Chiaro, ma qui c'è un endorsement diretto dell'#estremadestra#populista (ma quella americana è anche oltre ormai) verso #elmo, non smentito dal diretto interessato anzi
Era già successo in passato, ma è chiaro che questa uscita sia ora usata direttamente in chiave elettorale, prima molto di meno, e da il segno dello sbando in cui siamo come società
Che fosse già (tristemente) schierato ok, ma ora è Trump che usa lui per fare campagna elettorale per cercare voti, e non il contrario
La cosa drammatica secondo me è che un personaggio del genere (cfr. #elmo) porti voti per certe categorie di elettorato, perché non dimentichiamolo per moltissima parte dell'opinione pubblica #elmo è un genio salvifico, ripeto per me questo è il vero dramma
I made my final decision to completely drop using Twitter today and moving my #artshare activities to #mastodon. It's not easy for me though; I've joined #Twitter back in 2008 and it was my ONLY #socialmedia for many years - till #Elmo take over and ruining it. Unfortunate.
“The stock traded at a high of $74.74 on the second day of trading. Since that time Trump Media dropped steadily, closing today's trading at $46.15 a share. That means the stock has lost 33.74% of its value in just the last 5 days. By the time Trump is able to sell his shares, they may be close to worthless” https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-media-stock-price-continues-to-fall
Our neighbor--a dude that my wife and I refer to as "the Schlemazel"--just bought one of these despite not really being in a financial position to do so.
The bad thing is, I would actually agree with the systemic descriptions and the connotations of #TechnoFeudalism. If you factor in the #TESCREAL dimension of #Elmo and the #PayPalMafia et al, you even gave the medieval "beliefs" dimension. And no-one will argue that if you receive millions of dollars of seed capital, you owe your #liege aka #VC#fealty. And, yes they collect rent, and yes, they either inherited the "rights" or acquired them, charging rent.
@Hey_Beth
It 's long been my opinion, that a mass exodus of #Republican/"#Conservative voters 2 a new up-to-date platform was always the endgame of #Elmo +his #TESCREAL pals and autocratic/authoritarian foreign allies.
As @pluralistic pointed out in a great speech last summer, it is next to impossible to migrate many people to ONE new #SocialMedia platform.
IMO, the only way is to have many endorsements by influencers/celeb accounts AND to have the old platform go out of business. #Xcollapse
While not a very well-known account, I tried the same thing for a couple of weeks, trying to get people to migrate to #Mastodon.
The #Post strategy, as I remember it, was quite different. The wanted a centralized platform earn royalties for professional writers, was my take on the #DeadBirdSite back then.
This is different. OFC #Elmo would block that!--This would have destroyed the value of the #Twitter acquisition--virtually global reach/a...
...quasi monopoly in global reach/ mass influencing possibilities.
One could also call it the #BiggestPSYOP ever.
I am convinced that this is still ongoing. I was wrong about the timing, though.
Last summer, I wasn't aware that 2024 would be a mega election year around the globe.
OFC #Elmo + his investors from authoritarian countries would not risk ANY diminuation of their influence before @ least the next #US presidential #inauguration. It all falls in2 place💡
"Musk is the ugly reflection of our collective ineptitude, apathy and stupidity, and as long as he goes unpunished he will continue to pollute our physical and mental environment in ever more grotesque ways."
I've seen enough. Right now #Texas politics — culture and collegiality, magnitude and intensity of dysfunction — is the worst it's been in decades. More broken than ever. Not impossible but v hard to see how it's put back together
@tadbithuman
Yep.
Apart from one person who is not a Dem and should be retired for physical (substance abuse) and mental-health (megalomania) reasons: #Elmo. (He's trying to move #Tesla's HQ from sensible #Delaware to insane #Texas.)
Also: the #ClimateCrisis will make the summer climate unbearable for most seniors, IMO.