What if it’s not the main purpose, but they’re mentioned?
I applaud Musk. He makes me feel like I’m not the biggest Shmuck on the planet.
Seems to be a moot point with the twits and their rule on social platforms policy having been disappeared with Elmo being made aware that prosecute would be criminally and civilly libel for every single twit made on fauci’s platform, not just the ones prosecute personally made. You’d think being aware of the consequences of such an action would be something Twitter’s legal department would know. Oh wait, didn’t Elmo fire a lot of people recently?
Maybe he can lure Devin Nunes away from Truth Social.
Funny how this is a French official.
Your own officials have all been bought and paid for and wouldn’t dream of going after a major political donor for realsies.
(See: Mueller, Garland, Smith)
To be fair, politically, it’s always easier to attack foreigners.
True.
Also true that the French do not have any reservations to locking up former presidents.
Not just “have no reservations,” they actually take a kind of perverse glee in doing so.
There’s lots of room to criticize French culture (it’s super, super racist, for one), but in other areas they have a lot to teach the civilized world.
In their own way, the French have a distrust of government that puts Americans to shame.
The final result on his “should I step down” poll is 57.5% Yes.
We’ll see what happens next.
Current scuttlebutt in some tech fora is that the CEO poll is actually motivated by pressure from mideast investors who control significant purse strings — that mollifying these people was the real reason for Musk’s trip to the World Cup, that they told him to calm down or get out, and the poll is just PR cover to make it look like Musk is being responsive to the public userbase instead of to the money people. I guess we’ll know if something significant changes in the immediate future.
Well, he DID say he’d abide by the results. Maybe this is his way of saving face and getting out of a bad situation.
…with public repudiation. Us lowly peons will never grasp his 5D chess moves.
I’m a little surprised that the “yes” side prevailed, since the majority of voters were his devoted followers. I’m sure that a wider audience, say if the poll has been run on the official Twitter account instead of Elmo’s own account, would have voted for him to leave by a much wider margin.
I’m also sure that Elmo is now going to do whatever it was that he had always planned to do anyway. And my bet is that he’s going to appoint someone – likely someone he already has lined up – who is both a sycophantic flunky who will do his bidding on major policy issues, but who is also competent to run a large social media business.
It’s undergoing maintenance; come back after Squealer puts away the paint and ladder.
Yes. Including Twitter’s deputy general counsel. By tweet. Three weeks before Christmas. And a month before said lawyer was due to get a big bonus.
His cow might do a better job.
^^^^ 
There’s no way to know exactly what the poll represents. Consider:
- A lot of Musk’s followers are hate-followers
- A lot of Musk’s followers are bots
- The poll isn’t restricted to followers, it’s open to whoever happened to see the poll via a link or retweet or mutual like
- We have no idea how Musk chose to manage bot participation in this poll, whether he successfully filtered out all automatic actors, or flooded it with his own.
- We have no idea what data the polls are based on. Maybe it’s real, maybe Musk had someone code a predefined outcome that appeared to “update” in realtime.
I do think one thing is certain: Musk’s chosen course of action will not be a consequence of the poll results. It’s the other way around.
Definitely agree with that. The “poll” was a stupid stunt.