We're in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion

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23. I have never seen so much navel-gazing in my life

All this Twitter meltdown has revealed is just how self-absorbed and sedentary much our media class are, as they preoccupy themselves with this for going on two months - straight through a midterm election, a war, and the most notable Chinese protests in decades with American tech companies abetting its repression - and yet they somehow still manage to make it entirely about themselves while self-soothingly wrapping it all up in an aura of nobility.

It's really something to witness if you're a person standing outside the rabbit hole looking in.

When one is inside the rabbit hole, sometimes it's difficult to discern just have far into wonderland many of these people have gone.

The town square is not a safe space. Whoever said it was has been grossly misinformed. Only an authoritarian regime could render it such. If someone sides with that, they are not a liberal and they are not on my team.

And whatever happened to "Not the town square! Private companies can have whatever speech they want!" Yeah, that worked as long as those being censored were opponents. Once it doesn't work, now it's all a threat to democracy.

This authoritarian hypocrisy is so blatant, only partisan scales covering one's eyes so thoroughly could possibly blot it from the plain sight it lives in.