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Person hired as meat puppet mouth piece for owner continues to defend owner.

Details at 11.

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For $6 Million a year, fuck yeah I’d consider it myself. You don’t even look bad if you fuck it up because the world’s richest fuckwit outshines every possible fuck up every step of the way.

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i would gladly get paid 6 million to defend…Almost anyone.

[[if the glove does not fit, you must aquit intensifies]]

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Me : shakes 6 mils in front of Lemmy

Lemmy:

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For a few weeks, maybe. That’d be long enough for me to get ahead.

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

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Yaccarino said she is “immensely proud to lead this company,” and told employees they should feel the same. “You’re at X because you have the courage and conviction to build and operationalize the most consequential platform that exists. That’s quite an enviable position to be in,” Yaccarino wrote.

Meanwhile in March…

Elon Musk fires senior Twitter employee who slept in office to meet deadlines

It’s almost as if they will say anything.

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Let’s be real, you’re at X because you’re on a visa and can’t leave without being kicked out of the country.

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Yay import labor to lower internal ability of workers to negotiate for the sake of larger global control!

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Yep, it’s like it’s her generously compensating job compels her or something.

Who’d have thunk it?

(For real though, what did people expect her to say?)

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operationalize

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they workshopped it and found that the word had the right balance of motivation & positive vibes while conveying little meaning.

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You think every english teacher ever is just giving up? We dont seem interested in using this language very well.

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😂

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Quick! Be proud to work there before you’re laid off.

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She’s a pathetic weasel who gets paid handsomely to talk absolute horseshit and shill for her boss.

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honestly I’d do it.

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Same. It wouldn’t make us good people worthy of respect and admiration, but it would make us rich.

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And when you get rich most of the people around you aren’t worthy of respect either so you’re on level playing field. You live your life pretending you’re good people while being rich

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Don’t pretend you wouldn’t for that paycheque

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Not a chance in hell I’d even consider it.

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Same. I hate people like that, no way in hell I’d let myself become like them. They’re absolute scum, fucking over other people for their own personal gain

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Nah, I’m a terrible liar even if I liked doing it.

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And this is an actual thing - spokespeople are generally female now as we as humans have a greater capacity for empathy and more inherent respect for women. At one point spokes people were all men… And nowadays, even the most evil companies push the women out front so that they can be a bit more evil for a just a little bit longer before the shit hits the fan.

Basically evil people, male and female, will still do the same shit, lying dishonest job, so long as they are paid for it. We just cut the women a lot more slack.

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Imagine if your job was to defend this over-privileged man-child.

These sycophants never get the reward they dream of either. They always just get tossed aside at the first slip up.

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They always just get tossed aside at the first slip up.

… with a bonus of a few billion.

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Unless if they’re a Trump sycophant.

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i dont understand the second word in your second sentance. Is that a name of an alien? Like xenomorph? What does it look like?

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sycophant /sĭk′ə-fənt, sī′kə-/ noun

A person who attempts to gain advantage by flattering influential people or behaving in a servile manner. A tale-bearer or informer in general. A parasite; a mean flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men. 

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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I’m amazed at this shitty comment.

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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sycophant

In this case, either:

One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer

or

One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential

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You Americans can do with a little less gun rights. Might actually be healthy.

Oh, that is after getting universal healthcare and better public transport first.

Maybe then America might become an actual developed country.

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At least I died free

—a shockingly large number of American schoolchildren

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That’s not how you fix your country. Your way of thinking will only produce more animosity and extreme ideologies.

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Musk couldn’t care less about free speech. He has implemented a policy that bans you for using the word “cisgender” while he responds to nazi propaganda with personal admiration.

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The concept of speaking freely is not exclusive to legislation. Musk specifically bought this platform because, according to himself, he saw it as an important place for human discourse and the freedom to speak your mind was being inhibited by the policies around moderation. Which is ironic because he implements policies that ban you for speaking out over arbitrary topics while the previous policies simply banned hate speech.

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I would like to see proof lf this.

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bork bork sea lion

Musk on Wednesday agreed with a post on X that falsely claimed Jewish people were stoking hatred against white people, saying the user who referenced the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory was speaking “the actual truth.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-condemns-musk-spreading-hideous-antisemitic-lies-2023-11-17/

“The words ‘cis’ or ‘cisgender’ are considered slurs on this platform.”

–Musk https://thehill.com/homenews/4061600-musk-says-cis-cisgender-considered-slurs-on-twitter/

This took less than a minute of research. You aren’t asking for proof out of some concern for intellectual honesty, you’re trying to cast doubt on something that is plainly, obviously true

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Then open your eyes and look.

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So your free speech is free speech, theirs is not. You don’t ever think you are maybe just as fascist as they are?

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Can never seem to understand this reasoning. Musk seems to largely have solved the censorship problem on twitter, which could be regarded as a vital piece of modern dempcracy (along with the rest of the internet, which mostly suffer from said censorship).

While at it he weeded out some traitors, who actively sabotaged during this period. Im well aware that corporate takeovers arent something “good”, but this one actually seems to make free speech a first class value.

This censorship is imposed by advertisers, which is somehow celebrated. Were talking disney, coca cola, whatever… These all want to control what you can or can not hear, and people are celebrating it?

The proper response to advertisers trying to co trol democracy is absolutely “go fuck yourself”, this should be the norm.

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He’s absolutely free to say that. The advertisers are also absolutely free to decide they don’t want to do business with him anymore. That’s not censorship, it’s the market and freedom of association.

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this is insightful into what right wingers think freedom is. To wit: only for them.

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The reason you can’t seem to understand this is not only because you are stupid, it’s also because you don’t want to.

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it’s because comment OP is a right wing shithead and, like all right wing shitheads, believes his freedom to force others to do what he wants is the only freedom that matters.

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Freedom of speech only restricts the government, not private institutions or individuals. We might value it and protect it to some degree privately, but those parties are not restricted the same way the government is.

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what’s your actual solution here, that advertisers should be forced to advertise on twitter next to objectionable content? that some people get to say or do whatever they want without consequence and others should be forced to endorse it? where in the fuck did you get the idea that refusing to buy ad space on twitter is somehow an assault on democracy?

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