Liberals Run Away From X Because Diverse Opinions Make Them Feel Unsafe
“Every time I opened it up,” one X user said, “it would throw things at me that put me in a bad mood.” Yes, the truth is like that.
In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, many liberals have announced they are leaving X. Tired of all the “disinformation” they encounter on the platform, they are convinced the time has come to delete their accounts.
NBC News reported that the day after the election, “115,414 accounts were deactivated,” the biggest one-day exodus since Elon Musk bought the platform.
“Meanwhile, daily traffic to competitors Bluesky and Threads have jumped since the beginning of October.” NBC reporters spoke to six people who have left X for these platforms since Election Day. These individuals cited “growing issues on X, including bots, partisan ads, and harassment” as their reasons for leaving. Harassment likely means they were hit with a community note or someone on the platform disagreed with them.
Importantly, all six said the aforementioned issues “reached a tipping point when Trump won the election.”
In a separate article, NBC recounts the experience of former X user Kara Wurtz, a 39-year-old finance director in St. Louis. For Wurtz, “the day after the election was the ‘final straw.'” She claimed that, “under Musk’s leadership,” … X “became a place where I wasn’t really getting what I wanted out of it anymore.”
What she “wanted out of it” was validation of her own world view. Following Musk’s takeover, she was forced to hear opinions that differed from her own for the first time. That didn’t happen before Musk took over the platform.
“Every time I opened it up,” she said, “it would throw things at me that put me in a bad mood.”
Yes, the truth is like that.
Anyway, as the flight continues, some users are still on the fence. But there is one trait they all seem to share: their egos are the size of the Grand Canyon.
Michael Ian Black, whom I hadn’t heard of before today, wrote that he’s “pretty sure” he’s leaving the platform. He will “continue monitoring this account but it sucks here.”
To which one user replied: “I don’t have a clue who you are.”
Pretty sure I'm leaving Twitter. I'll continue monitoring this account but it sucks here.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) November 14, 2024
I don’t have a clue who you are
— Matthew Rife (@RifeTechnology) November 14, 2024
Others, like Don Lemon just can’t seem to cut the chord.
Lemon is leaving. On Wednesday morning, he told followers he really means it this time.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Don Lemon is quitting X after 16 years. pic.twitter.com/ifaFVkRyTn
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 13, 2024
Then, in a sign that he doesn’t take such a major decision lightly, Lemon put it in writing.
Seeing that his account was still active on Thursday morning, actress Justine Bateman noted, “First a video about leaving, and now a written statement? This is more notice than we got from Biden when he dropped out of the race.”
That’s very true.
One commenter wondered, “Is he hoping people will beg him to stay? Not gonna happen.” Actually, a lot of people said the same thing. Others simply said, “Good riddance!”
My statement on leaving Twitter pic.twitter.com/9tYcfqHhhC
— Don Lemon (@donlemon) November 13, 2024
He needs to stop announcing it and just go. Like Joy Reid.
Poor Joy. She is so done with free speech that she finally deleted her account. Yes, shortly after midnight, to the delight of so many on the platform, she made good on her threat and took the plunge.
America is self-correcting https://t.co/F8CdpX3d38
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 14, 2024
Jen Rubin, whose tweets have provided so much entertainment for us over the years, has been promising to leave forever. Although she just can’t seem to make a final break, she did, however, take her account private. “Only approved followers can see @JRubinBlogger’s posts.”
The Guardian, a daily British tabloid, also announced their departure from X. The editors find the “content promoted or found on the platform platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism, to be disturbing.
We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere.
The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse.
One X user reminded the tabloid, which touts itself as “the world’s leading liberal voice,” of some rather disturbing content of their own.
Never forget. https://t.co/l0PaHf5dZX pic.twitter.com/8HMiWlCzVE
— Samantha Smith (@SamanthaTaghoy) November 13, 2024
Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X https://t.co/j4fRgzSYde
— The Guardian (@guardian) November 13, 2024
The Guardian is now deliberately the most partisan rag. They raised millions in the last 2 weeks touting how pro-Kamala and anti-Trump they are: like an activist group would.
Newspapers traditionally were champions of free speech. Now they rage-quit social media to protest it: https://t.co/dv3v7cem7G
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 13, 2024
Rory Mir, an associate director of community organizing at the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, told NBC, “X is really teaching everyone the importance of who owns the sites that we use and rely on to communicate online.”
“What people are seeing with X is that it has subjectively deteriorated in value,” he said. “People don’t feel like the right boxes are being heard or promoted on the site. They don’t feel safe using the site in many cases.”
Let them do as they must. The world’s richest man is currently having the time of his life and probably couldn’t care less.
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Children are also known to plug their ears, close their eyes and go “La la la la” when presented with a truth they don’t like.
“Stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once”
The biggest problem with these performative twitter exists is that their audience usually does not follow them. The audience stays behind and finds new sources.
A real snowflake is hardier than them. This further proves Michael Savage’s point that liberalism is a mental disorder.
The left has had it easy for a long time. They can’t handle being told they are wrong now.
That’s always been the biggest problem with the left. A lot of them cannot accept that they can be wrong about something.
Questioning their own assumptions makes liberals feel bad.
Closing accounts b/c they ‘…don’t feel safe’ on X. Ok I agree that freedom IS scary …to would be tyrants who can’t stand the proposition that heterodox ideas might prevail or even openly exist. Running away from a platform which facilitates free, open exchange of ideas with the whole world as an audience to convince by the strength of your arguments only serves to display your own lack of faith in the validity of your positions and your inability to persuade others. Good riddance you arrogant, overly fragile, cowardly snowflakes.
I don’t understand this. She could just change who she was following and only check out their feeds. I’m not sure why she thinks she was getting stuff thrown at her that she didn’t want. If she changed her settings and following list that would have changed.
I think she is making this up.
If they are posting any anti-Biden stuff I can understand their worry. The nasty prick still has a few months left to abuse and torment people.
Diverse opinions reach their audience, is the problem.
The Guardian has become one long hormone based nervous breakdown after another. If these departing ‘liberals’ were really that, then they would stay-sharpen their arguments and take on what they feel so unsafe about. But they aren’t liberals anymore.
To be more precise: Jefferson, Madison, and I are liberals. These leftists you call “liberal” are socialists, fascists, and dictator wannabees. We used to call them “commies” or communists.
“I don’t feel safe” is code for lefties who are too emotionally fragile to tolerate different opinions and are terrorized by the thought of getting ratioed.
“Make all those MAGAs go away!” they cry on X and Bluesky. “They’re not like me and my friends!”
“I don’t feel safe” is shorthand for “It’s your job to use the law to silence my opponents.”
“I don’t feel safe”. By unknown people on the internet you are never going to meet? The horror of such fragility.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!
Meh. Theyll be back because blue sky is full of anime porn. 120k accounts out of 106 million us users is a drop. People claim to run to threads. Thats mostly the Karens karening.
When someone posts an actual number, look at the data in percentage form, and when they use percentage, look at the real numbers. 120K out of 106M is about 0.1% BFD. I remember a headline from years ago which said “Seniors account for the fastest growing new AIDS cases.” But in the article is was like 3 last year and 6 this year, so a 100% increase, as opposed to the other classes where it was 30,000 increasing to 40,000, but hey, only 33%, so no biggie. /s
They are leftists, or Democrats. There is nothing liberal about them. Just because Bob Dole dubbed them liberals does not make them liberal. He was not a saint-maker.
BlueSky or BS, claims a copyright to everything posted there apparently
Really?
I think this may express Elon Musk’s views about all this:
https://x.com/the_dusty_pitts/status/1852426801533895101
I deleted my Twitter account in October 2020 when they censored the NYP story on Hunter’s laptop, somehow I’ve managed to get by without it for four years! But seeing all these libs canceling it, I set up a new account a few minutes ago. Not that I’ll likely ever write a tweet, but it will be helpful to read actual posts from Trump and his people directly, rather than relying on what others say they said.
I created an account at the beginning and have never posted. What I get is the ability to curate what I see on my timeline through Follows, Mute, and Block. News, comedy, clickbait, and Lefty Roid Rage is there for the taking.
One crucial difference between these leftist leaving Twitter and what happened to conservatives: The leftists are making the decision to leave. They weren’t shadow banned, or outright kicked off the platform. Nor were they censored at the government’s request. They are freely making the decision to leave.
“The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse.”
Translation: “Using influence to shape political opinion is OUR job!”
Not anymore.
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Consider yourself lucky you can just close your X account.
Donald Trump didn’t have the option to close his New York, Fulton County, or Washington DC account.
No quarter, you commie bastard.
“Disinformation” is simply truth a liberal doesn’t want to hear.
“Rory Mir, an associate director of community organizing at the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, told NBC, “X is really teaching everyone the importance of who owns the sites that we use and rely on to communicate online.”
“What people are seeing with X is that it has subjectively deteriorated in value,” he said. “People don’t feel like the right boxes are being heard or promoted on the site. They don’t feel safe using the site in many cases.”
The ironically named EFF, crying that certain folks are not being banned anymore and we have to listen to what – those folks – say! The Horror!
Another one fallen from it’s mission.
I generally ignore everything after community organiz….
I used to have a Twitter account. Never used it much and never really saw the utility of it. At the time posts were limited to (IIRC) 140 characters or something and I just was never “pithy” enough to sum up my thoughts on a complex subject in that length of text. Not much for just regurgitating bumper sticker slogans.
With that said, now that it’s changed and some of the leftists are bailing, I’m tempted to open a new account just to do my part to support the platform. I probably still won’t use it much, but if it helps to show support for the work Elon’s done there, maybe it’s a good idea.
Thoughts?
Never had a Twitter account, agree with you Sailorcurt, bumper stickers not my thing.
I wanted a bumper sticker:
if I have no bumper sticker does that mean I have no opinion?
So can anyone tell me, is it useful to Elon if people like Sailorcurt & I open sorta unused accounts? What exactly supports X?
Thank you.
It’s useful to Musk, but it’s potentially more useful to you. You get to see news unfiltered and immediate. You get to see who’s naughty and who’s nice. But it takes some effort and practice to wend your way through it profitably. And it takes some discipline not to get addicted.
My bumper sticker is “God Bless our Troops: especially the snipers.” Between the lines it reads “key this car at your own risk.” Do the bullet hole decals count as bumper stickers?
” , , , to cut the chord.”
Have you hired the copy editors from Townhall or something?
On that musical note, I’ll cut the (umbilical) cord on this thread.
I don’t understand. Do they say that a lot on Townhall?
You typed “chord” when you meant “cord”.
Reporters apparently don’t like cords these days, anymore than they like reins, or defusing issues.
“These individuals cited “growing issues on X, including bots, partisan ads, and harassment” as their reasons for leaving.”
Apparently, the mute button is too complicated for these frightened children to operate…
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Disclaimer: I am a Premium subscriber (Blue Check Mark) on X.
I would encourage people to join X for the following reasons:
-Community Notes is used to call out/expose Misinformation/Disinformation/Malinformation (MDM)
-Blue Check Mark: used to verify users as not being bots.
-Easy to detect Trolls: Trolls have no Blue Check Mark, have virtually No Profile Description, virtually No Posts – only Replies are posted on a Specific Topic.
-Legal Support is available to those who have been punished for having an account with X.
-X is as close to free speech (on a ‘Main Stream’ Venue) as you’re going to get, which why Elon Musk is a prime target of the Establishment.
Oh, thank you geezer, this is useful.
Was just commenting on Sailorcurt.
So being a quiet subscriber would be an asset to X?
I have been a quiet subscriber here for a long time.
OK, you convinced me. I’m now @sailorcurt on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
I doubt I’ll post much if at all, but I officially have an account.
“I wanted to look at some pictures of child pornography from the internet this week and then tell you all about them, but I couldn’t because my
stupid modem broke down.”
The stuff already on your hard drive not doing it for you anymore?
“Anyway, as the flight continues, some users are still on the fence. But there is one trait they all seem to share: their egos are the size of the Grand Canyon.”
And about as far under sea level.
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