Sadly I think there really are 188,000 dickheads on Twitter.
As well as his fellow Nazis, Musk is also wildly popular within a certain subset of the business community in Asian and African countries who are more culturally insulated from his political unpleasantness, but all think that if they can become his friend by liking and commenting on all his posts then he'll invest in their shitty startups.
I don’t know why the meme has the highest IQ person say
Every time I see the midwit meme format, it reads like OP imagines that they're the 145 IQ guy who is above it all, when all other evidence suggests that they're closer to the 55 IQ guy.
they’re contributing to things that don’t directly generate cash for them.
Who said anything about them not making cash.
You did. Don't you read your own posts or something?
Eh? How does becoming the main platform for Linux gaming not generate cash for them?
This is true, but also kind of depressing that Capitalism is now so insidious that people treat gaben like some kind of benevolent philanthropist for choosing to sit on a huge ongoing cash cow that makes more money directly to his bank account than he's physically able to spend, rather than IPO it.
I’ve seen a lot of hysteria around “tankies” since I started using Lemmy and I gotta say I really don’t get it
I used to think this but then discovered that most of the actual tankies are blocked by my instance.
By contrast I pointed my browser to lemmy.ml just now and the front page includes a celebration of "Russia Unity Day", a reading group for "Soviet Democracy", and three "good news only" type puff pieces about China. There's definitely a solid bloc of propagandists out there.
As others have said, they want to run that kind of instance I don't actually have any huge beef with it. To an extent I think it's good to have some other perspectives and news sources. Just be aware that that's who people are talking about when they talk about "tankies", not the people who post stuff critical of the Democratic Party.
This annoys me every time it comes up
that's why the repost bots keep posting it, because it generates engagement. Sadly Lemmy is no more immune than the rest of the internet. OP is a new account that started 12 bait threads in the space of under an hour, so they'll be getting blocked now.
Fellow threat-to-humanity Sam Altman once said of him, "Elon desperately wants the world to be saved. But only if he can be the one to save it".
Looks like their opponents did their campaigning for them.
or even enforces its own laws consistently
I've got a theory that they're using an algorithm to track IPs written by a complete incompetent who never learned about either dynamically assigned IPs or the birthday paradox.
I'm reminded of Iraq. Saddam Hussein was objectively an evil tyrant, but the net amount of death and suffering the people went through in the decades following the US invasion, was far greater than anything he put them through.
Not keen on mentai, so I bit into Yor’s Black Buns instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9
As the party fielded more and more candidates who championed economic-right policies in order to attract corporate donations, the idea of "purity testing" was turned into a stock phrase to attack critics using labels, instead of justifying it on its own terms.
Phrases like "moral purity" now serve two functions: firstly, to dismiss criticisms from the Left wholesale without having to discuss them directly, and secondly, to blame them for the rise of fascism.
In theory it was also supposed to serve a third function of bullying the Left into voting Democrat, but that didn't work.
