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Originally Posted By Missilegeek: There's a giant distinction between saying something like "not many normal people are regular active users of X" (what I think you are saying) And "X isn't having much impact on public perception." I think X has changed the game with the media and has a pretty significant impact on what and how information is shared. No matter which source of media or information you consume, it seems pretty likely that it was influenced by X. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Missilegeek: Originally Posted By Subnet: Originally Posted By exDefensorMilitas: And yet, this "not real" thing has been built and used in a very real fashion in the realm of public perception in multiple areas of society by your ideological opponents. It doesn't matter if you "get it" or not, it is(slightly less now) a tool used by the opposition, so one should probably try to limit it's effectiveness or use it for your own benefit. Hell, I'm not even sure that most of the traffic isn't just AI bots at this point. Seriously - I don't think it's all that real, or reflective of American society as a whole. It's an illusion. There's a giant distinction between saying something like "not many normal people are regular active users of X" (what I think you are saying) And "X isn't having much impact on public perception." I think X has changed the game with the media and has a pretty significant impact on what and how information is shared. No matter which source of media or information you consume, it seems pretty likely that it was influenced by X. But hell...I dunno. |
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Originally Posted By Subnet: I still have a hunch that this perception of X's influence, is really only shared by those of us who obsessively follow it. I think we're in the minority, and I think we make it out to be a bigger deal than it actually is, in reality. I think our judgement is clouded, by the fact that we all consume it and feel like it reflects reality - mostly because our reality really is shaped by it. I kinda don't think it actually does, though. But hell...I dunno. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Subnet: Originally Posted By Missilegeek: Originally Posted By Subnet: Originally Posted By exDefensorMilitas: And yet, this "not real" thing has been built and used in a very real fashion in the realm of public perception in multiple areas of society by your ideological opponents. It doesn't matter if you "get it" or not, it is(slightly less now) a tool used by the opposition, so one should probably try to limit it's effectiveness or use it for your own benefit. Hell, I'm not even sure that most of the traffic isn't just AI bots at this point. Seriously - I don't think it's all that real, or reflective of American society as a whole. It's an illusion. There's a giant distinction between saying something like "not many normal people are regular active users of X" (what I think you are saying) And "X isn't having much impact on public perception." I think X has changed the game with the media and has a pretty significant impact on what and how information is shared. No matter which source of media or information you consume, it seems pretty likely that it was influenced by X. But hell...I dunno. I forgot to post in your other thread but I think you are under-estimating the impact Twitter has on the world. For a little history lesson when Twitter launched they didn't have a mobile app. They had an open API and the first mobile apps were from 3rd party apps. TweetBot became extremely popular and Twitter owes a lot to them for making Twitter popular. Apollo for Reddit is another extremely popular app that made Reddit what it is today. Both of those apps are dead because both companies closed off their API and the internet is worse off for it. That said for all that is just and holy for the love of god please please please fix the external link sharing on this website. Someone clicking share on Twitter and then clicking the Twitter button on a post here should NOT require nuance in how to edit the link and still get a barely usable inbed. You don't have to believe me but honestly I was thinking of creating a thread to post a 1 in chat if you want better Twitter integration. Editing links is tiresome and a barrier to sharing content to this site. |
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Originally Posted By Rebel31: @subnet I forgot to post in your other thread but I think you are under-estimating the impact Twitter has on the world. For a little history lesson when Twitter launched they didn't have a mobile app. They had an open API and the first mobile apps were from 3rd party apps. TweetBot became extremely popular and Twitter owes a lot to them for making Twitter popular. Apollo for Reddit is another extremely popular app that made Reddit what it is today. Both of those apps are dead because both companies closed off their API and the internet is worse off for it. That said for all that is just and holy for the love of god please please please fix the external link sharing on this website. Someone clicking share on Twitter and then clicking the Twitter button on a post here should NOT require nuance in how to edit the link and still get a barely usable inbed. You don't have to believe me but honestly I was thinking of creating a thread to post a 1 in chat if you want better Twitter integration. Editing links is tiresome and a barrier to sharing content to this site. View Quote And I'm saying this as a geek to his very core, who was one of the earliest adopters of Twitter. And used their API the minute it became available, as the nerdy programmer that I am. I no longer work for this site, so any complaints you have about the usability of the embeds, need to be taken further up the chain. |
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Originally Posted By A_G: Yet we had a guy here a few posts up arguing that Twitter wasn't and isn't anything substantial or consequential. View Quote There's no one form of media that's going to reach everybody, but Tucker Carlson for example gets more exposure on X than he did on Fox. If it didn't undermine the international censorship complex so well the EU and that Brazilian bitch wouldn't be working so hard to concoct bullshit justifications of misinformation/harm in order to ban X in their countries. |
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Originally Posted By Geralt55: "Elon can't fire 80% of the company and have it still run omg what is he doing!" IIRC his response amounted to, "it turns out when you're not doing censorship and shadowbanning you don't need as many people" Wild that all the degenerate shit we saw on the platform happened effectively with the View Quote |
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Originally Posted By Subnet: Honestly, I feel like you're unintentionally making my point for me. Regular people don't follow this shit. Twitter/X isn't real. You guys need to step outside of yourselves for a minute. None of this is real. You live in it, so you think it matters a lot more than it actually does. It's an illusion. And I'm saying this as a geek to his very core, who was one of the earliest adopters of Twitter. And used their API the minute it became available, as the nerdy programmer that I am. I no longer work for this site, so any complaints you have about the usability of the embeds, need to be taken further up the chain. View Quote Actually it surprises me how many people DO follow "this shit". I'm not trying to argue with you but answer me this. If Twitter/X is so unimportant then why are the leftists world wide trying to shut it down? Not just the U.S. or the EU but almost every despotic government world wide. Doesn't that seem like a lot of work and aggravation for something that is not important? |
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Sub, were you asleep for the years that the media and politicians were all-in using Twitter as a source, touchstone, and tool?
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Originally Posted By Subnet: Honestly, I feel like you're unintentionally making my point for me. Regular people don't follow this shit. Twitter/X isn't real. You guys need to step outside of yourselves for a minute. None of this is real. You live in it, so you think it matters a lot more than it actually does. It's an illusion. And I'm saying this as a geek to his very core, who was one of the earliest adopters of Twitter. And used their API the minute it became available, as the nerdy programmer that I am. I no longer work for this site, so any complaints you have about the usability of the embeds, need to be taken further up the chain. View Quote Twitter is not reality as far as societies political opinions and whatnot. What's important is it's able to spread ideas and information. Before Elon the power that be had near complete control of what narratives could gain traction. Since Elon bought it. There's a large enough information network that they can't stop it. The opinions of Twitter may only affect a small percentage of not Twitter people directly but the information that can now be spread reaches everyone eventually. That information can sway enough people to change elections and drastically change the overall political discussions and narratives that can be used. That is the reason world governments are losing their shit and trying to force Elon to bring Twitter back into the censorship program. They can't effectively control people the way they want if theres a gaping hole in their propaganda machine. |
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Originally Posted By OKnativeson: Originally Posted By Geralt55: "Elon can't fire 80% of the company and have it still run omg what is he doing!" IIRC his response amounted to, "it turns out when you're not doing censorship and shadowbanning you don't need as many people" Wild that all the degenerate shit we saw on the platform happened effectively with the The things we are forced to consider in 2024 is shocking. Meanwhile, they keep making enemies: Attached File Attached File Attached File I'm remembering an episode of the Simpsons, where Homer keeps slapping people with a dueling glove, and then he slaps the wrong guy They trans'd Elon's kid. Hooooly shit an all time dumb move. Teamblue has been on a beer-muscles powertrip (thanks to twitter and other megaphones artificially holding the pendulum/overton window in place for ~16 years), annnd they have done nothing but make enemies. Once you make enough ideological enemies they might form together. They are experiencing it now. |
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Originally Posted By unreformed66: Actually it surprises me how many people DO follow "this shit". I'm not trying to argue with you but answer me this. If Twitter/X is so unimportant then why are the leftists world wide trying to shut it down? Not just the U.S. or the EU but almost every despotic government world wide. Doesn't that seem like a lot of work and aggravation for something that is not important? View Quote And why people doing things on X for an hour or two get more views that the entire MSM gets for a week? Don't sell X short. It is the World's news/town square. |
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Originally Posted By Advance: And why do people doing things on X for an hour or two get more views that the entire MSM gets for a week? Don't sell X short. It is the World's news/town square. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Advance: Originally Posted By unreformed66: Actually it surprises me how many people DO follow "this shit". I'm not trying to argue with you but answer me this. If Twitter/X is so unimportant then why are the leftists world wide trying to shut it down? Not just the U.S. or the EU but almost every despotic government world wide. Doesn't that seem like a lot of work and aggravation for something that is not important? And why do people doing things on X for an hour or two get more views that the entire MSM gets for a week? Don't sell X short. It is the World's news/town square. I mean, there's a reason that conservatives and libertarians lost social media. They wanted to be left alone into irrelevance. Outside of here, I'm rarely on any form of "social media", that said, I still want every form of media dominated by conservative and libertarian speech, if only to drown out leftism. The marketplace of ideas is an information war. |
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Attached File Attached File The Supreme Court dismissed Murthy v Missouri et al in June by a 6-3 majority because the states and social media users couldn't conclusively prove the federal government pressured social media platforms to suppress their free speech, the dissenters called it "one of the most important free speech cases to reach this Court in years." Kharn |
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Originally Posted By Kharn:
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/195/GV8Rlp9XMAAGCgI_jpg-3305703.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/195/GV8Rlp9W8AAtBAN_jpg-3305705.JPG The Supreme Court dismissed Murthy v Missouri et al in June by a 6-3 majority because the states and social media users couldn't conclusively prove the federal government pressured social media platforms to suppress their free speech, the dissenters called it "one of the most important free speech cases to reach this Court in years." Kharn View Quote He's hoping MAGA will forgive him by coming clean. Fuck him. He made his bed. |
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Originally Posted By RSG: https://media.patriots.win/post/xp8BZ6VOB6hX.jpeg View Quote Of course they did. “Dangerous to our democracy” really means “danger to our control” What’s dangerous to our democracy/republic? Communism. And democrats. One and the same. |
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So out of all the AI platforms out there Grok is the ONLY dangerous one. How interesting.
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Originally Posted By RSG: https://media.patriots.win/post/xp8BZ6VOB6hX.jpeg View Quote He needs to release a downloadable freeware version. |
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Originally Posted By midmo: He needs to release a downloadable freeware version. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By midmo: Originally Posted By RSG: https://media.patriots.win/post/xp8BZ6VOB6hX.jpeg He needs to release a downloadable freeware version. Did you notice they used 2 msm articles as their source? It’s that recursive loop thing again. The media gets their marching orders from dnc. This is known fact proven by Wikileaks emails. |
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Originally Posted By midmo: He needs to release a downloadable freeware version. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By midmo: Originally Posted By RSG: https://media.patriots.win/post/xp8BZ6VOB6hX.jpeg He needs to release a downloadable freeware version. It does use an open source model you can download and use locally. |
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Originally Posted By spidey07: Did you notice they used 2 msm articles as their source? It’s that recursive loop thing again. The media gets their marching orders from dnc. This is known fact proven by Wikileaks emails. View Quote SPLC and the ADL are agitprop generators for this reason. Feds say "we're concerned about (insert descriptor of chosen political opposition here)" and pay for "research" into said descriptor. Agitprop factories generate agitprop under the guise of legitimate research/journalism. Feds now go after the political opponent they originally identified. |
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Originally Posted By AK-12: SPLC and the ADL are agitprop generators for this reason. Feds say "we're concerned about (insert descriptor of chosen political opposition here)" and pay for "research" into said descriptor. Agitprop factories generate agitprop under the guise of legitimate research/journalism. Feds now go after the political opponent they originally identified. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By AK-12: Originally Posted By spidey07: Did you notice they used 2 msm articles as their source? It’s that recursive loop thing again. The media gets their marching orders from dnc. This is known fact proven by Wikileaks emails. SPLC and the ADL are agitprop generators for this reason. Feds say "we're concerned about (insert descriptor of chosen political opposition here)" and pay for "research" into said descriptor. Agitprop factories generate agitprop under the guise of legitimate research/journalism. Feds now go after the political opponent they originally identified. Yep. Heres our source. It used to be Twitter that then fed media, which then fed Twitter. Recursive loop. Why doesn’t msm use Twitter as their source anymore? Hmmmmm |
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BTW, Goatboy or whoever fixed the embedding of X.com links, so you don't have change it to twitter.com anymore.
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Does nobody see fucking Congress using msm media as their fucking source/reference a real serious problem? Fucking recursive loop.
That’s why the left is losing their shit. |
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Originally Posted By DragoMuseveni: Suckerburg sees the writing on the wall that he'll be lined up against the wall if Trump looses. He's hoping MAGA will forgive him by coming clean. Fuck him. He made his bed. View Quote He's covering his ass and hoping to gain immunity(if he hasn't already struck a deal) before 45 also becomes 47. |
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"Donald Trump encourages and protects frightened US Secret Service members who cling to his massive balls as he leads them to safety after failed assassination attempt."
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Originally Posted By spidey07: Likely because they have gov agents deployed in charge with direct line of communication/ control of the others like they did at Twitter. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By spidey07: Originally Posted By unreformed66: So out of all the AI platforms out there Grok is the ONLY dangerous one. How interesting. Likely because they have gov agents deployed in charge with direct line of communication/ control of the others like they did at Twitter. I may be mis-remembering but I thought one of the ex FBI directors had an actual office at FB? Or maybe some other former agency head. |
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https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1828639959655555128
Using 𝕏 to post on 𝕏 that 𝕏 is not working. The irony! |
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First was x.com the second was twitter.com
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Looks like vpn stocks gonna go up in brazil
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View Quote You want Hank Scorpio? Cause this is how you get Hank Scorpio... |
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Looks like a big outage just started up. Website is working for me but the app says 'Posts aren't loading right now. Try again.'
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A Grendel's Love is different from a 5.56's Love
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Originally Posted By Rebel31: Looks like a big outage just started up. Website is working for me but the app says 'Posts aren't loading right now. Try again.' https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381696/download__1__png-3307963.JPG https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ View Quote Zero problems for me. X works fine. |
Leave me alone. I’m a libertarian. CW vet x7, give away a kidney to a loved one if they need it.
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View Quote Zerohedge is about as trustworthy as CNN |
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Originally Posted By DKUltra: Zerohedge is about as trustworthy as CNN View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By DKUltra: Originally Posted By RSG:
Zerohedge is about as trustworthy as CNN Zerohedge is 1000 times more trustworthy than CNN. |
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And in addition to the previous 277 pages of posts, I'd like to say
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"Freedom isn't free. It costs a hefty fuckin' fee. And if we don't toss in our buck 'o five, who will?"
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Originally Posted By RSG:
View Quote Despots, tyrants, communists fear free speech and the sharing of that to others more than firearms. Wonder why that is? Hmmm. I’ll go back to 1st amendment “freedom of the press” was the printing press. As the Brit’s would shut down printing presses and arrest the operators. Another reason, a big reason, we fought our war. And here they are, doing it again, in year 2024. But now our own gov is doing it. Man moves to tyranny, it’s the nature of man. History shows this over hundreds if not a thousand years. |
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