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[–] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Fuck you for being on social media.

(I know)

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ah, the new propaganda has started, and they're attacking Gen X for whatever reason? Guess the boomers are dying off and someone needs a new scapegoat? Seeing a lot of variations on "Thanks to Gen X for screwing up (insert whatever)". Not sure what the value of it is. Gen X didn't really have much of a shot at making any long-reaching policy, the boomers stayed in charge for as long as they could hang on to everything and created pretty much all the issues we're facing now. Gen X never much of a shot, they just kept telling us to turn on the TV and eat the TV dinners.

[–] RogueAozame@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Idk why that is relevant to this post he is referring to twitter now called X not blaming specifically the generation X here.

My comment was in reference to social media, which this post is referring to along with bots, and if it is bots, my comment was regarding a shift in focus - blaming Gen X instead of boomers.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 168 points 1 week ago (22 children)

My pet theory is that Musk acquired Twitter to destroy one of the most effective platforms for anyone on the left to organize.

[–] freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

Just wait for the quid pro quo. SpaceX was supposed to get us back to the moon on 3 billion dollars. They are now at 5 billion dollars, and all they have to show for it is a flaming husk of a booster caught by "the chopsticks".

For anyone who thinks that was some incredible accomplishment.. NASA has been landing rovers on Mars using truly incredible engineering that makes SpaceX look like a bunch of kids eating Baby Ruth bars in the sandbox.

So if Elon gets appointed to a government position and starts awarding Tesla and SpaceX all kinds of extended taxpayer-funded gravy grift, you will know your pet theory is 100% spot on.

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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

And/or weaponize it for his buddies to do so instead...

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 147 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The biggest problem is the damage is done.

The party holds the supreme court. House. Senate. Executive. Under the unitary executive theory, the rest of the federal government, while being completely inept, will be party members.

All we can do now, is collectively survive. It's a death cult. Steps we take to prevent the detainment, torture and death of our neighbors, friends, and family are the biggest fuck you to these people.

I don't know how we'll do it. But we don't do it by joining or tolerating them. We don't have to make it easy for them.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 113 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The post is about not letting it happen in the EU.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

no reason why Europe and the american opposition can't be on the same side

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I am aware.

350m people have been affected by it in the US. With the ties we have to Europe, it's already been happening.

[–] mycelium_underground@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

[–] mdd@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/thomas-jefferson-tree-of-liberty/

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I finally deleted my account. Had since 2007...it's not useful anymore.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good on you.

Haven’t deleted mine yet but have two active accounts on blusky and mastodon and my twitter one is inactive with a pinned post linking my new socials.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

Honestly that might be more helpful.

I sometimes see the overwritten reddit comments when searching for a topic, and I wish that the comment would link to the person's new account (wherever they may be) in addition to the usual blurb on whg they aren't active on reddit anymore

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's a little bit naive and self destructive that human beings have created tools as powerful as mainstream social media with absolutely no checks or balances, absolutely no accountability, absolutely no transparency, and entirely at the whims of billionaire owners and nation states they're in bed with.

Regulating and banning social media that is being used to blatantly conduct massive psyops should be uncontroversial.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

It would be, if those same billionaire owners didn't pull the politician's puppet strings.

[–] Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 days ago

But muh TikTok!!!

And also: it's racist to ban social media platforms.....or whatever......I don't know. Whatever garbage is usually spewed anytime a platform that leans heavily left is about to get shut down.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Same on Threads.

Everything went quiet.

I would love to see these accounts, when they were opened, when they ceased posting, what they posted, and what the IP addresses were.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (6 children)
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[–] pinkystew@reddthat.com 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is anyone still using twitter?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

because other people are. idk why anyone has trouble understanding that for most users social media is only as good as its population.

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Like, where is his data? Is there a list of all bot accounts on Twitter, with a column showing recent activity? Or is this guy doing the same thing as the other side - talking out of his ass?

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 83 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Have you been on twitter recently? [Note that I recommend users do not use twitter]

It’s pretty obvious when for the past two weeks you had every single tweet of yours get spammed replies like “#TRUMP2024 #MAGA” with clearly AI generated profile pictures and fake names. All these accounts have like 20 followers and are following 5k+ accounts. And a bunch of them instantly reply to your posts like 5 seconds after posting. All these accounts have ceased activity overnight.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

Nah, I don't go on Twitter. Too many bots.

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[–] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Twitter is riddled with MAGA bots. Like AI generated accounts who spam pro-Trump content.

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