Elon Musk after somebody invents time travel: “why is everybody only going back in time to assasinate Hitler???”
Both assassins donated to progressive causes. They were not republicans. The second guy they caught on the golf course with a scoped rifle poking through the bushes. Idk how that “didn’t happen?” Next you will be saying it was Trump who staged these events himself. You are deep in the propaganda. Good luck to you
The second guy voted for trump in 2016 and was a huge Vivek stan in the republican primary. They were both republicans just not the MAGA ones who are motivated purely by racism.
Not saying he staged them himself, but the campaign had those fundraising emails ready to go very quickly after the second one. Since the SS didn’t kill this one, maybe we’ll get some actual answers about who he is rather than more armchair speculation.
So only free speech for the moment?
I’m also noticing a lack of Elon Musk assassination attempts.
Would creating the cyber truck be considered as a suicide attempt?
I am trying to figure out what I can say without it sounding like I am asking for someone to be shot.
If I’m honest, and bear in mind that I HATE ELON MUSK, I don’t think he was calling for anyone’s assassination. He is just such an idiot that he didn’t realize that his attempt at a fabricating a conspiracy would be misconstrued as such a call.
I’ve heard that autistic people are usually more concerned with justice than the average person. Is it because they’re really bad at hiding unjust meaning behind their words?
Narcissists tho care less about justice and more about revenge. Guess which aspect dominates his personality?
XX, formerly known as Musk.
Democrats are extremely calm about the fact their followers have attempted to assassinate their main political opponent twice this election cycle. Is murdering your political opponents “protecting democracy?” The only reason to kill your political opponent in a democracy during an election is if you believe they will win the election. Sad state of the country.
Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong.
Neither was a Democrat. The first was a Republican and the second was a former Trump supporter. It’s conservatives that are trying to do the assassination.
1st attempt was a republican shooter. He was
2nd attempt didn’t actually happen. They didn’t see Trump or draw their weapon. It was just someone who owned a gun in America.
It’s the republican party who have consistently displayed the attitude that the 2nd amendment is there for this type of thing, not the democrats.
How calm are you about your party doing this?
How the fuck has he not been visited by the feds?
I guess to be fair they’re still getting a headcount on the people who were stupid enough to fall for the “Chase Infinite Money Glitch”
(For those who haven’t heard what that is, TikTok tricked a bunch of people into committing Check Fraud by describing it as a “Free Money Glitch” and a bunch of 20 somethings who’ve never seen Catch Me If You Can or even heard of a check fell for it…)
Delete Musk.
Shift-delete.
Elon has been such a jackass this year.
There was never a time when he wasn’t a jackass. He just abandoned his job of running companies in exchange for being a full time dumbass.
He was always a jackass, he just used to be a quiet jackass that nobody ever heard from so we couldn’t tell. Now that he is fully incapable of shutting the fuck up, his jackassery is on full display.
Thank goodness nobody saw it.
He’s already made his request public, doesn’t matter if he takes it down now.
Tfw you censor your own free speech on your “free speech” platform
I hate this brand of pseudo-intellectualism.
Adversity doesn’t mean you’re right. Lack of adversity doesn’t mean you’re wrong. It just means some people agree with you and some people disagree. That’s it.
WHY THE FUCK HAS EVERYONE NOT DELETED TWITTER
there is literally no correct answer
I was only ever there to follow a wide variety of parody star trek accounts which were hilarious and thought provoking.
They’re all gone, now that musk is doing his thing. Twitter was cancer, now it’s terminal bullshit and I’ve deleted it long ago
I just said goodbye to it today. I realised there’s a bigger, unselfish choice to be made in the scheme of it all
there is literally no correct answer
I deleted mine years ago but, in Japan, it’s still one of the main ways small shops communicate with their customers. Some use FB or insta instead. They don’t have the knowledge, money, or desire to create a whole website that is far more difficult to interact with and update than the platforms that are free, people use, and are easy to update.
We need to get libraries running mastodon/lemmy/fediverse world-wide
I’m worried my library would ban me for wanting more stuff to be owned like libraries.
I don’t disagree, but the majority of Japanese are just using whichever device is in their pocket (largely iPhones or Android, some feature phones, the occasional tablet, and much more rarely (outside of official business work), an actual full-sized computer).
I think they’re suggesting that business owners create Lemmy communities with their phones, hosted on library servers.
Ah. That’d be a nightmare here, probably. Japan is pretty notorious for low tech literacy outside of a few narrow areas. I also think that this might have reliability impacts that just drive people away. Finally, no average japanese person has any idea what the fediverse is, so that’s another hurdle to jump.
If it weren’t for twitter, i wouldn’t have even known there was another attempt on Trump. I don’t sort Lemmy by new and there was nothing in the top posts about it (that I saw, at least) until HOURS after it happened. None of the other social media sites I use showed anything for a while either.
It’s such a non-event that even the Conservative lemmy didn’t post about it until yesterday.
You could simply open a news site a couple times a day. They all had the assassination attempt up pretty quickly.
I didn’t know it happened. Why would I have thought to go looking for something I don’t know about?
I didn’t know it happened either, but I check the news a couple times a day to see if anything happened.
It seems like you’re being disingenuous. You said you need Twitter to find out about things like the assassination attempt, so obviously you check Twitter, but the concept of checking the news is apparently strange to you.
He didn’t mean to check if there had been an attempt to eradicate Trump specifically, he meant open a news app occasionally, as one does a social media app.
Its so funny that lemmy thinks its better than reddit with all these reddit ass responses.
Biggest bunch of self righteous blowhards I’ve ever seen.
Go complain about it on Twitter.
nothing in the top posts about it (that I saw, at least) until HOURS after it happened.
in other words, since it can be assumed that you’re checking multiple social medias often enough for “HOURS” to make such a huge difference, then basically your life is driven by FOMO, and you see no problem with that.
kudos for the honesty at least. you do you and keep supporting that nazi safespace
Pretty glad that all of these responses are assumptions about my character just because I somehow managed to not see that someone tried to merc trump again for the whole day.
you’re trying to defend twitter with “i need it for news”
that says a lot about your character. no assuming needed
The ap app notified me so you can’t be trying that hard to replace twitter
I knew here within 30 minutes. Also on Bluesky. Also on any major news source.
If you’re not finding the stuff I think that’s on your
You might consider reading some real news, vetted and produced by professional journalists. Twitter is not news source, neither is Reddit.
I typically do, twitter happened to be the first place I saw any information about it, nothing else tipped me off about it happening until then.
“Don’t believe initial reporting about any dramatic event. The rush to be first often overrides the responsibility to try to be correct. As with any event like this, some of this information is likely to change as more information becomes available.”
https://youtu.be/sgpYzFTtJug?feature=shared
In any case, I heard about the attempt shortly after I started scrolling through lemmy last night, so from my pov the information had gotten to me in a timely manner.
What did you gain by knowing unconfirmed information a few hours earlier? Did you need to act on that “information” that quickly?
People who view policymaking as “entertainment” are the reason we have Trump in the first place.
I would rather have my entertainment sooner, as opposed to never.
This isn’t some fucking game. Here let me make it more concrete and personal for your pea-brain:
I will find it very entertaining when your family and friends are lined up and shot to death while you watch.
In this case it’s not “never”, I don’t use twitter and saw this news on Lemmy this morning.
There is no one true replacement for the utility that it provides. Not with sufficient penetration of network effect, anyway.
Same reason most people don’t delete Facebook.
You may not personally find utility in either of them. But just like boner pill spam, clearly someone does, or they would just go away.
You could say the same thing about Reddit, yet a lot of us left there a year ago on principle. Sometimes taking a stand means doing without.
damn, it’s already been over a year, hasn’t it?
Without cake days I have no sense of time.
Yeah, over fifteen months since I created my account here for that reason
same. when the blackout protest changed nothing about the 3rd party apps, I decided I was done, and never went back
granted, it had been getting toxic for other reasons, but being forced to use their shitty app was the final straw for me
The two are not mutually exclusive. But OP’s question was why “EVERYONE” has not deleted their account. And the objective answer is that some people obviously still use the service. But once again people are treating the downvote button as an “I don’t like this” button.
lol the comparison of useless social media to useless boner pill ads is perfect. of course someone finds it useful. just like someone finds crack cocaine useful
But boner pills aren’t replaceable (like Twitter) or unnecessary (like crack). Sexuality isn’t a vice.
What can I say, I like to watch dumpster fires
There’s way better hobbies
The tech leader has faced scrutiny for various posts and reposts on X in recent months, including last November, when he engaged with a post about an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
He’s not leading anything. Not at all. He buys in and lets others innovate or he runs them into the ground like his shitty website. His leadership is poison.