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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 154 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The popcorn is rich.

Even known Donald Trump mushroom rubber and psychopath, Laura Loomer, is getting unverified.

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 58 points 1 day ago

The infighting is coming in way faster and pettier than I imagined. This is fun to watch

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

That's funnier. Much, much funnier.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

This popcorn is too salty and overcooked. I’d rather it not exist as a whole. Muscrat is going to win no matter what. The plutocrats will win as always.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hopefully they're just speedrunning the whole "rise and fall of fascism" thing... Seems ahead of schedule.

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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 104 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Is this the new status quo from America's "most free" social media plattorm?

You haven't been listening, have ya?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

BUT HE SAID HE WAS A FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTIST THAT ONE TIME!

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

He also said bullet-proof, full auto self-driving, artificial general intelligence, Hyperloop, novel tunneling techniques, $25K Tesla, real robot, cave-diving pedo guy.

I'm starting to think that this guy spews more shit than an asshole.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Looks like @ConservativesOG just found out that the law does not protect them.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

"How can I be in the out-group now? I helped you ostracize my neighbors!"

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just imagine when they inevitably merge with Truth Social.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

They'll be all like, "I did Nazi that coming!"

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I suppose, in a way, it's kind of refreshing to see conservatives have to face the kind of hypocrisy that we leftists see every day out of the supposed liberals in this country, but objectively, did they really think putting billionaires in charge of their party would mean less exploitation of the immigration and visa process? It's easier to rob people of their labor when they live in uncertainty after all.

Musk wasn't giving out millions of dollars out of the goodness of his heart. It was an investment, just like people who pay the "speaking fees" of prominent Democrats. They're all grifters.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shocked to see the populist {% party.name %} campaign on reducing immigration then immediately use immigration to undermine {% party.country %} workers.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This leftist sees SO MUCH more hypocrisy coming from the conservatives. Why specify liberals?

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Some people confuse Neoliberalism for Liberalism and then shit all over liberals because of it.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 52 points 1 day ago

Twitter is xelon's personal toy, how did you not know that?

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The platform is only free to say whatever you want as long as it fits their narrative.

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[–] LodeMike 62 points 1 day ago

is this the new status quo?

Yea but It's not new.

[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lmao if that's true he blundered this one so hard. either he doubles down and doesn't reinstate premium, causing people to get annoyed at him and potentially leave. or he does reinstate it and has essentially lost control over his platform.

seems like the former so far, his last tweets are full of responses just talking about this.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It seems like he's demonitizing accounts who aren't even tweeting him directly, just talking about him. It doesn't matter what he does at this point, he's just identified himself as attacking Trump stans. They won't trust him again.

He will back down, though. Not only does he have the same crippling need to be loved as Trump does, but these lamprays srr probably generating a significant fraction of Twitter's revenue these days.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Musk doesn't need Twitter revenue, but he does need a controlled media platform

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's why he loves AI and hates wikipedia. He hates transparency and would be perfectly ok with only the appearance of a grass root movement. He doesn't want to be loved, he just wants to make it seem that way so the average uninformed reader believes it. Then his plan is to essentially Black Mirror Nosedive away the opposition from relevance, soon with a position of power as well as wealth.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Lololol "how could they ever eat my face‽”

Also Mr. Free speech and Xhitter is the public square, lol such BS.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Free speech, as long as I like it."

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The free speech Musk believes in is his ironclad right to speak. To him, contradiction is not speech, and he seems baffled whenever it happens, like he's just been slapped with a fish.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Musk isn’t confused at all. He’s been lying about believing in free speech this whole time. He’s an oligarch—literally the richest person in the world—who bought 𝕏itter in order to control speech.

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to say that Musk is confused about what free speech is -- I'm saying he's confused when he hears ideas that conflict with his worldview. He cannot process the idea that contradiction of his beliefs should even be possible and that drives him wild with rage.

I think it's important to understand that Musk doesn't think of most other human beings as "people" and he does not consider what they say as "speech". His worldview is entirely solipsistic and the only speech that exists is the speech he produces and the reflections of it that come back to him. To Musk, everything else is the braying of animals with diseased minds.

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[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I’m not that old (I’m not that young either) but I can’t remember a time when a party controlled both the executive and legislative branches and didn’t descend into incompetent infighting.

I thought this time would be different but this gives me hope.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, the way they kept this coalition together was by telling the business community that their more extreme stuff on abortion and immigration was just stuff they told the rubes to get their votes. Now they're in a position that both constituents expect them to deliver, and there's a lot of conflict there. Draining the swamp is the opposite of creating an entirely new agency that's all swamp, and while the business community pretends they want more border enforcement, a lot of immigration policies are explicitly designed to create an entire class of workers that's perpetually in a precarious position so they can undermine unionisation efforts (H1B1 visas being a perfect example of that).

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Obama's first two years were OK, though he kind of dropped the ball by not passing more shit.

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[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

That's the thing about these monsters, they eat their own.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago

hahahhaahahhahahahahahahahahah

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