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Musk accuses Ukraine leader of ‘feeding off dead bodies of soldiers’ in vicious rant
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Have you found an alternative where I can follow most public personalities that I currently follow on X?
Edit 4 days later: I came across https://openportability.org/ and used it to gather my following list on X and follow them on Bluesky and Mastodon. 3 people found on Bluesky and 0 on Mastodon...
A lot of them are on Bluesky by now, and the rest? Fuck em
Exactly. Bluesky is not ideal by any means, and could turn into a another "X" down the line, but it's the best alternative to avoid it right now. It's also pretty popular, with some posts from famous people raking in as much engagement as Edgelord Musk on X.
So you'll keep giving money to Musk because X is convenient?
I don’t give money to Musk.
Not directly, but you're contributing to the profit of the platform.
Yes, nobody’s perfect.
There's perfect, and then there's "Sure I'm supporting a genocidal, Nazi lunatic destroying global democracy, but like... how else will I hear about what public personalities had for lunch?".
Not sure the bar could be any lower.
Do you eat animals?
Beautiful whataboutism. Absolutely beautiful.
Answer the fucking question.
The person I was discussing with stated he’s not sure the car could be any lower, to which I reply it can be.
Eating animals contributes to the killing of billions of land animals and tens of billions of fish on a yearly basis. Most of them are raised in terrible conditions in factory farms.
“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her”.
Trying to justify your whataboutism doesn't change the fact that it is a whataboutism.
How many cheeseburgers do i have to eat before i start supporting Nazis?
So when that person wonders if the bar could be any lower, how can one respond without bringing up another comparable scenario?
Trying to justify your whataboutism doesn't change the fact that it is a whataboutism.
How many cheeseburgers do i have to eat before i start supporting Nazis?
"You support Nazis."
"I do. Nobody's perfect."
I do not support Nazis.
When your life is perfect, you can criticize me.
No. I can call out your support of Nazis without being an angel. It's your actions that are getting criticized, not you.
Try again.
Unless your actions are irreproachable in all aspects of life, focus on bettering yourself first.
Great advice from someone that openly admits to supporting a Nazi website because they can't be arsed with missing a tweet from Billie Eilish.
I don’t know who Billie Eilish is.
Well in the West, you would know that she's a singer.
Singer is a stretch. She does ASMR with music accompaniment.
I just want you to make an informed decision mate
Thank you. I asked in good faith, I am exploring Mastodon and looking for the accounts I follow on X but a lot are missing unfortunately.
Getting people to switch is honestly a little complicated. People haven't switched to Mastodon because the accounts they follow aren't on Mastodon, but the accounts aren't on Mastodon because the people who follow them aren't there.
If you want to help, it might be beneficial to reach out to the accounts you follow and tell them you'd like to see them on Mastodon too.
That’s a good idea!
Really? You need these personalities in your life?
I like to stay informed about politics and prefer to read content straight from politicians and political analysts.
Jesus fucking christ
I thought he was dead
You should keep reading, you'll like the plot twist...
He came back to life, then popped out for milk and a packet of cigs and will have been back any minute now for the last twenty centuries, pinky swear promise
Yes. Just shove your head up your ass. You won't miss a beat.
Why are you mean?
Why are you still on a Nazi site?
Because that is where most politicians and political commentators are.
Out of curiosity, if Kanye West opens a book club for reading Mein Kampf, would you join it to keep up to date with unfiltered political analysis by a piece of shit? If the answer is no, maybe you should reconsider your stance on X.
I am not interested in Kanye West’s opinions.
Per your other comment
I see where the cognitive dissonance kicks in. You do not want to be mistaken for a nazi sympathizer, but refuse to distance yourself from them on some basis of believed plausible deniability. Is it perhaps because you are indeed sympathetic to some of their fascist talking points?
What? I’ve never cared about Kanye West.
Never said you did. However, we are indeed using that shithead to bisect your weird affection for X and the comparable shithead Elon Musk.
LOL I don’t have a weird affection for X nor Elon Musk. It’s weird to suggest that.
He talks like a nazi, walks like a nazi and does sieg heil like a nazi. Yet you say that the verdict is still out on him being a nazi. Being this ignorant is usually willful and your reservations about being truthful about him does not portray you well. "Weird affection" was the nicest interpretation I could think of.
Elon Musk doesn't hate the Jews nor does he wish to expand German territory. Weren't those pillars of the Nazi ideology?
You cannot take the cultural characteristics of the original nazi movement as a metric to measure whether someone is a neo-nazi or not. Those were the pillars of nazism then, but are not accurate to determine whether someone is a nazi today.
Mind that due to inherent contradictions within the brainrotten ideology of nazis and no nation state (yet) to put forward its flavor as the neo-nazi ideology, the term cannot by nature be anything but an unbrella term of mutual and internal conflicting ideas.
Interesting. So what does it mean to be a neo-nazi?
Stop sealioning and use a search engine?
You might have to miss out for a bit, but once they start noticing a significant drop they'll move somewhere else. People with "public personalities" want to be seen and heard, they'll go where people can see and hear them.
I’m willing to miss out on a few of them if I can find most of them somewhere else.