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[–] avater 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

she's right.

Twitter or what ever the fuck it is now called, is a degenerated cesspool run by a narcissistic freak with a god complex...and no you shouldn't have an account on that very platform.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I disagree. Sewers are useful and serve an important function in society. X does not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

X is like a clogged sewer just backing up with garbage until one day when it will explode violently. it'll be so much fun to watch

[–] jordanlund 9 points 9 months ago

Hilarious since Paris is renowned for their sewers...

https://musee-egouts.paris.fr/en/

[–] Burn_The_Right 5 points 9 months ago

Elon: Oh yeah? Well, I'm a free-speech absolutist! So, I'm banning all of France from Twi... I mean X!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Social media in general is a sewer. X is a symptom, not a problem.

[–] ilmagico 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Remember you are saying this on social media ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I'm addicted to sewage smh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Sewerage fulfills an important function and not all are created equal.

I get crapping on social media, but let’s have an honest discussion involving its merits and drawbacks so that it can become better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk laid off thousands of employees, including many who moderated content on the platform.

Rebranded as X, it has lost several major advertisers and was blasted by critics, including the White House, for not doing enough to curtail antisemitism.

"This platform and its owner intentionally exacerbates tensions and conflicts," Hidalgo said in lengthy posts in English and French, citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.

Hidalgo's campaign to transform Paris into a cycling capital has earned her both scorn and praise on social media over the years, with some users criticising the seemingly endless work and visually unappealing worksites under the #SaccageParis (WreckParis) hashtag.

More recently, she has come under fire for a trip to the French island of Tahiti purportedly to view a 2024 Olympics surfing site, but that opponents said did not fall under her remit and during which she visited her daughter who lives there.

X users and opposition politicians took to the #TahitiGate hashtag to lambast her over the partially taxpayer-funded trip.


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