So your definition of 'self made' is someone who has built a huge business with no outside financing at all?
Not so very many of those are there...
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So your definition of 'self made' is someone who has built a huge business with no outside financing at all?
Not so very many of those are there...
You're only looking at his latest companies. If he were self-made, one has to look back at ALL of his business ventures. Based on that, he received outside financing for his business ventures, which leads to the claim of being "self made" to be rather dubious.
Angel investors providing capital, along with around $20000 from his father does not make him "self made".
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Maybe but it always seem especially egregious with right-wingers because they always co-opt these kinds of terms so they can label things they hate or are fearful of. Always seems to be the primary motivation for right-wingers and it gets very tiresome.
More proof hate speech has risen sharply since musk took over.
www.nytimes.com
Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find (Published 2022)
Problematic content and formerly barred accounts have increased sharply in the short time since Elon Musk took over, researchers said.
It's certainly interesting to see how the goal posts of "free speech" keep being moved, currently. Saying one thing one day and doing another a different day. Almost like you can't have it both way and it never had actually really been about restoring "free speech" to begin with... who'd have thunk.
www.reuters.com
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There's looking on the bright side. 😬
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Yay, free speech! Let’s all keep arguing to keep more of this on Twitter.
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Exactly. People in this thread totally think all that is cool, since you know, it's free speech.
Gee, I sure am surprised at all the advertisers moving away from the platform. Who wouldn’t want to be associated with this?
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The free speech absolutists have gotten conspicuously quiet after West made his pro-Nazi/Hitler remarks and Musk subsequently banned him.
Just got an Apple ad on Twitter, hadn't seen one recently. I wonder if they increased their ad load again.
Maybe. Maybe Musk told Cook he’d agree to some censorship. Musk did just ban Ye.
Anti-grooming is not anti-gay.
Anti-grooming is anti-grooming.
Being angry at California's law that made statutory rape legal as long as the people are separated by 10 years or less is most definitely anti-grooming, not anti-gay.
So I go back on Twitter last night to see how it’s going and I see Musk has brought back even more of the worst, most vile neo-Nazi’s imaginable. People who were rightly and appropriately banned for repeatedly calling for genocide and other horrible things. These are the kind of people Musk seems to pal around with and agree with on a lot of issues surmise surprise.
Then I see he’s being made fun of because he was whining like a toddler in yet another tweet of his, and I joined in and called him a crybaby and about an hour later my Twitter app locked up and I get a notice saying my account has been permanently suspended. No reason given.
So much for “free speech”, as I and many other predicted, Elons version of free speech means turning Twitter into a mix of 4chan and Stormfront.
As he reveals more of his alt-reich beliefs, I really hope Apple and others don’t keep advertising there. It’s crystal clear what his intentions are, his actions speak volumes.
Proves once again money can’t buy class, or anything else but stuff.
Then I see he’s being made fun of because he was whining like a toddler in yet another tweet of his, and I joined in and called him a crybaby and about an hour later my Twitter app locked up and I get a notice saying my account has been permanently suspended. No reason given.
So much for “free speech”, as I and many other predicted, Elons version of free speech means turning Twitter into a mix of 4chan and Stormfront.
As he reveals more of his alt-reich beliefs, I really hope Apple and others don’t keep advertising there. It’s crystal clear what his intentions are, his actions speak volumes.
Proves once again money can’t buy class, or anything else but stuff.
No surprise here; all these are manifestations of his disability (in the autism spectrum) combined with his own idiosyncrasy. I am wondering why people still react to what this man does or says. It leaves me glacially indifferent. He may be good or brilliant at doing business in general, but here we talk about socialization. People could just leave en masse and let the platform become a pariah or be totally shutdown.
Groomers are ****ing degenerates and vile as are their apologists. People want to hurls isms, phob etc to try and silence people who voice out on some things
What you mention regarding California law is not accurate, or true. See link below.
My issue with the term "grooming" is now it is being applied to any situation deemed to fit a certain agenda. For example, a drag show is considered grooming, a teacher being gay is considered grooming, displaying a rainbow flag is considered grooming. It's hate speech disguised as a legitimate gripe. It really all started with the Qanon junk that has now permeated its way to the top of a major political party in America. In their eyes, gay people don't deserve rights. It's disgusting and anti-American. People can believe in Christianity and their "sanctity of marriage", etc. without shoving their beliefs into our government, where we are supposed to have a separation of church and state.
Prior to 2020, California law permitted judges to decide if a man should be registered as a sex offender if they had voluntary vaginal intercourse with a 14–17-year-old girl, but only if he was no more than 10 years older than her.
California Statutory Rape Laws - Penal Code 261.5 PC | Aron Law Firm
Statutory Rape is defined under California Penal Code 261.5 PC which defines statutory rape as unlawful sex with a minor under the age of 18.
www.aronlawfirm.com
What I don’t get is why (some) LGBT people try SO hard to be seen. Rainbow flags, saying “hey I’m gay!”, telling everyone, wearing a shirt that says “I’m gay”.What you mention regarding California law is not accurate, or true. See link below.
My issue with the term "grooming" is now it is being applied to any situation deemed to fit a certain agenda. For example, a drag show is considered grooming, a teacher being gay is considered grooming, displaying a rainbow flag is considered grooming. It's hate speech disguised as a legitimate gripe. It really all started with the Qanon junk that has now permeated its way to the top of a major political party in America. In their eyes, gay people don't deserve rights. It's disgusting and anti-American. People can believe in Christianity and their "sanctity of marriage", etc. without shoving their beliefs into our government, where we are supposed to have a separation of church and state.
Prior to 2020, California law permitted judges to decide if a man should be registered as a sex offender if they had voluntary vaginal intercourse with a 14–17-year-old girl, but only if he was no more than 10 years older than her.
California Statutory Rape Laws - Penal Code 261.5 PC | Aron Law Firm
Statutory Rape is defined under California Penal Code 261.5 PC which defines statutory rape as unlawful sex with a minor under the age of 18.
Like, who cares! What’s the point of heavily advertising your sexuality?
I’m bi-sexual you don’t see me waving any flag or constantly telling everyone.
That's something I can't answer as it comes down to the individual. I could understand being marginalized your whole life though and wanting to push back on that. I think that's natural.
No. I hadn't. The opposition's side has always assumed that BLM is all exclusive, because they cry back with "blue lives matter!" or "All lives Matter!", when those people crying that out have no idea about the purpose of BLM, and are only going off based on what they hear from their own echo chamber. If They knew what the purpose of BLM was, they would know that their rebuttals and responses to it are bogus.
Just like the response above.
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Out of context, no, it's not. But in practice, it's primarily used to promote white supremacist ideology.
You are being redirected...
www.adl.org
Which context was it used above? Is Blue Lives Matter a white supremacist ideology too?
I don't see it used above.
Not for the most part. But it can be used in that way.
Anything the ADL says is junk. Bunch of boomers who have no clue on the pulse of reality. According to them, pepe is a hate symbol!
Pepe is used even on Anime, pro-LGBT servers, even BLM severs. Yet it’s a hate symbol, apparently they are the only one who thinks this.