Is this the men's rights movement version of the Barbie Dreamhouse?
Elon Musk | Owner of X and right wing man-child
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Is this the men's rights movement version of the Barbie Dreamhouse?
Imagine the possibilities...... I mean, what could go wrong? Especially given Musk's ideas for the future of this chip and availability for the general population.
You just know a large percentage of the anti-vaxer crowd and those who relentlessly bang on about the COVID jab will be right up for this and defending it to the hilt, just because of their love of Elon.
We are fecked as a species, we really are.
The excuses people come up with to justify still being on that site are funny. Just admit that you can’t live without the serotonin rush and that you don’t care about the overt racism and that the site is now nothing but a propaganda vehicle. Won’t make it much better. But at least it’s honest.
Strongly disagree with this. You mentioned that you had a twitter, but you said you got rid of it once Musk bought it. That just seems like letting the shitbags win to me, instead of standing your ground and being able to argue against the right wing lunatics. As an example Twitter was always known for having a large community of trans people, surely it’d be better to have stayed and amplified these voices, rather than jump ship because Musk owns it? Especially as to a lot of people there’s a good chance their main interaction with the trans community, and other marginalised groups, comes from twitter. Isn’t it costing Musk billions in terms of value as well? It’s like an anchor around his neck. The Greenwood thread on here sickens me, but it’s not going to make me leave the site it’s just incentivised me to highlight the victim blaming, not to convince the ones doing the victim blaming, but others who read the thread.
I’m not blaming you for leaving the site, I’ve never had an account, bar for a month where I signed up to mock Musk and then got banned. Other than the Redcafe and one shitty Swans forum I’m not really a social media person. But I think it’s better to have people supporting these groups and causes, then vacating the site to Musk and his cronies.
Whatever one's view on staying on Twitter or not, I struggle to believe anyone can hold out hope that twitter will "get back to where it was." I think Man United beating Arsenal in the next two Champions League finals is far more likely than Twitter ever returning to what it was before Musk.
The last few pages really trigger something in me that pushes me to break the Godwin Law
Good post. People are fuelling this hate machine through mere usage. Boycott the thing. Send a message.
What are your go-to news sources now?
Has anybody called him out for not cutting his own dick off yet? I’m sure you could bully him into it saying Bill Gates did it and look how cool he is.
I share an online subscription for two local papers with someone. Otherwise I use the Tagesschau App (basically the news from the German BBC) and browse the pages of bigger papers (Süddeutsche, Spiegel, NYT and so on) for more.
I have found that this is a much better way to get news. While it’s not as quick as Twitter, it is overall far more reliable and in depth. I also found that it’s much more comfortable and healthy for me to do it like this, because I’m not constantly surrounded by meaningless but agitating breaking news or stupid discussions underneath them. Having steady times for reading the news (except of course for special occasions) is very relaxing.
On top of that are obviously secondary news sources like the Caf.
I think I wouldn’t get back on Twitter even if Musk was gone. The page is hell for my attention span.
X is testing new paid membership tiers to compensate for poor ad revenue
I can't imagine why any regular person would want to pay 84 dollars a year for X. I mean if your job is social media, and there is a corporate reason for a presence, i.e. social media team. Maybe its worth it to them. But, a normal person I can't even see it being worth any price for what it is.
I would expect exclusive content or something for that, and never encounter racism and the crazies.
I can't imagine why any regular person would want to pay 84 dollars a year for X. I mean if your job is social media, and there is a corporate reason for a presence, i.e. social media team. Maybe its worth it to them. But, a normal person I can't even see it being worth any price for what it is.
I would expect exclusive content or something for that, and never encounter racism and the crazies.
He's also removing the likes and retweet functions and he's also now hidden the bottom function bar and it is supposed to only be visible when you click on a Tweet now.
Fecker has ruined the app.
This has to violate a TOS or two, no?
Concerning.
Looking into it.
Any search on it my end just shows lots and lots of tweets from mainly Indians calling for the complete annihilation of the Palestinians...including one from some Indian major who has UN peacekeeper on his bio...one complete berk with a few tens of thousands of followers and self styled bharat zionist has called for a final solution against the Palestinians...
He's crazy. I know very well that these accounts have shared wrong information, without sources whatsoever.
I think there are multiple war monitor accounts, which is confusing some. There's one that reports mainly Ukraine/Russia. This guy above seems to be an anti-Israeli account amplifying Hamas wins over the past 36 hours.
Musk being blatantly dishonest again. The Ukraine war is one of, if not the most documented conflict in visual terms.
It's funny how the people who claim to never pay attention to mainstream media never shut up about what is or isn't being shown by the mainstream media.
I saw one of the most cinematic, high-res shoot-downs of a Russia chopper on the damn site that he owns. But once again he fuels the "just asking questions" stupidity. It's mob-rule with a rich dude leading the mob and using his rich status as "verification" of the truth.
If you follow anything on twitter these days it's basically a game of the "blue ticks" waiting for Elon to post or reply to something and then THAT is the truth. There is a whole new narrative. I never thought social media could take us down any further, but there are always new lows. I don't know if large sections of humans online can function any more without someone in their closed communities setting the narrative first.
That definitely happened.
Barefaced lie.
By the way, with all the disinformation and fake news making the rounds about Israel right now, nobody should ever try to say with a straight face that this page is a good source for news. It’s fast. That’s it. Otherwise it’s garbage that’s poisoning nearly every current debate in the world. But especially controversial ones.
I've found my 'Following' account is still what I want it to be vis à vis news & sports, but, last night for the first time in eons, i checked out my 'For You' account & it was a car crash horror. First clip was a Hamas member killing a dog.
Don't think I'll ever go back on that account.
*page not account
Also, mine is nothing like that and is just basically balanced discussion and pro-Palestine in parts.
Yes, 'page.' Felt weird typing account.
Your 'For You' page is on point? Good for you. I only follow about 90 people (who usually give me my fix), it would be nice to broaden out in 'For You' but it is just a fecking mess.
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He's becoming a fascist. I mean... he's making people realize he's a fascist.
No one should be surprised that a silver spoon fed South African apartheid bro says these things anymore. He just simply bought himself a platform to spout it out without filter and structured, said platform to support the words he says.
This is how a left-leaning centrist looks like to people outside of the radical left.He's becoming a fascist. I mean... he's making people realize he's a fascist.