Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter

Re:Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ... by drivingmenuts on Sunday November 24, 2024 @10:37PM (#42233015)

And you don't think the desire to get away from Elon Musk and the MAGA crowd had anything to do with it? Nothing good was ever going to come about because of Elon's stupid acquisition. That was made painfully obvious when Xitter stopped paying their bills - I guess in the hopes that creditors would be forced to arbitrate lower payments on debts owed to them (which is bullshit for a billionaire to be doing, but you don't get to be a billionaire by being nice, fully ethical, moral or legal). Then we had a demonstration of sheer stupidity Elon told advertisers to fuck off, so they did, and now he's all hurt and lawsuity.

What good do you see in that? Who wouldn't want to get away from that stupidity?

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Re:Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ... by cryptica on Sunday November 24, 2024 @10:48PM (#42233067)

From my perspective, X experience has improved a lot since Elon's acquisition.

What actually got worse materially? I hear a lot of gesturing 'Orange man bad', 'Elon help orange man, so Elon bad' but I cannot reach any of these conclusions from first principles looking at Trump's policies while he was President... Aside from the Jan 6 incident... But I don't see consensus there between either side so I do have some doubts and questions about the true nature of that incident. The fact is, nobody on Jan 6 had guns besides police officers. How can that possibly be an insurrection? Please correct me if I'm wrong there.

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Re:Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ... by _DeadFred_ on Sunday November 24, 2024 @11:34PM (#42233284)

The confederate flag has only been raised inside our capital buildings once, and that was on Jan 6.

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Re:Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ... by cryptica on Monday November 25, 2024 @12:10AM (#42233421)

Well, you can't overthrow a government with a piece of cloth. So I still don't see how it could be called an insurrection.

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Re:Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ... by drivingmenuts on Monday November 25, 2024 @09:56AM (#42236766)

Just because you suck at doing something doesn't change what you're attempting to do. They were there to execute elected officials and attempt to stop required processes in the belief that would invalidate an election they lost.

Sounds like an insurrection to me.

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Re:Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ... by caekislove on Monday November 25, 2024 @03:24PM (#42239817)

Yet the only one who was actually executed on that day was an unarmed protestor.

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Re:Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ... by drivingmenuts on Monday November 25, 2024 @06:13PM (#42241080)

Just because someone on your side gets shot doesn't suddenly put you in the right. While one insurrectionist was killed. The insurrectionists managed to injure 138 officers, capital and metro, 15 of them severely, who were there to defend the Capitol from them.

I would argue the insurrectionists got off relatively lightly. One person was killed and the ones jailed all got far lighter sentences than they deserved.

Which part of "they were there to execute government officials" are you failing to understand?

I don't always agree with the government, but I also don't decide to murder people just because I'm upset, which is what the insurrectionists intended to do.

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