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Re: [Updated] Elon Musk $44 Billion Twitter deal back on
Musk keeps using the phrase "Vox Populi Vox Dei" to show he’s listening to "the people".
Amusingly, the context of the phrase in its original setting means exactly the opposite - it was originated by a learned scholar (Alcuin) in Charlemagne’s court, and he advised the King
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Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
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Which translates to
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And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
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