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Damn, they're not even waiting for their guy to be sworn in again before they start the infighting. This truly is a speed run to social cannibalism.
Our best hope for the next four years is that they spend so much time fighting amongst themselves, they'll be too busy to completely fuck everything else up. I'm sure they'll try, but god, I hope there's still a Department of Education in 2029. Lack of critical thinking skills is what got us these morons in the first place, we have enough stupid people in this country already.
I share your sentiment but I think they will attempt to out cunt each other on being vile, petty children. The will try to be as punitive as possible with policy and neglectful in their duties to facilitate the mechanisms of functional government. And, yes maybe not completely because they are probably not even competent enough to do that.
I'm sorry my American friends but you're in for some catastrophic shitfuckery.
More likely while the public squabble takes our attention those behind the scenes will calmly remake everything to their design. While we notice nothing but the squabble...
Feel free to do a bit of rabble rousing yourselves as well!
Im not sure how effective that will be. Part of the reason they are turning on each other is that everyone else has been so quiet since the election. If there were mass protests right now they would all be united behind having BLM declared a terrorist movement or something, not focused on each other.
Oh no need to have organized protests. I believe we all have agreed that we're well past time where that will have any significant impact. Besides, it's the age of information! Fight back in ways our Republican friends won't understand.
The only use my twitter account gets is dropping "president musk" pics under random conservative posts.
They're just stealing everything from the left now!
The popcorn is rich.
Even known Donald Trump mushroom rubber and psychopath, Laura Loomer, is getting unverified.
The infighting is coming in way faster and pettier than I imagined. This is fun to watch
That's funnier. Much, much funnier.
If only they learned from every other abuse of power Elon has made on his platform...
It's freedom of speech for Elon - everyone else has to tow the line, or hope to god he never notices them.
It's "toe the line". This difference is pretty important. I thought it was "tow the line" more than half my life because it sounds like pulling on a rope to go in the right direction.
It's actually more sinister. Get your toes on the line we drew. Perfect conformity of thought or action.
They didn't see the previous cases as abuses of power, because he was always hurting people they already didn't like, or in the very least he was hurting people they didn't care about.
Is this the new status quo from America's "most free" social media plattorm?
You haven't been listening, have ya?
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Looks like @ConservativesOG just found out that the law does not protect them.
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That's the thing about autocratic rule.
Once enacted, your say is forfeit and you survive only by mercy of the state.
is this the new status quo?
Yea but It's not new.
Is this the new status quo from America's "most free" social media platform?
🔫 Always has been.
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Lololol "how could they ever eat my face‽”
Also Mr. Free speech and Xhitter is the public square, lol such BS.
"Free speech, as long as I like it."
The free speech Musk believes in is his ironclad right to speak. To him, contradiction is not speech, and he seems baffled whenever it happens, like he's just been slapped with a fish.
Musk isn’t confused at all. He’s been lying about believing in free speech this whole time. He’s an oligarch—literally the richest person in the world—who bought 𝕏itter in order to control speech.
Just to be clear, I'm not trying to say that Musk is confused about what free speech is -- I'm saying he's confused when he hears ideas that conflict with his worldview. He cannot process the idea that contradiction of his beliefs should even be possible and that drives him wild with rage.
I think it's important to understand that Musk doesn't think of most other human beings as "people" and he does not consider what they say as "speech". His worldview is entirely solipsistic and the only speech that exists is the speech he produces and the reflections of it that come back to him. To Musk, everything else is the braying of animals with diseased minds.
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Twitter is xelon's personal toy, how did you not know that?
Who could have predicted that the goals of the all powerful leader would diverge from his base of support?
Something like this has surely never happened in the history of history.
That's the thing about these monsters, they eat their own.
The platform is only free to say whatever you want as long as it fits their narrative.
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I’m not that old (I’m not that young either) but I can’t remember a time when a party controlled both the executive and legislative branches and didn’t descend into incompetent infighting.
I thought this time would be different but this gives me hope.
Yeah, the way they kept this coalition together was by telling the business community that their more extreme stuff on abortion and immigration was just stuff they told the rubes to get their votes. Now they're in a position that both constituents expect them to deliver, and there's a lot of conflict there. Draining the swamp is the opposite of creating an entirely new agency that's all swamp, and while the business community pretends they want more border enforcement, a lot of immigration policies are explicitly designed to create an entire class of workers that's perpetually in a precarious position so they can undermine unionisation efforts (H1B1 visas being a perfect example of that).
Judicial branch as well.
hahahhaahahhahahahahahahahahah
You mean the "fuck immigrants" crowd isn't down with ol Musky's plan to bring in brown immigrants? Who'd a thunk it.
the immigrant haters hate the immigrant? no
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You f-ing morons, you served the only purpose you were supposed to serve, you voted the coming autocratic reforms of the USA into power. Enjoy becoming as persecuted as the "left" was as only the most ignorant or most pandering voices of the coming dictatorship are left.
How are people still on Twitter and acting surprised by fucking anything that happens there? Like… Wise-up folks. You have options.
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Leopards ate my face
lmao if that's true he blundered this one so hard. either he doubles down and doesn't reinstate premium, causing people to get annoyed at him and potentially leave. or he does reinstate it and has essentially lost control over his platform.
seems like the former so far, his last tweets are full of responses just talking about this.
It seems like he's demonitizing accounts who aren't even tweeting him directly, just talking about him. It doesn't matter what he does at this point, he's just identified himself as attacking Trump stans. They won't trust him again.
He will back down, though. Not only does he have the same crippling need to be loved as Trump does, but these lamprays srr probably generating a significant fraction of Twitter's revenue these days.
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Known misinformation spreader Ian Miles Cheong (who lives in Malaysia) is also getting Loomer face eating
I have a feeling a lot of these people think Musk was born and raised in the US
Or that he cares for any country or anyone else than himself?
I don't think is about misplaced patriotism and altruism.
He's just a massive POS.
People who vote for the Leopards-eating-people’s-faces party are always shockedpikachu.gif when the leopard eats their face.
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