RIP Twitter

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luthervol said:
There's an ongoing thread for that, but here's a biggie

Highest appointment of federal judges since Reagan
Biden has appointed 41 federal judges in his opening year at the White House. This is more than double those appointed by his predecessor Donald Trump and is the most a president has appointed in their freshman year since Ronald Reagan in 1981.

The president has also been mindful of issues of representation in his appointments over the last year, as 80 percent of the new federal judges are women and 53 percent are people of color.
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"people of color" symbolism over substance
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Can you name a single member of the Biden cabinet who has resigned due to a conflict-of-interest, wasteful spending of tax payer dollars, or due to an act of self-enrichment?
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You seriously posted this?

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Grand Vol said:
I think at best, Musk is politically neutral. Libertarian at worst.

He's certainly not right or left.
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Agreed.
I don’t think this move involved politics at all in any way for musk. He saw a bloated company that should be preforming well but isn’t. That’s a money making opportunity for him.
It’s just that simple.

it is interesting that those arguing that Twitter can do whatever they want with their company suddenly don’t believe that anymore.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
Agreed.
I don’t think this move involved politics at all in any way for musk. He saw a bloated company that should be preforming well but isn’t. That’s a money making opportunity for him.
It’s just that simple.

it is interesting that those arguing that Twitter can do whatever they want with their company suddenly don’t believe that anymore.
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Agreed .. I think he’s an opportunist .
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
Agreed.
I don’t think this move involved politics at all in any way for musk. He saw a bloated company that should be preforming well but isn’t. That’s a money making opportunity for him.
It’s just that simple.

it is interesting that those arguing that Twitter can do whatever they want with their company suddenly don’t believe that anymore.
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Yeah, just as interesting as all the conservatives who went hammer & sickle mode because they didn't like the way Twitter managed their platform.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Yeah, just as interesting as all the conservatives who went hammer & sickle mode because they didn't like the way Twitter managed their platform.
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Your “yes but” has nothing on you leftism dipsticks that are really losing your mind over this.
It’s actually very entertaining from my point of view.
Twitter should still be able to do whatever they feel like with their platform. If you don’t like it start your own
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
Your “yes but” has nothing on you leftism dipsticks that are really losing your mind over this.
It’s actually very entertaining from my point of view.
Twitter should still be able to do whatever they feel like with their platform. If you don’t like it start your own
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OK, I mean, we got the receipts here on VN. Conservatives all over this board were wanting to change section 230 and claimed Twitter as the town square.

I mean, cool that you think it's interesting that leftists turned their backs on something they believed for about 5 minutes, but my point is conservatives turned their backs on principles they professed to believe in as long as I've been around.
 
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n_huffhines said:
OK, I mean, we got the receipts here on VN. Conservatives all over this board were wanting to change section 230 and claimed Twitter as the town square.

I mean, cool that you think it's interesting that leftists turned their backs on something they believed for about 5 minutes, but my point is conservatives turned their backs on principles they professed to believe in as long as I've been around.
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Which ones? Did conservatives always believe that a monolithic industry consisting of hive-mind corporations ought to be able to collude and conspire to form a monopoly and outright own the "de-facto town square"? That's not a belief that I've ever held. Remember when Twitter's competitor (can't remember the name) got banned on several different platforms including the apple store and google store simultaneously? Can you, with a straight face, tell me that was not collusion?
 
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SamRebel35 said:
Which ones? Did conservatives always believe that a monolithic industry consisting of hive-mind corporations ought to be able to collude and conspire to form a monopoly and outright own the "de-facto town square"? That's not a belief that I've ever held. Remember when Twitter's competitor (can't remember the name) got banned on several different platforms including the apple store and google store simultaneously? Can you, with a straight face, tell me that was not collusion?
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LOL.

Remember how I told y'all 1000x that government shouldn't interfere, that we need section 230 for good reason, and that a market solution is preferable, and all of this is usually what conservatives profess to believe?....

Amazing how the market solved it without having to ruin the internet, right? Conservatives should have stuck to their principles on this. It's such a disappointing look and just one more reason why I no longer am a right-leaning libertarian.
 
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n_huffhines said:
LOL.

Remember how I told y'all 1000x that government shouldn't interfere, that we need section 230 for good reason, and that a market solution is preferable, and all of this is usually what conservatives profess to believe?....

Amazing how the market solved it without having to ruin the internet, right? Conservatives should have stuck to their principles on this. It's such a disappointing look and just one more reason why I no longer am a right-leaning libertarian.
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I am not anti-section 230. I honestly don't know what all the uproar is about that. My beef has always been geared more towards the biased collusion that takes place between the tech companies. Collusion is already illegal. The government should just enforce the laws that are already in place. And there was clear collusion industry wide to kill Twitter's only viable alternative (after years of screeching "if you don't like it, just make your own platform"). And by reading your posts, I gather that you don't really believe the market has even "solved" anything yet, right? You seem pretty skeptical that Elon will do anything positive with this.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Conservatives should have stuck to their principles on this. It's such a disappointing look and just one more reason why I no longer am a right-leaning libertarian.
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I don't follow you fully, here. Are you saying the conservatives abandonment of principles influenced you to no longer identify as right-leaning? Or that abandonment influenced you to drop the right leaning principles associated with your libertarianism?
 
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n_huffhines said:
Ehh, he supported Obama. I would say "totally confused and influential" is worse than "libertarian".
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I think a lot of people that supported Obama were left behind when the Democratic Party sprinted left. Obama was (or at least appeared to be) a moderate candidate that appealed to a lot of people.

And in retrospect, he wasn't really as crazy liberal as the current regime is. I think Obama honestly blew his wad on Obamacare and became a lame duck after the Dems got waxed in the midterms.
 
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