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leighr said:

I’m glad that they are following X’s lead in allowing free speech.

leighr said:

The end of so called “fact checkers” is a welcome relief for true free speech. When one person, or group, has the power to decide what is ‘true’ or not, we are all in trouble. See exhibit one: China, or even worse, North Korea. We all need to fight against this sort of abuse of money and power, and while I am not a huge Facebook fan, I’m glad that they are following X’s lead in allowing free speech. 

Only liars object to factchecking.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-worries-free-speech-advocates-calls-prosecute-researchers-cr-rcna179194

He ain’t gonna be your boyfriend no matter how much you simp for him

https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-accused-of-censoring-right-wing-x-accounts-who-disagree-with-him-on-immigration-13280740

Are you clueless, born yesterday, or knowingly pushing the Elon fanboi party line? Impossible to tell.

https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-elon-musk-twitter-has-approved-83-of-censorship-requests-by-authoritarian-governments.html


Looking forward to your inevitable “fAkE nEwS!!!!” retort 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-s-x-boots-reporter-from-site-after-she-debunks-bizarre-conspiracy-theory-claiming-mogul-uses-burner-account/ar-AA1x4oxV


In the final days of the campaign TTPOS’ former chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, briefly made news when he said his former boss fit the definition of a fascist. Sadly the warning fell flat, coming off as little more than a history lecture.

This is a drum I’ve been banging for some time now the more I have educated myself about fascism. Knowingly or not he’s aping what Benito did. He inspires a cult of personality unique to cult leaders and despots. His most fanatical believers are willing to commit violence on his behalf. He doesn’t have to explicitly command these acts and he knows it. His goons have successfully intimidated elections officials and politicians fearful of violence, doxxing, and harassment from his deranged fans. He praises and sympathizes with autocrats like Putin and Kim.

He said he wanted US military leaders to unquestioningly do his bidding like Hitler’s generals did. I don’t expect you to know that Hitler was disastrously bad at military strategy, in case you’re not sufficiently concerned about a commander-in-chief speaking well of Hitler.

Fascism always turns out poorly in the end. 80 years ago Americans fought a historic conflict to defeat it.

TTPOS is a textbook fascist and Muskerberg are willing collaborators. You, like all other brainwashed Muskerberg boosters, are useful idiots.

TTPOS is going to be king for the next four years; the leaders of these respective companies owe it to their customers, employees, and shareholders to advocate for government policies that favor their companies regardless of who occupies the office and their fitness or lack thereof for the job.

The critical distinction between Cook and ZuckerMusk is that Cook isn’t selling out his company’s values  or dramatically changing how Apple does business to please His Lowness. ZuckerMusk are willing, even gleeful collaborators.

blastdoor said:

I would love to know the real story of what was going on inside apple during the years of abandonment. Did they really think the iPad was going to replace the Mac for most people? Did they think nobody wanted a desktop anymore? Were Intel’s failures tripping up all Mac development? Were they just not thinking about the Mac at all?

And then what made them change course? Was it slowing iPad sales? Did they mature as a company and come to realize you need to care about every product, not just the megahits? Did feedback from customers help? 

Maybe we will never know, but I’d love to get the real inside story.

I’m going to speculate that Mac mini languishing had something  to do with the development of Apple Silicon.

I don’t think Apple ever saw iPad as a Mac substitute. 

lordjohnwhorfin said:

Actually he’s controversial because he’s a traitor, a convicted criminal, a convicted sex offender, a con artist, and a buffoon who makes this country a laughingstock on the international stage.

He also has some bad qualities.