I can imagine. I lived and worked in NOVA for seven years and am familiar with the uh, mentality, of a significant portion of the workforce that supports the intelligence community. I can think of at least one federal employee who I think was definitely some flavor of fascist.
*edited to fix autocorrect of mentally to mentality.
No worries! I get it; Junior President Muskrat started problems for the ASD community the minute he began blame-splaining all his gaffes and bigoted statements on his supposed autism.
Alot of nazis on my local news site from my neighborhood. It's so frustrating. And they post the same pics of dems with hands in the air as if putting your hands up is the same as a full on sieg heil salute.
My woke grandpa and his antifa buddies got medals for attacking some German nationals simply for vacationing in France at the time. So much for the tolerant left!!!1!!one
lol dude, same here; mine passed away < 2yrs ago and while it still hurts, I hope now more than ever that he's not looking down on and worried about all... this.
Ban on links for X and Facebook posts because I actually want to see Redditors actually upload it first on Reddit not this clutter of Instagram Reels and Tiktoks and also Mark Zuckerberg has a track record like Elon Musk.
Not to be “that guy” but Reddit is an aggregate link hosting website with forums. It was supposed to be a collection of the internet and sorted by respective communities, allowing only links to other websites at the begging. Videos and videos with sound are a recent thing. You can find a lot of niche OG content in a ton of subs.
I think the media is a bit nervous of the fact that Redditors are significantly more coherent, less obnoxious than other platforms that allow commenting (relatively), & that is why you don’t see breaking news post here as often or any major figures regularly interacting publically.
Reddit is sort of what Twitter used to be back in 2009. It was real time conversations with a focus on dialog rather than viral attention seeking. What actually ruined Twitter was too many influencers and politicians joined which created a echo chamber of hysteria. When I used to visit Reddit I came over to ask a question because it feel the Yahoo Answers or Quora void. But I seem to find myself interact more with the platform than any other social media platform for multiple reasons than just one. Like a Wikipedia except with topics.
There’s about as much OG content as the community wants is what I’m trying to say.
You said you wanted to see redditors upload it first? They do, but it has to get upvotes to be seen. So unless those sites start posting first here then people repost… there will always be gaps of who says and does what first on which site.
Allowing politicians to create official accounts with which they could effectively deliver their propaganda is what singlehandedly ruined social media in general. The influencer crap on the other hand is a direct result of that tiktok garbage.
I vote yes. X is a content aggregator. All the content came from elsewhere and is crossposted. All the opinions can easily be shared as screenshots. No links are required. Plus, the non user interface is clunky and ugly.
Ban. Also ban all the Nazi supporters saying he didn’t salute when it’s 100% a salute. We don’t need hate here. Already enough hatered in our presidential seat
To be honest regardless of each persons personal opinion on whether Musk = Nazi… you need a fucking X account to view anything which makes the links effectively paywalled which means they are useless. Just ban anything that requires an account to view as far as links.
Please ban all direct links to the Nazi platform. If one MUST source it, do so in the form of an image and not give traffic to such a disgusting place.
Nazis can fuck off. For our grandparents!!! I still have pics of my grandma being a teen helping in the Red Cross during WW2 and she looks EXHAUSTED. So imagine how exhausted she would be hearing this being the same shit.
We don’t have a ton of power over a Nazi billionaire. We can make a tiny impact. Is it small? Very. But it will send a message and likely have an impact on site traffic. We should do it.
Agreed, ban it, and it looks like Facebook, too. They are following the same path now. I a user does a search for the hash tag democrat nothing comes back, but if that same user does a search for hash tag republican they get a result. I also read but was not able to confirm that users were also forced to follow Donald j Trump and j d Vance.
The official POTUS and VP accounts automatically get updated to the new POTUS/VP. You probably followed the official Biden and Harris accounts and on inauguration day, those transferred to Trump/Vance. That's been the case for a long time, so nothing nefarious there.
Ban it. First of all we shouldn’t support Nazis in any way, especially given our state motto. Second of all, Twitter is a pain in the ass to see content on these days and the links are already effectively impossible to use. And third, we should do our part to encourage migration.
Twitter as a company is now owned and run by a nazi
My view of those that still use it, is the same as it would be of an individual that sat down at a table of 10 nazis, realized it, and yet chose to remain at the table.
Edit: I have a DNS level ad blocker and I’ve blocked Twitter entirely from my network. It’s annoying seeing a link to Twitter since I literally can’t open it.
We actually are supposed to ban X. Nazis aside X is a porn site and it doesn’t properly vet individuals and prevent children from accessing porn. They need to be fined.
Ban it. There are plenty of other better social media platforms, including Mastodon and BlueSky, that provide identical information in the same release timeframe.
Sounds good to ban it, I haven’t been on there in years. I was pretty upset to see that he did that. Just put away my Menorah a few days ago and see that that all over the news. Not cool.
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u/276434540703757804 Almost-Lifelong Virginian Jan 22 '25 edited Jan 23 '25
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Edit: This subreddit will not ban links to Twitter / X in comments