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    In a statement, the Harris campaign said, “The American people want the real freedom, opportunity and security Vice President Harris is offering; not the fake, manipulated lies of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.”

    Perfect.

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    The video mimics Ms. Harris’s voice, but instead of using her words from the original ad, it has the vice president saying that President Biden is senile, that she does not “know the first thing about running the country” and that, as a woman and a person of color, she is the “ultimate diversity hire.”

    Here you go.

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      God that’s bad. This is what I’d expected Russian trolls to do on Lemmy before getting down voted into oblivion, but I wouldn’t expect a CEO to do this. This is fucked up.

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      I think a nickname like diversity hire Kamala would be the best they could do. However it’s not a great nickname cause all she has to do is talk a little, sound competent and the name kind of falls apart.

      Still better than laughing Kamala, that just sounds like a children’s toy.

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    in Seeming Violation of X’s Policies

    But of course. That is why he bought the company – to become un-bannable.

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    everyday I’m thankful that Musk is not an US born citizen and cannot run for office. It’s the only thing stopping him

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    Next thing you know, Musky will order staff to create entirely false tweets on official accounts and lock the accounts so the false tweets can’t be deleted. He will burn that entire company to the ground to get TFG back in.

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    i love how irrelevant elon made twitter. like the big companies may not be on alternative networks but you also dont see hashtags and advertisements to discuss something on twitter anymore like you used to in the 10s

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      Unfortunately that was his task. Twitter was a pivotal tool in the Arab spring, second largest investor in Twitter after musk were the Saudis. Musk is such a try hard wannabe goon that when the “real” money told him they’d think he was cool if he bought and fucked up Twitter (and they would totally let him ride dirtbikes with them when he was done!) he jumped at the chance.

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        I honestly believe that he was backed into a corner and this was his out. His mouth wrote checks he literally couldn’t cash, and when he was forced to fork over the money, the spiteful little shit was like “Ok, well these oligarchs would like to see Twitter festroyed anyway, so let’s do that.”

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          Yes and no, he didn’t want it as much as he wanted the attention. When he was trapped, they told him they’d be buddies and directly/indirectly support his other projects if he played ball. Plus, they all probably have the true depth on his Epstein stuff and they all wave kompromat over each other’s heads and threaten with a smile.

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          Make no mistake, Musk is an oligarch wannabe. He is just like all of them — greedy, self-serving, self-righteous cunts. The world will be far better off when they no longer exist.

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            He is just like all of them — greedy, self-serving, self-righteous cunts.

            You don’t become a billionaire without having those personality traits.

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            I agree completely. I just wonder why anyone argues that he’s not obviously trying to actively destroy Twitter.

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              Yeah I’m pretty sure that was shown to be the case (people who knew him reporting that he lamented twitter’s “wokeness”, wanted to do something about it, and how he railed against his own trans child).

              He is, in every sense of the word, a douchebag.

              So anyone who argues the opposite is either in on the agenda or sucking his probably-tiny genitalia — or both.

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          Yes AND, until we have a better and wholly adopted FOSS, decentralized alternative, you actually need something more mainstream in these big moments unfortunately.

          You can just say the ideal out loud and pat yourself on the back, but it doesn’t actually solve for the problem.

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    I thought X got rid of all of the sane policies that twitter had?

    I mean isn’t X officially a white supremacist platform now anyways?

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      And EVERY single news organization in the US uses it both as their primary platform AND source for news.

      Even fucking NPR. What the actual fuck is that about ?

      90% of screenshots on Lemmy are from Twitter ffs. It boggles my mind, and I am not easily boggled.

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      Musky wanted to do that but Europe threatened to ban Twitter so now he just pretends that there are rules.

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    Is anyone the least bit shocked at the “rules for thee” behavior from these subhuman pieces of shit? Why are we allowing them to be in charge of anything again?

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      Because people won’t leave Xitter. Mastodon was propped up expressly as a replacement, but the bird yet lives.

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        I think this is the reason for all word’s problems, not enough people are willing to give up a tiny luxury (in this case addiction) when that’s what we need to move forward.

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          Ya it’s too bad.

          Even before that - folks gotta learn about Mastodon, understand its benefits, and then be willing to give up tiny luxuries (convenience of not switching, attraction to following uh pop stars & ppl…). At least we can feel a little better that not everyone staying on Twitter has heard of Mastodon ever before in their lives!

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          Ooh what if Mastodon imitated Threads a little minus the massive budget.

          “Login with Twitter”, but really just copies your @handle over to Mastodon. Autoselects a normie instance for you (bad I know). Asks you to enter email or phone. Login via code (or magic link) each time. Can educate on instances later and try to get you to set a password once you’ve adopted it a bit (or shift you to login via emailed code to save SMS fees). Still expensive, kinda hacky, still no Meta budget.

          Aight probably a pretty bad idea all around heh


          Edit: can copy your Twitter follows too

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      Inherited wealth centralizes money and power, and egregious hoarding like billionaire level centralized wealth makes people greedy, paranoid, and disconnected from the reality most other people experience.

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      I wanted to comment “Who watches the watchers” but it’s not even funny

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    I hate it when these articles never include the video. How am I supposed to learn about manipulation if I’m “being protected against it”?

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      You can find it without them boosting it for free. But you don’t have to watch it to understand the story

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    I hope Harris wins and I really hope she is a petty and vindictive person that goes out of her way to make Imon Ketamusk’s life a pain in the ass.

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      You don’t even need to be petty and vindictive to correct the situation where a single unelected person has that much power.

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    That name should be some sort of verb or something, “lets not Musk this up” or “are you really that Musk?” I dunno something like that

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    If my younger self from like 3 years ago heard generating videos can be a prompt away and can make gigantic amounts of misinformation, he would shit himself and probably write a manifesto, but fuck me this is still insane today!

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      I can’t tell whether 3 years ago you were pre-potty training but fully literate, or whether you’ve simultaneously learned better emotional regulation and sphincter control in the past few years.

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        People tend to change more, psychologically speaking, between 18-25. They might have been 17-18 three years ago. Makes sense with the manifesto comment.