I think Chinese media could play a big role in promoting more consciousness of what's going on over there.
I think in the short term yeah but I wouldn't be surprised if we ban Chinese media eventually for that reason.
I used to play bar trivia with a group of massive libs and the men on the team would pick arguments with me about China every week and then get mad when I wouldn't immediately agree with them. The lady in the group thanked me before she moved away bc she didn't think she'd ever heard someone talk about China the way I had before though so it wasn't completely pointless.
I don't think he was making bank though I think he was just doing it for the love of the game!
so...like any American social media site?
i had a friend in high school who would set his alarm during the summer so he'd be up in time to grind the ladder for Diablo (can't remember which one bc i'm not a gamer.)
he can't allow himself to be perceived as normal
no danger in that ever happening!
Disowning his trans daughter? To each their own, we don't know what happened behind closed doors
to be fair, most elon fans think think this is cool and fine.
I don't know, it just reminds me of when Musk bought twitter and ppl online (especially this site) were like "hahahahah it's gonna implode in a week loolololol" and guess what, twitter is still around and now Musk is even more politically powerful.
Nobody thought buying twitter was gonna hurt him politically but if you're acting like the vibe of that place didn't shift basically immediately (remember, slurs immediately started trending after he bought it), i want some of what you're smoking.
i am so lucky for getting to see both Fire Walk With Me and Eraserhead for the first time in a theater.
Edit: I forgot I also caught Blue Velvet for the first time in a theater too. god i love living five minutes away from a sick indie theater.
I think he tried to back out because he didn't really want to buy the site to begin with and thought he could bail because he's a known liar. It was bad for him since he lost billions buying a thing that is not going to even get close to turning a profit, that's bleeding out users because of his decisions and is now less relevant culturally and for business than ever. These just aren't political implications right now because he's super rich which gives him the ability to eat the losses. Buying Twitter is a thing that helped make him less popular in the mainstream so it hurt his PR.
The reason why i don't think it hurt him politically is because that's not how our political economy works. he's rich enough that he could still help fund get out of the vote for Trump, which bought him influence. Buying twitter was a mistake, but it couldn't sink him because he's that rich and already connected to the government through his contracts.