X— You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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I don't think the shambling husk of Twitter is a good representation of the U.S. population. My impression is that Elon has driven away most good and reasonable people.
I don’t think the shambling husk of Twitter is a good representation of the U.S. population
I wouldn't be so sure. I remind you that Trump won the election.
He won due to apathy and stupidity, not active support from the majority of the total population. The very people who may have stayed home due to voter suppression for example could be the same folks bombing supply convoys for his fascist regime in due time.
Many many many lazy people and companies still use it and his echo chamber is reaching many many eyes.
Nazis are generally not a good benchmark for values or ideas. X is a nazi site.
X is only a haven for nazis and bigots anymore. It's like I You're trying to explain yourself to a racist wall. Why would you try?
Let his bots say what they want. Leave the platform entirely.
I came to a Nazi pub and there were nazis, how could that be?
Anyone who is still using twitter is either one of them or totally retarded.
Xitter is a cesspit. Normal people have mostly left.
And yet media organizations still build whole news stories around embedded tweets (or xits or whatever they're called now) and all kinds of organizations still use it to make announcements. They need to realize what it is and leave it to the Nazis.
There has been a big exodus, and it continues. It's all part of Elon's upcoming book, "How To Turn A Fortune 500 Company Into Twenty-Five Dollars In Cash".
They're bots. 80 percent of those are unchecked bots. It's shit stories like this that empower maga to do what it's doing. 8 of 10 responses are bats...that one real redneck out there looks at them and thinks it's ok to say shit like that, and the 10th person left for the fediverse.
We have to stop treating X like it's a source of anything...it's not. It's a vile swap of rage click engagement fighting for the top spot.
Just last week there was a petition passed up to our schools to stop using X to notify parents of important occurrences at our public schools. I’m interested in how this will play out, but don’t see any reason to keep X around as a social media platform.
Knowing the Americans there not too shocking.