Some wars can’t be won. It can be hard to come to terms with this fact when you’re still on the battlefield, but if somehow you manage to step out for a moment, then the truth will become obvious. You have lost, the people on your side have lost, the villains have won and, if anything, you should have run away a long time ago.
X is a right-wing brainwashing machine
If you haven’t left X by now you are a supporter of these things.
Oh I thought it was Grok spreading lies that was the final straw, and before that the fascism, and before that it was the manipulative algorithms promoting racist views, and before that it was lack of oversight to keep content legal.
But OK let’s say it’¨s the illegal AI generated sexual abuse. Which by the way are clearly illegal in Denmark, not because of nudity, but because it is illegal to exploit the likeness of a real person.But by my count this is at least the fifth final straw.
Yeah, you can’t dictate what the final straw is to others. It’s a personal matter to each individual. I for instance never accepted any amount of straws from twitter so to me everyone that ever used that site was crazy.
I’m pretty sure the author is well aware of this. It’s a good piece because it comes across as honest and takes a look at the psychological causes why so many people are still active on X. An honest look at yourself is the first step to free yourself from denial, and it doesn’t really matter how long it takes and how many bad things have to happen if they get it eventually and take action.
@RedstoneValley @Buffalox Marie Le Conte left X and joined Bluesky ages ago. She’s mostly trying to make the point to some of her fellow journalists who are ridiculously clay-footed and don’t seem to have realised that they haven’t “made themselves a nice little corner of X”, they’re just swimming in fascist waters now.
The finalest straw!
There were so many final straws. So many lines crossed. Zero chance this is “the” final straw…
it pains me how many leftists are still on twitter after all this
i get that bluesky is too liberal, mastodon too complicated and technical, and tumblr has too much pointless discourse, but… surely, mecha-hitler generating csam on command is worse?
mastodon too complicated
Literally the only thing to understand before using it is the multiple instances, which doesn’t take a PhD. (Even better, you can safely use it even without knowing about instances.)
If people don’t want to move to Mastodon because it’s “too complicated”, they’re not actually looking for an alternative.
If the Nazis weren’t too much for someone I doubt anything is too much for them.
I feel like for the people still using X, AI-generated bikini photos of minors are pretty far from being the final straw.
Unfortunately, this. Pedo stuff is A OK for the alt right folk over there.
I used the opportunity to make my first post on Twitter in a year. Another guillotine picture, of course. Guillotines are the only appropriate thing to post there now.
