As time passes, my respect for those companies who still advertise on Twitter is gone, and I am quickly losing respect for anyone who continues to tweet there. This includes journalists, researchers, news and charitable orgs, government agencies, academics, and so on.
They are supporting the hot, ugly mess that is Musk because they are addicted to their platform/follower counts.
Musk is successfully baiting liberals over and over and over and over. It's his plan. It gets him press and attention. You don't have to take the bait.
You can't shame the shameless, you can't change the narcissist, your engagement just increases his traffic and his street cred with his fellow RW trolls.
He bought the website. He gets to destroy it on a whim. You can't stop that.
@jjmacnab It's only going to get worse.
Twitter is now out of control..
It's getting worse.
@jjmacnab Wow!
@jjmacnab so to these maga nuts, being “not supportive” of their figurehead, IN A DEMOCRACY, is grounds enough to harass him out of his home.
This. Is. Nuts.
@jjmacnab yours was one of the accounts I was sad about missing, SO glad to see you landed here!
@LaurelGreen @jjmacnab
I wish @Blairbraverman would post. Hoping the sled dogs of Hannukkah make it here. 😢
@jjmacnab Agree - tried to get my online friends to join me on alternate sites - but they just don't want to move.
@jjmacnab Exactly. Anyone who sticks around there, is complicit and supportive of that cesspit.
@jjmacnab Thus my departure.
@jjmacnab Yes! Trump demonstrated that you only need a small radical minority to keep the outrage cycle going, keep the liberal and centrist majority angrily engaged, and keep the money from the suckers flowing in. Musk aims to beat Murdoch as the top disinformation channel.
@jjmacnab the best thing to do is to let him destroy it as fast as possible, let it just crash.
@jjmacnab interesting dynamic no one is talking about. Support for Ukraine was bringing together many traditional GOP & Dem voters on Twitter, who were talking not just in tweets but on spaces, raising money lobbying etc. just before the purchase there was a focus on passing legislation restraint business with authoritarian gobs, more than Russia in particular China. Musk has broken that unity as liberals fled Twitter & the GOP Ukraine supporters stayed.
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Something to think about
@jjmacnab thats it in a hot nutshell
@jjmacnab what about non-political orgs that don't pay a dime and don't advertise?
@jjmacnab This.
I’m organizing my life boat.
Planning to be gone by January 1, 2023.
You can’t say you’re sticking around waiting for the lights to go out— without acknowledging that you are supporting it.
You want it to die. You have to leave.
This quasi state could lead to a resurgence.
And the idea of Musk with that much influence is sickening.
@jjmacnab same. Just disgusted with all of them.
Former top Twitter official forced to leave home due to threats amid 'Twitter Files' release
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-files-yoel-roth/index.html