• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    These last few months, each picture of Elon looks like another transition snapshot of Smeagol turning into Gollum.

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      It’s a common tactic of news outlets to choose bad pictures of people they’re against and good pictures of people they’re for. Once you see it, it cannot be unseen.

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    So basically the wildest conspiracy theories about Twitter pre-Elon are true now, but in reverse

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    Recent JD Vance interview went something like this:

    Lulu Garcia-Navarro: “Senator, yes or no: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?”

    JD Vance: “Let me ask you a question. Is it OK that big technology companies censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, which independent analysts have said cost Trump millions of votes?”

    Lulu Garcia-Navarro: “Senator Vance, I’m going to ask you again, did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?”

    JD Vance: “Did big technology companies censor a story that independent studies have suggested cost Trump millions of votes? I think that’s the question.”

    🤔

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    Oh wow, the trump campaign doing shit it accused the Democrats of doing?!?!?!

    I’m 10000% unsurprised.

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    “Muh free speech, muh Twitter Files, muh government censorship Hunter Biden laptop.”

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    Why don’t we just let Twitter/X die? It’s not like it’s an essential platform, there are other places to post short-form bullshit opinions. Twitter/X is not the sole supplier of any resources except their own brand name. Just walk away and let it burn. Without massive public engagement, it’s just a more expensive to run Truth Social.

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      I’ve been job hunting for 3 months. Hardly any recruiters are reaching out, and my applications go nowhere. A recruiter from xAI reached out the other day, and I couldn’t bring myself to even apply. I told them I wasn’t interested without specifying why, but it’s Elon.

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          That recruiter might work somewhere less shit in the future, so I’d rather not burn a bridge unnecessarily.

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            Just be honest with the recruiter that the particular employer is the issue, but you would be open to discussing other opportunities. That doesn’t burn bridges, and it helps them better determine what you’re looking for.

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              Exactly. And if he nods his head silently, you understood each other. If he starts asking “but why, Elon is great!”, burn the bridge.

              You don’t wanna stumble upon him in the future when he’s gonna be recruiting for another Elon. 😉

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      You misheard, they said “beacon of Fire Speech”. They burn books in that gathering of failed, divorced, didn’t even peak in high school but still peaked in high school chuds.

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    Not saying this is the right thing to do. But it does seem like social media consistently suppresses the spread of “hacked” (whatever their definition of hacked might be) material related to political candidates, regardless of party. The same thing happened with the Hunter Biden laptop stuff, which was pretty much impossible to spread on social media. Although Elon Musk is obviously all in on trying to help Donald Trump win, the decision to suppress this information is not surprising. Meta is also suppressing the links.