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drivingmenuts 15 hours ago

And you don't think the desire to get away from Elon Musk and the MAGA crowd had anything to do with it? Nothing good was ever going to come about because of Elon's stupid acquisition. That was made painfully obvious when Xitter stopped paying their bills - I guess in the hopes that creditors would be forced to arbitrate lower payments on debts owed to them (which is bullshit for a billionaire to be doing, but you don't get to be a billionaire by being nice, fully ethical, moral or legal). Then we had a demonstration of sheer stupidity Elon told advertisers to fuck off, so they did, and now he's all hurt and lawsuity.

What good do you see in that? Who wouldn't want to get away from that stupidity?

cryptica 15 hours ago | parent [-]

From my perspective, X experience has improved a lot since Elon's acquisition.

What actually got worse materially? I hear a lot of gesturing 'Orange man bad', 'Elon help orange man, so Elon bad' but I cannot reach any of these conclusions from first principles looking at Trump's policies while he was President... Aside from the Jan 6 incident... But I don't see consensus there between either side so I do have some doubts and questions about the true nature of that incident. The fact is, nobody on Jan 6 had guns besides police officers. How can that possibly be an insurrection? Please correct me if I'm wrong there.

_DeadFred_ 14 hours ago | parent [-]

The confederate flag has only been raised inside our capital buildings once, and that was on Jan 6.

cryptica 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, you can't overthrow a government with a piece of cloth. So I still don't see how it could be called an insurrection.

drivingmenuts 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Just because you suck at doing something doesn't change what you're attempting to do. They were there to execute elected officials and attempt to stop required processes in the belief that would invalidate an election they lost.

Sounds like an insurrection to me.