendment or a coup.

 

Presumably with both the house and senate under republican control, along with the supreme court, an amendment should be possible for them? I mean what other structure would they need to control?

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14 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

 

Presumably with both the house and senate under republican control, along with the supreme court, an amendment should be possible for them? I mean what other structure would they need to control?

Think they need two third super majorities? Like Brexit should have had. ;)

 

 

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6 minutes ago, Renton said:

Think they need two third super majorities? Like Brexit should have had. ;)

 

 

 

Ah, then they're safe. Fair. 

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11 hours ago, Renton said:

Think they need two third super majorities? Like Brexit should have had. ;)

 

 

Including the individual States as well I think. 

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  • 2 weeks later...

Well I hung on with Twitter a few weeks longer than most, but I've deleted my account today. Historically I've had my twitter feed as a bit of an echo chamber. I only followed football accounts and some left wing journo's/politicians really, and the recommended tweets were in a similar vein. My feed then somehow morphed into wall to wall racist shitposts and conspiracy theories. 

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