ChillyheadMay 24, 2025
Charlie Warzel
I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

What Are People Still Doing on...
What Are People Still Doing on X?

Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout.

The Atlantic
May 23, 2025 at 6:58pmWeb
Show threadCharlie WarzelMay 23, 2025
this is, i suppose a scoldy piece by nature...but that's not really my point. i'm interested in how the online dynamic leads people to accept circumstances they'd never, ever tolerate in the physical world
Show threadCharlie WarzelMay 23, 2025
really don't wish to judge people who post like about sports on there or w/e. i get it. but what seems so clear is that there's a culture of hate that X has emboldened and accelerated. and part of their delight (see Ye and the 'HH' song) is that their culture exists in parallel w/ a mainstream on X
Show threadCharlie WarzelMay 23, 2025
Coincidentally, when I ask some people what keeps them on X, it's that they're turned off by the idea of taking an ethical stand, in part because it feels culture war-y tothem. here's my rebuttal to that:
Show threadCharlie WarzelMay 24, 2025
a note since a whole bunch of ppl have screenshotted my old x account as proof i’m a hypocrite im not active on there. i don’t log in. i didn’t purge the acct mostly bc ive got a lot of posts that have been embedded in news stories (mine & others) & i feel weird about adding to a decaying internet
Show threadCharlie WarzelMay 24, 2025
(if you are smart and know how i could delete the account and somehow preserve a record of this stuff, then id do it asap) 99.9% of my dumb posts are losable but there’s some trial reporting and stuff i’ve posted from the field i feel odd about erasing from the internet!! help wanted here!
Show threadsamiamsamMay 24, 2025

@cwarzel.bsky.social

i have no idea

i deleted it years ago now and while i miss a few of people i did the right thing

Show threadSeán FenianMay 24, 2025
@[email protected] Honestly, I suspect it mostly comes down to one or more of three things:
1. They're nazis;
2. They want their message to be heard by as many people as possible, and don't really care that many of their Xitter audience are nazis;
3. All of their friends are on Xitter, and it doesn't really trouble them that a lot of those friends are nazis, because getting the non-nazi friends to move off is too much trouble. Because all of their friends are on Xitter...
Show threadHugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷May 24, 2025
@cwarzel.bsky.social I put it down to laziness on the part of politicians and large institutions; reluctance to lose their followers in regards to celebrities; networks for those who believe they have no other universal social media. (How 'they' manage to ignore the toxicity of X, is a mystery to me).
Many of those who used deadbird as a dais, have moved to the butterfly for the algorithms they need.
The rest of us are happy in the fediverse.
Show threadNick TaylorMay 24, 2025

@cwarzel.bsky.social To be fair, Youtube's algo is fascist as well.

For years now it's been absolutely obsessed with Jordan Peterson - so these days I automatically block the entire channel of anyone mentioning him.

The other day though, I watched some AZOV videos (which I find absolutely fascinating) - an now I'm getting bombarded (like 1 / 20 recommends) with "intellectual" Jungian videos,weaponised to fascist ends. I think nazis like Jung because his archetypes organise society into (very very traditional) hierarchies based on biology.

And they're doing it for a reason - the videos which are specifically attacking women are getting 100s of 1000s of views a day.

Show threadAsinyMay 25, 2025
@cwarzel.bsky.social yah!