This is a coup.

In a way, doesn’t that mean that it would be more accurate to say that the bot stopped being rogue and went legit?

I’ve never understood how or why this is an issue.

Shortly after Spez’s petulant AMA, I ran across a link for Lemmy. org. It looked interesting, so I followed it. I poked around a bit, and it still looked interesting, so I picked an instance and created an account. I played with it a bit, then I went back and found a different instance that looked interesting and created an account there too. And I just kept reading and posting, just like I’d done on Reddit (and half a dozen different sites before that). Some instances came and went and I lost some accounts and created others and eventually settled into a few that I like best, and just read and posted and didn’t leave. The end.

But it seems that every time I turn around, someone’s going on about the hardships of moving to a different site and all the difficulties to be overcome and yadda yadda yadda, and I just don’t get it. At all.

There’s a world of difference between “a troll” and “just a troll.” I expect you know that.

And you’ve evaded my point, so I’ll repeat it, broken down into bite-sized pieces:

The sieg heil didn’t cause direct and measurable harm in and of itself.

Meanwhile, there are many things that this administration is actively doing right this moment that are causing and will cause direct and measurable harm.

Every single bit of energy and attention spent on the sieg heil is energy and attention NOT spent on them.

That’s not an accident.

Musk is a troll.

Don’t feed the troll.

Every bit of energy and attention expended on the sieg heil is a bit of energy and attention that’s NOT being expended on any of the actions being taken and policies being enacted by Trump and the oligarchs right this moment for the direct and explicit purpose of destroying liberty and democracy in the US.

The sieg heil is performative. It’s a symbol. In and of itself, it causes no direct harm.

However, a terrifying number of the actions that Trump is actually taking - directives he’s issuing and policies he’s implementing -are causing and will cause direct and measurable harm.

They need to be the focus, and the sieg heil is a distraction from them.

And that’s not an accident. Musk is a troll.

The psychopaths in power are afraid that Israelis might come to see Palestinians as actual human beings, which would complicate their genocidal goals.

“Don’t be impressed by the forced joy of our enemy. This is an animalistic society that sanctifies death. Very soon, we will erase their smile again and replace it with cries of grief and the wails of those who were left with nothing.”

Wow.

It’s astonishing sometimes how deep the delusional evil runs in the Israeli right.

He starts that statement off trying to claim that the Gazans are “an animalistic society,” and then without missing a beat shifts to doing nothing but vividly demonstrating that in fact he and his allies are the actual animals.

They truly are among the most foul and loathsome and vile abominations to have ever crawled across the face of the Earth.

If only it was a cult.

It’s actually something far more dangerous, and very simple really - Trump 2.0 is pay-to-win.

It’s not so much what Trump will let them get away with, but what Putin will let Trump let them get away with.

Just left to his own devices, Trump, strongman sycophant that he is, would let Netanyahu get away with anything. But there isn’t enough Israeli support for continuing to just grind away at murdering Gazans, which is why Netanyahu tried to expand it out to a regional war. And the problem with that is that any regional war is going to draw Iran in, and Iran is allied with Russia, so Putin isn’t going to stand for that. And Trump is Putin’s lapdog.

Well, so apparently the first possibility I noted is not the case, and the early reports weren’t just yet again blowing smoke.

So we’re down to two alternatives - it’s a legitimate deal that cedes at least some significant Palestinian autonomy, in which case Netanyahu will, as he already has in the past, sabotage it, or it’s just a long term con job that will leave enough of an Israeli presence that they can shift to West Bank style incremental conquest.

Huh… that’s disappointing.

It was entirely predictable from Vichy Twitter and Meta, but I didn’t expect lemmy - even .world - to kowtow.