I was a regular at this bar for ages before it became a Nazi bar. I hate that the only other people here are Nazis, I’m just waiting for a better bar to open.
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There it is!
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This was an asshole move. Perfectly within his rights to do so, but it’s an asshole move. When your product is only really valuable because of its users and you treat a 16 year user so poorly, what are you communicating as a business and business owner?
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Oh, now I get it. This is about social media. Carry on.
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I’d pay money not to be made to meet with Musk. He revolts me.
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Does he pay people to be his friends?
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How much?
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Ahhh, a very special ‘serif’ X?
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I suspect they’re okay. The Meta trademark specifically mentions the logo being in blue and white. So avoiding those colours would probably keep Musk in the clear.
If Meta wanted to fight it, they could say that Musk’s use of X for social media is going to confuse people with their existing brand - but since Meta doesn’t appear to use their logo, that sounds like a weak case.
The X Windows people though should be pissed.
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Capitalists on Eminent Domain:
- Done by Government: BAD!
- Done by Corporations: GOOD!
* Preemptive I know there’s a difference a @name on twixler (or whatever) is not property of anyone or any entity except twazzler (or whatever) and anyone using a @name handle does so by the grace of the Xod. You own property by the grace of your government and only their own rules that they can change if enough of the government decides to change them (various systems of rule will of course have different conventions regarding how they change, follow, and develop rules for themselves)
The actions are generally the same, the authority that has granted you privilege to “own” a resource has rescinded that privilege. The “Who is the authority?” question seems to make all the difference.
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“Elon Musk took my username of 17 years and all I got was this stupid T-shirt.”
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Huh? The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a tax-exempt private foundation. He donates to it but doesn’t take anything from it.
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Pinwheel , pinwheel spinning around . Look at my Pinwheel and see what I found…
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Sigh. Yes, I am aware of this metaphor. But I am also aware of the perils of hyperbole. Acting like Twitter is all Nazis, all the time, might be fun, and earn you internet points from people who also know that metaphor (yay, golf clap), but it isn’t really helpful. Because it’s simply not true. I still engage with plenty of people who are, like me, not Nazis, and have literally nowhere else comparable to set up shop. I’m not apologizing for making the best of a bad situation.
It may not quite be “all Nazis, all the time” but they still have a giant fucking “NAZIS WELCOME!” banner hanging outside the establishment.
Pretend it’s 2006 and Twitter just launched. Do you still set up shop there in the first place if the platform is clearly created primarily for fascists? Or do you choose to focus your energies elsewhere even if no one else offers the exact experience available on Twitter?
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So your argument is that because I wouldn’t sign up to Twitter in 2023 (which I wouldn’t, not sure how much clearer I can be about that), I shouldn’t be there at all right now? After I’ve built up relationships with people for the last 17 years, I should just leave, and hope that at some point, I can reconnect with some of them, somewhere, even though there’s literally nowhere I can go? It’s not finding the “exact experience”, it’s finding any experience. Thanks, but I’ll decide when I’m ready to leave.
You’re obviously going to have to make the decision for yourself, but “there’s literally nowhere else I can go” is clearly just as much hyperbole as “everyone left on Twitter is Nazis.”
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Fair enough. Like I said, hyperbole is dangerous. I haven’t yet found another platform (that I can currently make an account on without an invite) that 1) I haven’t already quit because they offer literally nothing I like, and 2) offers enough of a comparable experience to make me want to switch over. I’m open to suggestions, because right now, apart from bespoke forum sites like this one, I feel like it’s dead ends all around.
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THREE MODELS:
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Government stole the land from Native Americans and then sold it to you … or
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You took it by force, from somebody, all by your individual self … or
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You, um, found land that nobody else had ever seen before
It’s violence all the way down, the only question is who gets that monopoly on it
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