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 threadvieuxnezDec 11, 2022
@ehattswank @pinata1138 @godlessmom The point *could* be made that this is, in part, a good idea (to have people monitor the other networks). However, this dips deep into the area where you throw away much of your life tracking and monitoring "the enemy". (how much of your life do you waste before they *win* by default?) . (makes me wonder if the FBI/CIA/policia monitor those networks [and how much time they have to waste looking at just garbage trolling from schmucks])
Show threadE. Hatt-SwankDec 11, 2022
@vieuxnez @pinata1138 @godlessmom Yes, agreed, i think tracking what far-right nuts are talking about is invaluable, especially if it might give warning when they're planning something violent. And of course people doing that noble work helped expose many of the January 6 insurrectionists & worse ... That seems very different to me than people who just don't want to leave Twitter because they like to argue with right-wingers on there, or pile on to whatever stupid thing Ted Cruz just said.
Show threadRhinestone Squirrel

@ehattswank @vieuxnez @pinata1138 @godlessmom

Good point. Kind of similar to anti-Nazi activists back in the 1940's who joined Nazi groups to spy on them and expose them.

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