hi! my only other social media is tumblr so my gf says i'll fit in fine here. i'm in my 20s and live in the united states, if you want more info than that then you can read my posts cuz i'm not putting it here (put in some fucking effort to dox me lmao) <3
If you are still posting on Twitter I want you to decide what your red line is and then I want you to notice it was crossed two years ago
and no, you can't "stay and fight." it's not land. it's a website and the people controlling it have the tools to ensure you cannot win. all you do by staying there is help build the fiction that it's a fair marketplace of ideas where Naziism just happens to be winning.
daily knowledge: HAPPY 4/20! throughout the united states, there are many long highways that extend well over 420 miles, and plenty of these highways have signs marking the miles. over the years, the "mile 420" signs have been stolen off their posts enough times that many of those highways have replaced them with "mile 419.99" signs in order to make them less tempting to local pranksters and stoners
Thinking about this a little more, I think one of the things that keeps people on Twitter even after the ads are hateful, is the illusion of a marketplace of ideas. Stay to debate the Nazis with facts and logic, or they'll "win!" Maybe even buy a blue check of your own so you don't lose visibility against them! We can't let them take this ground!
Except it's fucking taken, because this game isn't actually played with pure ideas and the left didn't lose Twitter through a failure of persuasion. The Nazi Bar Analogy does not describe a situation where the bar is owned by a Nazi but the bartender keeps working so he can explain to the customers why this is Bad, Actually.
I'm not really concerned with the money - yes you shouldn't be making ad revenue for these assholes, but it's running at such a massive loss that your fractional-cent view of an Epoch Times ad is not going to turn that around anyway. It's more that you shouldn't continue to legitimize Twitter as the "public square" where the best ideas win. Doing so is playing along with the conceit that Nazis somehow won the conversation, instead of the reality that they bought it.
Anyway I'm seriously thinking about how to put together a public pressure campaign to get schools, government offices, other such "neutral" institutions off Twitter. It's well past time to stop being normal about "well yes the Weather Channel has an account on a Nazi site, but don't worry, they only use it to post about the weather! 😊"
i'm so used to tumblr's keyboard controls that i keep forgetting i can't press the J key to skip to the next post on here. its especially difficult cuz i keep switching between reading a page on here and a page on there (the moment of switching gives me a chance to go "hey, is there something i'd rather be doing right now?" and avoid the Endless Scroll). so my muscle memory from years of tumblr use and having just been on the site about 5 minutes ago keeps kicking in over here. the moment of confused "oh no my screen's frozen!" i get every time is very amusing, and more amusing every time it happens since it happens at least 4 times per log in here and you'd Think i'd get used to it but apparently not
