Turns out, nazi business is bad business
A victory for the free market
Too bad MIC doesn’t operate on free market.
Hopefully as bad as nazi archaeology
Do we need a catchy “go Nazi get…____” catchphrase? It was such a g when the right wing did it! They do love a good catchphrase. Easier to remember.
How about “Go Nazi get shot in the head”
A lot of people have pitched ideas, and this one is my favorite.
Doesn’t rhyme and gets right to the point. This has my vote. Mocks the entire idea of having a cutesy catchphrase. But is a catchphrase in itself. And one that isn’t even catchy. Love it.
I’m gonna be that guy and say most of this misses the mark. The point of stupid catchphrases is to make it extremely obvious why something is wrong in a manner that is personally relatable to the audience, nuance be damned. Not only does this not do that, it implicitly agrees with the original premise. Let’s look at common examples and retorts.
“Black lives matter” -> “All lives matter”
The initial phrase is short punchy and too the point, but the retorts is as well. Instead of trying to address the issue, it reframes the original to give it a meaning that it doesn’t have. (Black lives matter too)->(Only black lives matter). An effective* retort, but not a cache phrase of its own, lest the person be caught looking “liberal”.
“Global warming” -> “Look, a snowball/Why is it so cold?”
This retort does the same thing by instead taking the words literal meaning and misinterpreting it deliberately, rather than engaging with the vast body of science that backs it up (our actions as humans have caused a consistent rise in global temperature averages which has caused ecological disasters and a financial apocalypse). The retort moves the perspective away from the original wide view point, and directs your personal attention to the “snowball/cold” (it’s cold, therefore it is not warm) despite being incredibly stupid, this comes off as smug to their team, so they are going to repeat it. Excellent thought termination.
“Eat bugs” -> “Shrimp is bugs”
Congratulations to all of you that remember the original lemmy raids and psyop posting, so I’ll go through this one for fun. This one stems from a right wing conspiracy theory claiming that due to impending food shortages all regular food will be given to rich elites and we will all be forced to eat bugs. Uhhhhh??? (Food anxiety, antisemitism?, “economic anxiety”/suffering under capitalism, invocation of gross) Shrimp is bugs succinctly acts as a retort because it reframes the issue. Bugs ain’t cheap (you won’t be forced to eat lobster???) Shrimp aren’t gross/unfamiliar (Don’t tell me you’ve never had seafood). Destroying a global cabal in under three words might take some workshopping. (half point for smug because it is stating the obvious)
“Couch-fucker/Weird” -> no retorts yet …
10/10 no notes lmao. Being verifiably false and still accurate gives you the smugness point off of the bat. “Weird” invokes the gross which reduces support for people that wear spray tan makeup. Couch fucker is both distinct and specific enough to to be remembered, succinct in criticizing Vance’s lack of charisma and hot-topic-esqe makeup, and cannot be easily misinterpreted without ceding the entire argument.
“Go woke go broke” -> Go Nazi get shot?
A retort should be:
- Be smug/obvious about it. (x)
- Make the people saying it seem gross/weird/weak. (x)
- Explain/refute/sidestep the issue. (x)
- Under 4 words/Writable with emoji. (✓)
I’m much more fond of “Follow your leader” although that’s a general insult for people that are going mask off.
Much more fond of something that is inherently dismissive of the point like “go sleepy, baby”. Always mock the fascist.
Go nazi declare bankruptcy
Redpilled? Get killed
Go fash lose cash
Lick boot, lose loot
Go right eat shite
All incel, no braincells
Nazi salute, go destitute
ADL? Common L
Ku Klux? Lose bucks
Go apartheid, all downside
You’re hired!
Go nazi go bankrupt? Go nazi get Luigied? Go nazi get nasty? Go nazi get ,
… cazzi
Nazi business means no business
“Fascist around and find out.”
I just gave upvote 88 and now I’m sad.
Thank you for your service 🫡
“There’s no business for Nazi business! From no business I knowww!” - Ethel Merman
Go fash; lose cash.
hm, someone told me it was so easy to cut wasteful spending.
After Twitter already not being profitable. Add all the loss of marketing from businesses and users leaving, then the cost of all the bots and lawsuits.
How come it is “barely breaking even”? Who is paying them? Fascists?
All the blue checkmarks probably helps, and the premium crap too
He’s laundering money through it most likely
Aw geez, what a shame. As if Neo-Goebbels is going to shut his propaganda arm over something as trivial as money.
Bullshit. No way does Twitter make anywhere near a profit, and that’s NOT taking into account the payments on 44Bn.
If only they had competant management…
With the site now serving as an outlet for right wing narratives and misinformation that benefits the administration, there will be an incentive to prop it up financially if need be. Banks have been trying unsuccessfully to offload their debt used to finance the acquisition, so it seems investors aren’t as confident in the site’s long term profitability even with its newfound role.
Wouldn’t barely breaking even actually be exceptionally good in the history of twitter? I though it had been burning money from its conception.
No, Twitter had started making a profit when he bought it. The last year they had a court case which made the year a loss, but the years before were profitable.
You’d expect it – most online companies do, as it makes sense for companies with high fixed costs and low variable costs – to have a growth phase, during which it loses money but aims to grow by being very appealing. Once it’s grown as far as it reasonably can or as money permits, the growth phase ends and the monetization phase begins. Twitter’s growth phase was over. It would never have been expected for Twitter to just lose money forever.
At this point if you’re still working there knowingly building a powerful fascist gathering platform after so much time available to leave, taking dirty Nazi money as payment for your services…
I dunno man… should I feel bad for the staff, or are the remaining staff complicit enough at this point?
Do they have employees on H1B? If so, that may be why they haven’t jumped ship for less-Nazified pastures. Not excusing anyone, just striving to understand.
Feel bad for the poor bastards stuck there on visas. Feel less bad about anyone looking around that can’t quit but can’t find another job. Would you hire someone who’s still working at Twitter? I probably wouldn’t even pull that resume for an interview.
I think it’s time to fire half of the people! That will help.
Starting with everyone that wrote the least amount of code. I only want to see overly complex code for hello world!
Awww, is the world’s greediest man not making enough money?
Stick that seig arm out and well break more,k?
The advertisers are coming back, I swear!
Again damn gossip. Lemmy is also turning out to be a waste of time.
