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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who cares? Do they not have a website, or a YouTube show or something? There's still plenty of entertainers I like on there. Didn't stop me from deleting that Nazi cesspool and just getting that info elsewhere. You just have to want to actually quit and quit coming up with excuses. Sports ball is on other platforms, too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How do yall feel this entitled over another persons decision to use any particular social media 😂super weird behavior

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who is being entitled? This guy is saying he's supporting the Nazi platform because his sports ball people are still on there. I told him that's a bullshit reason to stay on a platform.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The vast majority of people using twitter are not thinking “I’m supporting a nazi but it’s okay”. They are thinking “I’m using twitter because I enjoy the content/interaction”.

The issue on Reddit, and Lemmy even more so, is that you frame the issue as if people are knowingly supporting a nazi. This a silly straw man argument the only gets upvotes in chronically online circles

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you been on Twitter recently? I kept getting white supremacist and MAGA tweet notifications left and right. I only followed progressive pages and random bands and music festivals. I even tested it out - blocked a high profile Nazi that I kept getting tweet notifications for - sure enough, got a notification for that same Nazi. It's a Nazi platform, 100%. Are you a Muskrat apologist/dickrider or something? Because that's what you come off across as. I've seen it with my own eyes, dawg.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes I have, and it’s nothing like what you describe on my end. I don’t even care for twitter, I’m just explaining to you why your views are extremist and contain zero nuance. The world is not so black and white. Go touch grass my brother.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Youtube? Talk about a cesspool…
Sometimes it’s simply almost unavoidable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you one of those weirdos that actually looks at comments on YouTube? There's your problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

True, I did that once upon a time. It made me feel like a pharaoh. A dead one, where the balmers are pulling the brain out through the nose.

But aside from the toxic comments, YT has an algorithm that really keeps feeding you worse and worse garbage, with an increasingly ultra-rightwing bias. It really is a cesspool and a foul one at that.