Courtney Heard 🇨🇦Dec 11, 2022

I’m sick & tired of pretending that people still willingly using Twitter aren’t enabling this.

Every tweet, every login, every like is fueling his reach and god complex. If everyone who doesn’t support him would just leave the platform, he would have no choice but to reconsider how he is behaving & who he is platforming.

It’s the absolute BARE minimum we can do to stop the progression of online hatred & misinformation. YOU DONT HAVE TO DO *ANYTHING* TO STAY AWAY FROM TWITTER. #ElonMusk

Show threadCourtney Heard 🇨🇦Dec 11, 2022

It’s the “most vile & disgusting things I’ve ever seen” but still not enough to leave the platform?

You can delude yourself into thinking that you’re there to fight back & your tweets objecting to him are having some kind of an effect but this is just you making excuses to hang on to something you can’t let go of. He will NEVER consider your tweets.

BUT HE WILL CONSIDER A RAPIDLY DECLINING USERBASE.

Your continued presence only helps him, regardless of the content of your tweets. WAKE UP.

Show threadCourtney Heard 🇨🇦Dec 11, 2022
When this chapter is in the history books, people will wonder, “why did so many stay & enable him? How could they not have seen they were giving that man a platform? All they had to do was literally nothing & yet they chose, time & again, to login & be part of the data that made him feel like he was winning, and enabled him to invite advertisers back into the platform? Why didn’t they take a stand that *actually* would have hurt his platform? What would have had to happen for it to be enough?”
Show threadCourtney Heard 🇨🇦Dec 11, 2022
I am so upset about this, how many people are trying to justify staying & enabling this hatred. I am so frustrated & disappointed in *so* many people I had previously thought were better than this. SO many people have let us down & are paving the road that Musk & friends are using to march us towards fascism. I’m sorry I’m ranting I’m just completely dumbfounded at how many people out there sound great arguing against hatred but the moment they have a chance to DO something they back down.
Show threadJeremy Frost 🇮🇱🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Dec 11, 2022
@godlessmom By leaving didn’t you back down? I’m staying to fight.
Show threadE. Hatt-SwankDec 11, 2022

@pinata1138 @godlessmom Serious question: do you have accounts on Gab, Parler, Truth Social, etc, where you "stay and fight"?

Maybe you're the exception, but for most people, the answer is no, because those platforms are irrelevant. They're populated by nobody but right-wing weirdos talking to each other. If we want to "fight" Musk that's the only power we have -- to turn Twitter into another one of those platforms, with few advertisers & barely any users.

Show threadDarnell Clayton Dec 11, 2022
@ehattswank @pinata1138 @godlessmom It's more complicated than this, but I do have business contacts on Twitter—Apple, Amazon, airlines, annoying politicians, Alphabet (also known as Google), etcetera—where Twitter is the best or only viable contact solution (phone & email support are lackluster sadly) among other companies & leaders.
Trying to convince them to leave feels like trying to convince someone to leave the Matrix. https://youtu.be/_Wgn0KlSHl4
Cypher Makes a Deal With Agent Smith in Restaurant - Matrix (1999) - Movie Clip HD Scene

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Show threadE. Hatt-SwankDec 11, 2022
@darnell @pinata1138 @godlessmom Fair point. I'm a nobody online, so I don't really consider that many folks use Twitter to make a living. Obviously disentangling that is a lot more difficult. I hope the emerging alternatives will quickly become acceptable for that kind of use case too.
Show threadDarnell Clayton 
@ehattswank @pinata1138 @godlessmom It is more the practical nature of what Twitter has become now. At the airport, if I have an issue with an airline, I have four options:
👉🏾 Do nothing
👉🏾 Email the airline & receive assistance days later
👉🏾 Call the airline & receive assistance hours later
👉🏾 Tweet the airline & receive assistance minutes later (Instagram sometimes works too)
It's the same with most companies & oddly politicians too (even TV hosts—go figure 🤷🏾‍♂️).
Dec 11, 2022 at 5:45pmWeb