People have reasons to use it like activism

Posting has never been political action. Reducing politics down to consumption of entertainment products is one of the worst features of American liberalism. Voting in bourgeois elections is nearly worthless in most cases, and all the #resistance tweets in the history of time combined are still worth less than a single vote.

most rebrands don’t come as a result of a billionaire user on the platform buying it up, proceeding to fire most of its staff, complain about how much waste it has while showing no understanding of how any of it works

I’d wager that most botched corporate rebrands are a result of acquisitions by some rich dipshit who lays off staff and makes arbitrary changes driven by vanity. Elon Musk didn’t do anything different than every other oligarch in the industry, he’s just less skilled or invested in the PR flattery that most companies employ when they’re actually trying to make a return on investment. Twitter was never a user-owned global town square for democratizing communication. It was always a Skinner box designed to maximize ad revenue.

I will shed no tears for the poor consumers who are now getting their treats from the rude vampire that makes them feel embarrassed instead of the polite vampire who let them pretend that indulging their addiction to looking at ads on their phone was actually politics. I will similarly shed no tears for the writers at CNN, a company so evil that OP intentionally posted an archive link to avoid giving them ad views, or any other privately owned imperial media outlet.

ne can look at this raw demonstration of the capitalist class treating people’s lives and the resources they have available like toy blocks to play with on a whim and have the takeaway that

(formerly known as Twitter)

Everyone is doing this shit like Musk’s ownership of the company is a temporary embarrassment that’s going to be reversed by the celestial referee and Twitter will come back. They’ve all decided to do unpaid brand management in opposition to the literal brand owner. Yeah, X.com is stupid, but so is its owner and so is anyone who still uses it. Tech companies do stupid product rebrands all the time, but I’ve never seen everyone so continuously unanimously insist that the rebrand is somehow illegitimate or didn’t actually happen. If Microsoft announced tomorrow that Windows was now called Grunglflorp, every journalistic outfit would start only calling it Grunglflorp overnight without any of this tortured “(formerly known as Windows)” nonsense. If you’re using Elon Musks’s X.com™ in 2024, you don’t deserve the fig leaf of pretending you’re actually a cool twitter user from 2014.

can’t believe Iran would murder all those innocent military tanks and planes. those tanks and planes had families and bright futures ahead of them illegally shelling and bombing civilian population centers.

Gen Z and millennials are correctly realizing that no amount of saving on a working person’s pay will ever outpace the infinite growth of housing prices. Might as well get your pleasure where you can if we’re all just waiting to be priced out of the rental market and one ambulance ride away from living on the street.

I genuinely thought this was an Onion headline. I don’t understand how any registered Democrat could see this and ever take the party’s messaging seriously again. I’m not even sure if this is just Biden being Biden and not giving a shit how badly he fucks over the Harris campaign, or if the Dems genuinely think it’s good to have their sitting president wear a symbol they’ve spent 8 years claiming is more evil than Voldemort’s dark mark.

It’s hard to imagine a platform that broadcasts the communications of criminals, extremists, and terrorists more widely than the New York Times.

“Some business leaders… Here’s what they prefer”

Let me stop you right there

“Some business leaders… Here’s what they prefer”

Let me stop you right there

to be fair, it arguably ceases to be a camp where people are concentrated after the occupation finishes bombing the people it concentrated there.

insider trading is an unspeakable violation of our sacred norms and traditions unless you’re a member of congress in which case it’s totally fine and normal

NYT: “How long will the White House continue to allow the CCP’s malicious market interference to unfairly raise gas prices on American families?”

That was never the stated objective

Obviously you can’t use official Russian government statements as evidence of Russia’s intent, because that would be Russian propaganda. The only authoritative reputable sources for Russia’s intent are privately owned US media outlets citing anonymous US state department officials.

I assume they arrested the soldiers on suspicions of race mixing

I’m afraid any write-in candidate is a vote for Trump. I don’t like it, but that’s just how our Democracy™ works

After much soul-searching, I’ve finally come to the decision that I must vote for Joe Biden as the only candidate capable of defeating fascism and preserving Democracy in November. I didn’t want to do this, but I’ve been convinced that there’s simply no alternative.

I genuinely appreciate everyone suggesting alternatives, but I’d humbly suggest that, from a normie perspective, “better UX” doesn’t involve learning how to host or locate a server. There’s a reason Reddit is still more popular than Lemmy. In my personal experience, getting a local org with some members that already had trouble using email and SMS onto Signal was difficult. Trying to get them onto an alternative that involved selecting a specific server or learning the technical details of different internet communication protocols would have been a nonstarter. I’ve gotten multiple Boomers to reliably use Signal, and they have no idea what encryption is.

What else is free, open source, end-to-end encrypted, has better UX and security practices, and isn’t located on a central server in the US?

You don’t actually owe it to the other imperial superlaser technicians to continue working on the death star if you have the opportunity to leave before it gets blown up

the police will be along shortly to throw the kids in jail

Though even if he said checking he would be wrong.

Consider the last time Biden played chess. Now consider the last time Biden played chess against someone whose continued employment didn’t depend on letting Biden win.