The political conversation on X is scary ugly. I looked at the replies to a Manu Raju tweet just now and the replies are a stream of threats and invective. There is a definite appetite for violence among hardcore MAGAs.
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If you think it sucks now, wait until it becomes X Social after Musk purchases Trump‘s site as the cost of pressuring the EU to lift X restrictions, maintain WH access, and retain lucrative government contracts.
Glad to avoid that. I’m holding on by a thread on IG and FB because the increasing propaganda about “traditional” relationships and gender roles is growing rapidly.
Patriot Front has been hanging banners and signs in Durham, NC., which has a large minority population. Definitely feels like they are trying to claim what they think is theirs.
Everyday they make it more and more clear that there is only a very thin line holding them back from trying to physically beat us into submission. I'm sure they would try to claim they were doing it for God, too. It's so much scarier now that the worst of them is our Commander in Chief.
Yeah, that's why I'm in the process of decamping from Xitter. Going over my "follow" list there and seeing who I can find here or on threads and then will be deleting the account.
Once he takes office and starts wielding his powers and takes away their health insurance/medicare, social security, union protections and everything costs more due to his tariffs, they won’t know who to go after! Hopefully they’ll just start eating their own.
Let’s not feed them! Compassion is the only way to get ahead of this mess now! Compassion is an action, a verb; not a wish or intention…so glad I found this space 🙏🏼.
I felt that way too. It was like stepping into a filthy restroom. You don’t want to step on whatever that is on the floor. You hover over the toilet since you are afraid to sit on the seat. The sinks are so dirty, you figure your hands are cleaner. And you can finally breathe again when you leave.
They want civil war because most of them have never seen real war up close. Once they start dealing with the violence, deprivation & misery, they'll be complaining that they were mislead. When they start getting shot at they'll start wetting their pants & begging for help.
Remember...these are the ppl trmp sucked up to in 2020 when they whined about a 6 wk moratorium..couldn't eat out, go to bars & gyms. Had to put up w/the family. So now covid us still killing hundreds& thousands Americans every wk. No way they have the backbone for uncomfortable war.
Part of me wants to stay on X to hold the Trump admin accountable and deliver the truth but the other part of me is worried about other reporters and my personal safety
You would think they would be happy not to have to fight a civil war to keep their orange guy in. Guess it wasn't about the orange guy after all..just about the bloodlust and sadism he encourages. There are a lot of seriously mentally ill ppl out there.
I trolled around some maga pages just being nosy & OMG... they worship Elon. Like probably more than donald. Vance isnt even mentioned. I think don aint gonna enjoy not being #1. I give elon maybe 10 Scaramuccis. But yea they are hateful. 🫣
It is well past the time that every decent human being with a huge follower count leaves that platform. Hollow it out. Gut it. Tell Elon, "Oh you thought you devalued Twitter? Hold our soy milk."
We need to stay present. No point in worrying. Massive self-inflicted wounds will happen to the Trumper. We will work on our shit over here. Stay sharp stay connected.
I have a thought / question -
I'm seeing a lot of liberal / resistor account profiles that mention MAGA - as in "No MAGA" or "MAGA will be blocked".
So those users would be blocked too, I assume?
Well that's pretty cool? I have not heard of that. I literally just opened my account this morning after being on Twitter for almost 10 years. How do I find the mass block of maga function?
Pardon me if it's a dumb question but I am so sick of being bombarded by all the mindless trolls on Twitter. I just don't have time to educate them. That really should have been somebody else's job. So if there's a way to block all of them I would love to hear it.
I’m just curious how hard-core they’re gonna be when they don’t have a pot to piss in in the next few months when he’s taking everything away because they can’t afford it anymore they’re gonna be pissed but it isn’t gonna be at the Democrats anymore idiots
It truth social 2.0 but on a site that actually matter before Elon bought it. The biggest names over there have to leave but it's so ingrained in society that going to be hard.
They think it is hard. But the longer they stay there, the more they are helping to line Musk's pockets. Staying until the election made sense but now we know what we know.
The violence they have in their brains will start turning them on each other. Stay alert so you can get out of their way. It’s going to get worse when the GOP can’t deliver them their needs in real time. Elon thinks that group is going to be ok with suffering 😂
Oh it's just disgusting, the vileness they're spewing is beyond revolting, they're so full of hate, leave them to eat each other, they want engagement, don't give them any
Hardcore Magas? Why do people insist on minimizing the issue in that way? Insults, bullying, threats, violence is part of standard conservative, Republican political tactics. Fascists love that sort of thing. It's not at all confined to some weird subset of them called Maga.
That's the only reason I stayed after ConOld returned. After the election, it was just more than i was willing to endure, and clearly, my presence there made 0 difference.
Given these are the clowns that go into the woods and video themselves trying to shoot each other during “training”, I’ll take my chances with these clowns.
Which is why I just deactivated my account there.
I'm done with the cesspool it's become.
Merge it with (Un)Truth Social and be done with pretending all is welcome there.
They don't think anyone on the *other side" will look at a firearm, let alone own one and know how to use it. We just don't talk about it and post photos.
I knew exactly what to do when I heard "your body, my choice. Forever. "
Usually the loud mouths and the ones that want it. End up on their 🍑 and regret it all swiftly. Those with the loudest mouths are always the weakest in the room. 🫡
Those are the terrorists in this society and winning the election just gave them the ammo to do what they want. It's going to get worse as time goes on too because these things will go unchecked.
In is first time, crimes against non-white went up.
I sorta have a feeling that x has become like the world in Matrix. I sometimes question whether the people I interact with are even real, the conversations. And I don't mean obvious bots. But it feels like a made up narrative is pushed down our throats.
They’re just ugly to the core. Hakeem Jeffries had a post about Tish James and the comments were horrendous. It was the reason I left and came here. I think we’re in big trouble in the coming weeks.
I’m not sure, I’d tell you to read the comments and see how vile they were, but I don’t wish that on anyone. They were awful. Truly sad, that people talk like that to each other.
Oh..ok...I thought there might be threats...nasty talk is just the new normal. I couldn't figure why they would want to blow up or overthrow anything if tgat is what tgey were carrying on about.
I think they were more prepared than most of us know to start some serious 💩 Those plans were blown with outcome and have nowhere to go. Bless their hearts.
I don't think they will go back on their anger, they will fight amongst themselves and it will get ugly. I have departed the former site and blue sky is much more friendlier so glad to see you over here too!
There thankfully aren't nearly as many as the bots make it look like, but that's part of putin's mindfuck attempts as much as anything imo. They locked my account and will not let me close it.
I think the post he's taking about (not positive) was Manu talking about how Repubs cant just make recess appointments. Basically talking about the rules and procedures in place. MAGA came in "guns a blazin" to tell Manu they'd do whatever they damn well pleased. And those were the nice comments.
The gladiators in the coliseum in Rome were there to help distract the people. A certain type of person just craves carnage. Twitter will be the right wing distraction for awhile now.
Hate and easy access to guns are an existential threat to our communal safety and our democracy. And the majority of American voters just said yes to a man who will only do more to let the hate and the guns flow.
They are such sore winners.
I left Twitter within days of the Sink walking in. Just came over from being on Threads this last past. You are always one of the very first folk I follow :-)
They get off on the fear they think they are causing. Like high school bullies. Once they are stood up to the thrill of the threats loses its power. Bunch of insecure “wanna-be big” little people.
I've seen it myself. They claim to want to stop the division and unite but in reality they just want everyone to join their side and admit we were wrong. And when you stand against them they start their ranting as if the election is still going on. As if they haven't won yet.
The main theme on X or Twitter now is “own the Libs” with anger, threats and intimidation. Twitter was a noble experiment. Now it reflects the bigotry of new owner Elon Musk. Musk is proof money cannot buy class.
Because the violence was the point. Now that he won they will be completely unleashed. They were calling for Trump to hang people publicly that didn't support him. They mean this shit.
It’s cognitive dissonance. They’re programmed to believe they’re the Forever Victims and Trump was going to be cheated out of the election, which conflicts with reality. In a sense, they ARE angry they won.
Look how angry they get when you show them evidence that some horrible thing they’re concerned about *isn’t* actually happening. They want to live in a world of awfulness.
Everyone had a different breaking point where the bad content outweighed the good and your friends/follows were active elsewhere. This week was it for most of us, but I’m sure the rest will break soon. It’s more bleak than before there. Fun content is dwindling.
I go on there to find out who to follow on here! Once I get a good account built here on BSky I’ll definitely leave X for good. I will 👇#LeaveElon alone!
It is a community, like any. But now both usability and everyone waiting for everyone to leave is starting to get there, so it’s probably the knell. Most of what I am staying for is gone, I’m just needing to migrate my lists and save a few things.
Yeah, I’m just saying that’s why. I found lots of jobs and friends and all kinds of things there. It took awhile to get people to move, because they don’t want to lose community. You’re arguing with the wrong person if you are thinking I’m suggesting the proliferation is a good thing over there.
Ngl I was holding out for the menswear guy and hoping some of the international journalists I followed would make it here but I finally pulled the plug
Same. There are some accounts I really don't want to lose track of, but I reached the point where I just don't want the worry of having a presence over there.
It’s all about the numbers, all those followers. You know, the ones they don’t even engage with. When they join Threads or Blue Sky or whatever, they bitch and moan that they don’t have as many followers. It’s an ego thing. I don’t really care, do you?
For me it was simply more information (news/politics) than bluesky. But holy shit in the last 4 days this place is hopping, so I deleted the app and abandoned my shitter account.
Remember that time Leon Mush said "For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally"?
Me neither. Thirty months is an eternity nowadays.
Maybe with luck, all of that will somehow mess up the algorithm there SO much, that all the spam/hate they get, will propel those accounts over the ones they ACTUALLY like...
The DOJ needs to be made aware of these threats. The media needs to be protected. I am not so happy w/ how they cover Biden, but they 100% need protection. Where are the media heads? Why aren't they protecting their reporters?
TY Aaron.
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Let them wallow in their misery.
They think they are owed it, with impunity. And, really, who can blame them for thinking this way. The incoming president supports it.
Makes me nervous, as it should us all.
The sheep repeating it don't even have a clue what kind of a game they are really part of
Buy whatever y’all need to protect yourselves—the zombies are coming.
I can only imagine how disgusting it must be at this point. No idea why anybody is still putting up with it.
They also understand that the response will be far weaker if they inflict sufficient violence first.
Particularly effective when their opponents don't understand this, and are trying to resist with non-violence and rely on reason to prevail.
Best wishes from Denmark.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e4elbtctnfqocyfcml6h2lf7/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s
I'm seeing a lot of liberal / resistor account profiles that mention MAGA - as in "No MAGA" or "MAGA will be blocked".
So those users would be blocked too, I assume?
(I imagine the bluesky devs are working on a proper bookmark function, but this works for now)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:q6gjnaw2blty4crticxkmujt/feed/my-pins
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pmyqirafcp3jqdhrl7crpq7t/lists/3kn6pvyceas2r
::also ponders life far, far away::
I’m taking an eXit from that muskrat.
This was my tweet in response to a posted video showing animal abuse.
“I can’t watch this. I want to kick him in the ass so hard I’ll be unable to retrieve my shoe. And more…”
Best wishes from Denmark
I'm done with the cesspool it's become.
Merge it with (Un)Truth Social and be done with pretending all is welcome there.
I knew exactly what to do when I heard "your body, my choice. Forever. "
In is first time, crimes against non-white went up.
My heart hurts.
I left Twitter within days of the Sink walking in. Just came over from being on Threads this last past. You are always one of the very first folk I follow :-)
Which is nonsensical to me.
Let your soulshine🦋
They want a Civil War.
None of us need to come to their party. Nope
There’s nothing left.
is now. Didn’t they win?
A community of Nazis and those that are ok with it.
https://bsky.app/profile/ottoenglish.bsky.social/post/3lamvnsslu22r
Me neither. Thirty months is an eternity nowadays.
@DOJ
TY Aaron.