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Again, anyone still using Twitter should know they are contributing to the richest man in the world actively pushing to disrupt the core fabric of our society.
by elAhmo 11mo ago
Again, anyone still using Twitter should know they are contributing to the richest man in the world actively pushing to disrupt the core fabric of our society.
- nomdep 11mo agoBuilding rockets, moon bases, making fossil fuels less critical… yes, I agree
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 11mo ago[flagged]
- wahnfrieden 11mo agoEscape from pitchforks
- Integrape 11mo agoShooting the billionaires into outer space would make the world a better place.
- gruez 11mo ago>Cutting food stamps. How is Musk involved in the current budget debacle aside from being "republican"? It's easy to blame stuff on him when he was running DOGE, but since his falling out with trump blaming every cut on Musk is a tired and expired meme.
- mayneack 11mo agoGiven how much he contributed to the election outcome it hardly seems tired to blame him for the consequences. Plus he's on Twitter every week publicly discussing how much he uses the platform to put his thumb on the scale of discourse towards his personal beliefs. In what world is he not involved?
- 1234letshaveatw 11mo agoThe consequences of blocking a CR?
- mayneack 11mo agoThe consequences of the 2024 election in which he played a significant role. This "budget debacle" is a direct consequence. Also, Elon has weighed in quite aggressively on prior budgetary fights, so it would be crazy to say his influence isn't being felt here. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5046887-elon-musk-slams-spending-deal/ https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5046887-elon-musk-slam...
- oulipo2 11mo agoIt's not because he no longer works there that he doesn't have the exact same ideology. And now he's trying to push a Trump-like figure in the UK
- rootlocus 11mo agoActions speak to the character of a person. And some actions have long lasting consequences.
- nutjob2 11mo ago"He gave the federal government organizational cancer, but he left now so he's not to blame" Americans will be living with Musk's legacy for decades.
- 1234letshaveatw 11mo agoHopefully, fingers crossed
- hn_acc1 11mo agoI hope, of all people here, you most directly feel the influence of Musk in your life.. Trust me, it will not be pleasant..
- 1234letshaveatw 11mo agoI don't know, you make it kind of sound pleasant...
- platevoltage 11mo agoI'm okay with blaming him along with all of these Austin turds with podcasts.
- 1234letshaveatw 11mo agoSchumer isn't engineering anything lol
- throwawaysoxjje 11mo agoRepublicans control all three branches the government.
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- selectodude 11mo agoNext time the party in power should consider not burning its reconciliation power on handing tens of billions to create a new secret police.
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- thrance 11mo agoEither the democrats vote the budgets in which republicans have removed all healthcare funding and millions die of preventable diseases, or they don't and millions starve because republicans are illegally holding onto the money for food stamps. How is it on the democrats again?
- 1234letshaveatw 11mo agoYou are ignoring the possibility of a CR, which would continue SNAP funding while allowing discussion on healthcare funding to continue.
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- rocketpastsix 11mo agothose rockets use a lot of those same fossil fuels. And he can't even complete a project in Las Vegas, so lets not think he knows how to build on the moon. I live in Nashville, the site of his next little Tesla tunnel. I promise you none of us are holding our breath on that one.
- sporkxrocket 11mo agoWhat moon bases?
- ceejayoz 11mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Landing_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Landing_System / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_III
- sporkxrocket 11mo agoThese don't exist.
- nomdep 11mo agoYet
- sporkxrocket 11mo agoMore Musk vaporware.
- ceejayoz 11mo agoThey did say building, not built. Starship R&D work is… tough to deny.
- sporkxrocket 11mo agoMusk constantly promises to build things that never get built. He's 99% vaporware. Unless it actually exists, it's safe to assume that it never will.
- ceejayoz 11mo agoI'm very much in the Musk hater category, but it really takes some doing to dismiss SpaceX as vaporware.
- afavour 11mo agoLiteral moon shots, while he contributes meaningfully to worsening conditions on Earth. His dismantling of USAID will have a more consequential effect than 90% of his fever dreams ever will.
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- CaptWillard 11mo agoI am a messenger, and it turns out I've got some bad news as well. My contention is that this kind of emotional appeal has been exploited to the point of (quickly) diminishing returns. People are scratching the surface and following the money. Those who used such maudlin tactics to protect money laundering, war mongering and such things would do well to go and sin no more, lest more serious consequences come knocking.
- mapontosevenths 11mo ago> this kind of emotional appeal It is not an emotional appeal. It is a statement of objective and provable fact that cutting off funding for food resulted in people not having food. It's also obvious that this would be the result. The grandparent posted a link to one study. There are others if you do a quick search. > People are scratching the surface and following the money. Those who used such maudlin tactics to protect money laundering, war mongering and such things would do well to go and sin no more, lest more serious consequences come knocking. I have no idea what any of this even means. I don't live in whatever bubble you do, but it sounds like you believe there is some kind of global cabal of "them" that profited by these children not starving and you're out to stop that?
- tiberius_p 11mo agoStarship will never get to the moon.
- darkwater 11mo agoThat was 5-10-15 years ago Elon.
- ryukoposting 11mo agohttps://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4 https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4
- 0xAFFFF 11mo agoHe didn't need to own Twitter for this, so even if you give Musk some slack about his God-awful opinions, his (real and hypothetical) achievements are still not a good reason at all to stay on X.
- oulipo2 11mo agoWhat does he do except making fossil fuel MORE critical? What do you think rockets are powered with?
- nutjob2 11mo ago> making fossil fuels less critical Tesla for years made billions by enabling others to pollute, and it still does so. Every EV Musk sells enables more ICE cars to stay on the road. If you want to drink the kool-aid thats fine, but the facts are not on your side.
- jfoster 11mo agoCan you explain this a bit? How does Tesla enable ICE cars to stay on the road?
- rcpt 11mo agoIt's not 2014 anymore. Check his tweets, right wing slop occupies most of his brain these days.
- code_for_monkey 11mo agoI have a bridge in downtown NYC, interested in buying?
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- mk89 11mo agoNot sure why it's so bad what the person wrote. There are studies showing how objectively bad Facebook and Instagram are for people, leading them to depression and so on. Isn't this hitting the fabric of our society? Our youth has severe issues also because of Zuckeberg, probably even more than due to Musk. Or is the fabric of our society only what's convenient to pick, such as whatever you guys dislike about Elon? Social media the way these companies run it is s** from all point of views.
- rcruzeiro 11mo agoRemind me again what is the subject of this thread? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
- mk89 11mo agoOk then how about we stay all in topic and focus on the "links will now be open in background when tweets are shown"? Instead of focusing on the rich billionaire who wants to conquer the world.... BTW: it's normal to diverge or even say "also xyz does that s*". The issue is bigger than X, and more related to social media itself. As long as there is some respect or some argument...
- myko 11mo agoAgree with your overall thrust but there are degrees here, Musk performing a Nazi salute and pushing for fascist party takeovers globally makes him a larger target than Zuck (who seems more worried about his future MMA career than any societal impact, positive or negative).
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- zetanor 11mo agoIs the implication here that the core fabric of our society isn't otherwise being disrupted, or that this particular disruption should be viewed as exceptionally egregious?
- BugsJustFindMe 11mo agoYSK, it feels like the implication of the framing of your question is that you're suggesting it doesn't matter and nobody should care. The disruption is egregious. It is notable and worth pushing back against, even if you don't view it as "exceptional".
- zetanor 11mo agoI am concerned with attacks on freedom, dignity, culture and national character. King Elmo of Twitter is "bad", but mild.
- runjake 11mo agoI don’t have the same take, but the algorithm and site is so broken, the patterns so dark, that I’m down to maybe 5 minutes of X a week at best. Everything is posted to get views, even from the more quality people. It’s ironic that I hear about “brainrot” the most on X, but it’s full of brainrot masquerading as valuable information.
- itsoktocry 11mo agoYou literally have people crying that their garbage content isn't getting enough views (and hence payout). It's embarrassing, but that's what the entire site is.
- evantbyrne 11mo agoThey are all like this to a degree because controversy creates engagement. If a platform is not making you money, is not making you smarter, and not helping you form IRL connections, then I highly recommend disabling it.
- meowface 11mo agoI fully agree with your stance on Elon but I simply find Twitter too useful for too many things to quit. I've tried Bluesky and although I am very left-leaning on sociocultural topics I just find them too... annoying over there. (I'm closer to neoliberal on economic topics and that's also a bit of an issue there. And I like AI and they pretty much all deeply hate AI.)
- phoronixrly 11mo ago> I simply find Twitter too useful for too many things to quit Like what precisely? Infosec twitter is gone, science twitter is long dead. Visiting my timeline in non-algorithmic mode yields a post from months ago. In algo mode it's just ads and rage-bait.
- chipotle_coyote 11mo agoSimon Willison is on Bluesky, and I'm going to go out on a relatively safe limb and suggest that if you check out what he reposts, who he follows, etc., you will find people who do not deeply hate AI. I do think Bluesky, in general, is a lot like the Twitter of, say, 15 years ago, where the quality of one's feed is very much dependent on how aggressively one curates it -- although I wish they would finally add a feature for selectively turning off reposts user by user. (It is absolutely true that a lot of creators hate AI, although I would argue that they have fair reasons to do so given the way AI is frequently presented / talked about / used. I find it unfortunate that everything remotely related to machine learning has now been rebranded as "AI", which leads people to reflexively dunk on tools that really aren't that much like the AI they have in their heads, but it's not their fault.)
- moneywoes 11mo agomay I ask, any good follows?
- elAhmo 11mo agoIt might be a 'cold start' problem that I had on Twitter a while ago as well. It takes a bit of time for communities to form, or for you do start interacting with people who are interesting and in the same circles, but also sharing cool stuff. It is a journey, I still miss so many people from Twitter and it took me/us years of building a specific community, which is now mostly gone, but I do see signs of that appearing on Bluesky.
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- numpad0 11mo agoDisagree, albeit with a /s. We should continue attaching increasingly more corrupted cores to the Wheatley-GLaDOS. Twitter as it is an artery IV port to inject defeatism and derangement into that group of people. Eventually the controlling core will come off and all will return to normal someday.