a year ago the “reasonable” people running cover for trump -he’s not as bad as they say! he’s a moron but the media! don’t like him but he owns the libs!- yet again claimed to be horrified by the results of their work, and yet again returned straight back to running cover for him
the “reasonable” people are so angry at the media and the libs all the time because they know their weakness and are embarrassed. they know they’ll once again be summarily shoved back out of the way the next time the open fascists sense an opportunity
the reasonable people are petting zoo animals the fascists keep around to distract everyone while they do their work advancing fascism. january 6th illustrated it perfectly.
anyway, this is my big takeaway. everyone pretended to be mortified but then returned to their lib-owning, media-dunking, tu-quoqueing hobbies. it was just another bump sharpied on a hurricane or access hollywood tape. the perfect farm animals for fascism.
fascism cannot succeed without a cover story. naked fascism runs out of runway too fast because it’s deeply unamerican and unpopular and will be fought tooth and nail. the reasonable people, willingly or unwittingly, running cover are very necessary for it to establish itself
the reasonable people have all the power in the relationship. they can quit at any time, and quitting would wreck the fascists. yet they behave as if they have no choice. so yeah in a way the reasonable people are actually a little morally worse than the open fascists
what actually happens is twitter takes the final jump from marginally useful platform with okay enough signposts to pointless platform littered with imposters and bad vibes nobody wants to use anymore
this is why it’s so damn funny catturd is whining incessantly about engagement: he thinks he’s being throttled by a boogeyman algorithm but what actually happened is he peaked, people got bored and left, and you can’t squeeze more clickjuice out of this rotten lemon
the network effects that lock people into the ecosystem are the same network effects that drive engagement stagnation once enough people have had enough of your shit and nobody new is coming along because the network is too fucking convoluted to put in the work to get inside
just impossibly funny to me that these goons keep blaming “the algorithm” for lack of engagement when it is gallingly apparent to anyone who’s been here a while that the problem is twitter has no juice left. the vibes are rotten. the platform doesn’t buzz anymore.
everyone knows who everyone is and hates everyone. they don’t engage because they know you suck ass or they blocked you. nobody new shows up because the place is impossible to navigate and no one is stupid enough anymore to trust fresh low follower accounts. it rules, really
the worse this gets the more I wonder what he even wants these gigs for, he could toss off all responsibility, be rich af, get a lifetime appointment on fox news shitting on this or that woke thing, probably get his own shark tank show for dipshits peddling freedom phones
he’s clearly entered the realm of “has zero interest in being in charge other than to say he’s in charge”, it seems like it would be way more fun for him to just be the worlds foremost full time culture war goblin you cannot evade on any media for longer than five seconds
and yeah this was absolutely trump’s wheelhouse until he pulled an oopsie I did a coup attempt, but that means the wheelhouse is wide open and frankly elon would be a lot better at it than he is at running any company