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• On the post: Advertisers See Elon Musk As A Liability As They Avoid Twitter

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2023 @ 03:06pm

  "there are still people out there defending him" Yes, we know. You can't read a single article by Mike about the Twatter in Chief without them shitting all over the comments, making that very same stupid point (and others).

• On the post: Advertisers See Elon Musk As A Liability As They Avoid Twitter

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2023 @ 03:04pm

  “The irony, of course,” said another media buyer from a large agency, is “the No. 1 or No. 2 account that we’re going to look to avoid is the owner of the company.” So say we all :(

• On the post: Twitter Suspends User For Sharing Washington Post Story About Pentagon Docs Leaker

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2023 @ 06:33pm

  what the fuck did I just read?

• On the post: Fox News On Its Way To Finding Out What ‘Actual Malice’ Means In Dominion’s Defamation Lawsuit

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2023 @ 03:56pm

  "the attorneys for the plaintiff have shoe polish for brains" Spoiler alert: they do not in fact have shoe polish for brains :)

• On the post: ‘Free Speech’ Twitter Is Now Globally Blocking Posts Critical Of The Modi Government

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2023 @ 09:25pm

  All of them, Katy

• On the post: Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2023 @ 06:54pm

  At this point, I assume these trolls are either Russian operatives or paid by Musk.

• On the post: Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2023 @ 03:34pm

  "Hot take"==stupid take There was no "full fledged censorship" to be okay with

• On the post: After Matt Taibbi Leaves Twitter, Elon Musk ‘Shadow Bans’ All Of Taibbi’s Tweets, Including The Twitter Files

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2023 @ 03:32pm

  “secular religion” Are we talking about football again?

• On the post: After Matt Taibbi Leaves Twitter, Elon Musk ‘Shadow Bans’ All Of Taibbi’s Tweets, Including The Twitter Files

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2023 @ 03:31pm

  I wasn't aware Koby was one of DeSantis's lawyers

• On the post: After Matt Taibbi Leaves Twitter, Elon Musk ‘Shadow Bans’ All Of Taibbi’s Tweets, Including The Twitter Files

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2023 @ 02:53pm

  Make him define 'woke' in a way that doesn't mean 'leftwing' Watch his head explode.

• On the post: After Matt Taibbi Leaves Twitter, Elon Musk ‘Shadow Bans’ All Of Taibbi’s Tweets, Including The Twitter Files

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2023 @ 02:52pm

  The rubber chicken is new. And typical of Musk's juvenile sense of humour

• On the post: After Matt Taibbi Leaves Twitter, Elon Musk ‘Shadow Bans’ All Of Taibbi’s Tweets, Including The Twitter Files

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2023 @ 02:51pm

  Billionaires are never loyal to underlings or poorer people. They are only loyal to other billionaires, who understand that they will share the tumbrels if the oppressed masses ever get their shit together. Musk only cares about one thing, and that's Musk. Everyone else in his universe is simply a NPC.

• On the post: Fox News On Its Way To Finding Out What ‘Actual Malice’ Means In Dominion’s Defamation Lawsuit

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2023 @ 02:44pm

  "stop with the vague innuendo and present charges and evidence to a court" The idea that Bill Barr's DOJ, let alone the entire Trump administration, somehow held back from going after Hunter Biden for four years, when the fucking POTUS was impeached for extorting another country in a feverish effort to pump up a corruption narrative, is utterly, utterly ludicrous. They have squat, and they know it. And all those house trolls who scream, "but, Hunter Biden!" each and every time something or someone contradicts their version of reality, know they have squat, or they would have produced actual evidence and not fever dreams. There is no evidence. There is no Joe Biden criming with his son, and to the extent that Hunter is corrupt, it appears to be common or garden corruption that is completely usual and legal in the current USA. It doesn't begin to approach Trump levels of corruption, which is only now, after fifty or more years, finally beginning to have the smallest of consequences. (The fucker won't ever go to prison - don't make me laugh.)

• On the post: Daily Deal: Scrivener 3

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2023 @ 07:24pm

  I bought this to help support Techdirt, but my Paypal was charged $33.98, instead of $29.99. Why the difference?

• On the post: Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2023 @ 07:19pm

  Mike could just title a post 'Twitter', and put nothing but 'Twitter' in the body, and they would froth at the mouth. It's Pavlovian at this point.

• On the post: Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2023 @ 07:23pm

  "Even one tweet or post ‘flagged’ by any government official" You can measure the inadequacies of our house trolls' arguments by the miniscule figleaf they clutch against them.

• On the post: Elon Musk Blocks Likes And Replies To Tweets That Link To Substack In A Pique Of Pettiness

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2023 @ 04:00pm

  Taibbi had credibility to start with?

• On the post: Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Reminds People He Laid Off That If They Disparage Him He May Sue Them

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2023 @ 03:55pm

  er, 'Titter' means to laugh in a mocking way, often at something sexual. I don't think it's deeper than that. Elon is just a dirty-minded 12 year old

• On the post: Italian Legislators Seek To Secure Their Existence And Future For Italian Children By Outlawing English Use By Citizens

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2023 @ 03:38pm

  "is it actually Italian?" Ask the French - excuse me, l'Acadamie Française. They do this all the time, and seem to think it's valid.

• On the post: NPR Was Twitter’s Example Of What Should NOT Be Labeled ‘State-Affiliated Media.’ Then Musk Added The Label And Retconned The Policy

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2023 @ 03:36pm

  Mike, what if you kept all the Twatter stories for one day, like #TwitTuesday or something, and posted them all at once? Because I would love to see if the house trolls would actually explode.* Purely as a social experiment, of course :) *And maybe exhaust our misguided and apparently indefagitible troll whisperers to the point where they stop feeding the bastards.

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