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Jane in NC's avatar

First, those of us still living on Earth One need to refer to the attack on Mr. Pelosi for what it was: an assassination attempt on the Speaker of the House which ended up putting her husband in the hospital. We need to reject the right-wing framing of 'an attack on Paul Pelosi.' He was not the intended target. The Speaker was. And the deranged individual who carried it out was fueled by hate and conspiracy theories promoted by right-wing media and its enablers in the elected class.

Second, off hand I can't name one tech billionaire who's made life better for anyone once he steps outside his lane. Not one. Anyone who thought an overgrown 8-year-old like Elon Musk would do anything except make Twitter more of a cesspool than it already is probably believed that Donald Trump would rise to the dignity and seriousness of the office he held.

The best we can hope is that Musk being Musk causes an exodus of advertisers, loses every penny of Musk's investment and sends Twitter into the outer darkness from whence it came.

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Stacie's avatar

I was so incensed by Elon's irresponsible shitposting that I deleted Twitter from my phone and closed the tab where it lives on my browser. Not only making light of a brutal, politically motivated assault on an elderly man, but using a homophobic conspiracy theory to do it? Nope.

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