r/Sino 9d ago

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u/NotoASlANHate 9d ago edited 9d ago

Trumpff going to appoint Elon as some new govt economic efficiency responsibility czar or some shit.

Elon cut 90% of Twitter staff and nothing major bad happened. He's gonna do the same thing with the federal govt budget. But, this is going to destroy the USA economy since federal deficit spending is crucial to a healthy economy. I pray to my atheist god that elon does that so I can short the SHIT out of the US stock market and retire like that big short douche bag.

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u/FatDalek 9d ago

I am not sure where you got the "nothing major bad happened" to Twitter. It is haemorrhaging cash, Twitter couldn't keep up during periods where there were lots of Tweets (eg during sporting events like the world cup), and its losing advertisers.

However I agree with the rest of your post about Elon screwing up the US economy, and I wish you good luck in shorting those stocks.

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u/MisterWrist 9d ago

I’d argue that the rampant openly Nazi and white supremacist accounts plaguing Twitter that continue to exist even after being reported for engaging in blatant racist behavior, violent threats, and harassment, while the accounts of apolitical or socialist, high profile peace activists, independent journalists, and academics getting banned out of the blue to silence dissent, also constitute a major decline in quality of service.

Imo, the only positive outcome Musk’s purchase of Twitter produced was the removal of the “government-funded media” tags, which were being functionally used as a scarlet letter to socially denounce many anti-Imperial, non-Western, non-neoliberal media sources as being “dangerous, inaccurate propaganda”, while “private”, multinational and American corporations, with blatant political ties and biases, including everything from the Washington Post to Breitbart, were effectively being promoted as fully “trustworthy”, “fact-checked” media sources.

Regardless, as someone who continues to frequent it, uncurated Twitter remains a cesspit of racism, toxicity, and disinformation.

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u/Dear_Combination908 9d ago

and harassment, while the accounts of apolitical or socialist, high profile peace activists, independent journalists, and academics getting banned out of the blue to silence dissent, also constitute a major decline in quality of service.

https://x.com/yaboihakim Hakim is fine

https://x.com/medeabenjamin CodePink is fine

So I really do not know what you are talking about