Libs always use the stupid argument that the Second Amendment doesn’t give you the right to own an AR-15 because it doesn’t actually specify “AR-15” on the parchment. And yet they seem to think the First Amendment gives them not just the right to post on Twitter, but the right to be heard. Here’s a New York Times opinion columnist who wrote a piece on how Elon Musk “bought your favorite neighborhood bar and ruined it,” and then immediately posts a link to his column on … Twitter, so that more people will read it.
He complains that “regulars” now have to pay a cover charge; actually, it’s still free for everyone, unlike his column, which is behind a paywall. So he puts a free ad for his piece on Twitter, and then anyone who clicks gets hit with a subscriber log in. The “regulars” have already paid up.
Elon Musk bought your favorite neighborhood bar and ruined it.
Me @nytopinion https://t.co/xBXahK3GXR
— farhad manjoo (former bluecheck) (@fmanjoo) April 14, 2023
“Former blue check” Farhad Manjoo whines:
About six months ago, Elon Musk bought your favorite neighborhood bar. Then he fired veteran bouncers and bartenders, tried to stiff the landlord and at least one vendor, and demanded that regulars pay a cover charge. He’s frequently struggled to serve his customers, yet he’s penalized them for mentioning the competition. He’s tamped down the revelry in general, really — a lot of conversation at his watering hole has been drowned out by Musk’s own never-ending stage act, which consists mainly of him yelling dad jokes at customers through a bullhorn.
We thought all the serious journalists had moved to the bar down the street, “Mastodon,” but Manjoo (they/them/he/him) doesn’t give his Mastodon handle in his Twitter bio.
He says, in a self-important rant inside same neighborhood bar.
— J.G. Petruna (@jgpetruna) April 15, 2023
I personally think all you people using Twitter to complain how bad Twitter has become is becoming more unbearable than Elon Musk. And that is setting the bar really low…
— David Tarp (@TarpCPH) April 15, 2023
This is like writing a bad review on Yelp because your “favorite bar” you have been a freeloader at for years made you pay for your own drinks
— Ian Travels (@travelvc) April 15, 2023
As usual, the NYT opinion is not based in reality.
— Them Bones (@Lateral50084526) April 15, 2023
Don't let the door hit ya then.
— MIKΞ STAHL (@mikeastahl) April 15, 2023
I like the bar a lot better now the liberals aren't running it anymore.
— Jona Olssen (@JumpieO) April 15, 2023
I kind of like it actually.
— James Molly (@1stAmendmentBoy) April 15, 2023
As a 12 year user, This is the best twitter ever been!! .. it was brutal for years towards the end of Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gadde, they made it almost unusable at times with how they forced an agenda and a one sided view down everyone’s throat.. feels more open now, more real
— Langley (@BLangley401) April 14, 2023
I hate this place I always come to
— Roberto Rivera🇺🇸⚾️☕️🦮⚛️ (@RobertoRiveraXX) April 15, 2023
No, he made it happy hour all the time.
— TexasSloopy (@SloopyTexas) April 15, 2023
Yeah, it was a bar where the juke box always played the same song and you got thrown out for looking cross-eyed at the wrong patron.
— Jerome (@GetRyback92) April 15, 2023
Your neighborhood bar refused access to people who are different from you. Diversity is a good thing.
— dlux (@cmjdlux) April 15, 2023
Open your own bar.
— BF WELLINGTON. 🌪🌪🏖 🏝 (@ChrisA02076430) April 15, 2023
It is broken because people you don't like have the possibility now to speak out?
— W. Esp (@Wessssp) April 15, 2023
Translation: Dem complains that Twitter is not woke echo chamber anymore 🥱
— 🇺🇸 Davout (@Davout1770) April 15, 2023
He cites as a sign of Twitter’s decline that Donald Trump’s arraignment wasn’t a bigger deal than it was “supposed” to be.
We need more censorship and more vaccinations to make Twitter great again.
— Koert Tijdens (@Koertjes) April 15, 2023
"the company is now worth less than half of what he paid for it"
Yeah right. pic.twitter.com/W7Ua0UbO0e
— Rogerio Silva (@RogerZico10) April 15, 2023
New accounts and minutes are at all time highs. 🤡
— Mason (@tweetfacts2me) April 14, 2023
So why are you still here?
— Blobby Fatt (@BlobbyFatt) April 15, 2023
Seriously, more people were promising to leave Twitter if Musk bought it than celebrities promising to move to Canada if Trump won. We remember all of the very serious people tweeting their goodbyes and their forwarding addresses at Mastodon. You don’t see those anymore.
***
Related:
NPR asks for Elon Musk’s reaction to its taking its 50+ Twitter accounts and going home https://t.co/COHS1UYcdM
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 12, 2023
Join the conversation as a VIP Member