PwnallthethingsTwitter was special. But it's time to leave
https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/twitter-was-special-but-its-time
Matt Blaze@Pwnallthethings well said, and reflects my own thinking almost exactly.
aresPersonally I'm done. Not giving one dime for a blue check, or an ad impression, or an electric car.
But it strikes me that this is exactly what he wants.
Purging the site of lefties is easy when we all surrender the territory without a fight.
I've seen his texts from before the acquisition talking about buying the site to dewokeify it.
If your agenda is fash or right-libertarian or antidemocratic or mafia-state, what's better than to fragment and disperse the communications of your adversary?
Are we surrendering the territory too easily?
garden center goth@ares @Pwnallthethings @mattblaze when “the territory” is a private company and not a collectively owned thing, it isn’t territory you will ever “win” unless you choose to become a capitalist anticapitalistically or some other impossibility, i think
@Pwnallthethings @ares @mattblaze here’s an analogy. in my early 20s my friends and i would “take over” a bar and crow about how we were the only ones there. like it was especially for our use due to our dominant numbers. but did we not fork over our money to the bartenders? and the owner of the bar? it was never our “territory,” it was a fun illusion
@mood @Pwnallthethings @mattblaze
Yeah, capitalist ownership of the means of production and communication is, like, the actual problem.
But is the solution to just give up without a struggle?
Here's another analogy. In high school I lived in a town with zero public space. Every space that appeared public wasn't actually owned by the public, it was owned by a corporation.
The malls, the parks, the gated communities, the riverwalk, the charter schools, every place was owned, surveilled and policed by a corporation.
Hanging out at any of these spaces without spending money was "loitering" or "trespassing".
Using these spaces to talk, or to plot, or to criticize the owner, or to protest was against the rules.
So did my friends and I "walk away" to our separate cul-de-sacs, divided and conquered?
We did not walk away. We stayed. We loitered. We trespassed. We spray painted the cameras. We posted lookouts. We evaded the security guards.
When you believe that their "ownership" of a space means you have to leave, you're thinking the way they want you to think.