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[–] 168 points 2 years ago (19 children)

My pet theory is that Musk acquired Twitter to destroy one of the most effective platforms for anyone on the left to organize.

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're giving Musk too much credit here.

    He bought Twitter because a) he's addicted to it, and b) he rushed into a buying agreement he didn't get his lawyers to vet properly (probably due to his massively inflated "I understand more than anyone else" ego).

    He wanted to back out of it, but faced a lawsuit that he was almost certainly going to lose, so had no choice but to go through with the sale. The lawsuit happened because the shareholders at the time realized the company was worth nowhere close to the inflated $44 billion he offered for it, so they weren't going to back down either.

    Everything else that happened after the sale is a result of a man-child feeding his addiction and recuperate from the dumb deal he was legally forced to uphold.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You are right on why he bought it. But he then got funding from outsiders who would benefit from it's transition away from effective gathering and communicating space

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Just wait for the quid pro quo. SpaceX was supposed to get us back to the moon on 3 billion dollars. They are now at 5 billion dollars, and all they have to show for it is a flaming husk of a booster caught by "the chopsticks".

    For anyone who thinks that was some incredible accomplishment.. NASA has been landing rovers on Mars using truly incredible engineering that makes SpaceX look like a bunch of kids eating Baby Ruth bars in the sandbox.

    So if Elon gets appointed to a government position and starts awarding Tesla and SpaceX all kinds of extended taxpayer-funded gravy grift, you will know your pet theory is 100% spot on.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    For anyone who thinks that was some incredible accomplishment.. NASA has been landing rovers on Mars using truly incredible engineering that makes SpaceX look like a bunch of kids eating Baby Ruth bars in the sandbox.

    You're belittling and attacking the thousands of engineers and scientists who really built SpaceX, because their financier is a fascist sociopath. If you knew anything about this at all, you'd understand how exceptionally ignorant, naive, and disrespectful this is.

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    [–] 147 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The biggest problem is the damage is done.

    The party holds the supreme court. House. Senate. Executive. Under the unitary executive theory, the rest of the federal government, while being completely inept, will be party members.

    All we can do now, is collectively survive. It's a death cult. Steps we take to prevent the detainment, torture and death of our neighbors, friends, and family are the biggest fuck you to these people.

    I don't know how we'll do it. But we don't do it by joining or tolerating them. We don't have to make it easy for them.

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  • [–] 113 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The post is about not letting it happen in the EU.

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  • [–] 69 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    okay. So please. Stop using X. Use Mastodon or other Fediverse alternatives, even if your reach is smaller there?

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Sorry, internet activists will let you down like young voters. If leaving a platform slightly inconveniences them in even the most superficial insignificant sense, they won't do it.

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    Or they'll do it for like 3 days. Make a post saying "Hi guys! I just left twitter!" and then never write another message beyond that.

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    [–] 68 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I finally deleted my account. Had since 2007...it's not useful anymore.

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Good on you.

    Haven’t deleted mine yet but have two active accounts on blusky and mastodon and my twitter one is inactive with a pinned post linking my new socials.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Honestly that might be more helpful.

    I sometimes see the overwritten reddit comments when searching for a topic, and I wish that the comment would link to the person's new account (wherever they may be) in addition to the usual blurb on whg they aren't active on reddit anymore

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    [–] 59 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's a little bit naive and self destructive that human beings have created tools as powerful as mainstream social media with absolutely no checks or balances, absolutely no accountability, absolutely no transparency, and entirely at the whims of billionaire owners and nation states they're in bed with.

    Regulating and banning social media that is being used to blatantly conduct massive psyops should be uncontroversial.

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    [–] 47 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why is anyone still using twitter?

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Same on Threads.

    Everything went quiet.

    I would love to see these accounts, when they were opened, when they ceased posting, what they posted, and what the IP addresses were.

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Like, where is his data? Is there a list of all bot accounts on Twitter, with a column showing recent activity? Or is this guy doing the same thing as the other side - talking out of his ass?

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  • [–] [S] 84 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Have you been on twitter recently? [Note that I recommend users do not use twitter]

    It’s pretty obvious when for the past two weeks you had every single tweet of yours get spammed replies like “#TRUMP2024 #MAGA” with clearly AI generated profile pictures and fake names. All these accounts have like 20 followers and are following 5k+ accounts. And a bunch of them instantly reply to your posts like 5 seconds after posting. All these accounts have ceased activity overnight.

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    Its not enough to say "fuck it", active participation on any viable alternatives is essential to breathe oxygen into alternatives

    The god damned problem is everyone still links to X because a flaming dumpster fire is hard to look away from

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Brexit already happened but for the rest of Europe yeah get out of shitterx

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    it is well known that bot farms red and blue fireup in the run up to election season, and there are millions of these bots.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How the fuck did the Muskrat know Mango Mussolini was going to win?

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And what about 'Fuck "Tesla", Fuck "SpaceX"'?

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    before? where have you been this whole time?

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