MEDIAWATCH: It’s awful Musk has bought Twitter, but then again, listening to Twitteratti scream is too delicious

1. Isn’t it glorious.
   https://babylonbee.com/news/leftists-worried-elon-musk-will-turn-twitter-into-a-place-where-terrible-people-post-terrible-opinions-and-fight-with-each-other-all-the-time

2. Fucking brilliant! Bring back Trump Elon and sack that gormless wonder Twatter have has a CEO.

   Best news for months.

   • No Frank, Trump is too busy chasing his daughter around to go back to Twitter

3. This is really great news! the funnist thing ever is loads of people threatening to delete their accounts currently drive a tesla!

4. The nasty wokes are being dismantled one by one. ‘Stuff’ next please.

   • Stuffed will go when there is a change in government. Despite National being timid one place they won’t is the media

     • Oh, so now you want to cancel Stuff, FTT and Greb. Isn’t that what you are supposed to be against?

       • No – not at all. I just want no tax payers money to be funding private enterprise such as Stuff. It should stand on its own 2 feet.

         • Tax payers’ money subsidises the private enterprise that is public transport. Should that be stopped?

         • Umm public transport isn’t private. If you are talking about private providers that meet public transport requirement then that should be based on acceptable return to shareholders and not excessive profits.

       • I’m against the government funding it as that isn’t how the fourth estate should operate.

         If it collapses without our tax money then that just shows the majority don’t want to have bullshit woke claptrap forced down their necks.

         • When journalists funded under the Public Interest Journalism fund through NZ On Air put stories out, do they put out bullshit woke claptrap and force it down our necks?
           Or don’t we deserve to have the information? And if the story was important the unsubsidised fourth estate would present it?

           Like a recent story:
           https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/464184/ruatangata-frontrunner-for-new-150m-whangarei-district-airport

   • Those woke people you complain about are the thin wall that stands between a decent society and a white supramacist Christian theocracy. It seems that you have chosen the side that wants to impose theocracy.

     • The woke are driving people to the hard right.

       I used to be moderate, but after getting called racist 1000x for opposing mass immigration and fascist for opposing censorship, I just want someone to oppose the woke, and will take whoever will do it. That’s the populist right by default.

       You can only call people ‘fascist’ for moderately conservative social views so many times before they say, “to Hades with you” and embrace the label. Ironically, the woke left are rapidly normalising fascism.

       • @Sean OConnor
         Understand your position but Millsy-bot is running a script which roughly maps out as.
         1: Take a thing they disagree with
         2: Rhetorically associating it with a (typically unrelated) heinous act or belief of particular concern to the woke.
         3: Anyone who takes a counter position obviously supports point 2 and is therefore evil.
         4: Feel morally superior for smiting ominpresent nazis.

         Not the most sophisticated woke sophistry but an example of the architecture of though being trundled out these days.

         You are correct through the way the woke characterise society (intolerant, bigoted) is exactly the kind of society they will usher in.

   • As opposed to those real nice white supracists, evanglicals and incels that you love so much,

5. Musk had them trapped no matter which way they jumped: If they didn’t accept his offer they would be in breach of their fiduciary duty to the shareholders – the lawyers were waiting in the wings. He instantly made a few billion on the share uptick after his initial purchase. It’s an under performing share so I’m confident he will make more for both himself and other shareholders once he gets in the driving seat.

   Considering the social aspect:
   > If you’re unhappy that a “tech bro” is controlling Twitter, are you similarly unhappy that Bezos owns the Washington Post, that Carlos Slim owns the NY Times, Steve Jobs widow owns The Atlantic and Zuckerberg owns Facebook?
   > If Musk hadn’t bought Twitter, were you happier with Blackrock and a Saudi Prince owning controlling shares as they do/did now?

   IMO this is wonderful news! Removing political censorship from what has become the default almost global ‘town hall’ is a great thing. I might even join once I can say that Trans women aren’t real women LOL

   • What do you have against blacks/LGBT? You realise that they will be in the firing line once Musk buys the site. THere will be a huge banning frenzy of people what simply want to live in peace.

     • When did they talk about LGB people?

     • No reference to blacks?!?

       As for the LGBT+, I have nothing against any of them other than the utterly rabid insistence from the Ts that all must buy into their fantasies by suspending reality.

       I will always treat people with respect and use whatever name or pronouns that make them feel comfortable but I will never accept that men can be women or vice versa

       • The only fantasy that people have is that they actually have a first name relationship with a dead Palestinian carpenter who thinks that he was fathered by a space alien.

         • Find the body if you are so sure of your view. You are content to just make things up to denigrate something you don’t understand but I would have thought that you had some real knowledge going on your 10:30 am comment which is how we are told final events on this Earth will be.
           Christianity would be ended this weekend if Jesus was still dead & a body was found, the Jewish leaders & Roman powers had every reason to wish Him still to be dead but ample evidence was provided that He rose again, since it was almost 2000 years ago there are no eyewitnesses but it also validates the event as described in scripture since finding a body would have been the most obvious way to destroy Christianity.

     • I have nothing at all against them….but women they’re not.
       Until the woke brigade got involved, professional psychologists described their condition as ‘gender dysphoria’; a mental condition. This still true, sadly. Pretending they’re something they’re not doesn’t help them or us. It just forces us to join their delusion. It’s also part of a wider gaslighting attack against us.

       • You could have fooled me. You support Trump, who wishes to recriminalise homosexuality and Transgenderism. By definition, so do you

       • A mental condition is believing that the earth was magicked into existence and that a dead Palestinian carpenter actually knows you and wants to determine your fate

   • Women must be such a mystery to you Andrew!
     Transwomen must make your head spin around like an The ACT version Exorcist.

     • Let me know when they’re getting pregnant LOL

6. Self reflection is required sometimes…like me commenting on Mark Zuckerberg’s FB, aka “Meta”, about Elon Musk leveraging Twitter, while buying stuff with Paypal started by Peter Thiel, and checking family pics on Insta, does rather highlight some contradictions raised by the squillionaire takeover of the internet.

   These arseholes, bastards and thieves have not only monetised online life, they also directly intervened in politics and individual pyschology–and not in a positive way for the vast majority of people.

   I have lost real life friends via social media, because things get said that face to face might not be said, and some just go plain bonkers when they are on some weirdo “one track” mode of thinking.

   But I also genuinely enjoy social media for the contacts that can happen with friends and family. If there was a publicly owned social media it would be great, but “critical mass” is so fucking powerful with the commercial internet model, if something succeeds it seems to succeed even more regardless of the real world outcome. Even Donald Trump could not make a dent with his little 45Office.com and other platforms.

   Online activism has long been slammed, but online seems to be reality now for so many. Musk is a supreme egotist union buster that needs to be dealt to one way or another.

   Martyn’s revenge fantasies about nasty Twitter users totally miss who the main enemy is in this case–it is Capital and Finance Capital.

   • “Self reflection is required sometimes…like me..”
     “ I have lost real life friends via social media, because things get said that face to face might not be said”
     “ Musk is a supreme egotist union buster that needs to be dealt to one way or another.”

     Whereas I can joke or discuss political topics (although I seldom do) with my social media friends from left and right and no one packs a sad.

     Making online threats like you have above will certainly lose you friends as well as finding you a spot on a watchlist.

     Self reflection indeed.

     • Shall I be more specific re Mr Musk for the young flowers out there…I know it sounds scary for some to even contemplate taking on such a powerful person…

       “one way or another” in my lexicon means his elite agenda can be reigned in by;
       –Union organisation in workplaces
       –US Legislation being properly applied to him–check out his murky stock trading leading up to the Twitter move
       –Consumers voting with their apps

       if that puts me on a watch list–the state security forces should be retired forthwith

7. Excellent cartoon. Reminds me of the stories I see here about kids raising money to go towards helping poverty somewhere or for some Pacific Islands cause. So excited to raise a couple of hundred dollars.

   I understand the many outstanding beneficial elements to such efforts. The financial perspectives can be seen in all sorts of lights.

8. A twat like Musk being free to do this shows what is wrong with American Capitalism. When individuals and Corporations are free to have more power than Government the situation is.. a) for Righties, brilliant
   b) for Lefties, diabolically stupid

   • Twitter was never owned by any government.

9. I really don’t know what the left are upset about, they can go and build their own version of Twitter….or so I’m told 😉

10. Eion Musk –“We will coup whoever we want” ,,, said by him on twitter. https://www.salon.com/2020/10/20/elon-musk-becomes-twitter-laughingstock-after-bolivian-socialist-movement-returns-to-power/

    “Nine-country study finds widespread use of social media for promoting lies, misinformation and propaganda by governments and individuals”

    “Under apparent government pressure, big tech corporations in the United States have tightened their social media grip, censoring accounts that criticize the US government and its allies.” ,,,, “this is just the tip of an iceberg.” https://www.mintpressnews.com/censoring-iran/248344/

    Eion likes coups for Lithium ,,, perhaps Eion see’s twitter as his own personal Lithium extraction tool .

11. The cartoon is dumb. Even the NZ government has an annual budget of $100b. The US’s budget is 100 times bigger. How about they fix poverty and so on, like they always claim they will, and let Musk revolutionise space travel, electric cars, and dewokify Twitter at zero cost to me?

12. Modern politics is all about pushing for counter productive policy that hurts people on social media you loath more than it hurts you

    This reminds me of a Slavoj Zizek execrable bit of black humour.
    As I remember it – In a nearby country to his the people there hold grudges deeply.
    The story goes that God visited a citizen and graciously decided to give him whatever he would wish for. But God added a proviso that whatever the person chose, his neighbour would get double. After a short reflection the man said ‘Take out one of my eyes.’

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