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Apr 14 2022 07:37pm
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Nib is super obsessed with girl penis and can't stop talking about it, and he's also creepy about his idolization of Musk.


There is no such a thing as "girl penis".

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Basically he's the kind of person where if he gets passionate about something it's probably because he's getting a boner.


Lefties are a salacious bunch. Always making sexually suggestive comments.
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Apr 14 2022 07:38pm
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Nib is super obsessed with girl penis and can't stop talking about it, and he's also creepy about his idolization of Musk.

Basically he's the kind of person where if he gets passionate about something it's probably because he's getting a boner.


Ah keep talking about me, it gives me a boner
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Apr 14 2022 07:39pm
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But it's not about whether people are truly stupid or not. You simply don't go around calling people stupid to their faces if you are a charming person, which you aren't.


I couldn't care less about being a charming person, so that's fine.

I don't like being around idiots, so if idiots get offended that I call them that that's fine. I tend to encounter very few idiots because I've placed myself at a job that selects against idiots and have selected against idiots being in my friend groups.
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Apr 14 2022 07:39pm
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Ah keep talking about me, it gives me a boner


Don't say things like that Nib, it would only turn Netflix on even more.
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Apr 14 2022 07:41pm
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I couldn't care less about being a charming person, so that's fine.


So you admit that you are boorish. I guess that's the first time you ever had a glimpse of introspection.
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Apr 14 2022 07:46pm
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So you admit that you are boorish. I guess that's the first time you ever had a glimpse of introspection.


When have I ever even suggested I care about being liked?

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Ah keep talking about me, it gives me a boner


Wanna meet up and rub them together :)
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Apr 14 2022 07:48pm
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When have I ever even suggested I care about being liked?


I know you don't, and that's why I said you are boorish.

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Wanna meet up and rub them together :)


Netflix has homosexual urges. Not surprised.
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Apr 14 2022 09:48pm
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/twitters-chickens-come-home-roost

Twitter's Chickens Come Home To Roost


BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, APR 14, 2022 - 08:20 PM
By Matt Taibbi of the TK News Substack

Elon Musk has reportedly attempted to purchase Twitter, and I have no idea whether his influence on the company would be positive or not.

I do know, however, what other media figures think Musk’s influence on Twitter will be. They think it will be bad — very bad, bad! How none of them see what a self-own this is is beyond me. After spending the last six years practically turgid with joy as other unaccountable billionaires tweaked the speech landscape in their favor, they’re suddenly howling over the mere rumor that a less censorious fat cat might get to sit in one of the big chairs. O the inhumanity!

A few of the more prominent Musk critics are claiming merely to be upset at the prospect of wealthy individuals controlling speech. As more than one person has pointed out, this is a bizarre thing to be worrying about all of the sudden, since it’s been the absolute reality in America for a while.


Probably the funniest effort along those lines was this passage:

We need regulation… to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication.

That was Ellen Pao, former CEO of Reddit, railing against Musk in the pages of… the Washington Post! A newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos complaining about rich people controlling “channels of communication” just might be the never-released punchline of Monty Python’s classic “Funniest Joke in the World” skit.

Many detractors went the Pao route, suddenly getting religion about concentrated wealth having control over the public discourse. In a world that had not yet gone completely nuts, that is probably where the outrage campaign would have ended, since the oligarchical control issue could at least be a legitimate one, if printed in a newspaper not owned by Jeff Bezos.

However, they didn’t stop there. Media figures everywhere are openly complaining that they dislike the Musk move because they’re terrified he will censor people less. Bullet-headed neoconservative fussbudget Max Boot was among the most emphatic in expressing his fear of a less-censored world:

In every newsroom I’ve ever been around, there’s always one sad hack who’s hated by other reporters but hangs on to a job because he whispers things to management and is good at writing pro-war editorials or fawning profiles of Ari Fleischer or Idi Amin or other such distasteful media tasks. Even that person would never have been willing to publicly say something as gross as, “For democracy to survive, it needs more censorship”! A professional journalist who opposed free speech was not long ago considered a logical impossibility, because the whole idea of a free press depended upon the absolute right to be an unpopular pain in the ass.

Things are different now, of course, because the bulk of journalists no longer see themselves as outsiders who challenge official pieties, but rather as people who live inside the rope-lines and defend those pieties. I’m guessing this latest news is arousing special horror because the current version of Twitter is the professional journalist’s idea of Utopia: a place where Donald Trump doesn’t exist, everyone with unorthodox thoughts is warning-labeled (“age-restricted” content seems to be a popular recent scam), and the Current Thing is constantly hyped to the moronic max. The site used to be fun, funny, and a great tool for exchanging information. Now it feels like what the world would be if the eight most vile people in Brooklyn were put in charge of all human life, a giant, hyper-pretentious Thought-Starbucks.

My blue-checked friends in media worked very hard to create this thriving intellectual paradise, so of course they’re devastated to imagine that a single rich person could even try to walk in and upend the project. Couldn’t Musk just leave Twitter in the hands of responsible, speech-protecting shareholders like Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal?[/URL]
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Apr 14 2022 09:49pm
The real reason the left hates this :

“I think it’s very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech,” Musk said during the event. “Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square, so it’s really important that people have both the reality and perception that they’re able to speak freely within the bounds of the law.”

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Apr 15 2022 12:58pm
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The real reason the left hates this :

“I think it’s very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech,” Musk said during the event. “Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square, so it’s really important that people have both the reality and perception that they’re able to speak freely within the bounds of the law.”


Because nobody on the left has ever been banned on twitter.

~An argumentative right aligned asshole, probably.
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