{"id":1774176,"date":"2022-12-13T17:02:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T22:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1774176"},"modified":"2022-12-13T17:03:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T22:03:01","slug":"leftists-cant-quit-twitter-so-long-as-it-exists-no-one-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-cant-quit-twitter-so-long-as-it-exists-no-one-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Can\u2019t Quit Twitter. So Long As It Exists, No One Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftists-cant-quit-twitter-so-long-as-it-exists-no-one-can%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1774176&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The absolute best story so far about the liberal drama queens <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/28\/dear-sweet-leftists-show-us-on-the-doll-where-elon-musk-touched-your-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">picking up the pieces<\/a> of their lame lives since the Elon Muskification of Twitter was published online Sunday by NBC News. And I\u2019ve read it so you don\u2019t have to!<\/p>\n<p>Crammed into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/liberal-washington-cant-quit-twitter-rcna59216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one convenient article<\/a> are some of the dorkiest elected Democrats and internet leftists having a kind of cringeworthy therapy session dedicated to their despair over Twitter and their inability to exit the platform whose new owner they so despise (because he\u2019s letting more people say what they want on it). <\/p>\n<p>You have Hillary Clinton\u2019s former running mate, Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine: \u201cI think Musk is an entitled jerk, and so participating in a platform of his just helps him out, and I generally don\u2019t like helping out entitled jerks.\u201d He says he\u2019s currently \u201cin a dialogue\u201d with staff about possibly closing his account. (It takes \u201ca dialogue\u201d to make such a complicated decision, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s podcaster and <a href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/11\/06\/business\/00Molly-Jongs\/merlin_210944136_7a77a260-da51-4263-9a1f-80b453562d0d-superJumbo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mangy dog owner<\/a> Molly Jong-Fast: \u201cUntil there is a viable alternative, I will be at Twitter and you will have to pry my fingers from my phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York: \u201cAnd since [Musk\u2019s] purchase, there\u2019s even more vitriol and bullying and hostility and just inhumanity that takes place there.\u201d Nonetheless, Bowman confessed he\u2019s been unable to \u201cget away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And my personal favorite, former White House paper pusher Alexander Vindman, the catalyst for Trump impeachment 1.0: \u201cI\u2019m just coming up with coping mechanisms for how I can still use this thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coping mechanisms are apparently working out for Alex \u201cI wear my Army uniform to bed\u201d Vindman. The same day the NBC article came out, he declared in a tweet that Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AVindman\/status\/1601953981797961728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cis dead.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s still on Twitter, though, having tweeted seven times since. Resistance, ironically, is futile. <\/p>\n<p>You can quit Twitter but it won\u2019t quit you. At this point, there are simply too many influential figures, both inside and outside traditional institutions of power, who use the platform to effect meaningful change. Not having an account or ignoring who tweets what doesn\u2019t diminish Twitter\u2019s importance just because a sour-faced liberal decides to log off.<\/p>\n<p>This is truer nowhere else than in Washington, the place with the final say in what is legal and what isn\u2019t; the place that determines what a dollar is worth. NBC\u2019s article described it perfectly: \u201cIn a clubby city obsessed with status and information, Twitter delivers both, all from the comfort of one\u2019s mobile phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How do you top that? Mastodon, one of the platforms that the former Twitter users have flocked to, now has 2 million users, it says. That\u2019s great \u2014 best of luck to them catching up to Twitter, which is nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/12\/02\/twitter-mastodon-hive-social-alternative-media-platform-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">240 times<\/a> that size.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, it wouldn\u2019t be particularly surprising if there was a mass exodus of Twitter users following a shocking rise in obscene content and hateful speech. But neither has happened. New CEO Elon Musk has promised<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not having an account or ignoring who tweets what doesn&#8217;t diminish Twitter&#8217;s importance just because a sour-faced liberal decides to log off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1774179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3680,8693,6919,5965,8692,4253],"class_list":["post-1774176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-cant","tag-exists","tag-federalist","tag-leftists","tag-quit","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1774179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}