movielover said:

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oski003 said:

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Unit2Sucks said:

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Funny how conservatives support black people who hate black people and white people who hate black people while claiming everyone else is obsessed with race.

I don't know what Musk's deal is with respect to black people, but Dilbert's comments were abhorrent and if someone said that about white people, the tiki torch crowd would be pretty riled up.

The promotion of this message that white people are the victims of any sort of structural racism by people who are anti-CRT and refuse to even consider the possibility that there is structural racism against people of color is just a major facepalm, but not a surprising one.

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It is not cool to hate people because of their skin color. The poll that Musk and the Dilbert creator are referring to is a bit confusing. It seems like the Dilbert creator is generally calling black people racist because of the amount of black people who appear to hate white people, based on this poll?

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I only saw a quick 3 minute outtake, but he apparently isn't happy with the 26% of African Americans who say it's not OK to be white.

Unit2Sucks mischaracterizes Adams position, unless he says in the longer clip something I haven't read. He specifically said he's tired of seeing video clips of African Americans assaulting whites (many likely hate crimes).

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"If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with White people according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll that's a hate group," Adams said Wednesday on his YouTube show "Real Coffee with Scott Adams."

"I don't want to have anything to do with them," Adams added. "And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people, just get the **** away … because there is no fixing this."

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NEW: Twitter went down today because its migration to a paid API has a single site reliability engineer attached to it. Here’s @ZoeSchiffer and me on the high price of cutting costs:https://t.co/yjAHeVkgYl pic.twitter.com/6QVURpHagc

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) March 6, 2023

DiabloWags said:

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Musk gonna build his own town in Texas

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-texas-town-52386513?st=2irtrv6osflv2g7&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

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That’s what she said

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2023

Welp guess my blue ✔️ will be gone soon cause if you know me I ain’t paying the 5. 🤷🏾‍♂️

— LeBron James (@KingJames) March 31, 2023

When are they taking away our check? 🤣🤣

— Patrick Mahomes II (@PatrickMahomes) March 31, 2023

Can’t bro i got kids… https://t.co/dP0DlmVaDl

— Patrick Mahomes II (@PatrickMahomes) March 31, 2023

sycasey said:

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Rather than monetize what had been a highly coveted feature on Twitter, Elon Musk has managed to make it worthless. Genius at work.

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They will regret this

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) March 31, 2023

If the blue checkmark goes away and someone claiming to be me asks you for money please send them all your money they are me

— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) April 1, 2023

sycasey said:

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This whole blue check debacle shows that Musk truly does not understand the incentives of social media. The whole purpose of the blue check was that it represented VERIFICATION: if you saw a Tweet from, say, LeBron James, the check meant you knew it was actually from him (or at least an account controlled by him). Anyone without a check mark was fake.

To make the whole thing pay-for-play with no verification removes the whole benefit. Anyone can just pay eight bucks and pretend to be LeBron. Why would any celebrity or media organization want to pay for that kind of "service?"

Maybe if they had just opened up the blue check process to everyone (with payment) but as part of it forced them to provide legal identification and use their real names, that would work. Blue checks for celebrities and reporters and also random nobodies would at least all be consistently accurate, and some people would want to pay.

But Elon is too galaxy-brained for that. Now he's made it so no one wants to pay (not even Catturd). Amazing.

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sycasey said:

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oski003 said:

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sycasey said:

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This whole blue check debacle shows that Musk truly does not understand the incentives of social media. The whole purpose of the blue check was that it represented VERIFICATION: if you saw a Tweet from, say, LeBron James, the check meant you knew it was actually from him (or at least an account controlled by him). Anyone without a check mark was fake.

To make the whole thing pay-for-play with no verification removes the whole benefit. Anyone can just pay eight bucks and pretend to be LeBron. Why would any celebrity or media organization want to pay for that kind of "service?"

Maybe if they had just opened up the blue check process to everyone (with payment) but as part of it forced them to provide legal identification and use their real names, that would work. Blue checks for celebrities and reporters and also random nobodies would at least all be consistently accurate, and some people would want to pay.

But Elon is too galaxy-brained for that. Now he's made it so no one wants to pay (not even Catturd). Amazing.

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It is against their policy. Is nobody enforcing it?

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-impersonation-and-deceptive-identities-policy

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I have tried hard to understand how this has anything to do with my point, but I have failed.

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AunBear89 said:

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sycasey said:

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oski003 said:

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sycasey said:

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This whole blue check debacle shows that Musk truly does not understand the incentives of social media. The whole purpose of the blue check was that it represented VERIFICATION: if you saw a Tweet from, say, LeBron James, the check meant you knew it was actually from him (or at least an account controlled by him). Anyone without a check mark was fake.

To make the whole thing pay-for-play with no verification removes the whole benefit. Anyone can just pay eight bucks and pretend to be LeBron. Why would any celebrity or media organization want to pay for that kind of "service?"

Maybe if they had just opened up the blue check process to everyone (with payment) but as part of it forced them to provide legal identification and use their real names, that would work. Blue checks for celebrities and reporters and also random nobodies would at least all be consistently accurate, and some people would want to pay.

But Elon is too galaxy-brained for that. Now he's made it so no one wants to pay (not even Catturd). Amazing.

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It is against their policy. Is nobody enforcing it?

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-impersonation-and-deceptive-identities-policy

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I have tried hard to understand how this has anything to do with my point, but I have failed.

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003 gonna 003.

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oski003 said:

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sycasey said:

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oski003 said:

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sycasey said:

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This whole blue check debacle shows that Musk truly does not understand the incentives of social media. The whole purpose of the blue check was that it represented VERIFICATION: if you saw a Tweet from, say, LeBron James, the check meant you knew it was actually from him (or at least an account controlled by him). Anyone without a check mark was fake.

To make the whole thing pay-for-play with no verification removes the whole benefit. Anyone can just pay eight bucks and pretend to be LeBron. Why would any celebrity or media organization want to pay for that kind of "service?"

Maybe if they had just opened up the blue check process to everyone (with payment) but as part of it forced them to provide legal identification and use their real names, that would work. Blue checks for celebrities and reporters and also random nobodies would at least all be consistently accurate, and some people would want to pay.

But Elon is too galaxy-brained for that. Now he's made it so no one wants to pay (not even Catturd). Amazing.

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It is against their policy. Is nobody enforcing it?

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-impersonation-and-deceptive-identities-policy

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I have tried hard to understand how this has anything to do with my point, but I have failed.

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Hopefully this page helps explain to you how the blue checkmark works.

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/about-twitter-verified-accounts

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