Ok, fair. Didn’t post the original article, just thought it’d be a good fit here.

Did you check that? Here’s one: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/02/trump-musk-leaving-political-liability-00265784

Once I replied to a meme and got 10 people replying with hateful things, downvoting my replies, nobody had my back did’nt understand why. Turned out the meme I replied to was posted in a communist instance and the anti-us sentiment wasn’t really a joke. At some point a mod blocked me from replying so I blocked the instance and never looked back. If I see a user or community from specific instances I think twice before I reply. 99% of the time I feel free to say whatever I want, so I don’t really care about the parts of lemmy where I’m not. I’ve seen plenty of passionate and caring people in the 2-3 weeks since I registered, so don’t know how you’ve missed them so far. They’re here though.

Too bad nobody saw this coming, they could have made a great movie about this 10 years ago.

If this happened in any other country people consider this an intentional leak to the media, because any other explanation would be delusional.

It’s because there is not enough tariffs in place.

Yes but 50.000 × 2 = 100.000, large numbers get confusing without dots

No matter how much I dislike Musk, I don’t think he’s giving that much choice. Erdogan is a dictator who has the power to block X altogether. A real free speech advocate would not succcumb to the pressure of a repressive government, but the article does imply Musk is not the initiator of these bans: “Musk himself said that “the choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets.” He said X would publicly post the Turkish government’s requests.”

Not saying we shouldn’t put Tesla’s on fire tho.

I agree Zelensky should be wearing whatever he wants, but he was meeting Trump not Netanyahu and came in as a representative of state and not as some influencer.

Heil the land of the free!