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
Especially when they can get upvotes for free on Lemmy
1 upvote = 1 dopamine
1 downvote = 1 dopamine too!
Engagement is all that matters!
Even 0 engagement is fine if i made myself laugh from my own comment. That = 1 dopamine too!
I'm also continously surprised by how socially codependent people are.
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
It’s because they’re actually bigots and enjoy being in the company of other bigots who don’t call them out.
$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.
Remember when Elon said he'd gladly solve world hunger if someone gave him a plan to do so?
Even if I was using that money entirely selfishly I could come up with so many better things to do.
It breaks my heart to think about that.
This is just an example of what America does every second of every day. Valuing money more than people.
Example of what capitalism does every second. The problem is bigger and older than America.
Why do you think Vance is the VP pick? He is Peter Thiel’s bitch, who is Elon’s bitch. They are not even trying to hide it anymore.
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.
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".
It did used to be true. Sort of. Upper middle class used to be attainable
curiously that was when labour unions held a decent amount of sway, i'm sure there's no relation though
No, it's purely a coincidence that all of the Republicans want to go back to the 1950s, which heavily benefited from massive unionization, massive government-supplemented programs, the ABC departments, the Green New Deal, The highest tax rates this country has ever seen....
It was great for the working man in spite of all the help for the working man, not because of it! /s
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.
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
I mean damn if Rockefeller plaza isn't nice.
But for sure everyone feels like the victim all the time now regardless of how well off you are. Maybe we are growing immune to shame? I dunno but I miss people like Hershey building a free theater and a nice garden because his employees would strike.
Pretty much, they wanna be the goodies instead of the baddies, but they don't wanna change anything, so they'll just be the baddies while pretending otherwise
That’s the issue, Musk and all think they are the resistance.
Pretty sure Stephanie was saying the people still using Twitter love to think they'd join the resistance, but won't even stop using Twitter. Not that Elon thinks he's the resistance.
Yes. And what I'm saying is that Elon and the people still using Twitter think they are the resistance. I'm saying they won't leave Twitter because they think they are the resistance.
Populism 101
Any Lemmy instances block links to X? I'd like to see less of it on here. It's just truth social with deeper pockets.
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.
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.
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.
Thank goodness for Twitter, he lost $1.7 billion per month in the first year (including valuation) so now he has less to spend on Trump.
I deleted my Twitter account the day he bought it. Haven't used it a single time since.
Since this was posted on Mastodon: OP, consider to post this on
!best_of_mastodon@sh.itjust.works
too, if you like.
Btw, cool that Stephen King joined the Fediverse. I didn’t know that.
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
Ah, now I understand all the layoffs.
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.
I deleted my old account when he rebranded it to ecks.
I prefer Xitter 💩
Elon wondering how much he gotta pay to get Trump back on Twitter, and so far, that’s not enough.
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