Twitter is for chumps. I blocked it on my home network along with all the other trash. PFBlocker is great.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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I have never heard anything good about Twitter. Just the format of following people instead of topics seems like a narcissistic’s dream.
People used it when they shouldn’t have before Elon and people will continue now.
Some just like shitty systems I guess.
I've never had a twitter account. Finally got around to making a Mastodon account and I have no f'ing clue what to do with it.
Same. Made it last week and went. Huh. And bailed back to lemmy. I prefer this type of UI
This is election interference.
How so? It's a private Nazi website.
If any private entity spends enough money on a candidate, it's an election contribution.
Election contributions have legal requirements. Musk / Twitter aren't complying with those requirements.
Twitter sells enhanced hashtags and placement on the top of the trending list to advertisers. Now they are donating ad slots to Trump.
Of course, the real question is whether or not anything will be done about it. Churches endorse political stuff all the time, and legally they are supposed to lose their tax exemption over it, but as we all know a Church can straight up call for mass murder of LGBT people, and they don't see any consequences at all...
Nah, you're forgetting how fucked the US is.
Citizen's United mean it's absolutely fine for billionaires to spend as much money as they like supporting geriatric fascists, providing they don't ask the fascists how they'd like the money spent.
Providing Elon keeps going off half-cocked and making decisions on his own and isn't following instructions from the trump campaign this is all perfectly legal.
And even if he is acting on orders, how could you ever prove it?
Elon Musk is a rich industrialist wanting to install a guy that would serve his interests.
I'm continuously glad that I got out of Twitter the day Elon took over.
I love it when terrible people do terrible things to their own wealth. What I don't love is how after a certain number of billions, you have an infinite wealth cheat code to fuck around with.
Yeah in the US we pride ourselves on having equal*** voting power, but our vastly unequal purchasing power can be used to override that.
Billionaires get so obvious with crap they want, it reminds me of a toddler that really wants his very own formula one racer or artillery piece or nuclear reactor.
And yeah, if it weren't so critically deleterious to the rest of us to let him have it, we'd let him pull a Stockton Rush and blow himself up with mad science.
But the rest of us really don't want to have to clean up after his one party autocracy or suffer through the critical scarcity, the civil war and the holocaust that propagandists will deny for centuries.
When you look upon a billionaire, see them as a bird, trying desperately to feed a cuckoo chick at the cost of their own offspring, only this chick never grows up and flies away, but stays, ever eating, ever growing like a cancer, demanding nourishment forever.
If you keep using the shitter site, don't be surprised if you get shit sprayed all over you.
All twitter users are Musk's army, even if they don't think so.
People still use twitter? It's just a right wing bot cesspool now.
lol i thought it was used for p0rn mostly since its X?!
A lot of people on the left think they're able to throw sand in the gears by tweeting how mean Elon is.
I mean, that's what got his dumbass to buy it in the first place lol.
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