• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    Damn, they’re not even waiting for their guy to be sworn in again before they start the infighting. This truly is a speed run to social cannibalism.

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      These people always fall in line. They will again. They’re proud of being useful idiots. They’ll convince themselves that this immigration is necessary for the economy, but Trump will stop the bad immigration or whatever. And Trump’s people will brutalize people coming from Mexico which will also sate some of their bloodlust. They’ll fall in line just as soon as someone tells them what to think.

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    The popcorn is rich.

    Even known Donald Trump mushroom rubber and psychopath, Laura Loomer, is getting unverified.

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      This popcorn is too salty and overcooked. I’d rather it not exist as a whole. Muscrat is going to win no matter what. The plutocrats will win as always.

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      Hopefully they’re just speedrunning the whole “rise and fall of fascism” thing… Seems ahead of schedule.

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        This is what happens when your ideology depends on attacking others but all the leftists leave the spaces you use to bully others.

        They only have themselves to scream at now on Twitter

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          Nah, it’s different parties fighting for control now that they have it. It would still happen without social media but they would be going on the news to do it

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    If only they learned from every other abuse of power Elon has made on his platform…

    It’s freedom of speech for Elon - everyone else has to tow the line, or hope to god he never notices them.

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      It’s “toe the line”. This difference is pretty important. I thought it was “tow the line” more than half my life because it sounds like pulling on a rope to go in the right direction.

      It’s actually more sinister. Get your toes on the line we drew. Perfect conformity of thought or action.

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      They didn’t see the previous cases as abuses of power, because he was always hurting people they already didn’t like, or in the very least he was hurting people they didn’t care about.

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      It’ll be interesting to see how autocracy faces up against a billionaire who really has no need to be a citizen of any nation, and could afford to protect themselves indefinitely.

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    Is this the new status quo from America’s “most free” social media platform?

    🔫 Always has been.

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      “No, no, don’t you see. When we used censorship on the left, it was truly free speech. Now that, I am being censored, it’s not free speech.”

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netOP
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    Known misinformation spreader Ian Miles Cheong (who lives in Malaysia) is also getting Loomer face eating

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      Ah, the pre-new-season-recap/where-are-they-now of the utter madness that was The Trump Administration: The Ultimate Chaos.

      What will they do in the next season? Just how hard their asses will be bitten? Nobody knows!

      Seriously, though, like everyone else, I was highly worried about what the fuck the re-election of Trump will mean. But then I remembered all of the total fuck-ups they did last time around, and I turned my worries, like, 1% down. All I’m hoping right now is that some conservative loonie group goes all in on “finish building the Wall” and it’ll be a shitshow as usual.

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    Who could have predicted that the goals of the all powerful leader would diverge from his base of support?

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    How are people still on Twitter and acting surprised by fucking anything that happens there? Like… Wise-up folks. You have options.

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    You mean the “fuck immigrants” crowd isn’t down with ol Musky’s plan to bring in brown immigrants? Who’d a thunk it.

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      Who cares what color they are. There have been enough layoffs that there is no need to import any engineers. Besides wanting to exploit them.

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        As long as you understand Immigrant, and every form of legal immigration, means ‘‘fucking messicans’’ then yes. They hate immigrants. Musk just needs to tell them he’ll only import their replacements from sterling white countries and they’ll calm down.

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      It’s only been a few weeks since DOGE dept existed. It’s going to be quite a beautiful shitshow.

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    Musk and Trump are neck and neck for the “Littlest Bitch To Ever Exist” title.

    Isn’t it awesome living in the timeline where the wealthiest person on the face of the Earth and the most influential person on the face of the Earth are both little bitch man-children?

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    You f-ing morons, you served the only purpose you were supposed to serve, you voted the coming autocratic reforms of the USA into power. Enjoy becoming as persecuted as the “left” was as only the most ignorant or most pandering voices of the coming dictatorship are left.

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    Lololol "how could they ever eat my face‽”

    Also Mr. Free speech and Xhitter is the public square, lol such BS.

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        The free speech Musk believes in is his ironclad right to speak. To him, contradiction is not speech, and he seems baffled whenever it happens, like he’s just been slapped with a fish.

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          Musk isn’t confused at all. He’s been lying about believing in free speech this whole time. He’s an oligarch—literally the richest person in the world—who bought 𝕏itter in order to control speech.

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            Just to be clear, I’m not trying to say that Musk is confused about what free speech is – I’m saying he’s confused when he hears ideas that conflict with his worldview. He cannot process the idea that contradiction of his beliefs should even be possible and that drives him wild with rage.

            I think it’s important to understand that Musk doesn’t think of most other human beings as “people” and he does not consider what they say as “speech”. His worldview is entirely solipsistic and the only speech that exists is the speech he produces and the reflections of it that come back to him. To Musk, everything else is the braying of animals with diseased minds.

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                It’s not that specific. It fits a lot of Social Darwinists that were born into money. Most just have the good sense to keep their voices down in public.

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                  The solipsism and all this kind of stuff is very specific to me. Just because it “fits” doesn’t mean it’s actually the case though. Do you personally know people like this, that also keep their voices down? Like, are there any examples to share?

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      Like the old joke from the 80’s:

      In the United States you’re free to criticize Ronald Reagan. In the Soviet Union, you’re just as free.