shit like "elmo" for musk can go in the sea too. we're dealing with actual nazi shit let's act like fucking grownups - ThreadSky

nickywoolf.bsky.social • 32 days ago

shit like "elmo" for musk can go in the sea too. we're dealing with actual nazi shit let's act like fucking grownups

it’s round two, you hashtag resist people really gotta stop using bizarre nicknames for Trump. “Orange Drumpf” etc didn’t hit in 2016 and it extremely does not hit now

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tjacq.bsky.social•32 days ago

While I agree it seems juvenile, I think people had to make up other names so the X algorithms didn't get them banned for using actual names

haurchehaunt.bsky.social•32 days ago

afaik that's not true. maybe they Thought they had to but i never saw or knew anyone get in trouble for any words except "cis"

errantv.bsky.social•32 days ago

It's seriously giving You-Know-Who energy like just call the fucking Nazi by name

joelrobson.com•32 days ago

Even people referring to him as 'Elon' everywhere pisses me off, it's unnecessarily personalising, plays up to a public persona he and his awful following has cultivated

cafenitz.bsky.social•32 days ago

YES!

sasanianshah.bsky.social•32 days ago

What’s the problem with a bit of humour?

michelebella.bsky.social•32 days ago

Seriously. I saw one YouTube channel said that they posted puppies and kittens instead of showing his inauguration and that somehow was "ruining his week." These people are living in a fantasy world. We truly need to get organized otherwise it's a literal life or death situation. I'm so frustrated.

katherineschof8.bsky.social•32 days ago

That was originally to get round Musk’s censorship on Twitter. True, no longer necessary but it was when there was no viable option to X.

kimkelly.bsky.social•32 days ago

that one kills me. I’ve seen “Elno” too, like please grow up

nickywoolf.bsky.social•32 days ago

I honest to god saw someone call trump a "shitgibbon" the other day. I was like christ what the fuck are we even *doing* here

gothwillywonka.bsky.social•32 days ago

The Scottish have been calling him the orange shitgibbon for years at this point

peachresist.bsky.social•32 days ago

Re *say their names*
— Elon’s not the boss here, we don’t have to avoid those filters.
— Whenever there’s a “He Who Shall Not Be Named” vibe….NAME HIM!
— Some of this is born out of a long-held self-comforting idea that if we don’t give Trump “attention” he’ll be disempowered & go away. Nope.

geoff-fuckley.bsky.social•32 days ago

Curtis Yarvin has similar advice: When in doubt, describe people and groups with the words they use to describe themselves. Elon, MAGA, Biden and progressive are far better terms than “Elmo,” “magats,” “Sleepy Joe” and “woke” (circa post-2016).

peachresist.bsky.social•32 days ago

Not surprising that denizens of the Dark Enlightenment would get “woke” wrong, even when they’re trying to make a salient point.

taterpie.bsky.social•32 days ago

Saw a variety of thoughts pro and con on this a few weeks ago. For some folks it's avoiding termsearching by violent fucking weirdos. For some others, it's just coping. it's not *for* you, so getting mad about it's kinda pointless I'd think?

nickywoolf.bsky.social•32 days ago

fair point. it just makes me cringe every time I see it because I worry it might represent a way of thinking about this colossal problem in a kind of infantilising way that discounts the level of threat, yknow?

taterpie.bsky.social•32 days ago

I mean. I'm guessing people called Adolph 'Shitler' back then too. :v

katherineschof8.bsky.social•32 days ago

“Hitler has only got one ball” etc etc

nickywoolf.bsky.social•32 days ago

I take your point though it does seem pertinent that the soldiers singing that were also shooting at the nazis as well

katherineschof8.bsky.social•32 days ago

There is never a bad time to punch a nazi.

reverendjesus.com•32 days ago

I have watched quite a bit of Allied WW2 propaganda and you are absolutely right

nickywoolf.bsky.social•32 days ago

fuck sake

twlldun.bsky.social•32 days ago

“Apartheid Clyde” in particular is very effective at othering the problem and ignoring that what radicalisation has taken place with regards musk took place in the good old US of A

melancholyself.bsky.social•32 days ago

Am I still allowed to call Trump "That Moldy Orange" when I'm insulting them online?

uhjustin.bsky.social•32 days ago

If you’re not using their nams, the appropriate terminology is something like “those a -holes, fuckers, and inhuman ghouls”

stoatie.bsky.social•32 days ago

Real names get searched for by him and his flying monkeys though.

jessturboville.bsky.social•32 days ago

i still like 'apartheid clyde' though

moiness.bsky.social•32 days ago

Nazi fanboys search for non-believers and organise pile-ons. Back in the day my criticism of Milo lead to an attempted doxxing.

But these trolls don’t search for alt names.

BlueSky is safer when we let people protect themselves or let off steam. It is not safer if we attack people for doing so

andy-says.bsky.social•31 days ago

But I was told saying Tangerine Palpatine is in fact resistence

chrisheasman.bsky.social•31 days ago

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