What sort of mental contortions would I need to undergo in order to be the type of liberal intellectual who still flourishes on actually-existing-X today? How would that subtly reshape the arguments that I decided were worth making, in order to stay on the good side of the media owners?
Not just reshape your arguments, but reshape your *thinking.* When you're surrounded by Twitter-style interaction, it *will* alter how you think. I think it's why people who still hang out there seem to have retrograde perspectives on a variety of issues, especially politics/culture.
😂✌🏼
I didn’t leave X because I was worried it was too impure. I left because it fell to shit, and I realized staying there would make me a less interesting thinker and person. That was two years ago. Things have demonstrably gone downhill over there. How is this argument even still a thing???
The question is when will the lazy as F mainstream online news outlets stop crafting articles around six tweets? The inertia of the existing content integration from X has made it feel more relevant than it should over the past year or two.
Surprised you didn't comment on the slug
I agree with basically all of what you said, but the non-English side of Twitter has not fallen to as much shit. You can really feel the increasing presence of bots but it isn’t anywhere as awful as the English side.
Well, this place is even more antisemitic than X, so it's a choice between two absolutely filthy restroom stalls. I know Jewish people who were driven away from this place and find X more accommodating. The Lefties here are bigoted as fuck and completely unwilling to see it.
"How is this argument even still a thing???" I’d guess because too many people’s sense of identity/financial stability/need for “institutional stability” is bound up in this argument being a thing.
I stayed on and off sometimes to help rt people who needs helps and one day Elon axed my account
Thank you for this, Dave. For what it’s worth, I would follow your posts to the ends of the earth.
I’m *still* not changing your grade.
there's always a new incoming class of sophmores
"How is this argument even still a thing???" 💯 I don't give a rat's ass about Twitter. I don't miss it. The End.
I don't even log in to passively lurk any more. I don't miss it one bit. Bluesky is already 100x better, and I almost never see nazi jerkoffs here!