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I doubt this question can be answered in a short comment. The differences stem from thousands of years of diverging cultural influences, history and geography. As for Russia, this video gives a good introduction to the origins of Russian Authoritarianism (with comparisons to power structures in China and Europe over history), that go all the way back to the 5th century A.D. with the Huns and the unique geography/climate of Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ZqBLcIvw0.

I really prefer the taste of corn tortillas over wheat tortillas, so it's subjective. My favorite by far is blue corn tortillas. Coincidentally blue corn is pretty impressive nutritionally: https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20070730/blue-corn-t...

The article confirms that Elon suspends link to Mastodons, but doesn't say anything about the journalists posting links to the Mastodon account for ElonJen.

I'm curious, can you point me to a sentence that you find "emotionally charged"? I went over every sentence and every one just states some facts. I'm not seeing the emotionally charged part.

Is there any evidence/source that shows the suspended journalists actually linked ElonJet's Mastodon account? I thought they only mentioned ElonJet's Twitter handle.

But aren't the coordinates of his plane public anyways? And wouldn't shutting down ElonJet account be enough, why all these journalists' accounts as well?

The Boring Company is a money making machine?? Any evidence of this? It looks like a disastrous failure to me:

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/11/elon-musks-the-boring-comp...

https://www.curbed.com/2022/01/elon-musk-las-vegas-tunnel-ce...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnbbrandon/2021/04/13/elon-mu...

https://www.jumpstartmag.com/what-we-can-learn-from-elon-mus...

The difference between 2 weeks ago was that in his delusional/narcissist mind only a very few "woke extremists" must dislike him since he is the savior of humankind, but after being booed at the Chapelle's show last weekend he's realizing it's more than just a few people.

Unfortunately Fauci is getting lots of death threats thanks to right-wing media spewing lies about him. One guy is already sentenced to 3 years in prison for it, I wonder how many more crazies will do stupid things because of Elon's tweet and end up in prison just like this guy: https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/man-who-made-threats-agai...

why is that? what kind of contractor?

eh? Fauci never killed puppies. Neuralink actually tortured and killed monkeys, so I don't get the joke.

I would say 3. Libertarian and 5. pro-oligarchy

Sorry but virtue signaling and companies stopping an advertising campaign is not "classical fascism." Fascism is an authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

He protected his ego by believing he didn't actually lose. What did finally cause his ego collapse is people working for him telling him there was no evidence of election fraud...which allegedly caused him to throw plates at the wall in a fit of temper tantrum (https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-threw-his-lunch...) - a perfect example of narcisstic collapse.

Creepy. Seems like almost all narcissists/egomaniacs are also pathological liars apparently.

People in Silicon Valley maybe see through it, but I'm sure most people outside of tech are thinking "well he can launch rockets so surely he can create another app store."

You can get that by looking at the Twitter subreddit sorting on newest posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/new/

It's been interesting looking at the subreddit for twitter, there seems to be more and more issues popping up in the last few days. https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/new/

Didn't Elon buy every outstanding Twitter share with the $44 billion since it was a cash offer? That would mean there are no remaining Twitter shareholders besides Musk.

edit: I don't get why I'm getting downvoted. Is it not correct that all Twitter shareholders were just given cash at the time of purchase? https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/what-happens-...

Based on people I know in Brazil it seems to be way more than a few tens of thousands. I hope I'm wrong. Here's a pretty good documentary on the current situation in Brazil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noP8sLB4LSY

Apparently that was a total of 31% of the workforce: https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/08/29/1997-apple-bites-the-...

That's a big difference with what looks to be 75-85% of Twitter's pre-acquisition workforce in total.

Now that's great satire.

That explains so many things. Surprised this has not been talked about more in the past.

All that was needed to obtain Elon Musk's definition of free speech was to fire the content moderation team. I don't see how an engineer working 100hr weeks will "make Free Speech happen". The irony is that Musk is running Twitter into the ground - I guess if Twitter shuts down the people sharing Musk's vision will deem the battle over free speech won since no one will ever again flag their tweet! /s

Except unlike the others Ligma Johnson were made up names to make a "funny" homophone (to sound like "Lick my johnson" ). I guess Musk found it so hilarious he just had to hire them. I wonder how "hardcore" they will be as employees...

As someone who's worked in the USA for the last 17 years, even here the way this is done is highly unusual. Musk is acting like a narcissistic, moody dictator who doesn't really give af about anyone unless they are willing to sacrifice everything for him.

There is so much irony in this. Musk buys Twitter to "save Free Speech", then promptly fires anyone at Twitter who disagrees with him.

Accusing a guy to be a pedophile with zero evidence was one thing. It's just a pretty asshole thing to do, especially when you have millions of followers and can ruin that guy's life with a tweet. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk...

My brother had a healthy child when his wife was 42. I think it's unlikely that the window has closed forever, unless doctors have told you so because of a specific medical reason.

It seems like a majority of cases come from plants grown in fertilizer made from poop of humans or pigs, which keeps the cycle going. In Pre-agricultural times, never using fertilizer would imply intestinal worms would occur much more rarely in hunger gatherer tribes.