It's astonishing how completely and thoroughly fucked things are right now.
Think about it - the measure of how damaging a story might be to a deranged convicted felon presidential candidate is the eagerness with which a social media site owned by a billionaire troll and self-professed "free speech absolutist" tries to censor it.
How is that even possible? Does no one else recognize how jaw-droppingly insane these people are?
Fat white pedos protect eachother
It is insane and yet I've still never met a person in real life who uses X.
Don't forget who some of the investors are who helped Elon buy Twitter either. In case you missed the story.
It is Vladimir Putin.
Saved you a click.
Welcome to the republikkklown party.
It's not that surprising. Russian oligarchs protect Putin, American oligarchs protect Republicans.
Very well put. It sometimes feels impossible to put this insanity into words at the very least, but you've done that, so thank you.
God I hope Harris wins so she can put the screws to Wish Version Iron Man.
F.. that took me too long to get.
I’ve been staring at this for 5 minutes. I must be too old and tired.
I get the Eel On part...but is it a muskrat or something?
It’s a musk deer
Apparently it took 10 minutes.
Can someone help me out here? I still don't get it...
It’s an eel and a musk deer. So it’s an “eel on musk”
Temu version
Iron Man 2 extra.
Fwiw, extras don’t have lines. If it weren’t a cameo(cause fame), he would be called a day player most likely. Larry Ellison is also apparently in there as himself somewhere.
Just move to Mastodon or that blue butterfly thingy.
If the media would quit making articles out of X posts and hosting said posts for clickthroughs that'd be great.
They'll even link to X in articles specifically discussing how bad X or Musk is, like no drop is responsible for the flood
That would require "journalist" to still be a real career path. Media sites today have cut costs down to the point where "outsourced guy (about to be replaced by AI) who writes 1000 words about Xitter posts" is what passes for "news reporter" these days. What are those people supposed to do, actual work?
Brilliant!
The film's not bad either ;-)
Dude why on earth would you
Every time I visit Twitter I feel a strong desire to watch the video or whatever I came for and get the fuck out of there.
It is impossible to look over someone’s profile; as far as I can tell I get it sorted in “random bullshit from 2018” order and there is no way to change it
It had weird pop ups that mean nothing. Sign up with Google! Sign up with Apple! Once you join X, you can respond which means you’re allowed to read the comments! Here is someone who thinks Covid isn’t real!
It feels like going to some kind of sketchy site to download the pirated software I am looking for and get the fuck out before something happens to my computer
I believe it was a musk move that changed the default sort order from "latest first" to "most engaged" as an intentional inconvenience to encourage users to make accounts and log in.
Buying a company to end censorship, but suppressing stories you don't like, seems weird.
That's definitely not why he bought Twitter though.
It's not, but that didn't stop him bragging that it was 😁
The most damage isn't even from the altercation their staff had with a worker. It's the picture he had taken of himself giving the thumbs up and smiling like the tone deaf, sheltered rich kid that he always has been while standing behind of the tomb of someone who died because of the absolute trainwreck of a negotiating job he did with the Taliban.
x? never heard of it
The platform formerly known as Twitter
So Twitter.
It's a joke based on what Prince was referred to as, in the '90s and '00s. He changed his name to some crazy symbol that no one knew how to pronounce, and he wouldn't clarify, so the media just referred to him as, "the artist formerly known as Prince."
You missed the real joke.
"So Twitter." is a way of saying "Fuck Elon, stil gonna call it Twitter." ;)
Seems, based on the other commenter's reply that we whooshed each other. Lol. Thanks for the clarification!
...And it's speculated that the reason he did so was to get out of a record label contract with Warner Bros. For his part, it was deliberately unpronounceable.
Ahhh, I know the reference, I didn't catch on that's the angle you were going for. Nicely done.
Oh it's Twitter (currently known as X)
Not showing due reverence to dead soldiers is lesson 101 in how to lose an election.
Rishi Sunak did the same thing in the UK, and even the usual right wing red top press hauled him over the coals for it.
You'd think so, but he's been like this forever.
This didn't sink his 2016 campaign and his NUMEROUS mentions of hate for wounded, captured, or dead soldiers won't in 2024.
Trump, for some unfathomable reason, is immune from things that would destroy the career of anyone else.
All these narcissists, so desperate for attention, and so blind to the damage this attention will do to them.
How awesome (literally and figuratively) it is that they also own and control entire social media platforms.
Lol
This wasn’t true last time around, and might be the secret sauce that results in their own self defeat.
“Explosive”
I’m tired of the superlatives, hyperbole, and exaggeration in the press.
It’s like that line from The Incredibles where Syndrome says, “When everyone’s super, no one will be.” When everything is “destroyed, crushed, hammered,” nothing is.
The sensationalized language is useless and I can’t even be bothered to read how someone got “slammed”.
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