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Sadly, the people still on there also seem toxically unaware of their role in enabling him.

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He's not lacking in self-awareness. His poisoning is deliberate and part of the Russia/Trump/GOP game plan to destroy democracy.

He's evil and a criminal, as are Trump and many GOP House members.

@georgetakei Oh, he sees that as a good result, especially since he got BBC to bend the knee (which is revealing of how the BBC HAS become state media doing the corrupt fascist Tories' bidding).

@georgetakei I‘m starting to think that getting rid of all halfway reasonable journalism on the platform is part of the plan. Which is worrying in multiple ways.

@georgetakei are you still on there George?

@georgetakei Nobody is that incompetent - it has to intentional sabotage.

@georgetakei Lets get NPR on here - I'll happily host their accounts and help them build their own instances on their own domain.

Just don't know how to reach anyone there ;) Maybe i'll go explore linkedIn heh (wish me luck!)

@georgetakei Elon will never - Ever - admit any error on his account. Whatever the topic.
There are only two opinions: His opinion and the wrong opinion.
If something doesn't go his way, it's always someone else's fault.

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If you lose NPR, you're really losing it.

@georgetakei and yet supposedly diligent people remain, as if somehow there will be redemption

@georgetakei Obviously, all these people who left Twitter are wrong and need to realize Elon Musk is actually Jesus.

That guy will not change, realize, or improve. Maybe one day he might get disillusioned, but that'll probably just be another episode of all this but worse.

Always nice to hear from George Takei. Somehow he didn't get Elon Musk's disease. See how being a good person is possible?

@georgetakei He will remain unaware. Narcissists don't change.

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Don't expect self-awareness from someone like that. I suppose he actually is mentally ill, and I mean this in a caring sort of way. Unfortunately he is too rich and powerful to seek and get appropriate therapy.

@georgetakei But he called himself Harry Ballz or something. So, you know, the Christian right's new anointed one.

@georgetakei ?Is there a downside to thinking he doesn't know what he's doing? Our dismissing it as him shooting himself in the foot, or wherever, may keep us from seeing where the gun is actually pointing.

@georgetakei I don’t think he lacks self-awareness, he just doesn’t care. I’d even bet he’s thoroughly enjoying himself. I just wish more people would stop propping up his toxic platform.

@georgetakei Unless he's doing it on purpose to appease Saudi investors who still can't get over the Arab Spring.

@georgetakei Elon is fully aware of what he’s doing at Twitter. He’s just doing the work for the Republican Neo Cons. The Republicans plan is to just break everything because they know it will take decades to fix anything because they will be there “gumming” up any attempt to fix anything.

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I think he knows exactly what he's doing.....

@georgetakei well, a brain drain is happening and soon all the smart people will be over here!

@georgetakei You hate to see it

@georgetakei I am not entirely convinced he is unaware. I don’t know what the endgame is, but I just can’t help thinking he is deliberately tanking Twitter.

@georgetakei Elon has no room for anyone who doesn't blindly and loudly worship him. He'll continue driving Twitter into the ground and then try to socialize his loses by demanding a bailout because "the defacto town square" of "free speech" is "too big to fail."

@georgetakei I'm afraid things are going exactly as planned over there. He bought Twitter explicitly to destroy it.

@georgetakei which is why NASA needs to cancel their contract with SpaceX. With oblivious Musk in charge it's an accident waiting to happen.

@georgetakei Sounds familiar…

@georgetakei I think Elons plan all along is to run the Twit site into bankruptcy. Then he will claim a huge capital loss that he can use to reduce or eliminate any income tax.

@georgetakei he might run for POTUS in 24!

@georgetakei Now that's just cruel, give the guy a break. One doesn't get to be a multi-billionaire titan of industry without possessing a Bio-Level-4 hazmat-suit-level toxic lack of self-awareness of one's actions.

@georgetakei Elon is playing 12D chess against lizard people

@georgetakei now if NPR and PBS would set up their own independent instances on Mastodon it would be 10x the impact. Hopefully soon.

Mastodon isn't just "social" media (too often anti-social media elsewhere) it is people's media. They should be present.

@georgetakei How does that prayer go? Lord, please grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man 😏

@georgetakei Here I am now freshly signed up because of it all! Glad I never got super heavy into Twitter, but, wow this social media landscape is getting to be too much nowadays.

@georgetakei I'm still waiting for him to replace himself after offering to step down after he lost the poll that he himself started.

@georgetakei "he remains toxically lacking in self-awareness of his actions."

Or he is very well aware of the effects of his actions, and he making Twitter into the misogynistic, homophobic, racist, xenophobic hellscape that he wants it to be.

@georgetakei I think you underestimate his awareness. He knows exactly what he is doing.

@georgetakei or alternatively, NPR chose to leave Elon's platform due to mismanagement and/or the platform being run by a jerk

@georgetakei

Mr. Takei,
Let all of our voices be heard and let NPR know they are more than welcome here on Mastodon.

I just sent my e-mail. How about you?

https://help.npr.org/contact/s/

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Serves anyone right for still being there.

@georgetakei Elon is doing to Twitter what Murdoch did to Myspace. Two foreigners ruining shit for Americans, and the world for that matter.

@georgetakei Tell Mark Hamill to get over here!

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Or, he is being deliberate. Simply creating the largest microblogging platform for right-wing extremists.

@georgetakei Except, I think he is doing what he set out to do: destroy Twitter. He's already changed its legal ownership and logo: now it's an "X" owned business and the logo is a Japanese dog. Farewell, Bluebird.

And KISS MY ASS, JACK, YOU FUCKER.

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Disappointing the BBC just interviewed him and let him control his narrative. He didn't get called out on his bull and his destructive behaviors. He is ruining so many people's lives and livelihoods. No one, at least no one who can make a difference, is doing anything about it

@georgetakei Now that you're here on Mastodon it feels like back when twitter was fun! Thank you!

@georgetakei So what? It's his company and he can do what he wants with it...surely? It's up to those not happy about it to leave.

@georgetakei As @fraying says, if you assume that Elon wants Twitter to die, then everything he does makes sense.

@georgetakei Perhaps this will finally usher in a tsunami wave of companies to abandon Twatter. One can only hope.

@georgetakei I think Elon is quite self aware. He simply does not care what anyone else thinks.

@georgetakei https://mastodon.social/@MissingThePt/109649285685971495

@georgetakei National Public Radio doesn't include white nationalist talking points in its “editorial coverage” so they have labeled it "state-affiliated" media.

@georgetakei He poisons everything he touches, pure Evil reincarnated.
Any can easily imagine him on the role of a slave owner or Nazi concentration camp guard.

@georgetakei Does Elon remind you of anyone else in the news?

@georgetakei Then there's the people who say "This is part of this plan - to chase away legit news!"

I don't think it was part of his plan - just his excuse.

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*Community Note: this assumes that Elon Musk isn't being paid by MBS/Putin/Thiel to discredit & destroy twitter