My issue with the idea that you should stay on Twitter to fight Nazis or whatever is that if you were to come up with a way to beat Nazis on Twitter, Twitter would ban it immediately
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Here's why it's a dumb idea and no one should do it
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Every time I think "maybe I was being a little harsh" and check back, I end up concluding "no, I was simply not harsh enough".
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it's just wild to me that anyone can take a proper look at how discourse functions on twitter and somehow conclude that it's a viable arena for combating fascism.
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If this hypothetical Twitter Warrior had a brilliant post promoting an enlightened worldview, even one skewering the Nazis, their replies are going to be full of Nazis paying to have their comments boosted above everyone else's.
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Or it would have been done already
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they do. twitter has banned so many antifascist accounts that those remaining must stay. solidarity with all afa collectives posting on twitter
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We should put incentives to drag the pols and journalists off Twitter though.
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I found this 'how to fight fascism guide' the other week and the entire first instruction was create sock puppet accounts on far right sites and learn as much as you can about everyone there, like make spreadsheets and such. TTRPG ass praxis
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People think theyve been fighting nazis on there for over a decade and in that time its become the nazi homebase
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If you want to stay on Twitter, stay on Twitter, stop trying to pretend you're morally superior for doing it WILL
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If every democratic politician and mainstream reporter left twitter tomorrow for tiktok that’s the ballgame. Nazis fought and defeated. V-Day. It’s just a collective action problem.
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It's a weird argument, even if like Will you believe social media is the singular cause behind most of the United States' current ills. By this point even a lot of normies think of Twitter as the Nazi site!
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I spent the last few months I was on the site telling people to leave before finally getting permanently suspended for a joke incorporating the name "Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring, Texas"
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my anti bad guy plan has but one flaw: it relies on the good will of the bad guy.
Oh well should work right?
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I get so disappointed every time I log in there and find so many people I know still active on there.
But I get the appeal for contacts, sadly—that’s why I haven’t deleted mine. (I just never post.)
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The way to do it is the same way the right wing trolls do it, as a team and when they ban one account you pop up with another. It's a lot of work though and I'm not sure how effective it would be.
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overthrowing Caesar by volunteering to fight in the Colosseum
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Yeah, you can’t win cause the game is rigged.
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anytime i try to have free speech, the visibility is limited
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#truth I see #trolls are starting to invade Threads too. Sigh.
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If staying on Twitter changed anything, they would make it illegal
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Also staying makes the head Nazi money.
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I'm more concerned with the people quite literally violating their dogs on Twitter and trying to coerce kids into doing the same than the people who are just a lil dickish online towards Jews but too cowardly to do anything irl. 💀
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I was banned from Twitter shortly after the takeover.
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It's good to fight Nazis, but it's dumb to line up to go into the Nazi bar, run by Nazis, to fight them when they're waiting for you with pool cues and broken bottles
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What about both siding ultra leftists?
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Not to mention, if it were that easy, we wouldnt have had to fight an entire 2nd world war and still end up with Nazis anyways
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“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” — George Bernard Shaw
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Just pop on, threaten a nazi, read nothing, and leave.
