by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Just in the last few days, Twitter has been pushing me vast sums of Right wing propaganda from people I don’t follow. This is how it happens: people I follow are monitoring the Right Wing Bullshit Echo Chamber and the Twitter turns around and pushes me the tweets from those accounts that I don’t follow.
It’s gotten really aggravating to the point that it seems like the exact opposite of the “shadow banning” that MAGA Republicans invoke whenever some spicy racist, autocratic tweet they write doesn’t get the adoring engagement they somehow expect.
This is happening with such frequency, that it makes me wonder if this is the shape of the future once Elon Musk owns Twitter. Is that what we are going to have to put up with from now on — a constant barrage of Right wing talking points, even if you don’t follow the person who is articulating them?
If that is the case, then this yet another indication that we’re totally, completely fucked going into the 2024 presidential election cycle. MAGA Republicans are focused, passionate and ascendant. And, as I keep saying, the real question is going to be not if MAGA Republicans start a civil war, but if Blue States refuse to bend a knee to autocratic fascist MAGA in late 2024, early 2025. When it is clear that either MAGA Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election or they win it outright and their incoming agenda is so reactionary, so radical that Blue States will face the question of leaving the Union.
All I can say is if Twitter is going to be turned into a Gab, Parler or Truth Social clone….that might have real implications for Twitter going forward. Eventually, Blues might get so fed up with having fucking read Right Wing bullshit against their will that they may “secede” from Twitter and gravitate towards some new more netural Twitter clone that does what Twitter did before it was eaten by fascists.
