And slavery tho
That's like a full-time job and change
Oh yeah, not arguing that it's getting worse and we're primed for something, just that I think it's a bit unfair to say that a majority of Americans are rabid gun nut chuds.
That archetype is just the type of person the political economic establishment sees as the "American Ubermensch" so propaganda elevates them and establishments protect them.
I'll bet that a lot of the devs that managed backend tooling are gone now and their scripts just won't work with "x.com" as the domain name.
The fact that they're essentially overwriting url hyperlinks instead of swapping domains shows that there's some sort of major bitrot happening behind the curtain.
This is a branding move. He wants the name "x.com" to show up more.
The rewritten url still hyperlinks to "twitter.com" and "x.com" still redirects to "twitter.com"
They didn't want to change domain names because that's a nightmare for backend tooling. I'll bet there's over a decade of internal tools that check for "twitter.com" in some response or something.
It's not as bad as you'd think in most places, I'm an open commie in the South and about 70% of the workers I know out here come to me for political advice or ask me good faith questions.
The issue from my experience (and I know some places are worse) is the massive amount of propaganda and misinformation. That and the fact that reactionary violence is protected by the state.
The gun nuts and reactionaries are a minority, but they're heavily subsidized and supported by our reactionary power systems (police, courts, local government) at the expense of the rest of us.
Or even a 93%
AND the 0% for strongly approve
The establishment reaction to overwhelming democratic consensus on this issue is indefensible. It's not something you can wait out like an economy, it's gonna weigh heavy on a whole generation
Al (it's not a capital I it's a lowercase L)
Is this supposed to be an April Fools thing?