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Daughter turning into something I don’t like? Buy out the thing she uses to try and regulate her. Very normal and healthy behavior

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He also blames a ridiculously exclusive school in Cali for the kids of ridiculouslu wealthy parents for her forming her own opinions about stuff. It’s the same as other conservatives claiming college brainwashes kids.

Also, we can take the “full blown communist” part as seriously as any other time a billionaire says it. She could have said something like “maybe rich people should pay more tax” and get that label from them.

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Oh for sure. Extreme statements like that always ring as “They’re not how I want them to be so I’m going to call them radical”.

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We want you to be well-educated, smart, and be a critical thinker that can think fo…wait…no, stop…not like that. We want you to critically think…but also arrive at the same correct conclusions as us…wtf, are you doing?

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They don’t even pretend to want critical thinking…

That was the big push behind “no child left behind”. A focus on rote memorization and following rules.

Because funding was tied to scores, teachers had to focus on what was being tested. And since critical thinking wasn’t tested, it became the lowest priority.

The “boots on the ground” conservatives may not be smart, but the ones at the top of the movement 100% understand what’s going on. And they’ve spent decades trying to increase their numbers.

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https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-business-b0a0f7e64c4616780459f012d172b1c9

One reason why Musk bought Twitter this week is because he had little choice. The world’s richest man spent months trying to back out of the $44 billion purchase agreement he originally signed in April. But the uncertainty was so disruptive to Twitter’s business that it sued him in the Delaware Court of Chancery to force the deal’s completion, and a judge gave a Friday deadline to complete the deal or face a November trial that Musk was likely to lose.

This is all bullshit. Self-aggrandizing lies to give the appearance that this massive failure was all in the plan. The guy was trying to play games with stocks and got caught. He’s a dumbass with no idea how the business he didn’t want to own but was forced to buy in the end works. It’s not deeper than that.

I’m sure his daughter hating him is very upsetting but it’s not why he set 40 billion dollars on fire.

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His daughter transitioning and being liberal drove him to the far right on Twitter, because he couldn’t accept it.

Those people kept telling him he should buy it to “save” it.

He started talking about it, and that’s where your article picks up.

It wasn’t just a whim, he had reason to start talking about buying Twitter, then was forced to actually go through with it.

He thinks he’s “saving” it because conservatives believe everyone thinks like them and are just scared to admit it, but his intentional actions are killing it.

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because conservatives believe everyone thinks like them and are just scared to admit it

just need to preserve this line because its so spot on

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Being rich implies you are evil. If you were good, you would give back to the people who create your wealth.

A good person understands they are not entitled to that much money with so much bad things in the world nor need it in the first place to live a decent live.

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