On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
- H. L. Mencken
That's fuckin' hilarious. You have literally no idea what you're talking about.
1> He's not a citizen.
2> Gotta be resident in Canada.
3> Gotta be part of the winning party.
4> Gotta be chosen by that party to be PM, which isn't gonna happen in any world even if he manages the above three.
You literally can't run for Prime Minister, dude. Maybe learn the fucking basics before spouting nonsense.
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He still needs to establish residency. He also needs to join a political party, become the PM candidate for that party, and win the election.
He could run as an independant...but the best case scenario for him there is he wins a single seat. I'm sure he'd love to be an irrelevant back bencher.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
- H. L. Mencken
No it isn't. You need to have spent at least 730 days in Canada over the last 5 years to retain residency.
And again, he would still need to be accepted into one of the political parties and become that party's candidate.
Go ask Maxime Bernier how well his "No vax, free speech" platform played out for his party during that last election...
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
- H. L. Mencken
The panic over this is extremely funny. Twitter has always been owned by the elite. This isn't new.
That being said, they absolutely ban you over ridiculous bullshit there that should never be bannable, sometimes with no reason, and an appeal process that refuses to let you talk to an actual person.
The number of people outing themselves in this thread and elsewhere on my other feeds essentially saying ‘unregulated free speech is bad because people might lie or say mean things’ is… well really disheartening. Like on the one hand it’s vindication for me but on the other… China’s over there, maybe weibo is more your speed.
That said we probably don’t want the ultra wealthy to single-handedly snap up Twitter or WaPo. I still support section 230 reform even if I personally like some of the things Musk says he wants to do with Twitter (open source anyone?). If you were ok with twitter last week, and suddenly aren’t today, you’ve got some soul searching to do. What is materially different now versus last week? There’s still a small cadre of elites controlling the town square. Unilateral control of the space is not a good thing regardless of who is calling the shots.
You're correct that he can't. Born in South Africa to a Canadian mother and South African father gives him the original dual citizenship. US came later.
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It's going from the wealthy to the wealthy, the only thing changing is that the new wealth doesn't line up with the viewpoints of the old wealth.
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It'd only be disheartening if you had absolutely no knowledge of what free speech actually is in either a legal or philosophical sense.
Free speech (which doesn't actually apply here given it's a private platform anyway, regardless of how much the clowns claiming 'public square' like to whinge) has always had exceptions in instances where speech would create danger to the public or to protected classes. And in this case, the speech which is being restricted fall under these categories; misinformation which creates public danger regarding things like climate change or vaccines, and... you know... hate speech.
So yeah; you basically just don't know what the hell you're talking about.
While moving away from personal monopolies of things like entertainment and social media would be good, not all elites are created equal.That said we probably don’t want the ultra wealthy to single-handedly snap up Twitter or WaPo. I still support section 230 reform even if I personally like some of the things Musk says he wants to do with Twitter (open source anyone?). If you were ok with twitter last week, and suddenly aren’t today, you’ve got some soul searching to do. What is materially different now versus last week? There’s still a small cadre of elites controlling the town square. Unilateral control of the space is not a good thing regardless of who is calling the shots.
In Musk's case, it's because he specifically has a history of reprising against critics of his person or conduct (see: Tesla's toxic work environment, calling the cave diver guy a pedophile, etc.), not understanding the public safety exception to free speech (see: refusing to restrict Russian state propaganda from Starlink), promoting misinformation which is dangerous to public safety (see: him spreading misinformation about COVID), as well as encouraging theft of intellectual property (see: refusing to credit artists for their work). All of which are far more easily facilitated through him controlling Twitter.
But at the end of the day, this is likely to be a poison pill for him. He financed the acquisition through borrowing which has proceeded to crash Tesla's stock, and Twitter isn't sufficiently profitable for him to be able to make a return on that acquisition. It remains a case of a weird nerd having a midlife crisis because his wife left him for another woman. Rofl.
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