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The Decline of Western [Twitter]ization

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    "TERF is a slur, so is Zionist" where is my fainting couch

  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    rare Ubisoft W

    shoutouts to RPS too

    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

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  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    Nobody posted this important April Fool's

    Happiness is within reach!
  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User, Transition Team regular
    I love that when you clickthrough to the dipshit's tweet, there are two separate content warnings advising you that the link is an april fool's joke.

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    Let's check in on other social media.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/129ix37/rworldpolitics_is_no_more_history_of_ranime/

    /r/worldpolitics got banned
    /r/anime_titties is now the primary world politics subreddit.

  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    it stopped being fun dunking on jp when I realized he was completely incapable of feeling shame or embarrassment

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    facetious wrote: »
    it stopped being fun dunking on jp when I realized he was completely incapable of feeling shame or embarrassment

    frankly i'm not even certain he wakes up with any memory of the previous day

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    facetious wrote: »
    it stopped being fun dunking on jp when I realized he was completely incapable of feeling shame or embarrassment

    frankly i'm not even certain he wakes up with any memory of the previous day

    That's what a steady diet of meat, barbiturates, and a lack of shame gets you.

  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    facetious wrote: »
    it stopped being fun dunking on jp when I realized he was completely incapable of feeling shame or embarrassment

    frankly i'm not even certain he wakes up with any memory of the previous day

    if this is true maybe we can trick him with the chinese milking factory again

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    facetious wrote: »
    it stopped being fun dunking on jp when I realized he was completely incapable of feeling shame or embarrassment

    None of the extreme right wingers are, it's infuriating. Because of that, it's also infuriating to see people constantly trying to call them out on their hypocrisy or lies or whatever, in some kind of "Gotcha!" moment, because they don't care. They'll just shrug and keep doing it. No shame or embarrassment, no self reflection, just a singularity of their "Fuck you, got mine" attitude

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  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    Darmak wrote: »
    facetious wrote: »
    it stopped being fun dunking on jp when I realized he was completely incapable of feeling shame or embarrassment

    None of the extreme right wingers are, it's infuriating. Because of that, it's also infuriating to see people constantly trying to call them out on their hypocrisy or lies or whatever, in some kind of "Gotcha!" moment, because they don't care. They'll just shrug and keep doing it. No shame or embarrassment, no self reflection, just a singularity of their "Fuck you, got mine" attitude
    Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

    I assume we've all seen this quote but I get the sense that people have trouble grasping or believing the full point which is that bigots don't fully believe the things they say. They feel no shame or embarrassment from being proven wrong because everything they say or do exists to justify their worldview. None of it is really "true" to them.

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  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    Darmak wrote: »
    facetious wrote: »
    it stopped being fun dunking on jp when I realized he was completely incapable of feeling shame or embarrassment

    None of the extreme right wingers are, it's infuriating. Because of that, it's also infuriating to see people constantly trying to call them out on their hypocrisy or lies or whatever, in some kind of "Gotcha!" moment, because they don't care. They'll just shrug and keep doing it. No shame or embarrassment, no self reflection, just a singularity of their "Fuck you, got mine" attitude

    Best you can really hope for is a Fred Phelps revelation - they see the error of their ways on their deathbed, try to repent, and have the very things they breathed evil into give em' the ol', "thanks for your contribution but your services are no longer required"

    I like to think that man spent every second of the last weeks of his life in a constant state of overwhelming self-awareness, not able to breathe without being reminded of the evil he'd unleashed and the damage he'd done

  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    I take some small satisfaction in knowing that access to Twitter is undeniably unhealthy for Peterson, and he's absolutely damaging himself mentally and potentially even physically by using it so obsessively

  • Quantum TigerQuantum Tiger Registered User regular
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Let's check in on other social media.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/129ix37/rworldpolitics_is_no_more_history_of_ranime/

    /r/worldpolitics got banned
    /r/anime_titties is now the primary world politics subreddit.

    Maybe worldpolitics can be reborn as the hentai subreddit we all hoped it would be

  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    Western Standard is also a far-right rag so don't actually click through to the article

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    People I don't follow have started showing up in my Following tab

    Stupidest goddamn website

  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 2023
    People I don't follow have started showing up in my Following tab

    Stupidest goddamn website

    You’re not alone it would appear:


    ok so it's very simple. the following feed is for viewing tweets from people you don't follow labelled as if you do. the for you feed is for viewing tweets from people you do follow labelled as if you don't

    EDIT: bonus

    This account is verified because it is subscribed to Twitter Blue or is a legacy verified account.

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    Lanz on
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  • David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    Apparently they removed the retweet notice, so retweets just show up in your feed like any other post.

    Tweetdeck:
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    Twitter Dotcom:
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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    i honestly can't tell if this is a bug or the intended behaviour now

  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    David_T wrote: »
    Apparently they removed the retweet notice, so retweets just show up in your feed like any other post.

    Tweetdeck:
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    Twitter Dotcom:
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    Christ what stupid muskian impulse does this bullshit serve. They did the same thing with the Algortihmic feed too

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    it might just be broken, I'm still seeing it fine

  • AzraithAzraith DON'T Registered User regular
    Yeah the retweet notice going away is mind-boggling. It's such a lame-ass way to drive 'engagement' by clicking on a tweet to see why the hell it's on your feed.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    could I just add the people I actually want to follow to a twitter "list"

    but really bets on how long until twitter paywalls the "lists" feature or just fucks it out of existence

  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    For me desktop Twitter has no retweet indicator but mobile app is still showing it.

    Which is honestly the first time I can ever remember the app working better that the browser version

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  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    On the android app I'm seeing the retweet notice, but links to other sites don't work.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Lanz wrote: »
    People I don't follow have started showing up in my Following tab

    Stupidest goddamn website

    You’re not alone it would appear:


    ok so it's very simple. the following feed is for viewing tweets from people you don't follow labelled as if you do. the for you feed is for viewing tweets from people you do follow labelled as if you don't

    EDIT: bonus

    This account is verified because it is subscribed to Twitter Blue or is a legacy verified account.

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    I just appreciate the thing reference. Like that's a deep ref to make literally the end of the movie.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • AzraithAzraith DON'T Registered User regular
    What in the fresh hell is going on

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    APRIL FOOLS

  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    just some more SEC violations

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    I've got a kickstarter campaign closing this weekend could he at least keep the site from being a deeply embarrassing mess for another six days

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    what a stupid time to have "social media" in my job description

  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    I'm getting the stupid fucking doge icon, too

    I haven't posted on Twitter in years, I might finally stop looking at it entirely. The Twitter Experience was never especially pleasant, but at least there was less, like, mechanical friction on my way to pissing myself off

  • RELtasticRELtastic Registered User regular
    edited April 2023
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    just some more SEC violations

    What did Tennessee do this time?

    RELtastic on
  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    The doge face is funny, it's a shame Elon ruined it

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    The doge face is funny, it's a shame Elon ruined it

    I think the crypto dipshits got to it before Elon did, which is perfectly in character for a man who has never had an original thought in his entire fucking life

  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    Are any of yall seeing this stuff on mobile yet?

    I still see who did RTs and have the bird.

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    rhylith wrote: »
    Are any of yall seeing this stuff on mobile yet?

    I still see who did RTs and have the bird.

    I assume it won't crop up on mobile until you update the app

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I'll just echo what D&D said and think its probably a delayed april fools joke

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    can't even do a stupid '00s-era internet joke right

  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    I'll just echo what D&D said and think its probably a delayed april fools joke

    No, it's him fucking around with the courts again:
    In Johnson v. Musk et al., filed in the Southern District of New York federal court, Musk’s lawyers filed a formal motion to dismiss this past Friday in regards to the racketeering lawsuit the tech mogul currently faces for his involvement in promoting the cryptocurrency Dogecoin. According to Reuters, Musk’s lawyers are arguing that the lawsuit is rubbish—more specifically, that the plaintiffs never actually described how Musk’s statements in favor of Dogecoin defrauded anyone, or what risks Musk hid from investors.

    “The Complaint is a fanciful work of fiction that fails to state any actionable claim against Defendants Elon Musk and Tesla and must be dismissed in its entirety with prejudice,” Musk’s lawyers wrote in a memorandum related to the motion to dismiss, filed on Friday evening in Manhattan court. “Mr. Musk posted innocuous and often silly tweets about a cryptocurrency called ‘Dogecoin.’ But there is nothing unlawful about tweeting words of support for, or funny pictures about, a legitimate cryptocurrency that continues to hold a market cap of nearly $10 billion.”

    The plaintiffs argue that Musk and his companies intentionally drove up the value of Dogecoin 36,000% over two years before letting it tank, generating billions of dollars in profit at the expense of its investors. Dogecoin has widely been considered a meme currency that rose to prominence at the height of the crypto bubble, a currency that Musk has influence to some extent with value surging 18% after Musk claimed it would be accepted by Tesla, for example. Forbes reported yesterday that the cryptocurrency’s value jumped 10% after Musk’s team filed the motion to dismiss.

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