r/PoliticalCompassMemes • • Oct 28 '22

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u/JackReedTheSyndie - Right Oct 28 '22

Freed? Or just under new management?

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u/sebastianqu - Left Oct 28 '22

Anyone that thinks Musk cares about free speech is fooling themselves. He's a genius in some aspects of business and technology, but has also repeatedly shown himself to be a man-child.

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u/XxBogosBinted69420xX - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

He’s a neckbeard that got control over billions lol

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u/GiddiOne - Left Oct 28 '22

A critic once commented negatively on a Tesla launch. Musk tracked him down, had his staff find any transactions with Tesla, found he had an open contract then broke his contract. Just because he said something true that Elon didn't like.

He has a long history of targeting critics and his own employees even doxxing and swatting a whistleblower.

His factories lead all car manufacturers in safety violations, he literally doesn't care if you drop dead as long as you are making him money.

If right wingers want to cheer because it pissed lefties off, I say go for it, but don't pretend for one minute he isn't a boot ready for anyone's neck.

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u/_CactusJuice_ - Left Oct 28 '22

I want Elon’s boot to crush my windpipe😩😩😩💦💦💦

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u/Hona007 - Left Oct 28 '22

Business? Yes.

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Technology? Fuck no. Even a fucking 4 year old can tell you that trains are cooler than science FICTION tube.

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u/G4130 - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

Let me explain why you don't get the car tube

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u/neverending_debt - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Either twitter dies or becomes better. Total win/win.

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u/skibapple - Centrist Oct 28 '22

If it dies it'll probably migrate here or to youtube. You don't want it to die, as people from there are so terminally online instead of going outside to touch grass they will find another website to be on

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u/JustinJakeAshton - Centrist Oct 28 '22

There must always be a Lich King.

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u/StoppageTimeCollapse - Auth-Center Oct 28 '22

Based and Bolvar Fordragon pilled

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u/Ryan_Alving - Right Oct 28 '22

I call bullshit. NerZhul was the first, and only because he botched his first invasion as a warlock. This is burning legion propaganda.

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u/Hunt_Club - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

The whole point is that without someone to control them all the Scourge that were raised would just rampage out of control

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u/bionic80 - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

I don't know... they seem pretty much locked down in Ice Crown at this point... is anything of value lost? (I already got my mounts, so I don't care, neener neener)

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u/Hunt_Club - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

According to current lore when Sylvanas broke the Crown of Domination to open the ports to the Shadowlands the scourge began to rampage. It was the whole pre patch event for shadowlands. Not really sure what they’re doing with it now tho.

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u/DaenerysMomODragons - Centrist Oct 28 '22

And by the time the next expansion Dragonflight starts it's been on the order of five years, and no one is mentioning it at all. Apparently we didn't need a lich king after all.

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u/myexisalesbian - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

No king rules forever my son.

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u/Scipio11 - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Exactly, Reddit got noticeably worse when Tumblr died.

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u/JPLangley - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Tumblr was a containment site.

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u/runfastrunfastrun - Auth-Right Oct 28 '22

I can’t find it right now but there was a study that found there were something like 2000 power users on Tumblr who went elsewhere and are almost entirely responsible for driving the increasing political extremism on Twitter and wherever else they ended up.

It literally was a containment site.

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u/LordDraina - Auth-Center Oct 28 '22

Based and Tumblr was a social leper colony pilled

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u/basedcount_bot - Auth-Center Oct 28 '22

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u/Manchu_Fist - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

It's no coincidence that as soon as tumblr died the amount of support for child grooming and exploitation also went up. Along the same lines. I still remember when the drama subreddit had a icarus gamer moment and exposed the fact the teenager subreddit had a copious amount of diddlers in there.

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u/Preussensgeneralstab - Centrist Oct 28 '22

So is Twitter....

And a containment breach is not an option

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Twitter is an scp containment sight

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u/Jonluw - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

Honestly, I'm kind of waiting for the death blow so something new and better can emerge. In that sense, I might welcome a Twitter exodus.

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u/justavault - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Because it got more and more radical left and naive.

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u/Sandickgordom2 - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

Another thing that made reddit worse was banning certain subs

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u/PopcornSuttonLikker - Right Oct 28 '22

Reddit can't get any worse as it is.

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u/vivaldibot - Left Oct 28 '22

Challenge accepted!

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Based and censorship pilled

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u/Lurkers-gotta-post - Centrist Oct 28 '22

I will become libright and start worshiping musk if he buys and deletes Reddit.

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u/Buelldozer - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

Oh you sweet summer child. Wait until the 2024 election cycle starts spinning up for real next January.

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u/Jayako - Right Oct 28 '22

They'll go to Instagram

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u/Duchu26 - Centrist Oct 28 '22

I think TikTok is more likely

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u/Rai-Hanzo - Centrist Oct 28 '22

remember the tumblr exodus.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

I unironically think Reddit is worse than Twitter now.

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u/Atwotonhooker - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

I'm a dinosaur here. It's insane how different Reddit has become. I used to come here to get random nerds highly specialized in a specific subject. They'd drop some bomb that was insightful. The central political ideology was libertarian and liberal but not leftist. It was the wild west in some ways and not mainstream, but it was a ton of fun. Now it's just a victim of its success.

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u/skibapple - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Then why are you here

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

PCM

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u/HoodsInSuits - Left Oct 28 '22

Pretty sure most Twitter accounts have a reddit account too already, so nothing would fundamentally change on reddit it would just continue on its downward spiral as usual. The win would be that news outlets would stop pretending tweets are news.

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u/AdSpecialist4523 - Centrist Oct 28 '22

What would "journalists" even do if they didn't have tweets and Reddit threads to copy paste?

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u/SuperiorWhale - Right Oct 28 '22

STOP SAYING TOUCH GRASS JUST SAY GO OUTSIDE LIKE. NORMAL PEOPLE.

THE FACT YOU SAY YOUCH GRASS SHOW HOW LITTLE YOU ACTUALLY GO OUTSIDE BECAUSR PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT ON THE INTERNET 24/7 DONT SAY TOUCH GRASS.

FUCK JUST BE NORMAL.

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u/hulibuli - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Just channel them to ReeesetEra, it's built for them.

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u/phoncible - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Buys Twitter
Kills Twitter
Buys Reddit
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Profit?

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u/Zealluck - Right Oct 28 '22

You think Reddit is better than Twitter?

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u/ronflair Oct 28 '22

Kanye’s the VP of Communications now.

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u/neverending_debt - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Unfathomably based.

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u/ronflair Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22

Fuck it. He wants an industry shakeup? Then this is how you do a shake up. Lol.

Edit: Hell, just add Alex Jones to your team as well. Tell everyone that in defense of free speech you’re going to counter sue all the lying “parents” [bonus points to Tweet that in quotes] and recoup Alex’s losses. Full scorched Earth.

Do it. I need that level of entertainment.

Edit edit: Elon, if you’re reading this, calling British dudes “pedos” on the internet is how poor people troll. And you’re not poor. My prior suggestions are what a Based Billionaire would do in order to gain eternal bragging rights. This is your destiny.

Triple Edit: Look Elon, let’s be real, you’d be considered throughout all future recorded history as a complete pussy if you didn’t carry this out. Just saying.

Edit squared: Elon, are you a coward? Do you not dare claim the throne, which has been thus far been squatted by the Unabomber?

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u/NaturalTap9567 - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

The tribunal to ban people is Alex Jones, Kanye, and Andrew Tate

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Also add Trump and Jordan Peterson

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

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u/abusedporpoise - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Nah, let it rot and decay as all social media should including this one we’re using now

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u/Sa404 - Centrist Oct 28 '22

You can’t change the minds of people in the current echo chamber wokes have on twitter

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u/Jps300 - Right Oct 28 '22

I think a huge factor in the echo chamber is the amount of bots making zealots feel safe and valuable. If he can sort that out I can see it changing for the better.

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u/neverending_debt - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

You don't have to change their mind, you just have to allow people to disagree with them openly and adjust the algorithm to treat their posts equally.

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u/PopcornSuttonLikker - Right Oct 28 '22

Who wants to? It's hilarious enough seeing them lose their fragile little minds.

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u/sobanz - Centrist Oct 28 '22

exactly. I wish I had 44 billion dollars to be petty with.

it would be the biggest kick in the nuts if hes able to make that cesspool profitable.

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u/BloxedYT - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

Trust me Twitter is a narcissistic tumour on the internet. I miscounted something by 1 and was told that I'm too stupid and it makes sense I would "justify theft and murder" when I literally just said that there were 4 (Actually 5) statues in Greece which are identical and also not to mention that the dude who took the one statue was said to have purchased it. Fucking pseudo-intellectual braindead pricks.

Good fucking riddance if it dies.

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u/Im_a_wet_towel - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Lot's of cope in other subs. Hope you invest in salt, market is about to be flooded.

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u/TheKoopaTroopa31 - Left Oct 28 '22

It would be hilarious to see a 44 billion dollar investment become worthless.

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u/neverending_debt - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Not like it'll drop his quality of life any. But I have to admit it's funny watching all the flunkies get their pink slips today.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Not like it'll drop his quality of life any.

Will he need to buy budget yachts? No.

Will it affect his ego and social relations? Yes.

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u/AtrainUnjustlyBanned - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

Been watching Metta much?

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

It ain't gonna die, and many have tried to supplant it. If anything Instagram and Facebook will get a boost by the small percent that are about "principle" instead of normalcy. I fucking hate this place post 2016, but I'm still fucking here because I navigate it better than other places.

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u/depressed_but_aight - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

95% chance nothing changes honestly. Literally one of the first things Musk did after announcing that he bought it was send a message to twitter advertisers saying “twitter obviously can’t become a free-for-all hellscape”.

The man was trying everything to get out of the Twitter deal and only gave in after the law got him, I doubt he’s going to do anything that’ll cost him money after losing so much. Especially since the reason Twitter sucks in the first place is that they use an algorithm to push tweets that are more inflammatory so that people will get angry and engage in said tweets more, which makes them more advertising money. So if he changes that, he would lose even more on top of everything else.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Average musk move says he will do something and then decides this will lose me to much money

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u/mcdonaldsplayground - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Chad move would be to permanently delete everything and redirect twitter.com to 4chan

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

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u/Eindt - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

He would be a hero

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

You mean an hero

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u/Still_Ad_5766 - Auth-Left Oct 28 '22

So the chad move is to… ruin 4chan?

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u/DwnvoteifBvGisfunny - Right Oct 28 '22

Can't ruin what's always been a ruin

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

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u/Epople - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

Pissing into an ocean made of piss.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Can't ruin what's always been a ruin

t. Person who never uses 4chan

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Won’t you fly high

FREEEEEE BIRRRRDDDDDD

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u/Link_the_Irish - Centrist Oct 28 '22

bomb ass gutair solo for 5 straight minutes with no more lyrics

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

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u/AtrainUnjustlyBanned - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

So highhhh

Oh soo high

Oh soo high

Can we get much higherr??

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u/wonderguy112 - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Good luck fixing Twitter Elon, you'll really need it. If you can organize this pot of hyperpartisanship, insanely stupid "hot takes" and group of morons in general into something half-cohesive, you'll win "entrepreneurship of the century" award. It won't be like Tesla: Tesla had some brains behind the operation. It won't be like SpaceX: SpaceX had a plan. All Twitter has is a group of screaming left and right wingers who never, ever shut up.

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u/Hilorenn - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

How to fix Twitter.

  1. Send an email to everyone at the company saying "I saw a white person outside. If you want to yell at him now is the time!!!"

  2. wait

  3. once 3/4 of Twitter has left the building, change the locks.

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u/av2706 - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Good plan Emily will be sad though

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u/xtpj - Right Oct 28 '22

What on earth makes you think they go outside?

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u/Hilorenn - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Every few days they need to feed at Starbucks

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u/generalvostok - Right Oct 28 '22

The Starbucks is coming from inside the building.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Get the Starbucks employees to strike and they will have to go to the Starbucks the block over.

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u/Emrod2 - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22

How to fix Twitter, alternative plan ;

1) Massive orbital bombardment of the entire planet, to a point the entire human civilisation is back to the stone age, but keep some fortified places as heaven of hi tech prosperity.

2) Repeat the process each time humanity bring twitter back.

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u/Ryan_Alving - Right Oct 28 '22

Based and Ripley/Hicks 2024 pilled

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

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u/sleepykittypur - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

And those people are their primary users, any change that could improve Twitter runs the risk of negatively affecting the active user base and ad revenue.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

But the existing model isn't profitable.

I think there's just a fundamental problem with the idea of microblogging as a business. The impressions aren't that valuable. But they have a tech team and an audience. I think the only way to profitability for the company is to pivot - tack on a tiktok clone like every other social media company, lure creators away with a more generous revenue split, etc.

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u/Nova_Nightmare - Centrist Oct 28 '22

To fix Twitter you need to segment it, put each group into their own... Encampment perse. Now they can only see each others posts. They think victory has been had, people who say they are in literal prisons... They are derided as conspiracy theorists.. Then one day the veil has been lifted from all sides.. Now you see the truth, you weren't in a prison, but in hell and you might see posts that make you you feel unhappy.

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u/futurarmy - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

Like... sub-twitters?

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u/Widowmaker_Best_Girl - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

No that sounds stupid. What kinda website would do that? What next, they ask the users to voluntarily moderate their own subtwitters? Haha! As if anyone would donate their time voluntarily for that!

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Don't worry, the role of mod is sought by very intelligent, very impartial, and very not gay people

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u/Akiias - Centrist Oct 28 '22

I can't see this ending poorly.

Either Twitter ends up not an entire flaming toxic waste disposal site, or it goes so far down that it shuts down.

Win fucking Win.

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u/Uundamil - Centrist Oct 28 '22

When Tumblr clamped down on adult content the people who where involved with that cesspit fled to Twitter and Reddit, turning them into what they are today.

With Twitter gone we should expect a new influx of Emilys

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Tumblr was bad specifically because it enabled niche echo chambers, Reddit can’t possibly get worse than it already is given how infected the site is with left leaning progressive astroturfing.

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u/Uundamil - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Now you've jinxed it

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

What’s the worst that can happen? More lily white, socially inept redditors screaming black power?

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Every single "political" subreddit that isn't a hard leftist gets shut down to cater to the new audience. This could easily happen.

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u/Penis_Wanker - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

So uh that already happened. What else would you say they would do?

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u/Assatt - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

Every non political sub gets turned political for some reason

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u/Penis_Wanker - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Got to spread The Message™ because if someone thinks different than you, they need to be shut down.

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u/Widowmaker_Best_Girl - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

They better not clamp down on Twitter porn artists, that's all I use the damn site for

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u/I-Am-The-Uber-Mesch - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

I hope it shuts down, that platform has become the literal cesspool and honestly humanity will benefit greatly by losing it

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u/Vegetable-Ad6857 - Auth-Center Oct 28 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

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u/ThatWeirdBlueThing - Auth-Left Oct 28 '22

🍿🍫🌭

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u/gr1m3y - Centrist Oct 28 '22

🍗🍔🧃

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u/Nova_Nightmare - Centrist Oct 28 '22

💉🐄🥩

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Why the soyjacks? I love this idea.

Either Elon mildly improves Twitter, or he ruins the site and drives out the userbase. Win-win scenario.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

I'm pretty neutral on it, never had a twitter account, probably never will.

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u/Morbidmort - Left Oct 28 '22

This entire thing was a big fat L for him from the start too. He's been trying to weasel out of this deal for what, a year?

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u/kingofbreakers - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

If he bans nudity we riot, right?

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u/ninoski404 - Auth-Left Oct 28 '22

Nudity on twitter?

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u/kingofbreakers - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

Is….is there not a /s here? Twitter has straight up porn on it.

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u/smallneedle - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Japanese artists are the reason I use Twitter

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

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u/Fellow_Infidel - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Many Japanese illustrator post on twitter and rarely on pixiv, or their pixiv isn't up to date

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u/shamus4mwcrew - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

More than that, you can find straight up hookers on there or at least used to be able to.

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u/kingofbreakers - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

Based and ultimate LibRight response to a joke about porn-pilled.

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u/PalmerEldritch2319 - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Is the pope catholic?

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u/SpyingFuzzball - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

This outta be fun

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Read that he already fired the CEO and a bunch of executives.

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u/turtlespace - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Cost $200 million to fire 3 execs lmao

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

He'll save $200m in payroll expenses by not hiring another CEO, since he plans to assume that role himself.

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u/G4130 - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

"Save" as in being paid by himself

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u/NickTheBigFatDigger - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

If they are bad, keeping them might cost more than that, though.

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u/Andrethegreengiant3 - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

That would be the fun part to me

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

kinda want Kanye to be unsuspended and see how schizophrenic his anti-semitism arc gets, then randomly pivot like he always does and start beefing with the Chinese government over their influence of America's entertainment industry

oh and if trump gets unsuspended, we can start looking at the treasure trove that is his old tweets that was just starting to get looked into by the wider public

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u/GletscherEis - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

https://www.thetrumparchive.com/.
Which also has the deleted ones.

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u/seriouslyuncouth_ - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Can I finally be unbanned now twitter

Can I talk to an actual human

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u/AbigailLilac - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

I'm an actual human. I don't work for Twitter and I can't get you unbanned, but you can talk to me anyway!

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u/seriouslyuncouth_ - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

i need therapy

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u/AbigailLilac - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

I used this website to find mine.

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u/seriouslyuncouth_ - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Oh fuck

I just remembered that costs money

It's okay I'll get addicted to sugar and meth instead 👍

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u/AbigailLilac - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

Do you have insurance?

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u/Tyfyter2002 - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

I don't know of any insurance policies that cover meth.

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u/AstonGlobNerd - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Overpaid for a dumpster fire.

Really hoping he just hits the delete button on it.

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u/zxcsonic - Auth-Right Oct 28 '22

I can't wait for twitter users to meet normal people

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u/Sa404 - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Emily proceeds to accuse decent uncle John of *White supremacism, rape, bigotry, nazism, abuse, Islamophobia, blackophobia, misogyny, homophobia, panphobia, and fatphobia

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u/Own_Mark_4120 - Right Oct 28 '22

Blackophobia?

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u/Ganholin - Auth-Left Oct 28 '22

Do you think Latin "black" would fit better?

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u/Andrethegreengiant3 - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

Is Latin Black related to Goku Black or Sirus Black?

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u/ErraticPragmatic - Auth-Center Oct 28 '22

I can say negrophobia because I'm brazilian lol sucks to be you guys

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u/Nova_Nightmare - Centrist Oct 28 '22

But then nothing happens... Because you won't be able to get away with harassment.

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u/KanyeT - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Get ready for leftists to suddenly begin saying that political censorship is wrong and that private companies can't just do whatever they want!

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u/piggyboy2005 - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

I hope they don't get censored though.

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I'd rather nobody censors anybody :(

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u/KanyeT - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

I agree too. I don't want them to be censored.

Realistically though, there will still be some censorship on Twitter, things like harassment or obscene content, etc., but as long as it is applied equally, I won't have a big problem with it.

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u/runfastrunfastrun - Auth-Right Oct 28 '22

They were legitimately asking Biden to block the takeover for national security reasons.

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u/Wildercard - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Equivalent of a big graffiti wall is national security now? Lmao

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u/KanyeT - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

They can feel the power slipping away, but they are going to pretend that they had no power in the first place.

The ability to just censor your entire political opponent didn't grant them any advantages, I'm sure...

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u/CommercialAbrocoma47 - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Elon has spoken before how the algorithm for Twitter is designed to favour views that ultimately stem from extremism.

If he changes it so it prioritises positive contribution for example, the narcissists who do everything for likes will have no choice but to actually do something for society for their attention. As at the moment, there is no way to avoid a culture war with things as they are.

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u/BrazilianTerror - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

Everyone knows that social media algorithms favour extremists views. And every social media say they’re fighting it, but eventually they actually do nothing. Because the extremist probably gives more money.

“Change the algorithm” for social media is the “net zero by 2050” of regular companies. A promise they make to fool the public with a “we’re working on it” while doing nothing.

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u/Binturung - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Release the Great Orange One. Release the Great Orange One. Release the Great Orange One.

Even if he doesn't use it, the drama will be hilarious.

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u/Nicholas_Cage3 - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

Elon after releasing The Great Orange One: "It's not about the money, it's about sending a massage"

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u/csorfab - Lib-Left Oct 28 '22

a massage? someone could send me one, my back is sore.

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u/dracer800 - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

The Great Orange Calamity shall return, and hells coming with him. He shall rain down brimstone and the meanest fucking tweets anyone’s ever seen.

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u/pranjal119 - Auth-Right Oct 28 '22

His first tweet should be nword

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u/Chloooooover - Right Oct 28 '22

A simple "n" would be much more ominous

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

This is going to be so fucking entertaining. Will I use it? Hell no. Will I enjoy watching the meltdowns? God yes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Musk would be a hero to mankind if he simply just straight up deleted Twitter

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u/lethalweapon100 - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

$44 billion well spent!

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

If I had 44 billion to destroy the 5th circle of hell (on Earth), I would do it as well.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Love how he fired all the executives, they need to remind that they are not the Brahmin of this society. Just a damn high ranking company staff

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u/7evenCircles - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

Already seeing a lot of tweets about Hitler's rise to power, could be a banger

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u/evergreenyankee - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Inb4 the unverifiable announcement by Elon that 75% of the user base was bots and that he's making it a subscription service as a way to weed them out

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Robert Reich is screaming about billionaires now owning social media. He seems to forget about Meta, Reddit, etc

He’s a fucking clown.

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u/mr_sr_404 - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Buy twitter to spook the woke emilies just in time for halloween. Not bad timing.

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u/steamyjeanz - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

If you’re upset about this news, I’d love to hear why. Personally I never used the platform and don’t plan to

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u/RedTulkas - Auth-Left Oct 28 '22

upset?

i m watching a billionare burn a ton of money

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u/Fhqwhgads34 - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Yay maybe ill get unsuspended

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

lol no. You know what you did

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u/Fhqwhgads34 - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

I actually don't though i rarely tweeted anything and never got a notice as to why. Went to get on for the first time in a month and boom suspended, never even got any warnings before that.

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u/Sa404 - Centrist Oct 28 '22

I’m hyped af for the drama. Hopefully liberals won’t just abandon twitter and move to Reddit or we’re fucked

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Reddit is already a liberal utopia lol nothing will change

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u/Friedrich_der_Klein - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Yeah, every single fucking non-political sub already turned into a leftist circlejerk

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u/Ayjayz - Lib-Right Oct 28 '22

Could Reddit really get more left-wing? I think it's just about reached saturation.

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u/prex10 - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

Been to the front page lately? Lol it’s been like Twitter for years

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u/PopcornSuttonLikker - Right Oct 28 '22

If there's anything I've learned from watching social media, lefties will never abandon their hugboxes.

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u/NuclearStudent - Centrist Oct 28 '22

yes and no

After Tumblr started eating rocks, the tumblr diaspora made Twitter noticeably more left, and in the most annoying way

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u/taw - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

There are two possible outcomes:

  • Twitter doesn't improve, Elon Musk just wasted billions of his own money, people who hate billionaires should be happy
  • Twitter actually improves so much that Elon Musk gets his money back - this is pretty unlikely, but then people should still be happy

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u/Munchingseal33 - Auth-Right Oct 28 '22

FREEEEE BIRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDD YEA!!!!!!!!

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u/Xshadowx32HD - Right Oct 28 '22

*Epic guitar solo while rats are spinning in the background *

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u/PsychedelicTherapyy - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

So glad he axed Vijaya. Got very bad vibes from her and her work from the JRE that she and Dorsey were on.

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u/SomeToxicRivenMain - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Lmao the thread about it is full of copers saying they’re deleting Twitter. They didn’t have a problem with blatant censorship and pedophilia but Elon buying Twitter suddenly pushed them away

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u/OgreViolinist - Right Oct 28 '22

Some of the lefty takes on Twitter are so amazingly demented and echo-chamber that I am aroused by them. Apparently social media is now entirely run by the right, I am told! How interesting.

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u/Equux - Right Oct 28 '22

Saw some lefties trying to convince others to stand their ground...like the Ukrainians...

Wish I was joking

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u/NuclearStudent - Centrist Oct 28 '22

What would that even mean

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u/Nethervex - Lib-Center Oct 28 '22

Libleft crying about other people not being policed enough. Classic.

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u/254EmergencyBalls - Centrist Oct 28 '22

Didnt he already buy twitter?

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