"Hammerskins" sounds like a bunch of guys who hang around smashing each other's genitals with hammers
Ertebolle
joined 2 years ago
How do you know it's not an extremely detailed paint job?
It's like in Good Will Hunting when Matt Damon tells Robin Williams he thinks he's one step from cutting his ear off and Williams responds by asking if he should move to the south of France and change his name to Vincent, because obviously most moviegoers are too dumb to get the original joke.
Not only that, it'll create a vicious cycle where engagement drops to the point where the people who still post on Twitter (politicians, reporters, celebrities, etc) no longer bother with it, thus leaving much less content for paying users, with the end game being that Twitter is the place where shithead tech bros and neo-Nazis talk to each other and pretty much nobody else.
I mean it doesn’t even make biological sense - it’d be like giving them deodorant.
So this is why Elon is suddenly more upset than usual about bots
Super Nova
Yeah, but they deprive their bosses of the opportunity to walk into the building and have everybody who meets them say "Good Morning Mr. Analwart Sir" before shutting their office door and playing Minesweeper for 3 hours
Yeah, Elon isn't manly enough to charge for access to Twitter, just like he wasn't manly enough to fight Zuckerberg. Bokk bokk bokk
Wasn't that the hospital?
Uh, you ever see the movie Misery?
Actually, no.
Then this'll all be new to you.
If you look at the actual report https://statesuniteddemocracy.org/resources/electiondeniers/ it's a little more nuanced - in Alaska, for example, the governor is a known election denier, but there isn't an election denier secretary of state or elections commissions chair or whatever, it's just him. Likewise in Montana - the governor's an election denier (and a gigantic asshole) but as far as we know the AG and SOS are not.
It's about ads. The great thing about putting videos on YouTube is that Google does the work of selling ad slots for you, the not-so-great thing is that because those advertisers are actually Google's customers, if they think they might be upset to see their ad running in your video, they'll err on the side of pulling it.
But I daresay if Russell Brand had advertisers working with him directly, most of them would also be suspending their relationships with him right now; nobody wants anything to do with this sort of allegation.