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If you have a credential in your handle or profile, or an obviously middle-class-expertise indicator, now is probably the time to remove it
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I never bothered to apply for the bluecheck because the feature's flaws were obvious from day 1. But that didn't stop the term from coming to refer to a broad class that includes people like me, whether or not they actually had the checkmark.
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I was hoping this wasn't true, but the signs are too unmistakeable. This is the null hypothesis (whether or not he got monarchist dreams via Yarvin or some other source, it's clear he holds them)
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Yeah. He's very clearly taken Y*rvin to heart, and he wants to go after the cathedral.
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There is now an air of senseless destruction here. It is clear who is losing. It is not clear anyone is winning anything besides schadenfreude. I hope that changes. At least if the "peasants" make real gains beyond the pleasure of pwning the bluechecks, some good may come of this
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At a more practical level, the golden age of free reach for us in the D-list "lord" class is now over. If you don't have alternative reach mechanisms like email lists etc. you'll see real losses. Happened before on Facebook, though with much less drama, and more civilty.
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Kinda interesting that he earlier tweeted stats about how the biggest accounts (Obama etc) were ghost accounts, which means the triangle was basically lords+peasants vs. absent emperors.
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That's why this site was such a great place for activism (which is generally middle class stanning lower class causes, with various degrees of investment ranging from slacktivism and cheap signaling to much costlier ways). Sorry activists, game over. Back to plastic bracelets.
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I personally completely ignored the activist stuff, since I don't have any activist sensibilities at all and am entirely selfish in why I'm here. But I think it did a lot of good, even though most of the attention was on the bad-faith outrage baiting and calling out.
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The grim-funniest thing is that "shareholder value" looks *very* different if you hold both tesla stock, as opposed to just twitter.
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If you're staying on here for the time being at least, and are critical of some of what is going on, I suggest running with the "emperor" meme. The biggest hypocrisy on display right now is the monarch using words like "lord" and "peasant" without acknowledging his own status
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He's working really hard to present as just a humble messenger of the people ("chief twit" etc is shallow self-deprecation) fighting the deep state. He'd like you to forget he's the above-the-law emperor now.
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