• LANIK2000@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That’s 45 people a month that wouldn’t have to ever work again in their entire lives and maybe even their kids if they invest it smartly. Or ya know, lift hundreds of families from poverty each month. Instead it shall go into Trump’s crime empire, money go BRRRR.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    i just can’t wrap my head around the fact that otherwise normal intelligent people are so fucking addicted to fake validation from fake “friends” that they continue to consume (PAY FOR) bullshit like twitter

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        3 months ago

        humans are social creatures by nature but the issue is the way that people go about fulfilling those needs in the most useless, destructive way possible

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          3 months ago

          its not like we are in a healthy society that can offer meaningful human connection

      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        Thanks! Already use connect and haven’t tried this. I’d prefer it on the instance side for greater impact, but this is nice. I already use it to block instances and communities but didn’t realize it could filter links.

  • MiltownClowns@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Elon made most of his money through companies that heavily rely on government subsidy. He is now funneling this money to someone who will control government contracts. Do not mistake the US for a democracy. It is an oligarchy.

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    3 months ago

    The problem with this kind of talk is that it refuses to acknowledge how much of X’s traffic - all the social media traffic - comes from outside the US now, from non-English speaking countries who don’t care about your bullshit, so long as the platform keeps working for them. Americans are having a very hard time with that.

    So you shake your finger at the people whose language you speak, but it doesn’t matter if all of them decide you’re right and drop the platform. There will still be millions of users. Your shaming act is not appropriate.

    Even ignoring that, a lot of these people have no business model without X, specifically. I’ve heard tons of them moan about not finding another platform like it. You need both reach and the ability to post furry wolf cock drawings without consequence. These parasites would all have to drop their bullshit and go get punchclock jobs if they didn’t have X, they would have to give up their parasocial position over others without it, which means no amount of your liberal white woman shaming is ever going to be enough.

    The really ugly truth is that all the normal-ass people who don’t make their money online have abandoned X already, all that’s left is this huge army of grifters and whoever is still there for the porn. It makes me mad, because I deliberately left the site before Elon even breathed a word about buying it, but it follows you everywhere like a disease wanting a host.

    All these pricks went to Mastodon and brought their Twitter shit with them. They even bullied somebody into giving them an algorithmic feed. Now Mastodon is shit, too, and this woman is part of the problem. Shut up. Stop farming attention and leave an inch of space for the people who don’t want to be part of your personal business model. Fuck you, as well, lady. Fuck all you parasocials.