Current status of Twitter: the billionaire owner and a podcast host worth hundreds of millions are dogpiling a pediatrician who develops vaccines to give to impoverished countries.
@maxkennerly Thanks for the update! How ignominious!
@maxkennerly well, that is depressing 😞
@maxkennerly Mr #Musk is clearly a reprehensible malignant #narcissist 🤬
@maxkennerly Twitter: a multi-billion-dollar experiment in discovering how much ruin there is in a social network
@maxkennerly Fuck all these assholes though. It's like they're all part of an asshole cult or something. Or they are coming through hell portals like Doom.
@maxkennerly The Tesla brand damage is real. In a just world, it would be fatal
@maxkennerly please tell me it’s not Hotez. 😢.
@LexiGirl @maxkennerly If Max did, that would be lying. Of course they're demanding he debate RFK2.
@johnjwyatt @maxkennerly I feel so bad for him. And Fauci. They have dedicated their lives to public service and don’t deserve this shit.
@LexiGirl @maxkennerly unfortunately yes
@blahttodea @maxkennerly ugh. And Elon is the little shit stirrer from school who would say crap and then run and hide.
@LexiGirl @maxkennerly literally! whenever he replies to the most vile transphobic, antisemitic, ableist to autistic people bullshit with a "!" he knows exactly what he's doing promoting this shit to his fanbase
@blahttodea @maxkennerly Elon can dish it out, but he can’t take it. Coward.
@blahttodea @LexiGirl @maxkennerly 😢 Musk and Rogan are disgusting. Dr. Hotez is a treasure.
@mkandle @blahttodea @maxkennerly Rogan claimed in a podcast with Josh Szeps that myocarditis kills you. Luckily Josh was armed with the facts and made Joe look like an uninformed tool.
@mkandle @blahttodea @maxkennerly then Rogan fell for a hoax and claimed as fact that the Australian government was making it illegal for Australians to grow their own vegetables! Even when he realised it was fake, and was madly googling whilst live, his guest said something like ‘it might be fake but there always some truth in it’ which is beyond ridiculous.
@LexiGirl @maxkennerly YEP. Unfortunately it is Dr Hotez. 😞

@maxkennerly

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Fascist movements always wage wars on empathy.

Republican billionaires and their right wing propagandists abhor concepts like mutual aid, paying it forward, altruism, selfless bravery, and kindness."

@maxkennerly it's getting really awful over there, isn't it? I have my problems with Mastodon, but at least it isn't overrun with antivax cranks.
@maxkennerly So very glad I’m no longer on Twitter. (And hoping Dr. Hotez doesn't come to any harm from this.)
@maxkennerly He's holding his own but it's still terrible. Mind you, Twitter is basically non-functioning at this point.

@maxkennerly

Wrote this as a status update just a few days ago but I have a weekly reminder to check #twitter just to keep up with colleagues not on here and it is one of the worst parts of my week.

@maxkennerly It's upsetting to see... giving a platform to crazy people just exposes them to more crazies who will start following them.

Science is not a democracy, its a method to verify what is real and what is false.
If a majority vote that they don't need to breathe any more and they stop breathing - they will die.

Reality doesn't change to insane fantasies no matter how many believe in them.

Another random Gavin memory I want to preserve. His trigger word was "cat food." I was telling Bede he was about to get some and I realized I was raising my voice on the last word for the benefit of someone who wasn't there. It's funny what you notice.
@rjblaskiewicz They're calling him "Hotez Mengele" in my replies.
@maxkennerly they're also being evicted in boulder and being sued for unpaid rent and cleaning bills elsewhere... seems elon musk figures he doesn't have to pay for that stuff as owner of tweeter
@maxkennerly we seriously need to tie these two to one elon's rockets and call for a launch; i dont feel bad for advocating violence against these gazillionaire pricks. frankly they commit violence against the rest of us on the daily and its long over due that we did something about it
@maxkennerly @donmelton It’s so predictable yet so effective:
- Right-wing celebrity says or does something
- The “base” gets angry
- Celeb says something racist/bigoted to reaffirm their right-wing “bonafides” (red meat)
- Liberals get angry
- The “base” loves them again for “triggering the libs”
Michael Shermer

Dear @PeterHotez I encourage you to debate @RobertKennedyJr on @joerogan on vaccines, autism, Covid, cell phones & cancer & all the rest. I did a 3.5 hour debate on Joe's show—he's a stand-up guy & will absolutely be fair & give you the time you need. Podcasts are the new media center. Why would you pass up $100,000 & tens of millions of viewers? Do it.

@maxkennerly

This is not news if you've been on Twitter. It's inconceivable how that human being has destroyed that app. He tried to host a podcast with Desantis, and the site malfunctioned and crashed. Subsequently, so does Tesla..

Jamie

@maxkennerly And there are millions that continue to support these billionaire parasites???