Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[Pixie]

Yes ! Thank you, that was the article I was thinking about
This extract in particular:

The same week, Nevada went down for a nap, placed on his back as always, and stopped breathing. He was 10 weeks old, the age when male infants are most susceptible to SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). By the time the paramedics resuscitated him, he had been deprived of oxygen for so long that he was brain-dead. He spent three days on life support in a hospital in Orange County before we made the decision to take him off it. I held him in my arms when he died.

Elon made it clear that he did not want to talk about Nevada's death. I didn't understand this, just as he didn't understand why I grieved openly, which he regarded as "emotionally manipulative." I buried my feelings instead, coping with Nevada's death by making my first visit to an IVF clinic less than two months later. Elon and I planned to get pregnant again as swiftly as possible.

is bone chilling.
Of course one may argue that it's her word against his, but I also remember him instrumentalising his son's death on Twitter to win an argument. That was pathetic and psychopathic 

[brookie]

He is one of the least appealing men ever, both physically and mentally. Good thing he's got a pantload of cash.

[kittylady]

His latest attempts to feed the Right Wing. I'm surprised he didn't claim that they made his nephew wear a dress and call themself Janet, considering he blamed his daughter's "elite school" for her transitioning.

[imnotbitter]

Dude is such a piece of shit.

[notoriousmkg]

"yadayadaydada" = cutting off the hands of indigenous people who didn't bring back enough gold for their new overlords. But let's just make up a bunch of stories of how savage the original occupants were so that dismembering them alive seems okay.

[no1novice]

Oct 11, 2023 0:48:07 GMT kittylady said:

His latest attempts to feed the Right Wing. I'm surprised he didn't claim that they made his nephew wear a dress and call themself Janet, considering he blamed his daughter's "elite school" for her transitioning.

Fucking idiots.
This is the 1st article I saw when I looked for londond news

London mayor Sadiq Khan helps beavers return to west London for first time in 400 years


Beavers have been returned to west London for the first time in around 400 years in an attempt to improve the capital’s biodiversity.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, helped release the herbivorous rodents at Paradise Fields in Ealing on Wednesday.

The project is supported by the Mayor’s Rewild London Fund, which aims to create new green spaces and encourage wildlife, as well as Amazon’s Right Now Climate Fund.

It is hoped the beavers will help turn the location into a flourishing wetland, making for an improved ecosystem in which plants and animals can thrive.

And from someone actually there...

Central London succumbed last night to a mob of protestors celebrating the outrages perpetrated by Hamas on Saturday. That was the verdict of many news outlets. ‘Night of Fury’ ran the Daily Mail’s headline. ‘Police separate warring groups’ said the Daily Express.

The protest outside the Israeli embassy in Kensington lasted more than two hours and although it was boisterous it never, as far as I could see, turned ugly. About three thousand people blocked High Street Kensington and blew whistles, waved flags and handed out ‘Boycott Israeli Apartheid’ stickers. Pranksters attached them to the backs of policemen, for fun.

The embassy itself, tucked away in a private avenue, was protected by locked gates and a cordon of 18 policemen who wore ordinary uniforms. No helmets or body armour. The protestors kept the noise-levels high by thumping drums and repeating angry chants.

‘We are present in our millions/We are all Palestinians.’ A few fireworks were set off – bangers and sky-rockets – but none of them flew beyond the cordon of policemen. The embassy was never threatened. Young families and babies were present, and groups of politicised students and sixth formers roamed around, joining in the chants. Many took photographs of themselves waving their flags in front of the police. Elderly couples arrived to capture the same visual memento. A citizen-journalist with an iPhone climbed a barricade and filmed himself making a speech, using the noisy crowd as a backdrop.

‘I’m outside the Zionist embassy in London,’ he reported breathlessly. ‘The Palestinian people are not scared. They will return one day and take back this embassy and their occupied lands.’

There was a smattering of white supporters among the largely Arabic crowd. A group of Communist grandmothers had set up a nice-looking bookstall whose literature declared that Marxism could pacify the Middle East. ‘Stop Jew Hatred,’ said their placard. ‘End capitalism in Gaza and Tel Aviv.’

A group of Hassidic elders in grey beards and black frock-coats stood by a trestle-table opposite the embassy. Their placards explained the origins of the conflict. ‘Zionism ignited this fire’ said one. ‘Judaism and Zionism are diametrically opposed’ said another. They were mobbed by jubilant protestors who wanted photographs of themselves alongside their orthodox Jewish supporters.

A British Jew pushing a bicycle engaged protestors in debate. His cycle helmet bore a ‘Boycott Israel’ sticker and he set out this position. ‘Gaza is an open prison. When Jews suffer, my heart bleeds. When Palestinians suffer, my heart bleeds. Can I not love two people?’.

A detachment of cops marched over and ordered them to descend. Down they came without a murmur

He got a lot of flak from the angrier, older protestors who called his pro-Palestinian sentiments ‘cheap’. The youngsters were more receptive to him, even after he’d told them that his birthplace was Israel.

‘I’m a Jew. Do you want me dead?’ he asked. ‘No,’ came the reply. ‘I’m a Zionist. Now do you want me dead?’ There was a silence. An uncomfortable silence. But to be fair to the youngsters, they’d probably never met a Zionist who supports the Palestinian cause and envisages a harmonised bi-ethnic state. The man turned his attention to a passing gaggle of schoolboys. ‘How can the conflict be solved?’ he asked. ‘Kill all the Jews,’ said one lad, unashamedly. He looked about 13 years old.

A young student from Haifa offered me a placard. ‘Free Palestine,’ he urged me. He spoke in a heavy accent and gave ‘Palestine’ two syllables, rhyming it with ‘green’ – Plisteen. He described the history of ‘Plisteen’ for my benefit. ‘I take your house. I give you one small room. You’re angry.’ ‘Yes,’ I agreed, ‘and how do we solve it?’ ‘Free Plisteen!’ he repeated. ‘But where will the Israelis live?’ ‘In free Plisteen, together.’ He told me he has many Israeli friends who reject Zionism and want to share their home with the Arabs. Others supported this view.

‘One state. Equal rights. Israel must make peace now,’ I was told by a protestor. Some placards were more belligerent. ‘We are coming for you, Israel,’ declared a hand-written poster held up by a young Arabic woman. Such sentiments were in the minority.

As the crowd tired, the mood grew tetchy. A group of teenagers mounted the roof of a bus shelter and waved Palestinian and Pakistani flags. After about 15 minutes, their occupation ended as a detachment of cops marched over and ordered them to descend. Down they came without a murmur.

Five of the lads crossed Kensington High Street and scrambled up onto a narrow ledge above a dental practice. The premises were shut but the lights were on. No one appeared to be inside the building. The crowd yelled and whooped as the lads took over the precarious ledge. It felt like a victory. A kind of physical reclamation. The face of the building had a strip of white plasterwork which invited vandalism. Out came a spray-can and one of the lads scrawled a defiant slogan across the plastered wall. ‘FREE PALE’ he wrote. Then he stopped, having run out of space. He reduced the font-size and squeezed in two extra letters. ‘FREE PALEST’.

During this botched effort, two other protestors entertained the crowd with acrobatics. One shinned up a lamppost and ignited a smoke flare. Another scaled an aluminium flagpole outside the Royal Garden Hotel. He had a Palestinian banner dangling between his teeth. As he reached the top of the metal pole, forty feet above the ground and clinging on precariously, he came across an unforeseen problem: how to attach the flag without any strings or elastic bands to help him. He couldn’t do it and after waving his banner a few times, he came back down unharmed.

By 8.30 pm, the bulk of the crowd had peeled away and gone home. Near Queen’s Gate a detachment of police horses trotted out from a side-street and formed up in a line. They were doing what horses do. Scratching the ground. Tossing their manes. Neighing. It looked as if they’d been deployed to stretch their legs, that was all. The street was virtually clear of protestors by now. They didn’t even break into a trot.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/londons-free-palestine-protest-descended-into-farce/

[Pixie]

"Most people don't know much history"
Says the dude who then quotes Wikipedia. It's like a self parody at this stage

[kittylady]

Latest that I can find is that the dockworkers have decided not to handle any Tesla imports/exports.  I guess crashing Twitter wasn't enough for Elmo and now he's working on his other companies as well.

[kittylady]

Things are getting worse for Twitter X - IBM, Apple, Lions Gate and the European Commission have all paused advertising on the site following both their products appearing next to antisemitic propaganda and Musk himself agreeing with an antisemitic post claiming Jewish people are pushing anti-white rhetoric.  Several other big names are expected to follow.

On top of that, the Tesla workers in Sweden are still out on strike and word is that their Unions are well enough funded to be able to comfortably compensate the striking workers for the foreseeable future.

[Pixie]

Oh yeah I can tell you the news here are delightful, if Musk expects them to cave in, he hasn't met Swedish unions.
Especially since part of the point now is to prevent Tesla from being able to establish a new work model here in Sweden, so they're hardbent on winning that strike.

[czb]

@kitty - i saw that tweet about jewish people and anti-white rhetoric (someone i know copied it to FB). but what anti-white rhetoric. did not follow.

[kittylady]

Nov 18, 2023 19:32:12 GMT czb said:

@kitty - i saw that tweet about jewish people and anti-white rhetoric (someone i know copied it to FB). but what anti-white rhetoric. did not follow.

I have no idea - probably whatever they can imagine to try and justify their bigoted stance on social media? For these poor excuses for people, I would guess simply existing as anything other than a white, Christian male is a threat in their mind.

Anyway, now we can add Disney, Comcast Xfinity and Oracle to the big names who've pulled their advertising from the platform.  Musk is taking it as well as you would expect.



We'll have to see whether he goes through with it as Disney alone could probably bury him and all his lawyers, never mind IBM and Apple, etc.

[mostroop]

He's such a jerk. It will be a pleasure watching him crash and burn.

[Pixie]

For once I will appreciate the monopoly on entertainment that Disney enjoys, as it will undoubtedly provide them with all the financial means they need to crush him if he were moronic enough to sue them.
Such a genius he can't seem to understand he's picking fights against bigger boys here.

And we need to talk about the stupid ass James Bond villain name that is "X Corp"
Like seriously, broski.

[kittylady]

Nov 19, 2023 20:05:18 GMT Pixie said:

For once I will appreciate the monopoly on entertainment that Disney enjoys, as it will undoubtedly provide them with all the financial means they need to crush him if he were moronic enough to sue them.
Such a genius he can't seem to understand he's picking fights against bigger boys here.

And we need to talk about the stupid ass James Bond villain name that is "X Corp"
Like seriously, broski.

IF he files any suit then I wouldn't be surprised if he only names Media Matters as they are listed as a non-profit and are likely an easier target than all the others.  Then again it might turn out to have as much substance as his grandstanding about fighting Zuck.