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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by thejackgoode on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:56PM (#31157592)
1.1 mil likes under "pregnant" Gates reminded me of the House of Cards line:

"When you're fresh meat, kill and throw them something fresher."

I think this captures average twitter well. It does not need much to be "controlled"

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by robonerd on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:03PM (#31157712)
If posting funny (albeit mean-spirited) things to make people laugh constitutes control, then accusations of 'controlling people' seem a lot less serious. Every comedian is in the business of control by that measure.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by thejackgoode on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:08PM (#31157766)
It doesn't, that was my point. It's a gamble in front of a shouting crowd that is demanding an emotional release
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by starik36 on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:03PM (#31157702)
> It does not need much to be "controlled"

So therefore "not controlled". That tweet was funny or at least mildly amusing. We can call any likes that any celebrity gets a "controlled mob", if we go with this line of thinking.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by JohnTHaller on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:18PM (#31157915)
Don't forget his "FREE AMERICA NOW" phase in April 2020, getting hundreds of thousands of likes when he echoed right-wing anti-lockdown talking points. And when he claimed the US would likely be down to zero cases within a month in March 2020. Or him going after the British diver he referred to as "pedo guy". Or his stock market manipulation tweets.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by thejackgoode on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:22PM (#31157965)
I have a completely unbased hypothesis that having Aspergers matters when it comes to hostility in social context. IMO he clearly oversteps with insults
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by roguecoder on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @03:32PM (#31172086)
That is pretty insulting to those of us with autism who manage not to be giant tools. Probably because we weren't born rich & don't get to live consequence-free.