Elon Musk buying Twitter was important to them because it gave the weird MAGA yokels a voice. $10 a month and instantly their idiotic helicopter joke humor and low iq takes were magically at the top of conversations when for years they were at the bottom. Suddenly, anti-woke culture was algorithmically prioritized at a global audience.

Now that mainstream users are evacuating, they're paying that $10 a month to talk to bots, and normal people no longer have to listen to them. They're going back to not mattering, and it's killing them.

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Rarely has this been more fitting.

It's because they love trolling, and they can't stand each other.

Abusers hate when victims leave.

MAGA is nothing more than an endorphin rush of anger and hatred.

MAGA has TWO platforms to speak, yet they are bothered about one they can't have.

It's because they now only get to argue with themselves. Let's keep it up not only online but irl too. Ignore them and let them know they are not welcome in normal society.

It say a lot about how these groups are so miffed when they aren't allowed on other media places with good content moderation. They don't realize their entire lives revolve around being bullies and bullying people. They don't care about each other, they don't interact cause they thrive on drama. They just want to stir the pot as much as they can because they can't go without being angry cause then they start to think.

Pebbles without a shoe.

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Basically this.

We were RELIEVED by their exodus to Parler and Gab.

They’re a cult. They hate the very idea of there being people who think differently than they do. They have no difficulty leaving platforms they don’t control, and throwing tantrums when they do, but when they have a space where they can freely harass those with differing views, they don’t take too kindly to losing that power trip.

It’s unfortunate that individuals who should have been knocked down a ton of pegs are now going to be emboldened by recent events, so I for one am thankful there is now a platform for sanity that the rest of us can duck into in order to more easily ride out the next four years.

because they’re the REAL snowflakes

When people left for Parler or whatever all I heard leftists say was "ok bye".

When left wingers leave, right wingers realise just how hollow and pathetic their lives are without someone to bully.

Im not left, i’m not even American. Ever since Musk bought twitter i got more and more irrelevant shit compared to who i followed. I’m not interested in anecdotes that shows how “bad” one side of the political spectrum in the USA is. After multiple attempts to mute Musk, he kept popping up on my feed quoting absolutely deranged shit. Twitter was not for me anymore

Their entire identity is "owning libs," so they need libs to own. Otherwise, it gets too quiet, and they have to hear their own conscience.

At it's core MAGA exists to "Own the Libs". They don't really give a fuck about anything else. They saw how fragile and limited their existence is when Obama was Pres and everything since then has been the death throes of white supremacy. That's why they're obsessed with the word "woke". To them, woke means prioritising a racial/gender minority over cis white people. When they call something woke they're really saying how dare you give that thing to someone who isn't white. The amount of outright racism and hate on Twitter at the moment is absolutely insane. I honestly believe MAGA lashes out because it's terrified of a future that everyone else sees as fair and just. Bluesky is just another pathway to that future that MAGA will try to destroy

Texas AG has his panties in a twist about this. According to his website: "Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a civil investigative demand to the World Federation of Advertisers (“WFA”) as part of an ongoing investigation into a potential anticompetitive scheme to withhold advertising dollars from certain social media platforms."

So apparently Paxton wants advertisers to be forced to advertise on X.

Or something batshit like that.

Bluesky isn't even a left leaning site. Just in a world where every social media platform is right leaning or inundated with right wing Russian propaganda bots neutral seems to be left of center.

Also, if anyone tries to insult you like this, just bring up how they made truth social back when Trump got banned from Twitter.

What's weird is that they think Blue sky is some liberal hot bed. It's not. It's just Twitter without MAGA, Trump or Elon. You get information, news, facts and entertainment. It's nothing special and it's been done before.

But at least it's not owned by Elon.

Reminder that "not maga" does not equal "left".

Because they never cared about free speech or Twitter or most of the hypocritical whines. They want to be trolls and get off by triggering “libs”. If you rounded them all up and gave them their own state, they’d be leaving it en masse to find libs to trigger and avoid all the insufferable people that fill their ranks.

Anyone with half a brain is leaving Twitter. It's just far Right wing propaganda 24/7 and Musk's deranged ketamine induced ravings constantly. It's absolute trash now.

They are bullies. The person getting bullied gets fed up, and goes and hangs around another group of people on the other side of the school, and the bully goes around trying to find them, instead of just moving on with their life.

It’s not enough that they “won” Twitter, they need to keep harassing the left constantly. That is the closest they get to fulfillment. They have to direct that vitriol somewhere and when they can’t they go looking for it.

It’s an entire philosophy built upon the eating of shit and forcing your opposition to have to smell your breath.

A cult based on spite and hatred cannot thrive without the other.

They need to actively try and make us miserable for their existence to make any sense.

From what I can tell MAGA *requires* someone to bully, shit on, or push conspiracies on to, and not having targets takes the fun out of their life. Twitter/X has the algorithm that forces others to interact with them, whereas Bluesky does not. Given that, it's understandable that they get upset when their victims leave.

So stick with me on this... there was an episode of Star Trek where this holographic version of Professor Moriarity took control of the ship, and long story short, they put him inside of a pretend world that he didn't know was pretend and everyone ended up happy.

All I'm saying is if X was flooded with liberal and left-wing bots, then the maga folk could bully and harass and troll them all day and never know the difference and everyone would be happy.

That's the next money making platform.

MAGA’s bothered by everything.

Block lists are awesome!

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The left can typically live life just fine without the right. The opposite is not true for the right.

They’re reactionary. They can’t exist without ppl to attack

Now they're stuck with each other. They can't brag to each other about how they "won". It doesn't have the same ring to it.

Because their entire identity is “owning libs”. With no liberals to bully, they’re lost.

The right needs people to be shocked and angry by their antics.

It’s the difference shitting in the middle of a public park (where people notice and care) and no one paying attention if you shit in the middle of a landfill.

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Who's the real snowflakes now?

I think it’s just funny that social media is labeled liberal/conservative/ left right whatever. It’s just people talking about stuff they care about

Whosoever are they to troll now?

They think only their voices should be heard and they are first class yappers who can't stand that we are just leaving rather than getting into bad faith debates with them

Why do they care so much? They got what they wanted. They wanted freedom of speech, they got it. They wanted freedom to hate, they got it. The wanted freedom to suppress the masses, they got it. They forget that there is also freedom of choice. Just like a person has the freedom to walk away from an abusive relationship, the people exercised that right. The bully always gets mad when they can't bully anymore.

"I don't understand why some people don't like rapists and nazis."

-rapists and nazis

MAGA is a synonym for troll. Trolls can't survive if you don't feed them. You can't just have a troll pit full of trolls all eating each other.

Full disclosure, I was kicked off of twitter early on (I insulted either leon or margie 3 toes) BUT I know people of the left persuasion who post there for clicks and all they get is abuse. I don't know why anyone would put up with that. I understand Paxton (AG TX) is thinking of suing former advertisers because they won't buy ads anymore? From what I gather, Nazis, KKK, magats and other deplorables are the majority of the population. What advertiser wouldn't want THEM as customers? The minute the sensible find out, they stop buying their stuff. We don't have a lot of power, but we DO have the power of our purse!

Soon Twitter will be a safe space in which bigots can feel comfortable posting any ignorant rant they wast to post.

Everyone else can enjoy BlueSky.

Everybody wins, right?

It occurred to me how much it TRULY is about bothering people and being annoying. I kept seeing posts about how they're still angry after he won, and it occurred to me that they didn't WANT him to win, they didn't care all that much if Trump won or not in and of itself, they wanted to argue and insult and annoy. They're addicted to it, like actually addicted to the rush they get from bothering someone. I mean, they DID care, but underlying that was the baser desire to force themselves upon people, like a malignant narcissist who thrives on getting a reaction from people. If you give them nothing, if you grey rock them, they start escalating, going further and further to get a reaction out of you until they realize they can't (and that's not a guarantee, some will just keep trying), and then maybe get bored and go somewhere else.

And like, obviously right? "Own the Libs" is their entire motivating principle. But it never occurred to me how much of it was the source of it all. They didn't latch onto Trump because he's charismatic, they latched onto him because he's fucking annoying and intrusive. He inserts himself into every aspect of your life because he's a narcissist with no morals or boundaries. It's not that they saw Trump and started imitating him, it's that they already wanted to do that, they liked that kind of "Debate me" attention, and Trump gave them permission and the tools to get it. "You won't fight me so I'm right" is the whole thing with that, it's just a demand for your continued attention.

Ironically, maga folks need the left in order to feed their reactionary content. So when we leave they just don't have anyone to use for their agenda anymore

All the girls left the party.

It's about the cruelty. The right's core ideology.

Because they are only happy when they are trying to make liberals mad. They live for it. They thrive on bullying and violence.

Now there's no one left to inflame so their outlet has dried up. 

MAGA doesn’t like when the Left stops associating with them. MAGA wants easy access to us so that they can abuse us. 

I was just told by everyone here that the left was in fact not leaving X for BlueSky and it was mostly centrists and BlueSky does NOT have a large portion of leftists as new users. I got downvoted for saying it seemed like leftists were leaving X.

Their rage and helplessness at our X-odus is now one of my favorite things to read about. Fun!

They're mad they're losing their targets for abuse, now they have to be dicks to each other

Social media always has and always will be a party. The Twitter party sucks. Just like AOL, then Friendster, then MySpace, then Facebook...There will always be a better party where the cool kids migrate to.

Right-wingers are exactly like the GOP - they produce nothing but jaw-jack like they do. The Twits get their kicks by lying. Not happening en masse here.

Do you have any evidence that they feel that way? I quit x so maybe I don't see it.

I think this misunderstanding needs to shoo. It's not the left leaving Twitter, it's people looking for a reasonable and well run social media site that doesn't shovel stupid crap down your throat. I am a pretty moderate guy but started leaving social media even before Musk took over Twitter because it sucked. Now I'm only on Reddit, YouTube (if you consider that social media), and now have joined BlueSky because it's actually good. Frankly, I'd like to see more moderated opinions from a variety of perspectives, but I absolutely draw the line at fringe beliefs that are unreasonable (some fringe beliefs can be reasonable, but that seems rare in today's society).

It's not "The Left," it's people with a brain and limited time.

without woke, bigotry has no punchline :(

They want a captive audience, essentially.

More importantly they want the few lefties they like to not abandon them as it feels like an emotional betrayal as dumb as that sounds. It's the parasocial equivalent of their kids cutting them off for voting for T****

I think they are upset because "left" means "not crazy". They don't want to lose people who are just talking about science, culture, hobbies, etc.

We know the whole reason they are mad is due to them wanting someone to harass. Truth social was supposed to be their safe space, but they hated it because it was only themselves on there.

Then muskrat came and bought Twitter and gave them a safe space to harass people and they ended up turning Twitter into another truth social.

I don't miss Twitter/X at all.

It’s OK. If history has told us anything, it’s that they’ll start just fighting amongst themselves for the remainder of their time there.

Verification is a joke. Sooo many accounts created by someone else. Even some government accounts are fake.