I'm honestly really thinking of joining Twitter, while free speech is available there, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm betraying my cause by giving Elon Musk clicks after his birth rate rants.
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I'm honestly really thinking of joining Twitter, while free speech is available there, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm betraying my cause by giving Elon Musk clicks after his birth rate rants.
Everything's a mixed bag. To truly "boycott anyone who crossed what you believe in, even in a tiny way" would require going full Uncle Ted and going off to a log cabin in the woods. And even then, unless you already have a remote enough plot of land to do that you'll probably be buying the land from someone who "crossed what you believe in, even in a tiny way."
And even then, you'd have to be truly self sufficient. I'm not sure even Ted could do that, unless he somehow made the sunglasses and hoodie in that infamous sketch all on his own.
As for me, I avoid buying woke media, don't give money to the streaming companies, easy things like that. But my soap and shampoo? I'm sure it's made by SC Johnson or one of the other big corporations. My food? I buy it from Kroger, which recently lost a suit over making workers wear pride iconography. I could buy it from Walmart, but well, it's Walmart. And of course there's Whole Foods. It's a matter of choosing the lesser of the evils.
Businesses and wokeist ideology are so intertwined across all sectors for the average person that boycotting everyone that did something you disagree with would be nigh impossible.
As for twitter itself, well, my question would be what would you use it for? If you want to use it to spread a message or gain clout then it's a necessity. If you want to use it to see what's going on, we already have workarounds like nitter that help with that. If you want to just comment on things? Plenty of options there already so twitter's redundant imo.
I think it would be more trouble than it's worth. You truly connect yourself to millions of others at a subconscious level. You can have a thought and an instant after you think it you can release it into the greater network and others can instantly react to it too. No time for refining, no time for thinking or analyzing, nothing so lofty as those. You reveal an innermost being to the primal void of Man and all the dangers that come with it. In the past maybe this wouldn't have been a problem but it only takes one other person in this whole collective of millions to get sufficiently angered enough to find you, trawl through your history and ruin your life. Are you killed? No, but you're fired, unemployable, and might as well be killed. If it were not for the various social safety nets in place today it would be assassination by proxy.
You don't even have to be currently connected to twitter for that to happen. Christian twitter recently had a big canceling over a guy's old, disused alt account. A Christian headmaster with a wife and four children fired from his job with his name and face posted all over twitter. His livelihood and lives of his loved ones instantly put in danger. The catalyst for it all wasn't even something that guy did. It was his association with a guy who wrote a book about "Christian Nationalism." The cancellers couldn't find anything on that writer so the headmaster was the next best thing.
Sure, great, even good opsec can minimize the risk but it's always there. The Silk Road founder had great opsec but just one teeny tiny little overlooked thing led to his downfall.
You don't even have to be presently offensive for this to happen either, just look at all the people getting cancelled for decade old tweets that were absolutely within the bounds of normal discourse when they were made.
Twitter lets us reach into the collective unconsciousness of man, but doing so leaves us just as open to the collective unconsciousness in turn, with all the good and evil inherent to it.
You would love twitter
Gotta find him and @ the most aggressive terfs on his tweets lol
I kid, but this would probably skyrocket acct growth
Everyone on this forum owns something made in China. Just saying.
And I really try not to but, especially after the lockdown bullshit crushed small businesses, sometimes it's China or nothing.
I go down rabbit holes looking up shell company after dodgy Chinese shell company, getting nowhere until it hits the point that I've been hunting for 6 hours for a just simple footstool or USB cable and I go fuck it and pick the least shitty looking chinesium option.
China doesn't have buttsex parades, they aren't the enemy
It's worse
They promote the butt-sex parades here, knowing it weakens us and sows division.
They are the enemy, it's just that they aren't tolerating any friendly fire from their cultural warfare campaign on us, tiktok over there promotes scienties and young students and achievements. They fund and infilitrate the dems, they push these policies and spy on us.
The enemy, yes, but that's not worse. That's pretty smart actually.
They are the enemy of USG (and for good reason).
Is true. Russia's difficulties in a restrained war against well resourced western proxy is largely irrelevant to this point. Most of what you said in this long essay is irrelevant or tangential.
Your post is a perfect example of midwittery. Seemingly unable to conceive of some more complex situation in which a problem is both native or inherent to a system, and simultaneously being exploited and exacerbated by its foreign enemies (they'd be fools not to). The original post was about china and how they aren't so bad, why on earth would anybody with an unaddled attention span go into half of this stuff in response to that, when the point is "nah they're bad and they're helping push the stuff you don't like on you"
Is it that you like other dudes? Is that the issue and the reason you are so riled up? You're sat here ranting about shitlibs, writing essays and psychoanalysing, because I pointed out china helps push this degeneracy, can I ask why? Because otherwise I'm confused how anyone with any sense could hold the opinion that this stuff doesn't weaken and divide the west.
I'm not particularly concerned about your estimation of my judgement but no, china's control over the most accessed social media system of the younger generations is a problem that rises to meaningful.
This reads like it came from an intersectional feminist.
Because that's what Chinese young people are like.
TikTok is just like Tumblr, a dumpster fire of women's unhinged thoughts. The CCP doesn't need to manipulate it, they can take over the platform without any help.
Here we see one of liberalism's favorite delusions: that the ruling class isn't shaping society. The masses are.
"Muh joos/Chinese/elites told women to be bad!"
You stick to that line when they're harvesting your organs to sell to some Arab.
Yeah. So?
"They probably won't harvest MY organs so they aren't so bad."
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In my case it's a prime minister
I believe that an absolutist standpoint where you eliminate any even slightly perceived disagreement is decidedly leftist.
Humans can be flexible and change their minds. Leftists are npcs and lack the ability. Don't be like them. I encourage you to "seperate art from artist" and explore this if you feel the urge.
Not like you can't just delete your account or stop when you're satisfied.
Also, twitter is trash
If I did that I would be living in the Laurentian Abyss. There is literally nothing I own that wasn't made at least in part by someone who violated my beliefs. I may not like it, but I'm not about to give up my car, computer, phone, etc. just because a guy who worked on it voted for gun cuntrol.
Don't act like a woman. Ignore feelings and stick to facts. It's a platform, and you are getting something out of it. Weigh the service you receive (including getting your message out to people) vs. whatever payment, ad revenue, or data collection you are giving them, and make a decision.
I mostly don't even have to. Woke shit has gotten so bad I can't boycott it because I wouldn't pay for it anyway. For example there's nothing about Strange World's advertising that makes me want to do anything but avoid it like the plague. I'm tempted by the ads for The Santa Clauses but I have a feeling the ads are probably a bait and switch.
Yes, but the lesser evil can be used as a force to weaken the greater. The problem is that people don't often use the lesser evil, but the middle evil, out of convenience.
Anyone here who mainly uses Firefox & forks or Chrome & forks supports evil. Android and Apple too.
When people value convenience over principles, their words ring very hollow sadly. It's also about not educating yourself about said evils, thinking that ignorance is bliss. A lot of sites that are supposedly on "our side" uses cloudflare or google ads/cookies/scripts on their sites.
It takes a bit of an effort, but it is doable to a great degree, without having to live in the woods. Sometimes you just can't escape it, so you have to use it. That said, you should push for alternatives while using that.
Nope. Boycotts don't work so it doesn't really matter.
So Disney's latest movie didn't lose millions? Their shares haven't tanked?
That's not because of boycotting. The movie is shit so no one wants to watch it. If Disney continues to tank, their old market will just get absorbed by another corporation with the same ideology. Nearly every corporation operating in the US is part of the same agenda.