Microblog Memes

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

$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.

Elon made most of his money through companies that heavily rely on government subsidy. He is now funneling this money to someone who will control government contracts. Do not mistake the US for a democracy. It is an oligarchy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I deleted my Twitter account the day he bought it. Haven't used it a single time since.

Since this was posted on Mastodon: OP, consider to post this on

!best_of_mastodon@sh.itjust.works

too, if you like.

Btw, cool that Stephen King joined the Fediverse. I didn’t know that.

He couldn't even end world hunger.

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.

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

Ah, now I understand all the layoffs.