Who is James Woods? What happened to James Woods? Has anyone checked up on Cat Turd recently?

  • lib1 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    40·
    10 months ago

    James Woods is an actor best known (afaik) for playing Hades in Disney’s Hercules. He’s also a Trump supporter. He recently tweeted that if Elon Musk removes blocking, he will be leaving because it would make Musk’s Twitter just as bad as Jack Dorsey’s, to which Musk replied, “Then delete your account”.

    The woman in the cartoon is Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino. Woods also tweeted out a picture of her LinkedIn, which included the fact that she’s previously worked at the World Economic Forum. Trump supporters have opposed the WEF because of some false consciousness about how the WEF is run by liberals and isn’t mask-off enough about supporting the American Empire. Woods captioned the tweet, “Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. I wonder how they got to him?”

    As far as I can tell, this is the only association between Yaccarino and Woods. So Garrison is saying that Elon has hired her to do the dirty work of silencing conservatives while still publically pretending to be a free speech warrior. So he’s…. kind of right? Just not in the way he thinks. Also, he’s inadvertently positioned cat turds as equivalent to Trump supporters? I don’t know, I don’t go on Twitter.

    Also, it sucks to see all the pro-Elon bots here insisting on calling it X. Don’t you know Musk is an authoritarian?

  • nick@midwest.socialEnglish
    22·
    10 months ago

    James woods is an actor. No idea what the rest of this shit is, I left Twitter months ago.

  • culpritus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    10 months ago

    all I can tell from this is Ben is doing a both-sides

    it looks like the catturd is celebrating being blocked by Musk, unless that is supposed to be an angry fist pumping?

    Found this article about how Musk is blocking folks for complaining about his plan to remove the block feature.

    Elon Musk has blocked James Woods on X after the actor criticized the tech mogul’s move to eliminate the block function from the platform formerly known as Twitter.
    “I’m having a good time blocking people who complain that blocking is going away,” Musk posted on Sunday, along with a crying-laughing emoji.
    https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-08-22/elon-musk-blocks-james-woods-x-twitter

    So maybe catturd is celebrating being mocked (getting attention from melon-musk)?

    James Woods calls Musk ‘just another greedy capitalist’!??!?!?

    “Musk, whom I once championed, is only doing this to protect his advertisers anyway. Users of X are mere pawns to turn the site into an electronic shopping mall. The man I thought was a defender of free speech is just another greedy capitalist. Disappointing, but not surprising.”

    What is happening in the right-wing griftersphere?

    • lib1 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      10 months ago

      I’ve received skepticism when bringing this up, but American fascism is currently doing a distributed breadth first search to figure out how to best coopt socialist language without calling it socialism and create false consciousness.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        They tried that by positioning social media moderators as the ruling class but that’s so absurd on its face that it doesn’t go anywhere.

        I think they’ll have more success positioning teachers as their elitist enemy, maybe? There’s a huge reactionary movement against schools themselves right now.

        You’re right though, we’re in a position where American fascism is attempting to become a coherent ideology and movement rather than the ambient feelings of suburban white people. But they’re their own enemies right now, like you said. They’re so primed against adopting socialist rhetoric they can’t articulate their nonsense grievances without sounding too socialist for their own tastes.

        • lib1 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          I think academia in general seems to be going well as a target. Teachers can be seen by fascists as footsoldiers of the liberal academy, trying to funnel kids onto campuses where they’re taught to be less conservative.

          That said, college campus politics are a dead end. There’s an upper limit on how much people give a shit about fascists getting talked over by college students in places they’ve never heard of. So, like you said, teachers are a good bet.

      • M68040 [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        I hate it when they do this shit. Part of the reason I came to left politics was the fact that I saw them as a chance to not only reject every single conservative idea, but adopt positions on everything that they could not touch and would find fundamentally unpalatable.

        I am trying to get away from them.

        • lib1 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          If a conservative starts agreeing with me, I just keep doubling down until I get a “well, I don’t know about that”. Works like a charm. I’ve been pleasantly surprised several times while talking about union politics with entry-level factory workers. But them’s just material conditions.

  • Elon_Musk [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    10 months ago

    I am once again asking you to read the blogs he posts along with his cartoons. They are a window into his brain.

    Elon Musk bought Twitter (now “X”) and promised free speech would soon be allowed back on the platform. We held out hope he would deliver. Our hopes were dashed.

    Elon ‘talked the talk’ and claimed he was a ‘free speech absolutist, but we quickly realized he all talk. He did not ‘walk the walk’ and kowtowed to his advertisers and governments around the world.

    Appointed X CEO by Musk, Linda Yaccarino now manages the day-to-day operations of X. She recently shed some light on the shadow banning operation at Twitter…er, X.

    “If you’re going to post something that is lawful but it’s awful, you get labeled,” Yaccarino said. “You get de-amplified, which means it cannot be shared, and it is certainly demonetized.”

    So much for freedom of speech on X.

    Basically, you can tweet whatever you may like, but only you will see it. If it cannot be shared, what’s the point of tweeting? On X, you are allowed to freely express your opinion, yet you are shadow banned and without reach to your followers. Such banning unfairly targets conservatives and Trump supporters. Our thoughts concerning the 2020 and 2024 elections, vaccines, and big government, get stifled.

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    Despite the name change and a new CEO, X is still controlling, throttling, and blocking free speech. The new boss is the same as the old boss. Even though Musk claims that he is for free speech he remains in favor of limited reach and controlled speech because he doesn’t want to upset his advertisers. Otherwise he would not have appointed Yaccarino.

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    Elon showed his true colors when influencers on X disagreed with his idea of removing the ‘block’ feature. Musk went on a blocking spree and blocked big name influencers such as @RealJamesWoods and @Catturd2. Both accumulated millions of followers. Blocking is a necessary tool to prevent trolls and junk mail spam, but apparently Musk wanted everyone to be subjected to his ads. Musk got huffy and blocked prominent conservatives from his messages as he smugly tweeted, “Pretty fun blocking people who complain that blocking is going away. How does the medicine taste?”

    The response you get from X if you’re a liberal and want to keep the block feature … vs … the response you get from X if you’re a conservative and say the exact same thing. pic.twitter.com/wE2jShkJal

    — Catturd ™ (@catturd2) August 21, 2023

    X looks like it is going toward the “pay to play” method where your opinions will only reach your followers if you opt into paying Musk $8 bucks a month for twitter blue. Even then your tweets can be de-amplified, which means little to no reach. Nice gig you got going there, Elon.

    We’re concerned that such censorship will worsen as the 2024 election approaches. Will they ban memes next? Musk refused to reinstate our original @grrrgraphics account (it had a large audience). Will they soon ban our new X account, @grrrgraphics2?

    Stay tooned.

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      “If you’re going to post something that is lawful but it’s awful, you get labeled,” Yaccarino said. “You get de-amplified, which means it cannot be shared, and it is certainly demonetized.”

      Ironically this is the policy of Lemmy libs defederating from Hexbear.

  • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    10 months ago

    I think it’s anti-Musk? He’s mad about Musk blocking catturd. I don’t think he quite grasps how free speech works, so why exactly he thinks Buttigieg or Kamala have anything to do with it is a mystery.

    edit: ok turns out that’s Musk and Linda Yaccarino, not Buttigieg and Kamala. Ben left the labels off the one time they would have actually been useful. Either way he still doesn’t understand free speech, because it’s a private platform and they’re free to ban whoever they want for whatever reason they want.

  • Nightcastle [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    My dream in life would be for twitter to just cause every phone it is installed on and every server that runs it to self destruct all at once