@amerika @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters theyve been more willing to unban people even before the musk shit. at least, they unbanned me no questions asked, saying it was a mistake, even though i literally got hit by a serious permaban related to hacking

@opal @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters

Once he made his bid, they knew that accountability was coming.

For a while, it was a free-for-all with no consequences, so the little tyrants came out.

@amerika @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters i was unbanned before he was even in the picture. this was more during the trump shit

@amerika @opal @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters hell, I could literally go on an account, spew out leftist or rightist dogma, and get myself a blue checkmark and censor anyone that doesn't agree

Elon goatsed himself with this wallstreetbets tier loss, but at least people can voice their opinions now, no matter how retarded

@prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @Jazzy_Butts @amerika elon's a visionary but still an unstable egotistical one. don't jump to conclusions especially if you don't know him personally, it's likely he doesn't give a fuck about you as collateral

@opal @thecoopsters @Jazzy_Butts @amerika He has some good intentions, but he's a narcissist that insists that it has to be HIM who saves everyone
I'm glad normies are waking up and are seeing him as the narcissistic weirdo with apartheid gold and cryptocurrency on twitter that he really is

@prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts

Scratch most successful people and you find some kind of monomania.

A lot of it is just "if you want it done right, do it yourself," which becomes religion after a couple months.

@prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts

Here is my take on it:

Elon suddenly reversed himself. "Actually, I'll buy it."

What happened between his refusal and acceptance? Occam: the value of the asset rose again.

Meta is self-destructing, Reddit is about to publish low figures, Pinterest is barely holding on to Boomer White women, etc.

Twitter is going to be the Last Man Standing in the social media wars.

@prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts

Elon did what Trump and other arbitragers do: find an undervalued asset that could be worth a lot more if it stopped doing the stupid shit everyone else is doing.

So he made a big show of having a free speech platform where people do not have to be afraid of some little tyrant banning them anymore.

Whether true or not, it sells hard.

@prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts

So this means that he now holds the most valuable property on the internet.

@amerika @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts I wonder if Elon buying it will let twitter shake off the horrible reputation that it's had for years

@prouddegenerate Naaaah.

@prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts

It's at least a hard reset to its public image.

Like with Putin, people will give him the benefit of the doubt until/unless he falls back into bad old patterns.

@amerika @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts which will probably happen
I wonder what the first drama will be

@prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @Jazzy_Butts @amerika the first drama will be me completely ignoring what petty argument breaks out and not giving either side a like or retweet

@opal @thecoopsters @Jazzy_Butts @amerika chad not giving a shit

@prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts

I can see that, although I have an interest in a free speech internet.

I think it is essential for humanity, even though it means encountering appallingly cruel stuff everyday.

Same reason I go to Walmart:

It is better to see humanity as it is than to hide in the comfy 'burbs.

@prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts

And now I want to go to Walmart.

The only place where you can see upper-middle-class WASP ladies rubbing elbows with ghetto and trailer park gangsters and ne'er-do-wells, both excited for a sale on box fans.

God has a sense of humor.

@amerika @prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @Jazzy_Butts i've had to live that black-comedy standup for three months working there, i got enough laughter out of it for one lifetime

@amerika @Jazzy_Butts @prouddegenerate @thecoopsters pretty sure we had not one but two parking lot fires / explosions lol

@opal @prouddegenerate @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters

The fact that every Walmart is on speed dial by the cops, as well as having them on speed dial, says a lot.

Then again, if you want to sell to the general public... you meet them, warts and all.

The variety of the human animal is fascinating.

@opal @prouddegenerate @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters

I believe it. I think it must be a bit rough to work there sometimes, although at the two I go to people are quite happy.

They are happier at the rural one than the city one, but the city one is in a high-ticket zip code so they are pretty well taken care of.

Working Walmart in the Asian, Hispanic, or African ghettos, or the true trailer park area? Must be a nightmare.

@amerika @prouddegenerate @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters oh the customers were nice enough, and i was on night shift so i didnt see terribly many of them, but being constantly reminded that i worked under a company that has no soul or care for me, or really, for anyone outside of their corporate elite... yeah i wanted to leave quickly

@opal @prouddegenerate @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters

In my view, the best companies do not have souls.

Get the job done, and then get everyone home as soon as possible.

Happier workers do better work, so the ones with the brains to hire people with brains tend to end up being less abrasive.

@amerika @prouddegenerate @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters that ignores the human element of a workforce. that degree of cost reduction only applies well to robots who can do your every bidding. people don't want to do a robot's work, it hurts morale

@amerika @Jazzy_Butts @prouddegenerate @thecoopsters and i can tell you, it definitely does make me and my coworkers more likely to steal (time away from the company, material goods maybe) but walmart's okay with "a little bit" slipping through. it's a very inhumane solution to the problem that could be solved by just treating people like people

@opal @thecoopsters @Jazzy_Butts @amerika Walmart?
Treating people like people?

In what universe

@opal @prouddegenerate @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters

I dunno how you can humanize entry level jobs.

I would get rid of the corporate cheer type stuff and focus more on finding any skills the staff have.

@amerika @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts my dad just calls them "upstanding citizens"

@prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts

Damning with faint praise?

I knew a guy who made a ton of money selling cocaine to people he met at Walmart.

@amerika @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts I guess you're right

plus suburbians tend to be the corniest people known to man

@prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts

The suburbs emphasize "getting along" and public image.

So you mow your lawn on Saturdays early and prize saying very inoffensive things, which turn out to be pure corn.

@amerika @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts people from the hood are at least genuine and don't give a shit anymore

which is the scariest type of person

@prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @Jazzy_Butts @amerika theyre only scary because they have nothing to lose by breaking the law. everything else about them i could deal with just fine

@prouddegenerate @Jazzy_Butts @amerika @thecoopsters i live around hoodrats, have more-or-less done so my entire life, so they dont phase me. im from around here as much as they are.

@opal @thecoopsters @Jazzy_Butts @amerika even when they do make it out of the hood they take the hood mentality with them

I went from sleeping in a closet in some ghetto to a fancy gated community and people still do the same dumbass things

@prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts

It's not a type, it's a pathology.

The true-blue sociopath in any form is a backstabber.

Generally hood/trailer people are just trying to get through.

They commit a lot of opportunistic threat.

A sociopath will find a way to dominate others for its own pleasure.

As a benevolent sociopath, I can recognize others of my kind who have not taken the vow of good intentions.

They are grey lukewarm infinite emptiness.

@amerika @prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @Jazzy_Butts
>As a benevolent sociopath
interesting way to put that you work out of love

@opal @prouddegenerate @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters

Life should be pleasurable, which is achieved by attending to love more than anything else.

It is a beautiful world, if we but have eyes to see and all that, and the usual manipulations of sociopaths are the typical vainglorious stuff that ultimately goes nowhere.

You know, Ahab and the whale.

@amerika @prouddegenerate @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters it should be pleasurable which is why i look at these counterexamples with nothing but disdain. i know why they exist but i still wont miss them when theyre gone from earth.

@prouddegenerate @thecoopsters @opal @Jazzy_Butts

For me, there is a lot of Chad in realizing how much of human activity is pretense.

Art galleries, for example. Prog-rock bands in most cases (still like King Crimson though).

Human rights. Religions. Fancy intellectual but contentless books like Obama and Biden carry around.

On the flip side: refusing to carry around some of those books that are interesting, like the "Black Swan."

@opal @prouddegenerate @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters

Dunno. Musk has a certain kind of savvy.

For example, he saw the EV market emerging and decided to be the Apple and BMW of that market.

This was intelligent, even if perhaps not directly useful (counterpoint: mass rollout of EVs is the only way to create market incentives for better batteries).

@opal @prouddegenerate @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters

So I think he is going to recognize the value in keeping Twitter free speech-ish, but there are going to be incidents because people are going to be horrible as usual.

In my view, he does best if he leaves the mess alone. Censorship is an abyss that becomes a jobs program for idiots.

@opal @prouddegenerate @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters

That is, if you decide to censor, you have to hire censors, and the type of person who takes that job tends to be unstable.

@amerika @prouddegenerate @Jazzy_Butts @thecoopsters