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Elon Musk Holds Twitter Poll on Pardoning Assange and Snowden
The public has spoken, and the results are staggering
The whole Musk-Twitter takeover has been wild — to say the least. From firing half the freaking staff to telling everyone else to work themselves to death, supposedly letting speech run wild, having Trump back on, trying to keep advertisers happy, and then the Twitter Files chaos, it’s been a sh*t show.
Elon clearly has that Donald-Trump-Kanye-West mentality where he needs to be in the headlines. If too many days have passed without a controversial Musk story, he’ll get on Twitter and make sure we’re talking about him. He’s the world’s richest man. And he is so desperately thirsty for attention.
If I had to find a silver lining to the whole thing, I’d point to his poll on pardoning Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
The response and results were mind-blowing.
Of course, a simple Twitter poll doesn’t change anything. Assange is still being psychologically abused in a maximum security prison, while Snowden can’t leave Russia for fear of having a black bag thrown over his head the moment he stepped off of a plane and being dragged to a CIA black site to be tortured and never heard from publically again.
