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Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022

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Anyone else suspect that Apple and Google are going to collude to kill Twitter by removing it from their app stores? Apple is already deleting their accounts on twitter. Seems like they are setting the stage. The Cathedral cannot tolerate a competitor to their stranglehold on social media it seems

They're 100% running with the "Musk allows child porn on Twitter" thing. I was right about cloudflare and kiwifarms, I'm almost certain about this one.

He's done. There'll be a rape accusation within six months, and he'll have his companies taken over by the entryists that are already setting up parallel power structures within them. That's what always happens to powerful individuals who go up against the blob.

There'll be a rape accusation within six months

You're a bit late to that prediction.

Happy to make a bet that Elon remains CEO of SpaceX and Tesla over the course of the next six months.

That's the exact opposite of what appears to be reality. One prominent account has been banging the drum on this for a long time and says only now is she finally getting some traction. See here: https://twitter.com/elizableu

That doesn't mean that's not how he'll be painted. It almost makes it more likely.

There’ll be a rape accusation within six months

did Elon Musk rape someone?

Did Kavanaugh?

not successfully at least

This is an inflammatory claim and should be backed up with some level of evidence 2 day ban.

So he's just like you?

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Not acceptable behavior on this forum 5 day ban

Hadn't thought of that interpretation. Looked like one user calling another user am "unsuccessful rapist". Which to me implies a desire/attempt to carry out rape, but falling short of it. We don't call getting caught for murder "attempted murder", we call trying and failing to kill someone attempted murder.

If any other mods are available on Thanksgiving they can feel free to override my decision if they think your interpretation is more likely.

Either way, it is better to write a longer post explaining things than trying to trick someone into a reductio interpretation.

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Too obvious. Why didn't these rich liberal elites put a counteroffer to buy twitter when they had the chance? They had 6 months. Elon didn't even want the site. That would be easier than having to somehow orchestrate a plot to depose Musk. I don't think the left-wing elite cares that much.

Reminds me of Scott's almod's post. Coordination problems can be greater in one case than the other maybe?

Why would they bother? Either Musk goes along, and they win without spending any money. Or Musk doesn't go along, they use their monopsony power in advertising to drive Twitter and Musk into bankruptcy, and not only do they win Twitter but they take Tesla, Starlink, and SpaceX as well, all without spending any money of their own. They don't even need to orchestrate a rape accusation or anything like that.

I'd expect something more devious, from car crash to bizarrely self-admitted pedophilia.

Edit: that, though, is in any case vastly too crude. Musk can be made to implode, if needed, by more conventional means like Tesla stock crashing or whatever, those cartoonish punishments are improbable.

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