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Twitter Beats Out Threads for Coveted Taliban Leader Endorsement (www.rollingstone.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The fundamentalist group thinks Meta’s content policy, which includes a ban on support or praise for terrorist or hate groups, is “intolerant”

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How is this not a the onion article?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because we live in the stupidest timeline.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To paraphrase Earnest Hemingway: "The hardest thing about writing fiction is it has to make logical sense, while reality does not"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

unfortunately our version of the universe is the one all the other ones laugh about

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What a world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sometimes art imitates life. Sometimes life imitates art; this is one of those occasions.

[–] dystop 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol elon musk's social standing continues to improve.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

elon musk’s social standing

He was funded, in part, for the twitter purchase by the Saudi Royal family famed for solving/silencing dissenting journalistic opinions with a bone saw....

Some would say ISIS's endorsement is a step-up in that regard, but I consider it par for the course.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ok that headline is pretty good

[–] DevCat 4 points 1 year ago

Surprised the GOP hasn't added their endorsement as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's one point for Elon.. i guess?