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I've seen my fill of hate for the week in this thread alone. Amazing how the very people that claim to want to stop hate, are so damn good at slinging it themselves. Virtue signaling is strong with this group.
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Things are going great at Bluesky between PDF files and unmoderated death threats towards insurance execs
This is how the 'blue check' lost all its meaning, usefulness and credibility on the platform.
Tbf, engagement bait is nothing new. Have you seen the YouTube home page in a private window, not signed in? You almost have to use DeArrow.
I'm pretty sure Twitter's biggest issue is not people, as in humans.
People wouldn't have such a big issue with all the fighting and hatred if they just knew for certain that it was predominantly created by humans.
x.com is a cestpool of bots, and Elon won't spend on employees to keep em down.
It’s nothing new. But that’s why I only look at my sub box lol.
Anyway, the issue isn’t just with engagement to get interactions, but the fact that Twitter prioritizes visibility to posts that are subscribed to premium. So they spam the replies, and it’s too much. You can block them, but they’ll keep popping up.
Yeah, the term "legacy media" includes fox. They're all trash.
Same, subs tab only. Then using Brave on iOS to block shorts, etc.
I hear ya there, I found the For You tab to be much like YT's Home page, and stick to Following when I'm online. Although I haven't been on X in the past month or so.
I personally would've removed the checks from the platform altogether. The blue check was granted subjectively after a period, it carried no credibility in my eyes.
like majority of outlets that pushed biden being "sharp as a tack" for the past 4-5 years: https://www.wsj.com/politics/biden-white-house-age-function-diminished-3906a839 / https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...y-gaffes-stumbles-mental-decline-scandal.html ?
or https://x.com/kamalahq which kept pushing nonsense during the 2024 election cycle. a bunch of 20somethings which cut up and posted stuff which was out of context. it was somewhat entertaining watching them get fact checked non-stop by a parody account. they vanished once the elections were over, and everyone knew that their only job was to publish lies on their account to make harris look good, when their internal polling more than likely showed that her numbers were down.
Once again, fascism is a right-wing. Not left wing, and Antifa is not an organized group. That's a right wing myth. Antifa is just being against fascism. Sure "Antifa" might protest fascists, and violence might even break out. But it's not an organized group. It's an ideology. That ideology is to fight fascism, so they are, by definition, not fascist, or fascistic. And yes Fascism is on the rise and has already taken over the Republican Party non the US. The Far-right is taking over Germany, and France and the UK also are having real problems dealing with their fascists. Also, wanting to close the boarders and deport immigrants is fascist. It's what the Nazis did. Do you think they started by saying let's just kill all the jews and Romani? No, they were going to put them on trains and deport them. This, of course was logistically impossible, so they took a more horrific and "efficient" rout of just murdering them.
Yes, the rumors of Haitians eating pets was absolutely fascist rhetoric. The Nazis did similar propaganda against the Jews. Said they were eating babies and such. You take all the examples I gave and many more, add them together and it's full on fascism. Look at the ultra nationalistic rhetoric coming from the right. Saying "poisoning the blood of our country". More fascist rhetoric. And they are fascist. As you are a person from the "libertarian right" I would ask Why are you supporting fascism? Libertarianism is just a way to give more power to the rich and powerful. So I suppose that's probably why. You see the government is the people's power against the rich and powerful. Of, by and for the people, right? That's what government is supposed to be. But the right and their libertarian, friends call the government bad, and want to shrink it to almost nothing. Get it out of our lives... but what dies it really do? It regulates so rich and powerful can't pollute and exploit workers. It provides services like police, fire dept, military, roads, healthcare, housing assistance, snap benefits,... all things that the rich and powerful would rather sell to the working class. Anyway, true freedom for the American people would be for government to free the people from being slaves to the rich and powerful. To control the means of production. Ask yourself why so many regular Americans would be cheering on a murder? Was it because they are blood thirsty? or was it because they are fed up with the rich and powerful taking every dime out of their pocket and making their lives miserable. Yes the right wing is fascist. They have been going that way for decades. You just either choose not to see the obvious, or you are complicit in it because you benefit from it. IT's obvious fascism, and anyone who has studied fascism for more than 5 min can see that.
There is a genocide on the Palestinians. By the very definition of it. They are withholding food, murdering civilians, bombing civilian encampments, murdering and raping Palestinians, restricting their travel and using collective punishment to kill as many of them as possible. It is a genocide and there is no other way to describe it. The ICC ruled that many months ago. No the GOP are in no way "better than the democrats". And yes they are fascist. Stalin wasn't fascist. He was an authoritarian dictator, but not a fascist one. He was a communist.
The problems with the UK's NHS is that it's been mismanaged by the conservative right for 2 decades. Austerity politics rarely works. That is a great example of it.
Musk buying his way to become president is absolutely wild when considering how just the mention of his name or Twitter causes this kind of devision.
2025 is going to be unhinged.
But imma yeet out of here until sometime next year.
Merry Christmas to all of you (even the naughty ones that pay for Twitter premium. Be nicer to yourselves next year, okay!?!☝️🤨😄)!
2025 is going to be unhinged.
But imma yeet out of here until sometime next year.
Merry Christmas to all of you (even the naughty ones that pay for Twitter premium. Be nicer to yourselves next year, okay!?!☝️🤨😄)!
Dude, we're just not going to agree on anything. You seem to basically be a Communist and you're stuck in this demagoguery of "everything right of me is a fascist" stuff and that's just not even worth responding to anymore. All you're doing is just throwing a label at anything and everything you can, which is EXACTLY why the Democrats lost with independents and why so many minorities are abandoning the Democrats. People are over the names, calling people racist, bigots, fascists, that stuff just doesn't fly anymore, people know its bunk.
LOL, government controlling the means of production, Socialism, is "freeing people"? So force by the gun barrel of the state is liberation? You'll have to excuse me if I don't buy into control=freedom. I've seen that movie before.
Government has CREATED this imbalance. It's been picking the winners for decades now. A truly free market is absent of government regulation, partnerships, and control. Voluntarism is what is liberating.
I'm sorry, but your declarations don't mean anything. You and I both are free to believe what we want.
Why do I support the right? Because the left has lost their minds and they exist.
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No, there is not. There is not killing of them solely based on ethnicity and the killing of them all would have stopped had Hamas surrendered and released the hostages. They are not withholding food, that is a lie, in fact Israel has supplied over 3,000 calories per day to Palestinians but they don't control where the food ends up, who does? The terrorists do. They've killed their own people for trying to get food.
The ICC means nothing, they are nothing but anti-semites.
You've certainly bought into that "misinformation and propaganda" you mentioned earlier.
No, the problem with all forms of socialized medicine is the inevitable happens, you run out of money. Sure, if you want to raise tax rates to 75%, yeah, it can be kept afloat, but then people can't afford anything else and you end up EXACTLY where many people are now, post inflation. The care is bad and getting worse and the worker shortages are past being a problem.
Ideally, this could also have sparked another discussion on the relative merits of making a paid social media service (as opposed to the current popular route of making it free with ads), but again, because it's run by Elon, the chances of an open and objective discussion is likely close to zero as well. 😝
Which is a bit of a shame, and a large part of what makes Elon Musk and his accomplishments so hard to discuss. I feel that he does have some legitimate accomplishments such as SpaceX (some creators I follow rely on his satellite service to continue accessing internet service even as they travel round the world, and I think it's amazing you are able to buy this level of technology from a private company), yet at the same time I am sympathetic to those so offended by the means that they oppose Elon Musk (and every contribution he has made) in principle. 🙃