• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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    He wants Twix to be Truth Social, but also profitable, and doesn’t understand why he can’t have it both ways.

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      Back in late 2022 I was in an argument with my (adult) nephew about how the government isn’t limiting free speech on Twitter. I was explaining how “the free market” is deciding whether Elon will sink or swim. He just could not understand how the government -wasn’t- responsible.

      …idfk

      (Yes, there were some Governmental take down requests, but none of them seemed very sus to me)

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        I had a similar discussion with some people at a barber shop back when Pre-Elon Twitter banned Trump. They were complaining about free speech and I asked if they knew what it actually meant (in the US). When I explained that we are ONLY guaranteed free speech from the gov’t, and that Twitter was a private business and could ban whoever they want, the same way this barber shop could tell someone not to ever come back everyone got real quiet like “oh shit I have to rethink my whole world view”. I actually got thanked at another time by one employee for telling them how it actually works.

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      What’s this got to do with Twix? I love a good Twix…

      Fuck me, now I gotta go buy a Twix. And a Lion, do they still make those? God they were the best.

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        Raider is now Twix

        Twitter is now X

        Twitter X

        Twix

        Same same

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          I had no idea Twix used to be called Raider, I’ve learned something new!

          Snickers used to be called Marathon, I know that one :-)

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            Twix was called Raider in many european countries, above all all german speaking countries, don’t ask me why. When they got renamed to Twix in 1991 about 70% of all countries that offered the bar already called it Twix.

            The renaming happened with the slogan “Raider heißt jetzt Twix, … sonst ändert sich nix” broadly “Raider is now called Twix, … nothing else changes”

            The Slogan ofcourse was used by many german speaking comedians and satirists when it came to Twitter… “Twitter heißt jetzt X, … sonst ändert sich nix.”, with the added bonus that a lot changed, for the worse, underlining Muskian lies.

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              Oooh so there’s actually much more to it than meets the eye! Damn. Thanks for taking the time to explain :-)

              I bet this information will be mixed with my COVID fever dreams and is going to remain lodged in my brain as core knowledge somehow forever :P

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          I like Xitter still better. I dunno about his current ties to China but in Chinese you pronounce xi as shi AFAIK.