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Imagine being a twitter user.
“But muh family and fwiends use it!” or “I have an autistic cousin twice removed so I can’t stop because it’s the only thing he’ll use!”
Any excuse to keep huffing that copium.
Just another step toward making used-to-be-Twitter a safe space for cowardly fascists.
can’t have conservative snowflakes getting triggered
In all seriousness, I sort of pity conservatives.
They’re sort of like the one kid in kindergarten who could never manage to figure out which plastic peg went in which hole and would just get frustrated and throw things. Except that they never grew out of it. Here they are, twenty or thirty or sixty years later, still unable to grasp the simple fact that the world just is what it is and the round peg isn’t going to go in the square hole no matter how much you pound on it, and still angry over it, as if it’s some sort of vast conspiracy rather than just the fact that they’re fucking morons.
That has to be an unpleasant way to live.
Of course, they’re such vile and loathsome and destructive assholes that my pity is short-lived, but still…
would just get frustrated and throw things.
Yeah. Most conservatives I know have short tempers and they get extremely carried away when they are in groups. I mean, it doesn’t matter what they are getting mad at, just as long as everyone is getting pissed off at the same time and about someone else or some other ideology. The key point is they believe they are victims of “the system” or “libruls” and not their own bad choices.
It’s very similar to how Putin is constantly crying about how Russia is a victim of NATO aggression, actually.
Just tell a person that their way of life is being attacked and that you have all the solutions.(Simplified Hermann Goering quote. Allegedly.)
This is one of the more eloquent definitions I’ve seen of conservatives. It’s exactly how I see them operate.
The fucked up thing is that a lot of the younger ones I’ve seen recently have that knowledge that their destructive worldviews are messed up, but continue with it out of trauma or some kind of sadism.
I’d guess that many of the older ones have doubled down on that so many times, they can’t remember it ever being a decision or up for internal debate. So, they just keep digging their hateful holes in the sand, ready to plunge their heads in any time they hear something that upsets their delicate, irrational, fantasies.
I think you mean the square peg in the round hole my friend.
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that’s right - the square hole!
psyche visibly crumbling
They’re going the YT route, where the algorithm is in much higher control
Following the publication of this story, X owner Elon Musk reshared a screenshot of it, saying it’s “important to allow people to like posts without getting attacked for doing so!”
“We’ve listened to our users who’ve voice concerns about being labeled ‘racist piece of shit’ merely for supporting tweets that suggest that other races are less human than white people. Today we’re doubling down on our own brand of ‘freedom of speech’ to mean ‘freedom from consequences’. From today forward, twitter users will be safe and comfortable voicing their (anonymous) support for the most disgusting racist, homophobic, or misogynistic tweets imaginable.” -Twitter PR probably
No no no. It’s not like that! Twitter doesn’t have a PR team. They were fired 2 years ago. Along with tech support. Plus twitter doesn’t exist. Only X which continues to bring the worst ideas forward to make the world full of shit.
“💩” - Twitter actually, when requested to comment
Following the publication of this story, X owner Elon Musk reshared a screenshot of it, saying it’s “important to allow people to like posts without getting attacked for doing so!”
Thin-skinned Nazis don’t like being called Nazis for liking other Nazi content.
A few weeks ago, X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, said the upcoming change is meant to protect users’ public image — because “many people feel discouraged” to like “edgy” content.
That’s the fucking point, Wang. Nazis should be discouraged from liking other Nazi content. Society shouldn’t tolerate bigots, much less embolden them- the way you and your boss want to do.
This seems like an odd medium to make that complaint in; while technically lemmy exposes upvotes to other instances, so it’s not really private, the client doesn’t, by default, permit upvotes to be seen.
Kbin/mbin does expose upvotes; here’s the upvotes on this post, for example:
Um lemmy exposes it as well, at least for admins
Look at all the lurkers, lol.
I’ve always been curious about who is downvoting my stuff, I know on Reddit I’d occasionally get someone butthurt about my existing on the internet and they’d just go downvote all of my recent posts and comments.
i’ve seen it here as well, just not very often
i will upvote all your recent posts out of spite
When cancel culture was not on full throttle, maybe likes being public made more sense. If only the global like count is the more widely known metric, hiding who liked what is not too significant of a change. It’s not something totally out of the ordinary either, considering most contries’ electoral systems guarantee the individual votes are kept secret.
This guys post history is a hoot
They have some greatest hits too, like repeating that higher education tends to come with a left leaning bias. I don’t think they realize why there is a correlation between education and those politics, but it certainly isn’t what they think it is.
Help! Universities are silencing regressives!
You have just proved right there why current internet users in general don’t have the maturity to have likes publicly visible. The urge to do a witch hunt is just too irresistible.
Witch hunts were sanctioned by the state in many cases. Getting shamed for having shitty opinions is like the barest minimum accountability.
I’m not saying it’s a literal witch hunt. Never heard of metaphors and figures of speech?
And just shouting “your opinions suck!” and running away is hardly productive to a healthy discussion. If you have any counter-arguments to the topic at hand (the individual “likes” being hidden on Twitter/X), feel free to present them.
Elon Musk trying to be “edgy” and just coming off like the most divorced man on Earth is pretty funny. I’m still not using Vichy Twitter but it is funny watching a grown ass, 52 year-old man try to be an edgelord.
I think vichy twitter is the best nickname ive heard so far
I don’t get it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France
The joke here being that Elon is a Nazi who took over Twitter? Not sure really.
When Nazi Germany occupied France, it was known as Vichy France.
Pays $40 billion to allow people to be shadow toxic. What an amazing innovator in our midsts. We’re all just so jealous we wish we could be so genius …
Fucking moron.
You just gotta let the sink in or something
/s
A few weeks ago, X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, said the upcoming change is meant to protect users’ public image — because “many people feel discouraged” to like “edgy” content.
Oh my god, he’s trying to make it Reddit.
Every time I think wtf is he doing, I remember about this theory he is destroying twitter on purpose, because it was a network with to much influence for example the arab spring.
Every time I hear somebody mention that theory I remember that most people believe Elon isn’t a massive moron
No no, I believe he is a massive moron, with or without this theory. Because doing this on purpose, doesn’t make it better.
This reminded me of the Jar Jar Binks is a Sith lord theory
He looks like a white Kim Jong Un in this picture.
ex, lol
Wasn’t the first indication of JK Rowling being a TERF a Tweet she liked?
She said she regrets not having publicized her opinions on this subject earlier, so if her likes wouldn’t have exposed her, her subsequent retweets certainly would.
Hey Elon, wouldn’t it be better for us all to not only show the likes but show the dislikes too? Even on your account.
Something something "free speech "
He has a point though. Just think of Reddit and Lemmy where people mindlessly hive-mind vote some posts. When you see something massively upvoted, you tend to upvote (immediately). Same goes for downvotes. In contrary, if the votes do no show, you only vote when you actually mean it.
Elon Musk, the nobody with too much money… for now! [he will still be a nobody though]
You can still see who liked your post.
So someone just needs to make an account that says edgy things, then screen shot the list.
That’s such a good photo. And by good I mean Trump-tier
