[ExI] Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Sat Feb 28 15:36:29 UTC 2026

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

> TwitterX isn’t a news source.  It is a medium. 

>… TwitterX so the only place you see anything unflattering about Elon Musk is right here….

That’s why I have a right here.  But John, I don’t care about Elon Musk.  I don’t care.  He isn’t a politician.  He makes things.  I have a choice to buy them or not buy them.  If they are good, I buy.  I bought StarLink, TwitterX is free, I didn’t buy a Tesla.  That was simple.

>… By contrast I get my News from many different sources…

That isn’t a contrast.  I also browse many news sources.

>…so it's not surprising that you have a much more favorable opinion of the world's richest man than I do….

John, we don’t care about your opinion of the world’s richest man.  You don’t need to keep telling us you don’t like him.  It’s boring.  All you need to do is not buy his products.  That was simple.

>…Even if it's not outright forbidden, like any criticism of the world's richest man is, the TwitterX algorithm can make it almost impossible to find some things…  And as a result TwitterX is a cesspool full of neo-Nazis, idiotic conspiracy theories, and lethal medical advice….

So don’t search for those things.  That was simple.  Search for things you care about.  That’s what we do.

>…By the way, it appears that He Who Must Not Be Named is indeed Bored With Peace because I just found out that the US is now at war with Iran…

Ja. Let’s hope we can stop that crazy outfit from getting nukes.  I think you and I agree that Iran with nukes is a bad thing.

spike

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