Elon Musk Twitter Trainwreck Mega-Thread

[Tyler Robinson]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

But someone like Jordan Peterson is a good example of the kind of right-winger I can respect and allow.

And someone like Andrew Tot? 

 

Edited November 8, 2022 by Tyler Robinson

[Leo Gura]

7 minutes ago, Tyler Robinson said:

And someone like Andrew Tate? 

He's more of a jackass.

I don't respect him because he's a self-admitted scammer.

Jordan Peterson has integrity, as bad as some of his takes are.

Edited November 8, 2022 by Leo Gura

[LordFall]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

He's more of a jackass.

I don't respect him because he's a self-admitted scammer.

Jordan Peterson has integrity, as bad as some of his takes are.

When has he ever admitted to scamming anyone? 

[Topspin715]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

He's more of a jackass.

I don't respect him because he's a self-admitted scammer.

Jordan Peterson has integrity, as bad as some of his takes are.

the respect/disrespect and admiration/disgust dualities are things that I'm personally trying to transcend

andrew tate is operating within a primitive version of capitalism, one in which the strong exploit and extract value from the weak

it was what he did to achieve financial security and excess - for many who are struggling to achieve financial security, it might be admirable, but a more enlightened version of capitalism adds value to all transactions or at least doesn't extract it 

[Topspin715]

20 minutes ago, LordFall said:

When has he ever admitted to scamming anyone? 

i've seen a ton of tiktok videos where he bragged abt having his cam girls lie to their clients in order to quite literally drain their bank accounts

now that he's found god, he's changing his attitude a bit about his past actions which will be interesting to watch unfold

[eggopm3]

He acts like a literal child. I can't remember the last time I saw an interview or a twitter post or whatever from him that didn't feel like it came from somebody with the emotional intelligence of a 5th grader. years ago I used to be able to occasionally give him the benefit of the doubt before his public persona became unavoidable, but it's just so hard to do that now. It's like his entire personality is constantly daring you to slap the shit out of him.

He's like that obnoxious kid in school who would annoy other kids just enough to get them to get a reaction from them, but not enough to get in trouble with the teacher himself, and as soon as you try to report him to the teacher he acts like you were the one who started it.

[Phil King]

1 hour ago, LordFall said:

When has he ever admitted to scamming anyone? 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brothers-make-millions-using-webcam-26508739

"Callous Tristan and Andrew Tate run a studio where punters hand over thousands believing they are in relationships with the girls and admit it's 'all a scam' but authorities cannot stop them"

His camgirls business preyed on lonely desperate men, 

 

Edited November 8, 2022 by Phil King

[thisintegrated]

21 hours ago, thisintegrated said:

The only dumb thing he's done, besides signing the deal prematurely, is charging $8 without offering anything new in return.  He should've offered some small "twitter premium" bonuses to those buying the verification badge.  Literally anything at all, and his PR would've been largely saved.

I think MKBHD saw my post

 

[LordFall]

@Topspin715 @Phil King I mean fair it's a shady business but calling it a scam is a stretch. It's basically like onlyfans girls and people tipping them to talk to them while they're outsourced to a chat team or people paying strippers to make them feel attractive. It's taking advantage but they're mostly getting the product they're paying for. 

[Phil King]

18 minutes ago, LordFall said:

 but calling it a scam is a stretch

 

18 minutes ago, LordFall said:

It's taking advantage but they're mostly getting the product they're paying for. 

Many of the times, it would be andrew or tristan typing to the lonely guys and making them take out loans and hand over their life savings to feel love(Literally a million dollars over a year he said in the vid i linked). He would keep stringing them along saying that they would meet someday with absolutely no intention of ever seeing the guy. Thats so predatory and they definitely were not getting what theyre paying for

Edited November 8, 2022 by Phil King

[LordFall]

@Phil King Yeah true on second thought. They wouldn't have gotten where they are today if they had sold an honest product. They definitely built on scams and manipulation and before then were not particularly successful. They operate casinos today which are a similar concept.

 

I have a bit of faith in their hustler's university program though, that seems like an honest product with honest value. 

[Danioover9000]

@musicandmath111

10 minutes ago, musicandmath111 said:

 

   Based.

[Phil King]

25 minutes ago, LordFall said:

I have a bit of faith in their hustler's university program though, that seems like an honest product with honest value.

Yeah from what ive seen it seems like they do provide some value in the form of helping people make an online income like copywriting, sales, and video editing, etc

[hoodrow trillson]

1 hour ago, LordFall said:

 

I have a bit of faith in their hustler's university program though, that seems like an honest product with honest value. 

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Godhead]

Im convinced. The U.S. is an invention of the European elites to make the plebs feel better about themselves.

[Danioover9000]

@Godhead

2 hours ago, Godhead said:

Im convinced. The U.S. is an invention of the European elites to make the plebs feel better about themselves.

   Behaviour like this, sooner or later,is going to boomerang hard on his face. First him unbanning Kayne West, and now this? What's next? This is getting absurd.

[Tyler Robinson]

 

 

[Mohammad]

On 11/5/2022 at 10:05 AM, Leo Gura said:

Lol. Please.

Twitter costs Musk $1B/yr to operate just thanks to the massive loans he took out to buy it. No amount subscriptions will cover $1B/yr. And no one is going to pay for his subscription. That subscription is pointless.

I predict that Musk will piss off at least half the influencers on Twitter and cause them to flee. Also at leaat half the advertizers will flee because there will be so much toxic hate speech, racism, sexism, homophobia, nazism, transphobia, and porn.

In the end Musk will make less profit than old Twitter.

I think this is a good prediction of what will happen.

 

On 11/5/2022 at 10:35 AM, Leo Gura said:

Love you guys.

Love you too brother!

[Leo Gura]

13 hours ago, Godhead said:

Im convinced. The U.S. is an invention of the European elites to make the plebs feel better about themselves.

I'm telling ya, he would vote for Hitler in the name of "balance of power" if it aligned with this business interests.

He should be smart enough to see through this kind of shallow centrism. We don't need to balance power with MAGA election deniers.

If anything our problem is that power is so much divided that nothing important gets done.

Edited November 9, 2022 by Leo Gura

[axiom]

Let's say Twitter Blue on-boards 5% conversion of 300m users = 15m users.

15,000,000 users X $8 (subscription fee) = $120,000,000 per month / $1.44bn per year

In 2021, Twitter made $4.5bn from advertising and $0.5bn from data licensing.

So in total, revenues are currently approx $6bn per year.

Employee overheads are now reduced by 50% (could be more)

Edited November 9, 2022 by axiom