I think preemptively arresting someone is a little dodgy, but I’d have to know more of the details before outright condemning that.
The rest of them though, I don’t have a problem with that. As I said, your rights end where mine begin. The scumbag baptist protesting funerals would never be tolerated anywhere else, and I see that as a good thing.
I’d much rather have the British policing by consent system than the American do what I say or I’ll shoot you system.
Any police force uses the threat of violence to enforce the laws. Yes, the white glove treatment that is often displayed by British style police officers looks better, but they bring out the sticks and sprays quick enough if there is resistance. Unfortunately for some innocent people, those don’t do much against armed criminals.
The whole point of free speech is not making value judgements. As has been proven multiple times, the people deciding what makes bad speech then control speech. Both by what they allow and what they disallow. The counter for the Westboro Baptist Church was more united counter speech that actually brought people with little in common together.
Some people equate speech with violence, and it simply isn’t true. This is something pushed so the cause for controlling speech can be advanced.
There goes a legend. I like her sister (Crystal Gayle) better, but I will miss Loretta Lynn.
I let this sit for a while, but if you kept up on it yourself, you know he started finding ways to object to the sale about the time that his Tesla stock started going down.
Skipping past all that, it has settled down to Twitter suing Musk to force him to buy the company for $44 billion. He doesn’t want to go through a trial and agreed to it. This week, the investor group that was going to chip in over $1 billion backed out.
He’s on his own now. To avoid the trial, he has to get the money quick to buy Twitter. If he can’t before it goes to trial and if Twitter wins, the court can force him to sell assets to make the purchase. What’s his biggest asset? Tesla stock.
Elon Musk is facing the possibility he would have to sell enough stock that he would no longer be the controlling shareholder in Tesla. Plus, his plans for making Twitter a private company cuts off a lot of revenue.
So not only could he kill off Twitter with his changes, he could wind up killing his ownership in Tesla in a forced purchase of Twitter. Remember, Myspace was once the hot stuff and valued at $12 billion. Through a lot of bad moves that let other companies like Twitter and Facebook gain ground, it was bought for an undisclosed amount that was around $35 million in 2011. Musk’s plans for Twitter look like they’ll fall in the bad moves category as well.
He fucked around.
He found out.
Fuck 2022.
Quite the mother of all annus horribiluses.
And as we age every year will get worse until we end up old people talking about famous people the youngins don’t even know existed.
Yeah, I was there when Mr. Beast first got started…
Gallagher.- I wasn’t particularly a fan, but he was an influence in my life.
Batman has faced a lot of villains, but an even worse one took his voice. No info on what type of cancer hit Kevin Conroy and took him in a very short period of time.
It’s a bad joke, but are we sure it wasn’t his brother that died, that did the same routine under the same name?
Ugh…
Production of the Queen of the Skies. After 52 years, the last has been built.
