German politicians from all sides are actively posting on X, making advertising revenue for Elon Musk, who is helping AfD take over Germany.

[openrisk@mastodon.social]

@randahl alas, applies to politicians of all flavors, almost everywhere in the world and concerns the entire set of surveillance adtech platforms.

People just don't realize how much the political class has failed us in the digital era.

Whether merely dumb or bought/complicit, their uncritical use and endorsement of these platforms has shown that politics as being practiced everywhere is performative and largely fake: it is not grounded on a coherent moral core.

[lbcp@social.linux.pizza]

@randahl How totally unsurprising to see, that not even one day after the election, the fascist are selling the country to the capitalist.

[ujay68@mastodon.world]

@randahl All it would take, IMO, is a couple of large, influential organisations that people WANT to follow to leave X, and people and journalists would need to follow them elsewhere.

[peterfr@mastodon.art]

@randahl but those screenshots are depicting the right right. guess you meant the “normal” ones who still post on X?

[brucemirken@mas.to]

@randahl Just like clueless American liberals and progressives still on X. Madness.

[ajsnook2@mastodon.social]

@randahl How many posts over how many years have said this.
Why are people still on X ???

[waldschnecke@chaos.social]

@randahl
I did. by mail and even a few letter but I doubt a person that actually cares for politics read it.

[m_e_st@mastodon.social]

@randahl I am a German voter. I don't vote for politicians who post on X. Since I don't use X, it's sometimes a little difficult to figure out who is unelectable.

[anders_von_hadern@meerjungfrauengrotte.de]

@randahl I'd love to post this into my politics bubble but unfortunately you blocked me. So maybe Nazis of our time are in advantage here?

[scheffinski@hessen.social]

@randahl Agree on the principle however compared to tiktok, Instagram youtube and telegram the direct Real World impact of X spreading fake news, conspiracy etc feeding and growing the far-right bubble is negligible in my opinion.

[pa27@mastodon.social]

@randahl It's difficult when the people you want to speak to - the public who don't know or care about the platform - are on twitter. The first step would be to regulate toxic media like twitter, all meta stuff... But that won't happen either.
I don't know why anyone would use X, Facebook, instagram etc. Why are people still on whatsapp - paying zuckerberg's horribly toxic company?

[jalella@cultur.social]

@randahl Be sure: we asked! Many times!

[derralf@fediverse2.blackneon.net]

@randahl The problem is: X is still a gigantic platform where you still have tons over tons of people reading the stuff posted there. Without a ban (i am not sure this would be legally possible) or massive regulation of the platform it would be simply a bad decision to leave this communication channel to the AfD.

[eetschrijver@mastodon.social]

@randahl Ah, Mr Sieg Heil does his Sieg Heil thing.

[missladyartemis@newsie.social]

@randahl

Ask your family & friends & coworkers & peers to stop, too.
Maybe even ask strangers, & put posters up on light posts. Make stickers.

Every single Twitter user is supporting the AI child porn bot - one more reason to ask those we can to stop giving Elon thier time, energy, attention, and more revenue.

Stop the Insanity - stop supporting Nazis - stop supporting the AfD - stop supporting illegal porn - stop pretending that using Twitter isn't harming the world around us.

[iclast@sfba.social]

@randahl
I don't know what's more frightening than a right-wing government in Germany.

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@lbcp @randahl Well, that is an echo from the 1930s too…

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@randahl

Need to say more?

[randahl@mastodon.social]

@iclast "Just ignore the nazis", they said. "Then they will disappear", they said.

#Year1938

[ahhhhhhhhhhh@mastodon.social]

@missladyartemis @randahl I just call them twits.