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am_Unition  ·  730 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Twitter set to accept Musk's original $43 bln offer

It's official.

I was grateful for Elon Musk providing StarLink services to Ukraine, but it also sparked some concerns about the dangers of a single person controlling an information infrastructure. Then a month goes by, and whew boy. This.

I fully expect Trump to be back on Twitter within a few days.

    if elon buys twitter and the woke crowd quits what will the VC complain about?

The entirety of the right will descend on schoolboard and library trustee meetings to yell about imaginary federal issues and pick fights with whoever's hair was allegedly blue most recently.

The Trump admin ditches the census in favor of mandatory Twitter accounts linked to your social security number, and you accrue charges each day that you do not check your alerts. There is no "unfollow" button for @realDonaldTrump, with each account automatically following him.

Libs ditch Twitter for TikTok, where the quality of political discourse erodes even further into a soup of memes, deceptively-edited clips of octogenarian politicians, and post-ironic, 2nd amendment-adjacent softcore pornography. The American right eventually gives chase, but not before the left becomes totally illiterate, though admittedly excellent at video editing. Now, Trumpism is for intellectuals, but the movement loses out to left-wing memery, and Hunter Biden beats Trump Jr. in the Specialest Boy 2027 Very Special Presidential Election (Do It For Dad).

Anyway, I'm sure whatever actually happens will somehow be way worse than any of that.