Didn’t we leave over a year ago? JFC are people slow.
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Thanks for the reminder. Accidentally logged in with a Google account a while back and haven't deleted the account since because I forget to because I never use it. When I went to delete it today the first thing that I saw was some kind of anti-semitic bullshit.
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I hadn't interacted with the platform and that's the first fucking thing I saw.
Nazi Bar.
Edit: just a friendly reminder to block and report.
If you were looking for a choir to preach to, I imagine this is about as choir a choir as one could find. Where this image really needs to go is on Xitter. Not that anyone here is likely to go register a Xitter account to do so.
Fair, but I’m still amazed how many people - reasonable, rational people - continue to use it.
I think it's more productive to talk to people you know IRL who use it. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
Anti immigration…. Musk is an immigrant… an immigrant to the states, an immigrant to South Africa. His decision totally makes sense… it’s self hatred.
Reminds me of Castlereigh trying to deal with Tsar Alexandar I at the The Congress of Vienna (1814)

https://youtu.be/QtOXq9SwarQ?t=1061
It's difficult to characterize Tsar Alexander, because it seems that most of his mental energy was caught up in creating narratives about what kind of person he was, and not so much on what he did or how he behaved. Alexander had 8 or 10 of these narratives going through his head at the same time, and wasn't particularly bothered when they contradicted each other.
Alexander considered himself a true "Enlightenment Monarch," and told anybody who would listen that he believed in a limited, constitutional monarchy, and wanted Russia to have elections, and a parliament, and independent courts. At the same time, he ruled Russia as a tyrannical dictator, which was justified in his mind because he believed that he was God's chosen instrument on Earth. These two thoughts are not compatible.
But Alexander did not see a contradiction. He would simply switch between these two modes of thought depending on who he was talking to and how he felt that day.
Alexander believed himself to be the most honourable man in Europe, a man who revered ritual, and tradition, and justice. Simultaneously, he believed that God made him Emperor of Russia for a reason, and if he needed to go back on his word and use brute force to implement his will, that was all part of God's plan.
These contradictory beliefs made Alexander impossible to deal with. His positions came off as utterly random, and they could change at any time depending on his mood.
Oh for sure -- in the context of Tsar Alexander, he likely grew up being told from birth that it was his divine right to rule, whilst at the same time he wanted to be in with the trendy European crowd promoting democracy. I can totally see how someone might have these two halves of themselves that they cannot totally reconcile .
Musk, I believe, truly does care what people think of him. There was a time in the early 2010s when he had a trendy wife, was promoting open source specs for E-cars, and was doing as much as he could to signal to progressives that he was their man.
Only once it became clear that he could not live the consequence-free rich-man lifestyle with all of its abusive horrors and still be revered by the progressives, is when he ran like a crying infant to the skirts of its mother towards the conservatives. He ultimately wishes to be loved and respected by the in-crowd, doesn't matter what they stand for.
In interviews, he has said there is a “homeless industrial complex” of nonprofits ruining California
What is that even supposed to mean?
Are you familiar with Eisenhower’s farewell speech to the nation?
thanks, that's an interesting article indeed
Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” ‘The federal budget is an expression – perhaps the most concrete and measurable expression – of the values and priorities of the United States. What the federal budget expresses today is an insult to human dignity.
What a great quote.
Is it that hard to parse? The people whose jobs depend on there being homeless people have no incentive to actually solve the problem.
oh ok i didn't parse it that way because nonprofits are typically nonprofits so they don't actually have a financial incentive to keep the problem existing.
Already done that 4 years ago, after reading 10 Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier.
No shit sherlock! Hasn't that be obvious for the last two years or more?
He's anti-immigration but he also supported h1b visas hmmm...
He's anti immigration but he's literally an immigrant.
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."
And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."
And i was like, ohok and he continues.
"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.
And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.
And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."
And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.
— Transcribed from a series of tweets by @IamRageSparkle, around 2020.
Enough support to get his trillion $ pay package. He ain't the only nazi skulking around, now is he?
Also, maybe if you see him and get the chance... you could cause some inheritances to flow. Speed up that generational wealth transfer.
Not even tears of joy?
Image needs text alternative unless the idea is to exclude. Aren't Nazis exclusionary?
Is it a Nazi world or Nazi nation? Chicago let Nazis march: is that a Nazi city?
I'm not sure ceding "safe spaces" to Nazis is a great way to resist & denounce them. I doubt segregating ourselves into ideologically pure spaces challenges extremism or maintains deradicalizing influences that may change minds.
Does BlueSky not let Nazis in?

Your take is that X is letting nazis in?


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