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Fuck Musk, Fuck "X" (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[-] ntma@lemm.ee 24 points 7 hours ago

Reddit is night and day without all the shilling and bots. But the mods are having a hissy fit. They're creating echo chambers that can rival a black hole.

[-] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 29 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] ROAGO@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

Edit:

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.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

I feel like people in general will let you down, but yeah I agree.

[-] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 24 points 10 hours 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

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

That's a good question, odd how all that vote fraud claims stopped after the election. We all know Republicans project.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

It's not even projection, every accusation is a confession

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 110 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] chryan@lemmy.world 35 points 10 hours ago

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.

[-] SupahRevs@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Yeah. I think MUSK bought it because it sounded cool and he got suckered into it. I think he got the funding for it because the people who funded him (like the Saudis) saw an opportunity to get an easy mark to break the system for them.

[-] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 20 points 12 hours ago

Omg how good it feels to see others with this feeling

[-] freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 26 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

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.

[-] freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Seriously? Did you just feign outrage for all those employees who blew up 5 billion in taxpayers dollars? The ones who jump up and down cheering like deranged cult members each time one of their rockets blows up, excited they received a Participation ribbon for coming in dead last?

You do realize SpaceX will never make it to the moon, much less Mars, right? I will never understand how people can watch Musk lie, OVER AND OVER, about his solar tiles, his Boring bullshit, his Hyperpoop, his full-self driving lies year after year after YEAR, but somehow think SpaceX is not run the same way, with the same lies.

SpaceX employees know they are designing shite, and they are just there for the paycheck. So yeah, much respect.

EDIT: Should we even discuss Leuders granting them the contract, then leaving NASA to work for SpaceX? SpaceX has missed EVERY SINGLE benchmark, every single deadline. Again, they were supposed to get us to the moon for 3B, and they are at 5B and can't get an EMPTY rocket into orbit. SpaceX is out of govt money, but that won't be a problem anymore, will it?

[-] lemmyllama@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Seriously. I have no love for Musk, but what the Space X team has accomplished is incredible. Wait until that guy finds out how much the SLS has cost so far, lmao.

[-] Djtecha@lemm.ee 3 points 7 hours ago

Maybe but they've got me interested in how this actually compares to nasa from a financial perspective.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

My money is on NASA 100%.

[-] Poxlox@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Musks culture has infiltrated SpaceX to warrant us to make some of those assumptions on the engineers that have currently stayed. Yes they've made accomplishments in actual propulsion engines but they've overpromised and underdelivered. Worse yet, on public linked posts from SpaceX team leads were spreading pro Russia anti NATO Muskaganda, completely unprofessional and it was praised by some dude I knew from my college who has been working there for a few years now. Their culture is trash and deserves to be ridiculed, and it's because of Musk influence.

[-] Poxlox@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Found it![]

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

That’s an awfully expensive political statement, even for Musk

[-] DrownedRats@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago

True, but he's proven repeatedly that he's got far more money than sense.

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 9 points 10 hours ago

Does it really matter if you have one billion or 200 billion?

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Previously he could buy a company like Twitter on a whim. He’d probably have to think twice about doing that again, so there’s a noticeable loss of purchase power.

Then you see his solar company is gone, drilling never went anywhere, car company may be pinched.

At least what he spent to buy a seat in government was cheap (for him)

[-] phx@lemmy.ca 17 points 14 hours ago

And/or weaponize it for his buddies to do so instead...

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago

It was on attack on progressives.

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[-] squid_slime@lemm.ee 15 points 11 hours ago

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.

[-] freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

It is well known that your false equivalence BS is an old, tired narrative. There was no "blue bot" propaganda campaign targeting red voters in an attempt to stop them from going to the polls. Oh, if only.

[-] squid_slime@lemm.ee 0 points 3 hours ago

I sense a bit of bias. Politic isn't football stop stomping so hard for your team.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 131 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 96 points 17 hours ago

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

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 25 points 16 hours ago

no reason why Europe and the american opposition can't be on the same side

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 41 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago
[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Half of Lemmy.ml mysteriously disappeared too

Source: my ass

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago

You should be showing your source.

[-] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 hours ago

Don't give me hope

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

As it was the same on Reddit last cycle

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[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 49 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

It would be, if those same billionaire owners didn't pull the politician's puppet strings.

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 8 points 13 hours ago

I'm sick of private ownership and private decision making about every fucking single aspect of human life from who gets housed to who gets fed to our very culture.

Americans "hate" dictatorships but allow the economy to be run by a bunch of Lords.

Socialism is the democratization of the economy. Socialism puts the human and the worker and the people most impacted by these economic decisions at the helm.

But no, democracy in the economy wouldn't be free. We need to slave away for fascist dictators.

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[-] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Fuck you for being on social media.

(I know)

[-] pinkystew@reddthat.com 44 points 16 hours ago

Why is anyone still using twitter?

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[-] uberdroog@lemmy.world 64 points 18 hours ago

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

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