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I will not follow links to "X" on DU for any reason. (Original Post) rzemanfl Monday OP
I'm there now with you JustAnotherGen Monday #1
Yup. Been done with it for a long time. Hate Musk. Joinfortmill Monday #2
Biden, Harris, Walz, Obama, the Clintons and lots of other Democrats are on Twitter. highplainsdem Monday #3
I'm not running for anything. rzemanfl Monday #4
So do you get your news only from media owned by Democrats supporting Harris? Because if you highplainsdem Monday #7
Social media viewed as a provider of "News" is a big part of the problem....nt harpua74 Monday #11
A better comment would be that rzemanfl Monday #13
They have to. Lunabell Monday #5
They don't "have to" - they're on that platform because they know how important it is. The Twitter-averse highplainsdem Monday #6
Yep, I enjoy X DeepWinter Monday #10
Then perhaps... 2naSalit Monday #14
They are also on Threads JustAnotherGen Monday #22
You'll miss a sloth petting a dog leftstreet Monday #8
Dog is like TommyT139 Monday #9
Such a dog move krkaufman Monday #15
100% sweetness soandso Monday #19
If Harris loses, it is 100% because of Musk buying Twitter CNYHarris Monday #12
Twitter, now X soandso Monday #24
X-ing Dave Id Monday #16
I wish I could "rec" this... orwell Monday #17
Me too! WVreaper Monday #18
Agreed ! Nigrum Cattus Monday #20
Yes, please, just copy and paste, if you can ColoradoHoosier Monday #21
Not even for canetoad Monday #23
It's hard to get me to smile after two hurricane evacuations, but rzemanfl Monday #30
Sorry you had to go through that canetoad Monday #33
Thanks for sharing. Bonx Monday #25
I look at them and still have an account. Gore1FL Monday #26
They are also looking at you. hunter Monday #28
Not much to see. Gore1FL Monday #29
Musk and his backers don't care about advertising dollars... hunter Monday #31
I am not going to forgo Twitter as a resource Gore1FL Monday #32
I don't mind if they open up right here in DU - I wish they all would. Talitha Monday #27
Singing AMEN at the TOP of my lungs. Elon Musk is a planetary oligarch with Maru Kitteh Monday #34

JustAnotherGen

(33,208 posts)
1. I'm there now with you
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 01:45 PM
Monday

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.

highplainsdem

(51,815 posts)
7. So do you get your news only from media owned by Democrats supporting Harris? Because if you
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 02:05 PM
Monday

don't, you're using a double standard for sources of information.

rzemanfl

(30,213 posts)
13. A better comment would be that
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 03:27 PM
Monday

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.

highplainsdem

(51,815 posts)
6. They don't "have to" - they're on that platform because they know how important it is. The Twitter-averse
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 02:03 PM
Monday

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.

2naSalit

(91,546 posts)
14. Then perhaps...
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 04:08 PM
Monday

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)
22. They are also on Threads
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 04:47 PM
Monday

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.

CNYHarris

(6 posts)
12. If Harris loses, it is 100% because of Musk buying Twitter
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 03:09 PM
Monday

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)
24. Twitter, now X
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 04:48 PM
Monday

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.

orwell

(7,885 posts)
17. I wish I could "rec" this...
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 04:36 PM
Monday

...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.

Nigrum Cattus

(22 posts)
20. Agreed !
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 04:45 PM
Monday

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)
21. Yes, please, just copy and paste, if you can
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 04:46 PM
Monday

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

Gore1FL

(21,687 posts)
29. Not much to see.
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 05:17 PM
Monday

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)
31. Musk and his backers don't care about advertising dollars...
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 07:29 PM
Monday

... 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.



Talitha

(7,367 posts)
27. I don't mind if they open up right here in DU - I wish they all would.
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 05:06 PM
Monday

But if I click it and another tab opens with 'X' on it, I zap the tab.

Maru Kitteh

(28,849 posts)
34. Singing AMEN at the TOP of my lungs. Elon Musk is a planetary oligarch with
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 09:22 PM
Monday

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.

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