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[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

And what about 'Fuck "Tesla", Fuck "SpaceX"'?

[–] arin@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

Brexit already happened but for the rest of Europe yeah get out of shitterx

[–] ntma@lemm.ee 42 points 1 day ago

Reddit is night and day without all the shilling and bots. But the mods are having a hissy fit. They're creating echo chambers that can rival a black hole.

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

okay. So please. Stop using X. Use Mastodon or other Fediverse alternatives, even if your reach is smaller there?

[–] ROAGO@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Sorry, internet activists will let you down like young voters. If leaving a platform slightly inconveniences them in even the most superficial insignificant sense, they won't do it.

Edit:

Or they'll do it for like 3 days. Make a post saying "Hi guys! I just left twitter!" and then never write another message beyond that.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Beg them to leave it, or at least use the alternatives too.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm 7 points 19 hours ago

I feel like people in general will let you down, but yeah I agree.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 146 points 1 day ago (14 children)

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

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

That's incredibly cynical of you...

Well done! It is a scarily plausible scenario!

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

We need to regroup ASAP, on other platforms, like here on Lemmy. I'm already seeing some happenings, we just need to beg more people to come here. Let's make Lemmy the place chuds imagine what Reddit is! Minus the toxic callout stuff, that will be just weaponized against us, and anyone trying to leave the far-right (far-right trollfarms like to impersonate leftists to convince real leftists into attacking each other).

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

He just straight up bought the cultural elite's own means of mass communication.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

The cultural elite used the left to get people behind themselves.

[–] chryan@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're giving Musk too much credit here.

He bought Twitter because a) he's addicted to it, and b) he rushed into a buying agreement he didn't get his lawyers to vet properly (probably due to his massively inflated "I understand more than anyone else" ego).

He wanted to back out of it, but faced a lawsuit that he was almost certainly going to lose, so had no choice but to go through with the sale. The lawsuit happened because the shareholders at the time realized the company was worth nowhere close to the inflated $44 billion he offered for it, so they weren't going to back down either.

Everything else that happened after the sale is a result of a man-child feeding his addiction and recuperate from the dumb deal he was legally forced to uphold.

[–] SupahRevs@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You are right on why he bought it. But he then got funding from outsiders who would benefit from it's transition away from effective gathering and communicating space

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago

Yeah. I think MUSK bought it because it sounded cool and he got suckered into it. I think he got the funding for it because the people who funded him (like the Saudis) saw an opportunity to get an easy mark to break the system for them.

Omg how good it feels to see others with this feeling

[–] freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 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.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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.

You're belittling and attacking the thousands of engineers and scientists who really built SpaceX, because their financier is a fascist sociopath. If you knew anything about this at all, you'd understand how exceptionally ignorant, naive, and disrespectful this is.

[–] freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Seriously? Did you just feign outrage for all those employees who blew up 5 billion in taxpayers dollars? The ones who jump up and down cheering like deranged cult members each time one of their rockets blows up, excited they received a Participation ribbon for coming in dead last?

You do realize SpaceX will never make it to the moon, much less Mars, right? I will never understand how people can watch Musk lie, OVER AND OVER, about his solar tiles, his Boring bullshit, his Hyperpoop, his full-self driving lies year after year after YEAR, but somehow think SpaceX is not run the same way, with the same lies.

SpaceX employees know they are designing shite, and they are just there for the paycheck. So yeah, much respect.

EDIT: Should we even discuss Leuders granting them the contract, then leaving NASA to work for SpaceX? SpaceX has missed EVERY SINGLE benchmark, every single deadline. Again, they were supposed to get us to the moon for 3B, and they are at 5B and can't get an EMPTY rocket into orbit. SpaceX is out of govt money, but that won't be a problem anymore, will it?

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

and can't get an EMPTY rocket into orbit.

I'm not here to argue any of the rest of you post but the last three star ship launches have been to orbital velocity but on a trajectory that purposely didn't go into full orbit.

[–] Poxlox@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Musks culture has infiltrated SpaceX to warrant us to make some of those assumptions on the engineers that have currently stayed. Yes they've made accomplishments in actual propulsion engines but they've overpromised and underdelivered. Worse yet, on public linked posts from SpaceX team leads were spreading pro Russia anti NATO Muskaganda, completely unprofessional and it was praised by some dude I knew from my college who has been working there for a few years now. Their culture is trash and deserves to be ridiculed, and it's because of Musk influence.

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[–] lemmyllama@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Seriously. I have no love for Musk, but what the Space X team has accomplished is incredible. Wait until that guy finds out how much the SLS has cost so far, lmao.

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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

Its not enough to say "fuck it", active participation on any viable alternatives is essential to breathe oxygen into alternatives

The god damned problem is everyone still links to X because a flaming dumpster fire is hard to look away from

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

How the fuck did the Muskrat know Mango Mussolini was going to win?

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 6 points 14 hours ago

He controls the cultural elite's discussion space, what they see and what they can say. People think that was not worth 50 billions... They are very wrong, it bought him the government. Controlling the means of mass communication means you control what public believes and who will make the laws and take the decisions.

They just let it happens, they just let him buy democracy from the weakling brain damaged public.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

That's a good question, odd how all that vote fraud claims stopped after the election. We all know Republicans project.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 20 hours ago

It's not even projection, every accusation is a confession

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago

Surely they would cheat so boldly by 15 millions votes! Surely!

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 142 points 1 day ago (3 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 110 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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

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

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (2 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.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day 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 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Half of Lemmy.ml mysteriously disappeared too

Source: my ass

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 10 points 22 hours ago

You should be showing your source.

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago

Well the election ended so there's nothing to argue about right now

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[–] pinkystew@reddthat.com 45 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Why is anyone still using twitter?

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[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it is well known that bot farms red and blue fireup in the run up to election season, and there are millions of these bots.

[–] freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It is well known that your false equivalence BS is an old, tired narrative. There was no "blue bot" propaganda campaign targeting red voters in an attempt to stop them from going to the polls. Oh, if only.

[–] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

I garuntee you there was. Maybe not on Twitter, but there was. Its odd to me that you would doubt that.

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