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applegrove

(123,612 posts)
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 02:55 AM Friday

Things Elon removed from the bill -anti deepfake porn measures -research on premature labor -funding to treat sickle

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Things Elon removed from the bill

-anti deepfake porn measures

-research on premature labor

-funding to treat sickle cell disease

-money for breast cancer early detection

-research on Down syndrome

-consumer protections for hotel hidden fees

-research into child cancer

-pandemic preparedness
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Things Elon removed from the bill -anti deepfake porn measures -research on premature labor -funding to treat sickle (Original Post) applegrove Friday OP
OH F F S!!! elleng Friday #1
Billions for he, austerity for thee intrepidity Friday #2
How about all that $ spent on space travel? multigraincracker Friday #3
Hateful bastard. yorkster Friday #4
Notice the medical is all about women, blacks (sickle cell) & kids. The latter don't vote Bernardo de La Paz Friday #16
Yes, that jumped out at me too. yorkster Friday #19
A Media Mongrel Roy Rolling Friday #5
Porn & deep fakes attract eyeballs. Eyeballs mean media profit Bernardo de La Paz Friday #15
It needs to lose the eyeballs of everyone with any sense redqueen Friday #18
But if the bill failed, doesn't it mean that all of these are back on the table? Baitball Blogger Friday #6
So the House now takes orders from Musk. Good to know. nt Buns_of_Fire Friday #7
Good Grief! Rhiannon12866 Friday #8
Bad enough to have to endure an elected fool, TSF, now an unelected one ? raccoon Friday #9
It's hard to believe this is even happening Mike 03 Friday #10
"Pandemic preparedness." Of course. These people all want to fucking die. Karasu Friday #11
Yes self-contradictory death cult: Drop guard against non-existent virus that was a weapon Bernardo de La Paz Friday #13
On another angle of your point, though, they think they won't die. They don't want to die, they just think they won't Bernardo de La Paz Friday #14
Removed debt ceiling: no restraints on tax cuts for billionaires. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Friday #12
I don't see SpaceX on his list. Emile Friday #17
The Senate anti-deepfakes porn measure was co-sponsored by Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar Prairie Gates Friday #20

elleng

(136,833 posts)
1. OH F F S!!!
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 02:57 AM
Friday

research on premature labor

-funding to treat sickle cell disease

-money for breast cancer early detection

research into child cancer

Bernardo de La Paz

(51,252 posts)
16. Notice the medical is all about women, blacks (sickle cell) & kids. The latter don't vote
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 06:27 AM
Friday

Not only do kids not vote, but richies can afford medical treatments for their kids; other kids be damned they say.

Roy Rolling

(7,208 posts)
5. A Media Mongrel
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 03:41 AM
Friday

Removing anti-deepfake porn laws? Wow, who wants freedom to create fake porn videos of Sarah Palin or other Republicans heartthrobs? Or who owns a media company with a platform overrun with deplorables who create deep-fake porn videos of their opponents for a zillion stupid reasons?

Welcome to xxx X(formerly Twitter). Is he a terrible media mongrel or just a pervert? Or both?

Bernardo de La Paz

(51,252 posts)
15. Porn & deep fakes attract eyeballs. Eyeballs mean media profit
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 06:24 AM
Friday

Porn, soft or hard, attracts eyeballs all on its own.

Deep fakes create controversies which attract eyeballs.

Deep fake porn makes a synergistic effect greater than just the sum of eyeballs, it makes viral quantities of eyeballs if the deep fake is cheesy soft porn or cheesecake.

Musk runs a site that has lost probably more than half its eyeballs. He promised a lot of things to the money bags who invested in him to buy Twitter.

redqueen

(115,172 posts)
18. It needs to lose the eyeballs of everyone with any sense
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 08:03 AM
Friday

And I don't understand why that hasn't already happened

Rhiannon12866

(224,330 posts)
8. Good Grief!
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 05:20 AM
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Where's the part about helping the American people?? Isn't that the job of government??

Mike 03

(17,378 posts)
10. It's hard to believe this is even happening
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 05:28 AM
Friday

Sure, we all expected the worst, but Elon Musk editing one of the most important bits of legislation, right off the bat, deciding who lives and dies... Holding forth with 48 hour tweeting sessions? No doubt blasted up on drugs of some kind? It's beyond your average nightmare and some ways down into the abyss.

Karasu

(368 posts)
11. "Pandemic preparedness." Of course. These people all want to fucking die.
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 05:33 AM
Friday

We're ruled by a fucking death cult.

Bernardo de La Paz

(51,252 posts)
13. Yes self-contradictory death cult: Drop guard against non-existent virus that was a weapon
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 06:07 AM
Friday

magas will tell you about Covid-19 that:

1) There was no virus, there was only the flu and cold.

2) There were no deaths, only from maltreatment with ventilators.

3) The super deadly virus was a weapon made in a Chinese lab and released to ensure the US got infected.

4) The vaccine killed more people than the virus which wasn't too deadly.

5) The vaccine didn't work. Not only unsafe but ineffective.

6) We don't need to prepare. There's nothing we can do and the military will defeat China anyway because America is great again. So no more viruses (that didn't exist anyway).

That's the maga belief structure on Covid.

But one does have to wonder about Musk's belief structure about workers. If he and his oligarchs need workers so much that his mother wants abortion bans to raise the birthrate so women can be patriotic and produce baby workers, ... then why kill them off in droves by being unprepared? Unless it is a convenience, believing robots will do everything so let the dying begin?

Bernardo de La Paz

(51,252 posts)
14. On another angle of your point, though, they think they won't die. They don't want to die, they just think they won't
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 06:17 AM
Friday

They think they are strong, though more overweight than non-maga.

They think Covid was more a city problem and they think it is better that the urban/rural population balance swing rural, never having been told that Covid was actually more deadly in red states and areas.

They discount the virality and the deadliness of Covid.

They think: "why waste money on something that won't hurt me". They forget the impact on supply chains and the economy.

Prairie Gates

(3,569 posts)
20. The Senate anti-deepfakes porn measure was co-sponsored by Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar
Fri Dec 20, 2024, 09:34 AM
Friday

Ted Cruz again made to eat shit for Trump. Incredible.

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