X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation::Ken Klippenstein, Steven Monacelli, and Alan MacLeod were all suspended from the platform.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, I am not going to bother learning its new name. I’m not calling it x to anyone. If anyone calls it x to me in real life I’m going to pretend I don’t know what they are talking about.

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    10 months ago

    I cringe to even think of what passes for a Trust & Safety group over there now, and the kind of people they must have staffing it. They don’t have reasons for what they’re doing or even clear knowledge of what they’re doing. It’s a case of amateur jackass thinks he can run the forum better and just happens to have billions of disposable dollars allowing him to pretend he is. It seems almost inevitable given how many rich and powerful people are obsessed with Twitter that eventually one of them would want to just buy it and crown themselves admin as a power fantasy. That’s literally all that happened here.

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    10 months ago

    What were they even doing on a Nazi platform? Are they going to move to Truth Social now?

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      10 months ago

      90s… 2000s… 2010s… 2020s…

      Oh my God it has been 40 years and I’m so old! When did I get old! Why did no one warn me!

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      10 months ago

      Totally based. Instead of eviscerating his “enemies” in front of millions of his adoring followers, he quietly dismissed them from his bot-filled cesspool. Based af