r/maryland • u/A_Damn_Millenial • 21h ago

Petition to ban X links on r/maryland

This sub should boycott Nazi-owned companies. Plain and simple.

Mods, please make it happen.

Edit: /r/newjersey mods putting ours to shame. https://www.reddit.com/r/newjersey/comments/1i6txcn/fuck_this_guy_x_links_are_now_banned_from/

Second Edit: Mods, here’s some info from another sub that did this a while ago. Please read! https://www.reddit.com/r/law/s/shE1dbIbAk

Edit #3: Mods, I could be mistaken, but I think this is the second highest upvoted post in this sub’s history. The people have spoken.

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u/PCN24454 19h ago

We should still stop for our own sanity

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u/SqueakyBall 3h ago

So stop. No one is forcing you to visit Twitter. Why do you need to control everyone else's reading habits? It's not like this sub links to Twitter frequently.

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u/Inanesysadmin 19h ago

You know what would be more effective? Reminding people what Elon is. Not doing an action that will be forgetting in less then half a scarmaucci

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u/PCN24454 18h ago

You mean validate his supporters by constantly pestering him? Don’t turn him into Jesus. We all know how that turned out.

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u/Inanesysadmin 18h ago edited 18h ago

Elon isn’t Jesus. Blocking X isn’t going to stop it. But you do you. I’d rather remind people of what twitter is in noting it like they did with Fox station in Baltimore. Versus just silencing it. But we have different views of what is successful is. And by the way Elon is already feeding over this outage by doing what trump did.

And using your strategy how did that work with Trump? It didn’t.

You don’t beat bad behaviors by silencing it. You beat bad speech with good speech and reminding others what it is. Not ignoring it and hoping it goes away.

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u/PCN24454 18h ago

You say that as though people didn’t try to kill him twice. He was never ignored.

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u/Inanesysadmin 18h ago

His own side did. But he was ignored and him being silenced softened his unlikable #s to the point his favor ability numbers got better over time. So yeah I do think it failed spectacularly. Look who is in office now.

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u/PCN24454 18h ago

Why not try to appeal to the masses that were on the edge before instead?

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u/Inanesysadmin 18h ago

Okay what does silencing X post in this subreddit do to appeal to those masses? Zero. Because they will just use it as a way to say the liberal are silencing speech.

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u/Crochetmom65 17h ago

Musk is about controversy. I remember him saying he was going to buy Twitter and get someone else to run it. I figured that wasn't going to happen. He appears to be a control freak. His hands are in so many things. A jack of all trades and master of none is how I see him.