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It's a great day to delete your X account(s) (europe.pub)
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Also, donโ€™t leave your account unused, delete it. User and follower numbers count.

And least as important, reply (if necessary to another corporate mail address) every email with Twitter/X in the footer, with a kind request to stop promoting and facilitating X.

https://bio.link/everyonehateselon

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[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

In case someone thinks "Oh, he's just an alt-right troll, he doesn't actually believe in that stuff", meet Elon's grandfather:

He became involved in Canadian politics, backing the technocracy movement, before moving to South Africa in 1950. Over the course of decades, Haldeman repeatedly expressed racist, antisemitic, and antidemocratic views.[1] In South Africa he was a supporter of apartheid and promoted a number of conspiracy theories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_N._Haldeman

[โ€“] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

He also supported Technocracy, Inc and the Technate of America https://bostonraremaps.com/inventory/technocracy-inc-technate-of-america-1940/

[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

This in turn would necessitate the abandonment of democracy and the embrace of a technocracyโ€”government by an unelected, technically skilled, empirically-driven elite with the expertise necessary to determine values and make rational resource-allocation decisions

Sounds a lot like one of Elon's beliefs, doesn't it?

Strange how people who think this way never assume they'll be one of the people on the outside, letting others make the important decisions. Whenever there's an elite, they imagine they'll be part of that elite.