Twitter was sold for $44B. So yeah the US side of TikTok which is WAY larger (and can actually sell ads!) than Twitter ever was and certainly larger than Twitter is now/ever will be with South African Farce Hitler in charge. $440B sounds correct in today's "valuations are made up and the dollars don't matter" economy. Meta is valued at $500B+ even though facebook is and has been dead for years now. They still have IG which is way smaller in usage compared to TikTok. In the US anyway and as far as I'm aware.
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Anyone know which phone brands/manufactures are made 100% in China for Chinese population consumption primarily and 1) work in NA and 2) are easily set to English as the UI language?
I figure it may be better to just accept whatever possibility of backdoors Chinese intelligence may build into their electronics as opposed to western (mainly Israeli and US) intelligence backdoors.
I've seen some brand recommendations in the past but figured some of you nerds might have some knowledge on such things. My understanding is it's sometimes difficult to get the phones connected on NA (US) providers.
One quote I remember regarding "civility" was something like "We need to make civility a pejorative."
If you're acting "civilly" it means you have the privilege of doing so. You're on the "winning side" or perceive yourself to be. For those being actively threatened or attacked the expectation shouldn't be to behave "civilly."
This is like the least illegal thing this week
Things guaranteed to continue making sure your guys get shot in the general face region:
Not by trans people and likely not even supporters of trans people. Unhinged "gamers but totally not groypers and we'll pretend there's a big difference when there isn't" that whole segment of society whose material conditions get worse by the day while everyone sees just the most blatant not even slightly hidden lies being used for everything. Those will be the ones... as it has been.
When the backlash finally cones for these dumbfucks any lib who even lightly whispers amnesty goes on trial too.
Also Gorka's not even American. What a joke.
I wonder if Russians and those in former USSR and Yugoslavian states are getting a sort of sick enjoyment from seeing America just putting a gun to its own head everyday. "Ah, now it's your turn to have your life expectancy cut by decades and all hope for the future crushed."
It really sucks when you know something is gonna happen, but you hope it doesn't, and then it's happening. Germans probably got a word that means all of that and it's at least 20 characters long.
Yeah. I also just noticed that the portion behind Kirk is a lightning bolt. It's hard to see, but it's there.
So someone already designed that portion in a way that fits the overall graphic. To my eye anyway. Not commenting if it's good or not. And then they or someone else added the bolts on the side. This doesn't change my original assessment. In fact it probably makes it worse for the designer(s). You guys already had the lightning bolt in there if you just think lightning bolts are cool. Why add the two out of place ones? Hmm.
No one said you did, bro.
Now I'm beginning to wonder why they doth protest so much
I'm a big "no, not all symbolism is a dog whistle..." party pooper type.
That said, in this case I have to lean heavily towards yes that's definitely some Nazi shit.
There's nothing about TPUSA that normally has lightning bolts on it. Maybe if the event was like "TP STRIKES BACK!" It would fit in context.
They just made the image and went "oh yeah. Needs more Nazi." They clearly were not originally part of the design. They clash with everything else. Even the blue part behind Kirk would make more sense to be the outline of a lightning bolt with him in the center. Remove the two bolts on the side in that case. I'm not graphics guy, I don't know shit, but that seems obvious enough if you wanted a more organic incorporation of a lightning bolt. Of course then you can only use one... one S doesn't quite do it.
Are the Taliban going to allow that though? It's my understanding, and maybe I'm wrong, that they take their stance against opium production in the country very seriously. Like when they came to power the first time they immediately shut all of that down. And they did it again when the US finally ran away.
Bruh, what in the fuck?
"But why?"
Obviously it's not actually about China.
The conspiracy pipeline quickly leads to "opium production??"
The MIC pipeline leads to "base for JSOC to operate out of?" (Not totally unrelated to opium... actually directly related)
The dying brain of an 80 year old stuck in 1990 leads to "we can do anything! And I want that!"
America and Israel are seriously begging for 100 9/11s with all the bullshit. They're gonna have fucked over ex-Ukrainian army guys teaming up with Taliban to do shit. Just use a little common sense and little less full blown evil. Goddamn.
Mfers still getting milked over a replaceable dumbass who spent his entire life/career not only being a Nazi pos but also generally failing at all his initiatives. I hear far too many people acting like toilet shitpaper was really influential. I wish they had been asked that a month ago because they'd all say "Huh? What? Of course not."
Just quote him, say you don't support him being murdered but this is what he said, you won't ever support this rhetoric. Then refuse to engage. The dems are just soooo fucking inept that it's crazy. To a degree I know they want congress to never do anything meaningful in a good way, of course, but they can accomplish that without being the perpetual cuck chair. It's like they all have a fetish for being mocked and shit on.
It's a bit hard to blame trans people when the person who did it isn't trans. I guess there's the whole "he was brainwashed by his evil trans roommate!" angle. Which the people who believe that already believe it without being sold a narrative. Everyone else is just gonna be like "ok, dude. Sure..."
Honestly, direct anger at Ezra (sp?) Klein and others who decided to not publish truthful accounts of who Kirk was but rather to attempt a manual goonsquad posthumous semen extraction on his corpse.
Had they all collectively decided to not immediately cower and piss in the corner like they felt guilty (what the fuck?) for a random independent act of violence against a flaming asshole... perhaps the right would've fizzled out.
"They only have as much power as you give them" is sometimes real. Playing into their delusions about the shooter's politics, motive, etc. and playing into their other delusions that Kirk was anything but a mouthpiece quoting from Mein Kampf (2025 version) just gave them the green light to say "Thank you and fuck you for accepting blame for what you did. We will now proceed to murder you. Please don't squirm."
These actual deluded dumb fucks think this is a game or something. They think this is all bluster. It's always bluster and bullshit until Erdogan or whoever pulls that rug out and then you better hope your ass isn't the "example" they want to make to prove the days of fucking around are over. If you oppose them you better fucking start acting like it, Ezra and others asslickers, because they despise you.
They want to murder you, Ezra. Kirk would've gladly a mocked and guffawed at Ezra getting his dome topped live on stream. He wouldn't have hesitated for a moment. None of them would have and they're already proven it.
You can't "be nice to them" your way out of this. No amount of placating and misplaced compassion will save you. This may not be a "war" you wanted, Ezra, but you're in the war anyway. Keep capitulating. See how far they will force you to prostrate yourself before them. Then they'll still kick you in the teeth while you beg and kiss their boots.
Fucking cowards. If you don't have anything brave to say, or even just anything true, perhaps say nothing at all. Worthless fucking slugs, man.
Terminally online "gamer" invested heavily in that online social bubble. Gamers tend to be pretty reactionary but usually don't have solid pinned down politics.
The only thing we know about him that even registers as "left" leaning purely in the culture war bullshit is he was allegedly in a romantic relationship with his allegedly trans roommate. I'm using alleged because I haven't seen any statements from the person in question as to their relationship status or them transitioning. It's a solid assumption though based on the texts and stuff.
They haven't really presented a motive as to why he targeted Kirk to my knowledge. Many of these shootings are from opportunity and not really any real reason. Kirk was there so he targeted him. If Tucker or I dunno Rachel Maddow was there... you get the idea. At least at this point he's just been quoted by family as disliking Kirk. He's also been described as disliking politicians generally so I'm not sure there's much to glean from reported quotes.
Anyway, probably not a groyper. He was using gaming/4chan memes though which has sharing between them in memes.
As dumb as it sounds it seems like a vaguely right wing guy who didn't hate gay and trans people thought it was a "good meme" to kill Kirk. They haven't presented anything else to suggest any other reason.
Elected politicians for sure. Regular people who may generally align with dems, probably not. Even people who don't like dems also hate Trump more usually.
In the long run I only see more hardline fascist crackdowns like this leading to more destruction of the Democratic Party. More destruction of the Republican Party. And most importantly... destruction of many lives along the way.
There's also the high likelihood of a full blown Hitlerian regime in the wake of people rejecting electoralism. There won't even be the usual left/right fight for who takes power in the collapse. What left is there?
That seems to be the entire point really. So far as there is any discernible "point" to what right wingers do now days. Destroy whatever the US is currently and it by default will fall into full fascism. I don't know if they're planning it like that, but yeah. There's no other explanation really. They're just doing what every right wing regime does to consolidate power, stomp out any sort of real dissent, implement whatever shit they have planned.
It's only slightly made comical by the fact... none of this is required. They're already getting literally everything they want. They could just keep the facade around. Facades help keep such governments stable. They're really speeding down the highway of fascism and it ends with them finding their own tail and eating it.
It does make me question like how high is the average "MAGA" dumbass right winger on their own supply. How fast and how far are they gonna spiral as it becomes more and more clear that no matter how Trump stomps on everything their lives never get better. That the "enemy" was always a hallucination. That Trump is their enemy. Or the spokesman for the enemy at least. They'll probably never openly admit that. It's just gonna drive them all further insane and lead to more eating of their own asses.
It means nothing in effect
But they know that. There is already effectively no "antifa" in the US. Not really.
Their obvious goal, which this article finally got to (should've led with it... fucking media) is to just label anyone they don't like for any reason "antifa."
Turns out when the president and his cabinet are fascists, or close enough, everyone against them is automatically... hmm. Anti-fascist.
Dems aren't going to do what they should be doing which is pointing out what Kirk actually was, a fascist. But also point out he wasn't killed by any sort of anti fascist because they don't exist in the US effectively. There's a lot they could be doing to help neuter this but they're paved the runway long ago.
The only slightly funny thing in all this is the libs are elevated to the first target immediately because there's no real left to be dealt with. They cheered on this shit (the fascism) and immediately the right is saying "No, we meant you too. Anyone who doesn't love our big beautiful orange Hitler sufficiently." Will they learn? No. Will they do anything when they're being openly threatened? Also no. The fact they ever let Trump remain out of prison basically guaranteed this inevitable moment. Actual morons lacking even the desire for self preservation.
Against the wall, citizen. You know the penalty for the f slur.
Yeah, all of this.
I will add I was also referring to like "harboring" a suspect, but that may not even apply. Maybe it's more "obstructing justice" I don't know how these work for this scenario.
I can guess that if someone texts you they murdered someone and tells you plans for a getaway or whatever, you do nothing with that information, and later the person is captured and the messages discovered... you're gonna have a "not good" time.
It would be one thing I think to be generally aware of the murder either through some sort of witnessing of it (guy running away from the scene) or they confess to you verbally in person at some point.
It's a bit different I think when it's during the "manhunt" stage and the guy is directly contacting you with information such as they did it, how they did it, where they are currently located, etc. At the absolute least cops are gonna be digging into your entire life to find out why you were contacted and why you didn't report them to police immediately. That's just common sense on their end. And that investigation and possible (because I'm not sure) charges is what I meant. You're subjecting a totally outside person to the authorities. Whether or not anything happens legally from it, you're gonna have to get a lawyer and deal with years of shit when you could have honestly said "He never mentioned it to me ever" otherwise.
Of course just the circumstances of being the roommate basically guarantees they were going to investigated the moment he decided to actually do this... but yeah.
I think it means "time to create the "xternetSmarchive" in Serbia" or some other country that will send the DMCA takedowns to the recycling bin by default