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Serious question: who gives a ****? You can’t claim revenue doesn’t matter just because Elon can’t get that advertising revenue from a major organization of advertisers. Advertisers don’t owe Twitter money and if Elon can’t find a way to get them back in the fold, that’s ultimately on him.
Not if the advertisers continue to not to want to take part. These platforms don’t make their money on users, they make it on selling things to those users. Maybe enough advertisers come back to change the current situation, but there’s just no money in simply providing a platform for people to post things.
Advertisers will come back as the evil regime running the rest is out out to pasture. No other reason to avoid the best customer base on the internet.
But it’s fine. You’ll see it when it happens and act surprised.
And now it looks like Elon is using X to teach his Grok. Always thinking ahead and anyone actually doubting him is a moron.
Where’s your evidence that companies are caving to pressure from the government rather than the natural aversion to risk in advertising?
nsacpi
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zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
Aren't you the same person harping on the AI bubble bursting in other threads? But because it's Elon's let me guess is ****s rainbows and pisses lemonade.
AI bubble is absolutely bursting in short term. Long term it’s obvious where things are headed.
cajunrevenge
Well-known member
One of the few things Republicans and Democrats agree on is **** the third party. You are naive as usual if you think Democrats are the only ones who do this.
Tapate50
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I usually nail it, that’s very true.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
u and da wife
Tapate50
Well-known member
That’s correct, yes.
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
Holy hell
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Ever since Donald J. Trump issued a series of pardons and commutations as he left office, he and his allies have defended his administration’s vetting of clemency candidates, claiming they went through a vigorous screening process.
But the case of one of those convicts — a New York drug dealer and predatory lender named Jonathan Braun, who had a history of violence and faced an array of other legal problems — has stood out and raised doubts about how rigorous the vetting was.
On Tuesday, the police on Long Island arrested Mr. Braun after he allegedly punched his 75-year-old father-in-law in the head. Mr. Braun struck his father-in-law twice as he tried to protect his daughter from Mr. Braun, who was chasing after her while the couple had an argument in their home, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s office.
Mr. Braun’s wife, according to court documents, told police that Mr. Braun had assaulted her twice in the past five weeks. On July 17, the court documents said, Mr. Braun threw his wife off a bed onto the floor, “causing her substantial pain and bruising her legs.”
Mr. Braun was among a parade of convicts who used connections, money and influence to seek pardons from Mr. Trump, who ran an often ad hoc process for considering clemency requests, largely bypassing an established Justice Department system.
In the final months of the Trump administration, while Mr. Braun was in a federal prison in New York State, Mr. Braun’s family made contact with the father of Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser, to try to get a commutation request before Mr. Trump. Mr. Kushner’s White House office ultimately drafted the language used in the news release to announce the commutation of Mr. Braun and others.
The commutation surprised many legal experts and local and federal prosecutors and investigators who had dealt with Mr. Braun over the years. Mr. Braun had a history of violence — including throwing a man off a deck in 2018 and years earlier, beating an underling with a belt — and had recently been sued by New York State and the Federal Trade Commission for his role as a predatory lender.
The commutation also dealt a major blow to an ambitious criminal investigation being conducted by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan that was trying to hold predatory lenders who were fleecing small businesses accountable.
In the days before Mr. Braun received his commutation, prosecutors and his lawyer were in negotiations over a deal in which he would be let out of prison in exchange for flipping on industry insiders and potentially even wearing a wire. But the commutation instantly destroyed the government’s leverage on Mr. Braun and the investigation sputtered out.
After being released Mr. Braun quickly went back to working as a predatory lender, but faced civil actions by New York State and the Federal Trade Commission asserting that he was fleecing small businesses through excessive interest rates and fees. At one point he had threatened a rabbi who owed him money, saying “I am going to make you bleed.”
In February, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Federal District Court in Manhattan excoriated Mr. Braun and imposed $20 million in fines on Mr. Braun after finding him liable for the accusations made by the trade commission. Judge Rakoff described Mr. Braun as a craven man who “gleefully, with little remorse,” boasted about his illegal conduct and treated it as a “laughing matter” as he threatened the business owners he gouged.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/...e_code=1.E04.rV6L.xR93mjPdcrAx&smid=url-share
But the case of one of those convicts — a New York drug dealer and predatory lender named Jonathan Braun, who had a history of violence and faced an array of other legal problems — has stood out and raised doubts about how rigorous the vetting was.
On Tuesday, the police on Long Island arrested Mr. Braun after he allegedly punched his 75-year-old father-in-law in the head. Mr. Braun struck his father-in-law twice as he tried to protect his daughter from Mr. Braun, who was chasing after her while the couple had an argument in their home, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s office.
Mr. Braun’s wife, according to court documents, told police that Mr. Braun had assaulted her twice in the past five weeks. On July 17, the court documents said, Mr. Braun threw his wife off a bed onto the floor, “causing her substantial pain and bruising her legs.”
Mr. Braun was among a parade of convicts who used connections, money and influence to seek pardons from Mr. Trump, who ran an often ad hoc process for considering clemency requests, largely bypassing an established Justice Department system.
In the final months of the Trump administration, while Mr. Braun was in a federal prison in New York State, Mr. Braun’s family made contact with the father of Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser, to try to get a commutation request before Mr. Trump. Mr. Kushner’s White House office ultimately drafted the language used in the news release to announce the commutation of Mr. Braun and others.
The commutation surprised many legal experts and local and federal prosecutors and investigators who had dealt with Mr. Braun over the years. Mr. Braun had a history of violence — including throwing a man off a deck in 2018 and years earlier, beating an underling with a belt — and had recently been sued by New York State and the Federal Trade Commission for his role as a predatory lender.
The commutation also dealt a major blow to an ambitious criminal investigation being conducted by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan that was trying to hold predatory lenders who were fleecing small businesses accountable.
In the days before Mr. Braun received his commutation, prosecutors and his lawyer were in negotiations over a deal in which he would be let out of prison in exchange for flipping on industry insiders and potentially even wearing a wire. But the commutation instantly destroyed the government’s leverage on Mr. Braun and the investigation sputtered out.
After being released Mr. Braun quickly went back to working as a predatory lender, but faced civil actions by New York State and the Federal Trade Commission asserting that he was fleecing small businesses through excessive interest rates and fees. At one point he had threatened a rabbi who owed him money, saying “I am going to make you bleed.”
In February, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Federal District Court in Manhattan excoriated Mr. Braun and imposed $20 million in fines on Mr. Braun after finding him liable for the accusations made by the trade commission. Judge Rakoff described Mr. Braun as a craven man who “gleefully, with little remorse,” boasted about his illegal conduct and treated it as a “laughing matter” as he threatened the business owners he gouged.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/...e_code=1.E04.rV6L.xR93mjPdcrAx&smid=url-share