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[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 233 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 20 points 1 month ago

They're just stealing everything from the left now!

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 150 points 1 month ago

The popcorn is rich.

Even known Donald Trump mushroom rubber and psychopath, Laura Loomer, is getting unverified.

[-] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 59 points 1 month ago

The infighting is coming in way faster and pettier than I imagined. This is fun to watch

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

That's funnier. Much, much funnier.

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[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 131 points 1 month ago
[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 112 points 1 month ago

Yes yes turn on each other.

[-] DeadWorldWalking 66 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

Battle of the half-wits.

[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 117 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] shadearg@lemmy.world 89 points 1 month ago

That's the thing about autocratic rule.

Once enacted, your say is forfeit and you survive only by mercy of the state.

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[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 83 points 1 month ago

Is this the new status quo from America's "most free" social media platform?

🔫 Always has been.

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[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 81 points 1 month ago

Known misinformation spreader Ian Miles Cheong (who lives in Malaysia) is also getting Loomer face eating

[-] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 24 points 1 month ago

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[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 79 points 1 month ago

Who could have predicted that the goals of the all powerful leader would diverge from his base of support?

[-] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago

How are people still on Twitter and acting surprised by fucking anything that happens there? Like… Wise-up folks. You have options.

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[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 66 points 1 month ago

You mean the "fuck immigrants" crowd isn't down with ol Musky's plan to bring in brown immigrants? Who'd a thunk it.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] Doom@ttrpg.network 17 points 1 month ago

the immigrant haters hate the immigrant? no

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago

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?

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[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 59 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lololol "how could they ever eat my face‽”

Also Mr. Free speech and Xhitter is the public square, lol such BS.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 31 points 1 month ago

"Free speech, as long as I like it."

[-] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] Zier@fedia.io 50 points 1 month ago

Twitter is xelon's personal toy, how did you not know that?

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago

The platform is only free to say whatever you want as long as it fits their narrative.

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[-] HEXN3T 42 points 1 month ago

Conservatives are living parodies of humans.

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[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

Ahh yes, the old "vote for oligarchs to have all the power and then get upset when they abuse it" routine. Morons never learn.

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[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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).

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[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

That's the thing about these monsters, they eat their own.

[-] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

I didn't know the muskrat would eat MY face!

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 month ago

hahahhaahahhahahahahahahahahah

[-] ALilOff@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

I have a feeling a lot of these people think Musk was born and raised in the US

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[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] manicdave@feddit.uk 17 points 1 month ago

Shocked to see the populist {% party.name %} campaign on reducing immigration then immediately use immigration to undermine {% party.country %} workers.

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[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

YOu CAN say WHat YOU rEALlY meaN on TwITTer!

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago
[-] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 22 points 1 month ago

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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