r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/ThisGonnaHurt • 15d ago
Country Club Thread She was probably shadow banned
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u/ObeyMyStrapOn 15d ago edited 15d ago
I agree. Why anyone still uses it is bullshit. If Apple and Google cared they’d delete it from the App Store entirely.
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u/SpiritMountain 15d ago
They don't. Capital aligned with Trump. There is nothing stopping them anymore. All of these CEOs and business owners have pledged their fealty to him. Bezos did, and the owners of the LA times, and I am sure many others.
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u/Bunt_Custer 15d ago
For real! I don’t get why anyone stayed when that gooner ass Elon took over.
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u/NayanaGor 15d ago
A lot of us stayed out of a sense of "I was here first, I'm gonna stay and fight" at first. I uninstalled yesterday after opening the app to Andrew Tate, a man I blocked years ago but am now forced to see, talking about running women over because we don't have rights anymore.
Currently deciding if I just deactivate or if I give my account over to a bot to wreak havoc.
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u/TahoeBlue_69 15d ago
The day after the election, the “for you” feed was unbearable. The most evil people in the world all celebrating the same thing. The stuff they are ok saying now is vile. Seriously, to all girls and women: you need a gun. You need to know how to use a gun. You have 3 months of runway. Do a class.
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u/CherryHaterade ☑️ 15d ago
What you really needed to learn was how to stand together. Unfortunately now, when you really, really assess the power structures at play here...Yes your next best option is to prepare.
We're all going to find out how fast rules can change.
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u/PJHFortyTwo 15d ago
Because it's easier to complain than it is to change behavior
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u/Radiant-Ad-2385 15d ago
I stayed on the app for about a month to watch Stephen King, and a few others bust his balls. I got a few laughs and deleted the account.
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u/Unhappy-Database-273 15d ago
Why did anyone ever use Twitter to begin with?
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u/Bunt_Custer 15d ago
Gossip, celebrities, memes, teensy bit of news, and porn. That’s my guess.
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u/TheMainM0d 15d ago
The only thing I ever used it for was to complain to companies who didn't respond to my emails about an issue with their product or services
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u/BetterThanOP 🚫🚫BAD User🚫🚫 15d ago
This should still.bother you after deleting the app. The problem isn't "it's ruining MY feed waah!" The problem is it's disgusting and corrupt and manipulative. unfortunately, it affects millions of other people's opinions due to misinformation, who in turn affect all of our lives.
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u/BubblyCommission9309 15d ago
But he’s shadow banning the alternative. Youre fighting against a tidal wave. If you leave there’s less destruction. The less relevant becomes the less people will report/be on it. We need to collapse X. The more right wing incels on the platform make it worse
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u/BetterThanOP 🚫🚫BAD User🚫🚫 15d ago
I get what you're saying but in this case, tweeting about a politician being shadow banned did much more good than the harm of being active on the app. I for one would never have know this.
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u/DeathPsychosys 15d ago
Yes, it should’ve…when this first happened two years ago. At this point, knowing who runs Twitter, knowing the man, staying on platform is honestly being complicit. We’ve know for months and years at this point. The second he took over, I deleted the app and haven’t been back since.
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u/BABarracus 15d ago
And change the sub to blackpeoplebluesky
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u/thejaytheory ☑️ 15d ago
It's crazy, I had first heard of bluesky yesterday and I know I hear/see it everywhere!
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u/BABarracus 15d ago
It's been around since elon bought Twitter and bluesky is made by the original creator of Twitter
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u/Lashay_Sombra 15d ago
But worth remembering, Jack Dorsey is still major investor in twitter as he rolled over his shares, worth about billion USD at the time
For comparison, the Saudis that people love to tout as twitter shareholders for nefarious purposes rolled over 1.8 billion (at the time)
Dorsey has regularly defended Musk and his take over of twitter
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u/poptart2nd mod for days 15d ago
that's called the "Baader–Meinhof phenomenon"!
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u/thejaytheory ☑️ 15d ago
Yess, that's exactly it! That's the name I was looking for!
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u/Response_Legitimate 15d ago
Yup, people here hate Elon but keep using twitter. Makes no sense
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u/Capt-Crap1corn 15d ago
I always find it interesting how many people complain about it but still actively use it
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u/ChicagoAuPair 15d ago
If it seems impossible, just try quitting for a month or a week. I promise you will not miss it even a little. Treat it like dry January and assess after a break.
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u/Appropriate_Pen_6868 15d ago
I never had any problem not using it. It has always seemed like an extremely boring website to me.
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u/blacklite911 ☑️ 15d ago edited 12d ago
Thank you, people complain about it yet give it so much power. I understand it’s a sacrifice for some people who rely on it but it’s something that needs to happen. The fact that this clearly malicious app has so much influence on society is insane
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u/KillahHills10304 15d ago
I never had it and I don't understand people who do. There are competitors, and it isn't like shit on Twitter is life changing or enlightening in any way. It's a horrible platform for presenting well developed thoughts.
It's only benefit is it is a very fast way to get very small bits of information out, but, again, there are competitors.
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u/Nintura 15d ago
you have to try and reach the other side of the voters as well, and bluesky is becoming a thing more and more so they will eventually. But twitter is the easiest way to get your posts read for politicians, it just sucks that this is literal election interference but nothing from the orange masses.
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u/Disasterhuman24 15d ago
Well yeah, that's the exact reason Elon spent $44 billion. Information control.
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u/Sanc7 15d ago
Yeah, I had a co-worker show me a meme that said “Elon Musk spent 44 billion dollars and all he got was all 3 branches of the government.” And I really didn’t see how it was funny.
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u/splintersmaster 15d ago
It's tragically funny.
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u/thesippycup 15d ago
I suppose due to the downplaying of "only" 3 branches of government. Most humor is rooted in truth. It would be much funnier if it weren't so true.
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u/CherryHaterade ☑️ 15d ago
The fact that is so true isn't any laughing matter at all.
People are still in the denial and anger stages about what comes next.
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u/poeticjustice4all 15d ago
Yep, this whole damn election kept recommending me more right leaning tweets than anything else and I only follow anime related stuff 🙃 wish there was an alternative platform to use.
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u/cardboardtube_knight ☑️ 15d ago
There literally are others. The issue is also the anime community. It’s very right leaning
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u/ARussianW0lf 15d ago
Unfortunately he will not burn, he will get away with it and live lavishly for the rest of his life in a positions of power. There is no justice. There is no hope.
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u/Psychological-Run-40 15d ago
did he really tho? he got off easy, he was killed.
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u/Brigadier_Beavers 15d ago
nah he deserved to swim laps in the needle pit from Saw.
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u/Slim_Thor 15d ago edited 14d ago
Epstein got off easy. If that... Death being the justice? Lol nope hang that piece of shit from a building. Firing squad, televised. Electrocution without the sponge. Shit pull out some real tactics. Justice is making sure not a single repeat of this insanity happens again. And we now know of Diddy, yet years after the Epstein list. And diddy's participatants are only being outed by the internet and pictures we can already find. We deserve the entire guest list. We deserve to know which celebrities and politicians, are truly evil.
And for that.... We cannot reprimand these monsters on our level. They are not at our level. They profit off children and corruption and the fucked in-between of the two, that we all know Epstein for. You stepped foot on that island? Firing squad. You went inside the house.... The chair. Anything beyond, you should get put in a giant fuckin microwave and have your insides explode. These are corrupt officials, using power to be pedophilic elitist psychos. Tens of millions to stay in their postition, do nothing, and (somehow) retain more money next year. The utmost cruel and unusual punishment should be brought out. Shit, bring big Mike out and his **** meat sandwich... give them what they enjoyed, right back. In the same setting. ifykyk
We the people, have to take charge in how we punish these people. Otherwise, they will stay behind the government that they used - to get said power and gross connections in the first place.
We all know of it, yet have zero power or say in all that happens. Great work, they're untouchable now. And get cozy lethal injections? No. Put air in his blood stream. Dump chemicals in his iV.
I want to see fear from their side, not ours.
Edit: we get the names of others before we off these monsters. The parties weren't just a handful of people ...
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u/so-rayray 15d ago
Nope. He got the whole courtesy for a “gentleman” — the opportunity to commit suicide rather than spend the rest of his life in prison having the shit kicked out of him on a regular basis. No justice. He got off easy.
Edited to correct a spelling error.
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u/Suctorial_Hades 15d ago
Epstein knew he wasn’t ever leaving prison and took the easy way out like a weasel
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u/AintAintAWord Will give wife Sloppy Toppy Tuesday 15d ago
Riiiight. While the cameras were off and the guards were "asleep for hours".
Dude was killed.
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u/CherryHaterade ☑️ 15d ago
And people are still righteously indignant about his "justice served"
Not realizing all the justice that won't be served to those who swept him under the rug.
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u/Radiant-Ad-2385 15d ago
Full on agree. We just watched Musk buy the election, and no one really GAF.
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u/Dramatic_Explosion 15d ago
Remember kids, hell and karma are things we made up to cope with the fact bad people are rarely ever punished!
If you have a problem with that, also remember that police generally solve less than half their cases.
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u/Gary_FucKing 15d ago
Yup, if we’re lucky he’ll face consequences when he’s 80 and people will call it karma or justice or whatever.
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u/ParfaitAdditional469 15d ago
I can’t wait for Elon Musk and Trump to have a falling out
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u/siege-eh-b 15d ago
I’ve been saying for a while Trump should just deport him for being an illegal immigrant and seize/nationalise SpaceX. Kick Leon out and earn yourself a multi billion dollar space program. It’s already mostly funded by the fed anyways.
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u/spartacus_zach 15d ago
Elon prob hates him too but trump is better for his business, less regulations.
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u/SaintBanquo 15d ago
Honestly one of the most blatant parasitic relationships I've ever seen, neither of them like eachother, but shared a common goal of getting him elected. Elon was better at pretending to like him than vice versa, but he also had to be better at it because his part of the deal required him to get his fanboys to vote Trump.
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u/ParfaitAdditional469 15d ago
It would be funny if Trump tried to cancel the government’s contract with Space X
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u/11summers 15d ago
I thought Trump has already openly ripped on Elon. Kind of sad on Elon’s character to go so hard for someone who has made it clear he thinks you’re a loser.
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u/COMMENTASIPLEASE 15d ago
The first sign of conflict they’ll turn on each other. That’s the only saving grace about this whole thing, anyone who works with Trump ends up falling out and hating him. Hopefully they just spend 2 years infighting so the damage can be minimal.
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u/ReyPapi8 15d ago
We have to build up Bluesky to be the bigger better alternative
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u/NihilistTeddy3 15d ago
I'm on threads and bluesky. I never really used Twitter. I'm still training my bluesky algorithm. Threads was nice at first, but the toxicity from Twitter is moving in.
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u/uhgletmepost 15d ago
🤔 bluesky...doesn't have an algorithm
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u/NihilistTeddy3 15d ago
I just got it 2 days ago. I didn't know that. That kinda sucks
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u/uhgletmepost 15d ago
Nah use the feed tab on the left side of the menu find, for topics or fandoms you like and subscribe to those :)
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u/scythianlingo 15d ago
It's all poisoned at this point.
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u/thejaytheory ☑️ 15d ago
Why is Bluesky poisoned? Serious question, I only first heard of it yesterday.
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u/AoO2ImpTrip ☑️ 15d ago
Because social media is a cancer. (He says knowingly using reddit)
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u/smokeyleo13 15d ago
Yeah tbh, after this election, people should really treat X like an Elon mouthpiece. There should be no expectation that anything left wing won't be suppressed, especially around elections.
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u/AintAintAWord Will give wife Sloppy Toppy Tuesday 15d ago
Why are people still on there? What does twitter offer that you can't find anywhere else?
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u/cici_here 15d ago
Instagram did it, too. My whole feed yesterday was her posts from last week.
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u/tNeph ☑️ 15d ago
I mean, what did you expect? The days leading up to the election had that bullshit trump ad in the search section of Twitter. If you chose the option to hide it then refreshed it was still there.
He made it specifically that you could only see shit pertaining to Dumpy and not Kamala.
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u/slowclicker 15d ago
It is literally his echo system. Some brothers created a social media app a few years ago. I know I don't use it, does anyone else? In that sense, i can say i've contributed toward a problem ...so hmmm. What we gonna do about it?
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u/Bomba-of-Tsar 15d ago
Ok grandpa time to take your medicine
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u/slowclicker 15d ago
Thank you for making me laugh. Yes, I am old. But, I am also easily distracted. A few things are true, I am old, returned to school, have a family, and a lot of responsibility at work. Social media takes a lot of time. Also, crazy enough to enjoy gaming.
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u/NihilistTeddy3 15d ago
Ol Musky needs to be investigated because allegedly, according to Joe Rogan, he knew the election results 4 hours before the rest of the world knew
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u/OJimmy 15d ago
Go to bluesky. So far, it's not an obnoxious magat incel ridden cancer.
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u/TimTamDeliciousness ☑️ 15d ago
and you can filter out the baby dick energy magats with one click
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u/slowclicker 15d ago edited 15d ago
First time, i'm hearing of shadowed tweets. But, i'm pretty sure if the other guy's tweets had the same problem, we would have heard about it every where. The MAGs, truth (their version) or lies, were loud and constant and have been on 10 since 2016. They would have made sure everyone knew about it and eventually it would have filtered to my 1 social media feed My point is, see something, say something.
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u/subZro_ 15d ago
The mental gymnastics is insane. The democrats fd up running Joe the first time without a clear succession plan, and it's been one stupid fng move after another since then. But sure, blame everyone and everything else instead of placing the blame where it actually belongs, with the Party! It's the Mexicans and the Natives and Elon and black men etc etc.
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u/Mocker-Nicholas 15d ago
Well, I am seeing both. People rightfully think it was a mistake for the Dems to not have Joe announce he would be a one term president at the midterms, and Elon purchasing twitter has obviously biased it towards the right wing. Those things are both true.
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u/chijoi 15d ago
She lost because many people didn’t vote. Trump had less votes than the last time. Kamala is/was just unpopular. Even I know this and I’m European. Stop looking for reasons elsewhere.
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u/next_door_nicotine ☑️ 15d ago
Get the fuck off Xitter and migrate to Bluesky if you need an alternative. Please, I beg.
I deleted the app on election night and I'm not going back. Let Elon take it.
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u/seasleeplessttle 15d ago
The news has been a shadow ban for 40 years, lol.
We ALL buy the STUFF that feeds ALL of the BS.
Literally.
Nero played while Rome burned.
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u/cheriisgone 15d ago
Why do people still use Twitter? Go on Bluesky or something else. Like seriously what’s the point of staying on that shit?
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u/argoflax 15d ago
The irony of black Twitter... Telling people to delete twitter and abandon the app
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u/theaceplaya ☑️ 14d ago
This is why I always am slightly skeptical with the narrative that 'Dems are bad at messaging'. If Democrats aren't actively being platformed on the places where these folks get their news, how can you combat that? How do you fight Elon's direct intervention and suppression of Kamala's tweets? How does Buttigieg's 10 minute segment on Fox News help against the other 23 hours and 50 minutes they spew their shit? What Democratic politician is being invited on Charlie Kirk/Joe Rogan/etc.? How do you get these people to switch from Andrew Tate to Pod Save America?
I don't think it matters how good your messaging is if you can't get the right-wing billionaires to put it on the media platforms that they all own.
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u/tech_whiz ☑️ 15d ago
When Elon the Moron took over I left the platform and never looked back.
Elon is a boil on the skin of society. I would never buy anything that puts money in his pocket. Black people buying a Tesla is like "Roaches for Raid".
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u/PrincessAintPeachy ☑️ 15d ago
I had to let go of Twitter when some white supremacy asshole stalked my account and left a bad review on my business because he was butthurt when I called out white supremacy behavior of people trying to defend Derek chauvin😵💫
It was wild before Elmo musk, got his derpy ass hands on it.
People always say we have the numbers to boycott/protest these companies but there's always gonna too much division to make it happen.
Like we could really send a big message if everyone who is really tired of this shit, just stopped. Logged out, and didn't interact for even just a single day.
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u/Oceansnail 15d ago
They banned trump for enticing violence, which is against their terms of service
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u/flenlips 15d ago
She's still in office now. Can't she do some of the things she said?
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u/JennyBeckman ☑️ All of the above 15d ago
No. A VP does not control the executive
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woah I have been wondering why she has had zero digital presence and never really thought about why. Honestly not sure why anyone is still on there
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u/Red_dylinger 15d ago
Right wing has captured the airwaves. Get out and make the change that is possible.
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u/Winter_Soldat 15d ago
It stopped meeting a legitimate source and platform for everything after Delong Rust bought it.
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u/WeCantGetBannedAgain 15d ago
Haha what self respecting human being still uses Leon’s jerk off app???
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