America & World IV: Trump's Taxing Day

[Neon Ignition]

Elon Musk offers general amnesty to suspended Twitter accounts | Elon Musk | The Guardian
From next week Musk will re-enable nearly all suspended Twitter accounts allowing Ku Klux Klan members, Katy Hopkins etc to return to the platform

[briareos_kerensky]

Is he trying to drive the platform's profitability to the ground within three months thinking there's some kind of return policy or business insurance?
Or that after destroying Twitter, someone else will pick it up for cheap?

[QualityChimp]

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/...-feature-price
Want better performance from your new car?
Mercedes will sell it to you as a subscription DLC!

BMW have already started doing this with heated seats and whatnot - stuff that's already been installed.

[Asura]

BMW have already started doing this with heated seats and whatnot - stuff that's already been installed.

The worst part of all that, too, is that if the heated seats break, paying the subscription doesn't cause BMW to fix them. It only enables something which is physically there.

[Asura]

Elon Musk offers general amnesty to suspended Twitter accounts | Elon Musk | The Guardian
From next week Musk will re-enable nearly all suspended Twitter accounts allowing Ku Klux Klan members, Katy Hopkins etc to return to the platform

"We should allow all the banned accounts back."
<ISIS has joined the chat>
"Wait not like that-"

[wakka]

And yet the 'free speech absolutist' won't allow Alex Jones back on. Not that Alex Jones should be allowed back on. He's a piece of ****.

But here's Musk:

He wrote that his own child had died, and that he "had no mercy" for anyone who "would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame".

How is that an egalitarian town square? That's just him making a call based on his instincts and emotions.

[Cassius_Smoke]

The thing we all said would happen to Twitter is happening

'50 of the platform's top 100 advertisers, which have accounted for about $2 billion in spending since 2020, "have either announced or seemingly stopped advertising" in recent weeks. These companies had brought in over $750 million in advertising just in 2022, said the report, which relied on data current as of November 21. '

[Neon Ignition]

US court strikes down appointment of special master to review Trump records | Donald Trump | The Guardian
Trumps successful appointment of a Special Master review of his records has been overturned

[Cassius_Smoke]

US court strikes down appointment of special master to review Trump records | Donald Trump | The Guardian
Trumps successful appointment of a Special Master review of his records has been overturned

Damn. So the criminal investigation can use any and all retrieved documents in court without any prior review/removal from Trump's team. Looks like he's going to have a rough day in court.

[Lebowski]

Kanye ye in free fall had an interview with Alex jones and even managed to shock him he said he loves jewish people and loved Nazis and then said the following

I love everyone, and Jewish people are not going to tell me, 'who you can love, you know, us'... every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/kanye-west-suspended-from-twitter-after-sharing-image-of-swastika-and-praising-hitler/ar-AA14OFn0

This follows on from him saying things like

slavery was "a choice"

i like hitler

Sean "Diddy" Combs is being controlled by "the Jewish people"

he's always come across as being a bit odd but i think this is him completely unraveling.

[QualityChimp]

I hate that Jones still has a platform, but I guess if he has to have one, showing West's unsuitability to be an inspirational figure is a win.

[briareos_kerensky]

You know it's bad when you get banned from Trump's platform.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/06/trump-organization-guilty-verdict-tax-fraud

Trumps organisation has been found guilty on all charges of tax fraud. It will only be fined $1m but it's expected the organisation will go under at some point as a result. Supposedly much of the evidence leading to the outcome was due to showing Trump directly instructed the fraud meaning the greater implication could be what this will mean to the other investigations incoming.

[Asura]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...dict-tax-fraud
Trumps organisation has been found guilty on all charges of tax fraud. It will only be fined $1m but it's expected the organisation will go under at some point as a result. Supposedly much of the evidence leading to the outcome was due to showing Trump directly instructed the fraud meaning the greater implication could be what this will mean to the other investigations incoming.

I worry for the good people of that country, though, if the various trials against Trump turn a corner and bar him from running for President. Just because there will definitely be a violent uprising, possibly multiple, in a nation where so many people own firearms. Most of his supporters will love that he dodged paying taxes.

[MartyG]

At the rate he's going, he won't make it through the primaries - whilst there are still core supporters, it's probably not enough to get him on the ticket as a Republican candidate at this point. He can still stand as an independent (assuming there are no criminal convictions in the meantime), but the recent mid-terms have shown that shine has dulled a bit over the last few years.