A social-media account for white male supporters of Kamala Harris was briefly suspended from X, formerly Twitter, sparking anger online.
Newsweek observed that the White Dudes for Harris X account had been temporarily suspended after the group held a star-studded virtual call on Monday night that raised more than $4 million.
It is not clear why the account was suspended, but it appeared to have been restored as of the early hours of Tuesday. The automated message when the account was suspended read: “X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.”
Mike Nellis, who is involved in the organization, shared an update on Tuesday explaining that while the X account is live again, it still remains suspended.
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In response to the suspension, Ross Morales Rocketto, an organizer for the group, wrote, “Got @elonmusk [X owner] scared.”
Brett Meiselas, the co-founder of outlet MeidasTouch, shared on X a photo of the suspended account, along with the message: “This is the real election interference.”
STOP USING TWITTER. It’s a stinking, steaming storm drain with a rich guy’s RV speeding away from it.
I can’t believe people still need to be told this.
And the public policy director of Threads wrote a chapter of project 2024, so one would have to be pretty ignorant to consider that an alternative as well.
At least Mastodon is genuinely great. I guess I’m in a minority that never liked Twitter (despite having an account since 2008), but I do enjoy Mastodon a lot these days.
Fuck Instagram
Fuck Threads
Fuck Facebook
Fuck Meta
In addition to every other known problem, Meta treats artists like absolute shit. Yet we’re forced to use it because no other platform has as many people. It’s hell.
I mean, this is the wrong place to preach.
I’m pretty sure the fediverse is an echo chamber against all the corporate social media, whilst the corporate social media is an echo chamber for it.
We all keep saying things like fuck X but here in the fediverse we’re not giving anyone any info they didn’t already know.
What too much of the fediverse needs as a takeaway, though, is when those certain groups start whining about changing the system. Like dude, we can’t even get our closest people to switch from WhatsApp to signal. How are we gonna change the system?
Yeah, for sure. I’m just hear preaching to the choir, and the corporate alternatives are too much of a shit show for me to waste my time and talk to people about it where it might actually have an effect.
At least we’re over here creating a viable alternative. And while monthly active users in Fedidb is in a steady decline, my enjoyment of these platforms is increasing every month. So in that sense I’m not overly concerned - I’m just a bit frustrated by how fascism doesn’t seem to be a deal breaker for as many people as I thought.
Yeah I spend most my time on Lemmy in the fediverse now, it’s definitely preaching to the choir. Someone big on Twitter needs to adopt the fediverse to make change, but tbh everything about mastodon/fediverse/Lemmy is really confusing to the average person. I’m pretty tech literate and it took me a while to figure out/set up my fediverse experience to be close to Reddit.
That’s not helpful. Twitter being a dumpster fire has exactly nothing to do with whether things that take place there are newsworthy.
The fact that the top-voted response to a news story is someone berating us for our presumed Twitter usage is one of the really fucking annoying things about Lemmy. It’s like if the top comment on every thread about the Ukraine war was “STOP JOINING THE RUSSIAN ARMY!”
I don’t think OP is telling us, specifically, to stop using Twitter. It’s more of a “Why are people still using Twitter?”
I’m a white dude for Harris. These numbskulls wouldn’t get a penny from me over this very obvious poor choice.
Sad
In some countries, it’s unfortunately the main source of customer interaction. In Japan, it’s been trending more towards Instagram lately, but that’s basically just as bad. Still, it’s often the only way to know if a business.is open that day, hours, etc. at least it’s not Facebook anymore.
How to get average Japanese to adopt something like Mastodon is a whole other thing.
Edit: mobile hates me (and spelling, apparently).
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But that has nothing to do with the average japanese person nor business.
Enough already!
If I could give an award for this, I would. Instead, have an internet high five.
There is always Lemmy Gold.
Although that’s a nice looking image, I think it’s referencing something that is going over my head. I usually use this.
Edit: Duh, it’s Lemmy from Motörhead. Shame on me.
we have to go back to our roots
Now that’s just over the top. What did OP do, cure cancer?
Let’s make new roots and establish an entirely different form of currency for our appreciation.
Smart people reply below with good ideas.
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Don’t worry it’s an nft that does not use a block chain, instead we keep the list of owners on some post-it’s.
Shame.
Yeah I say nationalize his shit and send him packing. Musk should not be welcome in the US or allowed to access it’s customer base. He’s a full blown national security threat.
He already made a absolute fortune off of our subsidies for Tesla, it’s only right we take what is ours.
If they claim a business is theirs to reap all the benefits from because they paid for it then we should 100% be following the same rules.
But no. This is America, socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for everyone else…
Considering Musk’s steps into the conflict in Ukraine with SpaceX satellite internet Musk’s scope and capacity for threats is much larger than just the USA.
Yeah, is there some way to use or misuse the Defense Production Act? The courts have ruled the courts can be ignored, so it doesn’t have to hold legal water, even.
Let’s not forget that it is equally important to VOTE!
fucking delete twitter already. this has been beyond ridiculous for years
The FTC needs to step in.
It falls to the FTC only because the FEC is toothless from corrupt (Repub, obviously) appointees.
Fuck Twitter and fuck Mysk.
Misk? Mask? Some loser.
“This is the real election interference.”
As opposed to what?
I see. I thought it was a reference to the accusations of election interference against Trump, which didn’t make sense in this context.
Maybe all the bullshit the republikkklowns claim?
Fake election interference. Duh.
I have nothing constructive to add.
Seriously, besides slow and non-tech-savvy institutions (and the scum of the earth), who is still using twitter? Or whatever it is now.
Basically people who still needs an easily accessible audience. Mastodon has been proven hard to use and hard to advertise to the people around me, so what else can you do.
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Might just be an anti-racist measure triggering off “white dudes”
Why is a presidential campaign organization segregated by race in the first place? Is this 1950?
Its probably parodying the whole “<insert minority group> for Trump” groups that are almost always just white conservatives
No it’s not a parody it’s a real campaign organization.
The satanic temple is also kind of a parody while also being a serios institution.
This is the answer that most helped me “get” it, thanks!
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Why not both?
Two things can be true at once.
Yeah but the name is the play, not the org itself
Because a hell of a lot of white guys are extremely racist. It’s important for these men to come out and publicly declare that they support not only a woman but a black woman. It’s important to do it in a way that will get attention, fit with the tone of the campaign and get the point across that it’s cool to support and embrace women and weird and creepy to hate them.
You’re half right, I think it’s more so like minded white guys can come together with other non-racist non-sexist men like them. Rather than them virtue signaling that they aren’t either of those things it’s a space where they can be with their own kind and not expect a racist/sexist or two in the mix - which is kind of nice for a change.
When I think of a random assortment of white guys theres always someone with a Molon Labe tattoo or a Proud Boys hoodie in their closet and that’s really the turd in the punch bowl when it comes to the male white sort of people. I have no experience with the WDFH group but that is my impression.
1950 ?
The GOP are using racism and misogyny at VP Harris like they did to Michelle and Barack.
This is America. And it is 2024.
So we can recognize how shitty racism is and then still do segregated activities because it’s ok when the right people do it? I don’t understand this line of reasoning.
If half your targeted audience is a certain way, it’s important to broaden your tone to fit and capture as many people’s attention as possible.
It’s a marketing concept, and a damn good one, too.
I used the same concept here. I avoided long words so my audience could consume the ideas.
I avoided long words so my audience could consume the ideas.Too many syllables. Try: Me no use long words so you can know what me am say.
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It’s not Harris’ campaign doing this, these are independent organizations. A bunch of groups saw the success of the “Win with Black Women” call and wanted in on it.
It really shows the diversity in support behind future President Kamala Harris, and I think it’s actually kinda cool!
They arent segregated there are just issues and ways of speaking which are important for communicating with certain groups. The black women call for instance had a lot of non black women attending.
