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[Jimi77 Premium Member]

We can't stabilize the environment even it we get to NET ZERO.

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

Summer of Love 2.0

Watch as DC’s Black Lives Matter Plaza is dismantled

Construction crews are dismantling the large painting of the words 'Black Lives Matter' in Washington, D.C..

apnews.com

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

We can't stabilize the environment even it we get to NET ZERO.

Good luck Canada with Boycotting elon tesla and china EV tariff are sure not helping

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Good luck Canada with Boycotting elon tesla and china EV tariff are sure not helping

It's funny how the left turned on Elon when he started supporting free speech and gov't efficiency. Fawk the greenest company on the planet if Musk doesn't agree with any and every bit of the leftist agenda.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Trump isn't the president of europe...

We're supposed to take on all the world's problems and simultaneously accept blame for all the world's problems. Funny how that works.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

It's funny how the left turned on Elon when he started supporting free speech and gov't efficiency. Fawk the greenest company on the planet if Musk doesn't agree with any and every bit of the leftist agenda.

Can you explain his "supporting free speech" in light of his goal to censor speech?

Hidden Censorship Or Real Progress ? X’s Latest Shake-up

Musk announces a revamp of X's algorithm to reduce "negativity." This decision reignites the debate on freedom of speech.

www.cointribune.com

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Can you explain his "supporting free speech" in light of his goal to censor speech?

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Hidden Censorship Or Real Progress ? X’s Latest Shake-up

Musk announces a revamp of X's algorithm to reduce "negativity." This decision reignites the debate on freedom of speech.

www.cointribune.com

What an A-hole. How dare he tweak the algorithm to prioritized educational and informational content. If that isn't censorship, I don't know what is.

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

Twitter scrubbing this performance of “does your god have a fat D1ck”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertain...nders-rally-does-your-god-have-a-big-fat-dck/

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

Her salary $330k,
his salary $430k

LA's top homelessness official signed $2.1 million contract with husband's employer

Government documents show Va Lecia Adams Kellum, who leads an agency that manages over $700 million in homeless services contracts each year, inked deals with the nonprofit where her husband is a senior staffer.

laist.com

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Her salary $330k,
his salary $430k

LA's top homelessness official signed $2.1 million contract with husband's employer

Government documents show Va Lecia Adams Kellum, who leads an agency that manages over $700 million in homeless services contracts each year, inked deals with the nonprofit where her husband is a senior staffer.

laist.com

No wonder we spend billions on homelessness, but can't fix the problem. IIRC, I crunched the numbers for how much Denver spent on homeless and divided by the number of homeless and came up with ~$30k/yr. How can you spend $30k/yr/homeless person and not make a serious dent in homelessness??? I think gov't needs to either step in and take full control of these programs or leave it up to the private sector.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Biden tried to sneak $1.1trillion in DEI spending through before leaving office. Wow, we're just throwing money away at an alarming pace. But let's make sure we do everything possible to obstruct DOGE/Musk/Trump's attempts eliminate gov't waste.

New study reveals 'staggering' scope of how much DEI was infused into government under Biden

A new report outlines the degree to which the Biden administration injected DEI into the federal government as the Trump administration pushes to eliminate it.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

No wonder we spend billions on homelessness, but can't fix the problem. IIRC, I crunched the numbers for how much Denver spent on homeless and divided by the number of homeless and came up with ~$30k/yr. How can you spend $30k/yr/homeless person and not make a serious dent in homelessness??? I think gov't needs to either step in and take full control of these programs or leave it up to the private sector.

You know the government signs blank checks to big Dem states and NGO funnel money back. But many states been caught dumping their homeless in Hawaii for years and we’re been fighting back and our system is overwhelmed. Since we’re only worth 2 blue electoral votes scraps a given.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

What an A-hole. How dare he tweak the algorithm to prioritized educational and informational content. If that isn't censorship, I don't know what is.

Ahhh, so when his "algorithm" removes posts that he doesn't like because they are "negative", it's not "censorship", but when Twitter removed posts that were potentially dangerous to the public health, it was "censorship".

Musk's chosen censorship is good, because MUSK chose it.
You say he paid too much for Twitter. Maybe he was willing to pay "too much" so he could control the content and shape the narrative however he wants?

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

Wearing a red maga hat to court date is diabolical

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Ahhh, so when his "algorithm" removes posts that he doesn't like because they are "negative", it's not "censorship", but when Twitter removed posts that were potentially dangerous to the public health, it was "censorship".

Musk's chosen censorship is good, because MUSK chose it.
You say he paid too much for Twitter. Maybe he was willing to pay "too much" so he could control the content and shape the narrative however he wants?

He's prioritizing education and information. The gov't was coordinating/coercing tech platforms to de-platform accounts that were spreading something other than desired political narrative. 2 different things, but that doesn't fit the "Team Red is a bunch of hypocrites" narrative. Note the Elon didn't say he was prioritizing education and information to fit a desired political narrative, get back to me when you have evidence that Elon is banning or suppressing left wing accounts.