Or, you can pay so that people verify that they’re actually shitting on you (If Musk really wants to make money from Twitter)

November 2022

“Elon Musk wanted Twitter to be “a haven for free speech. Because let’s be honest – up until now, people have really held back on Twitter. But since his takeover on Friday, Musk has been scrambling to figure out how to make this whole thing work. Musk was forced to spend $44 Billion, because it was a troll that turned into a real thing. He used his free speech, and he paid a big price. It’s going to be hard to make money from this thing, as Twitter is not profitable and has substantial debt. Hence, Musk’s plan, leaked on Monday, to charge verified users $20 a month (later revised to $8 a month) to maintain their blue check status. I guess he’s hoping that everyone else on Twitter will also make terrible financial decisions like he did. You realize with $8 a month, you could get Netflix, you get Paramount+, you could get Hulu. Or, you can pay so that people verify that they’re actually shitting on you.” —Trevor Noah

“Even funnier, was the reason Musk gave for the policy – because he’s sick of ‘Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue check mark,’ he wrote in a tweet which praised the blue check mark payment plan as ‘power to the people!’ If you’re trying to create equality on Twitter, why charge anyone to be verified? Give it everyone for free or give it to no one, because it doesn’t make sense to offer it as ‘equality’ and then put a price on it. Can you imagine if MLK was out there like ‘I have a dream, I have a dream and I’ll tell you all about it for $8.99 a month’. If Musk really wants to make money from Twitter, he should charge white people to say the N-word.” —Trevor Noah

https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/08/1001-ways-to-make-america-great-and.html

“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth 

and Orwell’s 1984.”