In case you were worried about how I’m doing since quitting Twitter, just a quick note to reassure you: I’m doing great!
That doesn’t mean I haven’t been outraged by the things I’ve seen and heard about that are happening on the toxic birdsite.
But it also doesn’t mean I will reward the world’s richest Nazi enabler with what he wants as much as my tweets, retweets and likes: my attention.
I’m not here to be that annoying person doing a “cleanse” and telling you all about it. Truth is, I still spend some time on Twitter for work-related reasons. But, I’ve not tweeted on my personal/political accounts and have only logged into Twitter on my laptop to check DMs. Most important, I’ve logged out of my personal and “The Daily Edge” accounts on my phone, which has freed me up to spend a lot more time on ad-free Mastodon!
What’s been going on at Twitter since I’ve been gone?
I don’t know much as I am no longer being served up tweets by people I don’t follow like Jim Jordan and Lauren Boebert, which makes it easier to keep my outrage dial below 11.
But I did hear that QElon welcomed the Traitor Mike Flynn back to Twitter on the anniversary of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection.
And I also saw that Elon rewarded Ali Alexander for cheerleading the Bannon/Bolsonaro Jan. 6 reboot by reinstating the “Stop the Steal” grifter just one day after hundreds of domestic terrorists were arrested in Brasilia.
(Yes, they were arrested at the scene instead of being allowed to run, drive or fly home. Imagine that!)
Today I noticed Elon the Terrible helping Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald hype their “hot takes” on a new piece of research that, according to them, “proves” that Russiagate was a “hoax” specifically because the activity of Russian trolls on Twitter was not the single deciding factor in the 2016 election.
Never mind that nobody ever said Twitter was the only reason that popular-vote-loser Trump eked out an Electoral College win by 77,000 votes in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Never mind, that the very article they are using to prove it was all a hoax states that the survey in question specifically doesn’t prove it was a hoax.
Never mind the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica psy ops campaign (including fake Facebook groups and fake real-world events). Never mind the 140 contacts between Trump and his campaign staff with Russians. Never mind campaign chairman Manafort sharing polling data with Russian spies. Never mind Trump asking the Russians to hack Hillary’s email accounts. Never mind the National Enquirer burying all their dirt on Trump while running stories like this all year long.
And never mind how Rethuglicans and QAnons and Fox News helped amplify Russian conspiracy theories against Hillary. Never mind the Russian spies infiltrating and bankrolling the NRA. Never mind the Comey letter, which by itself was enough to swing the election.
According to Matt Taibbi, the fact that Twitter cannot clearly be shown to be the single deciding factor in the 2016 election means that: “The only road to redemption for mainstream media orgs begins will a full self-audit of the Russiagate fiasco, which includes Pulitzers that need rethinking. It’s not a left or right issue, they just got this completely wrong on the facts, and need to own it.”
To which QElon replies: “Exactly.”
It’s almost as if Musk, Taibbi and Greenwald truly think Twitter is real life. Ten days into 2023, I can confirm, it’s not.
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