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Elon has fucked the Blue checkmark system that was working well before for his stupid 8$ idea to make some cash. Random people were impersonating public figures and commercial brands, obviously he had to stop. He is full of problems, he cannot monetize enough to pay his debt and interests, which are growing daily, companies don't want to put ads on his platform, part of his staff is resigning, progressive people who tend to be younger hate him now, he was a respected figure before, so that's a problem looking ahead. and he didn't even make libertarian self-called freedom of speech absolutists happy, Jack Dorsey, the original creator of Twitter, is going to launch a new social network media called Bluesky Social soon. Maybe it will spread on Twitter itself ironically, and Elon can't do anything about it without censoring. If people and public figures start leaving, Musk is fucked. https://bsky.app/

Having control over the media and communication platforms is a huge form of power, he saw a chance to buy Twitter and went for it. As it was, it wasn't the easiest platform to control, with millions of users talking shit for free. It is not going to be really free and democratic anymore, you have to pay 96$ per year to have the full experience of freedom of speech. But there's the financial factor too, he is in big debt now, so he has to do something about it. I don't know what's gonna happen, but for now, I don't like it.

Elon Musk is totally positioned in the conservative sphere, not only economically, but in the culture war context that has been happening for the last 6 years. He is more aligned with right-wing users and trolls and they have embraced him as their savior. Twitter is his business now, so whether he wants it or not, his political views are linked to the platform he owns in the eyes of the public. It's probably more than mere perception in my opinion, it's gonna reflect one way or another. I go further than Beau of the 5th column in his video, advertisers are not only associated with the messages and content people may or may not put in there, they are associated with the platform itself, which right now is owned by a billionaire rightwinger. Twitter's moderation team was working quite well before, there's an amount of shitholeness that a platform needs to keep in line before its users leave. For those who criticize it, Elon says he has kept it as it was, so go and complain to him now about censorship and cancel culture. Their blue verification mark was another thing that was working well. I understand Elon wants to monetize somehow, but be careful about not screwing what's fine, I'd tell him if wanted him to succeed, which I don't. I've left Twitter completely, I don't want to be part of a communication platform owned by that man. He did nothing to build it and its success in the first place, he may have been an entrepreneur in the past, with a little help from daddy's money, don't forget, but this is not the case. I hope he fails and goes bankrupt, that would be beautiful to see.

PragerU actively asks to cancel whatever he calls gender theory or critical race theory. There's that.

So people complained there was no freedom of speech, Elon said he would change things, but he has actually said that the moderation policies remain the same, as he was fearing advertisers would leave. So if nothing has changed, what about freedom of speech? Why do freedom of speech defenders still defend him? You can't have it both ways. Slurs and misinformation were not allowed and they aren't allowed now either, am I wrong? So if nothing has changed, he is still censoring users and content. Comedy is now allowed, he said. Impersonating for comedy purposes is allowed, but you gotta write the word 'parody' clearly. But he already kicked a guy who did that. Others had their previous username in the @ so it wasn't a real impersonation. Okay, if you go strictly by the rules there's a point, but for a radical freedom of speech defender, it doesn't stick. They were mocking him, he didn't like it, and he kicked them out. By the way, permanently, something he said previously was not acceptable. He says the blue mark will provide two things, not necessarily verification, but let's go to the two things. 1. Half of the ads. First of all, if you pay you shouldn't have ads at all, but half can be a little or a lot depending on how many ads people that don't pay have. This leads us to the people that don't pay, who are going to continue being a lot. Twitter needs them too, and they are not going to like to be flooded with publicity. They are going to compare how were things before and after him, simple as that. 2. Your tweets will have more visibility. Cool, that's cool, if you pay, there's your reward. But making some tweets more visible can only happen with others being less visible in expense, there's no one without the other. So as others have said, people that don't pay are going to be shadowbanned in essence. They are not going to like it and that's also not aligned with freedom of speech for everyone. To be honest, it seems he needs to make money desperately. To the daily losses it had before, now it has another 44 billion hole he needs to fill. I won't pay a cent. I'll probably leave soon, but I gotta admit right now I'm interested in seeing how this develops plus the elections. He is not being neutral, he is clearly confronting left-leaning people and politicians and has endorsed the Republican option for this election. Of course, as an individual, he can do whatever he wants, I understand that as a millionaire right-wing policies are more beneficial for him. But he is the visible head of this massive communication platform now, he is using it to spread his own political ideas, I think that's problematic. Maybe not for him, but for users and advertisers. Sooner than later, progressive people will leave, both small users and famous users, and advertisers are not going to be happy about that. Another platform may come up, I know that Trump did this, and didn't work, but I think progressive people don't care if conservatives are with them as much as the opposite. What if the executives he has fired build another platform that works almost as Twitter worked before Elon bought it for 44 billion? He must fear this possibility a lot. Trible right now sucks, by the way, so that won't make it.

Russia declares martial law in occupied territories Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson. He is trying to send the message that these territories are already Russian, although they are not recognized internationally. Most part of them, not all, which is important, are in fact under Russian military control. The population of Crimea was 90% Russian, I don't know what the percentage can be in these other four regions, in this war context it's impossible to know, but that will be a determining factor too in medium-long-term. Russia will do as much as possible to increase it to their favor, and won't do it cleanly.

Russia is attacking the Ukrainian electricity system... Uh, seems Russia is waiting for the winter to use cold as a weapon. Once again. Putin called 300.000 Russian men for his army. He may not need more than 100.000 then, or less, if I know anything about negotiation. Plus Germany was dependent on Russian gas to have its industry functioning in winter.

For historical reasons. Slavery. I don't see how they couldn't, it's a word used by a group of people, that heavily oppressed another group of people, based on their origin and skin color. It's not a term used neither in Africa or Europe currently. Should people against censorship censor critical race theory? Open question. Also. Black people can use those slurs in a friendly way if they want to, but white people generally speaking should not. I won't provide you with a mathematical formula to understand that. Give a fucking one-minute thought to it.

I don't think so. There are so many things to consider about criminals and society itself. Was their upbringing fair? Was their mental health fine? What about second chances? Is our justice system flawless? Meaning, what if we impose the death penalty on an innocent man? Can we revive him? Well, with these questions and more in consideration, I'd say no. I'm not naive, I know some crimes are extremely awful and also provable. But I'm also not naive to think that any justice system is flawless and fair, and also aware that resurrection is impossible. Death penalty shouldn't be, and we should be more humble. Suck my yellow balls. Sorry, that was red reminiscence.

Orange doesn't get it, paints sociology as not tangible. Well, it is not in mathematical terms, I guess. That's a very limited way of thinking, which puts orange below green and yellow, generally speaking. Numbers are awesome, but we're not numbers.

The truth is this huge country experienced considerable economic development during the presidency of Lula da Silva, which came down again with Bolsonaro. People took development for granted, which was not, and voted for the populist candidate in 2018, a big mistake. He can try to blame Covid and would be partially right, but in the particular case of Brazil, and most developed countries, it's just a matter of what fiscal policies are put through. So many people came out of poverty and brought to it again not to realize it. Another point, they incarcerated Lula da Silva using fake pretenses and forbid him to run in the previous elections. Lawfare. He has been freed from those crazy allegations, but the right media continues mudding his name regardless. I think Brazilians are going to kick Bolsonaro in the ass in the second round. We'll see.

Adults use capital letters in the first word of a sentence. That being said, if Jesus Christ was something, that would be an extreme leftist. Yeah, deal with it.

Dance.

Blue-orange. Definitely not green or yellow.

According to the US legislation its first amendment? No.

At this point in history and technology, we had to go through it. But it's not great, let's leave it at that.

I may be wrong, I start with this statement, but here are some thoughts: Russia demanded Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, and the commitment of Ukraine not to join NATO or the EU in the early stages of the war. Ukraine and Zelenski refused. Now, not only Russia has conquered Crimea, Luhansk, and most of Donetsk, but also the major part of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. A considerable part of these regions are pro-Russians. Will Russia ever annex the whole of Ukraine? Of course not, that was the first scold, totally unsustainable. But the East? They are kind of making it already. Did Russia lose part of Jarkov in the North? Yes. But they didn't demand that territory in their peace agreement demand, so it's not a real loss. I think the USA blew the Baltic pipeline because they have economic interests in doing so. They don't care about potential peace agreements, which make them deplorable human beings. Europe's position is ridiculous, they seem to be completely sold to the US. They should aim for peace, as they depend on Russian energy. To sum up, I think Russia is winning its objectives, which never were the whole of Ukraine.

Talking about fish.

Yeah, man, that would be a totally fucked up thing to do. As social beings that we are, we respect and protect our infants, so I can't see something like that happening as it's normal. Maybe if it was some kind of Halloween joke, where everyone was aware of it, but even like that, I think it's too extreme and crazy to present a plate like that.

Oh, I have one for this. Nah, seriously. I'm fine if lab-grown meat can be developed, it's going to be much more sustainable and avoid a lot of suffering and real torture that is happening right now. I'm not interested in this though, I'm just fine with plant-based alternatives and I think they are more healthy. Similar goes for milk, plant or seed-based ones taste just fine, you can drink and use them to cook in the same way as cow milk, but without having those poor animals with sucking machines implanted in their udders every day during their whole miserable life, until they don't produce enough and they are killed without a second thought. There's more to say, but I shut up now. Just another meme.

This is true, as humans we eat too much meat, it's just not possible to raise so many individual animals in those ideal organic conditions, real free-range like in the pictures where you see happy animals in those numbers is impossible (what they really mean with the free-range label is BS, by the way). We never as species were too many and eating meat and dairy that frequently, the only way we can do it is with the factory farm systems, with what that means for the animals' wellbeing, for the ones concerned about that. Organic animals are less sustainable than factory farm ones, they take much more and produce almost the same. This huge number of animals need to eat, deforestation is mostly happening to grow plants to feed the animals we eat, not to grow the animals themselves. The amount of water a steak requires to get to be on your plate is crazy. Meat and dairy consumption is a big problem.

Can I post some vegan memes? Please, just today!

I'm gonna read this as she is like a teenager that wants to appear like a badass or something. She's probably a narcissist. But this is as close to promoting politically-motivated terrorism as you can get, with still holding some deniability, just because she wrote socialism and not socialists. Saying that this act was some kind of metaphorical way of communicating, I guess. I just think this shouldn't be treated as an acceptable way of engaging in politics. There is also some privilege going on here, I don't think other ethnic groups or even political movements could get away with something like this as it's nothing. She is not a nobody, she is a person with an important position. She is also a weapon owner.

The problem of what Biden says is quite obvious, the other side of the coin. Palestine has the right to defend itself too. This mentality is harmful and we gotta start getting over it. We are, but Biden is old school, his position is not a surpisse. Now, I'm not gonna pretend the two sides are equally at fault, I don't believe that for a second. What the Netanyahu administration is doing is terrorism. Right now it seems that they've been escalating the conflict because it benefits them in the new government negotiations. Sad but true. People and children are dying for this shit. They just bombed a media building. That's peace and free speech, right? Yang fucked it up, that was funny. He is in a bad spot because he has had quite a progressive support history and they are not going to take that from him if he wants to lead them. Liberals won't trust him either though.