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[–] teft 82 points 4 months ago (3 children)

On Sunday, Musk also tweeted out a video of Harris saying her pronouns and describing her appearance for accessibility and captioned the post, “Imagine 4 years of this…”

Of all the petty things to get mad about...

[–] reddig33 55 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie 7 points 4 months ago

See also: still bears a grudge for his ex briefly dating Chelsea Manning

[–] dhork 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Don't underestimate how triggered some people are by the pronoun thing. I saw someone get totally irate over the fact that a public place had a single all-gender bathroom even though there were normally gendered bathrooms next to it, and the all-gender bathroom would have just been a "family" bathroom 20 years ago. People are getting triggered by the smallest things now.

[–] teamevil 8 points 4 months ago

Id rather 4 years of that over letting a dumbass unintelligent lazy bully and literal dictator run the country any day

[–] just_another_person 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They really shouldn't be using Twitter anymore. Bluesky or Mastodon would be fine.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They go everywhere the people are - lots of people are still on Xitter.

[–] RestrictedAccount 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If they went to threads, Bluesky, or their own lemmy server, ALL the news outlets would follow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The problem is coordination. Honestly, celebrities should talk to each other, pick a platform, and all move there at once. It would pull tons of users over, generate publicity, and probably create momentum that would leave Twitter a dead right-wing echo chamber, which is all it should be.

[–] RestrictedAccount 2 points 4 months ago

I’m just saying that if POTUS directed the entire executive branch to use the Fediverse, the press would have to follow.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

i mean i don't think she cares about twitter. her target base isn't white supremacists and nazis

[–] Eldritch 20 points 4 months ago

Elon is being on brand? Shocker! He's always been an insecure pissy little baby. I hope there's some legal action he might be threatened with. No matter how small. Because he's just starting.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

lol he is so fucking scared right now. It’s pretty obvious.

[–] CharlesDarwin 14 points 4 months ago

Can't spell felon without Elon.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

But my freedom of Speech. Fuck this musk rat! (If this is true that is, it's too obvious)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Tax the rich and tax all corporations fairly. This will help the average American and it pisses of man babies like Mr Twatzie.

[–] CharlesDarwin 6 points 4 months ago

I sure hope this guy gets booted from running Tesla. And same for Xitter.

I'd like more options for EV, but no way I'm ever buying anything Tesla as long as he's the face of that company. It'd be like buying a stupid red hat and walking around, except worse, because people are likely to key my car or throw a brick through the windshield since he's so hated. I guess I could get into a physical altercation wearing one of those dumb hats, but at least it's less of an investment...

[–] CharlesDarwin 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought Elmo was a FREEZED PEACH AB-SO-LOOOOT-ISSHT!?