• @tatta_tatta@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Jim Jordan, McCarthy, Dinesh D’Souza, Donald Trump, Jordan Peterson, “endwokeness” - wonderful influences for a fucked up man.

    • @Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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      I would assume that they retain the data and are just hiding it from public view. That way they can fulfill one of their organizational goals, trying to prevent useful or accurate information from reaching the public, but still have the ability to respond to a subpoena.

      • @phx@lemmy.world
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        302 years ago

        Also, it had to actually be evidence of a crime. Following Elon may be a bad-look association but it’s not likely related to any crimes

      • magnetosphere
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        You might be right, but trying to apply logic and reason to Musk’s behavior is always a gamble.

    • @cricket97@lemmy.world
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      Every social media for as long as I can remember removes the profiles of mass shooters. Youtube does it, twitter used to do it, facebook does it, etc. Do you really think the fbi wouldn’t be able to get the data because an account was removed from the platform? use your brain people

      • magnetosphere
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        I know it’s absurd. Even if I had proof of something illegal, I have zero authority to do anything about it. I’m just venting because I’m annoyed, and I’m sick of Musk’s constant bullshit.

          • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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            52 years ago

            Here’s a fun read for you: functional illiteracy. It’s the phenomenon whereby a person is capable of “reading”, as in sounding out words, but functionally incapable of extracting meaning from them beyond the painfully obvious.

            • @jarfil@lemmy.world
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              I have the opposite happen to me with Chinese, like I know 危高电压 means “danger high electric pressure (voltage)”, but have no idea how to sound it out. Dysfunctional literacy? 😄

              • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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                32 years ago

                Haha, I think that’s usually just called “learning a language from books”. My magyar (Hungarian) suffers from a similar issue.

    • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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      22 years ago

      I used to work for a company with a product for putting a legal hold on people’s accounts. It archived the data off to a safe place, with a signature so you can tell it wasn’t tampered with. By default, it kept things six months, but as soon as it ran, you’re free to delete the public copy

    • @tym@lemmy.world
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      We call them Mainers here in Maine. There’s thousands of them. My only hope is they’re rethinking basing their personality off hate. I doubt it though.

    • @PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
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      They know they have to stay mask on, no matter what.

      They tried the whole “haha, we were nazis all along!” thing with the tiki torches and Unite the Right rally. They lost their jobs, families and the platform they’d built out of plausible deniability.

    • @masquenox@lemmy.world
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      Same reason he skipped out of South Africa before the SADF conscripted him into the Apartheid war machine… him and his ilk believe the dirty and bloody work is beneath them.

    • @jarfil@lemmy.world
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      52 years ago

      “Terrorists” are the bad guys, you want “freedom fighters” (fighting for your freedoms, of course).

  • theodewere
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    562 years ago

    the coward Elon can’t admit he knowingly incites this exact behavior

        • @cricket97@lemmy.world
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          i’m saying it is not atypical by any means for a social media platform to remove profiles of mass shooters. for as long as I can remember, every single time it happens and their social media is found, and it’s subsequently removed. i know this sub is dedicated to hating Musk but you just look stupid when you spin narratives like this. People in this thread are calling for his arrest over it saying that he’s hiding evidence of a crime.

          • @banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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            Facebook does the same thing, and it doesn’t hide evidence because banning someone’s account doesn’t remove their profile’s data. It’s still there for foi requests, warrants, and subpoenas. These social media companies aren’t gonna host a mass shooter’s profile. It’s like how they banned Trump, that wasn’t “hiding evidence,” and it’s likely if you hate Elon you were also loving that Twitter banned Trump.

          • TwoGems
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            82 years ago

            It’s blatantly obvious he was trying to hide the shooters connection to Republicans and Trump. Come on now.

              • GladiusB
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                What is evidence?! I’ll just pout like a child and call the system rigged rather than look at my own wrong doing! What is this shit?! Who makes these decisions?!

                • @cricket97@lemmy.world
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                  can you find me any major mass shooter who had their social media profile stay around after the news broke

                  Here’s a source for you https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-06/tech-firms-delete-mass-shooters-accounts-but-it-s-not-enough

                  Mass shooting events like the one that happened July 4 near Chicago typically set off an-all-too-common chain of procedures at tech companies: unearth the attacker’s online presence, capture possibly incriminating posts and quickly shut their accounts.

                  proof that it’s a common procedure to do exactly this across pretty much all social media platforms. interested to hear what sort of stupid shit you have to say back to this.

          • @michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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            52 years ago

            Arguably analyzing such profiles would likely show that nearly all nowadays are at least in part radicalized via social media. Turns out if you rattle millions of grenades a few explode.

    • YⓄ乙
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      112 years ago

      Its hard to touch billionaires until they are directly involved. Example-trump otherwise nothing going to happen, his lawyers will deal with it. He won’t even know that FBI knocked on his door.

  • Grant_M
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    312 years ago

    Look at whatever this guy was against and support those things.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      32 years ago

      Doubt it. If you’ve been constantly screamed at to see enemies everywhere for long enough, sooner or later you start seeing enemies everywhere.

      • @banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        That describes America perfectly, and both can be true. People who knew him have voiced concerns for his mental health and that it was a complete surprise to them. Coming up with hypothetical reasons to ignore that information seems to venture in to less likely territory.

        When crimes are politically convenient people always want to discount mental health as a factor, and on the other hand will acknowledge a mental health crisis and the politics around that.

  • @Cihta@lemmy.world
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    152 years ago

    Here is the problem I see- you make this news and maga will immediately turn it into a deep state/antifai/Soros/FBI false flag operation.

    Maybe they have already, i stay out of that nonsense these days. You just can’t change these people’s minds as easy as they can be programmed by right wing media.

    Pretty obvious what this guy was listening to and I’m sad for the families that have to deal with his bullshit actions. I can’t even imagine being gunned down just bowling with friends. We can’t ignore the RW media’s role in this.

    • @Pasta4u@lemmy.world
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      32 years ago

      We are still waiting for that Trans shooter’s manifesto that was never released. We have enough actual instances of Tom fuckery woth the government that we don’t need to make more

      • Cogency
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        The trans shooter manifesto will probably never be released, it’s probably deeply personal and about the abuses he sufferred at the hands of some predator at that school, i don’t get why that’s somehow a cover up?