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X's move on cemetery news shows 'how damaging this explosive story is to Trump': experts (www.rawstory.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by just_another_person to c/politics
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Time to never use it again.

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[–] [email protected] 209 points 3 months ago (6 children)

It's astonishing how completely and thoroughly fucked things are right now.

Think about it - the measure of how damaging a story might be to a deranged convicted felon presidential candidate is the eagerness with which a social media site owned by a billionaire troll and self-professed "free speech absolutist" tries to censor it.

How is that even possible? Does no one else recognize how jaw-droppingly insane these people are?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago

Fat white pedos protect eachother

[–] elrik 45 points 3 months ago

It is insane and yet I've still never met a person in real life who uses X.

[–] ynthrepic 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Don't forget who some of the investors are who helped Elon buy Twitter either. In case you missed the story.

[–] RestrictedAccount 5 points 3 months ago

It is Vladimir Putin.

Saved you a click.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Welcome to the republikkklown party.

[–] SLVRDRGN 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Very well put. It sometimes feels impossible to put this insanity into words at the very least, but you've done that, so thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It's not that surprising. Russian oligarchs protect Putin, American oligarchs protect Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 3 months ago (5 children)

God I hope Harris wins so she can put the screws to Wish Version Iron Man.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[–] TokenBoomer 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

F.. that took me too long to get.

[–] billwashere 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I’ve been staring at this for 5 minutes. I must be too old and tired.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I get the Eel On part...but is it a muskrat or something?

[–] billwashere 9 points 3 months ago

It’s a musk deer

[–] billwashere 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Apparently it took 10 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can someone help me out here? I still don't get it...

[–] billwashere 5 points 3 months ago

It’s an eel and a musk deer. So it’s an “eel on musk”

[–] cybervseas 15 points 3 months ago

Temu version

[–] mercano 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Iron Man 2 extra.

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

Fwiw, extras don’t have lines. If it weren’t a cameo(cause fame), he would be called a day player most likely. Larry Ellison is also apparently in there as himself somewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just move to Mastodon or that blue butterfly thingy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If the media would quit making articles out of X posts and hosting said posts for clickthroughs that'd be great.

They'll even link to X in articles specifically discussing how bad X or Musk is, like no drop is responsible for the flood

[–] CodexArcanum 3 points 3 months ago

That would require "journalist" to still be a real career path. Media sites today have cut costs down to the point where "outsourced guy (about to be replaced by AI) who writes 1000 words about Xitter posts" is what passes for "news reporter" these days. What are those people supposed to do, actual work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Brilliant!

The film's not bad either ;-)

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dude why on earth would you

Every time I visit Twitter I feel a strong desire to watch the video or whatever I came for and get the fuck out of there.

It is impossible to look over someone’s profile; as far as I can tell I get it sorted in “random bullshit from 2018” order and there is no way to change it

It had weird pop ups that mean nothing. Sign up with Google! Sign up with Apple! Once you join X, you can respond which means you’re allowed to read the comments! Here is someone who thinks Covid isn’t real!

It feels like going to some kind of sketchy site to download the pirated software I am looking for and get the fuck out before something happens to my computer

[–] Dran_Arcana 12 points 3 months ago

I believe it was a musk move that changed the default sort order from "latest first" to "most engaged" as an intentional inconvenience to encourage users to make accounts and log in.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Buying a company to end censorship, but suppressing stories you don't like, seems weird.

[–] Red_October 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's definitely not why he bought Twitter though.

[–] HoustonHenry 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's not, but that didn't stop him bragging that it was 😁

[–] DaddleDew 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The most damage isn't even from the altercation their staff had with a worker. It's the picture he had taken of himself giving the thumbs up and smiling like the tone deaf, sheltered rich kid that he always has been while standing behind of the tomb of someone who died because of the absolute trainwreck of a negotiating job he did with the Taliban.

[–] pyre 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

x? never heard of it

[–] AngryCommieKender 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The platform formerly known as Twitter

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So Twitter.

[–] AngryCommieKender 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's a joke based on what Prince was referred to as, in the '90s and '00s. He changed his name to some crazy symbol that no one knew how to pronounce, and he wouldn't clarify, so the media just referred to him as, "the artist formerly known as Prince."

[–] dezmd 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You missed the real joke.

"So Twitter." is a way of saying "Fuck Elon, stil gonna call it Twitter." ;)

[–] AngryCommieKender 3 points 3 months ago

Seems, based on the other commenter's reply that we whooshed each other. Lol. Thanks for the clarification!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Ahhh, I know the reference, I didn't catch on that's the angle you were going for. Nicely done.

[–] dual_sport_dork 3 points 3 months ago

...And it's speculated that the reason he did so was to get out of a record label contract with Warner Bros. For his part, it was deliberately unpronounceable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Oh it's Twitter (currently known as X)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not showing due reverence to dead soldiers is lesson 101 in how to lose an election.

Rishi Sunak did the same thing in the UK, and even the usual right wing red top press hauled him over the coals for it.

[–] mipadaitu 20 points 3 months ago

You'd think so, but he's been like this forever.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/gold-star-families-attack-trump-over-comments-about-ghazala-khan-n620671

This didn't sink his 2016 campaign and his NUMEROUS mentions of hate for wounded, captured, or dead soldiers won't in 2024.

Trump, for some unfathomable reason, is immune from things that would destroy the career of anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

All these narcissists, so desperate for attention, and so blind to the damage this attention will do to them.

How awesome (literally and figuratively) it is that they also own and control entire social media platforms.

Lol

This wasn’t true last time around, and might be the secret sauce that results in their own self defeat.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

“Explosive”

I’m tired of the superlatives, hyperbole, and exaggeration in the press.

It’s like that line from The Incredibles where Syndrome says, “When everyone’s super, no one will be.” When everything is “destroyed, crushed, hammered,” nothing is.

The sensationalized language is useless and I can’t even be bothered to read how someone got “slammed”.

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