X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and...

[demmiblue]

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists:

X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists:

X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

— Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co) 2026-06-10T09:46:10.399Z

— DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 (@dcminx.bsky.social) 2026-06-10T12:37:55.435Z

[marble falls]

1. No argument here.

[RandySF]

2. It's still a useful source of real-time info.

[2naSalit]

4. That's about the same as...

"I read Playboy for the articles".

[RandySF]

7. No, I read Playboy for the pictures.

But X was useful last week for vote drops.

[DBoon]

30. 1936 : I read Der Sturmer for the classified ads

ON EDIT: and besides, some Social Democrats write for it

[uncle ray]

11. then people should transcribe the info instead of linking.

stop driving traffic there. learn to copy/paste, screen cap, etc. every time somebody clicks on a tab with an embedded twitter link/image, there's another hit for elon, whether you actually visit the twitter link or not. if a post on DU has a blue box, it doesn't get clicked on by me.

[hunter]

15. Is it really?

How much "news" do you read on the site formerly known as twitter that is directly actionable by YOU in that it inspires you to think in entire essays and not just repost it elsewhere like an automaton.

All these sites are noise that I block out of my life. This includes bluesky which seems quite popular here.

I get more than enough clever quips and random facts (which may be true or not) from friends or family. Memes don't interest me at all.

DU itself, which is my only "social media," is often too noisy for me. I don't click on posts that are likely to be naked links to other social media sites. When I do by some accident it irritates me. I put people who do this frequently on my ignore list.

I think it's a very serious problem in our society that so many people are lost in the noise, never able to focus in on any single issue long enough to be a force for any meaningful progress.

Smart phones are a large part of the problem. You can't really see where you are or where you are going if your eyes are glued to a smart phone. That's one reason I hope I'm never forced to own one.

[Sympthsical]

25. Social media content is utterly disposable

Can people even remember what they were outraged about last week? Or the week before? Try 3 months ago. What was the major story sweeping social media that everyone had to have an opinion on?

No one knows, because it doesn't matter.

There was a website I can't remember that used to track, "What you cared about last week" and it traced two years of major social media stories. I'd go through it and sees things I'd totally, totally forgotten about and realize, "Oh yeah, I really did care about that at the time!"

It's fun to shoot the shit (the entire reason I'm on DU), but at the end of the day, 99% of the time and effort spent on social media has nothing to do with anything.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

17. Agree.

I never see crap like that. And I don't choose to look for it.

I see positive and heartwarming stories from people all over the world, including Democratic politicians.

A Twitter lecture again, after being force fed dirty apps??

[2naSalit]

3. Right there with you!

I have the platform blocked on my devices.

When an OP on DU is nothing but a link to it, I either just bail or trash it and then bail.

[demmiblue]

8. I put people on ignore who regularly post X content. Even the people I really like.

Some rationalize utilizing that hate platform to the nth degree. At this point, there really isn’t any justification for supporting X. I don’t get it.

[2naSalit]

12. My go to line for all things...

Of this nature is,

"It's against my religion."

[Prairie Gates]

5. People love clout more than they hate fascism

This was always the chief weapon of fascism, in any case.

[leftstreet]

6. I don't get racist, far right content on X n/t

[Celerity]

9. Same here and I have had a Twitter account since I was 12yo, in early 2009.

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I can see bots, MAGAt trolls, and other nations' RW accounts in replies, but I just ignore them or destroy them with a text smack down, some of which occasionally get hundreds of likes.

Most of my posts in X are about football (real football, what the US calls soccer), or some music I happen to fancy a share of.

I have a Bluesky account, but it is only for scrolling, I never reply or like. Same for Threads.

Fuck Musk, btw.

Cheers,

Cel

[leftstreet]

10. Exactly

Twitter X survives in spite of Musk, and it will still be the largest social media forum after he sells, dies, or leaves

[MorbidButterflyTat]

18. This made me think of you

Link to tweet

[Celerity]

20. he is a good pope, thanks for sharing

[meadowlander]

14. Your membership still props up his ability to generate ad revenue.

[ananda]

13. Same goes for msm.

Boycott the motherfuckers.

[orthoclad]

16. Like drug addiction

If we withdraw from X, the sources will follow.

Every link, every scroll, is money - and power - in Musk's pocket.

The only socmed platform not owned and controlled by billionaires is Mastodon. I guess that's why it's fading away.

[gulliver]

19. X is indispensable for freedom of speech

I can do my own "moderating." My feed gets controversy from both the left and right. Some of the things said are quite seriously deranged and go too far. That's fine. It's part of the fun of freedom to see things in their natural state.

There's absolutely no way I would accept having the self-selected monks of any political religion decide what I get to hear or read. For people who like to think, that's the very definition of Hell. Whether it's a dainty fringe trying to be kind (and not being) or a nasty fringe trying to be tyrannical thug trash, a censor is a censor.

My ears and eyes, my choice.

There are a ridiculously huge number of Democrats on X, of course. I see abandoning X by some who consider themselves to be on the left as foolish, frankly. Jump in. The water is fine. If you hear something that makes you frown, you'll live.

Liberalism and progressivism can't live in a protected bubble. They need to state their case openly, honestly, strongly, and, hopefully persuasively. It's the only way to win.

[jmbar2]

27. Well said

Progressives on X have a strong presence on X. It would be foolish to self-censor our voices in such an important public sphere.

[leftstreet]

28. +1

[hunter]

32. According to some of the posters here they rarely see the ugly in their feed.

Presumably the ugly enjoys the same isolation. So let's not talk about protected bubbles, okay?

These social media sites automatically build bubbles for their users. It's part of their business strategy. They let just enough content through from the other side to keep it spicy, but not enough to make wading through their sites pure drudgery.

If the site-formerly-known-as-twitter didn't sort people out into their own bubbles -- if everyone got identical feeds -- nobody would want to go there.

I rarely see any crap I find offensive on my YouTube landing page but I know YouTube is full of crap especially when I see so much of it posted here on DU. Entire sections of DU are YouTube wastelands from my perspective and I ignore those posts and forums just as I ignore posts from the-site-formerly-known-as-twitter, blue sky, facebook, etc..

Certainly DU is a "bubble" but my life outside of the internet is not a bubble, not in any way. I interact with all sorts of people face to face, many of them with beliefs I abhor. I'm not walking down the sidewalk eyes glued to my smartphone using it as some kind of social shield.

Damned right I think it's unethical to support businesses owned by Elon Musk and it pisses me off that any of my tax dollars are going his way. Musk's social media sites, SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, grock... all of it can go to hell.

Sure, it's your eyes and ears, your choice. But there's nothing that says I have to support or defend your choice. I don't even have to politely respect that choice.

Playing "nice" with people who play dirty got us into this mess. Playing nice won't get us out of it.

[BlueTsunami2018]

21. "Never argue with people who John Brown would have shot."

Are good words to live by.

[EnergizedLib]

22. I'm on it because of my job

[applegrove]

23. They don't want to lose all their followers if

they go to a new discussion forum. Aren't most of the X followers bots?

[IcyPeas]

24. Hegseth says Europe faces 'invasion' of dangerous ideologies

Musk isn't the only one. This idiot racist ex fox news weekend anchor saying shit like this... on D-Day. Then a week later there is unrest in a bunch of cities in the UK. Anyone familiar with Tommy Robinson the far right leader... he was hanging out with Musks father... in Moscow. See bluesky post below. This is Nigel Farage's UK.

Fuck Trump fuck musk fuck hegseth fuck Robinson fuck farage.

https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idRW662006062026RP1/

June 6, 2026

Speaking during D-Day commemorations for the 82nd anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned on Saturday (June 6) that Europe faced what he called an invasion of dangerous ideologies arriving by sea.

Musk's father is fully a Kremlin asset. Now he's meeting with Tommy Robinson in a luxury hotel bar in Moscow while Robinson incites pogroms from his X account.

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2026-06-10T03:14:49.541Z

[jmbar2]

26. My algos are trained to give me useful information from trusted folks, including a lot of progressives

In particular, I'm on several stock market threads, that are important to me. I get useful updates on pandemics, tsunami alerts, stock markets, posts from my elected reps, election returns, the Ukraine war, etc. You can control your information stream by who you follow. Invaders try to butt in, but they are easy to quickly dispatch.

I detest Musk, but there is no competitor that provides that same constellation of useful information. I'm going nowhere. Your mileage may vary.

[Tbear]

29. A couple months before Doge struck I questioned

Why anyone here would use X.
I was thoroughly drubbed for it and almost left DU.
Still smarts.

[Passages]

31. Wrong, IMHO. Every elected Democrat posts from an official account on Twitter as well as numeous

media publications that remain honest in reporting. President Obama posts almost every day, as well as a host of other former politicians who push back on lies.

Do not allow Musk a vacuum in which to thrive.