 Good day, mate 40 here. So I'm taking my headline lawnmask launches hostile bid for Twitter from the news coverage So I know that hostile bid for a company has a certain meaning that you're trying to to buy the company against the the current board and in CEO's wishes But it's also depends on perspective, right to me. This is not hostile at all To me, this is fantastic news I would love Twitter to be owned by someone with the commitment to free speech that a lawnmask has Did you see that interview he gave to Babylon B about a year ago? I mean a lawnmask loves the Babylon B. I love the Babylon B Together, you know a lawnmask and I have a lot in common so I think this is fantastic and Do you remember The feeling in 2012 2013 2014 2015 there's just so much despair right that Republicans would never be up to win another election that The Democrats just had this locked down that we you know never get our country back and then out of the blue We have Donald Trump Running and winning the president and Remember all the all the despair after the 2020 election when Trump lost it's like our Republican will never win again But now Republicans are poised for a massive midterm victory and they're looking good for 2024 and 2028 right now for the first time in History the default person the default American who doesn't vote is probably more likely to vote Republican than to to vote Democrat Right, so for the first time The the disengaged voter is probably more likely to vote Republican than to vote Democrats So Democrats are a lot of trouble and remember all the mounting despair over the past four years a social media censorship gets tighter and tighter and tighter and People on the right were saying well, you know, why don't we build our own tech? Well now there is decentralized tech. There's Odyssey. There's virtually They're close to unlimited free speech on Odyssey and on bit-shoot and fairly close to Free speech on rumble right I have had three rumble policy violations that were all Removed when I appeared So it kind of took me back when I got my first policy violation notice from from rumble and I meant I went proactively then went and removed about 12 videos that I thought could be edgy But all three of the policy violations I got on rumble. I appeared and the violation was removed So you have a tremendous amount of free speech on rumble and you can now live stream on rumble for ten dollars a month I Pretty good deal. So there's there's free speech live streaming capabilities on Odyssey and on rumble and on Other platforms as well. Ethan Ralph is jumping around platforms. So Feels like we've got more free speech now As far as video live streaming in particular Then we've had in the past four years that We've got this this rise of a decentralized internet We're getting away. I think from from the power of big tech big social media to limit what we say and there are more and more opportunities to speak freely and I think the future is bright For big tech. Yeah, YouTube tech. I like YouTube's tech. It just works and I've learned to love big brother like I'm a victim of stalker and syndrome I have pretty much learned to speak in a way that is acceptable on YouTube and so I'd probably be a little disoriented with all the free speech opportunities on rumble and Odyssey So I have thought a lot about doing my live streams on on rumble and and on Odyssey The problem is I've internalized YouTube's rules Now the good part of that is that YouTube's rules are also society's rules, right? The type of things that you can say publicly right, they essentially coincide with what you can say on YouTube and So by learning to speak in a way that's appropriate for YouTube right, I'm I'm training myself in a way to speak to normies in in everyday life and It's not such a gigantic difference between, you know, 40 in real life and 40 On the internet that they're they're more they're more connected and similar and I don't have to have as many concerns as I would perhaps on a more free speech platform where you know I let loose with more socially edgy opinions So yeah, I've come to come to embrace and internalize YouTube censorship But I really would love to see Donald Trump back on Twitter. I really would love to see Twitter unleashed I really would love to see Twitter like it was back in 2015 So Alon Musk is a free speech guy. I mean he gave that that interview for For Babylon B talking about how much he loathes political correctness. He's very clear He wants more free speech on Twitter and so he's offering $54.20 per share and He released a public letter. He's made an sec filing He's promising to unlock his extraordinary potential as a private company This is the latest twist in a stunning multi-week saga says the Washington Post here So Musk in this public filing says Twitter has the potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe I believe free speech is a social imperative for a functioning democracy It's making my investment I now realize the company wouldn't either thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form true Twitter needs to be transformed as a Private company. This would be fantastic This would be great at this move comes after a while two weeks between Musk and Twitter Which is full of head fakes and at least one lawsuit. So the company shares closed in there $46 per share So up 10% in pre-market trading this morning Now if Musk gives up this takeover tech and unloads his share the company's stock price would probably halve so he's acquired a 9% share of Twitter. He's Twitter's largest shareholder. He's got more than 80 million followers. I Mean think how fantastic Twitter would be if a long mask took over. I Mean all our friends would come back and And and that that blue check mark thing where blue check marks can just interact with other blue check marks look That that sort of program I would expect with either be eliminated or it would be Transform where is the internet bill of rights? Although problem with rights is that there's an inherent connection disconnect between rights and freedom Because when you impose an internet bill of rights that means that Private property owners have less freedom in how they operate so civil rights for example expanded rights for some Americans such as African Americans and Gays and transsexuals While taking away rights from the majority of Americans who have reduced freedom of association Freedom in who they fire freedom in who they rent to freedom in who they sell to So Musk was going to join the Twitter board, but he realized that would handcuff him from fully acquiring the company So then over the weekend. He was releasing all these you know sharply barbed tweets At Twitter acting more as a bomb throwing critic than as a board member This is great Now now the elite not so happy about this Fred Wilson New York base venture capitalist at Twitter is too important to be under control by a single person This is kind of similar with democracy if Twitter was owned and controlled by Elon Musk It would be freer and more open and and probably more aligned with what its users want Then in its current situation right democracy means in its basic simple form majority rule, but The way democracy works is through institutions which can be hijacked So there are all sorts of things that the majority of Americans want that don't get Made real through politics because of the way our democratic institutions work. So for example, I think most Americans would support Immigration enforcement and being highly selective about who we allow into our country. I Think most Americans would support Strong policing and law and order and tough penalties for for criminals so in some senses in some circumstances a dictator would be would be more Democratic than our current arrangement a dictator who gave the majority of the population what they wanted would Be serving democracy more than our current democratic setup, right if a dictator came along and gave The majority of voters what they wanted in all sorts of issues, right? Wouldn't that be more democratic than our current arrangement? So maybe Twitter needs a free speech dictator like Elon Musk so We've got analysts here who expect that Elon Musk will succeed in his bid to acquire Twitter and if a lawn musk By his Twitter, this is going to be fantastic guys. It's going to be amazing. It's like bring out your popcorn All right This is going to be awesome. I Can't wait to see the current CEO of Twitter fired I can't wait to see the current board of Twitter replaced I can't wait to see Donald Trump back on Twitter. I can't wait to see all our friends back on Twitter I can't wait for the rambunctious conversations to resume on Twitter I can't wait for the last resume on Twitter. I can't wait to be able to go on Twitter and not be force-fed a whole bunch of Stuff that I don't want every time I log on to Twitter now It gives me all sorts of things that I didn't ask for It throws at me all sorts of accounts that I don't want to follow It suggests, you know news stories that I'm not interested in. I don't care about Joy Behar And so all these Twitter employees are saying I might have to rethink my employment if if Elon Musk buys Twitter. Well good Well good Go Go Yeah, if Twitter rejects Elon Musk's offer the CEO should resign as well most of the board because I'll act it directly against the financial interests of shareholders Thus violating their fiduciary duty fiduciary Man, that's a big long word so fiduciary means The the trust between Someone who's making decisions and the people that he represents So you're acting on behalf of other people you're putting their interests ahead of your own And so you have a duty to preserve good faith and trust So you're bound both legally and ethically to act in the other party's best interests Man, I would love to be go on Twitter without being propagandised without being forced to You know see all sorts of nonsense that I don't want to see. Yeah, don't lefties adore Elon Musk some do The Twitter's Board of Directors of Call for a 7 a.m. Pacific time meeting to discuss Elon Musk takeover bid What if Elon Musk buys Twitter and then just deletes it? If Elon Musk buys Twitter, he will be the first African-American to own a major social media platform This is a great day for diversity. Another glass ceiling shattered Matt Walsh is a flamethrower. He's pretty funny No matter how many times it's been done calling a Elon Musk an African-American will never not be hilarious and also totally true I'm going to leave Twitter if a long mass takes over is the new I'm going to move to Canada if Trump wins The fastest way to gauge content is by the ads Content exists to drive traffic to ads. So if the ads are for idiots, so is the content Anyone who refuses to wield their power deserves to lose it Jay Rogan caught a lot musk a true African I can't believe we live at a time where sex work is glorified, but being a stay-at-home mom is degrading Oh max boot. All right, we all love max boot. Don't we love max boot folks? Washington Post pundit neocon Lawn mouses. I am frightened by the impact on society and politics of a lawn musk acquires Twitter He seems to believe that on social media anything goes for democracy to survive. We need more content moderation not less So Nate Silver responds here are the pillars of democracy free and fair elections separation of powers Equal rights for US citizens content moderation on Twitter So to take that that literally free and fair elections. Yeah, that's important to democracy separation of powers That's not important for democracy Wow, you cannot monetize the denial of tragic events under Google AdSense terms so These are the war in Ukraine We will pause monetization monetization of content that exploits, demisses or condones the war That's what AdSense has to say about Ukraine It'd be so dangerous for a lawn musk to run Twitter The only way for society to be safe is if literally everything is run by paranoid liberals with personality disorders Who instantly capitulated the first sign of any idiotic controversy? And how rare is that the subway shooter? It's pretty rare for a 62 year old male to commit a mass shooting with no violent felony priors But he did have a lot of prior Criminal interactions with the law Yeah, Jeff Bezos's newspaper is really worried about rich people Controlling the media. So they're really worried about lawn musk taking over. I mean you really think that Jeff Bezos and Jack Dorsey and the current CEO of Twitter are poor Jake Novak says in 2016 when I was a full-time senior editorial columnist at CNBC Twitter refused to give me a blue check mark saying you are not the kind of member we verify Yeah changes a Twitter a long overdue. This is just a great day for free speech It's a great day for freedom. Let freedom ring. This is fun, man Now you can also make the argument the alone must proposed Twitter takeover is an indictment of the GOP's failure to do anything about big tech censorship Well Conservatives did invest in rumble, right? But they're their Twitter replacements have been a massive failure like parlor and truth. All right, they suck So what's that dramatic confirmation that free speech on these platforms is a public good and should be treated at such Twitter has been so badly managed it is indeed possible that a lawn might be able to make money on it He's very explicit that fundamental values of freedom are at stake. That's why he's making the move Libertarians and their pet legal theorists are hardest hit by this contact with reality GOP is correctly complained about Twitter censorship, but done absolutely nothing We live in an oligarchy the only hope for Conservatives if we're not willing to aggressively use government power more aggressively is to have our own Oligarchs defend at the freedoms that our government used to defend us, but a lawn musk is done here is absolutely heroic You shouldn't have to do this on all the major platforms Our court selected representatives should defend our fundamental right not to be censored in the public square I'm so glad. However, the richest man in the world is deeply public spirited But we shouldn't have to rely on a lawn musk to defend our rights So yeah, I refresh Twitter and the first the first accounts. I see ones that I'm not following Why do you camera quality become the main driver of mobile device evolution? That's true. If I get a new iPhone, it'll be to get the best, you know, technical video quality The path to happiness does not include an improved Twitter browsing experience I think it I think it does it shouldn't be the fundamentals of your happiness But it can be added to it so Technology For for video and picture quality is the last hardware component in smartphones where major progress is still being made Against physical and perpetual perceptual limits. It's the only remaining aspect. We're increasing device volume increases perceived value It creates a virtuous cycle of more users more reasons to drive performance Okay, let's go Let's go to the chat Welcome to the wrench crew Twitter is an easily manipulated platform as opposed to what real life So I can valley tight lefties definitely hate lawn musk Our expulsion from Twitter says Bruce did nothing but improve our lives. Twitter is a scourge and a society Twitter can be a scourge Depending on your ability to use it like I use Facebook about five ten minutes a week So Facebook Enhances my life if I sucked into using it for hours every day It would not expulsion from social media allows those expelled to establish themselves in a real social network Possibly but you can establish yourself in a real social network without getting expelled from social media now ideally face-to-face communication interaction far more important than a Parasocial interaction like like we're getting on YouTube But the advantage of what we have right here is that we share similar interests and That we share a similar vocabulary. We know similar people we can speak in shorthand We can talk about all sorts of things that you can't talk about with With normies these technologies are designed to replicate replace normal social interaction now. I think That can happen, but they they just offer an opportunity right For interaction that we otherwise would not have that we get to talk to a select crowd who's interested in the same things and We may not be interested in like face-to-face communication at 5 a.m. I think I was up at 4 30 a.m. This morning if I wanted to start streaming at 4 30 a.m There wouldn't be a lot of face-to-face interaction that I might necessarily want to have at 4 30 a.m Which iPhone do I currently use? I think I've got an iPhone 11 So I just cracked cracked the screen. I've got a screen protector Today was a good day for frame game radio. How is frame game radio any updates? So I presume he is a working attorney in New York City making a lot of money It's like saying I was banned from McDonald's, but the old McDonald's guy is coming back and it's going to be epic How about we stop eating McDonald's what McDonald's can be a useful adjunct to your life You can get cheap coffee there. It can be convenient and useful and appropriate at times You wouldn't want to eat there three times a day In mean girls terms Peter Thiel is Regina George and Elon Musk is the other blonde Yeah, well both Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are forces for good and forces for Increase free speech This will be epic. Just imagine the Donald back on Twitter. It'll be so much fun All right, this $54 per share Offer represents a 38% premium to the closing price of Twitter stock on April 1st Bruce says the pleasure you receive from this hyper real social interaction online discourages your pursuit of real social interaction It can or can simply supplement it Because a lot of the interaction we have on here. I wouldn't necessarily want in real life Such as like doing a 5 a.m. Live stream, right? I may not necessarily want to talk politics with people in real life at 5 a.m They're scratching the itch of social connection without providing any relief Sometimes right everything can be abused for example. I almost never have caffeine But I didn't sleep well last night. So I had a little bit of caffeine this morning so because I don't usually use caffeine a little bit that I had this morning had provides me with a substantial benefit right now and 95% of the caffeine is going to be out of my system by the time I go to bed at 10 p.m. Tonight so Occasional use of caffeine can can benefit your life habitual use of caffeine will desensitize you to caffeine and comes with a lot of downsides Check the data Luke. You know this aren't your man who attempts to ground himself in reality. Yes, I Really appreciate your points here Bruce and I think you're touching on something, but it's Contingent right depends on the individual and on the context. So for some people Social media has come to replace real-life interaction and for such people that's usually going to be a net loss But for other people this sort of social media interaction that we're having now is just a supplement to what's going on in their real life It's an easy way to talk to people to share similar world view that it's not as easily shared with normies Yeah, a bit of heroin relaxes you too much and it could become an issue Yeah, I think liberals are mixed on a lawn musk Hubble says I'm a liberal. I think this is good Twitter employees with an agenda of clearly hijacked the platform. Absolutely so Twitter shares jumped 12% in pre-market trading Said that lawn musk. Yeah, we know we reject it. It's It's offer. This is going to likely lead to the acquisition This is going to lead to the The acquisition of Twitter. So I think lawn musk is going to be able to pull this off I mean, he has a net worth of about 240 billion dollars and Taking Twitter private will cost About 40 50 billion dollars. So he's going to be able to do it So I think he's going to do it we find this niche community and indulge in conversation More interesting than what we might have to endure with some neighbor neighbor or lady at the post office. Yeah So some people would rather have an intense real conversation on here than superficial Conversation in real life and those conversations become tedious As a result Yeah, that's that's a good point be where categorical unqualified and absolute statements. Yes, that's that's the That's why academics like the word contingent So depending on Usually depending on the situation So there's no replacement for face-to-face interaction But parasocial interaction like this be a nice supplement It can be like an energizing boost So the more things that you're excited about the more things you're looking forward to the more things you're passionate about The more things that like you know turn your crank I just bought this hand crank power generator in case there's like a massive earthquake or the power goes out I need to try to power my phone. I've got a device where I can get power for my phone through Hand crank or through solar or through batteries So if there's a major disaster I'm going to be after They retain power but there are various ways that I can get power and I think that applies to us We need all the ways that we can get power like we can get power and energy and ambition and and strength from Interacting power socially like we're doing right now like all the people in the chat the lively conversation in the chat It's giving me a feeling of power and strength and energy and excitement and happiness That wouldn't be here if I was just talking on my own Into the void the hyper real is even better than the real thing Occasionally occasionally. Yeah Luke replace fapping with hand crank tech Nobody's interested in what is happening in their own lives or communities or families because they are interested in the hyper real provided by the internet. I Don't think that's true for most people. I think it's probably true for a tiny number of people So obviously anything can be misused Including the internet But for for most of us I Think it's just an adjunct Must reject the hyper real at every opportunity available Why should we reject movies and TV and say hyper realistic novels? right, so Come on. Where is Got an expert here says that this is going to lead to the the ultimate acquisition of Twitter, so I'm looking at news reports about this along musk takeover bid and Many of them are saying this is going to lead to to musk taking it over so seems to be right now That's the way to that's the way to Understand the situation. Have I watched Kenneth Brown lately? Oh, he came out as Jewish. That's interesting. No, I haven't Has he been interesting? Let's see what this guy Ultimately his view of Twitter strategically need to stay within the board And I think once they recognize that wasn't going to happen. I mean this really became a situation that was untenable And I think that's something that the Twitter board recognized And I think his tweets over the weekend really showed that this was starting to go off the rails And I think it ultimately led to the announcement last night that Twitter and board as well as musk when come to an agreement We ultimately believe this turns from a Cinderella story, which would have been if musk was in the board to more of a game of thrones I think must potentially could go hostile here continue to increase his state Maybe partner with the likes of private equity or others and this could lead to you know What could be the ultimate acquisition of Twitter or some four strategic changes including the board? I think it just came down to musk was not going to play nice in the sandbox the Twitter board And that's also in what we got last night. I think for the Twitter board and for the company I think this is not a good situation You know ultimately they had a line that was caged in musk potentially on the board the women ownership now it's it sort of that lines in the wild and In terms of for the board for Twitter, I need is just to start of what's going to be a hostile situation Okay, so those were comments that were made two days ago April 12th, but even reading comments today It seems that analysts are predicting that That alum musk is going to be able to pull this off Adrian Vermeul who's like a Schmidtian at Harvard Law School. He says Twitter should be a public utility controlled by the state Short of that. I'm not sure I care which particular billionaires use it as an ideological playpen Well, I think definitely some billionaires are better than others if the consequence of their control is more free speech then then That's a good thing Adrian says I agree with that in principle. I'm skeptical that the Tesla stoner guy is that I don't think a lot Musk is a stoner just because he once took it took a drag on On Joe Rogan show. It's hilarious to look at all these news articles saying that Lawn musk, you know said he was going to take Twitter private for 420 a share. It was a joke Lawn musk says believe that Twitter should be made private to go through the changes that need to be made And this is exciting The meltdowns today again to be glorious. Yeah, these are the good times been Listening to Been listening to a lot of disco freak out left freak Freak out. Have you heard about the new dance craze listen to us? I'm sure you'll be amazed big fun to be had by everyone It's up to you surely can be done young and older doing it just one try you two will be sold It's called a left freak. They're doing it night and day. Allow us will show you the way. Ah freak out. Ah Freak out Just coming down to the 54 find your spot out on the floor freak out Yeah, the freakouts today. I gotta be glorious Yeah, I think that all the people have been banned from Twitter, which is Twitter has become the public square and and how much richer Our engagement will be when when we're allowed to have When we're allowed to have our friends back, right? It's like our friends have been banned from our play group Yet is interesting that the US has made no serious diplomatic effort to prevent this war in Ukraine or to try to wind it up It's like the Biden administration's policy is to try to let Russia bleed out in Ukraine. It's a very dangerous policy so You're what the Liberals are posting on Twitter To the to the CEO of Twitter the world needs to know that you are stronger smarter more tenacious and along musky He thinks he can beat you the free world needs to know that he is wrong number of journalists and academics Openly arguing for censorship today is shocking Some people mad about the world's richest man trying to buy Twitter Don't seem to have anything to say about the world's second richest man owning the Washington Post and Yes, the the media buried the race of murderers if they're not white so When you when you have a white mass murderer that gets massive coverage But when you have for example a black mass murderer That that gets buried just wonder why maybe maybe all the anti-white media agitation has Disturbed some people already predisposed to mental illness sent them in in a bad direction So I like the challenges here from Bruce says your Twitter Twitter friends like ghosts in the ether It depends on how you regard them how you understand them and what role they they play in your life If they're an adjunct to what's going on in your real life then Then they're then they're an addition Twitter is not real. Yes, it's real It drives the national conversation So all these people say Twitter is not real life You're wrong Things that happen on Twitter have repercussions in the real world everything you do affects you Including everything that you do and say online that feeds back on you and affects your your real-life interactions So Twitter is real YouTube is real so let's Let's have a look at what's going on at Twitter headquarters right now. They're they're they're meeting To to discuss this Elon Musk takeover bid and we got some exclusive video For what's going on at Twitter right now? They're having a big freak out so Bruce says it doesn't depend on Situation or individual it's akin to the heroin comparison. No, it's not. It's just statistically evidentiary I That's that's not true So for some people social media enhances their life for many people it has no effect and then for some people that has a Negative reaction perception is part of reality. Absolutely. So good to see reasonable and responsible back in In 40 University Long time long time no talk Yeah, thoughts and prayers for max boot who's frightened frightened if Elon Musk buys Twitter is frightened for democracy, right? Democracy means the majority get their way How how is a lawn musk buying Twitter at going to? Impede that right White House spokesman Jim Saki says illegal immigrants are free to travel throughout the US once they cross the border so Wow, Ruch has really made some changes So he's got a tweet here the best book for orthodox Christian converts Sandra tweets I would pay a good chunk of my savings to be a fly on the wall in Twitter headquarters today If the Liberals are mad about Elon Musk buying Twitter, they should just make their own Twitter It's a private company after all. What is the ADL take on this matter? You think the The ADL is as thrilled that there's gonna be more free speech on Twitter like the ADL Essentially is determined what we get to say on big tech. Maybe not so much any longer Majesty of love by John Hinckley pretty good song I I disavow many of the things that John Hinckley did such as shooting people but I have to hand it to a majesty of song pretty good song and He's He's back John Hinckley is back Got his own YouTube channel with 25,000 subscribers. I mean, it's depressing. It's dark I mean how on earth could John Hinckley be out and giving concerts and And having his own YouTube channel Yeah, Elon Musk is a billionaire. He shouldn't be allowed to own the media. Well The New York Times depended on a lot of financing from from that bloke in Mexico who has a monopoly on its phone system Jeff Bezos worth 156 billion owns the Washington Post John Henry owns the Boston Globe John Henry a billionaire Sheldon Edelson owns Las Vegas Review Journal Loreen Jobs owns the Atlantic Patrick soon shong owns the Los Angeles Times Mark Benioff of Salesforce owns Time magazine time is pretty good time and this week are pretty good these days I'm not exactly sure what they've done over the past year or two, but there's a lot of good content on a good good Middlebrow content Okay, the Russians have parts of Hitler's skull Hitler's teeth confirm he died in 1945 First examination of Hitler's teeth permitted in 70 years Shows the complicated dental work matches the furor as Very cool records. Look, do you wish you had John Hinckley numbers? I do, but I'm not willing to shoot anyone to get them So all these liberals saying a lot must attempt to take over to Twitter. It's a threat to the free world guys I care about freedom and factual precision Yeah, this is good news for fans of Hitler memes He's kind of a must. He's gonna unlock Twitter's extraordinary potential. Yeah, even that Brooklyn Brooklyn subway guy I could study. Well, he couldn't couldn't just start a YouTube channel. He's had a YouTube channel, right? All that hatred. He was pouring out against white people Facebook's YouTube didn't have a problem with it Yeah, if you were mad about Alon Musk buying Twitter, you knew this platform was limiting free speech And you were okay with it Megan Kelly tweets go Alon Musk go The stylistic differences in writing between Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy are pretty jarring singing the same song But to a very different tune so Jeff Bezos did down from Amazon Andy Jassy has taken over Kind of funny how all this stuff about who owns Twitter just underlines the facts that we're in an oligarchy right now Yet 9,000 people like this tweet by Max boot that you know, he's frightened if Alon Musk Acquires Twitter that is a threat to democracy And Donald Trump Jr. is going for the conspiracy about the subway shooter Why do the security cameras never seem to work when the reality of the crime isn't good for the left-wing narrative and Cat cat turd tweeted 13 hours ago Alon Musk hasn't tweeted in a few days. Something is about to go down Glenn Greenwald responds to Max boot the worst most bloodthirsty and destructive neocons are telling you explicitly They're powered a sense of the internet to exclude dissent and to maintain information monopolies is central How does everyone not understand why restoring free discourse to the internet is so vital? Now a core central belief of Western liberals now is the nobility and the necessity of censorship It's one of their most important weapons hence the panic and hysteria Bye-bye