• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netOP
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    The popcorn is rich.

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

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        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

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          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

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    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.

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    Is this the new status quo from America’s “most free” social media plattorm?

    You haven’t been listening, have ya?

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      “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

      Looks like @ConservativesOG just found out that the law does not protect them.

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    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.

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

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

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    Lololol "how could they ever eat my face‽”

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

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        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.

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          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.

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            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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              This take is so very, very specific 😅 Are you a psychologist or similar?

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                It’s not that specific. It fits a lot of Social Darwinists that were born into money. Most just have the good sense to keep their voices down in public.

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                  The solipsism and all this kind of stuff is very specific to me. Just because it “fits” doesn’t mean it’s actually the case though. Do you personally know people like this, that also keep their voices down? Like, are there any examples to share?

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    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.

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    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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      There’s nothing inside of them. Just a thin outer shell comprised of hate and ignorance that’s SUPER fragile.

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        I once saw a comment from a self-labeled ‘Christian conservative’ that was something to the tune of: “We need to stop taking the religion out of everything, because otherwise what’s to stop people from raping and stealing and killing and blah blah.”

        It was then that I first had the horrifying revelation that this person (and many others, I’m sure) is at least quite strongly implying that without the threat of hell they wouldn’t have any reason to NOT do any of those things.

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    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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      It seems like he’s demonitizing accounts who aren’t even tweeting him directly, just talking about him. It doesn’t matter what he does at this point, he’s just identified himself as attacking Trump stans. They won’t trust him again.

      He will back down, though. Not only does he have the same crippling need to be loved as Trump does, but these lamprays srr probably generating a significant fraction of Twitter’s revenue these days.