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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 241 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Damn, they're not even waiting for their guy to be sworn in again before they start the infighting. This truly is a speed run to social cannibalism.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 154 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Our best hope for the next four years is that they spend so much time fighting amongst themselves, they'll be too busy to completely fuck everything else up. I'm sure they'll try, but god, I hope there's still a Department of Education in 2029. Lack of critical thinking skills is what got us these morons in the first place, we have enough stupid people in this country already.

[–] BugKilla@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago

I share your sentiment but I think they will attempt to out cunt each other on being vile, petty children. The will try to be as punitive as possible with policy and neglectful in their duties to facilitate the mechanisms of functional government. And, yes maybe not completely because they are probably not even competent enough to do that.

I'm sorry my American friends but you're in for some catastrophic shitfuckery.

[–] tissek@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 week ago

More likely while the public squabble takes our attention those behind the scenes will calmly remake everything to their design. While we notice nothing but the squabble...

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 156 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The popcorn is rich.

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

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 60 points 1 week ago

The infighting is coming in way faster and pettier than I imagined. This is fun to watch

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

That's funnier. Much, much funnier.

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 136 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 116 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes yes turn on each other.

[–] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.blahaj.zone 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago

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

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

Battle of the half-wits.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 121 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago

It's "toe the line". This difference is pretty important. I thought it was "tow the line" more than half my life because it sounds like pulling on a rope to go in the right direction.

It's actually more sinister. Get your toes on the line we drew. Perfect conformity of thought or action.

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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 107 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Is this the new status quo from America's "most free" social media plattorm?

You haven't been listening, have ya?

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"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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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

BUT HE SAID HE WAS A FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTIST THAT ONE TIME!

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[–] shadearg@lemmy.world 93 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's the thing about autocratic rule.

Once enacted, your say is forfeit and you survive only by mercy of the state.

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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this the new status quo from America's "most free" social media platform?

🔫 Always has been.

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 83 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Known misinformation spreader Ian Miles Cheong (who lives in Malaysia) is also getting Loomer face eating

[–] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 24 points 1 week ago

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

Something like this has surely never happened in the history of history.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How are people still on Twitter and acting surprised by fucking anything that happens there? Like… Wise-up folks. You have options.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These are conservative Twitter posters. They're not bright.

[–] Poach@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

Typical conservative behavior. "It's not a real thing until it affects me directly. "

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[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 67 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 62 points 1 week ago

is this the new status quo?

Yea but It's not new.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 60 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Lololol "how could they ever eat my face‽”

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

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Free speech, as long as I like it."

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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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[–] Zier@fedia.io 52 points 1 week ago

Twitter is xelon's personal toy, how did you not know that?

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The platform is only free to say whatever you want as long as it fits their narrative.

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[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Conservatives are living parodies of humans.

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[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

That's the thing about these monsters, they eat their own.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ahh yes, the old "vote for oligarchs to have all the power and then get upset when they abuse it" routine. Morons never learn.

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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I’m not that old (I’m not that young either) but I can’t remember a time when a party controlled both the executive and legislative branches and didn’t descend into incompetent infighting.

I thought this time would be different but this gives me hope.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, the way they kept this coalition together was by telling the business community that their more extreme stuff on abortion and immigration was just stuff they told the rubes to get their votes. Now they're in a position that both constituents expect them to deliver, and there's a lot of conflict there. Draining the swamp is the opposite of creating an entirely new agency that's all swamp, and while the business community pretends they want more border enforcement, a lot of immigration policies are explicitly designed to create an entire class of workers that's perpetually in a precarious position so they can undermine unionisation efforts (H1B1 visas being a perfect example of that).

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[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think the lefts strategy should be to let the right eat itself and just stay out of their attention. Let them get all fucked up on infighting and forget about us entirely.

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[–] Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

I didn't know the muskrat would eat MY face!

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is this the new status quo from America's "most free" social media platform?

Nothing new about it Poindexter. This is exactly how it's been since Muskrat took it over. LoL 😂

Going to be a lot of schadenfreude in watching these fuckweeds eat each other as their egos continually clash.

[–] ALilOff@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a feeling a lot of these people think Musk was born and raised in the US

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago

hahahhaahahhahahahahahahahahah

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

YOu CAN say WHat YOU rEALlY meaN on TwITTer!

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I suppose, in a way, it's kind of refreshing to see conservatives have to face the kind of hypocrisy that we leftists see every day out of the supposed liberals in this country, but objectively, did they really think putting billionaires in charge of their party would mean less exploitation of the immigration and visa process? It's easier to rob people of their labor when they live in uncertainty after all.

Musk wasn't giving out millions of dollars out of the goodness of his heart. It was an investment, just like people who pay the "speaking fees" of prominent Democrats. They're all grifters.

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[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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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