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[–] [email protected] 240 points 7 months ago (8 children)

This is what I hate about the homunculi of twitter company personalities. “Hahaa, did you see the way Walmart clapped back at IBM?“ Humanizing vast, faceless companies puppeted by sociopathic business majors triggers every rage response that my body can muster. Please, shut the fuck up

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (3 children)

[Off-topic] Your display name is hilarious. It reminds me old viruses with double extensions, like hotpix.jpg.vbs

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Thanks, I always hope people get a little giggle out of the momentary confusion. I’m surprised whenever people are legitimately fooled. Just click my name, I’m @gullible, you silly billies!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I assume its not showing your set name on voyager?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I don’t want anyone to miss out on the fun. [email protected]@sh.itjust.works should be what’s visible. Out of curiosity, does voyager offer the ability to change your display name?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Shows like this on jerboa

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Ah! The threads.net tag, nice.

Doesn’t seem to have the option to change or set one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why is Voyager like this? People are missing out some brilliant user names.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Like your reference to the meme? It's a rather cool way to do it through emojis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Can't say I came up with it. I think I saw it on /r/collapse first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Ohhey a fellow Voyager user!

I was also missing out on all the fun :/ lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

You got me last week, I did a double-take.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Damn, that got me! I was about to comment being like "woah! We get threads here?" when I finally noticed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I think Boobzilla is an excellent one

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If every MBA on the planet were suddenly teleported to Planet MBA....would anyone really miss them?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Make sure not to unknowingly send the telephone cleaners too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

There goes the planet...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Or the advertising account executives.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You could make a religion out of that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hail LinkedIn, full of grace.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Not sure if typo, but hilariously accurate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That was, in fact, the joke. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

unrelated but "the homunculus of Twitter" is a good nickname for Elon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Now I'm having visions of the high priestess X'twitterquatl sacrificing Mayan children on a pyramid as lightning flashes in an attempt to animate their engine of destruction; The Homonculus of X'twitter.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

People propagate this though. Company twitter accounts posting derivative meme shit is what people reshare. Most people consider Apple/Tesla/Pelaton/Nintendo to be their buddies and love it when their buddy seems like a down to earth, regular guy. It's cringe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I'll start believing brands are people when they start getting jailed for their (numerous) crimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

i wish they would all act like the faceless industrial complexes out there

you don't see this from stuff like Caterpillar

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Show me where Walmart hurt you.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Points to the desolate wasteland of dead small businesses and underpaid workers subsisting on welfare unable to even afford shopping at walmart

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You guys really need to have some effective government that will enact normal minimal wage and anti monopoly laws. But I wonder if the most people are poor then why they don’t vote for a party that represents them and wants to raise or set minimum wage (whichever applies)?

The logic says that everyone should vote for someone that will better their conditions and yet it looks like there’s some weird shit going on where only well off, rich people vote left (whatever left means in the specific county). It’s completely backwards

I vote left too and classic example of this and honestly I think I won’t next time cause it is not in my interest. Though centrist party here would probably be something like warren in USA

Actually I remember now why I find these comments jarring is because I don’t live in the USA so I don’t have this inherent hate for capitalism but it is understandable in that context or anywhere where people are stuck in quasi democratic situation of permanent superliberal gov thanks to two party system

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But I wonder if the most people are poor then why they don’t vote for a party that represents them and wants to raise or set minimum wage (whichever applies)?

People won't vote for them because they "can't win", and they can't win because people won't vote for them. It's a self-perpetuating cycle.

Consider 3 candidates running for president right now: Jill Stein, Kamala Harris, and Donald Trump. Jill Stein has a platform of raising the minimum wage, healthcare guaranteed as a human right, and a bunch of other awesome stuff. Harris has almost no platform at all, but she has vibes. And Trump wants to have a Christian dictatorship and deport millions of people.

Stein is the only one of these 3 candidates who wants to raise the minimum wage, but she's only polling at 1%, and people don't want to vote for her because they're afraid that Trump will win.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I understand but still it is hilarious when people blame some Walmart of all things as a consequence. The evil Walmart regime

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I’m allowed to hate things I’m not part of. My silent malice does little to dissuade folks from posting examples to lemmy