The presidential election is three months away. What if the billionaire contests the result? What if he decides democracy is overrated?

Just over four years ago, an insurrectionist mob found each other online, descended on Washington, stormed the Capitol and threatened the vice-president with a noose. But that was the good old days. We’re living in a different reality now. One in which the billionaires have been unchained.

  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    A disturbing thing about the UK riots to me is that it seems that, between the crypto scams and the porn bots that are mixed together with Musk’s incoherent ramblings on Twitter, there is still real humans in between the bullshit.

    I have a Twitter account that’s been dormant for 16 years or so (and never really active at all). I signed in to it today for the first time in a few months - the last time it was just to delete what was left of personal information and change my user name to something offensive to fascists.

    Anyway, the content on my feed was:
    - Musk tweets about Kamala losing ground
    - A bunch of tweets with the same optical illusion, “can you read this number”. One had a picture of a panda. Three of them were from Musk parody accounts using his profile picture, promising a million dollars or whatever to whoever could see it.
    - X bitching about Brazil. Musk bitching about Brazil.
    - Porn. So much porn. Hardcore porn, amateur porn, only fans promotions or what looked like it. Generally not marked NSFW, just people being pounded directly in the feed.
    - Barack Obama for some reason
    - A video of a young woman farting
    - Video of Trump and a black woman who didn’t look like anyone in particular AI’d into a sunset together
    - A bunch of bitcoin spam
    - One guy plotting up his master plan for how people could go about to leave Twitter, despite it being so irreplaceable and all. Obviously an ageing white man who considers himself some sort of public intellectual.

    Why are there still people left in this mess? Do they not realize there is porn available elsewhere?

    • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      By attacking their opposition for something, they can seed the idea that it is happening in the first place. Once this idea is established, it gives them license to pursue the tactic themselves under the guise of “fighting fire with fire”.

      We see this with stolen election claims. By yelling constantly about cheated elections and fraud, Trump sets the stage to be able to cheat and commit fraud without alienating his fans.

    • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      1 month ago

      I’m forced to use Instagram for engagement as a performing artist and producer.

      My community is FREQUENTLY at odds with its automated content moderation, which heavily favors conservative values. Posts get censored for “sexual activity” even when there’s no nudity, and performer accounts are more often shadow banned than not. Even posts in which I’m fully dressed in winter street clothes get censored as “sexual activity”

      Meanwhile, I have NEVER seen Instagram take action a single time on posts that promote CSAM or that are made by literal white supremacist Nazis. Like clockwork, every time I report one it comes back with “this content does not violate Instagram’s guidelines”

      Fuck Instagram. Fuck META. Nazi pieces of shit.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
      0·
      1 month ago

      Facebook marketplace is literally a shit show full of scams and it is hard to find anything, a bad UI, and no good filtering. The only thing holding it up is the algorithm to show you products (based on your browsing and advertising data). It is a step up from Craigslist, but it is mediocre at its absolute best. There are just no used alternatives in many places

      We have an app here called 2dehands which has a similar scam problem, but is easier to filter out. However, the UX is 10x better with robust filtering, setting up pre-specced searches based on location, price, text strings, quality, categories, etc… with email and/or app notifications for new items added and everything surrounding bidding and favorite item status.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
    21·
    1 month ago

    Every single Twitter account holder is complicit at this point.

    Twitter is now a tool Elon uses to start race riots. If you’re still logging on, this must not be a dealbreaker for you…

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 month ago

    It might be time to openly call Elon out as the threat to Americans that he actually is. How many American lives would be saved if his private jet were to suffer from a Boeing incident and fall into the sea?