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[–] Strepto@sh.itjust.works 332 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm so, so sick of seeing his face every time I browse the internet

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 27 points 1 year ago

This addon helps a little bit but it's not perfect yet, it still shows some pictures https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-the-rich/

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago

I can filter his name as a keyword on Sync for Lemmy.

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[–] CryptoRoberto@sh.itjust.works 136 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Don't let this clown go anywhere without letting him know how much everyone hates his ass.

[–] Currens_felis@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If we can’t take his money, this is the next best thing

[–] FluffyToaster621@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Let’s just hope he doesn’t have a humiliation/degradation kink.

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[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 123 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Why chant bring back Twitter, I mean if it was rebranded back to Twitter, it's still owned by Elon and it's still shit.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The new name alone isn't what made Twitter crap, but it is symbolic of the massive changes made to the site by the new management. I like to think of it this way: Twitter is dead. X is the reanimated corpse.

[–] Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago

X is modern New Coke. At this point, I'm not even sure which of the worst CEOs I'd compare musk to. He's like all of their worst traits rolled into one. I have no doubt there's some weird financial accounting going on at Tesla, just that they haven't been found out just yet. His involvement into the crypto sphere and with doge should have thrown up regulatory alarm bells already.

[–] IndefiniteBen@feddit.nl 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's only so much you can say in a chant. Not a lot of room for nuance...

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[–] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At this moment, I'm staying with my fediverse accounts.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I would say specifically because he loves his precious X so much, thinks it's such a great idea, that it's a good chant.

Twitter was shit before Musk bought it. It's just even worse now.

[–] iegod@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think what we really want is to have it restored to pre-musk-ownership level of functionality. But that doesn't make for a nice four syllable group chant. Also I doubt the douche is capable of ever admitting how wrong he was.

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[–] jenniebuckley@lemmy.world 108 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I hate Elon Musk as much as anyone else with a working brain but let's be honest, the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died lol

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe. But the fact is that it was used by people in uprisings. It is a powerful tool for the people. There is a reason why wealthy people from the middle east backed and funded musk taking it over. They wanted to take away a tool used by the people in revolution.

It probably contributed to a lot of stupidity and human suffering, but it also could have been used to great effect if us common folk could have learned to wield it appropriately. The rich and powerful were afraid of it, that alone should tell you that it's death is a bad thing.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Exactly it was allowing us lower class a place to try hold large corporations liable.

I remember using it to call out large corporations when some franchise fucked up. 9 out 10 times the issue was addressed.

But a lot of people use it to organize.

Musk wants to destroy any tool that would aid people to rise up.

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[–] tills13@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Nothing > Twitter > X

Let's bring back Twitter then work on deleting Twitter.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

It was awful. This is worse.

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[–] Rusticus@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Fuck Musk. He built an entire automotive platform on the concept of "sustainable transportation" and took those on the right to task for denying climate change. NOW he's supporting the POS GOP candidate that had the audacity to call climate change a "hoax" repeatedly at the debate. Fuck you Elon!

[–] ineedaunion@lemm.ee 65 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Dude Elon never did anything. Only people he paid with emerald slave money did.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 year ago (44 children)

Ehz he didn't built an automotive platform. Other people did that, he bought it and green it mostly through controversy and by now it's quite clear that Tesla's are quite shit to own and drive.

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[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Sued the owners to force them into calling Elon a founder.

Elon didn't even found the company. He just sick'd his lawyers on the founders and bought his way into the "founder" title.

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Him showing up to a Valorant tournament is some next level "how do you do fellow kids". Like, what's his business being there? I mean, if you told me that he secretly just spends his days playing Valorant and shitposting on twitter, it would make a lot of sense.

[–] victron@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He definitely surrounds himself with yes-men, mf can't read a room.

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[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the corporate ownership of formerly-essential social media giant

Savage

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[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If it was legal, Mastodon should just rebrand as twitter.

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[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 58 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Do you guys think there's a part of him that realizes that people dislike him for a legitimate reason? I mean, he started out being the darling of the internet, when he was in the early stages with SpaceX and Tesla. His cult of personality was pretty large. Obviously he still has fanboys, but he has to realize that he ended up on the fringe, right? Right?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No way in hell. He thinks everyone is just jealous, not realizing that most of us don't want the problems that come with being ultra-rich, we just think he is a spoiled brat.

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[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well now his ego is hurt and we get to see what else he ruins in a tantrum lol I wonder if he'll try to buy out the IP and call it EX or something equally dumb lol

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[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Haven't drugs been used as an explanation for his mammoth missteps with Twitter? Because the way this guy is piloting the ship, he's going to crash it into Prince William Sound at any moment. They'll be scrubbing stupid posts off the seabirds for months.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You don't need drugs when you're stupid.

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[–] ineedaunion@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

They should have rushed him.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah. Keep burning it to the ground.

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[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

The bring back Twitter chant is pretty hilarious.

[–] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Don't stop him! He's making the world a solid! He's eliminating Twitter ffs.

Give him new ideas like join with a paid invitation only.

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[–] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

picture yourself in a pit of swaety gamers chanting 'bring back twitter' at a guy wouldnt piss on you if you were on fire.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago

The rose colored glasses Twitter junkies suddenly got for Jack Dorsey is astounding

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if Howard Hughes was met with boos when he went out in public, and is that why he ended up becoming a recuse?

Is Musk a germophobe yet?

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