Bluesky Grows to 30 Million Users. Threads Adds 20 Million More Just in January (techcrunch.com) 158
Star Wars star Mark Hamill, science fiction author William Gibson, XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe, and The Onion have joined millions of others bringing Bluesky's user count to 30 million, reports CNET. In fact Bluesky has added over 14 million users in the last three months, and for a few days in early November was adding over one million users a day. "That rate equals about 12 new users per second. The 30 million user mark compares to 9 million users in September."
But meanwhile Meta's social media site Threads — launched 19 months ago — "now has 320 million monthly active users," reports TechCrunch, "up from 300 million last month. The app had 275 million monthly active users in [early] November." That's a 16% grow rate in just three months. In comparison, Bluesky is experiencing a slowdown in growth, with an increase of less than 10% month-over-month in December 2024, following a remarkable 189% growth in November, according to analytics firm Similarweb. Bluesky now has a total of 26.44 million users. Additionally, Zuckerberg noted that Threads is adding more than 1 million daily signups [while presenting fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday].
But meanwhile Meta's social media site Threads — launched 19 months ago — "now has 320 million monthly active users," reports TechCrunch, "up from 300 million last month. The app had 275 million monthly active users in [early] November." That's a 16% grow rate in just three months. In comparison, Bluesky is experiencing a slowdown in growth, with an increase of less than 10% month-over-month in December 2024, following a remarkable 189% growth in November, according to analytics firm Similarweb. Bluesky now has a total of 26.44 million users. Additionally, Zuckerberg noted that Threads is adding more than 1 million daily signups [while presenting fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday].
Bluesky (Score:2, Informative)
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Not Twitter. People leaving Twitter because of musk.
Re: Bluesky (Score:2, Insightful)
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Even if a side won the "war" then you'd just start another one within the winning party. Lot of good that would do.
Re: Bluesky (Score:2)
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I'd say we should bring the rhetoric down a notch or two because the opposing party isn't the nearly the devil they are made out to be. We'd be better off with more compromise and less theatrics and showboating.
I'm expecting to much out of people though.
Re: Bluesky (Score:5, Insightful)
Acceptance of abuse is not tolerance, it is enablement.
People who deliberately chose to bring a racist rapist to the white house and don't understand how privatizing its functions is a bad thing cannot be approached with reason, only with caution.
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How do you normalize racism and rape, by saying hello to someone?
Did Jesse Owens rubber stamp his support for the holocaust by showing up to the Berlin olympics?
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You're a pathetic liar that uses fox news shock hyperbole to make absolutely no point at all, other than accurately pointing out the Trump is Hitler reincarnate, your words not mine.
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The last guy your lot
Who do you think "my lot" is? You apparently aren't familiar with me at all.
What exactly has the Donald done or said to earn this racist label you do eagerly hang around his neck?
GFY troll.
On the point of rape; that's not what what he was found "liable for"
That is not the argument.
in that kangaroo court
GFY troll.
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In New York, someone can only be convicted of rape if they can prove vaginal penetration by a penis. In Carroll’s testimony, which mirrored what she had described privately for decades and publicly for the first time in 2019, she said Trump used both his fingers and his penis in the assault. But during the trial, the jury had only concluded that Trump had “deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina with his fingers, causing immediate pain and long lasting emotional and psychological harm,” Kaplan’s decision from last year reads. That the jurors did not find that Carroll had proven rape, Kaplan explained, “does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’” “Indeed,” he continued, “as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”
But, but, but fake news!
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On the point of rape; that's not what what he was found "liable for"
That is not the argument.
You called Trump a rapist, that's a big accusation, that requires proof. Just like calling the court a kangaroo court. Not just blind statements.
I thought a big problem people have with Trump is that he makes statements with little or no evidence backing up those claims. I maybe wrong but if I am please present me with a reference to the court case in which Trump was convicted of rape.
I assume you a referring to when Trump stated he could grab women by the pussy and they would let him. But making dumb ass c
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You called Trump a rapist, that's a big accusation, that requires proof.
That's what the judge said. Where have you been?
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Judge says E Jean Carroll allegation Trump raped her is ‘substantially true’
Jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse
Carroll joins at least 21 other women in publicly accusing Trump of sexual assault or misconduct".
On May 9, after deliberating for less than three hours, a jury of six men and three women in Manhattan federal court unanimously found Trump liable for sexually abusing
when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.... Grab 'em by the pussy.
Mr. Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our marriage. As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent. I referred to this as a "rape"
described the alleged attack as a "violent assault" during which Donald attacked Ivana sexually. Ivana later confided to some of her friends that Donald had raped her
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For reference here is a list of Indictments against Trump:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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who was Trump convicted of raping
Weasel words. Judge says E Jean Carroll allegation Trump raped her is ‘substantially true’
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What he did to Ivana also would have been rape in most states.
Re: Bluesky (Score:5, Insightful)
I'd say we should bring the rhetoric down a notch or two because the opposing party isn't the nearly the devil they are made out to be. We'd be better off with more compromise and less theatrics and showboating.
War is an accurate description of the current state of affairs. Trump incited insurrection, pardoned those who violently attacked police, and fired FBI agents who investigated the attackers. Trump and his cult have openly declared war on the United States of America.
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This. He should not have given a mass pardon to the J6 people. He should have demanded trials and let the truth come out. Whether they were guilty of insurrection, trespass, whatever. That needed to come from the courts, not a rushed pardon.
Ummm...there were trials. That's why they were in jail.
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My final straw came way before then, but then I thought Twitter was garbage to begin with. Now it's worse than garbage.
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Re: Bluesky (Score:2)
I can't stand him either, I've always despised conspiracy theories. Shit, progressives fucking adored him back in the 911truth days and all throughout the Bush years and the very early Obama years. I've only ever wanted to give him the proverbial Buzz Aldrin treatment for as long as I've known his name.
But at the same time, I've never been comfortable deplatforming anybody. I think it's better when they're allowed to kick their own butts. He did exactly that with Sandy Hook, and now he's worse than bankrupt
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It was a sham trial. Sandy hook is owed nothing.
It was a default judgement.
Re: Bluesky (Score:4, Informative)
Alex Jones profited massively by, among other evil deeds, spreading lies that increased the suffering of people whose children had just been murdered. Are you cool with that? Is he just "some guy"? I don't think so. Karma would be him being tortured to death on a live stream.
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Pretty sure (Wikipedia agrees) Alex Jones actually lost everything he owns in judgment.
I'm not cool with what we did at all, but it's quite false that he profited massively. He's bankrupt.
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And so much more. The guy is corrosive like his butt buddy Trump.
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Also it's quite clear that Elon is a direct threat to the nation, so supporting him in any way is a non-starter for many. It should be for MOST.
Hate is universal (Score:2)
Lots of people enjoy the hatred. The right go to X and many, many other sites. The left go to Electronic Intifada and Common Dreams. The rest of us want them all to fuck off.
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Lots of people enjoy the hatred. The right go to X and many, many other sites. The left go to Electronic Intifada and Common Dreams. The rest of us want them all to fuck off.
I've never previously heard of Electronic Intifada and Common Dreams but looking at them they seem to be news publications and not social media sites or am I missing something?
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Re:Bluesky (Score:5, Interesting)
If a bar is full of Nazis, you stop going there.
Note also it's not just the left that's leaving, it's the non-extreme right as well.
Social media isn't simply about sharing opinions you might disagree with occasionally. I can have a discussion with a Bush-era conservative on some topics I feel very strongly about such as Bush's use of war or torture - which however awful was argued by right wingers at the time to be justified in terms of long term saving lives, etc. Most political discussions in the 2000s related to whether government intervention was needed to provide healthcare, for example, and if so how much. Certain political commentators who would stray into racism or homophobia were usually ignored, and constituted a tiny group anyway. There were some who promoted discrimination against Muslims, but even Bush famously condemned that train of thought.
This is a very different group of people from today's MAGA group, where we're seriously discussing removing rights from women, and from LGBT people, and where we're discussing deporting people for no good reason (the pro-deportation arguments are usually about crime, which all the statistics show is not actually coming from immigrants, illegal or otherwise) and where we're proposing deporting them to countries they've escaped from because those countries are run by tyrants.
We're also looking at the basic rights of liberals being crippled. MAGA is cheering on purges of government workers at every level (yes, we expect management changes from time to time to align with government priorities, that's normal, but Project 2025 is about everyone) for their political views. We're seeing serious questions rising about whether we'll even have a vote in two years time.
In other words, liberals and conservatives in the 2000s at least started on the basis that people were human beings born with certain inalienable rights, and deserving of a minimal level of respect until proven otherwise, while now MAGA doesn't have that common basis. MAGA is, in many ways, the invading anti-American culture it pretends to hate. A nation of immigrants, that overcame much of its racist slave-holding beginnings albeit aware much more needed to be done, that rejected religious government, that saw greatness in what it could build, that welcomed those fleeing persecution and was itself built upon that - how anti-American can you be to oppose all of that and want to impose this pseudo-christian (no, Jesus wouldn't support any of this shit) fascist bullshit on the country instead?
We our losing our democracy and seeing our friends, our sons and daughters, our mothers and fathers, put in serious danger as MAGA politicians take it in turns to show how anti-women or anti-LGBT or anti-brown they are, and you're expecting everyone to just see this as a "political" difference.
There's nothing pathetic about refusing a seat at a table with fascists on it. Nothing at all. Pathetic is going along with it and staying with these people because you want to be respected or liked by them. And evil is being the fascist to begin with.
Trump vs Bush Jr (Score:2)
Bush Jr. took many steps towards what Trump is today. He glorified being stupid and incompetent. Thanks to mishandling Iraq and Afghanistan, he gave a massive boost to everything evil in the world, especially Iran. Bush Jr was a far worse president over eight years than Trump was in four, but Trump just said, "Hold my beer". We'll have to see.
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I stopped bothering with twitter when the people and groups I follow were mostly on bluesky. Also, bluesky has some genuinely great moderation tools where before to get the crap out of my feed I'd have to individually block the spam accounts whils
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Note also it's not just the left that's leaving, it's the non-extreme right as well.
To the far right, anyone not as extreme as they are is a raging lefty... Which is why the term has become meaningless.
Re:Bluesky (Score:4, Informative)
He literally deletes accounts that say shit he doesn't like. Including right wing ones, while screaming about he's a free speech absolutist.
What he does though, is act like a butt hurt middle schooler - which is what you should expect from yet-another-textbook-narcissist. I've never used Twitter, or Facebook, or any of that other trash and I have no interest in Bluesky either.
I do recommend the LeopardsAteMyFace subreddit though. [reddit.com] It's absolutely overflowing with MAGA regrets and will likely remain so for at minimum the next 4 years and maybe longer.
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No-one on Bluesky is bragging they voted for Trump, that trashing the US constitution is good, that not paying wages and disbursements is good.
Mark Cuban is on it declaring they needed to invite the abandoned MAGA to fight against the pro-hating, pro-killing bigots left in the MAGA collective. That's history revisionism: The abandoned MAGA did nothing wrong and want their day of thievery and bloodshed, want what they were promised. The MAGA collective is the only thing that can fulfill those promises.
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I do recommend the LeopardsAteMyFace subreddit though. [reddit.com] It's absolutely overflowing with MAGA regrets and will likely remain so for at minimum the next 4 years and maybe longer.
They should rename it to "LeopardsAteTheirFaces", 99% of the sub is all "well they might be celebrating but they ought to be regretting". And you know when they stop celebrating they won't have regrets, they'll say it's all Obama's fault and they need to vote Republican harder.
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Musk is an evil piece of shit. Everybody is opposite his side.
Re:Bluesky (Score:4, Insightful)
I am on X, and follow a number of accounts on both sides of the political spectrum. However, there are fewer and fewer posts from the left - indeed, apparently because they stopped posting and went elsewhere. Most likely because couldn't stand the fact that Musk is not politically on their side.
My understanding Musk tweaked algorithm to favor himself and his political ideology. The flood of bot nonsense plus changes to nerf blocking policy lead to the exodus.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/... [theverge.com]
Honestly, it's pretty pathetic. Why is it that people cannot tolerate differences of opinion?
What I find to be "pretty pathetic" is tolerance of abuse of power.
Bluesky is for real adults (Score:4, Interesting)
My SO tried Twitter and despised it yeeeeears ago, long before any of the political controversies alluded to on any of these comments. Long before Trump even dipped a toe into politics. She has strong reasons for like Bluesky.
The key feature of Bluesky is the control of your feed is in your hands, not some central authority.
Want certain topics? Go find specific tagged streams on those topics.
A troll is annoying? Block the troll (and deny the troll access to your posts). And because trolls are so easy to never see again, those childish attention getting antics used by attention whores do not work.
a couple of conservative folk I know were promptly banned for expressing their opinions.
Nobody has to listen to you on Bluesky. Your conservative friends were not "banned" from Bluesky. They were blocked out of reading and posting to certain groomed feeds that were controlled by individuals. It is called freedom. Individuals who control certain feeds may or may not be making good choices here, but they are making the choices, not a company algorithm.
Don't like it? Make your own feed for like-minded people. Take responsibility. Freedom gives you options.
Or let a corporate algorithm whore your attention to its feed, if you are not up to being responsible.
Your choice. Real freedom works that way.
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You're kidding, right? No one is that uninformed. You'd have to be in a coma following a traumatic brain injury.
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Gee, I can't imagine why they'd leave [unherd.com].
As one person I know who was still at Twitter put it but left after the election: he initially thought it was stupid leaving the platform and just handing it over to the right, but then when the election approached, suddenly the algo switched to shoving a ton of pro-right ragebait into his feed, and then the moment the election was over it stopped - and the fact that the attempted manipulation was so blatant was the last straw for him.
As for me, I left well earlier, mad
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Don't sat the C word! There are only two sexes, man and woman. There are no such things as hermaphrodites or asexual creatures. Science is a lie!
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There are only two sexes, man and political
Fixed that for you.
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'cis' and 'cisgneder' are not derogatory terms.
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I mean, it's literally just the latin for "on the same side of", as opposed to trans, "on the opposite side of". Cisalpine / transalpine, cisjordan / transjordan, cis-isomer / trans-isomer, cislunar / translunar, cisgenic / transgenic, on and on and on. It could not possibly be a more mundane choice of word.
And the thing is, most people are accommodating. Like, if people with dwarfism or other similar medical conditions want to be called "little people" rather than alternatives... like, I personally think it's a silly choice of term, but I'll of course use it for them, because I'm not an a-hole. But whenever you ask people who are mad at the term "cisgender" what term they want instead... the answer is "no term". They don't want there to be any word. They want the topic of there being any difference between cis and trans people to be literally indescribable with language, because they literally want to eradicate trans people.
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It reminds me so much of the "gay panic" from a few decades ago. Anyone remember that? The "homosexual agenda", "gays indoctrinating children"*, a plot to destroy marriage**, "It's Adam And Eve, Not Adam And Steve" "biological realists", on and on and on.
* - Classic onion parody here [theonion.com]
** - Literally in the US the federal bill was the "Defense of Marriage Act"
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(You could literally just change up a few words in that Onion article and it becomes perfectly new again)
'25 Homosexual-Recruitment Drive Nearing Goal
Published: February 2, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO—Spokespersons for the Transgender Indoctrination Taskforce announced Monday that more than 288,000 cisgender people have been converted to transgenderism since Jan. 1, 2024, putting the growth trend well on pace to reach its goal of 350,000 conversions this year.
“Thanks to the tireless efforts of our mission
The thing that scares me about trans panic (Score:2)
Trans people are less than 1/10 that. This means that it's easy to go your entire life without ever knowing one. And trans women, which is where all the panic is, or half of that so you're looking at more like 1/20th. That makes the usual tactic for dealing with bigotry, exposure thera
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Argh, forgot to edit the title :P
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First off, "normal" is a generic term; it's not descriptive of any specific topic.
Secondly, the opposite of "normal" is "abnormal", so you're in effect wanting to pick a term specifically to insult trans people. You might as well say "the term we want is 'the people who AREN'T c*nts' ".
To demand that there be no actual specific term for something that is frequently discussed is to either go to war with the concept of language itself, or to demand the eradication of anything that causes the topic to be disc
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I have to say, that's some serious nerve on your part, declaring that the simplest, most obvious term, which is just based on using the opposite Latin prefix, is some sort of great insult, and your "demand" is instead that other people get called "abnormal".
You're taking something that is unambiguously not a term designed to insult, classing it as an insult, and then demanding an insult against others every time you're addressed.
FYI, you're not exactly standing on high ground in this.
A Twitter Clone (Score:2, Insightful)
Would be nice if the fine summary mentioned what exactly this is.
It's a Twitter clone attempting to recapture the glory days of 2020, when all major social media networks could be counted on to participate in a widespread news blackout of an inconvenient national story.
Re:Bluesky (Score:5, Informative)
It's an alternative to X that is meant to be a place for Democrats to gather. Whether it proves to be helpful or hurtful to their cause, only time will tell.
Re:Bluesky (Score:5, Informative)
It is a place for people who want control of their feed, rather than let their personal attention be whored by a corporate owned algorithm.
And because it is easy to block trolls, the childish attention getting antics common to most social media work poorly.
People who abhor civil discourse are quick to claim that civil discourse is some kind of "Democrat" thing. They may be right about that.
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Adults don't block. Adults argue or ignore.
Re: Bluesky (Score:2)
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Yes, and that is stupid. Therefore, ignore or argue, don't block.
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You do understand the meaning of the word "ignore"?
Adults don't say an environment is "toxic". If someone is rude, or worse, an adult ignores them. Insecure teenage girls might be affected, but they aren't adults. What are you?
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At face value, you are arguing for a position that I am 100% certain that no sane adult believes.
It is a matter of context.
If I have a feed whose topics include politics, of course it would be lame to curate away all opinions that differ from mine. Of course, I accept that some people will make lame choices -- that is how freedom works.
But if I am running a feed where the topic is organic farmer and someone keeps goading participants with off topic political posts, I am going to be quick to shut that down.
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You just found out about spam. Spam is spam, spam is not a "toxic environment".
Look at Slashdot, AFAIK very few comments are deleted, "bad" comments are voted down and you just browse at some level where these comments aren't displayed. Apply that model mentally to everything else.
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It's an alternative to X that is meant to be a place for Democrats to gather. Whether it proves to be helpful or hurtful to their cause, only time will tell.
Those bastards enabled all of this shit. Fuck the Democrats (but only after fucking the Republicans even harder. They allowed themselves to infiltrated by evil people and became THE evil people)
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... leftist echo chamber ...
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LOL, trolled for echoing
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Well, to be fair, Musk outed himself as a far right trash, making Nazi salutes and such. The US peak Zionist lobby fell over itself trying to say an arm gesture wasn't what anyone thought it was, only for Musk to double down on the cray cray by making corny jokes about Nazism.
Then there's speaking at a AfD conference.
So, yes, any decent human being would have left Twitter by now. Elon cancelled himself.
Musk is a Nazi, but we already knew this (Score:2)
He proved his Nazi bona-fides a couple years ago with his various antisemitic posts. He has some sycophantic Jewish friends who sucked off his money teat to soften his image, but there are always race traitors among us. Nothing new here.
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And yes some of them have come back to do a little bribery but it'll be just enough to get attention from the administration. Not the kind of long-term ad campaigns.
You can't just fire half your staff and then start barking orders and expect things to go well. Yeah they've managed to keep the website from completely collapsing, mostly thanks to you ridiculously overworked H1B employees. But the actual site is dying. And if it wasn't for its utility in politics and propaganda it would be shutting down in a few years. The company owes $1.5 billion a year in interest payments alone let alone the value of the debt itself. And best case scenario it's revenue is half what it was when it was already unprofitable. There's only so much you can make up by firing people. Especially when it costs you users and customers.
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So where we are now: Shitter still runs. Shitter still has users. Shit
Twitter had 500 million users when it was bought (Score:2, Troll)
The site runs but has frequent issues and tons of features just don't work. They are completely focused on the bare minimum needed to keep the propaganda flowing.
You are absolutely right though about the propaganda value. It helped Trump win and without Trump Musk while not in the poor house won't have any companies anymore. SpaceX is a national security risk and Tesla is only functional because of a $8,000 government subsidy applied at
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Certainly there are more bots arguing with each other than ever before. Actual users? Far fewer. I used to see news stories that were essentially Twitter posts linked together. Those are fewer and further between because so many fewer content makers use the platform.
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Musk saw that the narrative was being controlled, so he stepped in to stop other people from controlling the narrative. He then made the classic blunder of controlling the narrative to stop others from controlling the narrative and now he is completely lost in mental gymnastics of controlling the narrative while trying to not control the narrative. Sad really.
Hands off. Relax. Let Reality take control again. But no, it is too late for that. Nosedive.
But what happens to threads, long term? (Score:2, Flamebait)
The zuck bent the knee and capitulated to the MAGAts not too long ago himself. The nastiness has already been spreading throughout Facebook. And with the zuck and the muskrat now united and goose-marching lockstep on the same side, united under their worship of and fealty to dear leader, what happens to threads? Is the zuck more of a capitalist at heart who will see a market niche and let threads remain a neutral and non-toxic alternative to the trumping propaganda machine that twitter/x has become and F
not an apples to apple comparison (Score:2)
Bluesky doesn't have an existing platform with 2 Billion active users that it can spam with advertisements/transition to use Threads... especially when they post threads samples that might be interesting to read, but you need to USE the damned thing to see it further.
Bluesky has the hurdle of you actively creating a new account and all that that entails on a new social media platform.
On a side note, glad Bluesky is not growing too quickly... the content/user quality is still really good. With virtually no
Monetization (Score:2)
It will have to be monetized to pay for this scale of service and will eventually follow the same path as all other social media then people will be onto the next one...
Geez, that many people with no life.... (Score:2)
Mark Hamill's Posts Are Sad (Score:2)
I don't understand Twitter/X -> Threads (Score:2)
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(Thing that is not X) is where radical leftists are going because they keep getting community fact-checked into oblivion.
Ever since X became a platform that lets users point a posts inconsistencies, lack of context, or most importantly, missing facts usually left out by someone trying to spin a narrative, I find myself going there to find out the truth of whats going. Yes, it still takes a good BS filter, but at least you can see the context and facts other users have pointed out are missing.
Looking at the leaderboard on community notes, most accounts I don't recognize at all but I see a few far right wing accounts and afaik no radical leftists https://community-notes-leader... [community-...rboard.com] This is no doubt due to a lack of knowledge on my part so I'd be most grateful if someone could point to the top 3 radical leftist accounts on that list? (Elon is #48).
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It seems about the same as ever to me. I didn't read it before and I don't read it now, but no change in quality at all.
Re:Oh Wow The Onion (Score:4, Insightful)
Their satirical stories became true?
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Talk about a snowflake living in a bubble...
Fascism was left wing? I guess the Nazis were a bunch of faggots then. At least that explains the fashion sense.
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Haha yeah real Bleeding Hearts and Tree-huggers those nazis. and if that's true, why aren't today's neonazis into that stuff?
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Fascism was left wing? I guess the Nazis were a bunch of faggots then. At least that explains the fashion sense.
There is more than one left, and more than one right.
The Nazis were big on state control of industry and public works. They were socialists in that sense. The clue is in the name: "National Socialists".
But they were also incredibly nationalist (again, it's in the name) and socially/morally conservative. When it comes to us faggots they weren't keen; the Nazis didn't just kill jews.
Socially left + economically right = Libertarian.
Socially right + economically right = MAGA, among others.
Socially left + econom
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Note that Fascism is Left Wing
This is literally, actually, and in all other ways the opposite of both fact and truth. Being right wing is (again, actually literally, hmm that's twice today) part of the definition.
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This is absolutely true.
But it's also absolutely true that in order to BUILD that community or critical mass, people also need to make the step.
Good for you, now continue to encourage others. It'll be better before you know it. Just takes a little work.
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And how do you call a tweet on X ? A X ?
A tweet. I still call it Twitter, and so should you; the more people do it the more it will annoy Musk.