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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: commonone   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: ELON! With Sorkin
Date: 11/30/23 8:34 AM
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Dope1: The look on the CNBC guy's face was AWESOME.

You mean that "are you insane" look? As a business and finance reporter, Sorkin knows the value of advertisers to the continuing existence of X.

Dope1: And Elon was spot on. It IS blackmail. They don't like that a medium exists that allows for citizen journalism...

Will you -- and the four dolts who recced your post -- please explain how a company deciding to pull its advertising after its product ads have repeatedly been displayed alongside actual Nazi propaganda or virulent antisemitism is "blackmail"?

Please tell us how it would be a smart business decision, and good for a company and its brand, to be associated with Nazi propaganda or antisemitism.

Dope1: Notes feature that fact checks left wing media BS in near real time.

I haven't seen a single "left wing media" outlet be context checked by X. The last one I saw was attached to a Marjorie Taylor Greene tweet that was Russian propaganda:

Readers added context

The "journal" Rep. Taylor Green is linking to as a source has been sanctioned by the US Government as a propaganda arm of Russian Foreign Ministry that spreads disinformation.


And hey, I'm still waiting for you to demand Trump be imprisoned for having 299 SECRET, TOP SECRET, Confidential, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and Special Access Program (SAP) marked documents and for sharing a "plan of attack" document against another country with ghostwriters.

Anytime.
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