Small steps make a difference.

i just can't wrap my head around the fact that otherwise normal intelligent people are so fucking addicted to fake validation from fake "friends" that they continue to consume (PAY FOR) bullshit like twitter

$45 million a month. Jesus fucking Christ, imagine the good that kind of money could do. Instead it's going straight to Fascists'R'Us.

Elon made most of his money through companies that heavily rely on government subsidy. He is now funneling this money to someone who will control government contracts. Do not mistake the US for a democracy. It is an oligarchy.

That's the issue, Musk and all think they are the resistance. That's why they say "take back America". From the elites, ignoring that they are the rich elites.

Any Lemmy instances block links to X? I'd like to see less of it on here. It's just truth social with deeper pockets.

One thing I've learned is that "committed to donate" does not equal "has actually transferred and paid the actual money"

So it's just a headline to try and drum up other donations until the receipts are made.

That's 45 people a month that wouldn't have to ever work again in their entire lives and maybe even their kids if they invest it smartly. Or ya know, lift hundreds of families from poverty each month. Instead it shall go into Trump's crime empire, money go BRRRR.

Thank goodness for Twitter, he lost $1.7 billion per month in the first year (including valuation) so now he has less to spend on Trump.

I deleted my Twitter account the day he bought it. Haven't used it a single time since.

Since this was posted on Mastodon: OP, consider to post this on

!best_of_mastodon@sh.itjust.works

too, if you like.

Btw, cool that Stephen King joined the Fediverse. I didn’t know that.

He couldn't even end world hunger.

Even if they did leave, SpaceX/Starlink and Tesla are dumping money onto him. He'd still have plenty of money to throw at the guy with the least progressive tax plan.

Weeelllll, priorities may be just a bit different when living in a territory annexed by the literal Nazis. Not using Twitter doesn't really just have the same urgency as the Gestapo rounding up your neighbors.

Not that I'd be caught dead using Twitter, especially now that that reich-wing manbaby and waste of perfectly good carbon Musk owns it. I created an account ~15 years ago because I had to test the Twitter integration of a thingamajig at work, but I never used it for anything else. I did read some Twitter stuff in the early days of the Ukraine invasion via one of the frontends, but so much of it was garbage that I stopped bothering after a while

Ah, now I understand all the layoffs.

I deleted my old account when he rebranded it to ecks.

Elon wondering how much he gotta pay to get Trump back on Twitter, and so far, that’s not enough.

Good thing Tesla's board gave him those billions

when you cancel your Disney+ subscription to switch to Trump+

https://video.canadiancivil.com/w/u3g4529zGuTmKTZW5ENPqT

Eh, it's really the only big social media that leans right .

The problem with this kind of talk is that it refuses to acknowledge how much of X's traffic - all the social media traffic - comes from outside the US now, from non-English speaking countries who don't care about your bullshit, so long as the platform keeps working for them. Americans are having a very hard time with that.

So you shake your finger at the people whose language you speak, but it doesn't matter if all of them decide you're right and drop the platform. There will still be millions of users. Your shaming act is not appropriate.

Even ignoring that, a lot of these people have no business model without X, specifically. I've heard tons of them moan about not finding another platform like it. You need both reach and the ability to post furry wolf cock drawings without consequence. These parasites would all have to drop their bullshit and go get punchclock jobs if they didn't have X, they would have to give up their parasocial position over others without it, which means no amount of your liberal white woman shaming is ever going to be enough.

The really ugly truth is that all the normal-ass people who don't make their money online have abandoned X already, all that's left is this huge army of grifters and whoever is still there for the porn. It makes me mad, because I deliberately left the site before Elon even breathed a word about buying it, but it follows you everywhere like a disease wanting a host.

All these pricks went to Mastodon and brought their Twitter shit with them. They even bullied somebody into giving them an algorithmic feed. Now Mastodon is shit, too, and this woman is part of the problem. Shut up. Stop farming attention and leave an inch of space for the people who don't want to be part of your personal business model. Fuck you, as well, lady. Fuck all you parasocials.

Why vote when faced with such enemies, right? Why donate to a political cause when somebody with more money is donating to another one? Why do anything in life when somebody is doing more or doing it better?

What a title