Elon Musk Buys Twitter: Is The Left FINALLY Losing? - Unapologetic LIVE

unapologetic live i apologize we went live at three o'clock like we were supposed to and then we're having some technical difficulties but we find our way through we always make it back so welcome to unapologetic live i hope you're having a fantastic monday i'm certainly having a fantastic monday taylor is here as well what's up guys so i'm having a great monday because i found out that elon musk bought twitter this morning for 44 billion dollars which we are gonna get to that and have a discussion surrounding that but i wanted to just get into this story we'll talk elon musk buying twitter and then let's talk broader ideas what does this mean is this really a big deal that people are making it out to be and is this a sign of the pendulum swinging back our way in the left losing and we'll sort of go through all the different spheres of influence where we're winning where we're losing what does the left have left to run with oh my gosh that's a tongue twister there and then we'll talk about how we can mitigate that moving forward and just see if there's any unifying factors between the two of us i've been seeing videos on tick tock of all places that when i watch them i can't tell whether or not it's a leftist speaking to me or a conservative which for me is a really good sign if it starts to sound like we are on the same page in any way shape or form i can get on board with that so we'll discuss that at the end of the show today so first let's start off with elon musk buying twitter i made a reel about this earlier you've probably seen it on youtube if you're subscribed which you should be whether or not you're following on prageru or on unapologetic you should be subscribed to both channels halfway through this stream we're going to cut out and just go over to unapologetic with amla which you guys can type in my name amla and obi on youtube and subscribe there if you want to watch the full stream go over to that section i'll i'll actually be watching the live chat on that channel as well so again i came into work today and got the news that elon musk has finally gone through with the 44 billion dollar deal to finally buy twitter now this is something we went back and forth on and initially we thought wasn't going to happen but it looks like due to a mixture of maybe just pressure from the outside and fiduciary responsibility the board has gone ahead and accepted this offer from elon woo so i have a feeling we're gonna see the use of twitter just skyrockets in a lot of ways in the near future now we've been seeing a decline in twitter usership but that might just be due to the fact that people were leaving in droves due to the censorship and everything that was going on in the platform so i have a feeling we're going to see people coming from truth social from getter from rumble from all these other alt social media platforms that they switched to because twitter was not upholding its idea or the american idea of free spree free speech and that principle and i think people are going to start going over to twitter so i'm excited to see it i've seen some great memes coming out of this i think there's going to be a lot of twitter employees that are hopefully leaving in the wake of this news because it's so it's so heartbreaking that we can't censor people anymore and ruin their livelihoods and delete their platforms because we disagree with them what a horrendous thing to have to deal with and the amazing tweets of people saying you know i'm gonna leave the united states of elon musk spy's twitter uh i i love to see just ideology backfire on people because a lot of us when we were coming out with these complaints about twitter talking section 230 talking about free speech and censorship we were met with well it's a private business and they can do whatever they want get your own platform build a new social media blah blah blah and now you're hearing the same people who said those things going oh my gosh i can't believe elon musk has bought twitter and is going to be upholding free speech what a horrendous thing to do this is very treacherous i don't know what the future is going to look like uh and you know what it just makes me feel a little warm inside to see all of the elves being taken on the other side of of this coin of people who just want nothing more than to never have to see a person that they disagree with ever again and all the w's on the side of people who enjoy free speech in liberty and are okay with not even just hearing different opinions and seeing people with different opinions but just allowing them to be on the same platforms as them what a simple ask that is of a person to just say can i be on this too it's a very very simple ask and that includes a lot of liberals some leftists very few leftists but some leftists who agree with that principle and conservatives who have been trying to uphold free speech and say you know this is not only a battle for me and my ability to speak freely on these platforms it's a battle for you we want all people to be able to talk on these platforms and elon put out an amazing tweet after this deal was broken and the news came out and said you know something along the lines of i hope the people who are critiquing me in this deal right now stay on the platform because i'm fighting for their ability to speak as well and i think that is a beautiful sentiment now let's get into some of the responses to what has happened today of course we have to check in with brian stelter of cnn because he's just so good at doing his little tap dancing around what he'd actually like to say and he's so good at packaging this propagandize narrative into words that just that just make it underneath you know what would be a very horrific thing to hear on the news so here he is responding to elon musk buying twitter look who knows i i think that's a that's a that's a an example of a broader question for twitter which is if you uh if you get invited to something where there are no rules where there is total freedom forever everybody do you actually want to go to that party or are you gonna decide to stay home and that's a question for twitter users some twitter users might love the idea there's going to be absolutely no moderation and no rules at all others might not want to be anywhere near that am i am i crazy matt no no you're right and what what happens to the advertising i mean if there's no moderation or little moderation do the advertisers stay away what does that do to the business prospects for twitter itself and that's very much look okay pause ugh okay first of all who said there was going to be no rules taylor did you ever hear anybody say there was going to be no rules on twitter after elon bought it he said it's going to be the wild wild west yeah we're just gun slinging now we can say whatever we want we can go and threaten people and say we're gonna light things on fire and all this stuff no that was never said all that elon said is you know what we're gonna honor people who have different opinions on this platform and we're gonna allow that to come to fruition and we're going to allow people to say the things that they want all of a sudden brian stelter's like there's no rules there's no regulation and look at the what's underlying about what he's saying what he's saying is that he doesn't want you to have free speech he doesn't want there to exist a social media platform where everybody and anybody is free to express their opinions their views their beliefs and their values because what a horrendous horrendous society we would be living in if that's the case what a pro-american society we would be living in if that's the case and you have to tap dance around saying that because if he outright said i don't support free speech i imagine people wouldn't take that so well so now we get to say things about well would you want to be invited to a party that that honors your freedom and allows you to do whatever you want yeah i only like going to parties where i'm told what to do exactly you're not allowed to do anything except what uh the the people throwing the party allow you to those are the funnest kind of parties yeah when i throw a party at my house before people walk in they have to sign a contract that they were a gonna say their pronouns before they walk in b are vaccinated and see if they have any unpopular opinions they will first whisper them to me before they say them out loud and then they're able to hop into my place and join the party that sounds like what brian stelter's advocating for here and again it's just grasping at straws there is no way to justify the fact that you don't want somebody who is going to honor people's right to speech to own a platform so you have to do things like this because i can imagine the people at cnn the higher-ups of cnn are watching him and just just glaringly waiting for him to slip up just say it say what we want you to say spout your propaganda or else brian and he's there's no shortage of clips of brian doing this and just nervously and uncomfortably lying to people so it's brilliant to see this take place after this back and forth of them saying buy your own platform and get your own place to to have your conversations uh i'm just i'm just soaking in it i'm just basking in it we have another hot take from sean king and i know what you're thinking who's sean king but anyways here's his tweet at its root elon musk wanting to purchase twitter is not about left versus right it's about what power the man was raised in apartheid by a white nationalist he's upset that twitter won't allow white nationalists to target harass people that's his definition of free speech is this considered like a black on black crime because sean king is attacking an african-american with this tweet so honestly he should be censored according to twitter's old rules this is amazing amazing that no matter what happens they will always try to grasp on to something surrounding race something surrounding white supremacy bigotry patriarchy all these fun little buzz words and isms and obias that they like to to grasp onto in order to hold on to the narrative and guess what this didn't hold water the reason i'm showing you a screenshot of this tweet rather than the actual tweet itself is because it's not on twitter anymore because you can't get away with saying this stuff and you won't be able to anymore on a platform that actually honors people's right to an opinion and i can't wait for all of this to come to fruition of course i'm waiting with baited breath to see if elon actually is a man of his word and all of these things do play out in the way that we would like them to play out but if they do think about the broader implication here because a lot of people i'm seeing in the comments uh of these videos and of these posts and news stories saying well what's the big deal twitter's one platform out of you know 10 major platforms where people are doing this stuff and i i don't know why we're cheering on some billionaire buying out this platform well think about the power that twitter has twitter can influence elections it influences political thought it influence culture it influences what's trending in our in our brains in our conversations in our arguments and debates with our peers and family members it has a stronghold on the american mind in a lot of ways the people at twitter right now in its current board and administration get to wake up in the morning look at the news and what's happening and decide what you get to hear from it and not only that decide the opinion and the lens that you get to hear that news from and for so long we have been dealing with it the covet narrative is a brilliant example of this you know twitter has its little coveted bar when you go to the trending page and the explore page on twitter and throughout that is just propaganda and in a lot of ways false and misleading information that just leads you to the conclusion that they want you to have and every day twitter gets to do that to you and millions and millions of people use twitter more people than represent the us population use twitter and log in to see what's going on and a lot of people use it as their primary news source is that concerning moderately mildly concerning knowing what we know about who controls it and what they would like you to know i would say actually more than moderate moderately concerning it's very concerning that people use that as their main source of news but think about that power shifting and you actually getting a whole spectrum of opinions on a new story can you imagine it's it's very strange to even think that uh that open discourse and like a fair playing field is actually a reality we can have on social media these days because it's been so long since it was even like an idea that you could you could imagine a world where there isn't suppression of views that undercut the approved narrative uh on social media and now it i mean for all we can tell it's that's going to be what twitter is and that's just like it's like utopia is here yeah we we're allowed to have an opinion again and i love seeing people on twitter the the hashtag elon buys twitter is trending and rip twitter a whole spectrum of opinions wow when have we ever had that on twitter before what a beautiful thing and people are going out and tweeting out all the things that they couldn't say before for fear of being banned like there are two genders and affirmative action is wrong and maybe we should judge people based on the content of their character and not their skin color and people like i have her mectin tweet out there people are feeling comfortable to say what they actually think can you imagine that being reality that i can actually go on the internet and say what i would actually like to say and what i actually stand behind without fear of being completely deplatformed and what a beautiful thing that is to represent what america was actually founded on instead of this mangled disgusting authoritarian totalitarian normal new normal that we've been so used to in today's day and age so for me that's why it's a big deal and of course i would love to see the same thing happen with facebook and instagram and youtube and that's the point that a lot of conservatives are making that this does not mean it's the end of the battle there's still more ground that we need to win sure but this is a big win this is huge because twitter like i said sets the landscape in a lot of ways for the discourse that we have it's where you see all these blue check marks it's where a lot of our legislators and politicians are listening to people's opinions and seeing the news and looking at what's happening in the world and for a long time it's been very one-sided and we haven't been able to have an opinion and now we're in a day and age that we can hopefully assuming that elon musk stands by his word which i imagine when you put 44 billion dollars behind that word there's a little bit of incentive to stand behind it especially when you are banking on people coming back to the platform and deciding to use it again after leaving i'm wondering if we'll get a one former president back on the platform we shall see i know there's been back and forth some people saying it's not going to happen and even the former president himself saying he will not be joining but you never know what's gonna happen i see some people begging for mean tweets i saw mark levin tweet out today that he's back on twitter and joining again we also might see the likes of babylon b project veritas and a new winning streak for libs of tick tock who was recently doxxed by taylor lorenz of the washington post so i'm just excited to see what comes out of the woodwork in this new announcement and in this new deal and just how much it changed the landscape and for all i know it doesn't at all but i have a feeling that it does which leads me to the question of really is the pendulum swinging back for us because i have to think about what the left has on its side and what the left has lost lost the covet narrative because in many ways we are all back to normal i'm even seeing people in la going back to their normal lives although we do have the stragglers that are holding on to the masks and the looking at everybody as germs and wearing their masks and hand sanitizer on their planes and all that and all that fun stuff but for the most part people are back to normal life and i don't think we're going to see a resurgence of this covet narrative that is strong enough to get people back in their houses not to take them out of school to have them close or shut down their businesses i don't think they can rely on that anymore blm for the most part has been exposed as you know some mansion buying millionaires who use your donation money for their own personal benefit and who seem to love capitalism outside of their protests of it so the black lives matter narrative and the whole race relations thing is crumbling too we're also seeing that in the fight against critical race theory where parents are coming out of the woodwork to stand up for their children in public education we're seeing this in corporations as well people going you know what i don't want to work for a corporation that hates me and hates my values anymore and i certainly don't want to be made out to be an oppressor or with people of color oppressed in my day-to-day workplace i built the merit i built the academic standing to be in the position that i'm in and i'm here and i don't want to hear that i'm a victim or somebody who's oppressing somebody else so i feel as though that's dying and it's very simple to let that die out because there's so much more to people than race and i think most people with common sense can understand that universities are dying not just with people who are conservative but with people who are on the left conservatives because we don't want the indoctrination that comes along with the universities in the college education and leftists because they don't want that tuition payment that comes along with it whatsoever and it turns out the whole student loan forgiveness act is not working anymore and it hasn't happened even though we've gotten that promise for years and years and years on end where is that student loan forgiveness of those trillions of dollars that people have in debt to the us government so universities are dying too really what do they have left i i don't know taylor any i mean did you mention disney and netflix too that there oh yeah tanking tanking because it turns out people make entertainment subscriptions to be entertained and they don't want political ideology folded in with that entertainment as much as some fringe small group wants to be loud and fight for it and try to sneak it in there they don't want it just like with cnn plus they don't want to pay extra money to be lied to every single month people are done is shelling out their dollars for whatever opinion or whatever narrative you want they want their values to be represented or at the very least to just leave values out of it as much as you can and get to the part where you entertain them and give them what they actually paid for so all these strongholds that the left has maintained on media entertainment education uh big tech are seemingly dwindling and i'm i bet that they're all struggling i i would love to have been a fly on the wall at that twitter board meeting to see exactly what they were saying and how they came to come to this deal because i can only imagine there were some very heated conversations surrounding allowing this man to to own their platform yeah i mean some of the biggest shareholders were like vanguard and a saudi prince these are not people who are concerned with upholding the values of free speech and money power is more important to them than money and so i don't think they did this voluntarily i think they did the math and talked to their lawyers and were like can we refuse to sell this to elon or are we going to get sued or are we going to have to go to court over like not fulfilling our fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of the company's finances to the essence of the shareholders um i think that that's the only reason that they would they would give this up because if twitter is such an important part of the the the pie chart of how the mainstream narrative is upheld controlling the conversation on twitter and the algorithm and what people see and who you can ban who you can kick off and what stories you can bury right in front of elections um all those things are a huge part of their stranglehold over upholding the mainstream narrative those are in capital letters the mainstream narrative and in addition to the disney that and it's all over hollywood it's all of our universities it's it's all all those across institutions the left has been able to instill this ideology and they enforce that from the top down and elon musk taking away twitter that which is the de facto town square public forum for where ideas are discussed where the news is discussed um in the western world especially in america by elon musk taking that away from them it makes it a lot more difficult to uphold it you know i i thought of the uh i sucking with scott today and and i brought up the quote from uh joseph goebbels who was hitler's propaganda minister and he said if you uh repeat a lie enough times often enough and loud enough people will get it confused with the truth but that requires like ubiquity you have to be able to say that everywhere and say it constantly and now if twitter's an open forum and people can anything goes and people can actually say call out lies and speak the truth um you've got a problem if you're trying to enforce propaganda everywhere and that's happening in the midst of all these other ls that the mainstream left is taking and it's like what's happening yup take the l's ladies and gentlemen i do want to read this i have been reading your comments i want to read this from evil camp ocampo he says lies make work for a what may work for a while but the truth will eventually rise to the top and that seems to be the case because we fought really hard through the censorship through the deep platforming through the canceled culture to at least have one person out there telling the truth and we were persistent and this goes to show how important your persistence is because in a lot of ways these ideologues they bank everything they have on the fact that they can demoralize you from stepping out and saying the truth as much as you possibly can even in the wake of being canceled and punched down and pushed down every single time you try to so big kudos to the people who are persistent on these platforms and saying no you can cancel me but i'm coming back you can cancel me but i'm coming back and you can suspend me but i'm coming back and ban me and i'm coming back and i'm going to say the same thing over and over and over again as loud as i can until somebody hears it and guess who heard a very important person and that was elon musk and after putting out that poll saying do you think twitter is upholding free speech and getting over 70 of people saying no look at the move that was made this is why your persistence and standing up and coming out of the closet with whatever values you have is really really important and people don't recognize how important it is so many people are so happy or at least complacent in being silent and your voice matters it does even though you may not think it does whatsoever it truly does and dennis has this great speech that he does and he closes out by saying you can be one of three people you can be a fighter who's constantly out there taking on the battles and fighting as hard as they can and using all your energy to do that or you can be somebody who supports the fighters which is just as important because everybody who does this needs support they need people pushing for them they need people advocating for them or you can be the third person which most people are the third person and that's the person who do who does nothing they're completely apathetic they sit on the sidelines they watch they may have their opinions but they don't state them and they don't support people who who have their opinions and that's why in a lot of ways we lose and when we lose things like freedom of speech and our first amendment right everybody loses and i hope that a lot of people on the left are going to wake up to that reality too when we lose freedom of speech you lose freedom of speech you will be next it will not last eventually there is a new enemy and as soon as they are done with us they will go to you that is how this endless cycle of authoritarian and totalitarian belief works they they don't want power or dominion over just one side they want dominion over everybody and you might think that you're safe because they're espousing the views that you happen to have but sooner or later they will be knocking at your door as well and censoring you off of twitter so i'm just so happy to see what is going on and i think that's where we're going to close out the prageru stream for today so if you're watching on prageru on youtube or facebook head over to amla binobi colon unapologetic it's in the description down below we'll also link it in the chat and we're going to continue our discussion over there we're going to be talking about what the left has left to use in their arguments for their ideology what we think their next move is and really can they win at this point with everything going on plus what do we have in common as individuals in these representing these different sets of values so head over to my channel omalepanobi and we're going to discuss that okay 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