I thought if they know Elon Musk is in league with Trump, wouldn't they be closing their accounts immediately?
What am I missing?
Twitter/X, though certainly headed in the wrong direction of conservative propaganda, was an already established tool of social media. That's why Musk had to *buy* it like Gordon Gekko instead of just creating it. If he did the latter, it would be no more successful than TruthSocial.
I can see how you might think, upon brief examination, that X should be an insufferable place for liberals. The first thing you see is the For You newsfeed with a Musk-designed algorithm to spew right-wing nonsense, disinformation, viral bullying, and three dozen automated AI posts per day from Musk's own account. Oh yes... I'm sure it's really him typing on his phone all day. Regardless, unlike Tom Anderson of Myspace, Elon is not really our "friend." He's trying to incept you and control your mind.
MAGA deplorables eat this shit up, and buy the premium checkmarks, because they're idiots obsessed with branding and materialistic consumer culture. They think it makes them important and gives delusions of grandeur and dopamine highs as if they were rats scoring food pellets. What they don't understand is that Twitter, like America, was *already* great because of the original coding and established community, and there's no erasing that. One day, Elon will sell, things will revert to normal, and it's reputation as an American social media institution will be restored—with all of us quickly moving on from these dark days.
In the meantime, if I were to @ChrisCuomo about a story he reported on, I know I can help shape the newscycle and provide vital feedback, or get questions answered/links provided. Perhaps it's not as effective as actually writing to Nexstar's Manhattan production studios, but it's more economical, quicker and will do in a pinch. I don't need a checkmark to be noticed. I don't need followers. I don't need to linger on the site for hours. I just need to have something intelligent and forthright to say in 120 characters that will propagate through the public relations team. You see, liberals of the cerebral variety will always see the angles, stand out and make it to the top of the food chain of rational thought.
The young brain is a healthy, progressive brain. The old, fearful conservative brain is degraded with enlarged amygdala... easy prey for propagators of fear, anxiety, rage, misinformation. You can bypass all this by recognizing who doesn't have your best interests at heart, and staying consistent with your ideals even as you age.
Vote Gavin Newsom for President, 2028
Because only the right have the infantile schoolyard "you're on my sworn enemies list" mentality and boycott anyone and everything connected with the other side.
This is evident with the torrent of spam and abuse a celeb will get on this site from maga morons if they denounce Trump or support KH
A sane person will not abandon twitter because Musk doesn't vote the same way they do.
hmm, seems a few prominent left-leaners are on the move....
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It's too bad that people on free speech platforms will not follow authoritarian leftards to their echo chambers. What they are doing is the equivalent of picking up their toys and going home.
Probably for the same reason as liberals are on this board: one never seeks to exist just in a echo chamber but to see and hear from everyone else, especially who do not necessarily validate one's views and indeed go on challenge one's own. X of course, although economically failing,
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-is-still-far-from-profitability/722602/
still has some weight, so it would be foolish to ignore it. It is also likely to gain traction under the new administration - at least until, as seems inevitable, Musk and Defendant Donald fall out.
It's the public square. If they move to another platform, they will be shouting into the void of nothing.
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