X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called::After a report called out Musk’s union-busting, UAW’s blue check got reinstated.

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      1 year ago

      Still not what free speech means.

      But baby trust fund dipshit is begging to get sued again.

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        1 year ago

        It’s not what free speech means, but they’re using his own words against him. Of course we clearly can’t expect any consistency from conservatives, “free speech for me” etc.

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    1 year ago

    I wonder why the guy who bought Tesla might not want the UAW represented on the platform he bought? I can’t think of why that might be

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      1 year ago

      In completely unrelated related news:

      One of the things their talking about is an increase for workers who deal with electric batteries…

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    Just as much of a Musk hater as the rest of them, but this was posted elsewhere. UAW changed their profile photo at the same time they announced the strike, which triggered the flag on the account. Apparently this is standard with all verified accounts until the photo can be reviewed.

    Anywho, fuck Elon Musk!

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    Elon Musk is an incompetent sociopathic scammer who got very lucky.

    He is not a great engineer, he’s a dumbass who got fired from his own company for being incompetent. When the company was bought he raked in the cash from the shares he had, that’s all. All his “great ideas” are face palmingly stupid.

    He’s petty and vengeful. When rescuers were risking their lives getting kids out of a cave denied his stupid idea, he called them a pedophile just because fuck you. That is musk in a nutshell.

    He doesn’t give a shit about anything or anybody but himself. He forces people to work in near slave like conditions. Do it or get fired and lose your house, or maybe deported. Unions? Fuck your unions, here is a chain lulz.

    He. Lies. About. Everything. Probably the only person worse than Trump when it comes to continuous lying. Every promise he made is bullshit. Tesla will… nope.

    He was the bright light behind the decision not to use flame diverters (standard tech from the 60’s) when his next SpaceX toy was launched, because it would take too much time to build and it would not be needed… a decision which utterly obliterated the launch platform, pelted even cars on a parking lot 5 kilometers away and polluted the entire surroundings. All because he needs to show the world how big his dick is. Then when the rocket blew up over Mexican territory (nice self destruct that didn’t even work) everyone cheered because rockets… should… Blow up? Oh yeah, that was by design. WTF?

    And as always, he just laughs it off and his fans laugh with him because “it’s Elon man, he’s cool! He walked in to Twitter with a kitchen sink!” And then proceeded to run the company he paid twice too much for into the ground, it now being worth, what? 30% from what he paid? So like 15% from what it was actually worth? From the second he started he just did the stupid. Firing so many people without even checking if they were needed, causing people to be locked in the buildings, the blue check mark scandal… twitter (not X) is a shit show and will be bankrupt very soon as muskie won’t be able to afford to pay back the billions he had to borrow for his little toy.

    Fuck everything about this guy, may he step on a Lego every day he gets out of bed.

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      1 year ago

      I mean technically it’s the free speech of Elon to do whatever with his company, right? Like how the Colorado photographer didn’t have to provide services to gays and how Amazon is no longer allowing BLM.

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        1 year ago

        I mean technically it’s the free speech

        Legally, yes. Ethically, definitely no.

        How most of society uses that term is not in the legal way, but in the ethical way, which is a topic all on its own; a weird disconnect.

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      1 year ago

      Somewhere an Elon fanboy is explaining why this is peak free speech

      This gives off such a movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” vibe.