Nothing makes me lose hope faster about the world's willingness to resist fascism than seeing so many purportedly left-wing people unwilling to make basically the smallest sacrifice possible and stop supporting Vichy Twitter's nazi propaganda engine.
Whenever I go over there it’s literally just journalists who should know better and comedians who hate Biden
First, they came for the socialists and I did not speak out, because Kevin Sorbo just retweeted me.
Every Democratic and/or generally left-leaning politician basically in the whole world (who is on social media at all) is still on twitter.
Wait are you really saying that anyone who is still using Twitter is complicit?
"what if nazis took over your country and started inundating you with propaganda, redirecting your labor towards advancing fascism, restricting your freedoms and voice, but also you can 100% get out of it by literally just clicking a tiny little x on your browser"
This. Also many X users are from other countries & don't have the same values or concerns of the US leftThis. Also many X users are from other countries & don't have the same values or concerns of the US left
On one hand, I completely snapped out of doom for a while after the French elections because they did the hard work. On the other, the last three weeks
Sometimes I regret leaving, because it was a huge source of freelance gigs for me. I lost a lot in that sense but also I felt bereaved. Sticking to one's principles is costly, especially since it's likely too many people did not leave and that what continues to fuel it.
So you hate waffles
Not gonna lie, I was still using Twitter pretty frequently until I joined Bluesky. Bluesky has its own problems but the content here is enough to get me off Twitter. Unfortunately Threads is just full of junk.