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It is a major turnaround for Musk, who previously said he wouldn’t let Jones back on the platform despite repeated calls to do so. Last year, Musk pointed to the death of his first-born child and tweeted, “I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”
Thankfully for him, his sycophants have the memories of goldfish.
Musk pointed to the death of his first-born child
He lied about his first-born dying in his arms, to win an internet argument:
Elon Musk’s ex-wife refutes his claim that firstborn child died in his arms ... ‘And not that it matters to anyone except me, because it is one of the most sacred and defining moments of my life, but I was the one who was holding him’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/justine-musk-elon-musk-dying-son-b2234938.html
It’s easy, considering his knobgobblers are the same sort of people who make up shit to forgive Trump for everything possible. They just have to tell themselves “well Alex Jones didn’t do that, he was framed by LIBRULS”
"...I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children..."
Apparently he has mercy for such people now.
How heartwarming 🤮
Kinda like the time he said he wouldn't ban the jet guy and then did like 3 days later.
I remember some people saying, "nah, you don't see it from his perspective, if your son's life was in trouble and you owned the platform, you'd do the same thing"
I kinda hate that logic because it assumes I'd say the stupid shit enough to put myself into that situation. Not to mention his family's life wasn't actually in danger.
Several people posted proof of him lying about that also, but even if he wasn't, the only thing that changed was he got a full helping of how "free speech absolutism" personally affects him, and maybe that it's not such a great idea?
Goldfish have long memories.
That'll bring those high-dollar advertisers back to Twitter! Good work!
Still a long way to go to be considered a "free speech absolutist".
He has failed since the start on that front.
I'll start considering his claim of being a "free speech absolutist" when he unbans the account that uses publicly available information to track his private plane.
FYI, he's still tracking Elon's jet, on Mastodon now. @elonjet
Yeah, I check in every so often out of curiosity. He took a 9-minute flight last year.
His aircraft took a 9 minute flight. Elon was not necessarily on board. Sometimes aircraft are moved for logistical reasons.
Funny, I never hear of large commercial airliners making 9-minute flights for logistical reasons? What logistical reason would that be beyond 'Elon doesn't want to travel all the way to that airport when there's a closer one?'
Aircraft are moved all the time for logistical reasons. These are known as "empty leg flights".
For example if you will fly from Chicago to NY, but your charter plane will arrive and disembark in Milwaukee. After disembarking, it will take a short flight empty between the two airports.
And all of this is transparent to the passengers. It's not like the charter company says, "Hey if you meet the plane in Milwaukee you can save us the fuel". Kind of like when you call a taxi, the dispatcher doesn't tell you how far the taxi had to drive empty in order to pick you up.
Yes, from Chicago to New York, fine. This is from one airport in the San Francisco area to another airport in the San Francisco area. Give me the logistical reason for that.
Elon arrives at one airport. Someone else wants to use his jet, departing from a different airport (Elon isn't the only person who uses that aircraft). The plane is moved empty from one airport to the other.
Why can't they just use CalTrans to get to the original airport since it's only five stops between the two and far less polluting?
The 5 stops on Caltrain between SFO and SJC is disingenuous. Assuming starting at SFO, you need to take BART to Millbrae and then Caltrain to Santa Clara and then a bus to SJC. The whole thing would take like 1hr45min if you timed a baby bullet express train perfectly. But yeah if drove or hired a driver you could get there in 40 min depending on traffic.
Because the passengers don't know where the aircraft is.
So for instance Musk might say "Gwynne Shotwell needs to fly to Austin on my jet on July 1." Shotwell says "I'll fly out of XXX airport". Then in June, Musk flies to YYY airport.
They aren't going to call Shotwell before her flight and say, "Turns out the plane just landed very close to you. Do you mind flying out of YYY instead to save us some fuel?" They simply reposition the plane.
So in other words, it's to be convenient to Elon and his cohorts. Which is what I said earlier. I'm not sure why you think that's justifiable.
It's justified because it's how professional pilots are expected to operate, and there is no reason to make an exception in this case.
For that matter, it's also how car-sharing is expected to operate. Imagine you took an Uber to your hotel, and the driver said "Hey, my next fare is two blocks from your hotel. So how about I drop you off there, it's just a five minute walk the rest of the way. Plus, it would save me from driving with no passenger for a few minutes, thus wasting fuel." I think the vast majority of us would say, "No thanks, drive me all the way to my hotel".
OMG please let him overestimate his skill as a pilot
I doubt he pilots them himself.
Yeah that era of billionaire is unfortunately over. Now they just think they’re engineers for some reason.
Thanks! I hadn't realized
And stops suing journalists for doing journalism.
Like when he canceled a tesla order of someone who was critical of him
https://www.fastcompany.com/3056275/elon-musk-cancels-bloggers-tesla-order-after-critical-post
Lmao and the "critical" customer still slobbered all over Elon's cock afterwards.
I don’t think anyone serious or sensible believed that Elton was out to achieve that.
Elton
Well, he is the Rocket Man
Read this as “free speech abolitionist”
Checkmate, advertisers!
He hadn’t already?
I'm now convinced he has been replaced by an AI that has been fueled on Reddit comments
Knowing Elon and how he has changed this is not too surprising.
He hasn't changed. He just broke the one rule rich people have. "Don't talk to poor people".
Damn thing tanked
Democrats did it*