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i fully support this union of the woke activist mobs and musk to destroy the great evil of twitter
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Kalli posted:It's okay, Elon has a plan, and it's.... crying about the woke mob General Mills, Audi, and Pfizer - three of the biggest advertisers on Twitter that weren't part of the initial group that backed out have also announced that they are "temporarily suspending" all business with Twitter. Musk really boned himself by letting the racial slurs run wild the first few days. I guarantee you wouldn't have all of the advertisers getting skittish at the same time if he hadn't made all the news the first few days about racial slurs and then used the word "Hellscape" as a description of the company in a company press release. Also, by making himself so synonymous with Twitter as a brand and just winging all his decisions in public, Twitter is always going to be associated with whatever crazy stuff he's saying and doing. Previously, nobody really cared about what Twitter's CEO and board were doing. They could have been total psychos in private, but they weren't broadcasting it and saying that racial slurs are an important part of the company brand in public. https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1588529099638820864
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Nov 4, 2022 15:43
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If he restores moderation to please advertisers, he'll piss off the chuds and his fan boys, who want to be able to be horrible shitheads and post slurs (and undoubtedly porn too). If he reduces the moderation, everyone including advertisers will leave as it becomes a morass of hate speech, facism and porn, like every other unmoderated space on the internet.
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Nov 4, 2022 15:55
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The intelligent and reasoned option is to do whatever the gently caress the advertisers want because the entire platform is for them, and he could get a hundred dollars a month from every chud that posts on the site and it wouldn't be a fraction of what the advertisers bring in. So I'm sure that's exactly what he's not going to do.
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Nov 4, 2022 16:18
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:That's fair - I would have to look into this one, and also think about whether it's something we want. Certainly I like that image and url tags are separate and wouldn't want to "preview" images in the latter. I do agree it'd be nice to have some clue what a link was about though. Back in the days before everyone got used to just dumping Twitter embeds instead of writing their own posts, the person posting the link would also just type some words about the link. Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:General Mills, Audi, and Pfizer - three of the biggest advertisers on Twitter that weren't part of the initial group that backed out have also announced that they are "temporarily suspending" all business with Twitter. The advertisers aren't actually out there counting the n-words yet, they're judging how committed Musk is to their interests. If he had a team of people staying in constant contact with advertisers following the normal corporate playbook of issuing boring statements about transition difficulties or whatever, the advertisers would be happy. Instead, Twitter's "head of customer" has resigned, and Twitter's moderation team has been locked out of the mod tools. Advertisers are hearing basically jack poo poo from Twitter, and instead of doing something to reassure the advertisers, Musk is busy tweeting memes about owning the bluechecks, getting into Twitter feuds with left-wing politicians, and going "hmm very interesting I'll look into this" in the replies of far-right memesters. On top of that, his massive hurry to directly monetize the userbase will clearly decrease Twitter's dependence on advertisers. Put all that together and they've probably got negative trust in him right now.
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Kalli posted:It's okay, Elon has a plan, and it's.... crying about the woke mob The My Pillow guy tried the same tactic, let's see how that worked out for him.
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skylined! posted:And here's the resultant outcome from this bullshit. Follow up from yesterday. Looks like the FBI identified and interviewed a suspect they believe was involved with the threats. He admitted that he hates Jewish people and that he was very angry, but he totally wasn't going to actually do anything, guys. I'm honestly impressed how quickly the FBI tracked someone down in relation to this, regardless of the suspects intentions. However, I hope this isn't the start of other extremists making similar threats. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/03/us/fbi-newark-threat-to-synagogues/index.html (bolding mine) quote:An individual has been identified and interviewed in connection with a broad threat to synagogues in New Jersey, according to multiple law enforcement sources.
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Kalli posted:It's okay, Elon has a plan, and it's.... crying about the woke mob Feels very appropriate that his Twitter icon is a baby.
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Kalli posted:It's okay, Elon has a plan, and it's.... crying about the woke mob to be fair, i entirely agree that a dumb activist mob has effectively pressured advertisers before elon has even had a chance to change content moderation and elon did everything he could to appease those activists i, uh, just don't think he has identified what activist mob that was correctly
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Prism posted:Feels very appropriate that his Twitter icon is a baby. It should be a corncob.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I think there have been reports that part of the reason he wants to announce sooner is that he believes it will help him with his legal troubles, yes.
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Velocity Raptor posted:Follow up from yesterday. Looks like the FBI identified and interviewed a suspect they believe was involved with the threats. He admitted that he hates Jewish people and that he was very angry, but he totally wasn't going to actually do anything, guys. Given the FBIs history with rogue bombers in America, it wouldn't surprise me if they had either one or both hands behind the scenes of the guy making the threat. Hence why they found him so quickly. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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FlamingLiberal posted:I think there have been reports that part of the reason he wants to announce sooner is that he believes it will help him with his legal troubles, yes Supplement to this, there is further speculation that he was forced to wait until after the midterms because the GOP was footing his legal bills, and threatened to stop if he announced his bid before the midterms for fear that Trump being Trump would spoil any image the GOP was trying to portray.
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Nov 4, 2022 17:14
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Kalli posted:It's okay, Elon has a plan, and it's.... crying about the woke mob This is indistinguishable from a Trump tweet.
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Sir Lemming posted:This is indistinguishable from a Trump tweet. Too many words to explain the problem. Trump is much better about quickly defining what he wants to rail against. But you can tell Elon has been studying Trump tweets, trying to capture that mojo. Or as another person put it... https://twitter.com/barry/status/1588244210893086721 I really didn't know this distinction was a thing. https://twitter.com/Arr/status/1588020105136349184
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Nov 4, 2022 17:27
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Can we please have a thread dedicated to Elon buying Twitter?
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Automata 10 Pack posted:Can we please have a thread dedicated to Elon buying Twitter? I think it has mainly been going to the Tech Nightmares thread. Do you think it needs a standalone?
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Click on the Elon tweet for an lol It has been fact-checked by Twitter
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Eric Cantonese posted:I think it has mainly been going to the Tech Nightmares thread. Do you think it needs a standalone? And... y'know... The world's burning, there's many things to talk about, and the Elon discussion is pretty one note.
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Found this today just randomly re: Elonk and it made me lol https://twitter.com/fyrescotch/status/1588314179320287233 https://twitter.com/Ballaban/status/1533208531670863872 He mocked a classmate in school whose father had recently committed suicide and the kid pushed him down a flight of stairs and landed his rear end in the hospital, and his father (the owner of the apartheid blood emerald mine and the one who impregnated his step-daughter multiple times) went "Ehhh, my son totally deserved it. He's a little poo poo."
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Sir Lemming posted:This is indistinguishable from a Trump tweet. Technically still distinguishable, but just wait a few days and someone will be able to pay $8 to make sure it's indistinguishable.
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Sir Lemming posted:This is indistinguishable from a Trump tweet. Totally unfair!
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Nov 4, 2022 18:49
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Sir Lemming posted:This is indistinguishable from a Trump tweet. https://twitter.com/tobymorton/status/1588551962881978368/photo/2 He drat near plagarized a Trump parody tweet 
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skylined! posted:Click on the Elon tweet for an lol https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1588588885378236416 New management's going well. Also, I second the idea of creating a Twitter-specific thread. With election time coming up, it might be a good way to keep this place a bit less cramped with "Elonk do a post". Circutron fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Nov 4, 2022 |
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Kalli posted:It's okay, Elon has a plan, and it's.... crying about the woke mob I just watched this tweet go from being flagged by Twitter, to becoming unavailable, to coming back without the notice from Twitter. What a piece of poo poo. Probably starting yelling at his employees when the tweet was flagged like Trump.
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Angry_Ed posted:https://twitter.com/tobymorton/status/1588551962881978368/photo/2 It's fake
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Automata 10 Pack posted:Can we please have a thread dedicated to Elon buying Twitter? I made one for social media companies in general, to cover what's going on with Twitter as well as Facebook (Meta's stock price is plummeting). https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4016726
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No Safe Word posted:It's fake 
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No Safe Word posted:It's fake I'll have you know that that no longer matters on Twitter, so gently caress you, it's as real as you want it to be now baby  Elon Musk spent $44 billion to sit around and plagiarize Trump parody accounts for content, spread the word far.
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I for one think Elomg is very smart for recognizing that the killer app for twitter is Volksverhetzung.
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Circutron posted:https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1588588885378236416
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Circutron posted:
As entertaining as the Twitter ordeal it is, it's kind of disheartening to see so little discussion about the GOP's likely legislative takeover.
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Fart Amplifier posted:As entertaining as the Twitter ordeal it is, it's kind of disheartening to see so little discussion about the GOP's likely legislative takeover. It goes unnoticed because it’s usually a slow acting poison, at least at the federal level. The effects become most visible when an R president Cramers in to join them.
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Fart Amplifier posted:As entertaining as the Twitter ordeal it is, it's kind of disheartening to see so little discussion about the GOP's likely legislative takeover. It's so close to the election, with a ton of people voting early, so there's not really much to discuss until the results are in.
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Twincityhacker posted:It's so close to the election, with a ton of people voting early, so there's not really much to discuss until the results are in. And polls are basically a big confused shrug so just get out and canvass/phone bank.
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Fart Amplifier posted:As entertaining as the Twitter ordeal it is, it's kind of disheartening to see so little discussion about the GOP's likely legislative takeover. congress is going to go from being incapable of passing laws for fear it might offend the republican base to being incapable of passing laws for fear it might offend the republican base. in a world where the democratic trifecta had been an engine for change on behalf of the democratic party's agenda this would be a lot more apocalyptic, but let's be honest here: democratic leadership is going to be very, very happy when it has an explanation for why it's doing nothing to protect abortion rights better than 'sorry we don't want to lol'
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Fart Amplifier posted:As entertaining as the Twitter ordeal it is, it's kind of disheartening to see so little discussion about the GOP's likely legislative takeover. Until it actually happens and we know the details all discussion would consist of freaking out over hypotheticals.
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:congress is going to go from being incapable of passing laws for fear it might offend the republican base to being incapable of passing laws for fear it might offend the republican base. I assume you're referring both to the number of democrats that aren't fully pro choice (without compromise) and having abortion to fundraiser and campaign on. But before anybody else freaks about that last bit, would it be fair to say a significant amount may want to but can't because our systems and electorate are crazy town bananas hosed.
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Meatball posted:If he restores moderation to please advertisers, he'll piss off the chuds and his fan boys, who want to be able to be horrible shitheads and post slurs (and undoubtedly porn too). I'm pushing back the implication that it's somehow fash to like seeing boobs and dongs.
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I honestly think that the democrats in general want to continue the status quo regardless of how pervasive poverty, food insecurity, and death through lack of healthcare. They mostly just want to make slight tweaks around the edges. Most of the time it seems like there are a few democrats that are truly inspiring like Katy Porter or Cori Bush doing things to show solidarity with the average american, but then you have people like Manchin or Tester that are completely owned by corporations. I don't think how undemocratic our government is tenable for much longer with the income inequality, the quality of the jobs/pay and benefits, and the pisspoor cost of living adjustments in entitlements. Something has to give soon and I am seeing these things basically allowing the right to radicalize people that are truly hurting.
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