Musk is inviting his red-state pals to prosecute people who dare to advise advertisers to stay away from his toxic swamp.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/elon-musk-calls-for-criminal-prosecution-of-x-ad-boycott-perpetrators/

This is what right-wing extremists like Musk actually think about free speech. (They hate it when it's directed, unfavorably, at them.)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/elon-musk-calls-for-criminal-prosecution-of-x-ad-boycott-perpetrators/

Is there a list of current deadbird site advertisers? I want to stay current on businesses to avoid in my shopping.

Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of X ad boycott perpetrators

Congress accused advertisers group of colluding to tank X's revenue.

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@dangillmor this must be the, uh, "free market" that, uh, conservatives say they love
@benroyce @dangillmor More «freedom for me, not for thee» from the hypocrites. There is no duty for a company to advertise in a medium. What if, say, a struggling local town newspaper was able to demand that, say, Ford had to advertise in their paper? Makes no sense. As it makes no sense that Twitter should.

@toriver @dangillmor

they have zero principles

they will scream angrily about some point: abortion, religious freedom, state's rights, the free market, etc, and then, with zero cognitive dissonance, openly defile the same words they were just screaming about a moment before: they'll get an abortion, they'll disrespect someone's religious freedom, they'll impose federal over state, they'll propose draconian market controls, etc

this is conservatism. this is all it is: complete bullshit

@benroyce @toriver @dangillmor the best part is their absolute refusal to process the incompatibility when it's pointed out. Like https://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg entirely unironically 🥲
The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)

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@ketmorco @toriver @dangillmor

conservatives don't process their hypocrisy because they don't care. they never did, about any principle they hang their hat on, no matter how fucked up or plausible the principle

the simple truth is they have no coherent principles, except hate and selfishness and sadism. the rest is just performance art

edit: nice sketch 😆

@benroyce @ketmorco @toriver @dangillmor

It's been said that sociopaths don't have a conscience. I'm not saying all Republican in the US are sociopaths but it kind of appears that way to me.

@TimBondy @benroyce @ketmorco @toriver @dangillmor Reasonable assumption until proven otherwise.

@dnelson @TimBondy @benroyce @toriver @dangillmor "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

It's impossible to find human life important, and vote against free school lunches.

It's impossible to find childhood education important and do anything besides support massive salaries for teachers.

It's impossible to *be* pro-the-above, vote differently without resigning, and still say you are pro-the-above, without being a sociopath.