You’re over simplifying it. Rational opposing voices were being canceled simply because the mods on twitter didn't want any message other than the ones they endorsed getting out, and it wasn’t just twitter. That should be troubling no matter which viewpoint you have.

The problem was anything that wasn’t backing the state was considered “misinformation” and being cancelled in various discrete actions by Twitter employees. “Twitter Files” exposed the internal workings on how the social media application was being utilized as a liberal propaganda weapon.

Yes and no. I agree with your thought though.

Just went over to X looking for Tesla news (going to get me a M3 performance, the new one, yet to be announced). 95% of the feed was videos taken of horrible crimes in really bad neighborhoods followed by thousands of really racist posts trying to make sense of the senseless videos. In days past nobody would have seen these kinds of things (except criminals and combat veterans). Empathy, justice and a search for understanding are characteristics that are hard-wired into humans. Fewer people understand addiction. Outrage can trigger a dopamine hit. I hope we are getting smarter; realizing that yes, terrible stuff happens, but our world and the vast majority of the world is pretty damn great. Further, we do have the power to make it better and do something good, because we are good.

Truly, one of the things I like about our business is the way it brings all kinds of people together. Interacting with all kinds of people is fun and interesting. Isn't that what travel is all about?

Racial tensions are not that high. People are getting smarter about tuning out the politicians and those paid for keeping our attention. I think people are getting smarter. Since moderation has been removed X has seen a 55% decline in revenue on a 13% decline in active users.

Hey Buck those are liberal run city’s and those crackhead criminals are the victims of liberal policies. I’ll say it again. They’re VICTIMS of Democratic policies.

It’s awesome this is finally being exposed to the public and not censored to hide failed policies. I have X, racial posts are still being removed and accounts banned. Tweeting, “look at these thugs” is not racist. Capitalizing W on White and not capitalizing B on black is not racist. You’re just a softy little Buck. I have no problem with that letter to Delta employees btw. We have to be extra careful to small minded individuals like you that get all in your feelings. Our customers pay the bills at the end of the day.

I’ll be waiting for your emotional response where you get all in your feelings again because someone doesn’t think EXACTLY like you.

I can’t tell if this entire post was sarcasm or not

The letter was probably necessary because you had confusion from our employees on how to not unintentionally offend someone. Following AP standard is just an official defense from when someone inevitably gets offended by referring to them as “Black” instead of “black”. Interesting enough as a “Black” man myself I’d find it more alarming if someone referred to me using the capital B instead of a lower case b. It reads as if you’re empathizing the fact I’m a specific skin color. The fact Delta needs to create a fall back for any of this is absolutely pathetic.

And it still amazes me after all these years how there's so much focus at the beginning of a Presidential election year on what a few very senior men and women in Iowa think.

oh my God, I hope this is sarcasm, if not…..sweet Christ, get a grip.

Along with exercise, and reporting to work on time.

Its a media event for the benefit of the echo chamber media. No one else cares.

If an article gets published in a forest of nonsense and no one reads it, does it make a sound?

So that's the political campaign? Might you have an authoritarian in mind who could save us?

You do realize that calling someone who is optimistic, not at all afraid a "softy," kind of just bounces off into nothingness, right?

We are likely in complete agreement that some jurisdictions completely dropped the ball on the prosecution of street crimes. It is a bipartisan problem. At the root of the problem is that none of us particularly likes paying for police, prisons & prosecutors. The current administration and Congress (one Bill was written and pushed forward by our Georgia Senators) increased police and border protection funding.

If you want real conservatives and moderates to vote not-Democrat then you've got to give us a candidate who respects law and order. (I have no idea why that is a problem. Seems like common sense)

I agree.......but candidates drop out very early on due to Iowa and polling numbers in other early states. Seems like we all lose with fewer choices before most of us are really paying attention.

Law and order: procecution street crime not abuse of power political openents and insurectionists tourists.

It wasn’t sarcasm and I’ll be just fine haha. I was responding to a false accusation. Elon did not purchase Twitter for the intentions of financial gain. He has vocalized his reasons for purchase publicly on multiple platforms.

Published documents have been released (Twitter Files) that provide evidence of collusion between tech companies, liberal politicians and the “deep state” to silence their critics. I believe information can be used as weapon. U.S. Department of Defense refers to it as Informational Warfare (IW).

My collegiate swimming niece would like a word.

weirdly, dylan Mulvaney isn’t a collegiate swimmer

No **** Sherlock. I must have missed that every single response in this thread revolves around him.

Prosecute with no malice and no mercy. Anyone who does the crime does the time.

Support our institutions (they mostly do a very good job).

Dylan Mulvaney isn't a woman either.

Nor is William Thomas

It's a fact Twitter, FB et.al. have and were censoring posts. It's a fact they received marching orders. It's all out there, just go research it.

One example is some posters on FB were commenting on how Al Gore and John Kerry have been wrong about every climate prediction they've made since like 2000 (for Al Gore, Kerry came on board later). They were banned, almost instantly. Turns out they were correct. For on December 14th, 2009 in Copehhagen Al Gore is on video clearly stating that the ice caps would be gone by 2014. Hmmmmm.

https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1746941237540589988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5 Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1746941237540589988%7Ctwgr% 5Efc77797a4f9f5a0ccbbd50e819c7cef6d98dd7eb%7Ctwcon %5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunities.win%2Fc%2 FTheDonald%2Fp%2F17s5kKL0jx%2Fal-gore-and-john-kerry-predictin%2Fc%2F

This is from "X". never would have seen the light of day on the old twitter. Fact.

So who's right here and who's wrong? Seems to me there is still plenty of ice up there, and down there on the poles.

Yes, SM is manipulated for a purpose and that purpose heavily bias's to one side of the political spectrum. I'm glad Elon bought twitter and cleaned house. It was a good move. Much more is coming to light as a result becasue we can now have somewhat open discussions there without fear of irritating the purple haired cat lady who's moderating and has a very clear political slant (no offense to purple haired cat ladies out there - I happen to like cats, we have 4 of them running around here at the house, little furry killing machines).

They were scrubbing covid anti-masking posts as fast as possible. Another way to get banned even though if has now been proven that wearing masks doesn’t do anything to prevent covid.

That ship has sailed. Best case its "Three Felonies a Day" (book from Silverglate & Dershowitz) and worst case its rapidly devolving into Lavrentiy Beria running the show now.

Well no, it has not. The courthouse is how we resolve our differences and hold people accountable; by the decisions of our citizenry and our peers. Trump has been indicted by grand juries of our peers. As for Leninist tropes, you're understanding the influence Steve Bannon has had.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-barr-trump-indictment-first-amendment-face-the-nation/

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/25/trump-paul-gosar-suggest-gen-mark-milley-deserves-death.html

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4311194-trump-signals-revenge-in-second-term/

Face condoms prevent the spread of viruses, not completely but they help.

I know it’s hard to believe that the news lied to you completely over and over, but the studies have shown that the covid numbers were nearly identical between the places forcing mask wear and the places that weren’t.

The social media sites were pulling any links to legitimate scientific studies that didn’t fit the narrative.

We saw, and some of us cheered for the Arab Spring that was organized over social media.

January 6th set in motion the changes in command at Twitter, specifically banning President Trump for explicitly calling for a march on the Capitol. “Please arrive early, massive crowds expected,” the tweet reads. “March to the Capitol after." We now know the plan was to delay and disrupt the ministrative duties of Congress, then have allies in Congress change the outcome of the election. We also know that Trump stated the armed people in the crowd were not there to harm him.

Twitter had weak leadership and I do not think they knew what to do with what they had built. It began as a virtual "town square" and in fact there are ALL KINDS OF LAWS about what you can do you in your local town square. Jack Dorsey was in Papeete on a boat when the stuff went down.

Twitter became a way that Elites could communicate with "followers," not "friends." That was for some time maybe the best news feed there has ever been.

Today the lack of filtration has resulted in a sewer where very few wish to swim.

Of course, it is endemic.

I don't watch the news (haven't had a cable subscription since the 1990's) but masks (and condoms) have been around. These are about the simplest tools that exist.

The condom simile works. My howitzer is blazing and there are zillions of wanna-be Bucking Bar babies, but the spread is nearly eliminated.

Yeah, that's the visual ... :-)

Social Media, in general, is a sewer. Nothing worthwhile there. This is my only fix I have in that regard, and sometimes I regret this…

If people really believed what you said was true, Trump would have no chance of being re-elected. How’d he do last night in Iowa? I don’t think people are buying it anymore. Credit card debt is now the highest in history. Eventually the card gets maxed out, then the real cuts start. That is what is important to most people.

Cults are powerful and nonsensical. The vast majority of people he appointed as an ally have come out and called him unfit and dangerous. But, you all like mean tweets. So, this is the candidate we all get.

A moderate Republican would win the White House in a landslide.

Because the Republican Party has become a cult

But wouldn't stand a chance in the primaries.

Touche'

... what does that say about Ron DeSantis?

& what does the low voter turn out & historically low numbers for an incumbent predict? (probably not much of anything)

Jerome Powell took away the punch bowl ((free money)) to lower inflation (now 3.2% w/ full employment and real wage gains). Lowering the Fed rate, rationally, seems to be helping everyone.

A good case could be made that the old Joe Biden is what used to be a moderate Republican. Back when he was a lawyer, he worked for a Republican lobbying firm.

Right. Only 20% of the most die-hard partisans are choosing candidates to run.

Just curious, have any of us here been recruited to run for office?

It is flattering, but that blush wears off in about ten seconds.

Being a Delta pilot seems to be a whole lot better gig.

Would either Nikki or Ron accept VP? When Trump gets decimated it will stain thier ambitions. I can't wait for the day one dictator, gonna be great... again. :/

I've always said I think they need to extend USSERA to apply, at least in some extent, to public office. The only people who can run for office in local state or national elections effectively have to be independently wealthy or give up their career for their new one.

To be a Georgia state rep, you make $22k a year.

That was going pretty well for a political thread... and it is open again :-)

My $ is on Kristi Noem. She checks the boxes if this were a rational decision.

Trump does not want anyone who is going to steal any policy spotlight. Nor does he plan on there being a need for any successor. Is anyone else surprised he has not announced Don Jr.?

Maybe the 92 indictments and the civil cases in NYC have had a chilling effect. Jared's lower profile millions (closing in on billions) are warm & cozy.

Uh, people do believe that because it all happened. Polls have shown 60% of the republican party doesn't belive it though. Yes, it's a cult.

Yep. John McCain or Mitt Romney would destroy Biden this year I think. Even George W. Bush probably would.