- Politics
- December 14, 2023
I Finally Left Xitter Because of Alex JonesI remorse not leaving all the other times I assured to. On the Sandy Hook anniversary, I had to get out of there. December 14, 2023
I’ve composed a variation of this piece before. A year back. I even had an excellent heading, and possibly a much better factor.
“I Got Hacked in St. Elmo’s Dumpster Fire.
“My Twitter account was pirated by fraudsters recently. I can’t get it back. If you appreciate digital security, it’s time to leave Musk’s alt-right hellsite.”
Such excellent recommendations!
I in some way got my account back. And while I attempted to determine how to download and deactivate it, little shimmers of Xitter’s old magic– yes, I like that apparent method to pronounce the name of the hellsite, “shitter”– kept me hooked. I had a lot of things to promote, however do not I constantly? Books, documentaries, stories I’m so happy with. Plus my numerous Xits, which are I think what they seem like, however they do go viral in some cases. And I get that little dopamine Xit.
Because that very first time, I have actually threatened to leave continuously: whenever I get targeted by antisemites, Nazis, racists and misogynists– the core of Musk, call him Satan’s Elmo– his fire, the bros in his clubhouse. I have not.
Then Elmo brought in phony and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who invested years abusing the enduring moms and dads of Sandy Hook by declaring that the school massacre was an innovation of “crisis stars,” and that was too much for me. (Elmo hosted Jones in addition to sex-trafficking misogynist Andrew Tate and the worst GOP governmental prospect ever– consisting of Donald Trump– Vivek Ramaswamy, on a Twitter Spaces platform Sunday night.) Why was Jones the last straw? I have extremely couple of breaking points, however the Sandy Hook massacre, in 2012, broke me. As the 10th anniversary of that dreadful day approached, I was blessed to resolve those memories with an enduring moms and dad in 2015. I will not connect to the short article that resulted– I’ll share it on Threads and Bluesky, later on– since I do not wish to connect her to my choice, which I made far too late, to leave what was when a prospering digital public square, now irredeemably damaged by Musk. Or to this discussion. I say sorry. You understand who you are.
On the 11th anniversary of Sandy Hook, I will not share any area with sadist carnival barker Alex Jones.
On that terrible day in December 2012, I saw the headache unfolding for hours on MSNBC, where I had a 4 pm struck time. Naturally, it had actually been established previously in the week, to talk about something totally various.
Of course, it was all anybody wound up going over that horrible day. At the very minute my buddy and then-fellow MSNBC political expert Karen Finney and I got on the air, we heard White House Press Secretary Jay Carney inform the American individuals that the Obama administration might now verify that 20 kindergarteners and 6 school personnel had actually been killed that early morning.
