1. #3901
    Who is Jack, and why should I care.

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    Quote Originally Posted by s_bushido View Post
    Who is Jack, and why should I care.
    Former owner of Twitter I think.

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    Quote Originally Posted by s_bushido View Post
    Who is Jack, and why should I care.
    Jack Dorsey, one of the guys who founded twitter. He's also a big wheel at one of the plausible successors, Bluesky.

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    What the world has learned is that America is never more than one election away from losing its goddamned mind
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    "Law and Order", lots of places have had that, Russia, North Korea, Saddam's Iraq.
    Laws can be made to enforce order of cruelty and brutality.
    Equality and Justice, that is how you have peace and a society that benefits all.

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    seems like elon might be changing the culture war, almost no company has their pride logo, mostly because they get dog piled on twitter by blue checks being the first responses. and to know the stances these blue checks have, find the tweet where woke sjw ted cruz goes against the death penalty for gays, they were very upset

    https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1663200925018726407
    check the blue check replys
    this is where discourse is at

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    Quote Originally Posted by arandomuser View Post
    seems like elon might be changing the culture war, almost no company has their pride logo, mostly because they get dog piled on twitter by blue checks being the first responses. and to know the stances these blue checks have, find the tweet where woke sjw ted cruz goes against the death penalty for gays, they were very upset

    https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1663200925018726407
    check the blue check replys
    this is where discourse is at
    Jesus Christ, some of these takes are horrifying. You can almost argue for "America should tend to America's problems before trying to fix other people's problems", if you're unfamiliar with how helping elevate rights, infrastructure, and economies around the world helps literally everyone, but the sheer lack of empathy here is disgusting. "This is another country, why do you care?" is painfully common. "Uganda isn't America, they can do what they want!" being another frightening take. Global human rights, what are those?! Only America matters!

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stormbringer View Post
    Jesus Christ, some of these takes are horrifying. You can almost argue for "America should tend to America's problems before trying to fix other people's problems", if you're unfamiliar with how helping elevate rights, infrastructure, and economies around the world helps literally everyone,
    Also that international diplomacy is, like, a part of Congress' job.

    but the sheer lack of empathy here is disgusting. "This is another country, why do you care?" is painfully common. "Uganda isn't America, they can do what they want!" being another frightening take. Global human rights, what are those?! Only America matters!
    It's the same origin as the original America First movement, so none of this should be surprising.

    And to be clear, that origin was support for the Nazi Reich, and pushing to keep America out of the way against Hitler. Anyone pushing "America First" is just a Nazi, using pro-Nazi slogans and rhetoric.


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    It’s also worth noting that the “Problems in America we should fix first” that these chuds screee about are things like the “woke mind virus” and “civil rights”.

    Not actually fixing things. Just their continued campaign of pushing misery onto others because they get off on it.

  9. #3909
    Quote Originally Posted by Winter Blossom View Post
    Honestly, I’m over every topic that needs a month of celebration. We need to move on from this stupid shit.
    Goodbye Military Appreciation Month in May that no military-loving conservative seems aware of.

    It's not stupid even if you find it annoying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter Blossom View Post
    Honestly, I’m over every topic that needs a month of celebration. We need to move on from this stupid shit.
    No one's forcing you to join in the festivities, shrew.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter Blossom View Post
    A month celebrating the military seems very authoritarian. Should also stop.
    So authoritarian fuckin nobody even knows it exists rofl.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter Blossom View Post
    Of course not, but when every damn month is celebrating a whole month of something, it becomes pretty fucking stupid, and I’m not surprised that companies are starting to stop.
    They're not. Maybe on Twitter, but they're not. Supporting pride (month and year round) is an economic benefit and there's quite a bit of market data supporting this.

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    I don’t wanna celebrate every damn thing
    Wonderful news! You don't have to.

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    and I surely don’t wanna feel bad for not advertising that I’m supporting this months fake bullshit.
    Also wonderful news! You don't have to.

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    American military-appreciation and spending, is already border-line authoritative. We certainly don’t need anything celebrating that.
    Irrelevant to the existence of "Military Appreciation Month" which again, I'll note nobody even really knows about. More people know about it because we use it to taunt all the "pro-military" folks complaining about how "the gays" get a whole month and the military only gets Memorial Day, because dunking on stupid bigots is a ton of fun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter Blossom View Post
    Honestly, I’m over every topic that needs a month of celebration. We need to move on from this stupid shit.
    Aaand there it is... No one really gives a flying fuck what you're "over." Especially not in the current climate of LGBTQ people facing a sustained attack on their rights/existence from lunatics on the right.

    Pride month would be literally no different than a holiday season, in that it gives companies an opportunity to market new/different material, if not for bigoted sacks of shit whose pathetic worldview is challenged by the very existence of people who are different than themselves.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter Blossom View Post
    It’s less about me and more about companies that also don’t want to partake in the bullshit - "You have to show support each month, else you’re a bigot and will get cancelled!”.

    Yeah, fuck off, I’d just want to sell my products and not engage in politics and social issues. Not advertising is better than the fallout of advertising.

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    Sounds more like you support companies marketing and benefiting off Pride Month, rather than the meaning itself. It’s fake support, as I said.
    You really are just mask off awful now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter Blossom View Post
    It’s less about me and more about companies that also don’t want to partake in the bullshit - "You have to show support each month, else you’re a bigot and will get cancelled!”.

    Yeah, fuck off, I’d just want to sell my products and not engage in politics and social issues. Not advertising is better than the fallout of advertising.

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    Sounds more like you support companies marketing and benefiting off Pride Month, rather than the meaning itself. It’s fake support, as I said.
    Well good news! Twitter is probably a safe space for you in light of recent changes in ownership.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter Blossom View Post
    this months fake bullshit.
    Absolutely "mother of the year" material folks. Did you end your support for your gay daughter as well this month? I would laugh for the unironic confirmation of your bigotry if not for the fact that it would come at the expense of her well being.

    This is a perfect example showing how kids suffer under these types of parent(s). They can't even support their own family, yet have plenty of time to come on here and bend the knee to Matt fucking Walsh.

  17. #3917
    https://newrepublic.com/post/173249/...-twitter-space

    So it seems like RFK Jr's "Twitter Space" mostly went as Ron's did - no real policy talk or much discussion of his own platform, but a lot of time spent giving Elon a digital rimjob because I guess every conservative just wants to suck that ass super bad right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter Blossom View Post
    People are always so quick to resort to ad hominem attacks. It’s why both sides will never meet in the middle to find compromise because they’re too busy attacking each other.

    America is a sad place now…
    Wait wait, I have the perfect political cartoon for this I just need to find it.

  19. #3919
    Quote Originally Posted by Winter Blossom View Post
    Definitely understandable. I have just never liked these months where companies use it as an opportunity to make money.
    You must loathe Christmas.
    “There you stand, the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs, and your rigid pacifism crumbles to blood stained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns.”

  20. #3920
    So some reporting on how the RFK Jr. shit went -

    https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/...87656226078723

    RFK waxed poetic about the time he spend camping in East Africa when he was 19. With Roger Ailes. Weird.

    https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/...88669481852929

    Elon trying to frame, "Nobody wants to advertise on this shitty Nazi platform" as an attack on Freeze Peach - which Elon repeatedly admits even he doesn't believe in as he's happy to compromise his "Freeze Peach Absolutism" to keep the platform active in some countries. This is a huge, hilarious self-own and it's the best. Fuckin loser. Maybe don't unban all the Nazis

    https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/...91257363337217

    Apparently RFK thinks Musk is some kind of Revolutionary War soldier or something rofl.

    https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/...93355568013313

    Weirdly went onto the topic of AI and neuralink and shit and RFK asks what the plan is for "surplus humans" once AI takes over more jobs? rofl, dude's IQ seems to be about that of room temperature bread in Sweden in the dead of winter.

    https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/...98424640331781

    And Tulsi Gabbard showed up because only right wingers like her anymore.

    https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/...14595150200832

    So much of the 2024 Election is going to be people in power hoping everyone has zero memory of what actually happened between the years of 2015 and 2021. And it might work!
    This is the single most accurate comment I've seen on this upcoming election and we're already seeing some of this in these forums.

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