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It is horrifying in there. What’s worse, it’s hard to tell who is a bot and who has just been consumed by the group-speak to actually believe it. And then there are the people who spout it, but don’t necessarily believe it, they just want it to be true. Either way, it’s all ugly, vile stuff.

It’s a real issue

this is literally why Elon did what he did to Twitter Dismantled power structures on the left and amplified them on the right

i still blame the supreme court’s delay and immunity ruling as the main reason.

Musk got hit $44 billion worth. He’s a shrewd investor.

Twitter is straight up worse than 4chan these days.

Sure, but Trump himself is more deranged. Stevie Dipshit Miller had a makeover so he looks more like a Nazi than Riff Raff and is now much more influential. Everyone competent and non-partisan has been purged. Trump 2.0 is also more or less what Trump promised. ICE's abuses are in line with it.

Normal people agreeing that the solution is to drink around the turd in the American punchbowl is insane. We have the recipe. Pour it out.

If Twitter is even part of your normal then you will normalize some fucked up things.

Trump 2 Electric Bugaloo is also worse because we all lived through the FIRST shitshow and we thought even the dumbest most damaged MAGA moron would have figured out Trump was a moron, an idiot, a criminal, a traitor, and very very bad at all things business, economic or financial..but they didnt

I believe that the thermocline exists but it’s a deep ocean

I would love to get into the weeds on what percentage of time Trump scrolls twitter and what percentage of time he stays in Truth Social, because I can't even imagine what truth social looks like now.

It's almost certainly a contributing factor and no doubt helped fuel a lot of the media complacency, but I'd still give more credit to the removal of the 'moderating' elements of the old school Republicans who weren't on board with going fully mask off.

It is, and it's the corresponding feeling of invincibility that comes with them never getting into trouble for anything that happened. But it's also very clear that the biggest idiots have spent four years absolutely cooking their brains in the cesspits. Little bit of both going on here, I think.

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It’s really about upgrading a bunker, not a ballroom. Trump needs more protection from those he’s planning to affect. He & his safety are the priority. Since these rich & corporate are contributing, does that give them spots inside the bunker when whatever is planned happens?

1st term, Kushner ran gov, coordinated w/ established Repubs, allowed to graft for his bizness. The pandemic messed up their plans & Repubs shrugged Trump off. This round, Kushner stays in the background, Trump has dementia, Thiel's minions are in charge & the goal is destruction, not just graft.

In this house we believe in Broken windows policing but for securities crimes

"decisions were quick, punishments severe. appeals denied" www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Su...

Second Reconstruction is going to require a lot of vision and fortitude.

that too, I'd use it to try to gut Facebook next, but I'd countenance just about anything to get rid of Twitter

i was just contemplating this today -- some sort of transparent government org that audits and publicly publishes "for you" / "discovery" algorithms for any social media network over a certain number of users wonder if anybody out there's done any work on this front

It’s because the SCOTUS gave him immunity, & Project 2025 gave him a roadmap 🍊🤡🐷💩

I believe he knows his time is short and it’s now or never. He’s gonna pull out all the stops. Got to be stopped.

100% that social media is a large part of our current problem.

That was the point

"They're not confessing. They're bragging."

Synergy

And yet Anonymous hasn't done the simple thing of just taking it down. It can't be that hard, he's effectively left the barn doors open by firing anyone who knew how to keep it running.

And Doge. Government purge.

the billionaires, propagandists, and right-wing psychopaths *also* have group chats, in addition to twitter

Yep

Yes, I was sceptical at first but people are saying stupider shit out loud in a way that suggests they have lost touch.

It certainly makes fascism seem more popu than it really is.

I also think guys like Miller are pushing hard on a lot of this because they're racing the clock. They know no one else can get away with what Trump does.

I don't think so. Possibly a marginal contribution. I think the bulk of it is that Trump and his inner circle spent 2021-2024 thinking about how they had been stymied in his first term, and decided to go all in on loyalty to Trump and Project 2025 as the sole qualifications for getting hired.

Not expropriating and nationalizing SpaceX will be unforgivable. These guys needs to be in ADX Florence for the rest of his miserable life

It’s because he knows he doesn’t have to run again so he can break every law there is with immunity thanks to the conservatives on the SCOTUS

Trump isn't worse, he's juat able to get away with more this time.

no doubt a part of it.....tik tok joining that crowd not promising

It's absolutely worse. A lot of the opposition left and all of the journalists who remained are pickling their brains on the same gas.

Radio Rwanda might be a better comparison.

On my way to getting reinterred half a dozen times as the question of if I was a hero of the revolution or not flip flops back and forth.

Let's not forget that the Twitter deal _itself_ was concocted in a group chat, and we know the names of the people in it, and we have some transcripts. So we already know some of the beneficiaries and instigators.

You can credit Elon Musk, but if you were a participant for many years and had to all of a sudden change your opinion when that's what a discussion is all about, Musk has damaged his own future with Twitter; he never made much sense to me before I quit

And the pundit and political classes lock themselves up inside and inhale their own farts. They think Twitter is reality. They really think most of America loves fascism.

Elon fukked America, deliberately He'll now do the same on the worldwide stage, unless stopped

It is going to go down as the biggest mass delusion in our time.

Then they even encouraged it with tiktok.

and instead of just your mom and pop and weird uncle gassing themselves up, the group chats also included almost every CEO, billionaire and political pundit

Using migration to destabilize countries is what RU does. Over and over again.

Matches the reporting on how all the tech bros stew their brains in reactionary group chats all day everyday

And instead we found ourselves with much of the work in the space focusing on a different problem, centralization (i.e. how to stop an Elon from happening to them).

I think a lot of the Zionist bots on Twitter that disappeared after the election, have now become bots in support of Trump. The politics is transferable.