• Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Why the fuck are people still using X unless they’re literally alt-right nazis and pedos?

    Americans: “tHeRe’S nOtHiNg wE cAn dO” Door dashes some 60 dollar chipotle while Xitting all over themselves.

    MAYBE STOP MAKING THESE FUCKERS RICHER EVERY FUCKING DAY?!?!?

    You don’t even have to have a general strike!! Just regain control of your fucking habits!!! Please!? Starve the actual beast.

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      2 months ago

      I’m screaming this every day, and lemmy is especially ridiculous given our views on capitalism.

      In a thread about fast food prices last year, I was told I was privileged for suggesting that, “maybe stop buying their shit?”

      If every American had my wife and I’s spending habits, the economy would collapse in 3-4 months.

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        Exactly. Quiet quitting was a step in the right direction. What we need is a quiet strike. Take back our will from corporations, from food prep to social media/dating apps. Their hold is pervasive and destructive to the social fabric in almost every instance at this point. The key problem in the “free world” is that people have placed their faith in corporations and religious organizations and have learned to fear their neighbor by default, which is entirely backwards to a healthy society and hands all the power to the top.

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        2 months ago

        spending your $ consciously is literally the only way to fix this beast, the entire system is designed towards extracting it…therefor the only way to stress the system is to give your $ to (good) local/private businesses whenever possible.

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      I totally agree with you. I literally made my username “BoycottTwitter” because it’s so important and so basic.

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      Why the fuck are people still using X

      For some they use it as a newsfeed without having to interact. For others, it’s utilized as a PR platform because partisans don’t limit themselves to Bluesky and Mastadon. Also, no need to pay the bastard for a blue checkmark.

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    2 months ago

    This is messed up tbh. Using AI to undress people—especially kids—shouldn’t even be technically possible, let alone.

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    Any government that does not ban Xitter after this mess are cucks to Musk and the Trump administration.

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      People posting photos online of their kid in the bath, at the beach, etc. with reckless abandon maybe.

      For as far as I remember (and that’s quite far these days), we’ve kept telling people to not post pictures of their kids online as much as possible. Way before the facebooks and way before the LLM craze, so people can’t mess with them. Guess 20 years of heads up wasn’t enough.

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    2 months ago

    “suspension pledge” as in, their papier-maché leader asked people to “be nice, or face the consequence” on the service that don’t give a shit about consequences? I’m sure they were very scared for a second.