A more fractured internet is coming. Posting sources will be forbidden. Discourse will become more polarized, disconnected, and extreme.

Most of these Reddit bans on Twitter are also half assed. They still allow screenshots of Twitter posts. That means the content is still spread, and Twitter remains relevant.

Lots of these subreddits don’t even get a lot of Twitter links in the first place. Like for lotrmemes it makes zero difference.

That said, Musk and Twitter suck. I have deleted my Twitter account three years ago.

However there still is some information, where Twitter is a good source.

My girlfriend calls me that regularly.

Usenet and IRC have bad usability and lack features compared to Discord.

IM applications like Jabber and such have been replaced by messenger apps like Telegram.

NetNewsWire is the iOS and macOS app for RSS. It has been around since RSS started out and is now open source.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=based

It’s one of the most upvoted posts on Lemmy at the moment. This is getting attention.

Users with other languages will see a different name anyway.

This is a huge distraction to get you worked up about a meaningless name change. Elon is heiling on stage like an edgy teen for further drama. Meanwhile EO are signed en masse and action is taken by the new administration. This time Trump and his cronies came well prepared with a plan.

swastikas in the SpaceX and Tesla breakrooms

I had not heard of this.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/us-agency-sues-tesla-as-black-workers-report-swastikas-threats-and-nooses/

I think this is Elon trolling and pushing the boundaries of what can be done. It‘s being edgy and provocative, while obfuscating his true intentions.

Elon used a fascist salute twice in public on stage to thunderous applause. Now he gets the support of the actual fascist right. However all he mainstream republicans in the audience who cheered now have to defend him as well. This will have no consequences for Elon. It was pure demonstration of his power to do whatever he pleases, both to his side and to the opposition. This also gives Elon attention and amuses him.

Elon might call this salute the heart (of America) salute and repeat it in the future. Any other rightwinger who loves trolling the libs now has a role model. Salute from the heart, such a harmless gesture, and it gets the normies all upset. Do it as a laugh first and then for real over time.

As I wrote before, I don’t support the continuation of the war.

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way you came off sounded very much like

It’s not my fault, you’re unable to read and only carry hate and prejudice in your heart.

extermination of another people

Is just a lie. There’s nothing close to extermination of Palestinians going on. Compare the number of dead to wars in Syria, Sudan, Azerbaijan, Yemen, Iraq.

Are too many Palestinians dying, yes. However, as has been demonstrated just now, Hama could have gotten a ceasefire at any time. They just don’t give a shit about Palestinian deaths.

then also look at the way the Israeli government treats non-white Jews

Check out how black Gazans are treated, that live in Abeed (Arabic for Slave).

Ethiopian Jews are doing pretty well in Israel.

Zionism as an excuse for an ethnostate is disgusting and a play by play reproduction of what was done by the Nazi

You don’t seem to have any understanding of what the Nazis did, what Zionism is, or what Israel‘s actual policies are. What you’re writing is at least holocaust relativism, which is antisemitic. You should be ashamed.

That’s the core definition of Zionism. Look it up. There are many flavors of it that disagree on many things.

There are of course antisemites, who will simply replace Jew with Zionist to spread their ideology in a more publicly acceptable manner.

Self determination is in the UN Charter and part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Are these racist?

Self determination means the peoples can decide themselves under what kind of government or state they live.

Was the British and Spanish colonial empire anti racist because it ruled over many ethnicities?

It’s part of the UN Charter and the International Declaration of Human rights and a well established right in international law.

Native American peoples deserve self determination and reparations for sure.

for all lands to be given back to the ethnic group that held them thousands of years ago

Not every group, because they usually don’t have such a strong cultural connection to some ancient lands anymore. The Jewish people had been a homeless and oppressed minority for centuries. Fleeing and founding their own state in their ancient homeland was the only way to ensure their own survival. Israel is a country of refugees, who had nowhere else to go. I don’t know of another people with a comparable history.

Roma (gypsies) in Europe don’t have such a connection to their ancient homeland for example. I don’t know enough about North American natives to have an informed opinion on it. I know that many tribes were displaced more than once.

I don’t support the current war on Gaza and support peace. A Palestinian state alongside Israel is the most viable solution still.

The ADL defending Elon is flabbergasting. They could have just said nothing instead, if they didn’t want to call him out.

Have you ever heard of the following?

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

Ridicule is helpful, but not sufficient. The new right has established itself all over western democracies. They have built organizations, institutions, parties, companies, etc.