Damn, they're not even waiting for their guy to be sworn in again before they start the infighting. This truly is a speed run to social cannibalism.
They're just stealing everything from the left now!
These people always fall in line. They will again. They're proud of being useful idiots. They'll convince themselves that this immigration is necessary for the economy, but Trump will stop the bad immigration or whatever. And Trump's people will brutalize people coming from Mexico which will also sate some of their bloodlust. They'll fall in line just as soon as someone tells them what to think.
The popcorn is rich.
Even known Donald Trump mushroom rubber and psychopath, Laura Loomer, is getting unverified.
The infighting is coming in way faster and pettier than I imagined. This is fun to watch
That's funnier. Much, much funnier.
Loomer continues
Yes yes turn on each other.
This is what happens when your ideology depends on attacking others but all the leftists leave the spaces you use to bully others.
They only have themselves to scream at now on Twitter
Nah, it’s different parties fighting for control now that they have it. It would still happen without social media but they would be going on the news to do it
Battle of the half-wits.
If only they learned from every other abuse of power Elon has made on his platform...
It's freedom of speech for Elon - everyone else has to tow the line, or hope to god he never notices them.
It's "toe the line". This difference is pretty important. I thought it was "tow the line" more than half my life because it sounds like pulling on a rope to go in the right direction.
It's actually more sinister. Get your toes on the line we drew. Perfect conformity of thought or action.
They didn't see the previous cases as abuses of power, because he was always hurting people they already didn't like, or in the very least he was hurting people they didn't care about.
That's the thing about autocratic rule.
Once enacted, your say is forfeit and you survive only by mercy of the state.
Is this the new status quo from America's "most free" social media platform?
🔫 Always has been.
Known misinformation spreader Ian Miles Cheong (who lives in Malaysia) is also getting Loomer face eating
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Ah, the pre-new-season-recap/where-are-they-now of the utter madness that was The Trump Administration: The Ultimate Chaos.
What will they do in the next season? Just how hard their asses will be bitten? Nobody knows!
Seriously, though, like everyone else, I was highly worried about what the fuck the re-election of Trump will mean. But then I remembered all of the total fuck-ups they did last time around, and I turned my worries, like, 1% down. All I'm hoping right now is that some conservative loonie group goes all in on "finish building the Wall" and it'll be a shitshow as usual.
Who could have predicted that the goals of the all powerful leader would diverge from his base of support?
How are people still on Twitter and acting surprised by fucking anything that happens there? Like… Wise-up folks. You have options.
You mean the "fuck immigrants" crowd isn't down with ol Musky's plan to bring in brown immigrants? Who'd a thunk it.
Who cares what color they are. There have been enough layoffs that there is no need to import any engineers. Besides wanting to exploit them.
Musk and Trump are neck and neck for the "Littlest Bitch To Ever Exist" title.
Isn't it awesome living in the timeline where the wealthiest person on the face of the Earth and the most influential person on the face of the Earth are both little bitch man-children?
You f-ing morons, you served the only purpose you were supposed to serve, you voted the coming autocratic reforms of the USA into power. Enjoy becoming as persecuted as the "left" was as only the most ignorant or most pandering voices of the coming dictatorship are left.
Lololol "how could they ever eat my face‽”
Also Mr. Free speech and Xhitter is the public square, lol such BS.
"Free speech, as long as I like it."
The free speech Musk believes in is his ironclad right to speak. To him, contradiction is not speech, and he seems baffled whenever it happens, like he's just been slapped with a fish.
Musk isn’t confused at all. He’s been lying about believing in free speech this whole time. He’s an oligarch—literally the richest person in the world—who bought 𝕏itter in order to control speech.
Just to be clear, I'm not trying to say that Musk is confused about what free speech is -- I'm saying he's confused when he hears ideas that conflict with his worldview. He cannot process the idea that contradiction of his beliefs should even be possible and that drives him wild with rage.
I think it's important to understand that Musk doesn't think of most other human beings as "people" and he does not consider what they say as "speech". His worldview is entirely solipsistic and the only speech that exists is the speech he produces and the reflections of it that come back to him. To Musk, everything else is the braying of animals with diseased minds.
Twitter is xelon's personal toy, how did you not know that?
The platform is only free to say whatever you want as long as it fits their narrative.
Ahh yes, the old "vote for oligarchs to have all the power and then get upset when they abuse it" routine. Morons never learn.
I’m not that old (I’m not that young either) but I can’t remember a time when a party controlled both the executive and legislative branches and didn’t descend into incompetent infighting.
I thought this time would be different but this gives me hope.
Yeah, the way they kept this coalition together was by telling the business community that their more extreme stuff on abortion and immigration was just stuff they told the rubes to get their votes. Now they're in a position that both constituents expect them to deliver, and there's a lot of conflict there. Draining the swamp is the opposite of creating an entirely new agency that's all swamp, and while the business community pretends they want more border enforcement, a lot of immigration policies are explicitly designed to create an entire class of workers that's perpetually in a precarious position so they can undermine unionisation efforts (H1B1 visas being a perfect example of that).
That's the thing about these monsters, they eat their own.
I think the lefts strategy should be to let the right eat itself and just stay out of their attention. Let them get all fucked up on infighting and forget about us entirely.
I didn't know the muskrat would eat MY face!
hahahhaahahhahahahahahahahahah
I have a feeling a lot of these people think Musk was born and raised in the US
Is this the new status quo from America's "most free" social media platform?
Nothing new about it Poindexter. This is exactly how it's been since Muskrat took it over. LoL 😂
Going to be a lot of schadenfreude in watching these fuckweeds eat each other as their egos continually clash.
I suppose, in a way, it's kind of refreshing to see conservatives have to face the kind of hypocrisy that we leftists see every day out of the supposed liberals in this country, but objectively, did they really think putting billionaires in charge of their party would mean less exploitation of the immigration and visa process? It's easier to rob people of their labor when they live in uncertainty after all.
Musk wasn't giving out millions of dollars out of the goodness of his heart. It was an investment, just like people who pay the "speaking fees" of prominent Democrats. They're all grifters.
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YOu CAN say WHat YOU rEALlY meaN on TwITTer!
Only once
lmao if that's true he blundered this one so hard. either he doubles down and doesn't reinstate premium, causing people to get annoyed at him and potentially leave. or he does reinstate it and has essentially lost control over his platform.
seems like the former so far, his last tweets are full of responses just talking about this.
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