• BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    … it continues to be all bluster. I swear we’re gonna get reports on the absolute nothing stories of these two talking shit until the end of time. God I wish I could somehow filter out these posts until something actually happens

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      You could just unsub from all the political communities and manually check the news once a day. I do this from time to time when it gets to be too much for me

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        I want politics in my feed, though, just specifically not these two doing nothing! I have no idea how a filter like that would even be implemented (other than people just not posting them, lol) but I mean mahgawd.

        Like, I thought about trying to filter out certain bluster-y keywords like “threatens, blasts, tweets, on X” but there are a lot of situations where even a statement can have consequences. I wanna know when minorities get blamed for insane bullshit again, or when nuclear war gets threatened again, or when someone is calling for peace talks again. Tariffs getting delayed for the 80th time is still gonna affect how things are getting priced.

        But this nonsense where Trump say Musk bad, Musk say Trump bad, while neither of them have taken any actions against each other? No funding cuts to Musk companies, no investigations, no arrests. No specific opposition candidates being funded (if this even happens it’ll still be a Republican), no DOGE backpedaling, no changes to Twitter, no re-banning Trump. just fucking god why who the fuck cares about any of the shit theyve said about each other over the last, what? 3 weeks???

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          And the point here is to flood the space. If everyone is talking about the gossip 100% of the time, nobody has spare cycles to pay attention to what’s actually happening.

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        An interesting application feature idea; filter profiles? Where filters, blocks, subscriptions, etc. are a set/group that can be toggled. You could make a separate account, I suppose. But there’s also some likely overhead to consider.

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    I’m hoping that Musk makes a deal with someone to expose election interference as a pardon or prevention from deportation

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        For federal crimes. Governors can pardon people for state charges. Elections are run by the individual state governments, so interference is generally a state-level crime. This is why Trump hasn’t pardoned himself for his own interference convictions, because the violations were of state law in New York.

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          This is why Trump hasn’t pardoned himself

          If he remaind in power for the rest of his life, he doesn’t need to, that would look weak.

          But if he still alive in 2029 January and was about to lose the presidency, he would probably attempt a self-pardon. Then its up to the 6-3 conservatives in the court to decide if that’s even valid.

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        Well if Musk comes out and admits that he helped rig the election them technically the president isn’t the president eh? Plus informants make deals all of the time, I don’t see how this is different

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    Lol.

    I thought Musk was going to get more for his money before the inevitable breakup. But hey, we’re talking about two dipshit loser man-children. So I guess this is all on schedule.