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Re:Twitter starts limiting how many Tweets you can post per Day by pessimizer on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:23PM (#34717152)
Musk was forced to overpay to an absurd degree for Twitter due to his mouth, to the sound of Democratic party cheers. They were shooting themselves in the foot as surely as Musk did; of course he was going to have to squeeze the shit out of it after he paid that much.
Re:Twitter starts limiting how many Tweets you can post per Day by tsol on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:31PM (#34717263)
The constant politicization of things was not wise for Dems. Twitter was comfortably status quo, now Elon is pushing tweet suggestions to the right of the political spectrum. It's interesting, though, to see a major social media platform that goes in a different direction.
Re:Twitter starts limiting how many Tweets you can post per Day by kadoban on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:31PM (#34718519)
> The constant politicization of things was not wise for Dems.

In what possible world is it "Dems" fault that Elon Musk is a shitbag?

Re:Twitter starts limiting how many Tweets you can post per Day by mikeyouse on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:32PM (#34717276)
What in the world does the Democratic party have to do with anything? Must was forced to execute the contract that he signed, but that was the Delaware Court of Chancery's doing, not Joe Biden's..

Musk has agency.. he chose to overpay, he wasn't forced to. To avoid squeezing the shit out of Twitter, he could have just not made a binding contractual offer to buy the company for $44 billion. It's like saying that of course these ghoulish private equity companies have to squeeze the shit out of the nursing homes they buy in order to make their money back.

They could just not do the first part and avoid making everything around them shittier?

Re:Twitter starts limiting how many Tweets you can post per Day by Spooky23 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:58PM (#34717595)
My mom used to license and regulate nursing homes. When in a licensing action for a particularly bad one, the owner cried poverty, blah blah.

During the hearing where his license was getting revoked, he literally requested an emergency recess, during which closed on a deal where he bought an assisted living/nursing home complex, with his son as the license holder for the nursing home.

People like this exist and are the lowest scum.

Re:Twitter starts limiting how many Tweets you can post per Day by DonHopkins on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @07:39PM (#34718016)
Wow, you spelled it "Democratic party" instead of "Democrat party". Didn't you get the memo? Or did the automatic spelling corrector fix your shibboleth?