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Elon vs Twitter update: Elon helped America win , Tesla stock through the roof

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by tinman, Mar 26, 2022.

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Who is for democracy?

  1. Elon

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    57.6%
  2. Twitter

    9 vote(s)
    15.3%
  3. Chinese democracy by Guns N Roses

    16 vote(s)
    27.1%
  1. Amiga

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    You say the FBI cheated to get Biden elected. Now you aren't so sure if it actually swung the election in 2020. I see that as a change of mind. Thumb up for considering new inform and changing your mind.

    Put yourself in their shoe and think carefully what you would do.... it wasn't clear cut and they didn't know. I will get back to this thread later. Gotta run.
     
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    Even the venerable, conservative WSJ refused to post the story initially because of the way it smelled. Rudy Giuliani hasn’t exactly been a trustworthy source… the man went to Eastern Europe to go find Biden dirt and viola…

    If anything Hillary and Trump are now closer to even. GOP Comey breaking the email server recommendations weeks before the election plus Russia supporting the GOP candidate.
     
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  3. Zboy

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    We finally have proof that Trump was cheated off of presidency.
     
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  4. Astrodome

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    Nah, not really. Cheating doesn't guarantee a win. I have been consistent in my thoughts here.
     
  5. Xopher

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    I don't think it is even close. 2016 was against a candidate. 2020 was about a candidate's son. Now Elon keeps screaming about getting rid of the bots. It is known in 2016 Russia and other countries were running disinformation campaigns, with bots, on social media to try and get Trump elected. Now do we know if those campaigns were the thing that pushed Trump over the top? No, but it didn't hurt.

    Now it isn't like the FBI went and took down the NYPost article. They didn't shut down the NY Post website. The FBI warned Twitter and others about Russia pulling the same **** they had been pulling for years. They did not specify the Post article. Twitter took it upon themselves to say. "The Russians keep putting out disinformation. Is this laptop story more of the same? Why didn't they release this story 6 months ago? This could be more false political bullshit. We need to do our due diligence." Twitter had no duty or obligation to amplify the NY Post's reach.
     
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    libs perfect meal

     
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  8. Amiga

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    Except you said "the FBI cheated to get Biden elected".
     
  9. Amiga

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    Pretty much everyone except a tabloid. Because it smelled like sh*t at the time.
     
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  10. Astrodome

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    In retrospect, I would have worded that differently.
     
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    This is an error that many people make with this. These folks were not saying the laptop wasn't Hunter Biden's but rather the NY Post Story was Russian disinfo. The idea that the laptop showed incriminating info on Joe Biden is the disinformation, not that the laptop belonged to Hunter Biden. A lot of people doubted it was hunter biden's laptop incorrectly, but to date I have not see any intelligence official current or former ever say much on that.
     
  12. Os Trigonum

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    this is what the letter says:

    It is for all these reasons that we write to say that the arrival on the US poli<cal scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it related to his <me serving on the Board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian informa<on opera<on.

    We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal aSorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement -- just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.
    again, the FBI had the laptop for almost a year. I see your point but I believe you are splitting hairs. The FBI had plenty of time to analyze both the laptop and the content; it appears they did analyze each; and they misleadingly briefed the intelligence community for whatever reason(s).
     
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    These are former intelligence folks for one, and two, even in this quote they are saying they don't know, but that they are suspicious. Certainly good to be suspicious about the contents given the circumstances.

    They weren't wrong, they never made a claim, just that they had big suspicions.
     
  14. Ubiquitin

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    This is basically what my kid orders.

    edit: he is a picky eater and only likes the bun.
     
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  15. Os Trigonum

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    no accident in the framing

    as it turned out the only disinformation was the letter signed by the 51
     
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    i nominate this as our national dish
     
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    Arrest Joe Biden. Make all major corporations owned by tax payers.


    All your problems you b**** about here for hours a week would be solved
     
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    related
     
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    The Post story was claiming that there was proof of Joe Biden being involved. There was not. That is misinformation.
     
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    Mister Ten Percent. pretty convincing even if circumstantial

     

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