• solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    14·
    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

  • dalekcaan@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    $45 million a month. Jesus fucking Christ, imagine the good that kind of money could do. Instead it’s going straight to Fascists’R’Us.

  • MiltownClowns@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    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.

    • atro_city@fedia.io
      2·
      3 months ago

      Always has been a country founded by slave owners. The “American dream” is just the carrot to dangle in front of people. “If you work hard, you will make it”.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    That’s the issue, Musk and all think they are the resistance. That’s why they say “take back America”. From the elites, ignoring that they are the rich elites.

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Perpetual victim mentality.

      Wait is this why we don’t have rich people building giant monuments and libraries and art galleries with their names prominently on them anymore? Because they actually think they’re the underclass??

      Because seriously some of the most fire art galleries I’ve been to are the ones that are paid for by the worst fucking exploitative billionaires you’ll ever read about. Shout out to the Guggenheim, btw

  • ericatty@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    One thing I’ve learned is that “committed to donate” does not equal “has actually transferred and paid the actual money”

    So it’s just a headline to try and drum up other donations until the receipts are made.

    • xantoxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      This is a good point. Musk, like Trump, is well known for making huge promises that amount to nothing. He wouldn’t even own Twitter if a court hadn’t forced him to make good on his promise to buy it.

  • tacosanonymous@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Even if they did leave, SpaceX/Starlink and Tesla are dumping money onto him. He’d still have plenty of money to throw at the guy with the least progressive tax plan.

  • poorlytunedAstring@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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.

  • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Weeelllll, priorities may be just a bit different when living in a territory annexed by the literal Nazis. Not using Twitter doesn’t really just have the same urgency as the Gestapo rounding up your neighbors.

    Not that I’d be caught dead using Twitter, especially now that that reich-wing manbaby and waste of perfectly good carbon Musk owns it. I created an account ~15 years ago because I had to test the Twitter integration of a thingamajig at work, but I never used it for anything else. I did read some Twitter stuff in the early days of the Ukraine invasion via one of the frontends, but so much of it was garbage that I stopped bothering after a while

  • LANIK2000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    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.