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[-] ech@lemm.ee 130 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Companies aren't fucking people you braindead, full-of-shit, techbro asshole. (Just to be clear, this is directed at musk)

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 55 points 1 year ago

"Companies are people too, my friend"

-Mitt Romney, in an incredibly out of touch statement.

[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

"In fact, if we look at the only marker that counts - money - then corporations are even more people than people are."

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Corporations own the domestic housing market, your car through software, you phone and devices through proprietary firmware, and your media through subscriptions.

Corporations are the only citizens.

We are serfs with no rights to own anything.

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[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Mitt Romney is a real inspirational character. He got to the top of the political world with nothing but hard work, hussle and a 10,000,000$ loan from his father!

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 95 points 1 year ago

“According to the New York Times, terrorists may be paying for blue check marks on Twitter (I refuse to call it X),” King wrote.

King later followed up his stand against the name by posting the word "Twitter" several times in a message critical of Musk's "need to put your personal brand in everything.”

That sure is some savage trolling... Someone else had a much better comeback

Musk attempted to ridicule King, writing, “Stop deadnaming X… Respect our transition,” in response to King’s tweet.

Alejandra Caraballo, a transgender attorney and instructor at Harvard Law School, criticized Musk’s stance by bringing his personal life into the conversation. Caraballo responded directly to Musk’s post on X with a poignant comment: “Why? You never respected your daughter’s [transition].”

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Caraballo responded directly to Musk’s post on X with a poignant comment: “Why? You never respected your daughter’s [transition].”

So fucking glad someone called PG out on his bullshit with his daughter.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not an own to him though. Thought process goes like this.

Elon deadnames daughter.

Internet people mad.

Someone deadnames Twitter (Oops).

Internet people not mad.

"Aha! Hypocrites!"

Thoughts terminated.

[-] hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

You can't deadname a social network because it's not a person, though. It does not have feelings.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Elon's thought process has already stopped. You would have better luck explaining the nuance to a ferret.

[-] hglman@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Don't you know companies have more rights than people.

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[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

You know what, I'll deadname it even harder.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 20 points 1 year ago

I used to call it Twitter/X.

From now on I'll just call it Twitter.

Too bad I can't call it Shitter, but we'll all know that's what we mean so it's okay:-P.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

You could call it Zwitter, it is the German word for hermaphrodite.

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[-] LeftHandedWave@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I think we should call it "Ten". See if we can infuriate Musk.

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[-] cupcakezealot 42 points 1 year ago

it's important to remember that elon musk is a 50 year old man which makes it even sadder

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

X now identifies as apartheid media instead of social media. The name change is important to make this distinction.

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[-] Hope@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

The site metadata refers to it as Twitter for like, those media cards Facebook Messenger and Discord make when you send a link, so I guess to stop my browser from deadnaming the site I should just stop visiting it.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Twitter itself still refers to itself as twitter on multiple parts of the website.

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They didn't even change the URL.

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[-] Kushia@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago

X is a letter and not the name of something.

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[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago

The shithole formerly known as Twitter.

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[-] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

Another right-winger who self-owned thinking they'd do a clever script flip.

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

Elon is a massive piece of shit, but this is a genuine question because I don't follow everything with him...

Has he been anti-trans?

Edit: Jesus Christ... Can't say I'm surprised.

[-] RidgeDweller@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 year ago

He directly promoted the transphobic film 'What is a Woman?'. Not sure if he's publicly done more than that, but his trans daughter doesn't want to be related to him at all and changed her name accordingly.

[-] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Yeah he’s been pretty blatantly anti-trans. This article has more info, but the highlight here is that his daughter, who is trans, disowned him.

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is just the first result from Google

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-shares-anti-trans-content-twitter-2023-6?op=1

tl;dr, At Xhitter, he fired the people who took down promotions for a film inciting anti trans hate and then promoted the film.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I can't say for sure because I don't give much of a shit about him, but IIRC (I read this years ago) he has a trans daughter who's cut communications with him. So probably.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not the worst thing, but the dumbest anti-trans thing he's done is loudly proclaim that "cis" is a slur and calling someone cis is harassment.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago

Elmo refuses to acknowledge the transition of his own child.

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[-] ech@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

For a while now, yeah.

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[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 23 points 1 year ago

can we just go with xitter? yes, that x is pronounced sh :D

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[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

Why do I feel he’s deadnaming his daughter, in the rare times they speak to each other?

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[-] Belgdore@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

I like calling it X. It means I can call tweets Xcrement

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Xitter is also acceptable in my book .

[-] Flumpkin@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He really shouldn't get to rename it to X for two reasons:

First it shouldn't be up to the whims of one idiot, millions of people use that and it's just annoying for no good reason. Social media needs more democratic governance from the users. They shouldn't be the product, they should be shareholders.

Second it's a name that "harms" language because X is used for many other things so it increases confusion and block out other meaning. It's just a shit name that now we're forced to use because of some plutocrat.

So yeah I think people should absolutely keep using twitter no matter what. As an act of disobedience against the rule of plutocrats. Or of course, just always crosspost and refer to mastadon instead.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Or of course, just always crosspost and promote mastadon instead.

"As posted on the subpar alternative to Mastadon: X"

[-] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet twitter tweet

[-] hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

We should exclusively call it "Twitter (called X by Elon Musk)".

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Hurrdedurr, I'm conservative and I make trans jokes! Me so clever!

[-] Rokin@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

How did Stephen King troll?

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 22 points 1 year ago

Expertly, I would imagine.

[-] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Read the fucking article, it's in the 2nd paragraph

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[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Worlds richest man whinges about snarky comment made by a professional troll millionaire on an internet forum. The news is next...

[-] MaMan@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Im breaking up with this x and moving in with mastodon.

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I really need SK to just quit twitter, enough already

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