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Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US users (www.salon.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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X, the social media platform owned by Trump megadonor Elon Musk, is promoting Trump campaign-curated content to all U.S. users, regardless of whether they have opted out of Trump-related content.

On the platform formerly known as Twitter, banner ads for the Trump campaign donning the #Trump2024 tag appear for all U.S. users, even those who’ve blocked words, topics, and hashtags related to the candidate or his campaign or muted the advertiser.

Additionally, the #MAGA tag displays an edited image of the former president from his attempted assassination and the #Trump2024 hashtag displays an American flag.

It is unclear whether the Trump campaign paid for the images on the #Trump2024 and #MAGA tags, though an advertisement for the tag on the site’s trending page reads “Promoted by Team Trump.” As Mashable noted, it is the first time the platform has enabled the image feature to promote a specific political candidate.

Clicking the Trump2024 tag also prompts American flag graphics to flood the screen.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I want to transfer my tweets to my Mastodon before deleting my Twitter account.

I don't understand why a tool like still doesn't exist.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There is a point in every cult where the leader increases restrictions and demands purity. What this does is eliminate the free thinking people by forcing them to chose. The more you impose these restrictions the crazier they get targeting only the most devote and the most codependent people.

What you end up with is an army of sycophants that will die before they leave the cult. Twitter will be the largest imposition of this strategy on a targeted group of people that i can think of. It's time to start being afraid of the cult of elon.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How to get every business to leave your platform in one simple step.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Idk I thought they would have already left a long time ago but they are still there

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I'm surprised Twitter is still running. How many engineers do they have?

Maybe those engineers should go rogue and just.. not do this. But no, probably the ones left are jerks who support this, or people with visa worries.

Maybe someone will push Musk in front of a bus though.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Lets all remember the following tweet by Elon

Guys you are all too left, calm down a bit please.

[+] [email protected] -62 points 3 months ago (12 children)

This is true though. 1992 Bill Clinton would be a republican today. Biden supported a 1994 crime bill that is considered racist today. Obama didn't support gay marriage in 2008. Now liberals are fighting for sex change treatments for children. People 30 years ago would consider such an idea a grotesque absurdity.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

1992 Bill Clinton thought that we should have universal single-payer healthcare. In 2016 Hillary said that would "never, ever, ever happen."

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

leftist here, I'm fighting against sex changes for children (specifically intersex infants)

[+] [email protected] -6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

As a leftist I think that transsexuals should not be discriminated against. I'm also highly disturbed by the idea of medicalizing everything and turning a sexual identity into an excuse for prescribing dangerous and harsh drugs and body modification surgery. The whole thing feels like an op by the for-profit healthcare industry.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"I don't think transsexuals should be discriminated against, expect medical discrimination. Cus conspiracy theories."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pushers shouldn't be pushing. The sickness industry is a vile and evil institution that ruins people's health and cuts up their bodies for profit. That is a leftist position.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

i know a lot of trans girls who source their own estrogen or get it from the black market (they also tend to be socialist ra types)

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

That doesn't surprise me. The left and right paradigm flattens a ton of complexity into a boolean spectrum when the reality is far more complex than that.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is true. And that's OK. Failure to change with the times and to learn from scientific advancements and social improvements is a conservative trait.

You are accurate, but it begs the question: Is not changing your opinions with time and new info a respectable way to live your life? Will you be on the right side of history? Who knows? But I feel like giving people more options is more often better than the alternative.

[+] [email protected] -19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Failure to change with the times and to learn from scientific advancements and social improvements is a conservative trait.

Literally lolled at this. This post is in response to a "far right" Elon Musk who owns the first company to ever fire a rocket into space, retrieve and reuse it. I'm sure he's just taking credit for all the bleeding heart liberal geniuses working under him.

Is not changing your opinions with time and new info a respectable way to live your life?

🥱 Wow way to load your rebuttal to make yourself seem so erudite and above it all. The reality is that a ton of the "new info" turns out to be proven false or even to be outright lies. The reality is that you should be incredibly suspicious of "new info" because chances are it hasn't been properly vetted and could be driven by an agenda similar to how companies fund research to prove their desired conclusions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey I was trying to say your point was valid but I guess you'd rather be told to go fuck yourself? /shrug

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

before i make a user note for you can you clarify if you mean what you're saying or if you're just being a silly bee

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

maybe we should all ask our ancestors what they think about our society. you know 80 years ago people wouldn't be so keen on integration so much, maybe we should give this whole "having black people freely move around" a second thought, what do you think?

also you're massively misunderstanding the whole political spectrum but i don't have the energy. I'll just suffice to say liberals are not and have never been left wing. left has gained some traction in recent years but that's not about liberals. also for every inch the democrats have moved to the left, republicans have moved a mile to the right. the Overton window has shifted, but not to the left overall.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ah remember the days when you could be left and still donate to an immigrant hating, sexist and racist billionaire? Those were the good days.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

You know what? I'm gonna left even harder.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe this will make people finally stop using the site for good. But I doubt it.

Who wants to see a child rapist every time you go to their site?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

I'd say this is a great time for even more advertisers to abandon that platform, but really anyone who would care about this should have left a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

this is forcing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

If the Trump campaign paid for it as an ad, I'm not upset by it assuming anyone else could have paid to promote an alternative political candidate.

If it's an in-kind donation to the campaign, that's troublesome.

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