Then the next Billionaire with a massive ego and huge budget comes out and makes another one.

Or we get Jack Dorsey making a new company for a 3rd time.

My post above is 376 characters, which would have required three tweets under the original 140 character limit.

Mastodon, for better or worse, has captured a bunch of people who are hooked on the original super-short posting style, which I feel is a form of Newspeak / 1984-style dumbing down of language and discussion that removed nuance. Yes, Mastodon has removed the limit and we have better abilities to discuss today, but that doesn’t change the years of training (erm… untraining?) we need to do to de-program people off of this toxic style.

Especially when Mastodon is trying to cater to people who are used to tweets.

Your post could fit on Mastodon

EDIT: and second, Mastodon doesn’t have the toxic-FOMO effect that hooks people into Twitter (or Threads, or Bluesky).

People post not because short sentences are good. They post and doom-scroll because they don’t want to feel left out of something. Mastodon is healthier for you, but also less intoxicating / less pushy. Its somewhat doomed to failure, as the very point of these short posts / short-engagement stuff is basically crowd manipulation, FOMO and algorithmic manipulation.

Without that kind of manipulation, we won’t get the kinds of engagement on Mastodon (or Lemmy for that matter).

Because Threads and BlueSky form effective competition with Twitter.

Also, short form content with just a few sentences per post sucks. It’s become obvious. That Twitter was mostly algorithm hype and FOMO.

Mastodon tries to be healthier but I’m not convinced that microblogs in general are that useful, especially to a techie audience who knows RSS and other publishing formats.

I thought Patrick Boyle was a rap specialist music major?

The improvement to Text Generation is the only major surprise here for me. But maybe the text was photoshopped in after?

This user has a strange post history.

Something that’s turned me off of “modern” conservatism is that “modern” MAGA assholes simply refuse to believe that intersex people exist.

A reasonable Conservative following Jesus’s word should note that Jesus hung out with the leapers, Jesus not just condoned but celebrated heretics like the Samaritans, and Jesus always favored the “outsider’s opinion”. A true Christian should always be accepting of others, including Intersex people. Especially intersex, they are creations of God and if you believe that God is good then the creation of God is good.

The problems occur when the assholes start to think that Intersex is bad, anti-conservative, anti-religion or some shit. Then all of a sudden you trigger the fight-or-flight response and Conservatives lash out. There’s also a degree of historic anti-gay writings in the Bible (ex: Sodom, as well as some writings from Paul), that somehow get wrapped up into intersex issues (somehow gay == intersex in some unstudied people’s brains?!?!? Or something). I don’t want to get into homosexuality and the Bible as that’s another subject but note that ancient Roman and Greek practice of homosexuality was a bit child-rapey and Paul’s writings may have not necessarily been talking about homosexuals in general (but instead: Paul was likely focused on the kinds that were more common in the time period, which we would find disgusting by modern standards)

In any case, I feel like the religious interpretation is clear. Every person is holy, outsiders are welcome. If you need to denegrate Intersex individuals and call them diseased (like the Leapers of Biblical time), whatever, that’s still a group of people Jesus explicitly called out as holy, as the Leapers were more ready and willing to accept Jesus’s preaching than the Pharisees. But I’m not even comfortable with the Leaper -> Intersex comparison myself as that implies some kind of disease. Still, I think its a good crutch that more Christians should lean upon if you’re finding yourself anti-Intersex.

A lot of modern Conservatism is actually warned against by Jesus and the various parables of the Pharisees. Its not that “Jews” in general were problematic, but certain… cults? Certain… ways of thought and ideologies… are based on false pride and false-understanding of the scriptures. And smarter people find themselves in this doom loop where you want to join the people who have studied more (the Pharisees were scribes and scholars)… but you end up missing the forest for the trees.

Jesus always said to take a step back and look at the big picture, rather than being so focused on scripture. Scripture can be interpreted incorrectly, to the point where the Pharisees scholars create a conspiracy to literally kill and crucify Jesus. The fact that the core Easter message is lost upon modern Conservatives is ironic.

I mean, when people point out that Joe Biden is a Neocon who supports Israel and USAs rightful dominant place in the world… Erm I agree with that and want to vote for him.

I’m a Neocon. And proud of it and can defend a lot of my positions.

What pisses me off about the new wave of conservatives is that it’s all reactionary. There is no guiding philosophy.

With regards to neoconservatives: I know we get a bad rap since Bush. But events like Ukraine show the importance of us being the stalwart defenders and stepping up to challenges around the world.

But thats the thing. I’ll tell you that while proudly wearing my colors as a Neocon. This ‘Libs of TikTok’ bullshit is just fucking awful politics. We can’t actually work or talk around our issues when people are pretending to be on the wrong sides of debates

Politics shouldn’t be about ‘owning’ the other side. Politics should be about effectively communicating our beliefs to each other, especially our disagreements. And finding compromises where possible.

Anyway, it’s Joever to some extent so I guess all in on Kamala. She’s still acceptable to my philosophy if only because Trump + JD Vance is such a bad choice. So y’all got my vote this year, at least temporarily.

Unlike you and your ilk, I’m willing to go outside the safe zone (fkn lol) and interact with people who have different opinions. Only cowards stay in their little bubbles chit talking day in and day out. And that’s a knock at both leftists and rightists.

I’m a Republican. This area is outside my safe zone. But outrage politics affects us all and I judge people who engage in it harshly.

But sure. Judge me harder daddy. I haven’t stated my opinion yet, I’m simply pointing out that you’re engaging in outrage politics and you probably shouldn’t be flexing on that.

No.

You, like other conservatives, are hooked on the ravenous red meat of outrage. And instead of trying to move away from outrage politics, you defend it. And more importantly, you do so while claiming to be of a different ideology because you’ve noticed that the word “conservative” is no longer looked well upon in some social circles.

Defending the Libs of TikTok isn’t the flex you think it is.

I’m only responding in the hopes you recognize this eventually and grow a bit of self-reflection over this situation. Good luck man.

Ah.

So you’re a “Libs of TikTok” guy. Conservatives call themselves Liberal and you believe them.

Jack Dorsey is Libertarian, which is Republican-leaning.

Jack Dorsey was a progressive?

Communism / Lennism / Marxism was the left-authoritarians.

Fascism was the right-wing authoritarians.

See WW2 for details.

A lot of us were hoping to push gun control actually.

I’m glad you and me are together for voting.

But coming up with a strategy to win Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michigan is now harder than ever.

We probably just lost Pennsylvania over this. This assassination attempt was in that State.

Yes. Unironically.

Now is the time for me to point out how short sighted and annoyingly stupid some left wingers are.

We have a few short weeks before the DNC. We need to come together and determine if Biden quits and who should replace him if he does.

Who will be at the DNC? Far left fuckers. Do you want to give them the microphone in this political setting? Or do we just stick with Biden or Harris?

Seriously. Think about what this entails for short term plans.

Edgelords who are serious (or even joking) about this tragedy.

Tomorrow at the RNC, watch it. Every right-winger will be using this as proof of political violence and blame the left.

And the left will be angered and make more edgelords jokes and we lose the election in a few months. Well, at the current path anyway. None of this shit helps.

With luck, cooler heads prevail and people remember why we have a calm President like Biden in charge right now.

But now DNC will have this shit hanging over it. Just a few shitty protesters will make everyone in the country hate Democrats.

I bet that a lot of the leftists are Russian trolls.

Remember we live in divided times. Keep an eye out for the reasonable people. We need to stick together.

It’s easier than ever to spread distrust right now. And we have to deal with a foreign adversary who will 100% try to turn this violent.

Russians played the Black Lives Matter vs Blue Lives Matter and tried to make both sides distrust. It’s not just our base instincts at play here, but also foreign interference from our enemies at play.

You fuckers (erm… not you specifically. But more like the edgelords) are turning Donald Trump into the next Regan. We will literally never hear the end of this for the rest of our lives.

A successful assassination would have turned Trump into a martyr and only embolded the far right.

A failed on: this case, will only embolden Donald Trump himself and the religious right will now see it as a sign that he’s been chosen by God himself.

Good job fuckers. You are making us lose the election. And leftists are edgelording as if this was a good thing.

Hitler was deposed by USA and Soviets kicking Germany’s ass. Who is going to fight USAs army today if an authoritarian like Trump gets the reins?

Oh right. No one.