Free speech absolutism quickly got hijacked by the early far-right of the internet. From dumb idea of "we should let everyone say whatever they want, words are just words", it evolved into the switcharoo of the far-right doxxing and harassing its opponents, accusing them of "intolerance", but when their opponents did the same, doxxing and harassment suddenly became a bad thing that must not be tolerated by anyone. Even mere criticism of the right became akin to the most brutal actions committed by state actors.

Innuendo Studios, when talking about the "You go high, we go low" tactic of the alt-right, he used the example of packing the court. In reality, the tactic is probably as old as Adolf Hitler accusing others of censorship for not giving him a platform.

I've always found the obsession with that pathetic platform a bit sad.

Bullet ballot voting % increases, swing states using a database acquired through a "undecided voters" campaign, and a wireless internet service provider being used to send votes from remote locations.

Nothing to see here.

Or even talking about shit like this? Musk is living rent free in a lot of people's heads. The way to make him irrelevant is to treat him as such. Making a fuss about everything he says, gives him undue importance.

Momentum.

The average person is really hard to move to a new platform. I saw this when Skype was the big thing for internet communication the Microsoft slowly made it worse and worse before it was barely a shadow of its former self.

Alternatives existed, many that were much better, but they were slightly harder to use or came along way after people were already set on Skype.

It wasn't until discord that the internet shifted, but even discord has its problems.

Many answered you already but i'm gonna provide you with another piece of the puzzle. Why the fuck there always multiple threads about elon musk on lemmy frontpage? Propaganda and marketing runs deep.

Politics, sports, musicians, celebrities, news ...

Those are slow to move off if they are at all.

It's a shame.

We pretty much fucked any chance we had for the middle/lower classes to gain more power/influence during our lifetimes.

I may have disagreed with you if Kamala hadn't spent the end of 2024 proving that the destruction of the traditional Republican party (not that I was a fan of R in the first place) was all the excuse D needed to sprint to the right. It's not even like D is trying to pull things the other way, they have literally just embraced this opportunity to become even closer to corporate interests and move their party to the right.

They are fighting R because they are obligated to do so, but I no longer believe anyone in power in the Democrats cares any more about the middle class and non-white, non-male, non-Christian, non-straight Americans than R does. Pelosi put the final nail in the coffin of my good will towards Democrats.

It's stormfront v2.

legit simply turning around their shit and calling them woke drives them batty. it's like the "weird" thing was at first except it enrages them even more. just keep doing it. call their culture wars "woke nonsense". whatever it is just turn it back on them and watch them burst blood vessels.

Exactly, I don't know why people haven't understood that yet, Grok is just another LLM, it doesn't know shit, it doesn't understand shit, it just regurgitates words from the data it's been trained on and it certainly isn't an insider at Shitter.

Stop asking Grok what the fuck Elon is doing

IT

DOESN'T

KNOW

What more does the Grok response provide? The response itself is made up. Ask the LLM the same question 5 times and you will get 5 different answers.