RIP Twitter

[volinbham]

It's not complicated ... will conspiracy theories be allowed to flourish on Twitter under Elon Musk's ownership? Or will it become akin to 4chan or 8kun?

they already flourish there - some are okay because they match the world view of those in control and others are verbotten because they clash with those views

 

[Rickyvol77]

It's not complicated ... will conspiracy theories be allowed to flourish on Twitter under Elon Musk's ownership? Or will it become akin to 4chan or 8kun?

But here are my two points:

1) conspiracy theories already were flourishing on Twitter before Musk on both sides
2) even if they are there, so what? People should be allowed to discuss anything they want to no matter how popular or crazy or dumb it is

 

[McDad]

Fair enough ... it didn't have my Blue B box next to it, and I didn't remember replying to it...

... but I can admit when I'm wrong and made a mistake - you got me. I rushed to judgement and a mature, thoughtful person should never do that.

This mature, thoughtful posting style is straight up crap. No drama. Boring.

 

[luthervol]

Lmao. What a hypocrite.
Jimmy Carter uses racism in GA campaign and you not only don’t condemn it you ignore it and vote for him.

Stacey states that the voting process in GA is rigged and that “domestic Terrorists” on the other side stole the election and not only refused to concede just like trump, she called for people to take to the streets and fight it and you voted for her too

If you can’t see your own hypocrisy, you are truly indeed clueless or dishonest one

Provide her quote where she called the other side domestic terrorists and when she called for people to take to the streets and fight it.

If you provide the quote(s), I will gladly respond.
If you cannot provide the quote(s), maybe it's actually you who is indeed clueless or dishonest.



......and the Jimmy Carter thing is simply stupid.

 

[PEPPERJAX]

Fair enough ... it didn't have my Blue B box next to it, and I didn't remember replying to it...

... but I can admit when I'm wrong and made a mistake - you got me. I rushed to judgement and a mature, thoughtful person should never do that.

Everybody fugs up except for me.

 

[BowlBrother85]

they already flourish there - some are okay because they match the world view of those in control and others are verbotten because they clash with those views

This response is why I think liberals will eventually leave Twitter behind. We don't want to be among the Q Anon crowd.

 

[Rickyvol77]

Provide her quote where she called the other side domestic terrorists and when she called for people to take to the streets and fight it.

If you provide the quote(s), I will gladly respond.
If you cannot provide the quote(s), maybe it's actually you who is indeed clueless or dishonest.



......and the Jimmy Carter thing is simply stupid.

Of course it is because you want to excuse that he knowingly used racism to win that campaign in GA. How is it “stupid” to suggest that? You just want to make excuses for when your cult party does the things you pretend to be against. This is why you aren’t taken seriously because you have no actual principle, just tow the party line and give grey area made up percentages

Jimmy Carter's racist campaign of 1970

 

[Rickyvol77]

This response is why I think liberals will eventually leave Twitter behind. We don't want to be among the Q Anon crowd.

You don’t realize that Q anon and the woke brigade are two sides of the same coin?

 

[volinbham]

This response is why I think liberals will eventually leave Twitter behind. We don't want to be among the Q Anon crowd.

They already have their Blue Anon crowd. Sounds more like they don't want to share the platform as opposed to being against nutty conspiracy theories (whether they recognize they are part of one or not)

 

[McDad]

This response is why I think liberals will eventually leave Twitter behind. We don't want to be among the Q Anon crowd.

Is that why you're worried? You want to make sure liberal voices are part of the twitterverse?

 

[utvolpj]

they already flourish there - some are okay because they match the world view of those in control and others are verbotten because they clash with those views

Yeah I'm not sure why this would be a new thing. They're all over Twitter

 

[lawgator1]

This response is why I think liberals will eventually leave Twitter behind. We don't want to be among the Q Anon crowd.

When you think about it, Twitter is pointless. You can post anything you want on a myriad of other social media options, and not be restricted to 280 characters. The only reason it has any legs now is that, due to its simpleton approach (both for the poster and the audience) it was perfect for Trump and his cult. Summarize difficult and complicated facts and issues in 280 characters (275 if you account for the invariable five exclamation points by Trump).

It is kind of self-contradictory for Twitter to demand that you reduce your comments in that fashion, and then get mad when the guy who is emblematic of oversimplifying everything in sight goes a bit off the rails in doing so.

 

[volinbham]

When you think about it, Twitter is pointless. You can post anything you want on a myriad of other social media options, and not be restricted to 280 characters. The only reason it has any legs now is that, due to its simpleton approach (both for the poster and the audience) it was perfect for Trump and his cult. Summarize difficult and complicated facts and issues in 280 characters (275 if you account for the invariable five exclamation points by Trump).

It is kind of self-contradictory for Twitter to demand that you reduce your comments in that fashion, and then get mad when the guy who is emblematic of oversimplifying everything in sight goes a bit off the rails in doing so.

wait Twitter was only popular because of Trump?

you realize it skews strongly liberal - you know the simpletons.

 

[BowlBrother85]

You don’t realize that Q anon and the woke brigade are two sides of the same coin?

LOL. No, they are not of the same ilk at all. This will sound like snobbery but here goes .... the Q Anon crowd buys their clothes at Target and Walmart. The woke crowd shops at Sak's Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom.

You know it's true,,, In the words of Peter Strzok, in a text to his mistress Lisa Page :

"I was in Walmart last night ... You could smell the Trump voters." LOL.

 

[volinbham]

LOL. No, they are not of the same ilk at all. This will sound like snobbery but here goes .... the Q Anon crowd buys their clothes at Target and Walmart. The woke crowd shops at Sak's Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom.

You know it's true,,, In the words of Peter Strzok, in a text to his mistress Lisa Page :

"I was in Walmart last night ... You could smell the Trump voters." LOL.

oh Lord

and you're worried about the quality of posting on Twitter...

 

[utvolpj]

LOL. No, they are not the same people at all. This will sound like snobbery but here goes .... the Q Anon crowd buys their clothes at Target and Walmart. The woke crowd shops at Sak's Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom.

You know it's true,,, In the words of Peter Strzok, in a text to his mistress Lisa Page :

"I was in Walmart last night ... You could smell the Trump voters." LOL.

No one I see on the woke side looks like you describe. Most look like the crowd who lasted one semester of college and spent most of that playing hackey sack in presidential courtyard

 

[volinbham]

ah, the simpletons (per LG)

Pew: Most prolific Twitter users tend to be Democrats, but majority of users still rarely tweet – TechCrunch

the study finds that members of both parties tweet fairly infrequently, but a majority of Twitter’s most prolific users tend to swing left.

Today, those figures have changed. During the study period, the most active 10% of users produced 92% of all tweets by U.S. adults.

And of these highly active users, 69% identify as Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents.
In addition, the 10% most active Democrats typically produce roughly twice the number of tweets per month (157) compared with the most active Republicans (79).

For starters, it found 60% of the Democrats on Twitter would describe themselves as very or somewhat liberal, compared with 43% of Democrats who don’t use Twitter. Self-identified conservatives on Twitter versus conservatives not on the platform had closer shares, at 60% and 62%, respectively.

Pew: Most prolific Twitter users tend to be Democrats, but majority of users still rarely tweet – TechCrunch

 

[Rickyvol77]

LOL. No, they are not of the same ilk at all. This will sound like snobbery but here goes .... the Q Anon crowd buys their clothes at Target and Walmart. The woke crowd shops at Sak's Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom.

You know it's true,,, In the words of Peter Strzok, in a text to his mistress Lisa Page :

"I was in Walmart last night ... You could smell the Trump voters." LOL.

This sounds out of touch. You believe the leftists on here or online are some upper middle class or rich people?

Most on social media are either broke college kid types with no future and are jealous of successful people and hate traditional institutions because of parental issues , the “normal liberals” who work and believe that their feelings and “empathy” means life should and can be fair and most of what they say is for virtue signaling, the ex military type who have some form of ptsd that hates authority or the true mentally pink hair type who is just over the top crazy

There are just as many biden voters at Walmart as trump and at Turkey creek. It’s not as different as you pretend it is.

 

[PKT_VOL]

The passionate fringe outrage, by both sides, over Twitter is fascinating to watch.

Prior to the acquisition by Musk, leftists were correct to tell remind conservatives that Twitter is private company, the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to Twitter, and vote with their feet if they didn't like the platform.

Since the acquisition by Musk, prior to any actual changes, leftists' panic over Musk's announced commitment to broader speech and open source of Twitter code is hilarious. Just a decade ago, and for many decades prior to that, were champions of free speech, against censorship (more speech is better to combat bad ideas), and transparency. This move would have been right up their ally. In fact, Jack Dorsey came out in a thread and stated that this move by Twitter is getting closer to fixing his original sin (his biggest regret) of turning Twitter over to Wall Street. This was one of the reasons the sell actually went through.

 

[PEPPERJAX]

This sounds out of touch. You believe the leftists on here or online are some upper middle class or rich people?

Most on social media are either broke college kid types with no future and are jealous of successful people and hate traditional institutions because of parental issues , the “normal liberals” who work and believe that their feelings and “empathy” means life should and can be fair and most of what they say is for virtue signaling, the ex military type who have some form of ptsd that hates authority or the true mentally pink hair type who is just over the top crazy

There are just as many biden voters at Walmart as trump and at Turkey creek. It’s not as different as you pretend it is.

Do you have a twitter account?

 

[n_huffhines]

No one I see on the woke side looks like you describe. Most look like the crowd who lasted one semester of college and spent most of that playing hackey sack in presidential courtyard

Ehhh, you're probably talking specifically about woke protesters. Woke is a broad term that basically encompasses anybody who accepts that America has a problem with injustices. I think that probably fits the majority of university-educated youth, looking outside the business school, and it's present there, too. My nieces consider themselves woke and they are the kind of girls you would want your kids to be around. Private school educated. Star soccer players. The older one is going to UT for physical therapy. But {gasp} they're "woke."

I would consider anybody who is near the middle ground between the people who think everyone is racist and racism deniers is "woke". It's the mere acceptance that there are major issues with injustice and inequality in America.

 

[Gandalf]

This response is why I think liberals will eventually leave Twitter behind. We don't want to be among the Q Anon crowd.

But that is the trouble - they are perfectly willing to spew their own versions of liberal Q.

And what really makes something a "conspiracy theory"? I mean, many people would have said the idea that the FBI was trying to take down Trump and was making up things like pee tapes and was working with the Clintons would be stark raving mad....until its not - and is actually filed in court by a special prosecutor. In times past, the Hunter laptop totally would have been a conspiracy theory because major media would not cover it.

Point is, conspiracy theories are just things YOU don't believe or don't want to believe are credible.

My wife has a friend who is a full on tin foil hat wearing sort. Sends the craziest things to my wife sometimes. Sometimes people are just trying to read too much into too little. Sometimes, though - like pedos in the Catholic Church - there really are deep and wide conspiracies.

Who can know? The point is, that you cannot. Only in a free society, where people are free to speak their mind without fear of being censored, can the truth emerge from the detritus.

 

[McDad]

ah, the simpletons (per LG)

Pew: Most prolific Twitter users tend to be Democrats, but majority of users still rarely tweet – TechCrunch

the study finds that members of both parties tweet fairly infrequently, but a majority of Twitter’s most prolific users tend to swing left.

Today, those figures have changed. During the study period, the most active 10% of users produced 92% of all tweets by U.S. adults.

And of these highly active users, 69% identify as Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents.
In addition, the 10% most active Democrats typically produce roughly twice the number of tweets per month (157) compared with the most active Republicans (79).

For starters, it found 60% of the Democrats on Twitter would describe themselves as very or somewhat liberal, compared with 43% of Democrats who don’t use Twitter. Self-identified conservatives on Twitter versus conservatives not on the platform had closer shares, at 60% and 62%, respectively.

Pew: Most prolific Twitter users tend to be Democrats, but majority of users still rarely tweet – TechCrunch

Twitter skewes toward poor simpletons who shop at Saks Fifth Avenue?

 

[utvolpj]

Ehhh, you're probably talking specifically about woke protesters. Woke is a broad term that basically encompasses anybody who accepts that America has a problem with injustices. I think that probably fits the majority of university-educated youth, looking outside the business school, and it's present there, too. My nieces consider themselves woke and they are the kind of girls you would want your kids to be around. Private school educated. Star soccer players. The older one is going to UT for physical therapy. But {gasp} they're "woke."

I would consider anybody who is near the middle ground between the people who think everyone is racist and racism deniers is "woke". It's the mere acceptance that there are major issues with injustice and inequality in America.

Yeah my post was pretty much a j joke given what I replied to. Thought I laid it on pretty thick

Woke would mean someone who believes being anti-racist is a legit aim. Simply "acknowledging injustice" means little given that happens all over the globe

 

[PEPPERJAX]

Twitter skewes toward poor simpletons who shop at Saks Fifth Avenue?

I took my wife to Saks fifth in ATL a few weeks back. Damn that hurt!