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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
That’s what the media told us, anyway. Maybe it’s somewhat true, but oligarchs buy the media all the time, not because they’re especially profitable but because they’re especially influential. The slippery slope of the oligarchy media model
I once saw a comment from a self-labeled 'Christian conservative' that was something to the tune of: "We need to stop taking the religion out of everything, because otherwise what's to stop people from raping and stealing and killing and blah blah."
It was then that I first had the horrifying revelation that this person (and many others, I'm sure) is at least quite strongly implying that without the threat of hell they wouldn't have any reason to NOT do any of those things.
There's a reason ''true believer'' is a pejorative, or at least cautionary, description in politics. Belief is not the way to oporate and get results. If you can't accept getting 60% of what you want out of legislation along with the other two branches of goverment, you'll never get 1% of what you want.
They'll vote for the next republican in 4-12 years, and 100% respond to polling that they believe Republicans are ''just better at economy and foreign policy''
I’m not that old (I’m not that young either) but I can’t remember a time when a party controlled both the executive and legislative branches and didn’t descend into incompetent infighting.
I thought this time would be different but this gives me hope.
Yeah, the way they kept this coalition together was by telling the business community that their more extreme stuff on abortion and immigration was just stuff they told the rubes to get their votes. Now they're in a position that both constituents expect them to deliver, and there's a lot of conflict there. Draining the swamp is the opposite of creating an entirely new agency that's all swamp, and while the business community pretends they want more border enforcement, a lot of immigration policies are explicitly designed to create an entire class of workers that's perpetually in a precarious position so they can undermine unionisation efforts (H1B1 visas being a perfect example of that).
I think the lefts strategy should be to let the right eat itself and just stay out of their attention. Let them get all fucked up on infighting and forget about us entirely.
At some point, people are gonna have to wake up and realize that this strategy will never produce anything but an eternal war of attrition. And in such a scenario, it's the billionaires who are most likely to survive, because they can hold out longer than anyone else.
I suppose, in a way, it's kind of refreshing to see conservatives have to face the kind of hypocrisy that we leftists see every day out of the supposed liberals in this country, but objectively, did they really think putting billionaires in charge of their party would mean less exploitation of the immigration and visa process? It's easier to rob people of their labor when they live in uncertainty after all.
Musk wasn't giving out millions of dollars out of the goodness of his heart. It was an investment, just like people who pay the "speaking fees" of prominent Democrats. They're all grifters.
Shocked to see the populist {% party.name %} campaign on reducing immigration then immediately use immigration to undermine {% party.country %} workers.
lmao if that's true he blundered this one so hard. either he doubles down and doesn't reinstate premium, causing people to get annoyed at him and potentially leave. or he does reinstate it and has essentially lost control over his platform.
seems like the former so far, his last tweets are full of responses just talking about this.
It seems like he's demonitizing accounts who aren't even tweeting him directly, just talking about him. It doesn't matter what he does at this point, he's just identified himself as attacking Trump stans. They won't trust him again.
He will back down, though. Not only does he have the same crippling need to be loved as Trump does, but these lamprays srr probably generating a significant fraction of Twitter's revenue these days.
That's why he loves AI and hates wikipedia. He hates transparency and would be perfectly ok with only the appearance of a grass root movement. He doesn't want to be loved, he just wants to make it seem that way so the average uninformed reader believes it. Then his plan is to essentially Black Mirror Nosedive away the opposition from relevance, soon with a position of power as well as wealth.
He doesn't need Twitter revenue financially, but he needs Twitter to be profitable psychologically. There's no way his ego will let Twitter not be a "business win".
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.
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.
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.
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...
Feel free to do a bit of rabble rousing yourselves as well!
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.
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.
The only use my twitter account gets is dropping "president musk" pics under random conservative posts.
They're just stealing everything from the left now!
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.
Muskrat, muskrat, candle light.
Doin' the town and.
Doin' it right in the evenin'
It's pretty pleasin.
Muskrat Suzie, Muskrat Sam.
Do the jitterbug at a muskrat land.
And they shimmy
Sam is so skinny.
And they whirl and they twirl and they tango.
Singin' and jinglin' a jangle.
Float like the heavens above.
Looks like muskrat love.
The popcorn is rich.
Even known Donald Trump mushroom rubber and psychopath, Laura Loomer, is getting unverified.
The infighting is coming in way faster and pettier than I imagined. This is fun to watch
That's funnier. Much, much funnier.
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.
Hopefully they're just speedrunning the whole "rise and fall of fascism" thing... Seems ahead of schedule.
Wait, can you pay to subscribe to people on Twitter?
Loomer continues
Yes yes turn on each other.
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
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
Battle of the half-wits.
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.
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.
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.
You haven't been listening, have ya?
"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.
"How can I be in the out-group now? I helped you ostracize my neighbors!"
BUT HE SAID HE WAS A FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTIST THAT ONE TIME!
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.
Just imagine when they inevitably merge with Truth Social.
They'll be all like, "I did Nazi that coming!"
That's the thing about autocratic rule.
Once enacted, your say is forfeit and you survive only by mercy of the state.
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.
🔫 Always has been.
"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."
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.
Who could have predicted that the goals of the all powerful leader would diverge from his base of support?
Something like this has surely never happened in the history of history.
You mean the "fuck immigrants" crowd isn't down with ol Musky's plan to bring in brown immigrants? Who'd a thunk it.
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.
They just don't want to pay American wages, it's as simple as that.
Also HB-1 gives the employer a workforce that has no ability to leave.
It matters to Trump voters.
the immigrant haters hate the immigrant? no
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.
It's only been a few weeks since DOGE dept existed. It's going to be quite a beautiful shitshow.
How are people still on Twitter and acting surprised by fucking anything that happens there? Like… Wise-up folks. You have options.
These are conservative Twitter posters. They're not bright.
Typical conservative behavior. "It's not a real thing until it affects me directly. "
But wait, didn't they all abandon Twitter to go to Truth Social?
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''I'm here for the porn'' is the only good reason.
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?
I think it means most (voting) people want to be little bitch men children.
Absolutely not. Maybe in that country, but not in the rest of the civilized world.
Yes, I meant the USA where they voted for this.
Yea but It's not new.
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.
Lololol "how could they ever eat my face‽”
Also Mr. Free speech and Xhitter is the public square, lol such BS.
"Free speech, as long as I like it."
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.
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.
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.
This take is so very, very specific 😅 Are you a psychologist or similar?
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.
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?
He was forced to buy twitter. He did not want it.
That’s what the media told us, anyway. Maybe it’s somewhat true, but oligarchs buy the media all the time, not because they’re especially profitable but because they’re especially influential. The slippery slope of the oligarchy media model
I wish Twitter would have just left well enough alone.
Twitter is xelon's personal toy, how did you not know that?
The platform is only free to say whatever you want as long as it fits their narrative.
Like the old joke from the 80's:
In the United States you're free to criticize Ronald Reagan. In the Soviet Union, you're just as free.
There's nothing inside of them. Just a thin outer shell comprised of hate and ignorance that's SUPER fragile.
I once saw a comment from a self-labeled 'Christian conservative' that was something to the tune of: "We need to stop taking the religion out of everything, because otherwise what's to stop people from raping and stealing and killing and blah blah."
It was then that I first had the horrifying revelation that this person (and many others, I'm sure) is at least quite strongly implying that without the threat of hell they wouldn't have any reason to NOT do any of those things.
Anybody who believes in either side is and that's why you're fucked.
There's a reason ''true believer'' is a pejorative, or at least cautionary, description in politics. Belief is not the way to oporate and get results. If you can't accept getting 60% of what you want out of legislation along with the other two branches of goverment, you'll never get 1% of what you want.
Ahh yes, the old "vote for oligarchs to have all the power and then get upset when they abuse it" routine. Morons never learn.
They'll vote for the next republican in 4-12 years, and 100% respond to polling that they believe Republicans are ''just better at economy and foreign policy''
That's the thing about these monsters, they eat their own.
I’m not that old (I’m not that young either) but I can’t remember a time when a party controlled both the executive and legislative branches and didn’t descend into incompetent infighting.
I thought this time would be different but this gives me hope.
Yeah, the way they kept this coalition together was by telling the business community that their more extreme stuff on abortion and immigration was just stuff they told the rubes to get their votes. Now they're in a position that both constituents expect them to deliver, and there's a lot of conflict there. Draining the swamp is the opposite of creating an entirely new agency that's all swamp, and while the business community pretends they want more border enforcement, a lot of immigration policies are explicitly designed to create an entire class of workers that's perpetually in a precarious position so they can undermine unionisation efforts (H1B1 visas being a perfect example of that).
Judicial branch as well.
Obama's first two years were OK, though he kind of dropped the ball by not passing more shit.
I think the lefts strategy should be to let the right eat itself and just stay out of their attention. Let them get all fucked up on infighting and forget about us entirely.
At some point, people are gonna have to wake up and realize that this strategy will never produce anything but an eternal war of attrition. And in such a scenario, it's the billionaires who are most likely to survive, because they can hold out longer than anyone else.
Everything but Luigi produces attrition
Their entire ideology hinges on attacking people.
Let's keep them locked in that room together (twitter)
Nothing new about it Poindexter. This is exactly how it's been since Muskrat took it over. LoL 😂
Going to be a lot of schadenfreude in watching these fuckweeds eat each other as their egos continually clash.
I didn't know the muskrat would eat MY face!
hahahhaahahhahahahahahahahahah
I have a feeling a lot of these people think Musk was born and raised in the US
Or that he cares for any country or anyone else than himself?
I don't think is about misplaced patriotism and altruism.
He's just a massive POS.
Only once
I suppose, in a way, it's kind of refreshing to see conservatives have to face the kind of hypocrisy that we leftists see every day out of the supposed liberals in this country, but objectively, did they really think putting billionaires in charge of their party would mean less exploitation of the immigration and visa process? It's easier to rob people of their labor when they live in uncertainty after all.
Musk wasn't giving out millions of dollars out of the goodness of his heart. It was an investment, just like people who pay the "speaking fees" of prominent Democrats. They're all grifters.
Shocked to see the populist {% party.name %} campaign on reducing immigration then immediately use immigration to undermine {% party.country %} workers.
Yup.
This leftist sees SO MUCH more hypocrisy coming from the conservatives. Why specify liberals?
Some people confuse Neoliberalism for Liberalism and then shit all over liberals because of it.
lmao if that's true he blundered this one so hard. either he doubles down and doesn't reinstate premium, causing people to get annoyed at him and potentially leave. or he does reinstate it and has essentially lost control over his platform.
seems like the former so far, his last tweets are full of responses just talking about this.
It seems like he's demonitizing accounts who aren't even tweeting him directly, just talking about him. It doesn't matter what he does at this point, he's just identified himself as attacking Trump stans. They won't trust him again.
He will back down, though. Not only does he have the same crippling need to be loved as Trump does, but these lamprays srr probably generating a significant fraction of Twitter's revenue these days.
Musk doesn't need Twitter revenue, but he does need a controlled media platform
That's why he loves AI and hates wikipedia. He hates transparency and would be perfectly ok with only the appearance of a grass root movement. He doesn't want to be loved, he just wants to make it seem that way so the average uninformed reader believes it. Then his plan is to essentially Black Mirror Nosedive away the opposition from relevance, soon with a position of power as well as wealth.
He doesn't need Twitter revenue financially, but he needs Twitter to be profitable psychologically. There's no way his ego will let Twitter not be a "business win".
"Oh you can't do this to me. Do you know how much I've sacrificed!?" vibes, get fuck't, Norman.
Leopards ate my face
People who vote for the Leopards-eating-people’s-faces party are always shockedpikachu.gif when the leopard eats their face.
At least with Democrats they eat all faces equally regardless of race religion sexuality or gender identity.
Also people generally are less surprised considering how they treat progressives within their own party.
OP, you may want to edit the title of the post. should read "H1B" visas.
Amarica needs more pencil gang and less PEN15 gang
Bluesky awaits
no, please stay on Twitter
LOL...thats what shit ppl get that voted for shit presidents all the time.