X, the social media platform owned by Trump megadonor Elon Musk, is promoting Trump campaign-curated content to all U.S. users, regardless of whether they have opted out of Trump-related content.
On the platform formerly known as Twitter, banner ads for the Trump campaign donning the #Trump2024 tag appear for all U.S. users, even those who’ve blocked words, topics, and hashtags related to the candidate or his campaign or muted the advertiser.
Additionally, the #MAGA tag displays an edited image of the former president from his attempted assassination and the #Trump2024 hashtag displays an American flag.
It is unclear whether the Trump campaign paid for the images on the #Trump2024 and #MAGA tags, though an advertisement for the tag on the site’s trending page reads “Promoted by Team Trump.” As Mashable noted, it is the first time the platform has enabled the image feature to promote a specific political candidate.
Clicking the Trump2024 tag also prompts American flag graphics to flood the screen.
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If you still have a Twitter account, you are a piece of shit. That goes for everyone of you
Most of the world doesn’t know or care about US politics. X is a hellish platform though that does crack on pro-Palestinian users.
I don’t ever use it to think to delete it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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A bit harsh I think
It’s really not.
Damn I just got back from twitter… It really changed in the past month it’s all political stuff and I never used twitter to research politics I’m not even American I’m a Canuck but maybe that is close enough.
Moral of the story: I agree with you
It really has changed. I noticed it a few months back. Subtle rightwing and like, morbid “shock” content and even some animal abuse started popping up more and more. I just gradually started using it less and less, it was pretty obvious what was going on.
I’m willing to bet that Elon donated the money to be kicked back to Twitter in order to fraudulently make it look like revenue was improving.
This is SOP in silicon valley so I’m sure you’re correct.
Woah who woulda seen this coming? Free speech, politically centered Elon Musk of all people? Crazy!
I don’t think anyone truly believes that anymore. He’s been mask off dirtbag for awhile now.
Lets all remember the following tweet by Elon
Guys you are all too left, calm down a bit please.
The USA doesn’t even have a left in any meaningful way. There are two parties, one is right and the other is far right.
As someone from a not-US country, I’m always amazed at how right wing the US “liberal” policies are. If Biden was our PM he’d be more right wing than our most recent conservative PM.
You know what? I’m gonna left even harder.
This is true though. 1992 Bill Clinton would be a republican today. Biden supported a 1994 crime bill that is considered racist today. Obama didn’t support gay marriage in 2008. Now liberals are fighting for sex change treatments for children. People 30 years ago would consider such an idea a grotesque absurdity.
1992 Bill Clinton thought that we should have universal single-payer healthcare. In 2016 Hillary said that would “never, ever, ever happen.”
If you look at Hillary’s broader statements, she has always favored universal single-payer healthcare. She worked her ass off to get a plan passed in 1994, and she was relentlessly attacked for it.
The last time Democrats got successful movement on healthcare was March 2010 with a filibuster proof Democratic majority in the Senate, a majority in the House, and a popular new president in the White House. Even then, only a relatively tepid compromise bill was passed, with even the “public option” stripped out (thanks Joe Lieberman).
Will conditions change in the future? Quite possibly, especially as our health care becomes increasingly unaffordable. Maybe it’s not so helpful to have senior politicians telling voters something is impossible and potentially affecting the Overton Window. But Hillary’s warning, that Bernie Sanders’ plan hadn’t a chance of getting passed, was a good reality check.
Most republicans prior to Reagan are more like today’s liberals. They did things like make national parks, codify civil rights, and invest in social programs. Today’s liberals are trying to do what those republicans did - save natural lands, implement social programs, and enhance rights for people.
That said, just because a liberal does some things a conservative might approve of doesn’t make them a Republican, nor would the inverse be true.
Wasn’t Eisenhower the last of those republicans?
Like Terry Pratchett said: Bad times make good men
Good men make good times
Good times make bad men
Bad men makes bad times
I tried to spread it out. I don’t know if Ike was pro-civil rights, but he was certainly an advocate of investing in the country. His battleship speech certainly made him seem like an advocate of social programs.
maybe we should all ask our ancestors what they think about our society. you know 80 years ago people wouldn’t be so keen on integration so much, maybe we should give this whole “having black people freely move around” a second thought, what do you think?
also you’re massively misunderstanding the whole political spectrum but i don’t have the energy. I’ll just suffice to say liberals are not and have never been left wing. left has gained some traction in recent years but that’s not about liberals. also for every inch the democrats have moved to the left, republicans have moved a mile to the right. the Overton window has shifted, but not to the left overall.
you’re massively misunderstanding the whole political spectrum but i don’t have the energy
I understand that politics is multi-faceted however the chart I responded to is 2D.
maybe we should give this whole “having black people freely move around” a second thought, what do you think?
Because that’s what I’m saying 🙄 Calling someone a racist or a nazi for not hating all of human history is a low-tier cop out but go ahead and take your upvotes.
liberals are not and have never been left wing
Remember I responded to a meme chart
Also for every inch the democrats have moved to the left, republicans have moved a mile to the right
Literally just an opinion.
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Conservatism is dead. Climate change is scientifically proven to be catastrophic.
If we do nothing, change will come to us, and fuck up everything. If we elect to change our society and systems, we save ourselves but our way of living changes.
One way or another there’s change. There’s nothing to conserve. Stop yelling and kicking like an irrational kid trying to save conservatism and crony capitalism.
Ah remember the days when you could be left and still donate to an immigrant hating, sexist and racist billionaire? Those were the good days.
Thanks for proving my point
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Biden supported a 1994 crime bill that is considered racist today.
Some context is required there, though. The 1994 crime bill did have significant support among Black leaders and activists. It was seen as an imperfect solution to a critical issue that disproportionately affected Black neighborhoods at the time.
It is true. And that’s OK. Failure to change with the times and to learn from scientific advancements and social improvements is a conservative trait.
You are accurate, but it begs the question: Is not changing your opinions with time and new info a respectable way to live your life? Will you be on the right side of history? Who knows? But I feel like giving people more options is more often better than the alternative.
Failure to change with the times and to learn from scientific advancements and social improvements is a conservative trait.
Literally lolled at this. This post is in response to a “far right” Elon Musk who owns the first company to ever fire a rocket into space, retrieve and reuse it. I’m sure he’s just taking credit for all the bleeding heart liberal geniuses working under him.
Is not changing your opinions with time and new info a respectable way to live your life?
🥱 Wow way to load your rebuttal to make yourself seem so erudite and above it all. The reality is that a ton of the “new info” turns out to be proven false or even to be outright lies. The reality is that you should be incredibly suspicious of “new info” because chances are it hasn’t been properly vetted and could be driven by an agenda similar to how companies fund research to prove their desired conclusions.
Hey I was trying to say your point was valid but I guess you’d rather be told to go fuck yourself? /shrug
Be honest. You were shitting on conservatives not agreeing with me.
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I actually think young liberal folk are the ones downvoting you not conservatives. I’m pretty liberal myself but I lived through the changes in the world so I can see how someone can feel left behind when they considereal themselves moderate or liberal their whole lives and now they’re being called conservative when they haven’t changed beliefs at all.
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Mastodon/Bluesky > Birdsite. Always.
How to get every business to leave your platform in one simple step.
Yea, right.
At this point he could push porn with himself as every second shiit you see and people would still mindlessly scroll
Idk I thought they would have already left a long time ago but they are still there
Maybe this will make people finally stop using the site for good. But I doubt it.
Who wants to see a child rapist every time you go to their site?
I mean, people already go there to see Elon Musk and he’s on the Epstein list…
I’d say this is a great time for even more advertisers to abandon that platform, but really anyone who would care about this should have left a long time ago.
It’s time to start putting everything Republicans love under the Trump tag. Come on Internet, you know the drill!
I want to transfer my tweets to my Mastodon before deleting my Twitter account.
I don’t understand why a tool like still doesn’t exist.
Wow, you must really value your thoughts.
Wow, you must really not value your thoughts.
Guess why he’s got a better life than you
Lmao I don’t use x ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There is a point in every cult where the leader increases restrictions and demands purity. What this does is eliminate the free thinking people by forcing them to chose. The more you impose these restrictions the crazier they get targeting only the most devote and the most codependent people.
What you end up with is an army of sycophants that will die before they leave the cult. Twitter will be the largest imposition of this strategy on a targeted group of people that i can think of. It’s time to start being afraid of the cult of elon.
It’s time to start being afraid of the cult of elon.
He’s said he’s going to donate $45m per month to Trump until November. It’s becoming very clear he bought out Twitter to suppress free communication of people.
He sees which way the wind is blowing and is hoping he can help install Dictator-for-a-day Trump who’ll deregulate every industry and cut every tax that might apply to him.
