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0 pointszapdrive3y ago0 comments

I know most of my comment is going to be redundant, but I need to say it in order to point to it an year or two from now as an "I told you so!"

Twitter is going to be here for a long long time. It's not going to suddenly shut down, it's not going to slowly decline, there is not going to be mass abandonment.

Elon might be cocky, but at the end of the day he is a successful businessman. He didn't just sent out that loyalty pledge email out of cockyness. He really wanted to kick out everyone who doesn't believe in him and his beliefs. And he sent that email well after understanding how Twitter runs and putting his loyal people from Tesla ans SpaceX in charge of operations.

The woke crowd needs to get out of denial and start coping with the fact that Twitter is not the bastion of unopposed woke ideology anymore.

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kaba03y ago

He doesn’t understand shit, you don’t fire that many people before even having as crude of an understanding as was seen on that whiteboard. Also, people working on embedded systems for rockets know jack-shit about a system serving petabytes of data.

faizmokhtar3y ago

What kind of woke ideology exactly? Sorry not familiar the current climate in USA.

acknorabotr3y ago

It's a form of progressive ideology that is largely based on symbolic actions and relies on mechanisms like shame and shunning, struggle sessions, etc.

So instead of actually doing any sort of real tangible action to solve problems, you mostly spend your time denouncing your enemies, including the ones in your own ranks that are not pure enough.

It's very much associated with the left-wing parties in many Western countries, who have for the most part traded their historical defense of working classes for this new brand of performative progressive politics.

linuxhansl3y ago

Definition of woke: alert to injustice in society, especially racism

Somehow, some folks are now saying this is bad.

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