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Cimber posted:I wonder if this can be used against him in some incoming charges. Guess it would ultimately depend on what charges you have in mind, but I think it would be kind of a stretch. Unless he's actively saying "I want you to grab your guns and go invade DC again" or something actively incriminating, they'll probably be able to handwave it away as "Well he didn't TECHNICALLY instruct anyone to do anything."
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projecthalaxy posted:I guess this is a stupid naive take but stopping youtube from recommending isis recruitment (or instagram from by their own admission trying to give teen girls eating disorders or facebook promoting nazi pages "to see what would happen" seems... good to do? Like those things shouldn't get to happen and companies should get obliterated for doing them? I would imagine the argument against it involves the slippery slope. First it bans things like ISIS recruitment videos, but then further on down the line now it's banned from recommending resources for some kid looking for information on transitioning because the right people greased the right palms to put that under the ban umbrella, and so on and so on.
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Oct 3, 2022 15:45
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Randalor posted:Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't he currently being sued to force him to purchase Twitter, because he tried to back out of purchasing Twitter, after he had already signed the binding agreement to purchase it? https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1577417197361590272?s=20&t=zOrrY_OfRHovNqn_c7hC9w The whole situation is beyond me, everytime I think about it too hard I start to smell burning toast.
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Oct 5, 2022 16:04
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's really hard to say at this point. Like, 'people with the proper privilege and power can and should do whatever they want, rules are for the untermenschen' is a key and increasingly unsubtle part of the Republican platform, and one that their base wholeheartedly agrees with as long as they're riled up enough. I think it got mentioned before, but a lot of campaigning is aimed at Undecided voters. Generally speaking, Dems are gonna vote Dem, Republicans are gonna vote Republican - Any fuckery the party does is going to be ignored or handwaved away in the name of making sure the other team doesn't win. They're a lock as long as they show up, barring any sort of suppression efforts. It's the people going "Hmm, I dunno..." that most ads are aimed at since they're the ones who need to be convinced.
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Oct 8, 2022 19:14
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FlamingLiberal posted:I swear there was a study saying that the actual number of undecided voters is pretty low in the modern era due to polarization Yes, but it isn't zero, which means that they can keep cutting those sweet sweet paychecks to the ad companies and PR consultants.
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Oct 8, 2022 19:43
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Axetrain posted:It would look worse if he was going on about how wonderful everything is when it's very clear to just about everyone that it is very much not. Wasn't that their first move? I don't think Biden directly came out and said it, but plenty of admin spokespeople were talking about how greatly things were improving while lots of people were getting financially hosed over. A lot of "Don't believe your lying eyes, there is no recession in Ba Sing Se"
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Oct 12, 2022 14:37
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Star Man posted:I thought all the hipsters died out in like 2012. I thought they all opened vape shops
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Oct 14, 2022 04:14
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Jaxyon posted:LOL no that's a play on minimalist haute cuisine Velveeta Mac& cheese served with pulled pork and fried onion straws on top. A perfectly average, probably kinda dry, cheeseburger named something involving "Classic" or "Vintage" or "Original."
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Oct 14, 2022 08:33
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FlamingLiberal posted:If Musk takes direct charge of Twitter (which I imagine he will) then it will be a disaster. Getting rid of all content regulation is going to make it a nightmare. I figure he'll end up selling it off once he's done running it into the ground to prove whatever point he thought he was making by buying it in the first place, at which point the new owners will probably revert back to something closer to how it was before the buyout, but by then the damage will have been done and we'll probably be on some new Twitter-like that someone else puts out once Twitter gets all of their Nazis back.
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Oct 21, 2022 14:49
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Having thought about it some more since my last post, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he's saying 3/4 of this poo poo because he thinks he's playing some sort of Nth dimensional chess and still trying to get out of buying it or manipulate the market somehow for when he tries to sell it. In all honesty, I'm really kind of just expecting him to have Trump/whoever else he likes unbanned, maybe ban some people who made fun of him, and then gently caress off and try to unload it onto some other sucker.
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Oct 21, 2022 16:04
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cat botherer posted:https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1583487828880596992 Because more than anything, Biden wants the Republicans to think he's cool and invite him to their ice cream parties.
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Oct 22, 2022 14:54
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Staluigi posted:Just ship yourself as a Maga conspiratorialist first to breeze the primary That runs into the same problem that Dems have when they think the sensible solution is to campaign towards the Right: You can't out-Republican a Republican. They'll know the true believers from the cosplayers.
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Oct 23, 2022 18:34
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Kanos posted:I don't think this is necessarily true, given that nakedly opportunistic remora eels like Lindsay Graham and Ted Cruz and pathetic empty suits like Marco Rubio can get elected and re-elected. I feel like Cruz and Graham bamboozle Dems more than they really fool their fellow Republicans. I mean, how many times do you see some Dem Op-Ed Twitter going "Ha! Got him! He should be feeling so owned now!" because they have the videoclip of Graham saying "I swear to white cishet baby Jesus that I will resign before I ever sign off on X." after he lol's and signs off on X at the first opportunity.
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Oct 23, 2022 19:21
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BiggerBoat posted:If I read him right, I think Steve meant that the GOP establishment knows the difference between the money players in their party from the ones hollering about voter fraud and poo poo. It's the whole thing where the frankenstein monster they created broke free of his chains but they still need him to vote in order to win elections. It's more of an IMO: You can't out-crazy someone who is actually that crazy. Sure, I could yell Drain the Swamp and Stop the Steal, but no matter how good an actor I am, I'm not going to be able to be more convincing than someone who actually believes it. There's just a certain... conviction or sincerity that you can't translate over if you're not a true believer.
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Oct 23, 2022 21:27
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I AM GRANDO posted:I don’t understand why a gay guy would work so hard to build the camps and kill all gay people, but republicans have to enjoy seeing him utterly debase himself that way. Has he ever delivered anything good for his voters? He upsets the Libs. That's usually enough for most of them. He goes back on a thing that he said, TweetingLiberal.Facebook puts out a hundred finger-wagging memes about it, and Republicans make a  face because a Liberal was triggered.
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Oct 24, 2022 02:57
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Oracle posted:It'll be something completely unrelated like China managed to hack social security db or something. Maybe they developed a vaccine for Havana Syndrome
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Oct 24, 2022 16:52
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Gumball Gumption posted:Eh, no one is actually leaving over morals. The actual reason they will leave is because of user experience and not wanting the product. The assumption from everyone is that Elon will make the product worse. There will 100% be some users who will make a big show of clutching their pearls and announcing the closing of their account forever because of the bad orange man being allowed back on it. Those same people will also quietly return a week later and pretend it never happened or offer some halfassed excuse about why they had to come back.
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Oct 28, 2022 04:18
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skylined! posted:With the decades of stuff he has been involved in privately it's possible this wasn't tied to Nancy at all. I reckon it'll tank for a few weeks/months while Elon makes his "improvements." The whole reason he bought it in the first place was just to soothe his ego and punish people who were making fun of him and unban some of his friends. The business decisions are just him swinging his dick around to prove to himself that he's a big brain genius, but eventually he'll get bored and wander off and leave it to be handled by someone who can at least salvage it and patch enough holes for it to try to recover. Twitter itself has enough cultural inertia that it isn't going to be replaced by anything anytime soon, so that gives them time.
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Oct 28, 2022 15:02
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ManBoyChef posted:when you point at the manifestos they just double and triple down on that poo poo. Obviously the manifestos are proof that it was a false flag. Afterall, who would leave all sorts of evidence laying around like that? Y'know, unless they were a Democrat, in which case it obviously makes perfect sense and adds up seamlessly.
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Oct 29, 2022 14:00
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Bear Enthusiast posted:Really should have asked them to begin with, now that we bring him up... I dunno about you, but I can never tell them apart.
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I AM GRANDO posted:How has twitter stayed afloat all this time? It’s always been unusable and full of nazis. There’s a thin crust of absolute psychos who post hundreds of times a day there and I can’t imagine they’d ever stop, but what would it take for twitter to finally die? The only thing that's going to kill Twitter is for someone to develop a version of it that enough people prefer over the original to trigger a mass cultural exodus. Basically something to do to Twitter what Facebook with Farmville did to Myspace.
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Oct 31, 2022 00:06
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Chuds all hate each other and I think actually find each other as obnoxious as everyone else does, there's a reason all the right wing social medias are failures. I think it's more that, like Trump, if people aren't paying attention to them then what's the point? Sure, they enjoy their echo chambers where it's illegal to disagree with them, but they prefer the feeling that somewhere a lib is being triggered and owned because they had to read the latest Let's Go Brandon tweet, and they know they aren't getting that validation on a conservative social media site.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Man, when twitter dies were will I go to find artists posting cool stuff they made? If Twitter dies, it won't be before something new takes it's place.
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Meatball posted:An addition cost of $12/month for super verification There's your Standard Verification which gets you the Official Blue Checkmark, then Verification+ which adds on the Ad-Free option, and then Premium Verification in which Elon will personally tweet @you to buy dogecoins directly from him.
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Musk is a lot like Trump in the sense that the "real ones" don't accept them. Old Money never accepted Trump, which influences a lot of the poo poo that he pulls in an effort to suck up to them for whatever perceived legitimacy. Musk, who wants to be seen as some sort of Genius Nerd King, isn't accepted by actual famous nerds, and what he does is partially influenced by trying to suck up to them.
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:i assume he already has enough money to do whatever he wants for the rest of his life and wants to keep some ownership of the company he founded Probably no small amount of ego too. He probably figures that once Elon has hosed things up badly enough that the Un-Blue Checked masses will demand a return to Twitter Classic and he'll be able to get ownership back for a fraction of what he was paid along with a wave of goodwill.
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Nov 2, 2022 14:15
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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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Nov 4, 2022 16:26
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Quorum posted:This is almost exactly the premise of the "Old Gods of Appalachia" podcast, which is pretty good. 100% agree. I love that podcast.
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Nov 6, 2022 15:00
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-Blackadder- posted:Looks promising. Absolutely start at the beginning. Each season is it's own story, but they do plenty of callbacks and bring back characters, so, best to start at 1. BiggerBoat posted:This story is...uh...a bit thick. Jesus. While on a visceral level, I hope she clowns on everyone chasing her down for awhile, that's realistically no way to live and I hope she's able to get herself into some sort of best-case scenario, whatever that would entail.
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Looks like Fetterman won if I'm reading correctly, so that's good. Sucks about Texas, though I can't say I'm surprised
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Nov 9, 2022 12:57
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Push El Burrito posted:So how long until states start passing laws raising the voting age to 40? Would that mean that I'd get to enjoy a few years without being bombarded with emails and phone calls asking me to donate and VOTE in the most important election of my life?
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Nov 9, 2022 16:59
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davecrazy posted:Will GA dems still turn out without it being the decision making seat? Depends on how convincing those "We need X amount more seats or else we can't actually do anything we promised despite having a majority!" emails are, I suppose.
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Nov 13, 2022 03:38
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Framboise posted:Can someone explain to me why this loving matters? I'm so sick of hearing about it and how obsessed they are with it, but I've never heard an actual reason why anything on this laptop actually means anything regarding anything? It's just the Republican equivalent of Trump's tax returns and/or the Russian pee tape.
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Angry_Ed posted:ah, the Karl Rove strategy. Take something good (helping out kids at youth camps) and turn it into something horrifying and insidious. Seems more like the LBJ strategy: Call him a horsefucker and make him spend time denying the horsefucker allegations.
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Rigel posted:I think I read somewhere that Trump actually has a contract with Truth which makes it difficult to post on Twitter. He also owns a large part of Truth so he benefits directly if it actually takes off. (It wont) Has a contractual obligation ever really stopped Trump from doing something he wanted to do? He might just be waiting to see if Twitter actually dies before he commits to it again, since everyone* is expecting it to go belly-up at any minute.
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Kalit posted:
JFC, really? I understand that being a complete and utter dumbfuck contrarian is your thing, but goddamn. These assholes already think they're above the law, or that they're Chaotic Good superheroes on a mission from God to slay the devilish hordes of his enemies by ignoring an unjust law written by the forces of evil in order to stop good men from doing anything. If any sense of decency or morality were in their playbook, we wouldn't be having this conversation for the umpteenth time while they continue to be emboldened to kill more queer people. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Herstory Begins Now posted:The guy who shot up the drag show was clearly hit in the head a hell of a lot of times, like half of his entire head is purple. Which tracks with how he was disarmed and subdued (the vet who disarmed him took his backup pistol from him and beat the poo poo out of him with it basically until he stopped struggling and a drag queen kicked him in the face some, too) I think that's mainly because right now, the narrative is still heavily tilted towards "Not only will you get away with your terror attack and be a hero, but if you're white enough, the cops will take you for ice cream and let you pick out a toy on the way to jail." Getting your rear end beat by the people you're planning to terrorize and murder is still considered the exception rather than the rule. When "the shooter was beaten to death with their own gun" is considered the norm for what will happen, a lot of chuds will lose their courage and go back to posting about how "someone" should do it instead since they have a thing this week.
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/ddayen/status/1597365372088614912 I know it's bad form to let perfect be the enemy of good and we should just be grateful for whatever crumbs our betters deign to throw us, but goddamn, this is some monstrous poo poo.
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Nucleic Acids posted:Why should any single union worker ever believe the Democrats will ever have their back? It won't matter, they'll be told that it's still better than what Republicans would do, so they should shut the gently caress up and vote like good little piggies, because at least they can have some false hope instead of none.
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