Republican Mega-Donor Purchases Massive Stake in Twitter

L.P.B. said:
Oh no, where will Moviebob, Spoony, Boogie2988, Tariq Nashid, Saira Rao, Lindsay Ellis, Kurt Eichenwald, Tim Wise, Brianna Wu, Jeff Holiday, Contrapoints, and most of Breadtube go to do nothing but post social media takes now!?
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On a noose, with any luck.
 
Morphic Tide said:
Vulture capitalism isn't your normal hatchet-firm, which are the ones who do the "gut everything even vaguely poor-performing" stuff. Vulture capitalism is when you do shit like take a leveraged buyout, then liquidate half the company's operational infrastructure, then walk off as it collapses under needing to pay off its own stock value with a small fraction of the income it had before.

Vulture capitalism isn't part of the "Creative Destruction" process, it's defined by being ripping out the wealth. It's killing off companies in their entirety to line the pockets of stock holders immediately. It's part of the golden parachute bullshit, not the market cleanup process.
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This is wrong. Hatchet firms and Vulture capitalism are basically synonyms. There is no difference, as all hatchet firms are basically called vulture capitalists. Also, general complaints about 'vulture capitalism' should go in the relevant thread about that video, here:
 
Guardian Box said:
Keep in mind that Singer is capitalist E Evil. He ruins companies, towns and industries to make personal profit.

Whatever he does with Twitter will probably not good for anyone, left or right.
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Considering the sheer amount of damage that Twitter has done to the public discourse and public sphere, that wouldn't be sufficient to what I would do if I could buy up Twitter.

Me, personally, I'd buy it up, shut it ALL DOWN, nuke the entire website from everywhere, and then sit a patent and copyright camp everything that made Twitter work in the hopes of preventing its resurrection under a new name.

Twitter has done more damage to public discourse and reporting in this country than any other form of social media. It is a large part of why politics have become so toxic. It's a core part of enabling and spreading cancel culture. It's a core part of the far left bubble that has radicalized media and academia. Twitter, structurally, is DESIGNED to create bubbles and inhibit actual discourse, which requires longer comments and not playing to the crowd. Instead, it encourages quick takes that receive applause and spread among those who agree with you, thus instead of dialog with people who disagree with you, you instead use them as punching bag targets for kudos from your own side.

It's toxic, it's destructive, and it should be shut down and prevented from resurrecting.
 
S'task said:
Considering the sheer amount of damage that Twitter has done to the public discourse and public sphere, that wouldn't be sufficient to what I would do if I could buy up Twitter.

Me, personally, I'd buy it up, shut it ALL DOWN, nuke the entire website from everywhere, and then sit a patent and copyright camp everything that made Twitter work in the hopes of preventing its resurrection under a new name.

Twitter has done more damage to public discourse and reporting in this country than any other form of social media. It is a large part of why politics have become so toxic. It's a core part of enabling and spreading cancel culture. It's a core part of the far left bubble that has radicalized media and academia. Twitter, structurally, is DESIGNED to create bubbles and inhibit actual discourse, which requires longer comments and not playing to the crowd. Instead, it encourages quick takes that receive applause and spread among those who agree with you, thus instead of dialog with people who disagree with you, you instead use them as punching bag targets for kudos from your own side.

It's toxic, it's destructive, and it should be shut down and prevented from resurrecting.
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But I shitpost there all the time.😥
 
S'task said:
Considering the sheer amount of damage that Twitter has done to the public discourse and public sphere, that wouldn't be sufficient to what I would do if I could buy up Twitter.

Me, personally, I'd buy it up, shut it ALL DOWN, nuke the entire website from everywhere, and then sit a patent and copyright camp everything that made Twitter work in the hopes of preventing its resurrection under a new name.

Twitter has done more damage to public discourse and reporting in this country than any other form of social media. It is a large part of why politics have become so toxic. It's a core part of enabling and spreading cancel culture. It's a core part of the far left bubble that has radicalized media and academia. Twitter, structurally, is DESIGNED to create bubbles and inhibit actual discourse, which requires longer comments and not playing to the crowd. Instead, it encourages quick takes that receive applause and spread among those who agree with you, thus instead of dialog with people who disagree with you, you instead use them as punching bag targets for kudos from your own side.

It's toxic, it's destructive, and it should be shut down and prevented from resurrecting.
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Well maybe they are means of simply changing the paradigm to prevent these problems?
 
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