Elon Musk Ws gsa32 • Now • 33%

"If I were to own Twitter, it would be geared towards the middle 80% of the population, so technically the far left and far right would probably be dissatisfied" - Elon Musk

But I thought lemmings told me Elon was a fascist. If Elon was a fascist, why would he cater to centrists?

Elon Musk Ws gsa32 • Now • 20%

FACT: Operating Starlink in Ukraine costs Elon $100 million [1]. FACT: The USGOV only gave SpaceX $3 million for equipment sent to Ukraine [2].

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5327292 > The fact is that Elon, one man, has done more to support Ukraine in the fight against Putin than most countries on earth. > > In fact even if Ukrainians weren't receiving it for free Elon would still deserve credit FOR CREATING Starlink in the first place. Thereby allowing Ukrainians to have critical infrastructure in wartime. > > The Russians would be parading Zelenskyy’s corpse through the streets of Kiev, if not for Elon’s help. > > Sources: > > [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/08/us-quietly-paying-millions-send-starlink-terminals-ukraine-contrary-spacexs-claims/ > > [2] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-starlink-ukraine-cost-spacex-100-million-dollars-2022-10 > > Tired of the echo chamber? Just click that subscribe button on the sidebar!

Lemmy Moment gsa32 • Now • 50%

More lemmy moments than you can count in this thread

lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5233539 > > [It’s time to put some of these billionaires in their place. Nationalize his shit, seize his assets, and revoke his passport and citizenship. Fuck Musk, sick of his childish attention seeking bullshit.](https://lemmy.world/comment/3517266) > --- > > [Nationalize SpaceX for sure. Let him keep Twitter though, at this point it’s such a dumpster fire that it’s more of an albatross around his neck than an asset, we don’t need the tax payers carrying that shit.](https://lemmy.world/comment/3517266) > --- > > [I would say we give him the French treatment. Fucker is just wasting oxygen](https://lemmy.world/comment/3517266) > --- > > [It’s infuriating that people are beholden to this fucking loser.](https://lemmy.world/comment/3511237) > --- > > [Trying to assist his rich buddies with fucking with the union is a lower tier crime but still its fuckery that affects a lot of people. Then we’ve got other rich asshats selling state secrets for money. Billionaires are a liability and everyone needs to realize it.](https://lemmy.world/comment/3512027) > --- > > [Well, I think this might, but probably not, technically qualify as an anti-union action in violation of state and federal laws. Basically, if you do things to silence or discredit the union and advocates then you’ve broken the law. That said, companies get away with a lot worse, so something as minor as the blue check disappearing is not likely to have any real backlash.Definitely shows where he stands on these issues if it ever wasn’t clear. Musk is unfortunately a person with a lot of influence on business and politics.](https://lemmy.world/comment/3511409) > --- > > [Fascism at its best](https://lemmy.world/comment/3505960) +28 > >> [I don’t think that’s what fascism is](https://lemmy.world/comment/3505960) -18 > >>> [Union-busting is absolutely part of the fascist agenda.](https://lemmy.world/comment/3506254) +24 > --- > > [for the fascist please refer to my previous comment, for the Communists, the Bolsheviks didn’t have much to do with the small and numerous Russian unions (Russia had a very beurocratically decentralized industry at that point in time) and later fought against them as they mostly joined the white Russian faction (the bolsheviks being backed by the Entente), and ironically the term Tankie comes from an event where the soviet unions crushed mainly union uprisings against the soviets in Hungary, with tanks, because the soviets also couldn’t stand unions (like ever fascist ever)please stop repeating American Cold War era misinformation.](https://lemmy.world/comment/3513107) > --- > :#stalinjam:

Reddit gsa32 • Now • 68%

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3249941 > ## Highlights: > > Chadmins are also banning everyone for saying they're leaving > > > What surprises me is that people think making a community specifically for illegal activity isn’t a problem, and that they should only be called on their behaviour when a copyright holder notices them. There are plenty of places to go for piracy online, so what’s the need to add a community for it here? Or are you people claiming a piracy community wasn’t primarily intended for piracy? > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2426956 > > > Time to host my own instance. I disagree with this move. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2429393 > > > The people whining are not the people that could face multimillion-dollar lawsuits over the issue. Like it or not, media companies are powerful and will go after websites seen as promoting piracy. Do what you reasonably have to do. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2426973 > > > Oh no. Wtf. Do you know what’s funny? I actually joined this instance from piracy subreddit. > > > I guess it’s time to leave. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2425186 > > > I don’t think this was the right call. Don’t have it hosted on here, fine. But defederated? I don’t see how being federated would be an issue at all. Oh well guess i got to actively go seek them out now. > > > At this rate, you might as well as defederate from all instances. Cant be too careful. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2427348 > > > Bootlicker [-8] > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2427940 > > > These communities are not even hosted on lemmy.world, this is an absurdly overreacted response. There were no signs of any legal trouble and I can’t understand how lemmy.world specifically would be the target of such legal action. If you want to host an instance, you should do everything in your power to allow discussions on any topic, while in necessary cases disallowing direct posting/linking of illegal content. Instead, you chose to block a community that has long been known to avoid having any trouble with the moderators. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421890 > > > Doesn’t matter if they are hosted here or not. The way federation works is that threads on different instances are cached locally. > > > We have NO issues with the people at db0 - we are just looking out for ourselves in a ‘better safe than sorry’ fashion while we find out more. As mentioned in the OP we would like to unblock as soon as we know we can not get in any legal trouble. [chadmins] > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421890 > > > What the absolute hell? What makes this place so good is that there’s not people making idiot decisions at the top. This is an idiot decision. Plus side of the fediverse is vanishing. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2424687 > > > Uh, @lwadmin@lemmy.world … what’s up with the banning going on in this thread? I noticed on a.lemmy.org that someone was labeled “banned” and their comment was simply “Ight, I’m out” > > > The mod note was “Let us help you”. > > > There are more similarly weak (spiteful?) bans that certainly don’t seem to be at a standard for a ban. “Litterally 1984” was another one. Is that all it takes to be banned here? > > > Edit: Many (all?) the users I referenced as banned are now unbanned from the site, but now banned from this community. :marseyban: > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2422473 > > > Please make announcements on lemmy instead of exclusively on discord moving forward. That is the biggest issue here, the lack of public transparency. Such a decision affects all instances, not just lemmy.world and making it publicly known is important > > >> This was a misunderstanding from one of the team members. It has since been discussed and will not happen again. Lemmy.World and this announcement community is our primary platform, [chadmin] > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421280 > > > And once again we have people thinking that the instance owners would have to discuss everything they want to do with them and get the approval of everyone. It’s already great that they’re making announcements instead of doing it silently until people notice on their own. Plus, it’s not hard to make an account elsewhere if you don’t like it here. I doubt you’re restricted to this single instance. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2424187 > > > Ight, I’m out > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421940 > > > Surely there is a discussion to be had around what is and isn’t allowed, there are plenty of subreddits discussing piracy without dolirect links that are playing within the rules. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2420730 > > > fucking hell, its time to leave lemmy.world, you are no better than reddit :marseysnoo: > > Says the redditor > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2422227 > > > What is the legal theory being used here? > > > People chatting about piracy is now a crime in US? I thought the crime was uploading or downloading copyrighted content… > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421667 > > > Lovely this happened because someone complained after being banned from the piracy instance for being a transphobic asshole. :marseytransplushie3: > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421151 > > > Yea, I’m leaving. Not as a protest, I just want access to something without caring if devs like it or not. > > > **All hail Piracy!** > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421558 > > > Well said! I think the entire LW community would prefer a heads up for major actions. It’s understandable that piracy could lead to liability issues which none of us want. Thanks for giving us a run down. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2420912 > > > Is it a liability when the discussion happened outside of lemmy.world? > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421575 > > > Deleting lemmy now I guess as well [-3] > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2424715 > > > Wtf? I’m leaving. > > > Is there a way to migrate a community? [-3] > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2428100 > > > I’m sure this comment will receive plenty of hate, but I’m really struggling to understand why piracy seems to get so staunchly defended by seemingly everyone here. Piracy is stealing. It is morally wrong. We can argue all day about how it’s a ‘victimless crime’ or how media conglomerates are greedy and deserve it, but at the end of the day there’s nothing that makes it ‘right’. With maybe a few exceptions, no one needs the things they’re pirating and it’s just childish to refuse to pay for content and go on pretending it’s a necessity. What needs to happen is more money going to the creators whose content we all enjoy so much. > > > There’s plenty of places to go where you can still interact with these communities, and we shouldn’t be surprised that a large and general instance wants to be distant from them. Personally I applaud the decision. [-6] > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2426834 > > > Literally 1984 [-14] > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421877

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3250365 > ## Highlights: > > Admins are also banning everyone for saying they're leaving > > > What surprises me is that people think making a community specifically for illegal activity isn’t a problem, and that they should only be called on their behaviour when a copyright holder notices them. There are plenty of places to go for piracy online, so what’s the need to add a community for it here? Or are you people claiming a piracy community wasn’t primarily intended for piracy? > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2426956 > > > Time to host my own instance. I disagree with this move. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2429393 > > > The people whining are not the people that could face multimillion-dollar lawsuits over the issue. Like it or not, media companies are powerful and will go after websites seen as promoting piracy. Do what you reasonably have to do. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2426973 > > > Oh no. Wtf. Do you know what’s funny? I actually joined this instance from piracy subreddit. > > > I guess it’s time to leave. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2425186 > > > I don’t think this was the right call. Don’t have it hosted on here, fine. But defederated? I don’t see how being federated would be an issue at all. Oh well guess i got to actively go seek them out now. > > > At this rate, you might as well as defederate from all instances. Cant be too careful. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2427348 > > > Bootlicker [-8] > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2427940 > > > These communities are not even hosted on lemmy.world, this is an absurdly overreacted response. There were no signs of any legal trouble and I can’t understand how lemmy.world specifically would be the target of such legal action. If you want to host an instance, you should do everything in your power to allow discussions on any topic, while in necessary cases disallowing direct posting/linking of illegal content. Instead, you chose to block a community that has long been known to avoid having any trouble with the moderators. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421890 > > > Doesn’t matter if they are hosted here or not. The way federation works is that threads on different instances are cached locally. > > > We have NO issues with the people at db0 - we are just looking out for ourselves in a ‘better safe than sorry’ fashion while we find out more. As mentioned in the OP we would like to unblock as soon as we know we can not get in any legal trouble. [chadmins] > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421890 > > > What the absolute hell? What makes this place so good is that there’s not people making idiot decisions at the top. This is an idiot decision. Plus side of the fediverse is vanishing. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2424687 > > > Uh, @lwadmin@lemmy.world … what’s up with the banning going on in this thread? I noticed on a.lemmy.org that someone was labeled “banned” and their comment was simply “Ight, I’m out” > > > The mod note was “Let us help you”. > > > There are more similarly weak (spiteful?) bans that certainly don’t seem to be at a standard for a ban. “Litterally 1984” was another one. Is that all it takes to be banned here? > > > Edit: Many (all?) the users I referenced as banned are now unbanned from the site, but now banned from this community. :marseyban: > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2422473 > > > Please make announcements on lemmy instead of exclusively on discord moving forward. That is the biggest issue here, the lack of public transparency. Such a decision affects all instances, not just lemmy.world and making it publicly known is important > > >> This was a misunderstanding from one of the team members. It has since been discussed and will not happen again. Lemmy.World and this announcement community is our primary platform, [chadmin] > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421280 > > > And once again we have people thinking that the instance owners would have to discuss everything they want to do with them and get the approval of everyone. It’s already great that they’re making announcements instead of doing it silently until people notice on their own. Plus, it’s not hard to make an account elsewhere if you don’t like it here. I doubt you’re restricted to this single instance. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2424187 > > > Ight, I’m out > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421940 > > > Surely there is a discussion to be had around what is and isn’t allowed, there are plenty of subreddits discussing piracy without dolirect links that are playing within the rules. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2420730 > > > fucking hell, its time to leave lemmy.world, you are no better than reddit :marseysnoo: > > Says the redditor > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2422227 > > > What is the legal theory being used here? > > > People chatting about piracy is now a crime in US? I thought the crime was uploading or downloading copyrighted content… > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421667 > > > Lovely this happened because someone complained after being banned from the piracy instance for being a transphobic asshole. :marseytransplushie3: > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421151 > > > Yea, I’m leaving. Not as a protest, I just want access to something without caring if devs like it or not. > > > **All hail Piracy!** > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421558 > > > Well said! I think the entire LW community would prefer a heads up for major actions. It’s understandable that piracy could lead to liability issues which none of us want. Thanks for giving us a run down. > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2420912 > > > Is it a liability when the discussion happened outside of lemmy.world? > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421575 > > > Deleting lemmy now I guess as well [-3] > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2424715 > > > Wtf? I’m leaving. > > > Is there a way to migrate a community? [-3] > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2428100 > > > I’m sure this comment will receive plenty of hate, but I’m really struggling to understand why piracy seems to get so staunchly defended by seemingly everyone here. Piracy is stealing. It is morally wrong. We can argue all day about how it’s a ‘victimless crime’ or how media conglomerates are greedy and deserve it, but at the end of the day there’s nothing that makes it ‘right’. With maybe a few exceptions, no one needs the things they’re pirating and it’s just childish to refuse to pay for content and go on pretending it’s a necessity. What needs to happen is more money going to the creators whose content we all enjoy so much. > > > There’s plenty of places to go where you can still interact with these communities, and we shouldn’t be surprised that a large and general instance wants to be distant from them. Personally I applaud the decision. [-6] > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2426834 > > > Literally 1984 [-14] > > https://lemmy.world/comment/2421877