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$45 million a month. Jesus fucking Christ, imagine the good that kind of money could do. Instead it’s going straight to Fascists’R’Us.
It breaks my heart to think about that.
This is just an example of what America does every second of every day. Valuing money more than people.
Example of what capitalism does every second. The problem is bigger and older than America.
america is like the fruiting body of the capitalist fungus, what you see is a tiny indicator of an infection that has roots that continue on for miles.
Why do you think Vance is the VP pick? He is Peter Thiel’s bitch, who is Elon’s bitch. They are not even trying to hide it anymore.
Even if I was using that money entirely selfishly I could come up with so many better things to do.
Frankly, setting it on fire would be a better use.
The KLF-style
Remember when Elon said he’d gladly solve world hunger if someone gave him a plan to do so?
and then someone did, and he didn’t
Did this actually happen? Do you have a source? Genuinely curious.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/11/elon-musk-un-world-hunger-famine/
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/18/tech/elon-musk-world-hunger-wfp-donation/index.html
there’s plenty of news sources covering the streams of promises he’s made, and none that report on the delivery (because he didn’t do it and never will)
Thank you for posting this. This pretty much says it all. What a shit head. “It’s not clear if Musk or Bezos have seen the plan and will ultimately decide to lend their support. Spokespeople for Musk’s companies did not respond to requests for comment.”
Even if they did leave, SpaceX/Starlink and Tesla are dumping money onto him. He’d still have plenty of money to throw at the guy with the least progressive tax plan.
He could have less, though.
I don’t see how. Worst case, he just owes the loans instead of also paying salaries.
This. This i like.
He doesn’t make money on Twitter. He loses money. Twitter is only valuable for the users it has, and that’s not monetary.
So if people leave, he loses even more money.
That is to what I was alluding.
Don’t buy a Tesla, don’t use Starlink, checkmate Musk!
You sonuva bitch. I’m in.
Eh, it’s really the only big social media that leans right .
“leans”
I find Facebook to as well.
What about Facebook or LinkedIn?
I’m guessing they meant “right” in the US view, which means two drinks away from executing the lesser races. In that mindset Facebook and LinkedIn would be center (and communist in the rare occurrences where they ban someone for being racist)
FB would be center if it was moderated.
Both Meta and LinkedIn are:
✅ big
✅ “leans” right
Math checks out, boss
That’s the issue, Musk and all think they are the resistance. That’s why they say “take back America”. From the elites, ignoring that they are the rich elites.
Perpetual victim mentality.
Wait is this why we don’t have rich people building giant monuments and libraries and art galleries with their names prominently on them anymore? Because they actually think they’re the underclass??
Because seriously some of the most fire art galleries I’ve been to are the ones that are paid for by the worst fucking exploitative billionaires you’ll ever read about. Shout out to the Guggenheim, btw
Pretty much, they wanna be the goodies instead of the baddies, but they don’t wanna change anything, so they’ll just be the baddies while pretending otherwise
I mean damn if Rockefeller plaza isn’t nice.
But for sure everyone feels like the victim all the time now regardless of how well off you are. Maybe we are growing immune to shame? I dunno but I miss people like Hershey building a free theater and a nice garden because his employees would strike.
Populism 101
That’s the issue, Musk and all think they are the resistance.
Pretty sure Stephanie was saying the people still using Twitter love to think they’d join the resistance, but won’t even stop using Twitter. Not that Elon thinks he’s the resistance.
Yes. And what I’m saying is that Elon and the people still using Twitter think they are the resistance. I’m saying they won’t leave Twitter because they think they are the resistance.
None of the queer people I know think using Shitter is a good thing. It’s just that the ones still on Shitter don’t care enough about fighting fascism.
i just can’t wrap my head around the fact that otherwise normal intelligent people are so fucking addicted to fake validation from fake “friends” that they continue to consume (PAY FOR) bullshit like twitter
I’m also continously surprised by how socially codependent people are.
i wasn’t talking about people being socially codependent, i was talking about how people are addicted to bullshit social media to the point that they neglect actual social interaction with the people (i.e. friends and family) who are literally in physical proximity to them. all to amass fake “likes” for their feed
As the sociologist Brooke Harrington puts it, if there was an E = mc2 of social science, it would be SD > PD, “social death is more frightening than physical death.”
humans are social creatures by nature but the issue is the way that people go about fulfilling those needs in the most useless, destructive way possible
its not like we are in a healthy society that can offer meaningful human connection
this is like that moment in a cartoon where a character looks at their feet, notices they’re standing on air, and fall down
As long as the socialibility of the human creates another human who uses the same tools to also make a human, etc., the system works and will require no changes.
It’s because they’re actually bigots and enjoy being in the company of other bigots who don’t call them out.
Especially when they can get upvotes for free on Lemmy
Wait we have upvotes?! I’m only getting downvotes
Edit: downvotes really??
Here you go, one more downvote. Enjoy friend
You never specified that you don’t want downvotes
mood
Why are you booing him he’s right
He needs our help to prove him so.
I’m only booing him to make a point :)
Downvotes of love!
1 upvote = 1 dopamine
Here you go friend, have some free drugs
Can I have some drugs too? I’m joshin’ hard man
Would you suck their wang for it
No haha never haha that’s not something I would do ha ha ha
hand job is last offer
Real talk, hand jobs are kind of underrated.
Maybe the reason is the left’s lack of work ethic (‘go fast’ rather than ‘do it right’) and, in a Petersonian sense, to elevate alternative sexual archetypes in the marketplace (‘fastest mario’).
(am I trying too hard, I really want to bring this copypasta back. I wish lemmy had more copypasta shitposts)
I could really use a fix right now me friend
I got you, fam.
1 downvote = 1 dopamine too!
Engagement is all that matters!
Even 0 engagement is fine if i made myself laugh from my own comment. That = 1 dopamine too!
But upvote dopamine has a short drug half life
I deleted my Twitter account the day he bought it. Haven’t used it a single time since.
Samesies.
Never used it besides random thot media posts I wanted to check out. Everything else has been rehosted.
Facebook was the longest to quit just like most people say. It’s the only way I communicate with my nan, or marketplace, or etc. Even that for me was… 6 years ago now?
They know they could get around it in reality. We all lie to ourselves in different ways and accept certain things while ignoring others. It’s how humans survive, but let’s not lie to ourselves at least lol. The raindrop thinks it caused the flood and all that.
Ah, now I understand all the layoffs.
One thing I’ve learned is that “committed to donate” does not equal “has actually transferred and paid the actual money”
So it’s just a headline to try and drum up other donations until the receipts are made.
Maybe it’ll be like the Twitter bid and we’ll see a lawsuit in which everyone loses.
This is a good point. Musk, like Trump, is well known for making huge promises that amount to nothing. He wouldn’t even own Twitter if a court hadn’t forced him to make good on his promise to buy it.
That’s 45 people a month that wouldn’t have to ever work again in their entire lives and maybe even their kids if they invest it smartly. Or ya know, lift hundreds of families from poverty each month. Instead it shall go into Trump’s crime empire, money go BRRRR.
Weeelllll, priorities may be just a bit different when living in a territory annexed by the literal Nazis. Not using Twitter doesn’t really just have the same urgency as the Gestapo rounding up your neighbors.
Not that I’d be caught dead using Twitter, especially now that that reich-wing manbaby and waste of perfectly good carbon Musk owns it. I created an account ~15 years ago because I had to test the Twitter integration of a thingamajig at work, but I never used it for anything else. I did read some Twitter stuff in the early days of the Ukraine invasion via one of the frontends, but so much of it was garbage that I stopped bothering after a while
You really don’t want to be using the social media that’s effectively run by the same people as the gestapo. It’s super likely to be controlled at this point, and thus not effective for activism or otherwise underground action/defense in a fascistic country
You want to be on a more uncontrolled internet place, where communication can be more effective. Communication and coordination is vital
Thank goodness for Twitter, he lost $1.7 billion per month in the first year (including valuation) so now he has less to spend on Trump.
The problem with this kind of talk is that it refuses to acknowledge how much of X’s traffic - all the social media traffic - comes from outside the US now, from non-English speaking countries who don’t care about your bullshit, so long as the platform keeps working for them. Americans are having a very hard time with that.
So you shake your finger at the people whose language you speak, but it doesn’t matter if all of them decide you’re right and drop the platform. There will still be millions of users. Your shaming act is not appropriate.
Even ignoring that, a lot of these people have no business model without X, specifically. I’ve heard tons of them moan about not finding another platform like it. You need both reach and the ability to post furry wolf cock drawings without consequence. These parasites would all have to drop their bullshit and go get punchclock jobs if they didn’t have X, they would have to give up their parasocial position over others without it, which means no amount of your liberal white woman shaming is ever going to be enough.
The really ugly truth is that all the normal-ass people who don’t make their money online have abandoned X already, all that’s left is this huge army of grifters and whoever is still there for the porn. It makes me mad, because I deliberately left the site before Elon even breathed a word about buying it, but it follows you everywhere like a disease wanting a host.
All these pricks went to Mastodon and brought their Twitter shit with them. They even bullied somebody into giving them an algorithmic feed. Now Mastodon is shit, too, and this woman is part of the problem. Shut up. Stop farming attention and leave an inch of space for the people who don’t want to be part of your personal business model. Fuck you, as well, lady. Fuck all you parasocials.
Elon wondering how much he gotta pay to get Trump back on Twitter, and so far, that’s not enough.
Any Lemmy instances block links to X? I’d like to see less of it on here. It’s just truth social with deeper pockets.
Damn that would be so cool
Connect on Android has a few very cool features like keyword/community/domain blocklist!
Thanks! Already use connect and haven’t tried this. I’d prefer it on the instance side for greater impact, but this is nice. I already use it to block instances and communities but didn’t realize it could filter links.
A good solution is to take screenshots so it only counts as one visit instead of everybody viewing the post driving traffic to Twitter.
Or better yet, Mastodon / federated microblogging platforms.
Kbin/Mbin has this feature where you can block posts from a certain domain, maybe Lemmy does too? https://lemmy.ca/post/684030
