• downpunxx@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    If you don’t think that the Saudis, put Musk up to buying Twitter to kill it because they never again wanted as much uncontrolled global blowback as they were getting for butchering Kashoggi, and wrote the entire amount of as public relations expense, then I don’t know what to tell you man

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      2 months ago

      Not to mention Twitters (and social media in generals) massive usage for organizing and communicating during the Arab Spring all across the region in 2010.

      It’s very clear what they’re doing, they do it openly, they’re the enemy. They have nothing but contempt for free people they think are their lessers, they want to burn the world for their own worthless gain. So they can own a bigger country or pretend they have The Right Stuff while their pec implants and hairplugs heal.

      Our world is being burned by little kids that never grew up, they need therapy not another billion.

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      the Saudis, put Musk up to buying Twitter to kill it

      I think the Twitter investors put Musk up to buying Twitter because it was massively overvalued and they wanted that shit stain off their books. The Saudis thought they were going to get a pipeline directly into the American psyche with which to hype their various fascist passion projects.

      wrote the entire amount of as public relations expense

      The cool thing about being a Saudi prince is that you’ve got several trillion dollars to fuck around with before you find out.