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If you are still on Twitter, you are making a statement whether you like it or not.
Sadly, my kids school only announces the buses have left through twitter :/
That is fixable. Make waves with higher ups. Many in education are trying to fight this same battle. There are better alternatives, as we all know. I also work in education.
Not sure how much x makes from me browsing cosplayers posts on firefox with adblock but i guess thats how much statement i am willing to make.
More than the 0 they'd make if you left
Probably less than they make from me posting gay porn to my 2k subscribers using firefox with uBlock Origin.
not directly making money but they can keep creditors at bay by showing not so ugly MAU numbers
i'm not gonna say to anybody that they should stop using twitter right now or they are morally evil, but I would say to everyone that it would be so funny that banks took twitter from him if things declined too much
Up until this morning, I used it to keep up to date in gamedev circles but I also made a Threads and bsky account in addition to Mastodon. I'll be deleting it later this weekend.
If everyone did this…even maintaining X over a treansition period, we could all really send a message to big money.
What mistake?
IBM profited handsomely off the Holocaust... just like a lot of European and US capitalists did.
It was no mistake - it's capitalism working as designed.
And Mao profited handsomely over a manmade famine. It really isn't about the economic system.
Did IBM enthusiastically help out with that one, too?
There's no design. It's just human nature.
Capitalism is not "human nature."
Stop making excuses for parasites.
I think they were referring to greed, not capitalism specifically. I think there's a much stronger argument that greed is a part of human nature. Capitalism is just our latest attempt to harness it.
Making profit from mass murder is not human nature.
It is for some humans though and it has been like this for as far as we have records. It is human nature to sell out your kind for some.
If it's (supposedly) "human nature" then why don't all humans do it? You don't see the entirety of humanity volunteering to be police and repress their own for the rich, do you?
There is a spectrum of human nature of course. It is why I said “some”. Not you or I, but there are plenty who will sell you out and that type of human has been a monkey on our back since forever. Sadly, we idolize many of them and given them their power, which begs the bigger question…is it our nature as a species to create the exploitative environments?
No. We don't. There's a good reason they have spent uncountable trillions on propaganda - if we were to see them for what they are, there'd be no idolization. If it was "human nature" to idolize these parasites they wouldn't need that, would they?
That is only true for those of us with a mind that can see through their BS and are more logical/rational and less emotional. Those who are more in the emotional/group think camp cannot see the lies as they are blinded sadly. I’ve come to accept that it may be as much as 30% of the population that falls into this camp.
I'm no more logical and rational than the guy living on the street corner - in fact, it seems to me it's the people who claim logic and rationality who turns out to be the easiest to fool with this right-wing bullshit.
That is called the Dunning Kruger Effect, but it is a fact those who lean right tend to have brains with a larger emotional center and thus think more this way while as you pointed out, claiming they are the rational ones. Even when you bring the facts to the table, they do not sway as that is not how you engage them. Got to be emotional engagement and that is something the rational people like myself often underestimate.
From what I understand, history has proven otherwise. Wars are always very profitable for certain groups.