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    3 years ago

    Companies aren’t fucking people you braindead, full-of-shit, techbro asshole. (Just to be clear, this is directed at musk)

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    “According to the New York Times, terrorists may be paying for blue check marks on Twitter (I refuse to call it X),” King wrote.

    King later followed up his stand against the name by posting the word “Twitter” several times in a message critical of Musk’s "need to put your personal brand in everything.”

    That sure is some savage trolling… Someone else had a much better comeback

    Musk attempted to ridicule King, writing, “Stop deadnaming X… Respect our transition,” in response to King’s tweet.

    Alejandra Caraballo, a transgender attorney and instructor at Harvard Law School, criticized Musk’s stance by bringing his personal life into the conversation. Caraballo responded directly to Musk’s post on X with a poignant comment: “Why? You never respected your daughter’s [transition].”

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      Caraballo responded directly to Musk’s post on X with a poignant comment: “Why? You never respected your daughter’s [transition].”

      So fucking glad someone called PG out on his bullshit with his daughter.

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        It’s not an own to him though. Thought process goes like this.

        Elon deadnames daughter.

        Internet people mad.

        Someone deadnames Twitter (Oops).

        Internet people not mad.

        “Aha! Hypocrites!”

        Thoughts terminated.

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          You can’t deadname a social network because it’s not a person, though. It does not have feelings.

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            Elon’s thought process has already stopped. You would have better luck explaining the nuance to a ferret.

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      Don’t you know companies have more rights than people.

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        Of course it is, X has always been a placeholder. Then after some serious consideration they ended up with Twitter, which is such a good name really, love it. Well done! At least thats how I remember it.

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    You know what, I’ll deadname it even harder.

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      I used to call it Twitter/X.

      From now on I’ll just call it Twitter.

      Too bad I can’t call it Shitter, but we’ll all know that’s what we mean so it’s okay:-P.

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          Xitter would be pronounced shitter or zitter - neither is good.

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          The prerequisite for being a hermaphrodite is to be a human. The Musk is not that.:-P

          Also, he it wants us to specifically not call the company “Twitter” anymore. So I’m thinking maybe I could call it “Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter”? :-D

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          That’s the site dedicated to many people’s favorite chocolate and cookie candy.

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          What are you, happy on crack or something? Oh then, carry on my good man. :-P

          I have decided: The Musk specifically asked us not to call it “Twitter”, therefore I shall call it “Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter”.

          I dunno, maybe some days I could call it “Twitter” for short:-D.

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    X now identifies as apartheid media instead of social media. The name change is important to make this distinction.

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    The site metadata refers to it as Twitter for like, those media cards Facebook Messenger and Discord make when you send a link, so I guess to stop my browser from deadnaming the site I should just stop visiting it.

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      Twitter itself still refers to itself as twitter on multiple parts of the website.

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        Lord the chaos that would ensue if they changed the URL without redirecting from twitter would be a world wide funny. Like when tinypics shut down

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    Elon is a massive piece of shit, but this is a genuine question because I don’t follow everything with him…

    Has he been anti-trans?

    Edit: Jesus Christ… Can’t say I’m surprised.

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    Why do I feel he’s deadnaming his daughter, in the rare times they speak to each other?

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      When your trans daughter disowns you, and your remarks are anti trans, how the fuck are you not dead naming her.

      I would be so shocked to find out he wasn’t.

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      I always refer to it as this in text, but say twitter when speaking in person.

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    We should exclusively call it “Twitter (called X by Elon Musk)”.