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coolso commented on Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company   cnbc.com/2022/04/15/twitt... · Posted by u/grogu88
axg11 · 4 years ago
The pushback is simple: Twitter stock price was higher than Musk’s offer for most of 2021. We are in a downturn affecting the entire tech industry, and it’s likely that prices will return to previous levels at some point. Elon’s offer is a lowball and Twitter can bring more value to shareholders with or without Elon.
coolso · 4 years ago
The high price was due to COVID and everyone being stuck inside. That’s over now and has been for some time.
coolso commented on Twitter Adopts Limited Duration Shareholder Rights Plan   prnewswire.com/news-relea... · Posted by u/minimaxir
arbitrage · 4 years ago
So this affected you personally? You were banned from twitter?
coolso · 4 years ago
Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

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coolso commented on Twitter Adopts Limited Duration Shareholder Rights Plan   prnewswire.com/news-relea... · Posted by u/minimaxir
coolso · 4 years ago
Excellent! I’m sure that Saudi Arabian prince (who the media and its followers have been citing ad nauseum for some strange reason as to why Twitter shouldn’t accept the offer) will be very happy now. Because, you know. A Saudi Arabian prince is who we should be listening to when it comes to American policies, companies, and institutions.

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coolso commented on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zegl
andrepd · 4 years ago
I've read this 3 times and I still don't understand what you're trying to say.
coolso · 4 years ago
Many of the silliest progressive ideas are being / have been normalized thanks to Big Tech and the establishment doing one or more of three things:

1) actively censoring people who speak out against them

2) preventing discussions from happening in the first place (comments disabled, dislikes hidden)

3) actively promoting the ideal progressive version of the idea to cut down on dissent

Take the pronouns thing. Every other Instagram account of a female has her official pronouns (which you may only choose from a list of officially allowed ones so as to cut down on dissent via things like “your majesty / his highness”) set to she/her. I’m sorry but we all know you’re a woman. Why are you putting your pronouns up? The idea is a preposterous one; don’t even get anyone started on the they/them abomination.

And yet dissent and mockery of this abject stupidity is largely censored. As a result it’s bleeding out into the real world.

I hang in very progressive social circles. Trust me when I tell you, you do not want this reality. Their lives are defined by their progressive causes and perceived slights and micro aggressions. Every introduction “must” involve your pronouns and if you “forget” them they will innocently ask you of them. As a result people are bumbling pronouns all the time, I cannot tell you how many times even the pronoun experts start to say “she” or “he” in casual conversation referring to someone but then panic and stutter and say “they” because they can’t quite remember what pronoun this particular person wants to go by today or if they’re a they/them who despises people who feel like they should be able to speak freely without knowing they’re very, very special and are too special to go by a binary pronoun.

Mockery is the best defense against stupidity. Which is why it’s under such a big threat. And it’s why Elon is taking over Twitter.

coolso commented on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zegl
tomlin · 4 years ago
He said he'd keep it. I don't even know what this gets mentioned so often. He has barely ever talked about it.
coolso · 4 years ago
It’s so strange. At first it was intriguing since I had never heard of it before, but now given how often it’s brought up, I suspect some sort of forced Streisand effect deal is at play from all the people who don’t like Elon or are using it as a speculative argument of how he’s ackshually not technically free speech because clearly he spent billions just to take that account down.
coolso commented on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zegl
x86_64Ubuntu · 4 years ago
Not really. When moderation goes away, platforms become rife with racism, spam, scams and less than desirable actors. We've seen this with Gab and Parler.
coolso · 4 years ago
Why does everyone think Elon Musk wants zero moderation? He always talks about free speech, not zero moderation. There’s an important difference.
coolso commented on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zegl
coolso · 4 years ago
It wasn’t given scrutiny. It was silenced. And, turns out it wasn’t misinformation either.

Thank God with Musk’s new Twitter we won’t have to have this sort of discussion anymore anyway, people won’t be able to just shout Russian disinformation at anything that makes the left look bad and have Big Tech scramble to do their bidding to help influence elections.

u/coolso

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