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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

To be clear: It wasn't the behavior of X or Musk over the past year that caused this, when he was already clearly being a Nazi pushing Nazi propaganda, it was the Nazi Salute.

I'm glad people are finally blocking X and I'll take wins where we can get them, but this should have happened a long time ago.

The behavior of X did not change after his salute, it was already operating as a Nazi platform. My opinion of Musk didn't change after seeing his Nazi salute, I already knew he was a fascist supporting the fascist party. My only surprise was that he was already willing to say it louder for the people in the back that he's a Nazi.

It's so frustrating that people are so unwilling to call fascists fascists until they go completely mask off. Musk can exhibit every Nazi behavior and people keep using X no problem, but it's the fucking salute that gets them to finally block the platform.

So do people hate Nazis because of what they stand for? Or do they just hate the Nazi salute? Because by all available information it's the salute that might get someone in trouble, all the other behaviors get ignored or excused.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 2 points 14 minutes ago

He’s financing AfD and has agreed with tweets that Jewish people are trying to dovide the white race. He’s as fascist as fascists can be.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I didn't think I was still capable of being shocked but the nazi salute at the president's podium did actually shock me a little. They fuckers are not even trying to pretend any more. I would hope that this shit makes people avoid musk-related products like they're a rabid rottweiler. I kinda feel bad for people who bought a Tesla years ago though. Also, spaceX has to be a national security issue now.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 minutes ago

They fuckers are not even trying to pretend any more

They're still trying to pretend:

Alternative explanations for the gesture are plausible. Musk is socially awkward, and he may have been stiffly trying to throw love to the crowd for helping put Trump back in office. “My heart goes out to you,” he said after he did the gesture a second time.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-salute-reaction-right-wing-extremists-1235241866/

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 12 points 3 hours ago (3 children)
[–] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 hours ago

Bad, but not nearly Twitter bad.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 hours ago

Don't hurt me

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

A miserable pile of secrets

[–] yuri@pawb.social 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

insert screenshot of several entire threads of scrubbed comments

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Is that why they started collapsing 90% of the comments? It's super annoying now having to go through and expand them all.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 33 minutes ago

They think people are there to read the memes. They don't believe that "the real ____ is in the comments"

[–] Internetexplorer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Rpcgaming is the biggest? Never heard of it

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I do all my gaming through Remote Procedure Calls.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 16 minutes ago

Thank God it's not just me

[–] addie@feddit.uk 2 points 48 minutes ago

For when playing Nethack over telnet just has unacceptable protocol overhead, it's time to bust out some RPC.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 88 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If Reddit gamers are calling someone else ‘hateful’ and ‘toxic,’ you know it’s got to be bad.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm not usually someone who's anti-Reddit (in terms of the users, at least)...but the first sub I blocked was r/gaming, and the most negative users I ever interacted with were on r/AnimalCrossing and r/Nintendo.

[–] untuned@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 hours ago

I don’t understand how animal crossing players could be so negative lol

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago

Lmao what happened? I only ever had good experiences on those subs but then again I haven’t used Reddit in a few years

[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 39 points 6 hours ago (9 children)

They might be motivated by political views, fact checking, etc, but the subreddits I've seen discussing it (baseball, Iowa) are focusing on the fact that you need an account to see anything now. Screenshots from X would still be permitted; just not direct links due to the degree of interaction with the site required to view the material.

It's sound reasoning, in my opinion. X either links you to an actual source or is a short post easily captured in a screenshot.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

r/republican is melting down over the removal/no more Twitter links thing

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[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 140 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

I wonder how long till Reddit admins get pissy over blocking the nazi site.

I doubt they'll care, if only due to self-interest. Most of the corporate sites are trying to ban or deprioritize links because they don't want people to leave their site and stop viewing their ads.

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 43 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Huffman is just another american technology oligarch. It is in his interest to spread corruption and undermine rule of law.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Are you joking about him being a robot or what?

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

Missed the word "oligarch". 😆

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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 65 points 10 hours ago

reddit replacing mods in 3 ... 2 ...

[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 72 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

They really take the PoE cheating seriously.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 15 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

What's PoE? Other than Power over Ethernet, of course.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 20 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Elon did a live stream playing the new Path of Exile game. His character was one of the top 20 ranked in the game. He has bragged about being the best on several games. Anyway, it was obvious to everyone watching that he knew very little about how the game actually worked. He finally confessed this week that he pays other people play the character for him, but also claimed that all the top players do it.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, right. Yeah, I saw that video, he (allegedly) didn't know the basics of map navigation and wouldn't pickup good drops.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The part that got me the most was when he was complaining about his gear (some of the very best gear in the game) "this helmet is only level 52, even though I'm level 96". Those were equip levels, not power levels... One of his items he dismissed as not good was the one you get from the final boss. There's no room for "allegedly" with that part.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 3 hours ago

I only put it there because I personally am not very familiar with PoE.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 5 points 5 hours ago

I'm willing to believe that some of the top players might do it, but how many of them brag to the public about how highly they're ranked and how good they are at the game while barely knowing how to play it?

Let's be real, who's good enough at the game to be able to rank someone else's account up to the top levels without themselves being at the top levels?

[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, thanks.

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They’ll block x for a week and will go right back to using it.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, if they were serious about this kind of thing, they wouldn't be on Reddit anymore in the first place.

Ah, the landed gentry is overstepping their boundaries again.

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