[Good King Glennceslas]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Then may I suggest, with respect, you are a terrible judge of character

Yeah that’s what I thought.

Instead of actually trying to prove your point you resort to making it personal. Very Trump

[Good King Glennceslas]

[Good King Glennceslas]

[Good King Glennceslas]

Never heard of a Cat 5 hurricane. The moron lives in Florida

[Quantum Bauble]

Originally Posted by Glenn.

lol

Every interview I’ve seen of hers has been great!

She actually answers questions like an actual human being. She understands the questions like an intelligent human being.

By all means show me an interview with Trump where he answers a question he’s asked and the answer actually correlates to the question he’s asked.

Indeed. I think she has her moments of coming across a little awkwardly but her responses at the very least demonstrate that she's aware/informed and giving her answers intelligent thought. Some people just prefer a puffed-up showman like Trump... and will willfully ignore that his ability to even do that has declined year-on-year.

[Santa Goth]

Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

I don't know who it's meant to be - he has 10+ kids and no current/long term partner that he co-parents with.

I don't think these can even be any of his actual kids.

I think it's simply a fabrication.

His most recent baby was this year with a woman called Shivon Zilis.

...and that ain't her in the picture. Weird stuff.

This is definitely weird.

[Christmas Dynamo]

X welcomes the decision of the Australian eSafety Commissioner to concede that it should not have ordered X to block the video footage of the tragic attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel.

After the attack, a number of X users posted video footage of the event. The Bishop himself thought the public should be allowed to see the footage. However, the eSafety Commissioner ordered X to block Australians from seeing the footage on X - even though it was available on some other platforms.

X objected but complied within Australia borders, pending a legal challenge by X. Unsatisfied, the eSafety Commissioner demanded that social media platforms censor the footage worldwide. While other social media companies did so, X fought in the Australian federal court. The court ruled in favour of X and rejected the eSafety Commissioner's global censorship demand.

Meanwhile, X filed a legal challenge arguing that the video footage should not be blocked even in Australia. Six months later, the eSafety Commissioner has conceded that X was correct all along and Australians have a right to see the footage.

It is regrettable the Commissioner used significant taxpayer resources for this legal battle when communities need more than ever to be allowed to see, decide and discuss what is true and important to them.

Whether in Australia or around the world, X will fight for your right to free speech.

[Christmas Dynamo]

You can tell a lot about a country by who it admires. I was pleasantly surprised some years ago to see a poll showing that the most admired man in the UK was Richard Branson. You may not love all his publicity stunts, or have liked the sandwich selection on Virgin trains, but that poll suggested the British public still liked entrepreneurialism and achievement.

It seems mainly to affect people who have really never done very much with their lives

I slightly dread a rerun of such a poll today, because I suspect that among the youth vote in particular the winner would be the person with the most perceived disadvantages in life. Having succumbed to the American woke mind virus, much of the generation coming up in Britain seems to be under the impression that we should only really admire people based on their position in the oppression hierarchy. Meaning that what we ought to think most highly of is an ethnically diverse woman with as many physical and mental disabilities as possible. The fact that entrepreneurialism is not the most appreciated quality can be seen from what one might call ‘anti-Elonism’.

Ever since Elon Musk became more vocal about his views, and then went all-in with his support of Donald Trump, the Tesla boss has faced an unrelenting campaign against him by the left-wing media and others. Rather than merely disagreeing with him, these people wish to cast Musk as not just an eccentric but as some kind of loser. A magazine of the American left called the New Republic went so far recently as to say that he is a ‘small man who is simply not very good at anything’. 😁 Lest anyone failed to notice, last week Musk and his SpaceX force successfully parallel-parked a 250-ton space rocket booster on their first try. It was probably one of the greatest engineering achievements in history.

But not as far as Britain is concerned, it seems. There was a kerfuffle last week when the UK government tried to organise an International Investment summit. One of the people they pointedly did not invite was the world’s richest man. Our colossus of a Business Secretary, one Jonathan Reynolds, stonewalled questions about why Musk hadn’t been invited, but it wasn’t hard to guess. After the riots that broke out in the wake of the Southport stabbings (remember them?) Musk observed that Britain appeared to be on the brink of civil war. He also issued a number of sharp tweets about what he thought of the UK authorities deciding that any disorder it does not approve of is by its nature ‘far right’.

One British commentator who used to be tied up with the left-wing hate-group ‘Hope Not Hate’ proudly opined: ‘A few weeks ago Elon Musk was telling the world civil war in the UK was “inevitable”. The idea the British government should be rolling out the red carpet for him at an investment summit is bonkers.’ So it seems that the rules of the game are now meant to be that unless the world’s richest man agrees that all is well in the UK and there are really no unaddressed societal problems that have put the nation into a state of constant social peril, then he is not welcome here. Or perhaps he is allowed to disagree but just should not say it? After all, you can’t hurt the feelings of a certain number of people in the ostrich position and then be allowed to do business on their patch, can you?

The fact that these could be the rules of the game is of course made easier by the fact that there is not a single person in the current Labour cabinet who has spent their career in business. All of them are either career politicians, lawyers, public-sector workers or union workers. None of them has ever grown a business. All have simply spent their lives to various extents sucking off the teat of the public purse.

Ignoring this specific snub (and the government and its media mouthpieces are denying that it is any such a thing), I find anti-Elonism to be a fascinating trend. Because it seems mainly to affect people who have really never done anything very much with their lives. It is a wonderful thing to sit behind a keyboard and bash out theories about how the world ought to be and how the country ought to be run. I sense that some of the people who do this get the occasional chill of a feeling that they aren’t using their lives optimally. Firing off a column about what Bridget Phillipson might be thinking this week may not be tough work but it is also pretty unnecessary work. Whereas creating the most successful electric car company in the world, running the world’s no. 1 social media platform and trying to make ours an interplanetary species in your spare time feel to me like pretty impressive things to put on any CV. You might think that this is the sort of person you would want to be close to.

And I suppose that brings me back to the Branson point. If a country is going to do well, it will not be by government diktat. In fact it is most likely to be in spite of such a thing. It will happen because remarkable people are created who are then encouraged and inspired to do even more remarkable things with their lives. The reason why clusters of such people – from tech entrepreneurs to composers – so often come up in the same place at the same time is that brilliant people help other brilliant people become more brilliant still. It is one manifestation of what René Girard was on to with his theory of mimetics: that we desire what other people put desire into and that makes us desire it more.

I’m sure that we could hobble along perfectly boringly as a country for a few more years while looking to Angela Rayner and Jonathan Reynolds for inspiration. But I’d take Musk any day. He’ll do fine without us. Are we sure we’ll do fine without him?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...-anti-elonism/

[arista]

Elon getting in his Driverless Tesla

[Christmas Dynamo]

WEAPONIZATION: Biden publicly ordered 11 federal agencies to 'look' into Elon
Musk. All 11 opened investigations. Then all 11 funneled a total of $300M to
Reuters who then who won a Pulitzer Prize for their relentless attack pieces
against the billionaire.



https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1869071514043318534

[bots]

bollox

[Christmas Dynamo]

Originally Posted by bots

bollox

Yep, absolutely scandalous

[Good King Glennceslas]

I got brain rot reading that. Are the reporters still in school

[James]

Originally Posted by bots

bollox

Yeah.

From https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?...f88a763c53c162

Reuters might be biased against Elon because of his politics but there's no evidence they are getting paid by the government for it.

[Gusto Brunt]

And guess who I think is behind these Jersey drones over America...

I'd lay 2p on it being Musk behind this.

[Christmas Dynamo]

Loads of lefties ranto join this platform and now they have this problem....




https://decrypt.co/293717/bluesky-se...ld-pornography

[Quantum Bauble]

Originally Posted by Christmas Dynamo

Loads of lefties ranto join this platform and now they have this problem....

Obviously this is a problem that every social media platform has and that needs to be tackled, but you do realise that this (paedophiles, beastiality, the most fkd up porn on the internet) is absolutely RIFE on X ... surely? I'm not even saying that as a "dig at Musk"... it predates him buying Twitter it's always been a huge problem, on Facebook... and beyond... christ, let's not even dare to remember tumblr. And it was all over "MySpace" 20+ years ago. For the Scots among us who remember "Bebo" (bizarrely huge in Scotland?)... Bebo was fkn FULL of nonces trying to groom teenagers.

I believe Musk in fact promised to get it under control when he bought Twitter.

He was not able to.

Because it's on a scale that's impossible to manage.

Not really the fault of the platforms, humans are just often repulsive creatures, so if you've got a platform with millions of humans posting, it's going to have repulsive stuff on it.