PragerU buys 'takeover' ad on X as part of $1M campaign to promote polarizing 'Detrans' film
PragerU buys 'takeover' ad on X as part of $1M campaign to promote polarizing 'Detrans' film
X users had a variety of reactions to the ad and the film, which centers on the stories of two adults who previously identified as transgender.
If you are using twitter, you support this.
^ 100% this.
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Classic kbin
Or google
Dramatic much? Maybe the people they follow haven’t moved to Mastadon.
Musk is actively promoting stuff like this. By continuing to interact with the platform you bring more attention to this garbage. Twitter died as soon as Musk took over.
Too fucking bad? Doesn't change what they said
It's always hilarious when these "rationalist" chucklefucks point to the 1% of trans people that have regrets, and most of their regrets revolve around their family and "friends" being assholes about it.
I believe the actual figures are 3% of trans people regret transitioning, and 4% of that subset regret it for reasons apart from their friends and family being unsupportive.
So, 97% don't regret a thing, and the relative few who do simply don't like being constantly harassed and disparaged by their immediate community.
In other words, 99.9% wouldn't regret anything if the reactionaries would just leave them alone.
Compared to roughly 6-30% of knee replacements.
FYI rationalists are an actual group and although they're largely weirdos, there's pretty much zero overlap between them and PragerU conservatives.
Elon Musk already said that the only reason he bought Twitter is because he blames Twitter on making his daughter trans (mtf) and a communist who calls for the death of billionaires. That is the only reason he purchased Twitter — to kill it.
trans (mtf) and a communist who calls for the death of billionaires.
I wonder if she's on Lemmy somewhere?
She’s a hexbear for sure.
In other words, he was doing what the rich have always done - wage class war.
PragerU buys 'takeover' ad on X as part of $1M campaign to
promote polarizing 'Detrans' filmpeddle their right-wing garbage.Fixed that for them.
spending $1m on a campaign designed exclusively for a right wing echo chamber sounds pretty dumb
I wonder how all the right-wing ultra-Christians who eat up Prager U square that with Dennis Prager being Jewish?
They knew Herman Cain was African-American.
That's the way they operate. One Jew/African American agreeing with them proves that they are tolerant and open minded.
The didn't pick him, they picked his wife
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Prager University Foundation, a conservative advocacy group, purchased a “takeover” ad on X on Thursday as part of a larger $1 million marketing campaign to promote its polarizing film “Detrans: The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care.”
PragerU’s X takeover represents the platform’s shift toward promoting more conservative — and, critics would argue, more extreme — views after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk purchased the platform and removed many of the policies that barred ads promoting anti-LGBTQ views or misinformation, reinstated accounts that previous Twitter management had suspended for anti-LGBTQ harassment, and shared an anti-trans video from his own account.
“We decided to pursue an X takeover because it’s a great opportunity for us to reach a massive audience on the dangers of gender affirming care given that X is one of the least censored social media platforms thanks to Elon Musk,” Strazzeri said in an emailed statement.
“This will give millions of people the opportunity to hear important stories from detransitioners themselves, many of whom have been censored and even ostracized because their lived experiences do not affirm the mainstream media’s narrative.”
Strazzeri said that, after watching “Detrans,” the organization hopes “viewers will have a better understanding of how young Americans are being manipulated by social media and medical professionals to undergo life-altering surgeries that often come with major regret.”
The documentary describes the case of Layla Jane, who alleged in an ongoing lawsuit filed in June against the Kaiser Hospital Foundation that she received hormones and a double mastectomy at 13, but doesn’t interview her.
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