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    9 months ago

    Companies aren’t fucking people you braindead, full-of-shit, techbro asshole. (Just to be clear, this is directed at musk)

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    “According to the New York Times, terrorists may be paying for blue check marks on Twitter (I refuse to call it X),” King wrote.

    King later followed up his stand against the name by posting the word “Twitter” several times in a message critical of Musk’s "need to put your personal brand in everything.”

    That sure is some savage trolling… Someone else had a much better comeback

    Musk attempted to ridicule King, writing, “Stop deadnaming X… Respect our transition,” in response to King’s tweet.

    Alejandra Caraballo, a transgender attorney and instructor at Harvard Law School, criticized Musk’s stance by bringing his personal life into the conversation. Caraballo responded directly to Musk’s post on X with a poignant comment: “Why? You never respected your daughter’s [transition].”

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      Caraballo responded directly to Musk’s post on X with a poignant comment: “Why? You never respected your daughter’s [transition].”

      So fucking glad someone called PG out on his bullshit with his daughter.

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        It’s not an own to him though. Thought process goes like this.

        Elon deadnames daughter.

        Internet people mad.

        Someone deadnames Twitter (Oops).

        Internet people not mad.

        “Aha! Hypocrites!”

        Thoughts terminated.

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          You can’t deadname a social network because it’s not a person, though. It does not have feelings.

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            Elon’s thought process has already stopped. You would have better luck explaining the nuance to a ferret.

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        Of course it is, X has always been a placeholder. Then after some serious consideration they ended up with Twitter, which is such a good name really, love it. Well done! At least thats how I remember it.

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          It was founded in 1820 by the famous pirate Malcolm X after he received a carrier pigeon from Napoleon warning him of the Britons preparing for battle, but it arrived one day after the invasion. Determined to find a faster way of messaging, he turned to famous internet engineer David Duchovny who wrote the first X Files.

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      I used to call it Twitter/X.

      From now on I’ll just call it Twitter.

      Too bad I can’t call it Shitter, but we’ll all know that’s what we mean so it’s okay:-P.

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        You could call it Zwitter, it is the German word for hermaphrodite.

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          The prerequisite for being a hermaphrodite is to be a human. The Musk is not that.:-P

          Also, he it wants us to specifically not call the company “Twitter” anymore. So I’m thinking maybe I could call it “Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter”? :-D

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          Y tho? What kind of own is it to accuse an anti-trans Nazi platform intersex?

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          That’s the site dedicated to many people’s favorite chocolate and cookie candy.

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          What are you, happy on crack or something? Oh then, carry on my good man. :-P

          I have decided: The Musk specifically asked us not to call it “Twitter”, therefore I shall call it “Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter”.

          I dunno, maybe some days I could call it “Twitter” for short:-D.

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    The site metadata refers to it as Twitter for like, those media cards Facebook Messenger and Discord make when you send a link, so I guess to stop my browser from deadnaming the site I should just stop visiting it.

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    X now identifies as apartheid media instead of social media. The name change is important to make this distinction.

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      I always refer to it as this in text, but say twitter when speaking in person.

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    Elon is a massive piece of shit, but this is a genuine question because I don’t follow everything with him…

    Has he been anti-trans?

    Edit: Jesus Christ… Can’t say I’m surprised.

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    Why do I feel he’s deadnaming his daughter, in the rare times they speak to each other?

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      When your trans daughter disowns you, and your remarks are anti trans, how the fuck are you not dead naming her.

      I would be so shocked to find out he wasn’t.

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    He really shouldn’t get to rename it to X for two reasons:

    First it shouldn’t be up to the whims of one idiot, millions of people use that and it’s just annoying for no good reason. Social media needs more democratic governance from the users. They shouldn’t be the product, they should be shareholders.

    Second it’s a name that “harms” language because X is used for many other things so it increases confusion and block out other meaning. It’s just a shit name that now we’re forced to use because of some plutocrat.

    So yeah I think people should absolutely keep using twitter no matter what. As an act of disobedience against the rule of plutocrats. Or of course, just always crosspost and refer to mastadon instead.

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      Or of course, just always crosspost and promote mastadon instead.

      “As posted on the subpar alternative to Mastadon: X”