https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-appears-limit-bellingcat-after-elon-musk-called-it-psyop-2023-5

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I don't know how Elon acting erratically surprises people he's literally just an idiot

    once you realise that he isn't playing some 4d chess game and is in fact just authentically stupid he makes more sense

    • mkultrawide [any]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      He's a narcissist. His ideology is that he's the best.

      • HamManBad [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        If they had any desire to rein in their own, they would have kept the state machinery of the new deal intact

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        why capitalism isn't some dastardly plan they've concocted it's an economic system that incentivises certain behaviors

        the individual members of the bourgeoise can very well be dumb as a bag of rocks

          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            that won't happen for two reasons one it is in everyone involved's mutual interest to make that go away. and two because they aren't an organisation with meetings and an agenda they are a social class

      • BatCountryMusicFan [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Nah, their ability to do anything is degrading like everything else.

        We're all the worst versions of whatever we like to imagine we are.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    This weaponised de-platforming that Elon does is genuinely bad. It's used against anyone he decides he dislikes.

    Obviously we don't care about feds like Bellingcat but he's definitely using this against leftists too.

    With any luck the feds will kill him.

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      • Awoo [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Nah I beg to differ. Previous management absolutely didn't engage in this.

        Reddit does with its suppression of subreddits it decides are a problem for it. But that's because Spez is also a fash.

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          • Awoo [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            For what though? Violence or hate or overtly harassing people, I've nothing against harassing libs but it's pretty simple to see it's not something that exists to specifically target communists. You weren't targeted for existing as an effective commie, which is what's going to come down on any communists as soon as Musk decides to.

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      • Awoo [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        No? Criticising repressive actions on these platforms is self defence.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            Nah I disagree. There's moderation and then there's this, this isn't moderation, it's what fascists do, and they won't hesitate to do it to us if we just sit around and say nothing when they do it to libs first.

            It's one of the few cases where we ought to still be against this behaviour. It will hurt us MUCH more than it will hurt the state.

      • Owl [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Wow, what a disingenuous reading!

    • mkultrawide [any]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      I don't think Elon is cool or good, I just think this specific instance is funny.

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  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Musk is literally a fascist and has solidarity with his fellow travelers, so ofc he's going to muddy the waters around the Texas neo-nazi.

  • MF_COOM [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Eh, I think it's good to normalize chucking Bellingcat reporting in the trash. Critical support.

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      • MF_COOM [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah I actually I can. Having a spook outlet taken seriously is far more important than whether people believe a single shooter was or wasn't a Nazi.

        • illy [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          a single shooter

          lmao, why are you pretending this isn't a daily occurrence in the fascist hellhole that is the US? Every week one of these freaks kill people and media runs damage control and you think it's better that an outlier that doesn't gets clapped because it ownz da libs? Reactionary brained nonsense

          was or wasn’t a Nazi.

          very interesting "both sides" phrasing here, as if he isn't 100% confirmed a nazi

          you seem very invested in downplaying nazis actions, sus af

          Also if the neolib state is weak and collapsing and run by out of touch geriatric boomers why is it still a bigger threat than blood and soil fascists ?The only logical conclusion is because you're a strasserite who thinks those fascists are allies against the liberal state department

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I keep hearing people talk about Bellingcat, but I don't know what their deal is. Can anyone give me the deets?

      • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        CIA/MI6 cutout and mouthpiece, used to foment color revolts under the guise of “edgy, cutting edge journalism”

        They pose as very radical, and twist leftist language into supporting US foreign policy. They are the quintessential example of radlibs or anarcho-bidenists, lots of “anarchist” types working there and who support it vocally online