Posted on 09/03/2024 6:06:32 PM PDT by ducttape45
This is (I hope) going to be a short narrative, but I felt this needs to be shared for hopefully the benefit of others here.
I am leaving Twitter/X. I'm done with it, and it's for reasons you might not think.
Let me say that I'm glad Elon Musk bought it and opened it up to be used as it's supposed to be used. I'm glad the many folks that were once banned under the old regime were able to have their accounts restored. And I'm glad it is being used as a means to expose the lies, hatred, bigotry and sheer evilness of everyone who wants to destroy this nation.
That said, I am leaving it because it has taken my focus off the one thing, or Person rather, that I should be concentrating on and communicating with, our Lord Jesus Christ. I can get the important news here on Free Republic (thank you Jim!) and at the same time get spiritual encouragement as well. Also, there are brothers and sisters here that I cannot thank enough for being there for me, especially the last couple of years as I deal with the effects of Long Covid.
I'm also deleting "The Liberty Daily" out of my morning routines as it is also a very depressing website to visit, and I don't like the way it uses, shall we say, "more colorful metaphors and adjectives." Sure, there is not much good to share from the left, but to use the derogatory surnames is shameful.
So that's it. Every morning when I bring up the morning news, this will be the only website I visit for all the happenings that are the most important to know about.
Thank you all for the time it took for you read this posting!
“That is how people become brainwashed.”
In a sense but not from the perspective of how you used the term. There is absolutely no guilt in having the strength to take a break and wash one’s brain of the mass chaos and insanity in the world to get your head right. To be able to muster this strength over self is a virtue not a fallacy.
Makes me wonder if your attempt to shame him and talk him out of it is because you do not have the personal strength and determination to control your own addictions? An attempt to make sure no one else does because you can’t? We might win this thing if more had the strength to boycott some of these sources of propaganda.
What is a PAO?
It would appear that the process is merely a change in soap
I respect your decision and it is completely up to you but....
Perhaps you were using it wrong?
I have 3 different X profiles. One follows college/olymipic wrestlers and MMA fighters. One follows country musicians, producers, podcasters, etc... One follows republican/Christian/libertarian/nationalist accounts.
You can switch between them and if you are on the “Following” tab, you only see the people’s posts who you follow on that profile.
You could easily setup a profile to follow 40 or 50 Christian accounts so that you would only see their content when you were logging into it.
But whatever you feel is best for you is what you should do. I just wanted to make sure that you understood there were options.
As you say, I’m sure it has been posted here many times. I think I was first pointed to the ongoing Revolver site investigation from here a couple years ago. Been following it since. They did some great detailed investigative work to expose it. So the X sources are real late to the party.
https://revolver.news/2022/01/the-essential-revolver-news-january-6-reading-list/
I joined Twitter a long time ago but never posted there. I didn’t get on twitter except to follow a link once in a while.
After Musk took over, I found myself able to still able to get on X following links and everything else. I have no blue check because I don’t post there so it wouldn’t be worth it.
Good part is I never became addicted to it. So many people and too much content takes hours to scour.
I don’t blame you and it sounds like you have a plan. I hope you can get a good semblance of your health back too.
“It would appear that the process is merely a change in soap.”
No two soaps are the same. And some people are allergic to some but not others. You feeling that guilt and jealousy too? Why is it that folks insist they have to drag others under with them?
You have to respect LibbyLu for setting the bar for opuses. LOL!
“So you’ll just be clicking on Twitter/X and Liberty Daily from all the post here on FR?”
I don’t blame him. I don’t click on links to either myself. Liberty Daily is far too loaded with 3rd party spyware APIs. They don’t deserve the traffic. They are throwing us under the bus with direct connections to government data collection services.
…thelibertydaily.com
…decide.dev
…dn0qt3r0xannq.cloudfront.net
…doubleclick.net
…google.com
…googlesyndication.com
…googletagmanager.com
…googletagservices.com
…gstatic.com
…inmobi.com
…publir.com
…quantserve.com
…rddywd.com
…revcontent.com
…ruamupr.com
…twitter.com
…wp.com
So, you feel the need to accuse us of some problem?
There is a real danger of putting oneself into a bubble. Realize it.
With regard to your boycott, these leftist sources have been boycott and most have very little followers, but they continue to exist or collapse and reorganize under a new name. All thanks to Chinese and muslim money.
Ignore your enemies at your own peril. I will not.
Public Affairs Office.
FB is under the operation of PAO in overseas missions. All information is under a stove pipe of the N.S.A.
Obama illegally utilized a government program that was monitized by a USG agency that was handed off to a third generation (Zuck’s Grand Dad was a WWII era founding member of what became the _ _ _, and his father follwed in Grand Dad’s footsteps) Zuck was plucked out of his college dorm to be the face of a new company which continues to fund other black ops and collect intel under the DNC and the _ _ _). After Obama’s election Obama’s handlers within the USG pushed FB into a dissenent identifical program and coordination program which people like Nuland or the DNC used for their purposes.
FB is integrated into the Telcom’s and rolled out on every phone in the US waiting for you to “deactivate it”.
If your phone is your enemy it is because N S A intercepts everything and archieves it.
When a country bans X or FB, it is actually preventing USG interference inside their countries and makes collection of information that much personnel/financial intensive. Passive collection is great. But the organization of these porgrams into groups or communications roles is genisus.
There is a long list of companies like Microsoft who started a garage. They took a program called Disk Operating System and it was, along with Apple OS, or IBM or Linux OSs in partnership with the USG into massive self funded companies that fulfilled the needs of the intelligence community without the need for funding those operations.
When they talk about the Information Age, that was the age that the USG (big brother) created our economy and stock markets full of Intel Programs allowing the USG to know everything. The Information Age allowed the DNC to become the Government itself - even going back to FDR with four terms in office, never did the DNC become master of the US and our Universe.
Never signed up for Twitter or FB. If there’s something of value on either one, I assume a link to it will be on FR.
“With regard to your boycott, these leftist sources have been boycott and most have very little followers.”
That is not true. The addictions are just too strong and no one has the strength to beat them. Been watching it for years and years now. “I would boycott it BUT...”. They won’t even give up their Charmin for another brand of toilet paper... Or NFL to stand on principle... Or Facebook “because of the Grandkids”. Who are you think you are trying to fool? The proof is well documented.
If that’s what you click on, X will give you more of it. But I find that stream useful in many ways. As the old saying goes: “It is good to know what tunes the Devil is playing.” When you see the coordinated opinions being disseminated and all of the lemmings leaping into action to repost them, it is easier to counter the arguments they are making. On FR there really isn’t much disagreement on the big issues - to the point where we can’t even understand the other side’s reasons for believing what they believe.
X has also taught me what I call the “48 hour rule” - never repost or comment on any news item for at least 48 hours because a lot of fake or exaggerated stories are being put out there to make conservatives look like Pavlovian idiots. It is useful to hold your fire most of the time, until greater clarity can be achieved.
I get it. Good for you.
Good stuff... I would be interested in sources for this?
To anyone who wonders, if there is anything on X that is important, I'm sure folks here will create a post on it. And that's one of things about X that was frustrating. There are so many posts to sift through, and if you're not following a particular person who may never find it. So as MayflowerMadam says, if there is something there that is important I'll find it here on FR.
Very good point I think people miss. Thank you!
I understand that option. I actually had two X accounts, one for just the weather, and one for political stuff. The weather one was simple enough, I only followed two people/orgs. But the political one was just too much to handle. Too much input, not enough time in the day to sift thru it all. But I appreciate you pointing out this option. Maybe others didn’t know and will take advantage.
Thank you my friend
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