Your Twitter/X account is a microphone connected to a mixer controlled by a fascist. You can speak all you want. The fascist controls your volume and can mute you whenever he wants. And you might not even know you’ve been muted because you can still hear yourself in your headphones.
It’s not called resistance when your volume knob is in someone else’s hand.
@aral I spent six months trying to get my old Twitter account (since 2010) suspended.
What finally got me suspended was saying "Death to all fascists."
Elon doesn't like it when you disparage his core demographic.
Eloff would probably pay you for that.
I got banned from Twitter for saying of Empty Greene,
"The problem with MTG is for as much as she shoots her mouth off, she never shoots her mouth off."
They really are some snowflakes.
@aral Ah ah perfect 😅
I like this other analogy : it's like playing chess with a pigeon, there's always a moment when the pigeon gets angry, makes the pieces fly, shits on the chessboard and triumphantly flies away.
Don't even start the game, you'll never win.
@aral The problem: There is no more open microphone heard by most of the free world.
The possible alternatives are either explicitly made not to be heard widely like the #fediverse or clones of twitter with the same problems all over again.
@exception exactly.
We might get a TON of engagement within our echo chambers. The amount of head-nodding might give a perception that we’re doing a lot of good.
But just engaging with people whose minds are already on the same page does nothing to progress anything.
@volkris @aral Even if all opinions were part of the engagement, that is still not enough.
We need to reach, inform and convince almost all people about the democratic process and the different opinions.
Most people aren't stupid at all, but they have other things from work to caring for children and the elderly to do and want to enjoy life, too. But they need to be reached and somewhat informed for democracy to work.
@exception @aral Twitter was never "heard by most of the free world".
The vast majority of people were never on Twitter.
@aral
Something noticed about #Twitter lately, when I go on there (first mistake) and look at the feed, not only is it even more overwhelmingly negative than it was before #Elon, but If you search for one of these issues wear that far right fringe is strongly against everyone else, like looking up #Ukraine or the #ADL, the feed is completely dominated by these fringe viewpoints by far right / #neoNazi accounts.
Somehow, he's managed to get the #algorithm to really push these fringe ideas, overwhelming the mainstream on things that aren't actually hotly debated or even #controversial.
@dasboomer You have a very twisted idea of what is and is not a fascist.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Conservative-economic-programs
Fascism - Corporatism, Nationalism, Autarky: There were a few, usually small, fascist movements whose social and economic goals were left or left-centrist. Hendrik de Man in Belgium and Marcel Déat in France, both former socialists, were among those who hoped eventually to achieve a fairer distribution of wealth by appealing to fascist nationalism and class conciliation. In Poland the Camp of National Radicalism (Oboz Narodowo-Raykalny) supported land reform and the nationalization of industry, and fascists in Libya and Syria advocated Arab socialism. In Japan, Kita Ikki, an early theorist of Japanese fascism, called for the nationalization of large industries, a limited degree of worker control,
@dasboomer @aral they hate him so much they keep giving him billion dollar grants
wish someone would hate me like that :-(
Elon doesnt deliver messages that nazis don't like.
Your followers aren't getting your 'tweets'
If you 'tweet' to your 654 followers 7 will see it, because they "interact with you."
You can't ask your followers if they have seen your tweets, because the question isn't delivered.
F'Elon is a standard issue nazi subversive.
In Turkey recently, the dictator removed building standards, saying he was a good dictator making cheap buildings. Earthquakes knocked all the no standards buildings down, killing Turks.
Erdogan was not being returned to office, so he made Deep fake videos showing the democratic opposition chanting "terrorist slogans"
And Elon kept any opposition to the lies off of twitter, not a single denial.
Your tweets are not delivered.
You ARE NOT getting good done 'despite' Elon.
its xittter
Its the most freeing thing that happens, the abject hypocrisy is nothing; there are no reasons.
Republicans no longer have reasons, they have excuses. You cannot argue with an excuse, it contains no logic, or rational system, nothing implied.
Abortion is an excuse, it has nothing to do with children or babies, its the criminalization of women.
There are no reasons, it's excuses.
"Elon Musk Didn’t Just Do Turkey’s Bidding. Censoring for Strongmen Is Now a Pattern."
Elon paid 44 $Billion making a weapon to use on America. Even practiced. Now he is suing the ADL - lol 👉 for ruining xitter!
https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/elon-musk-turkey-twitter-erdogan-india-modi-free-speech.html
I don't have a twitter account.
"Have you ever wondered how good was so easily destroyed by evil in the past?
And thought to yourselves how ignorant and unaware those people must have been?
Well, look around.
Because the past is upon you."
SearingTruth
@aral Actually it is, because that's how pretty much all volume knobs are implemented. Either it's a real-world potentiometer, or it's a simulated one driven by a rotary encoder.
The "resistance" in this case is their tolerance of your gain. 🙂
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