Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Zincy
Poorly, than pretend it was actually a 10000000 IQ play after his tantrum is over.

NIMBY is a strong sentiment.

Probably by cope-tweeting a laughing escalation meme about people complaining about his companies but still wanting them.

He does this a lot.

Time for the Andrew Torba variety show. First he weighs in on Elon:

Elon Musk is in over his head when it comes to free speech.

Musk is quickly learning that in order to run a free speech platform you need two things: thick skin and a fanatical commitment to free speech, even when being pro free speech is bad for business, and even when being pro free speech means tolerating the most excoriating criticism of yourself.

Elon’s “free speech” saga at Twitter is really nothing of the sort. He’s treating the product, and his users, as his playthings. Flailing, hyper-feminine emotional outbursts are a substitute for a “leadership style.” All told, he has revealed that he has no interest whatsoever in bringing actual free speech to Twitter.

Twitter was, ironically, more measured and free when there were thousands of mentally ill blue-haired Communists with their fingers on the ban hammer. At least the Communists tried to come up with an objective and consistent rationale for their actions. Contrast with Elon, who waved the flag of free speech as soon as he took over but immediately began compromising on that promise for the sake of business expediency.

When it came to Alex Jones being reinstated, Elon had an emotional reaction and invoked the loss of his child. When it came to Kathy Griffin impersonating him, Elon had an emotional reaction and swung the ban hammer on anyone in his way. When it came to Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, posting a symbol of a French UFO cult which combined a swastika and a Star of David, Elon had an emotional reaction and banned him so as to be hip with all of the other California types who were throwing Ye to the wolves.

Now with the ElonJet and journalist ban situation, where constitutionally protected information which is publicly available is being removed from the site (despite being massively available practically everywhere else on the Internet) Elon is once again “leading” with his emotions and treating Twitter not as a product, not as an essential and vital publication utility for the entire world, but as a toy, and one controlled by a petulant child at that.

Men who lead do not make decisions and dictate on the whims of their emotions. Weak, hyper-effete men “leading” with emotions instead of reason and logic is a big reason Western society is crumbling. Given Elon’s Reddit-tier political takes and patchy soy beard, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to find out that he is low on the testosterone side. But I digress.

Gab is for free speech. The lefty journalists recently banned from Twitter might not believe it but when they find that they get zero engagement on Mastodon and are looking to join a serious social media platform again, but Gab will be here waiting for them – and we will protect them from all censors, foreign and domestic, to the greatest extent possible, as long as their speech is lawful.

Some of these journalists who were banned last night, like Matt Binder, have been extremely critical of Gab and our users in the past. I don’t like Matt. He’s been unfair to Gab in the past. But Gab exists for him. Gab exists to provide a home and a megaphone for viewpoints that don’t have a home anywhere else. Until Elon took over Twitter, that meant we were a home for the right and center-right. After Elon took over, we are ready, willing, and able to provide that home for the left and center-left, just as we are prepared to host anyone who agrees that they will not violate U.S. law in the use of our service.

We can no longer afford to give any power whatsoever to petty tyrants who think themselves to be god-kings. This is the outcome when emasculated emotional losers “lead” our society: chaos, hypocrisy, destruction, and censorship.

Twitter is a big corporation and it has big corporate baggage. It needs huge quantities of advertising dollars from all over the world, including the most censorial European countries, just to survive. When EU bureaucrats tell him to censor Americans he has to obey. Last week the EU asked us to censor some Americans – citing no law that had been broken, simply saying that certain users were posting “propaganda” – and we told them to pound sand. No US court will ever enforce an unconstitutional European rule. If we never sell a dollar of ads in the European Union, that’s perfectly fine with us.

The reason I run Gab because I believe that protecting freedom of speech is a divine command. We must refuse to be “led” by anyone who is not themselves led by Jesus Christ. We deserve strong God-fearing Christian leaders in media, business, technology, culture, education, and government.

I may not agree with your beliefs. You may not agree with mine. You may think my belief in God is a backward superstition. I may think your atheism is corrosive. None of that matters. Whoever you are, wherever you are, I, and this company, will defend your right to speak freely on the Internet as long as we are able to do so.

So in addition to blasting Elon, he’s saying Gab will welcome even lefties once Twitter croaks and others like Mastodon become an echo chamber.

But now here’s a previous one where he announces what Gab’s policy on free speech is:

Gab is a First Amendment company which means we tolerate “offensive” but legal speech.

We believe that a moderation policy which adheres to the First Amendment, thereby permitting offensive content to rise to the surface, is a valuable and necessary utility to society. It allows unorthodox but correct views, such as the Wuhan Lab Origin Theory or the Hunter Biden laptop scandal– both of which were banned on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube but permitted on Gab– to propagate.

It allows hateful ideas, such as anti-White CRT, to be exposed and subject to scrutiny and challenge. It also allows Americans, and others around the world, to enjoy the full measure of their human right to speak freely online. Supporting the mission of freedom online means having the stomach to accept that people will say “edgy and offensive” things. When people have the freedom to discover the truth, they start to notice something about the reality of our discourse “boundaries” in the West that is unsettling.

Our broken society and culture have no problem whatsoever discussing and questioning any atrocity in world history except one.

We have no problem discussing, questioning, and praising any other world leader in history except one.

We have no problem generalizing and being critical of any group of people except one.

We have no problem discussing the castration of children, degeneracy, vulgarity, profanity, blasphemy, drugs, satanism, baby murder, and every taboo subject under the sun except one. 

I don’t even have to say which “one” for you all to know exactly what and who I am talking about–and that’s the problem. We all know, but we are too afraid to say it out loud. Why? This is the United States of America. This is the free and open internet. If we can talk about every other historical event, people group, religion, and taboo we should be able to talk about this. 

Frankly, I believe the time to start speaking the truth boldly and loudly is right now. Not from a place of hatred or malice, but from a place of love. We love our nations. We love our families. We love our neighbors. We want to see them all thrive. That’s not happening right now in our society. The reason for that is the people in power do not fear and love the Lord. They serve satan and they serve themselves. You can either serve satan and the self or you can serve Jesus Christ. There is no middle ground. We want leaders who serve and obey Jesus Christ. Period. 

The Regime’s anti-Christ religion depends on these issues being untouchable subjects. Which is exactly why—as free people who fear only God—we can and must openly talk about them in order to destroy their sacred cows and smash their idols. If we break down their barriers on discourse we can and will remove them from power and restore order in our countries once again.

We will replace them with leaders who fear and love the Lord. It’s not a matter of if, but when. Gab is the one place on the internet that allows this to happen with words and Truth. Which is exactly why the Regime has worked so hard to try and destroy our platform. That’s why they have defamed us and gone after our families and friends. That’s why they banned us from banks, app stores, payment processors, hosting providers, and so much more. They are the most powerful people in the world with infinite resources, but we serve the most powerful and infinite God.

We do not fear them at Gab. We fear Him.

Many Christians will message me or leave comments saying I need to remove profanity or “Nazis” from Gab or whatever they deem to be “not Christian.” They ask me how I can tolerate these things on Gab as a Christian leader and the answer is simple. 

First: Gab is a free speech site. You control what you want to see, not us. You can mute entire words if you never want to see them. You can block or mute or unfollow people you do not want to see. Gab’s job on the moderation side is to make sure there is no illegal content being posted according to US law such as threats of violence or child exploitation. Otherwise, 99.9% of moderation on Gab is done by the users themselves on their own profiles and in their own groups. 

Second: I want everyone to be exposed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the kindness, patience, and charity of Christians. Even the “Nazis.” Gab may soon be the one place online where people hear about Jesus. I have seen countless Gabbers return to Christ, get baptized, and start going to church after being inspired by other Gabbers and the Holy Spirit. Why on earth would we not want things like that to happen here? 

I was reminded of this today when a woman on Gab sent a message to my wife saying “I can tell you that since I’ve been on Gab my life has transformed because the platform is so encouraging and it’s like a bible study with likeminded believers when I get on.” We receive messages like this from Gabbers every single day. 

Gab is the home of free speech. It’s where taboos, sacred cows, lies, and “untouchable” conversations go to die. It’s where freedom and the Gospel of Jesus Christ which provides that freedom–can be found. 

Gab is the digital home of the parallel Christian society. They can’t cancel us here. We no longer care about being canceled in their anti-Christ regime society because we are building our own–everything. Our own social media platform. Our own community. Our own payment processor. Our own news and media outlets. Our own economy. Our own entertainment. All of it build on the firm foundation of Jesus Christ–and we are only just getting started. 

So yeah they’ve adopted their own form of this site’s rule 4. Don’t like it, filter it.
And of course God this God that yada yada yada, and the way he talks, it sounds like you might get the ban hammer if you say shit about God.

I feel like people who say stuff like “those California types” earnestly are a bit crazy themselves.

Hey, remember that pre-Elon Twitter time where some Twitter dev said they couldn’t use the algorithm to ban Nazis because Republican politicians would be targeted as well? Does that seem like something “mentally ill blue-haired Communists” would do? I dunno, dropped that political affiliation lately.

I just remembered that for some reason, couldn’t really tell you why.

@Meanlucario
95% of the people saying that have never set foot in the state and get all of their info off some youtube jackoff, so it checks out

Are Police usually briefed on what Toy Guns are?

It feels like every few weeks or at least once a month there’s a story about a Cop tackling a child because he thought they had an actual gun when it was just a toy.

You folks remember Project Veritas? Well it looks like they’ve jumped in on the “queers are grooming your kids” hate train. Their latest “sting” was a deceptively edited video of a conversation recorded without consent with someone who was managing a sex ed presentation for LGBTQ students at a private school in the Chicago area.

The video was boosted by Libs of Tiktok and other far right outrage baiters, and just days later the school had to be evacuated due to a bomb threat.

ETA: An alum of the school talks about it here.

@Meanlucario
Even more so when the people they claim are “crazy Californians” don’t even live there.

Remember when one of those dipshits tried to claim that the Guilty Gear creator (who lives in Japan by the way) was secretly “a teenage Californian girl” because he explicitly confirmed that Bridget was trans?

@CaptainXtra
They only look like a toy if they’re colored like that or have an orange tip, or is something futuristic looking. More often than not they get painted to look realistic (which I think is illegal). And then there’s those times a real gun is painted like a toy one, or even fitted inside a toy one.

@Meanlucario
It’s actually more about property values and purported crime rates than anything

What might be the factors that will cause Twitter to throw Musk out? If he continues any longer, the site will crash and rot.

I just remembered something. Gonna ask, because I’m legit curious.

Did Gab get around to their ban on porn?

Edit:

I probably shouldn’t be so harsh on you since you’re just the messenger.

Tired of people acting like everyone in Texas is a Republican.

Almost all of the cities are blue. It’s just that the rural areas hold the rest of the state hostage.

@HorsesandMuchMOAR
Stock continuing to plummet. There’s already calls from Tesla stockholders to boot him from Tesla because of this

@Background Pony #2730
Texas’s cities are very consistent about it too, there population growth being so much faster than the rural areas makes Texas a ticking time bomb, barring something insane we will likely see a day in our lifetime that Republicans never hold the white house again,

@Penguin Dragneel
I do now that you mention it.

If Democrats can turn the Houston and Dallas suburbs blue, Texas can absolutely flip blue.

@Background Pony #2730
Gotta evict Greg Abbott in 4 years

When your state’s Democratic Party bench is so shallow that Matthew fucking McConaughey is its member with the best chance of winning.

I had a conversation with a Boomer a few years ago. An older fellow that lived in the same apartment complex as me.

He was bemoaning the fact that Millennials lacked “basic life skills” and were “weak”. We had a pretty long convo, but the part that stuck out was when I talked about my own skillset.

How I’d learned to cook at 12. Then I mentioned how a lot of younger folk can cook, know how to clean, how to budget (because a lot of them are living paycheck to paycheck), how to sew/fix clothes (because aforementioned lack of funds), and garden/grow things (from food to pot).

He said that cleaning and cooking were “soft” (read, ‘woman’s work’) skills and were why Millennial men were weak. I then asked him what he considered “life skills”.

Fixing cars was one, wiring, yardwork…all stereotypical “man” work.

@Zincy
I guess back when gender roles were actual strict roles rather than just suggestions, it would make sense. If both a husband and a wife had the same set of “feminine” skills, there would be a gap in the area of “masculine” skills. And the other way around. But were gender roles still this strict when boomers were young?

Today, fixing software and hardware problems is as valuable as fixing cars, if not more. I wonder what he would say about it?

@Zincy
Most Boomer Men like to act tough and front to make up for their miserable lives, to escape their regrets, and cope with the slow but inevitable March of time.

Those ridiculous NFT trading cards Trump announced all sold out in less than a day for a total of $4.5 million. It’s almost unbelievable sometimes how fucking stupid these people are.

@kleptomage
Likely almost all bought by one person in a pre-agreed way to circumvent some political funding law, tbh.