• Cyrus Draegur
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    148 hours ago

    We’re already at the point of journalists being punished for reporting the truth.

    fuck

  • @ChicoSuave
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    4713 hours ago

    Democracy dies when information is corrupted. With her firing, CBS has announced they are participating in the big Trump fascist movement.

    • Majorllama
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      -3912 hours ago

      I completely agree. When information is corrupted it puts democracy in danger.

      We’ve got you lot (the far left) screaming that it was obviously a Nazi salute and he should be immediately imprisoned or killed or whatever it is y’all want to happen to him.

      Then you’ve got the far right morons like the kkk and others saying it was a Nazi salute and they are excited for being able to proudly show off their racism in public again or whatever those psychos are jerkin off about.

      What both of those extremes fail to realize is that everyone else who doesn’t fall into either extreme radicalized camp did not see it that way. For anyone even remotely moderate (which is most people) they saw the situation for what it actually was. An autistic guy who has always been socially awkward making weird stiff movements while giving a speech.

      CBS is covering their asses by firing a news presenter for publicly making false claims about the richest man in the world. Something that could potentially lead to a very very expensive lawsuit and much more trouble for the entire company and staff. I’m no lawyer but considering he didn’t do the Nazi salute I would guess they are worried about getting caught up in a defamation case. Especially dangerous when you consider that Elon is now best buddies with king Cheeto.

      • @SupraMario
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        67 hours ago

        I’m pretty damn middle of the road…hell it’s pretty obvious to anyone who see what’s I post here…but that shit was a nazi salute and musk is a fascist pile of shit. No one moderate should be even remotely ok with how fucked up this administration is.

        • Majorllama
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          -17 hours ago

          When you say you think you’re pretty “middle of the road” do you mean reality middle of the road or Lemmy middle of the road? Because this websites average user is so far left that they can’t even see the middle anymore due to the curvature of the earth.

          • @SupraMario
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            Lol that’s fair, but I’m pro2a, I’m fine with farmers getting handouts, and am cool with capitalism…but I also want single payer healthcare, workers rights, reforming the police and ending for-profit prisons, pro-choice, and putting more money into our schools and inner-citys, reducing poverty and homelessness with gov funds…so yea middle of the road is how I look at myself…

            • Majorllama
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              15 hours ago

              You sound alright man. We think similarly on all those topics. Too far left for the rightoids to put up with us but not left enough for many people to even speak to us around here.

              I would say we need a “middle road” forum for people like us, but we both know that would just become flooded with far right bullshit because most of them have been banned from practically everything lol.

              • @SupraMario
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                13 hours ago

                I think most of the rightwing are on X and that Truth social platform. Echo chambers for both sides are harmful, but at least here, people are willing to discuss stuff without the name calling. And a lot of the times even if they do disagree with me on this and some of them downvote my points, they at least keep it somewhat civil.

      • @Chip_Rat
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        3211 hours ago

        He didn’t “do the Nazi salute”

        He did the Nazi salute, twice, for an audience of millions.

        If he was “just awkward” he would have immediately and publicly apologized. If he had anything resembling humanity, respect or humility he would have sent a clear message that that symbol is a symbol of hate, of losers, and is the antithesis of being American.

        But he just Urkle-shrugs and idiots like you defend him. People get fired for saying a fact. And you play the “both sides” and “he’s just awkward” cards.

        • Majorllama
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          -2610 hours ago

          If anyone should be apologizing it should be all of you delusional wackos who have been accusing him of doing something he didn’t do for several days now.

          There are SO many valid factual things to call Elon out for but y’all are latched into this nothing shit and getting furious about it. The rest of us are fucking worried about you guys.

          All of you are significantly disconnected from reality.

          • chingadera
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            57 hours ago

            So is that what “moderates” stand for now, enabling Nazis.

            The way you wrote this tells me you’ve likely never identified anything as ironic, because this may be the most ironic thing I’ve seen someone say given the situation.

            • Majorllama
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              Nope. I’ve been a legal adult for some amount of years now and I have never once identified a single thing as ironic in my life.

              /s in case that’s not obvious to you.

              • chingadera
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                06 hours ago

                There’s absolutely evidence to back that claim.

                -/s

          • WideEyedStupid
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            169 hours ago

            “Don’t trust your lying eyes.”

            Stop gaslighting us. We saw him do it. Not once, but twice. And it’s not like it happened in a vacuum either. He’s been sucking up to fascists for a long time. He’s also promoting the AfD in Germany. He’s a fascist and everyone knows it. His Hitler Salutes aren’t what made us believe he’s a fascist. It just kind of served as extra verification of what we already knew.

            • Majorllama
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              -149 hours ago

              “I’ve been calling everyone I don’t like a Nazi for the last 10+ years and if I keep saying it all the time it must be true!”

              There is a reason nobody takes y’all seriously.

              You go ahead and continue insisting that everyone is a Nazi because they don’t think exactly like you. Just keep driving moderates who were on your side away.

              The ideological purity of the left/Dems is exactly how they lost and have continued to lose. But go ahead and keep hiding yourselves into hiveminds and echo chambers while booting anyone that even dares to question anything.

                • Majorllama
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                  -68 hours ago

                  What point would that be exactly? That “He’s a fascist and everyone knows it”?

                  There is quite literally nothing I could say to any of you that would make you realize how far up your own ass tour noggin is.

                  If anything the real idiot in this situation is me for bothering to try talking to people who were never going to change their thinking in a million years anyway.

                  Enjoy being angry and never winning an election again in your lives. Just keeeeeep pushing anyone away that isn’t perfect like you. The middle and right are really enjoying all the new members you are giving them.

                  If you keep it up long enough maybe we can get a third party rolling for those of us who think that the left and the right both need to chill the fuck out in several major ways.

              • @Dkarma
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                59 hours ago

                Show me the difference then between a Nazi salute and what Elon did Make a video and post it u complete pussy.

                • Majorllama
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                  -49 hours ago

                  Yeah I’m not gonna do that. I don’t give away that kind of specific information on the Internet. I’ve had stalkers show up at my place of work and house in the past. I learned that lesson ages ago. Y’all are little psychos sometimes.

                  I know you won’t watch it and you’re gonna lose your mind simply because it’s a link to a service you despise but here’s a video of a guy who is autistic himself and has an even more autistic son talking about it and doing the same motion as Elon several times for emphasis: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2LY2vuR/

                  I’m gonna preemptively assume that you will refuse to watch the video or you’ll watch the video and listen to exactly zero of what he said just to come back here to triple down on your shit take.

                  If that’s the case I’m just gonna move on and I wish you the best.

              • WideEyedStupid
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                Bla bla strawman bla bla. I don’t think everyone is a Nazi. I think Nazis are Nazis, and Hitler Salutes are things Nazis do. Elon did Nazi Salutes and he sucks up to fascists… It’s not my fault that you think doing Nazi shit does not make someone a Nazi.

                Anyway, hating Nazis is ideological purity now? Then I guess I’m an ideological purist.