Another account banned from Twitter thanks to Musky Boy
Another account banned from Twitter thanks to Musky Boy
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If that’s an actual photo from today then I doubt he was grazed much because I skinned my knee biking the day before his rally. I’ve still got a giant scab there.
Also Pete Souza isn’t just anyone. He’s a former director of the White House photo office.
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My thoughts exactly. I was on them for a time and I'd bleed FOREVER if I cut myself shaving. That's when I learned about styptic pencils and alum blocks.
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the ear is also mostly cartilage, so i wouldnt be surprised if there was a lot of blood flowing through them constantly, especially at the very top of the ear where he was grazed. Very well could still be on blood thinners, but i think i would just expect the ear to bleed pretty aggressively in some cases.
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Similarly, I cut the crap out of my hand on a waterslide 2 weeks ago - grabbed the fiberglass side while trying to right myself so my kid wouldn't get dunked - and it's still healing. Close to being back to normal, but you can still clearly see where It was for sure
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Journalists need to stop fucking using Twitter for fucks sake.
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Hard to get an audience if you leave big tech, Twitter included
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Yes, my content was way up when I joined Twitter, before Musk. I deleted it and took the financial hit, don't want customers from that user base now anyway
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Even just mirroring their stuff to one of the Twitter alternatives would be nice
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What!? Why? That's worse. That amplifies it. The world needs less horrible hate.
It also does nothing to stop the news outlets from sourcing twitter
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At the end of the day incentives are incentives. All the engineers Elon fired when he took over did in fact build a site that's really good for announcing things like news to the world, and it was really quite complex behind the scenes. And if someone wants to replicate that, it's a lot of work with the added problem that unlike the original Twitter, they have to compete with Twitter in building a new network. Additionally, social media news just isn't very profitable which is why Meta/Threads has discouraged news and politics. So unfortunately Twitter is really all there is, social media news now essentially has a strong built-in right wing bias for the foreseeable future.
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I really hate when news articles embed tweets directly as a source, it's blocked by Privacy Badger, so I only see an article full of holes. Why can't they use screenshots?
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It's still wild to me that people announce things on X (né twitter).
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Mastodon: "I'm the guy in the picture!"
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We all need to stop using Twitter to be fair.
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When are people actually going to leave that hellsite in meaningful numbers?
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When they don't also deepthroat Netflix after they banned password sharing. All the optimistic people, me included, said "oh this will make a huge dent in Netflix what a stupid move." But they read the room like a hawk.
People swallowed the hook and signed up in huge numbers. https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-password-sharing-crackdown-worked-how-to-increase-subscription-streaming-2024-1
The West has created the perfect neutered, obedient consumers who will drink whatever coolade they are given. Until we have enough people who are willing to challenge convenience and stop bowing at the altar of comfort, we will have no meaningful change.
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The West has created the perfect neutered, obedient consumers who will drink whatever coolade they are given.
Do you imply that this is specific to Western country?
Because the number of things Chinese consumers just accept is astonishing. They have been using "pay with your face" payment method for a while, and people are just rolling with it. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/Pay-with-your-face-100m-Chinese-switch-from-smartphones I think there's a bigger percentage of privacy focused people in EU and NA than anywhere else. -
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Kool-AidDon't blame me for this confusing bastardization of the English language, thank a guy from Nebraska literally 100 years ago.
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When other social medias also let's artists post NSFW alongside regular users for maximum exposure.
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They have. But when you're starting with hundreds of millions of users, it's a slow bleed.
There's also not a lot of great alternatives. Threads is all ads. Rumble is just more MAGA shit. Mastodon/Lemmy is too fractured and lacks sufficient infrastructure as a global platform. BlueSky doesn't have a critical mass of users yet.
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Hang on,
this guythe AP seriously took a picture where there is no injury to his ear? What was all the blood then? This one needs independent corroboration.-
2 weeks is plenty of time for a shallow, skin-only graze to heal. And ear cuts can bleed a ton.
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Ears, scalp, cuticles… all places that bleed like crazy.
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In addition, a competent plastic surgeon would likely make it look like it had never happened. I hope he goes to jail for the crimes he committed, but do people really expect him to wear an ear diaper the rest of his life?
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I was thinking the same thing. But something tells me the people who'd be in charge of banning the photographer, if not Musk himself, wouldn't know that.
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It was probably caused when like eight huge guys shoved him to the ground.
The guy's nearly 80. Shit gets injured easily when you're old.
Real bullets were fired for sure, but I don't think they actually came within a centimetre of preserving democracy. We're not that unlucky.
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I think he wasn't hit by a bullet but by shrapnel from something else that was hit. It' probably superficial.
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Could simply be his other ear and photograph is just mirrored. Like screens, you raise your left hand but to your reflection it's its right hand.
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Seems unlikely since it was posted by the guy who took the picture.
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His asymmetric haircut would give it away.
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And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
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THIS SHIT ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE
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It's so on-the-nose that I don't even Trump is the parody anymore, it's evangelical Christianity that's the real parody. A group of folks who make a story about a socialist day laborer from the Middle East and use it to justify white supremacy, unfettered capitalism, and wealth as a measure of God's love falling in line behind a cartoonishly accurate representation the "bad guy" in their book...exactly like their book said they would.
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Out of context it sounds like something.
But add the lines right before and it's more clearly fever dream gibberish of a dying old man:
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadems, and on its heads were blasphemous names. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority.
Did Trump come out of the sea? Does he look like a leopard with bear feet and a lion mouth?
People have been misunderstanding and trying to extend parts of that text to contemporary events since it was written.
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I've not seen his feet, but he certainly has a lyin' mouth
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Mar-a-lago Spanish - sea to lake
There are 9 current trump towers. Moscow would make 10
7 heads with blasphemous names - TRUMP on the top
Feet of a bear -Russia is known as the bear in the west since early 20th century.
Lion mouth - have you heard him speak? (Who hasn't, he's loud, boisterous, like a lion)
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You're right, but it's also funny that Christianity has generally streamlined taking things out of context. I just say "Revelation 13:3 and boom, that verse is cited out of context. Endless pamphlets, posters, sermons, and so on focus on bringing some verse without context.
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Apocalyptic literature isn't meant to be taken literally. It's a common mistake though, even among so-called Christians. "Mouth like a lion" could mean boastful, roaring, brave, loud, threatening, or any number of things.
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Bastion of free speech
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This speech wasn't quite free enough sorry
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I'm assuming all those free-speech nuts are really going after Musk for doing this right?
I'm joking, we all know it's just free-speech for the things they agree with ...
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Question: As this is no longer a neutral platform, what would be the legal implications? Is Twitter still a neutral carrier (or whatever the proper term is) and enjoys far-reaching legal protections for this?
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Nothing. Private company can block whoever they want from using their service. Doesn't impact section 230 protections.
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What's a "neutral platform"? On Lemmy.world you get banned if you say something bad about israel.
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People shit on israel all the time here. I know I do. Guess I am banned.
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And yet you post thousands of criticisms about Israel, exclusively, and I see that from you and others constantly. how are you circumventing the bans?
Inb4 "you support/defend/love Israel/genocide": no I clearly don't, I'm just pointing out that you're flat out lying here. Simply criticizing Israel has likely never resulted in a single ban.
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That doesn't seem right. Israel is conducting a genocide. Why would they be protected?
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First I’m hearing about it, because I have taken hot creamy shits on Israel before. Guess I’m banned ¯(ツ)_/¯
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I frequently state the fact that Israel is a genocidal apartheid ethnostate that has "Jewish supremacy" as the basis of its existence and should be abolished, and I haven't been banned anywhere on lemmy.world for it
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Can we revoke his government contracts now?
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I mean, they didn't even do that when he literally fucked up a Ukrainian operation against Russia.
Money rules this country. It stopped being a democratic republic a long time ago.
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It would be pretty funny if the photographer just mirrored the image before uploading it.
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that would be funny, but i feel like we would know about it, because like, other photos also exist.
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Elon Goebbels really seems to be working hard on this one.
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Umm his last insta post was two days ago. Can someone ummm check on him?
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Last time I saw ‘em, he said something about hanging out with his buddy at Boeing.
I’m sure everything’s fine, they’re prolly just messin with planes & stuff.
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TL;DR: he wasn't banned, he quit:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-A3yZiObH6/
On Saturday, I was perplexed by photos online of Trump boarding his plane en route to a bitcoin conference. There was no bandage on his right ear. I re-posted one of the photos on Twitter and wrote, “look closely at his ear that was ‘hit’ by a bullet from a AR-15 assault rifle.”
“Fake news,” someone responded. “It’s the wrong ear,” said another, which of course was not true. “This is an old photo,” which I felt the need to reply to. I re-posted a screenshot of New York Times photographer Doug Mills’ Twitter post of the same situation of Trump boarding his plane, which included the date and time of his photo. Doug is one of Trump’s favorite photographers and Trump has publicly called him “my genius photographer.” So I thought the maga world would at least believe Doug Mills.
They didn’t. The comments turned ugly. Mostly about me, but also some that disparaged Doug Mills. Since 2017, I’ve been accustomed to having vile and hateful comments thrown at me. But I had now exposed someone else, Doug Mills, to be the recipient of hateful messages on MY Twitter account. Not cool.
On top of that, I’ve been at a cabin with no Internet and sporadic cell coverage for the past week, which made it difficult to post anything in the first place but also a challenge to push back against the hate.
So I de-activated my Twitter account. It was a gut decision, made only by me. I am still not sure if this is a temporary or a permanent action.
I was unaware that some on Twitter were a responding that Elon Musk had deleted my account. How would I know? I wasn’t able to access Twitter. I did receive a few DMs here on Instagram about this, but didn’t think much about it. Until…late last night, I received a text message from a New York Times reporter asking me to comment about my supposedly “being kicked off X for posting a photo of Trump’s ear.” And then this morning, I received a text message from a childhood friend who asked, in jest, “Is there a Free Pete Souza donation site?”
It was time to respond. I have so much more I want to say about the state of social media, but for now I want to make it clear that I was not kicked off Twitter. I kicked myself off.-
I wish this was higher up in the thread...
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For those who care. He wasn't banned, he deleted his account.
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I should have made this a top-level comment:
TL;DR: he wasn't banned, he quit:
On Saturday, I was perplexed by photos online of Trump boarding his plane en route to a bitcoin conference. There was no bandage on his right ear. I re-posted one of the photos on Twitter and wrote, “look closely at his ear that was ‘hit’ by a bullet from a AR-15 assault rifle.”
“Fake news,” someone responded. “It’s the wrong ear,” said another, which of course was not true. “This is an old photo,” which I felt the need to reply to. I re-posted a screenshot of New York Times photographer Doug Mills’ Twitter post of the same situation of Trump boarding his plane, which included the date and time of his photo. Doug is one of Trump’s favorite photographers and Trump has publicly called him “my genius photographer.” So I thought the maga world would at least believe Doug Mills.
They didn’t. The comments turned ugly. Mostly about me, but also some that disparaged Doug Mills. Since 2017, I’ve been accustomed to having vile and hateful comments thrown at me. But I had now exposed someone else, Doug Mills, to be the recipient of hateful messages on MY Twitter account. Not cool.
On top of that, I’ve been at a cabin with no Internet and sporadic cell coverage for the past week, which made it difficult to post anything in the first place but also a challenge to push back against the hate.
So I de-activated my Twitter account. It was a gut decision, made only by me. I am still not sure if this is a temporary or a permanent action.
I was unaware that some on Twitter were a responding that Elon Musk had deleted my account. How would I know? I wasn’t able to access Twitter. I did receive a few DMs here on Instagram about this, but didn’t think much about it. Until…late last night, I received a text message from a New York Times reporter asking me to comment about my supposedly “being kicked off X for posting a photo of Trump’s ear.” And then this morning, I received a text message from a childhood friend who asked, in jest, “Is there a Free Pete Souza donation site?”
It was time to respond. I have so much more I want to say about the state of social media, but for now I want to make it clear that I was not kicked off Twitter. I kicked myself off.-
Thanks for posting the work I probably should have.
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That's almost weirder
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Don't tell me he's still wearing that patch. I would ask why he can't heal like normal people do.
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Heal. He grew it back. Only losers don’t grow their limbs back or die
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Heal. He grew it back.
Is this where I'm supposed to make some sort of lizard-people reference?
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I'm such a loser.
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Wow, so that bullet BARELY clipped him? And he has all those pictures of him trying to act heroic?
Veterans (AKA "suckers and losers" according to Trump) must hate this guy...
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No bullet touched him, it's not like in the movies, if a round had even grazed his ear it would have removed a nice chunk of it. Extremely fast objects don't slice you nice and cleanly.
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Musk is such a limp dick
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Any other president that cared for the American people would have offered and grieved for the Americans that got shot that day.
No one knows about them...
No one hears about them...
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Biden actually reached out to the widow of the retired Fire Chief. She refused his call because her dead husband wouldn't want her talking to Biden.
Trump never bothered to reach out, but did hold her up as a prop at the RNC.
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I am annoyed by folks who say "AR-15 Assault rifle" its a fucken AR-15 and im pretty sure the one used was at best in something closer to a range rifle or sharpshooter configuration. Most of what makes an assault rifle are pretty random but I feel like selective fire is a pretty important one. Aight gun rant over.
Also I wish BARs were more common cause I feel like theyd have a good hunting community due to being .308.
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"Most of what makes an assault rifle are pretty random but I feel like selective fire is a pretty important one. Aight gun rant over."
As someone trained in an army, it's weird seeing American politics trying to pretend like being able to switch to full automatic is somehow a game changer, that that needs to be the line, that that is what makes a firearm properly dangerous. First off, you don't use full auto really anywhere. You use semi-auto, double-shots, center-mass. Secondly, those "bump-stocks" are awful easy to make for the semi-autos already sold at supermarkets in the US.
Most of what makes an assault rifle is a somewhat large magazine capacity and semi-automatic firing. Look at pretty much any conflict since a bit after WWI. What were the major advantages of the M1 Garand, for instance? It's not a huge mag, 8-round internal box magazine, but that added with the semi-automatic firing makes it far superior to any bolt-action rifle.
Point being if it shoots rather fast and has several bullets, you should probably have some regulations on it.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-simple-truth-about-gun-control
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I wasnt even thinking about full auto when I said selective fire, I was thinking burst more specifically three shot. I was also very tired when I made that whole comment hence why its so scatter brained.
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45 got 99 problems but not being visibly injured enough ain’t one
(And by 99 I mean an order of magnitude or so more)
Would be interesting if he kept wearing a bandage after this though.
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9^9 problems
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Do you guys remember back when Elon insisted he was a Free Speech Absolutist? How he wanted to ensure nobody was censored on Twitter? That shit just gets funnier every day.
His "clarification" was great too.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/28/elon-musk-doesnt-understand-free-speech-or-twitter-at-all
So, you know, North Korea's idea of "free speech" is just fine with him.
considering he unbanned an account that reposted csam I think he doesnt gaf about the law
Limiting free speech in accordance with the law is reasonable, there is no other good solution. The problem is that he does go beyond the law with what he censors all the time.
And he’s still a hypocrite.
He probably rationalizes it by thinking of Twitter as his personal publishing platform, thus all speech on it is subject to his editorial control. To take away his editorial control would be to violate his free speech rights in his eyes.
We all knew he is a liar, so...
Some commenter somewhere said maybe the account wasn’t banned if it doesn’t say “suspended”, and that other “ear truthers” are still on the platform. Didn’t confirm either myself.