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   Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 22:00:05 JST Jay Baker

   "At Musk’s functional companies — SpaceX and to some degree, Tesla — he’s put in a playpen where he can’t damage the real work. At Twitter, we saw what happened when there was no padding between him and the company: he began switching things off at random, firing engineers willy-nilly (and then trying to rehire them), and turning its revenue into a giant bonfire. Now Musk has brought this strategy to the federal government." Elizabeth Lopatto of The Verge asks: "Can anyone stop President Musk?" https://www.theverge.com/politics/605609/musk-trump-doge-takeover-crisis

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     Plague Island Resistance (joegrowling@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 22:26:21 JST Plague Island Resistance

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     @MediaActivist he didn't buy Twatter to run it as a business, it was to weaponize it.

     It worked.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 22:39:06 JST Jay Baker

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     • MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸

     @fkamiah17 Yes, it is still quite surprising anyone believes a man "makes" a billion when he simply takes a billion. All fruits of others' labour. The principle of capitalism, after all.

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     MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 (fkamiah17@syzito.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 22:39:09 JST MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸

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     @MediaActivist The whole idea that this guy's some kind of business genius kinda baffled me from the start and has only become more pronounced over the last few years.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 22:39:58 JST Jay Baker

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     • IntrospectionException

     @djzerkel Yes, to Mars preferably, seeing as he seems to like it.

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     IntrospectionException (djzerkel@discuss.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 22:39:59 JST IntrospectionException

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     @MediaActivist Deport him?

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 22:41:00 JST Jay Baker

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     • Plague Island Resistance

     @JoeGrowling Absolutely, even at a loss, if necessary. The benefits for him were always to be long-term.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 22:44:40 JST Jay Baker

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     • MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸

     @fkamiah17 Not a bad start, like Jeff Bezos's little loan of nearly a quarter of a million from mommy and daddy to get set up.

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     MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 (fkamiah17@syzito.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 22:44:41 JST MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸

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     @MediaActivist And that South African emerald mine he gold for his 18th, of course.