The ultra capitalist mindset of the average American is quite telling in the approach to issues. Capitalism is the reason why they can't havegun control because NRA is funding the GOP and needs to keep selling to continue funding them. Twitter's demise is on the alter of capitalism.

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Homer was so real for this

i’m begging elon musk to purchase the company that has my private student loans, put them out of business due to stupidity please

"I hope Twitter implodes!" I don't. I hope someone else takes over & the site returns to how it was before. I have spent years of my life posting over there. It's like losing a close friend that introduced me to all of my other friends. It sucks & I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm sad about that.

me reading as many skeets as i want

When the twitter mutual doesn't follow you back here

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I tried to play off the Elon ruining twitter thing as being funny, "let it burn" etc but it actually just fucking sucks and is sad. pre-Musk twitter was garbage but it was our garbage

this screencap is my new most valuable possession

Down the drain

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I guess if now’s the time to share the twitter eulogies we wrote for the last twitter funeral a few months ago, here’s my contribution. this website was free (among other things that it was): https://griefbacon.substack.com/p/an-incomplete-list-of-things-that

Of course

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Extreme capitalism is always going to end one way.

your whole internet persona does not have to be posting screenshots of tweets made by bigots

it's not worth anyone's time

Movie game time. I'll name an actor. The next person replies with a movie that actor was in. Then someone else reply to that, with a DIFFERENT actor also in that movie. And so on.

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