“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”—Every third grader
The Federalist: I try my best not to complain about the curveballs of life that come my way, but I wish people understood the tremendous burden that comes with being a clairvoyant genius who sees the future. You see, Twitter banned my account yesterday. They did not suspend it. They banned it.
I had almost 80,000 followers and those poor people are now left aimlessly wandering the social media landscape in search of a greatness they’ll never find again. Now, I don’t really care because I’m just going to start a new account and it will be even better than my last one (if that’s possible). This isn’t about me. This is about what kind of country we have become and what kind of country we want to be.
We have become a nation of sensitive losers who care about words. We care about how things “make us feel.” The exception these days is the man who just wants to put his talent and his thoughts in the marketplace of ideas and see if people will buy it.
That man is rare today, but it was not always so. The American man used to be one who threw his family in a covered wagon and headed West into the wilderness. The American man used to be one who found out the Japanese had attacked men he didn’t know in a state he’d never visited so he ran down to the recruiting office to enlist in the Marines. That American man still exists, but he’s an endangered species.
The American spirit of free speech has been replaced by people who want uncomfortable speech censored. Nowhere is this more apparent than the social media world.
As I have said before, social media is not a small thing. It is no longer three nerds with pocket protectors huddled in their dorm rooms dreaming about a day when a woman acknowledges their existence. Social media has surpassed the telephone. It is the means of networking and communicating with others: 2.5 billion people use Facebook and Twitter.
That is not a fringe thing that is going away. It has now become the way humans interact with each other. It is completely run by Silicon Valley leftists who know the power they hold. And they are using that power. The rest is here
Not only does this guy make a living imitating me, he’s actually 3 oompa loompas standing on each others shoulders wearing a giant raincoat.
He should open at least 40 more accounts. Half of them as a prog.
MJ, not sure if that works anymore. None of my alternate accounts lasted more than 20 minutes.
If guys like Kelly, James Woods, Candice O, Laura Loomer, etc, moved to GAB, conservatives could take over that place.
Twitchy found this great commentary on why Twitter will fail in trying to police speech: https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/11/26/this-is-dead-on-lutheran-pastors-little-rant-about-twitters-speech-police-is-a-definite-must-read/
Also, Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds), one of the premier conservative voices on Twitter, has deactivated his account: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/314008/
I have pretty much quit Twitter, I don’t gain much of anything from it.
Evidently the Twitter nerds have never heard “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Their ban is temporary, something new will come along and bury them and they’re setting loose the enemies that will help it happen.
the problem with tyranny is in the end its always cast down.
“… huddled in their dorm rooms dreaming about a day when a woman acknowledges their existence”
Just find out it’s really another guy?
the moment i think about opening a twitter account is the moment it’ll get banned. it’s the story of my life. so i’m not bothering with that public toilet bulletin board. i’ll stay here, and the few others that are makin donkeys die.
Twitter, definition, Merriam Webster: successive, short chirping noises.
In other words, noise. Meaningless chattering, peeping clucking (if you’re a chicken trying to), quacking (if you’re a duck trying to), warbling, gobbling (if you’re a turkey trying to) trilling, screeching (if you’re a crow trying to), i.e. yakking bird noise.
The name apparently was an intended joke on those who flocked to sign up. From wiki: “a short burst of inconsequential information”. It’s unfortunate that it took off so…