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no kings includes billionaires who think they’re kings

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

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Your AI obsession feeds those same billionaires. How about you take your lip service activism to Attie and ask it to build you a website for people who care.

No kings is a Blue Kings movement GET IN LINE BLUESKY No demands No direction Used as a platform for democrat politicians Lmao Not an actual protest movement Today they are doing early voting for democrats lmao Tell me how its not a blue kings movement again

Things like this only reinforce similarities to other fascist regimes, like Hitler's b/c, as they say, the Fascist playbook involves taking control of the media & using it for their own purposes. Not only can I not wait until November for a Dem blowout, I am looking forward to one in 2028 also.

This is happening right now in Brazil: Meta and X are acting shamelessly in favor of the extreme right candidate to the presidential election to happen next week ... 😰

Then why is it when people make comments calling out the billionaires' generative AI garbage that people still post (regardless of the subject being for or against Trump, you're still helping him and his friends btw) every comment stating such is hidden under "Show more replies" regardless of likes?

If you don't like billionaires either, let us call out when people use their AI garbage! Better yet, put in better alerts and filters so no one has to see it to begin with!!! You're currently complicit in their "kingship" otherwise. Nice performance post though.

Just went through and reposted all the other people talking about this who were GUESS WHERE! "Show more replies"!!! Which is SUPPOSEDLY decided by "relevance" 😉 despite some of them having dozens of likes and multiple reposts already. 😲 Sounds like someone is telling no nos. 🙅

And a egotistical head of T&S who goes out of his way to shit on those who made this platform something back when it was just the stupid twitter clone

So y'all can speak Any ETA when that AI tweet will be skeeted on here? Any plans on updates on links for sex workers Any Roadmap on those features doe mutual Aid? Any hints at kneecapping sex workers here with another bad TOS updates,been seeing y'all clearly courting the ads people.

Best thing about the No Kings protest in and around Dallas yesterday? The relative absence of maga trolls in pickups yelling and flashing their tiny middle fingers. Seems like maggats and trumpies have given up and might be heading to the witness protection program..🤣

hey here's a fun lil tidbit, the definition of Hypocrisy! merriam-webster defines it as: "a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not : behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel"

#NoKings definitely needs to include ElonMusk! Musk has too much power! Go see the movie #Musk And see how much damage he has already done!

Yeah, after all those billionaires think that pushing AI and forcing it into the things they own makes them look like genuises. Good thing AI is as easy to avoid as "You don't have to use it"!

I am not sure you have read/watched CBC news lately, like in the last 50 years. I can not imagine how it could be more woke or politically correct. Also, I would like to know what influence you imagine Carney will exert on CBC management to make it what? More business friendly..?

I see quite a lot of CBC, actually. It's trash and pushing exactly the same neoliberal-to-right-wing baloney that Carney is (e.g. daily indoctrination about 'ai' inevitability, in line with his establishment of 'ai' 'minister' & pushing investment). "Business friendly" doesn't even begin to cover it

hey you need to do a lot more than this performative liberalism; you need to support related speech, instead of banning people for "wishing ill" upon genocidal fascists and their enablers, or moderating into oblivion people's regency over their own bodies. No kings includes overreaching mods.

Transphobia is a billionaire-led movement, it's the decision of a few powerful people to use their wealth to force marginalized people to suffer. To even passively allow it is to aid the billionaires. This is a cool sentiment, I wish you didn't go against it at every opportunity.

Silicon Valley is now controlling the world unchecked with Trump's blessing. Musk took down Starlink to help the Russians bomb Ukraine, and Zuckerberg took down Instagram No Kings Event to support Trump. We are at their mercy.

They may be powerful right now but that does not mean we are "at their mercy." You have to DO things, things well beyond going to a "protest" every few months and posting "orange man bad" on social media.

Boycott. Boycotts work every time if enough people join in. Buy only what you NEED and buy it from small, local businesses, 2nd hand, and thru bartering as much as possible. They understand money and profit and shareholder rage. Hit them where it hurts.

Who are you talking to? So many of the people protesting are actively involved in getting people registered to vote. They’re involved in boycotts. They’re DOing things. This is how grassroots movements build.

Come on guys this is silly. Who believes you? Not other countries not the majority of this nation. They just think you are... Mad because Kamala lost.

Elections are run by states, are we now saying social media platforms in any way control voters, election officials or voting machines?

you guys permanently suspended multiple people I knew for not being sufficiently sad about Charlie Kirk, don't act like you're any better

So why are you banning the same accounts that the wannabe-kings want you to ban? LGBTQ+ people, racialized people, critics of genocide, the list goes on. Seems like your agendas are more similar than you're admitting.

My 🏳️‍⚧️ family, raising a autistic son, and right now we’re trying to raise $668.56 for car tags and taxes. Our car is something our family depends on every day. No car=homeless for my family $amybeth10 VENMO/PAYPAL LINKS in BIO Can 254 ppl donate $1 or $2 $254 left Shares help so much too

Ppl say #TransRights Matter but what about #TransFamily WE MATTER. My partner is in remission for 3 yrs now, but cancer is still knocking on our door, now with dental issues. We fell behind paying for dental bills and now need help with our car LETS ALL HATE DONALD TRUMP TOGETHER!! #NoKings

You say this yet ban people for speaking against JK Rowling, and are pushing AI slop to please the billionaires just like every other bootlicker. We are watching you. And we can abandon this place just as fast as we did Tumblr and X, which now just have porn bots and Nazis on them.

I'm glad that you enjoy it. But there were a lot of us that ended up having to abandon years of work because of their policies changing to better suit anti-sex and anti-equality advertisers and payment companies. Even just mentioning LGBT experiences would get you flagged sometimes.

Yeah it doesn’t though. Like, there was a brief window where they tried to ban porn and all that, but they gave up. I’ve been loudly queer on tumblr for a long time, and in kink communities and stuff. It’s more chill than even people currently still on it act like it is lol Not perfect, but like,

But not trans folks right? Because you've been pretty clear on your stance that you kind of want to see them all eliminated. That seems kind of Trumpy to me.

are you seriously putting criticism under "show more replies"? why am i not surprised?

All that will just guarantee there will be other places to land these important documentaries! We NEED to see them and we WILL SEE THEM!

JK Rowling is a sack of shit TERF, a Holocaust denier, and a sex criminal (shared illegal upskirt photos). Fuck you for suspending people who criticize her.