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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 208 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It's astonishing how completely and thoroughly fucked things are right now.

Think about it - the measure of how damaging a story might be to a deranged convicted felon presidential candidate is the eagerness with which a social media site owned by a billionaire troll and self-professed "free speech absolutist" tries to censor it.

How is that even possible? Does no one else recognize how jaw-droppingly insane these people are?

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 61 points 1 month ago

Fat white pedos protect eachother

[–] elrik@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

It is insane and yet I've still never met a person in real life who uses X.

[–] ynthrepic@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Don't forget who some of the investors are who helped Elon buy Twitter either. In case you missed the story.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It is Vladimir Putin.

Saved you a click.

[–] InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago

Welcome to the republikkklown party.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Very well put. It sometimes feels impossible to put this insanity into words at the very least, but you've done that, so thank you.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

It's not that surprising. Russian oligarchs protect Putin, American oligarchs protect Republicans.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 85 points 1 month ago (4 children)

God I hope Harris wins so she can put the screws to Wish Version Iron Man.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

F.. that took me too long to get.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’ve been staring at this for 5 minutes. I must be too old and tired.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I get the Eel On part...but is it a muskrat or something?

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

It’s a musk deer

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apparently it took 10 minutes.

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can someone help me out here? I still don't get it...

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It’s an eel and a musk deer. So it’s an “eel on musk”

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Temu version

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Fwiw, extras don’t have lines. If it weren’t a cameo(cause fame), he would be called a day player most likely. Larry Ellison is also apparently in there as himself somewhere.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Will she? She seems to be moving to the center and trying to play "bridge builder".

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I don't know why you are getting down votes. She just said she will hire a Republican for the cabinet.

I don't want to pre judge anyone but if you still caucus for the GOP I am going to judge you and you are an immoral asshole.

Pull a Kristen Sinema and go independent if you still have conservative values that don't align with the GOP bullshit.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just move to Mastodon or that blue butterfly thingy.

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If the media would quit making articles out of X posts and hosting said posts for clickthroughs that'd be great.

They'll even link to X in articles specifically discussing how bad X or Musk is, like no drop is responsible for the flood

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That would require "journalist" to still be a real career path. Media sites today have cut costs down to the point where "outsourced guy (about to be replaced by AI) who writes 1000 words about Xitter posts" is what passes for "news reporter" these days. What are those people supposed to do, actual work?

[–] Baggins@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Brilliant!

The film's not bad either ;-)

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dude why on earth would you

Every time I visit Twitter I feel a strong desire to watch the video or whatever I came for and get the fuck out of there.

It is impossible to look over someone’s profile; as far as I can tell I get it sorted in “random bullshit from 2018” order and there is no way to change it

It had weird pop ups that mean nothing. Sign up with Google! Sign up with Apple! Once you join X, you can respond which means you’re allowed to read the comments! Here is someone who thinks Covid isn’t real!

It feels like going to some kind of sketchy site to download the pirated software I am looking for and get the fuck out before something happens to my computer

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I believe it was a musk move that changed the default sort order from "latest first" to "most engaged" as an intentional inconvenience to encourage users to make accounts and log in.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Buying a company to end censorship, but suppressing stories you don't like, seems weird.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's definitely not why he bought Twitter though.

[–] HoustonHenry@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's not, but that didn't stop him bragging that it was 😁

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The most damage isn't even from the altercation their staff had with a worker. It's the picture he had taken of himself giving the thumbs up and smiling like the tone deaf, sheltered rich kid that he always has been while standing behind of the tomb of someone who died because of the absolute trainwreck of a negotiating job he did with the Taliban.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The platform formerly known as Twitter

[–] InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's a joke based on what Prince was referred to as, in the '90s and '00s. He changed his name to some crazy symbol that no one knew how to pronounce, and he wouldn't clarify, so the media just referred to him as, "the artist formerly known as Prince."

[–] dezmd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You missed the real joke.

"So Twitter." is a way of saying "Fuck Elon, stil gonna call it Twitter." ;)

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Seems, based on the other commenter's reply that we whooshed each other. Lol. Thanks for the clarification!

[–] InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

Ahhh, I know the reference, I didn't catch on that's the angle you were going for. Nicely done.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

...And it's speculated that the reason he did so was to get out of a record label contract with Warner Bros. For his part, it was deliberately unpronounceable.

[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Oh it's Twitter (currently known as X)

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not showing due reverence to dead soldiers is lesson 101 in how to lose an election.

Rishi Sunak did the same thing in the UK, and even the usual right wing red top press hauled him over the coals for it.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

You'd think so, but he's been like this forever.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/gold-star-families-attack-trump-over-comments-about-ghazala-khan-n620671

This didn't sink his 2016 campaign and his NUMEROUS mentions of hate for wounded, captured, or dead soldiers won't in 2024.

Trump, for some unfathomable reason, is immune from things that would destroy the career of anyone else.

[–] finley@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

All these narcissists, so desperate for attention, and so blind to the damage this attention will do to them.

How awesome (literally and figuratively) it is that they also own and control entire social media platforms.

Lol

This wasn’t true last time around, and might be the secret sauce that results in their own self defeat.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“Explosive”

I’m tired of the superlatives, hyperbole, and exaggeration in the press.

It’s like that line from The Incredibles where Syndrome says, “When everyone’s super, no one will be.” When everything is “destroyed, crushed, hammered,” nothing is.

The sensationalized language is useless and I can’t even be bothered to read how someone got “slammed”.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

Why would those Loser and Suckers care about Trump disparaging the United States Armed Forces?

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