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Companies aren't fucking people you braindead, full-of-shit, techbro asshole. (Just to be clear, this is directed at musk)
"Companies are people too, my friend"
-Mitt Romney, in an incredibly out of touch statement.
"In fact, if we look at the only marker that counts - money - then corporations are even more people than people are."
Corporations own the domestic housing market, your car through software, you phone and devices through proprietary firmware, and your media through subscriptions.
Corporations are the only citizens.
We are serfs with no rights to own anything.
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Mitt Romney is a real inspirational character. He got to the top of the political world with nothing but hard work, hussle and a 10,000,000$ loan from his father!
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“According to the New York Times, terrorists may be paying for blue check marks on Twitter (I refuse to call it X),” King wrote.
King later followed up his stand against the name by posting the word "Twitter" several times in a message critical of Musk's "need to put your personal brand in everything.”
That sure is some savage trolling... Someone else had a much better comeback
Musk attempted to ridicule King, writing, “Stop deadnaming X… Respect our transition,” in response to King’s tweet.
Alejandra Caraballo, a transgender attorney and instructor at Harvard Law School, criticized Musk’s stance by bringing his personal life into the conversation. Caraballo responded directly to Musk’s post on X with a poignant comment: “Why? You never respected your daughter’s [transition].”
Caraballo responded directly to Musk’s post on X with a poignant comment: “Why? You never respected your daughter’s [transition].”
So fucking glad someone called PG out on his bullshit with his daughter.
It's not an own to him though. Thought process goes like this.
Elon deadnames daughter.
Internet people mad.
Someone deadnames Twitter (Oops).
Internet people not mad.
"Aha! Hypocrites!"
Thoughts terminated.
You can't deadname a social network because it's not a person, though. It does not have feelings.
Elon's thought process has already stopped. You would have better luck explaining the nuance to a ferret.
When you want to go to his site what do you type? Twitter.com no? So shut the fuck up Elon
I had to check. x.com actually redirects to Twitter. Which makes Twitter correct. X must be the old name.
Of course it is, X has always been a placeholder. Then after some serious consideration they ended up with Twitter, which is such a good name really, love it. Well done! At least thats how I remember it.
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You know what, I'll deadname it even harder.
I used to call it Twitter/X.
From now on I'll just call it Twitter.
Too bad I can't call it Shitter, but we'll all know that's what we mean so it's okay:-P.
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it's important to remember that elon musk is a 50 year old man which makes it even sadder
The site metadata refers to it as Twitter for like, those media cards Facebook Messenger and Discord make when you send a link, so I guess to stop my browser from deadnaming the site I should just stop visiting it.
Twitter itself still refers to itself as twitter on multiple parts of the website.
X now identifies as apartheid media instead of social media. The name change is important to make this distinction.
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Another right-winger who self-owned thinking they'd do a clever script flip.
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Elon is a massive piece of shit, but this is a genuine question because I don't follow everything with him...
Has he been anti-trans?
Edit: Jesus Christ... Can't say I'm surprised.
He directly promoted the transphobic film 'What is a Woman?'. Not sure if he's publicly done more than that, but his trans daughter doesn't want to be related to him at all and changed her name accordingly.
This is just the first result from Google
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-shares-anti-trans-content-twitter-2023-6?op=1
tl;dr, At Xhitter, he fired the people who took down promotions for a film inciting anti trans hate and then promoted the film.
Yeah he’s been pretty blatantly anti-trans. This article has more info, but the highlight here is that his daughter, who is trans, disowned him.
I can't say for sure because I don't give much of a shit about him, but IIRC (I read this years ago) he has a trans daughter who's cut communications with him. So probably.
Not the worst thing, but the dumbest anti-trans thing he's done is loudly proclaim that "cis" is a slur and calling someone cis is harassment.
For a while now, yeah.
Very
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Why do I feel he’s deadnaming his daughter, in the rare times they speak to each other?
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I like calling it X. It means I can call tweets Xcrement
Xitter is also acceptable in my book .
Twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet
We should exclusively call it "Twitter (called X by Elon Musk)".
He really shouldn't get to rename it to X for two reasons:
First it shouldn't be up to the whims of one idiot, millions of people use that and it's just annoying for no good reason. Social media needs more democratic governance from the users. They shouldn't be the product, they should be shareholders.
Second it's a name that "harms" language because X is used for many other things so it increases confusion and block out other meaning. It's just a shit name that now we're forced to use because of some plutocrat.
So yeah I think people should absolutely keep using twitter no matter what. As an act of disobedience against the rule of plutocrats. Or of course, just always crosspost and refer to mastadon instead.
Or of course, just always crosspost and promote mastadon instead.
"As posted on the subpar alternative to Mastadon: X"
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Hurrdedurr, I'm conservative and I make trans jokes! Me so clever!
Worlds richest man whinges about snarky comment made by a professional troll millionaire on an internet forum. The news is next...
Im breaking up with this x and moving in with mastodon.
Just call it twitter.com
Yep. That's a good option. Another options is to refer to it as "the platform formerly known as Twitter". (There's an Ars Technica journalist who consistently does this, without mentioning 'x'.) Another option is to just not talk about the site at all, and leave it alone to rot.
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