Elon Musk’s X allows China-based propaganda banned on other platforms
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Please please please let the trash site wither and die with the opening up of Bluesky or other alternatives. What will it take to get media and government orgs to switch away from this dumpster fire and just let it burn to the ground?
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I'm sure the guy who bought Twitter so that he could amplify disinformation will be real quick to suppress disinformation on Twitter. Any day now. Aaaaaany day now. Mmm hm.
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"It's possible that X will start tightening up on content moderation"
Also possible I'll win the lottery or be struck by lightning........but I'm not expecting any of those any time soon...
Also possible I'll win the lottery or be struck by lightning........but I'm not expecting any of those any time soon...
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I’d argue that it is withering. I feel like I see less news stories breaking on or being reported about things on Twitter than I did in early 2022 or even 2023.
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Disinformation such as "Elon is a genius with the best ideas!"
Same guy who claimed he wanted to take care of the "bot problem" but now promotes bots because they are his only source of support.
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For reference, this was what Elon's twitter looked like on this day of LAST year:
Never seen "clean glokks" pitched on ANY other mainstream social media platform. Very much including pre-Elon Twitter.
Never seen "clean glokks" pitched on ANY other mainstream social media platform. Very much including pre-Elon Twitter.
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Condé Nast is all in on X. Their userbase barely took a hit with all the insane things Elon Musk has done over the past year. If he hasn’t killed it yet, it might be unkillable.
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AmanoJyaku
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Filthy Democrats, forcing social media to take down speech they don't agree with. Wait a minute...
115th United States Congress
Senate - 51%-54% Republican
House - 55% Republican
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Again with my very contentious take that it is a minor miracle that X continues to function enough to retain the vast majority of its users (albeit with some downtime and errors). This company fired almost everyone over night.
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Twitter is fed by new posts, links and views. No one is forced to feed it yet many people do.
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It's not that uncommon actually. You just have to know what a .40 caliber sticker really means. Algorithms are pretty dumb.
https://www.inverse.com/input/cultu...ebook-marketplace-through-a-simple-workaround
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Does it count as propaganda if they bought a blue check?
I bet according to musk's rules it doesn't. Thats how hate speech is down, just change the rules to exclude it, and problem solved.
I bet according to musk's rules it doesn't. Thats how hate speech is down, just change the rules to exclude it, and problem solved.
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Makes sense, I assume the everything app code they are implementing is just a slightly reworked version of WeChat and provided free by Musks friends in the CCP
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Definitely is true. A friend's parents just sold their house that they bought 40-50 years ago for an obscene 450k in butt fuck nowhere and it's not even that nice. It sold super quick , and that's part of the problem that compounds itself because it just keeps causing prices to rise.
It's worse when you add in that said friend needs an affordable house desperately for her family and her parents refused to sell it to them at a reasonable price that would've still given them a huge profit over what they paid for it. Not to mention they don't even need the money to be able to afford the new house they are buying.
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Okay, but are they SPAMMING their pitches for ".40 caliber stickers" as comments on completely unrelated posts all around the platform?
Because that's what I screenshotted. Not a tweet "hey I got glocks for sale" on somebody's own TL, but bot-posted replies infesting an ENTIRELY unrelated tweet, which--just to add insult to injury--wasn't even about guns, itself.
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The problem is that the people causing housing bubbles are the same people in the best position to predict when those bubbles will pop--allowing them to avoid the pop, then begin building and cashing in on a new bubble with the lucre they obtained during the last cycle.
The people getting fucked by these bubbles are buying houses because they need them, not because they're trying to make money out of buying them; this puts them in the worst position to either influence or predict when bubbles will pop--because they're not following investment/crash cycles, they're just trying to buy a fucking house.
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So would you consider zoning reform (a la New Zealand's), limitations on foreign investments in residential real estate, prioritization of affordable and/or subsidized housing, or increased taxation on capital gains from real estate speculation to be "socialist"? These all work to increase the housing supply that's actually available to would-be resident homeowners, both by increasing the baseline supply itself (zoning changes) and by moving to make housing a less attractive investment option for profiteers. That part's key, because capitalism on its own isn't great for cases where (1) there isn't an even playing field, and (2) the goods in question are essentials rather than luxuries.
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Saying that the only way to lower prices is to increase supply assumes there are no real-estate owners with enough inventory to influence pricing... which there are. It's also implicitly stating you don't care whether people live in the houses they own or not, which is not uncontroversial. We could increase supply by building more homes, or we could pass laws against buying up lots of houses as a speculative investment, or we could do lots of things.
Being a defender of capitalism is like being a defender of hammers. Sure, hammers and capitalism are both useful for certain things. They're not suitable loci for ideology, though. Saws and market regulations are also good sometimes.
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Because the status-quo is fucked. It does not work for the average person.
I don’t see most folks here advocating pure socialism. It needs to be the balance between that an capitalism. We see this in Europe including the happiest country in the world.
If it is only capitalism it is destined to fail at some point.
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Waiting for the next Elon post: "SJW Jim Salter hates the 2nd Amendment!"
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You would think this behavior would just serve up a lot of easy convictions for the BATF.
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You almost made your first sensible point in this whole thread with 'affordable health care in America is a problem' before you went and blamed it on doctors making too much money.
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Why is this shit service still around? If you're still on it, your complicit in any damages caused.
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While doctors salaries are higher in the US then most other countries, that is pretty low on the list of reasons why health care in the US is so expensive.
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