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Musk says he's a free speech absolutist (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For Musk free speech is code word for "things I agree with"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We all know the logical conclusion here is that elon is going to get the nuclear codes. He'll then hold the entire world hostage saying...

"I'm going to do a very cool dance soon. This is a dance that will make everyone want to be BEST friends with me and say, you are the coolest person I know, El-Man! Which is the nickname they'll give me and I'll have jackets made that say it. So I'm going to do this dance on television, I'm going to buy all of the networks that there are and air it simultaneously. Now, if I hear anyone laugh at the dance, which is serious and cool, or post something making fun of this dance on social media (which will again be a very cool dance) then I will incinerate the entire world in a thermonuclear holocaust, a world that mostly consists of my own children and ex wives because honey badger don't care - I'm rick bickh!!!" [Limp starfish jump]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

We're the rain

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Everything Musk says is a lie, just like his boyfriend, Trump.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Same free speech Putin practices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Unless the speech is "shooting CEOs is OK."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why the heck don't we just deport Musk to Texas and then secede Texas from the US?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

he's still rich though, he'd probably buy texas if we did that. Do you really want Musk to get his own country?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

He's already doing that.

Both getting to control a country and buying Texas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

America is so fucked

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Always has been. 🔫

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I’m sure it was really nice prior to the late 15th century

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I wish you were wrong

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"Secede"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What happened to Mexico?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They moved to Europe after the election.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

You can't take mexico to europe, we already have Mexico in Europe.

Mexico in Europe: 🇪🇸

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The blue part is obviously land

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Oh I see now. It's all Mississippi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

global warming

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As long as he absolutely gets to decide which speech is free and which is very very expensive

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

This, exactly.

All right wingers that scream about freespeech are screaming for the same thing.

The freedom for them to say whatever they want, and the freedom to silence anyone who calls them out and proves them wrong.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Musk is just another dipshit authoritarian, who thinks "speech" is reserved for people that matter (billionaires). He'll sue the ass off of anyone else whos speech he doesn’t like.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Elon is busy turning X back into an echo chamber, except the pendulum has swung to the other side. It's a shame people find such solace in echo chambers -- intellectualism does not progress if you only speak with people you agree with. Indeed, it narrows conversation and thought so much it just turns into a circle jerk.

Guess what? The real world is nasty and dirty and you are never going to agree with everyone. A preschool isn't as safe a space as what Elon wants to (re)create.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I like the balance we've found on Lemmy. We can discuss some pretty conservative ideas, but there's zero intellectual value to transphobia or any other hate speech. People shouldn't be required to re-explain their right to exist every generation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Elon, go back to Africa.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm not good at metaphors... Does this mean he's using "X" to shield us from free speech?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That’s exactly how the image reads to me, lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean no, the shield would have to face the other way for it to be blocking free speech.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The way “FREE SPEECH” is up at the top, it looks like it’s labeling the rain going past his shield, while he is blocking the rest.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It is a good metaphor, just maybe not fpr the reasons he thinks

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