Do you guys remember back when Elon insisted he was a Free Speech Absolutist? How he wanted to ensure nobody was censored on Twitter? That shit just gets funnier every day.
His “clarification” was great too.
“By ‘free speech,’ I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.”
So, you know, North Korea’s idea of “free speech” is just fine with him.
considering he unbanned an account that reposted csam I think he doesnt gaf about the law
Limiting free speech in accordance with the law is reasonable, there is no other good solution. The problem is that he does go beyond the law with what he censors all the time.
And he’s still a hypocrite.
He probably rationalizes it by thinking of Twitter as his personal publishing platform, thus all speech on it is subject to his editorial control. To take away his editorial control would be to violate his free speech rights in his eyes.
We all knew he is a liar, so…
Some commenter somewhere said maybe the account wasn’t banned if it doesn’t say “suspended”, and that other “ear truthers” are still on the platform. Didn’t confirm either myself.
If that’s an actual photo from today then I doubt he was grazed much because I skinned my knee biking the day before his rally. I’ve still got a giant scab there.
Also Pete Souza isn’t just anyone. He’s a former director of the White House photo office.
It probably means he’s on blood thinners. You’ll bleed like you cut an artery even with a tiny nick.
So he probably had a tiny cut that just bleed a lot because of blood thinners.
My thoughts exactly. I was on them for a time and I’d bleed FOREVER if I cut myself shaving. That’s when I learned about styptic pencils and alum blocks.
Styptic stuff is amazing. I didn’t find out about it until I was in my late 30s
Stings like a bitch but sure does work
the ear is also mostly cartilage, so i wouldnt be surprised if there was a lot of blood flowing through them constantly, especially at the very top of the ear where he was grazed. Very well could still be on blood thinners, but i think i would just expect the ear to bleed pretty aggressively in some cases.
You wanna post the other 3/4 of these?
I’m not digging through an Instagram profile to look for that shit
Much appreciated
Oof. “Couldn’t load media.”
Similarly, I cut the crap out of my hand on a waterslide 2 weeks ago - grabbed the fiberglass side while trying to right myself so my kid wouldn’t get dunked - and it’s still healing. Close to being back to normal, but you can still clearly see where It was for sure
Journalists need to stop fucking using Twitter for fucks sake.
Hard to get an audience if you leave big tech, Twitter included
Yes, my content was way up when I joined Twitter, before Musk. I deleted it and took the financial hit, don’t want customers from that user base now anyway
Even just mirroring their stuff to one of the Twitter alternatives would be nice
What!? Why? That’s worse. That amplifies it. The world needs less horrible hate.
It also does nothing to stop the news outlets from sourcing twitter
At the end of the day incentives are incentives. All the engineers Elon fired when he took over did in fact build a site that’s really good for announcing things like news to the world, and it was really quite complex behind the scenes. And if someone wants to replicate that, it’s a lot of work with the added problem that unlike the original Twitter, they have to compete with Twitter in building a new network. Additionally, social media news just isn’t very profitable which is why Meta/Threads has discouraged news and politics. So unfortunately Twitter is really all there is, social media news now essentially has a strong built-in right wing bias for the foreseeable future.
I really hate when news articles embed tweets directly as a source, it’s blocked by Privacy Badger, so I only see an article full of holes. Why can’t they use screenshots?
It’s still wild to me that people announce things on X (né twitter).
Mastodon: “I’m the guy in the picture!”
We all need to stop using Twitter to be fair.
When are people actually going to leave that hellsite in meaningful numbers?
When they don’t also deepthroat Netflix after they banned password sharing. All the optimistic people, me included, said “oh this will make a huge dent in Netflix what a stupid move.” But they read the room like a hawk.
People swallowed the hook and signed up in huge numbers. https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-password-sharing-crackdown-worked-how-to-increase-subscription-streaming-2024-1
The West has created the perfect neutered, obedient consumers who will drink whatever coolade they are given. Until we have enough people who are willing to challenge convenience and stop bowing at the altar of comfort, we will have no meaningful change.
The West has created the perfect neutered, obedient consumers who will drink whatever coolade they are given.
Do you imply that this is specific to Western country?
Because the number of things Chinese consumers just accept is astonishing. They have been using “pay with your face” payment method for a while, and people are just rolling with it. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/Pay-with-your-face-100m-Chinese-switch-from-smartphones I think there’s a bigger percentage of privacy focused people in EU and NA than anywhere else.coolade
Kool-AidDon’t blame me for this confusing bastardization of the English language, thank a guy from Nebraska literally 100 years ago.
If you want to be historically accurate, it should be Flavor Aid, but people mistakenly said Kool-Aid and it stuck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor_Aid
Uhh no actually I think that was a knockoff competitor brand cause that said 1929 and I’m pretty sure it was a guy Named Perkins in the earlier 20s.
I think that’s just something else. The original is Kool-aid
The expression is “drank the Kool-Aid”, but it should be Flavor-Aid, because that’s what the cultists actually drank while
committing suicide.dying (not all committed suicide).It wasn’t really a suicide thing. Maybe for some of them, it was. But they were forced to drink that flavour aid at gunpoint if they didn’t drink it willingly or manage to flee into the jungle. So it was more of a massacre than a mass suicide. Or a massacre plus a mass suicide, as I’m not sure what portion had to be forced.
Sounds good. I haven’t read up on that any time recently so my memory was hazy. The main point I was trying to make was the Flavor-Aid vs Kool-Aid, though, which stands.
Yup… Yeah wow learn something new every day. Like cults don’t splurge for name brand even for ritual suicide.
I was talking about the mis-attribution of the brand name Kool-Aid in the phrase “drank the Kool-Aid” as a result of Jonestown… they actually drank Flavor Aid
Ohhhhh…
Wow cheap even until the end that they bought Walmart generic.
I mean why take the good stuff with you right?
That’s hilarious though thanks for that correction I was definitely confused.
When other social medias also let’s artists post NSFW alongside regular users for maximum exposure.
When there is a good enough alternative to Facebook/Twitter/reddit/ticktok
Why do we suddenly need an alternative to something we could live without just fine before?
Yet you’re here on Lemmy?
That is a disingenuous argument. People lived just “fine” before just about everything. People use those services because they derive value from it.
They have. But when you’re starting with hundreds of millions of users, it’s a slow bleed.
There’s also not a lot of great alternatives. Threads is all ads. Rumble is just more MAGA shit. Mastodon/Lemmy is too fractured and lacks sufficient infrastructure as a global platform. BlueSky doesn’t have a critical mass of users yet.
Hang on,
this guythe AP seriously took a picture where there is no injury to his ear? What was all the blood then? This one needs independent corroboration.2 weeks is plenty of time for a shallow, skin-only graze to heal. And ear cuts can bleed a ton.
Ears, scalp, cuticles… all places that bleed like crazy.
Especially when you’re on blood thinners
In addition, a competent plastic surgeon would likely make it look like it had never happened. I hope he goes to jail for the crimes he committed, but do people really expect him to wear an ear diaper the rest of his life?
Honestly, I thought he would milk it until the election somehow. We can’t be right all the time I guess!
Note that I believe he will milk it forever, but he’s also fairly vain.
He wears orange facepaint every day, so yeah, I did.
I was thinking the same thing. But something tells me the people who’d be in charge of banning the photographer, if not Musk himself, wouldn’t know that.
When an octopus gets frightened it releases ink to confuse predators. Due to his love of hamburgers Donnie releases catsup.
Do not bring us cephalopods into this.
Well they do say imitation is the best form of flattery.
Not when it’s Elon!
No, that’s just mental illness.
I’m down to flatter ol’ Elonald with some immolation.
Scalp and ear tissue heals really fast. I’ve had 5 ear surgeries, eardrum replaced with cartilage, titanium prosthesis, whole 9 yards, but 3 weeks is all it takes for the graft to ‘take’ and for me to be off lifting (and sneezing) restrictions
Wait they replaced your ear drum with cartilage? Does it work? Can you hear?
Yeah, my hearing’s normal in the ‘problem ear’, as good as my non-affected ear, which is pretty fortunate, and there’s only a scar way way back behind the ear, where it meets the skull, so it’d be hard for anyone to even notice. I had some recurring cyst thing in my right ear, cholesteatoma, but to remove it they pretty much have to drill behind the ear, cut out the ear drum, remove all the hearing bones, and then remove the cyst from those 2 angles. Then they replace the bones with a titanium rod and replace the ear drum with a small amount of cartilage harvested from the ear. Sounds kinda barbaric, kinda is, but 3 weeks is all it takes to recover from all of that. Even the scar from the incision behind the ear is mostly healed after a couple weeks
Wow sounds intense. Hope things are good and glad you can still hear.
For real! The procedure sounds crazier the longer I read, all the way until removing the tiny bones and replacing them. Hugely impressive that modern medicine allows for working with such delicate and small structures.
It was probably caused when like eight huge guys shoved him to the ground.
The guy’s nearly 80. Shit gets injured easily when you’re old.
Real bullets were fired for sure, but I don’t think they actually came within a centimetre of preserving democracy. We’re not that unlucky.
If you’d actually watched the videos you’d have seen blood on the way to the ground; something definitely hit his ear.
Not to be conspiratorial but I watched that video back on super slow speed zoomed in and when he puts his hand up to his ear it comes back with no blood on it.
Maybe I’m missing it. I have head injuries and they bleed a lot very quickly.
I think he wasn’t hit by a bullet but by shrapnel from something else that was hit. It’ probably superficial.
Could simply be his other ear and photograph is just mirrored. Like screens, you raise your left hand but to your reflection it’s its right hand.
Seems unlikely since it was posted by the guy who took the picture.
His asymmetric haircut would give it away.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
THIS SHIT ISN’T FUNNY ANYMORE
It’s so on-the-nose that I don’t even Trump is the parody anymore, it’s evangelical Christianity that’s the real parody. A group of folks who make a story about a socialist day laborer from the Middle East and use it to justify white supremacy, unfettered capitalism, and wealth as a measure of God’s love falling in line behind a cartoonishly accurate representation the “bad guy” in their book…exactly like their book said they would.
Out of context it sounds like something.
But add the lines right before and it’s more clearly fever dream gibberish of a dying old man:
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadems, and on its heads were blasphemous names. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority.
Did Trump come out of the sea? Does he look like a leopard with bear feet and a lion mouth?
People have been misunderstanding and trying to extend parts of that text to contemporary events since it was written.
I’ve not seen his feet, but he certainly has a lyin’ mouth
Mar-a-lago Spanish - sea to lake
There are 9 current trump towers. Moscow would make 10
7 heads with blasphemous names - TRUMP on the top
Feet of a bear -Russia is known as the bear in the west since early 20th century.
Lion mouth - have you heard him speak? (Who hasn’t, he’s loud, boisterous, like a lion)
As this comment shows it’s very easy to twist the meaning of something like this to suit your needs when viewing it through the lens of metaphor as the author intended. However, I’m fairly certain historians have figured out fairly definitively that the beast in revelations was always meant to depict Emperor Nero. I’m too lazy to look it up right now though so I could be wrong.
See also anyone trying to rationalize Nostradamus prophecies. People love contorting things like that to somehow vindicate them.
And some people believe this to be true.
And some peoeple are ACTIVELY TRYING TO BRING ABOUT THE END OF THE FUCKING WORLD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate
"The movement was generally supportive of the presidency of Donald Trump, with member Paula White becoming Trump’s spiritual advisor. White claimed that Trump “will play a critical role in Armageddon as the United States stands alongside Israel in the battle against Islam.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/167499/new-apostolic-reformation-mastriano-christian
You’re right, but it’s also funny that Christianity has generally streamlined taking things out of context. I just say "Revelation 13:3 and boom, that verse is cited out of context. Endless pamphlets, posters, sermons, and so on focus on bringing some verse without context.
Apocalyptic literature isn’t meant to be taken literally. It’s a common mistake though, even among so-called Christians. “Mouth like a lion” could mean boastful, roaring, brave, loud, threatening, or any number of things.
And yet I’ve not seen anyone figure out that the locusts in Revelations was just a poetic taxonomy for the local middle eastern hornet, Vespa Orientalis, down to the golden crown on its face.
People like to interpret those texts in all sorts of fantastical ways as long as it titillates them, but shy away from actually looking plainly at what’s being said.
So by all means don’t take it literally. But also maybe don’t think that a text written by a syphilitic old man in antiquity is talking about the 2024 United States presidential election without a more compelling case.
Oh I didn’t mean there wasn’t literal things in it. Absolutely I would agree with you there’s a lot of playing around with stuff that is just plain. A lot of literal stuff that gets overlooked, and in no way talks about some future events but was talking about something that happened back then. Particularly in Matthew 24, which is clearly talking about two different events, but seems to always get rolled up into one.
But Daniel 8 paralleled with Daniel 11 (actually the entire prophetic last half of Daniel) is one of the best examples of apocalyptic literature paired with an interpretation that we have. Daniel’s apocalyptic vision has more explanation attached to it than any other we have in the Bible, and it’s very instructive as to how we’re supposed to take apocalyptic writing.
By the way it’s Revelation not revelations. I don’t care because you obviously are well-informed about these things, but it will matter with some people and automatically discount your message if you don’t say Revelation. Not trying to be a smartass.
Bastion of free speech
This speech wasn’t quite free enough sorry
I’m assuming all those free-speech nuts are really going after Musk for doing this right?
I’m joking, we all know it’s just free-speech for the things they agree with …
Question: As this is no longer a neutral platform, what would be the legal implications? Is Twitter still a neutral carrier (or whatever the proper term is) and enjoys far-reaching legal protections for this?
There is no such thing as a “neutral carrier” for social media. It’s a made-up concept used to pretend that a social media site isn’t allowed to be partisan.
There are zero legal ramifications for making Twitter as partisan as musk wants.
Funny how the “free speech” guy bought Twitter and made it more biased and authoritarian than it has ever been.
Sure, he’s an asshole and a hypocrite. But there’s nothing “illegal” about it.
This is literally every “free speech” guy, with the possible exception of Julian Assange.
Which part of “free speech (for me)” is hard to understand?
Authoritarian? Definitely.
More biased? Be real, It’s just as biased, but just in the other direction post-musk.
I really don’t feel like it was extremely biased to the left before lol.
I dunno, I think it was pretty blatantly one sided. I have to assume most people who agree with the bias don’t tend to see it around them though.
I just remember arguing with wacko right wingers more then I liked lmao. Here we have a photographer getting banned, on old Twitter you had Alex Jones (and that took many years) or people literally throwing out casual violence who got banned.
That’s definitely fair.
Nothing. Private company can block whoever they want from using their service. Doesn’t impact section 230 protections.
What’s a “neutral platform”? On Lemmy.world you get banned if you say something bad about israel.
People shit on israel all the time here. I know I do. Guess I am banned.
And yet you post thousands of criticisms about Israel, exclusively, and I see that from you and others constantly. how are you circumventing the bans?
Inb4 “you support/defend/love Israel/genocide”: no I clearly don’t, I’m just pointing out that you’re flat out lying here. Simply criticizing Israel has likely never resulted in a single ban.
What do you mean i have been banned from both news and worldnews for exposing Hasbara.
Of course you post thousands of defenses of israel so you’re not banned.
Oh now it’s only certain communities. Before you claimed the instance banned users for any criticism of Israel. Goalposts on wheels I guess.
So once again, maybe you could cite a single instance where I ever defended Israel. One time. All you have to do is cite one example. You won’t though, because you know that a comment where I said Biden isn’t responsible isn’t going to convince anyone.
Only the biggest communities lmao. Censoring anti israel news because it got too hot under their heels.
Biden isn’t responsible for anything israel does sure dude. Biden never sent israell 2000 pound bombs to drop on schools or vetoes resolutions against israel at the UN. Anyone that claims otherwise should get banned from Lemmy.world right?
Deflecting and cramming words in my mouth are not examples of jackshit
And I’m sure your bans have nothing to do with the many public examples we have of you lying.
Indeed. The mods were banning anyone debunking now proven israeli lies about rape on oct7.
In classic Hasbara fashion you turn yourself into the victim while spouting all the lies you can think up.
That doesn’t seem right. Israel is conducting a genocide. Why would they be protected?
They aren’t, but this user’s life work is saying anyone they don’t approve of is supporting awful people and actions. Why they aren’t actually banned for that toxic behavior is a mystery to me. Then they have the audacity to lie so brazenly: that the thing they do all day every day is banned behavior. They’re so oppressed!
It really is funny how it’s always the loudest people who cry about being “censored” when people don’t agree with them or dare call them out for their shitty behaviour. Linkerbaan acts as if he doesn’t have a reputation for his behaviour, and as if we can’t look through modlogs and his posting history to see if he really is being censored or not. Which, of course, he isn’t.
First I’m hearing about it, because I have taken hot creamy shits on Israel before. Guess I’m banned ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I got banned for taking steamy dumps on israel. Many other users have too.
And yet this thread is full of users who claim the opposite experience. Guess you’re totally not lying.
So you’re saying .world did not ban me
Why would I need to say an obvious fact which fully contradicts your point? You are still here, able to lie your ass off on lemmy.world. claiming to be banned, which you clearly should be for spreading lies, but you aren’t.
Ah so you support israeli lies about rape on oct7?
I frequently state the fact that Israel is a genocidal apartheid ethnostate that has “Jewish supremacy” as the basis of its existence and should be abolished, and I haven’t been banned anywhere on lemmy.world for it
Can we revoke his government contracts now?
I mean, they didn’t even do that when he literally fucked up a Ukrainian operation against Russia.
Money rules this country. It stopped being a democratic republic a long time ago.
It would be pretty funny if the photographer just mirrored the image before uploading it.
that would be funny, but i feel like we would know about it, because like, other photos also exist.
Elon Goebbels really seems to be working hard on this one.
Umm his last insta post was two days ago. Can someone ummm check on him?
Last time I saw ‘em, he said something about hanging out with his buddy at Boeing.
I’m sure everything’s fine, they’re prolly just messin with planes & stuff.
TL;DR: he wasn’t banned, he quit:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-A3yZiObH6/
On Saturday, I was perplexed by photos online of Trump boarding his plane en route to a bitcoin conference. There was no bandage on his right ear. I re-posted one of the photos on Twitter and wrote, “look closely at his ear that was ‘hit’ by a bullet from a AR-15 assault rifle.”
“Fake news,” someone responded. “It’s the wrong ear,” said another, which of course was not true. “This is an old photo,” which I felt the need to reply to. I re-posted a screenshot of New York Times photographer Doug Mills’ Twitter post of the same situation of Trump boarding his plane, which included the date and time of his photo. Doug is one of Trump’s favorite photographers and Trump has publicly called him “my genius photographer.” So I thought the maga world would at least believe Doug Mills.
They didn’t. The comments turned ugly. Mostly about me, but also some that disparaged Doug Mills. Since 2017, I’ve been accustomed to having vile and hateful comments thrown at me. But I had now exposed someone else, Doug Mills, to be the recipient of hateful messages on MY Twitter account. Not cool.
On top of that, I’ve been at a cabin with no Internet and sporadic cell coverage for the past week, which made it difficult to post anything in the first place but also a challenge to push back against the hate.
So I de-activated my Twitter account. It was a gut decision, made only by me. I am still not sure if this is a temporary or a permanent action.
I was unaware that some on Twitter were a responding that Elon Musk had deleted my account. How would I know? I wasn’t able to access Twitter. I did receive a few DMs here on Instagram about this, but didn’t think much about it. Until…late last night, I received a text message from a New York Times reporter asking me to comment about my supposedly “being kicked off X for posting a photo of Trump’s ear.” And then this morning, I received a text message from a childhood friend who asked, in jest, “Is there a Free Pete Souza donation site?”
It was time to respond. I have so much more I want to say about the state of social media, but for now I want to make it clear that I was not kicked off Twitter. I kicked myself off.I wish this was higher up in the thread…
So it was just a glass shard from the teleprompter…
A glass shard from a teleprompter struck by a bullet. If the dude had aim worth a shit, it could have been much worse (for Trump).
To be fair to the shooter lol he was 400 yards away and the adrenaline he was feeling must have been absurd
120 yards. a difficult shot still tho with the hardware
For those who care. He wasn’t banned, he deleted his account.
I should have made this a top-level comment:
TL;DR: he wasn’t banned, he quit:
On Saturday, I was perplexed by photos online of Trump boarding his plane en route to a bitcoin conference. There was no bandage on his right ear. I re-posted one of the photos on Twitter and wrote, “look closely at his ear that was ‘hit’ by a bullet from a AR-15 assault rifle.”
“Fake news,” someone responded. “It’s the wrong ear,” said another, which of course was not true. “This is an old photo,” which I felt the need to reply to. I re-posted a screenshot of New York Times photographer Doug Mills’ Twitter post of the same situation of Trump boarding his plane, which included the date and time of his photo. Doug is one of Trump’s favorite photographers and Trump has publicly called him “my genius photographer.” So I thought the maga world would at least believe Doug Mills.
They didn’t. The comments turned ugly. Mostly about me, but also some that disparaged Doug Mills. Since 2017, I’ve been accustomed to having vile and hateful comments thrown at me. But I had now exposed someone else, Doug Mills, to be the recipient of hateful messages on MY Twitter account. Not cool.
On top of that, I’ve been at a cabin with no Internet and sporadic cell coverage for the past week, which made it difficult to post anything in the first place but also a challenge to push back against the hate.
So I de-activated my Twitter account. It was a gut decision, made only by me. I am still not sure if this is a temporary or a permanent action.
I was unaware that some on Twitter were a responding that Elon Musk had deleted my account. How would I know? I wasn’t able to access Twitter. I did receive a few DMs here on Instagram about this, but didn’t think much about it. Until…late last night, I received a text message from a New York Times reporter asking me to comment about my supposedly “being kicked off X for posting a photo of Trump’s ear.” And then this morning, I received a text message from a childhood friend who asked, in jest, “Is there a Free Pete Souza donation site?”
It was time to respond. I have so much more I want to say about the state of social media, but for now I want to make it clear that I was not kicked off Twitter. I kicked myself off.Thanks for posting the work I probably should have.
That’s almost weirder
