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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI will not follow links to "X" on DU for any reason.
This includes jury duty, if such a link is involved in understanding the issue. I have canceled several times. Elon is a fascist.
JustAnotherGen
(33,208 posts)Normally the tweet links to an article or root source -
Post the root source link so we can bypass Twitter - or whatever it is called.
I'm not being a purist. I'm old enough to remember boycotts of Goya.
Joinfortmill
(16,086 posts)highplainsdem
(51,815 posts)rzemanfl
(30,213 posts)highplainsdem
(51,815 posts)don't, you're using a double standard for sources of information.
harpua74
(36 posts)nt
rzemanfl
(30,213 posts)Secretary Pete appears on Fox. That doesn't mean I have to watch Fox. I do not go to news sources that repeatedly lie. It not listening to lies is a double standard, I am okay with that.
Lunabell
(6,673 posts)We don't. There are other sources and screen shots.
highplainsdem
(51,815 posts)here act as though they're somehow above the Democrats and other liberals using the platform. As if they'd sully themselves clicking on a link for a tweet posted by our president or candidates or other liberals.
And in the meantime they're fine with plenty of stories from newspapers, magazines and TV networks owned by Trump supporters.
DeepWinter
(321 posts)It is what you allow it to be. My feeds are great and I enjoy the content there.
2naSalit
(91,546 posts)Their FOLLOWERS might let them know they are leaving and would prefer they use another platform as well.
Might be an idea.
JustAnotherGen
(33,208 posts)The Kamala HQ is always at the top of my activity feed.
We've also seen a recent influx of media /journalists join recently.
Something happened at Twitter - don't know what and don't care.
I want Twitter/X to die. It serves one purpose - to be leveraged as a tool of a South African Apartheid loving piece of shit to push his agenda of grievance.
Hey E! News for you . Too bad, so sad that the 10% in South Africa didn't get their way three decades ago. Your country as you knew it is gone. And you aren't turning MYYYYYY country into that.
I want Twitter gone. Owned by a knuckle dragging piece of shit who hates America. We got along for a few hundred years without it . . . it needs to go the way of MySpace.
leftstreet
(36,216 posts)Link to tweet
/video/1
TommyT139
(573 posts)Dog is like, "That would be the best scritches if I can just train him a little bit!"
krkaufman
(13,664 posts)Eventually just lays down
soandso
(732 posts)LOVE
CNYHarris
(6 posts)Twitter is where Trump was mocked and destroyed by the young under 40 population in 2020 because of covid, the protests, and many other issues. Twitter helped Biden defeat Trump.
Twitter was once a free speech land to expose Trump and learn about how horrible Trump is.
Elon Muscovy is trying to turn twitter, with government and political accounts, into a neo-nazi "Truth Social" where governments and politicians have accounts. It is the epicenter of the normalization of MAGA nazism by your participation.
Trump has no chance to win without twitter being owned by Elon Muscovy. It is disinformation central and a hellhole, and I am glad about that. Let it get worse and worse. I hope the KKK run advertising so it is an echo chamber of only those that wear bedsheets and Musk loses tens on billions on that. Better to crash it by avoiding it, than sustain it by continuing to go there.
I only go there in extreme circumstances of contacting accounts to defeat the corporate billionaire class where there is no other option. Meaning twice a year, I go onto twitter.
The whole world needs to follow Brazil.
soandso
(732 posts)has always been a platform used by governments, their various agencies and politicians. That includes embassies. Like it or not, it's the global public square.
Never had an X or Twitter or Facebook account. never will.
orwell
(7,885 posts)...1,000 times.
Any click on the turd's site validates him. It increases traffic, which effectively increases the the eroding value of Xitter.
Ditto anything Tesla including his cars, power products or his taxpayer subsidized satellite internet service.
This fuckwad needs to be defunded the old fashioned way, by the public who buys his products.
WVreaper
(648 posts)For some reason I can't remember my password!
Nigrum Cattus
(22 posts)I refuse to add "clicks" on shitter as well.
I'm not sure if you can print screen a shitter post
and attach that or not.
ColoradoHoosier
(17 posts)I also am not going to click on X, that's just feeding the beast. I understand that many are comfortable with it, and their 'feeds' are fruitful, but at some point one needs to look at it as a principle sort of thing
canetoad
(17,970 posts)A really good, in-depth article on sock washing?
Joking. K&R.
rzemanfl
(30,213 posts)but you did. Thanks.
canetoad
(17,970 posts)But glad you're OK.
Bonx
(2,152 posts)Gore1FL
(21,687 posts)I agree Elon is a fascist.
hunter
(38,787 posts)I've got them blacklisted.
Gore1FL
(21,687 posts)I am using Elon's serves for free, though. He doesn't get the benefit of advertising dollars. It's a big win for me.
hunter
(38,787 posts)... or even the shareholders attached to his ass like hopeful remoras.
They bought the platform as a political tool and it's their clear intention to use it as such.
We need to quit treating these dangerous billionaires as ordinary businessmen. They've got theirs already. Now they want ours and they are seeking the political power to take it.
Gore1FL
(21,687 posts)Feel free to make your own choices in this matter.
Talitha
(7,367 posts)But if I click it and another tab opens with 'X' on it, I zap the tab.
Maru Kitteh
(28,849 posts)global ambitions. Ugly, dark, fascist, global ambitions.
Do a search for yourself and see how many of the Earth's total satellites are his. Then look and see how many he has planned. Then ask yourself why.
Satellites are to this time and place as the railroads were to the Gilded Age. But now it's global.