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    Damn, they’re not even waiting for their guy to be sworn in again before they start the infighting. This truly is a speed run to social cannibalism.

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      Our best hope for the next four years is that they spend so much time fighting amongst themselves, they’ll be too busy to completely fuck everything else up. I’m sure they’ll try, but god, I hope there’s still a Department of Education in 2029. Lack of critical thinking skills is what got us these morons in the first place, we have enough stupid people in this country already.

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        I share your sentiment but I think they will attempt to out cunt each other on being vile, petty children. The will try to be as punitive as possible with policy and neglectful in their duties to facilitate the mechanisms of functional government. And, yes maybe not completely because they are probably not even competent enough to do that.

        I’m sorry my American friends but you’re in for some catastrophic shitfuckery.

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        More likely while the public squabble takes our attention those behind the scenes will calmly remake everything to their design. While we notice nothing but the squabble…

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        Feel free to do a bit of rabble rousing yourselves as well!

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          Im not sure how effective that will be. Part of the reason they are turning on each other is that everyone else has been so quiet since the election. If there were mass protests right now they would all be united behind having BLM declared a terrorist movement or something, not focused on each other.

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            Oh no need to have organized protests. I believe we all have agreed that we’re well past time where that will have any significant impact. Besides, it’s the age of information! Fight back in ways our Republican friends won’t understand.

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      These people always fall in line. They will again. They’re proud of being useful idiots. They’ll convince themselves that this immigration is necessary for the economy, but Trump will stop the bad immigration or whatever. And Trump’s people will brutalize people coming from Mexico which will also sate some of their bloodlust. They’ll fall in line just as soon as someone tells them what to think.

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      Muskrat, muskrat, candle light.
      Doin’ the town and.
      Doin’ it right in the evenin’ 
      It’s pretty pleasin.

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        Muskrat Suzie, Muskrat Sam.
        Do the jitterbug at a muskrat land.
        And they shimmy 
        Sam is so skinny.

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          And they whirl and they twirl and they tango.
          Singin’ and jinglin’ a jangle.
          Float like the heavens above.
          Looks like muskrat love.

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netOP
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    The popcorn is rich.

    Even known Donald Trump mushroom rubber and psychopath, Laura Loomer, is getting unverified.

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      This popcorn is too salty and overcooked. I’d rather it not exist as a whole. Muscrat is going to win no matter what. The plutocrats will win as always.

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      Hopefully they’re just speedrunning the whole “rise and fall of fascism” thing… Seems ahead of schedule.

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      Wait, can you pay to subscribe to people on Twitter?

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      Yes yes turn on each other.

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        This is what happens when your ideology depends on attacking others but all the leftists leave the spaces you use to bully others.

        They only have themselves to scream at now on Twitter

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          Nah, it’s different parties fighting for control now that they have it. It would still happen without social media but they would be going on the news to do it

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      Battle of the half-wits.

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    If only they learned from every other abuse of power Elon has made on his platform…

    It’s freedom of speech for Elon - everyone else has to tow the line, or hope to god he never notices them.

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      It’s “toe the line”. This difference is pretty important. I thought it was “tow the line” more than half my life because it sounds like pulling on a rope to go in the right direction.

      It’s actually more sinister. Get your toes on the line we drew. Perfect conformity of thought or action.

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      They didn’t see the previous cases as abuses of power, because he was always hurting people they already didn’t like, or in the very least he was hurting people they didn’t care about.

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    Is this the new status quo from America’s “most free” social media plattorm?

    You haven’t been listening, have ya?

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      “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

      Looks like @ConservativesOG just found out that the law does not protect them.

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      BUT HE SAID HE WAS A FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTIST THAT ONE TIME!

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        He also said bullet-proof, full auto self-driving, artificial general intelligence, Hyperloop, novel tunneling techniques, $25K Tesla, real robot, cave-diving pedo guy.

        I’m starting to think that this guy spews more shit than an asshole.

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      Just imagine when they inevitably merge with Truth Social.

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      It’ll be interesting to see how autocracy faces up against a billionaire who really has no need to be a citizen of any nation, and could afford to protect themselves indefinitely.

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    Is this the new status quo from America’s “most free” social media platform?

    🔫 Always has been.

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      “No, no, don’t you see. When we used censorship on the left, it was truly free speech. Now that, I am being censored, it’s not free speech.”

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    Known misinformation spreader Ian Miles Cheong (who lives in Malaysia) is also getting Loomer face eating

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      Ah, the pre-new-season-recap/where-are-they-now of the utter madness that was The Trump Administration: The Ultimate Chaos.

      What will they do in the next season? Just how hard their asses will be bitten? Nobody knows!

      Seriously, though, like everyone else, I was highly worried about what the fuck the re-election of Trump will mean. But then I remembered all of the total fuck-ups they did last time around, and I turned my worries, like, 1% down. All I’m hoping right now is that some conservative loonie group goes all in on “finish building the Wall” and it’ll be a shitshow as usual.

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    Who could have predicted that the goals of the all powerful leader would diverge from his base of support?

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      Something like this has surely never happened in the history of history.

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    How are people still on Twitter and acting surprised by fucking anything that happens there? Like… Wise-up folks. You have options.

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      These are conservative Twitter posters. They’re not bright.

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        Typical conservative behavior. "It’s not a real thing until it affects me directly. "

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      But wait, didn’t they all abandon Twitter to go to Truth Social?

      implied sarcasm intensifies

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      ‘‘I’m here for the porn’’ is the only good reason.

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    You mean the “fuck immigrants” crowd isn’t down with ol Musky’s plan to bring in brown immigrants? Who’d a thunk it.

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      Who cares what color they are. There have been enough layoffs that there is no need to import any engineers. Besides wanting to exploit them.

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        As long as you understand Immigrant, and every form of legal immigration, means ‘‘fucking messicans’’ then yes. They hate immigrants. Musk just needs to tell them he’ll only import their replacements from sterling white countries and they’ll calm down.

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      It’s only been a few weeks since DOGE dept existed. It’s going to be quite a beautiful shitshow.

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    Musk and Trump are neck and neck for the “Littlest Bitch To Ever Exist” title.

    Isn’t it awesome living in the timeline where the wealthiest person on the face of the Earth and the most influential person on the face of the Earth are both little bitch man-children?

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      I think it means most (voting) people want to be little bitch men children.

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          Absolutely not. Maybe in that country, but not in t̷h̷e̷ ̷r̷e̷s̷t̷ ̷o̷f̷ the civilized world.

          • fixed that for you
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    You f-ing morons, you served the only purpose you were supposed to serve, you voted the coming autocratic reforms of the USA into power. Enjoy becoming as persecuted as the “left” was as only the most ignorant or most pandering voices of the coming dictatorship are left.

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    Lololol "how could they ever eat my face‽”

    Also Mr. Free speech and Xhitter is the public square, lol such BS.

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        The free speech Musk believes in is his ironclad right to speak. To him, contradiction is not speech, and he seems baffled whenever it happens, like he’s just been slapped with a fish.

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          Musk isn’t confused at all. He’s been lying about believing in free speech this whole time. He’s an oligarch—literally the richest person in the world—who bought 𝕏itter in order to control speech.

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            Just to be clear, I’m not trying to say that Musk is confused about what free speech is – I’m saying he’s confused when he hears ideas that conflict with his worldview. He cannot process the idea that contradiction of his beliefs should even be possible and that drives him wild with rage.

            I think it’s important to understand that Musk doesn’t think of most other human beings as “people” and he does not consider what they say as “speech”. His worldview is entirely solipsistic and the only speech that exists is the speech he produces and the reflections of it that come back to him. To Musk, everything else is the braying of animals with diseased minds.

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              This take is so very, very specific 😅 Are you a psychologist or similar?

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                It’s not that specific. It fits a lot of Social Darwinists that were born into money. Most just have the good sense to keep their voices down in public.

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                  The solipsism and all this kind of stuff is very specific to me. Just because it “fits” doesn’t mean it’s actually the case though. Do you personally know people like this, that also keep their voices down? Like, are there any examples to share?

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            He was forced to buy twitter. He did not want it.