this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] RobertOwnageJunior 128 points 1 year ago (16 children)

He is 100% right. Delete it and leave that shit.

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[–] DigitalTraveler42 120 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is some great c/leopardseatingmyface material, James Woods is such a brainwashed dip shit:

In December 2022, Woods announced his intentions to sue the Democratic National Committee following Elon Musk's release of the Twitter Files. Journalist Matt Taibbi reported that the Democratic National Committee requested a tweet made by Woods, related to Hunter Biden, be removed from Twitter.[96][97]

And now Elon tells him to delete his account, lol.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 111 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

They deserve each other

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Which is a shame, cause Woods is a great actor. Oh well.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah, for sure. Man, I honestly wish there was a way to prevent knowing the details about the lives of artists I like. So many actors and musicians have ended up standing for things that I think are disgusting, and it's ruined their content for me in many cases. And I don't follow celebrity gossip/"news" at all unless it hits the front page, but sometimes it's just unavoidable.

There's actually a musician I like who has been around for a long time and I've managed not to know anything about his political beliefs or whatever. I'm not even going to mention his name here because I just know someone will say, "Wait, you didn't know he was convicted of eating baby eyeballs" or something like that.

[–] mmagod 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this happened with me and mixed martial arts fighters growing up.. and yes i know they make their living getting bashed in the head, but what drew me in was the self discipline and humility aspect of it from a few of the fighters at the top.

one of them was most beloved not only because of how domniant he was but also his kindness and cheerful personality outside of it.. only to find out he lets former controversial brazilian presidential candidate jair bolsonaro live in his USA home.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, seems like it's better not to know, but I also hate having my head in the sand.

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

Disney Hercules and John Carpenters Vampires are bangers.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The most accurate opinion on this thread so far.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (16 children)

If I was James wood and had any self respect then I'll delete my account.

Let's see if James wood will delete his account? $20 says he won't

I am telling you guys people have become so dumb that's its only fair that rich keeps getting richer

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Not a chance, that crazy boomer is addicted just like the rest of them

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[–] EfreetSK 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And he won't. I hate the internet of today, everything is so tailored to money, everyone is so piss-scared of loosing influence and thus money that they'll stay on that shit-show of a platform no matter what

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Totally agree with your point, but while I'm here, here's a good mnemonic device to help you use the right words with more impact:

Is your noose loose? Maybe you should lose the extra 'o'.

[–] Ddhuud 18 points 1 year ago

The message can't be any clearer. If you don't like what he's doing delete your accounts.

I'd be surprised if someone here still has an account, but still...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I wonder what is James Woods going to do.

[–] GladiusB 13 points 1 year ago

Why should I care? I see tweets and I already know it's akin to children bickering.

[–] xantoxis 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WTF does "doing this to protect his advertisers" even mean? I don't want to dig into James Woods' brain worms enough to actually find the tweet, but I don't see how a massive uptick in harassment helps advertisers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I understand them correctly, James is suggesting this is to protect ads because the Promoted Tweets (are they even called that anymore?) ad category are run as fancy versions of regular tweets by regular Twitter accounts - meaning you can block them like any other Twitter account.
It was a very useful tool, one that no doubt hurts the reach of Twitter's dwindling ad revenue.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Odd part is that doesn't even make sense. I don't doubt that is what Jame Woods is thinking but if that was the case wouldn't it just make more sense for Elon to make it so you just can't block promoted tweets, and if you did they still show up since they are "promoted".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I suppose that's where the other part of it comes in, in which he (and many other conservatives for which "free speech" = "you HAVE to listen to me") is ass mad that the majority of users do not want to see him on their timeline.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I agree. In fact everyone should delete their account. Why the fuck are they on TruthSocial 2.0?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

... I'm so glad I've never made a Twitter account.

Imagine what Musk will do if he sees what I say about him on Lemmy.

Edit: OK, I lied, I deleted it.

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[–] EnglishMobster 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[email protected]

This should work? Testing my understanding here.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

an arena of trolls, fighting for attention

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

Why is he removing the function to block? It only gives control to the user.

[–] Tempo 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because he doesn't care about user control if it means people can choose not to see his tweets.

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