If the Twitter/X thing teaches you one thing, let it be this: Twitter was a neoliberal place. Then Elon Musk made it into X, a fascist place. Once again, neoliberalism laid the foundations of fascism. But that’s not the (whole) lesson… Neoliberal folks are still using X, calling it Twitter to make themselves feel better, and pining for the good old days. And there’s the real lesson: When neoliberalism turns into fascism, neoliberals will adapt to life under fascism. Right, class dismissed.

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    • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
      117·
      8 months ago

      Honestly, the left spends more time trying to distance themselves from other leftists than they do helping their cause.

      • marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        8 months ago

        If you see somebody talking like the one on the post and don’t distance yourself, it means you are a bad person.

        • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
          23·
          8 months ago

          But heres the thing, yall keep having to distance yourselves, all the time. Why?

          • marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            8 months ago

            I strongly hold that “left” and “right” are propaganda labels to dumbfy the pubic discourse and make people less effective. But if you are really asking me, this is absolutely not a “left” problem.

    • Cosmoooooooo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      511·
      8 months ago

      Someone’s still on fascist X, aren’t they? Stop supporting blatantly fascist platforms, please.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        8 months ago

        What a weird and stupid conclusion. Always hated Twitter, barely used it, hated every second. Now it’s ten times worse. I would never consider viewing any X content by choice.

        But yes the thing I said that in no way relates to Twitter means I love to suck musk dick all day long.

      • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        8 months ago

        (not OC) I’m not on X but I will still defend Twitter because it rocked. I “curated” my timeline to be just friends, musicians, and comedians so I rarely saw politics…instead I got a steady feed of one-liners. You know, those screenshots that get spread around every other site to make us laugh?

        Twitter had one of the most diverse userbases of any social media site I’ve ever used. No matter your interest, you could find a circle to run with. Science Twitter, sports Twitter, weird Twitter…take your pick. Don’t follow capitalists if you don’t want to see capitalist tweets.

        140-char Twitter was amazing, 280-char Twitter was pretty good, and X sucks ass.