Twitter (neé “X”) is a fascist platform

I know I go off on this over and over again, but people are still staying on Twitter (“X”) and in doing so, are actively aiding Elon Musk’s project to use the former birdsite as a propaganda and disinformation fountain for fascism.

To wit: Twitter is returning political ads to the platform. I mean, of course they are. They claim they will have “a moderation team.” Musk has made these promises before, and thrown them right back out. But even if there is a moderation team, it will follow Musk’s plans, so I can’t stress enough: a moderation team of fascists is just a propaganda committee.

And that’s absolutely what Twitter will have. Let’s talk just the last few days, shall we? What’s happened?

1. Political ads returned, or at least one did. It promoted the 14 words, the common post-World-War-II slogan of American Nazi and White Nationalist parties. It’s literally a recruitment poster. It’s tagged as an ad, which means it went through their advertising programme, which means Twitter approved it.
2. In response to a meeting between the Anti-Defamation League and Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, fascists such as Nick Fu3ntes and others helped trend anti-Semitic posts under the “BanTheADL” hashtag, which trended across English-language Twitter.
3. Elon Musk liked and replied positively to some of these posts, explicitly supporting calls to ban the ADL, showing his clear support for the entire movement.
4. Any “moderation team” for political ads will act exactly like this. If they don’t, he will replace them.
5. This is what Twitter is for now. If you participate in Twitter, you are helping in this work. Yes, even if you don’t pay him anything in dollars, you are making him – and the company – money.

There is literally no meaningful difference between Twitter and The Daily Stormer. They serve the same purpose: fascist propaganda. That’s how Elon wants it; that’s what he remade it to be.

If you choose to stay active on Twitter, you are literally choosing to help Nazis. The only thing anyone should be doing on Twitter right now is getting other people to leave and telling them where you’re going. That’s it.

But that’s not what’s happening.

The fash were able to punch Bud Light in the balls, real hard, for having one (1) interaction with a popular trans streamer, and through physical violence and intimidation knocked Pride out of Target. (And deal with it: that matters, and it matters a lot. We need Corporate Pride. Getting it was a massive win for us; we can’t lose it.)

The rest of the population – including “allies” – wouldn’t even give up a particular chicken sandwich when they were trying to end legal LGBT families, so I can’t even say I’m surprised at how many people won’t walk away from a former social media site turned into a literal fascist propaganda machine, but… goddamn… it’s still sickening.

I’m just gonna say it:

This is how the “mainstream” lets Nazis win. And the fascists know it.

It’s what they’re counting on.

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Fascism Watch for September 2, 2023: The Anti-TLBG Activity Edition

There’s too much, so I’m splitting it up, this is part two of several. But I’m going to lead off with this reminder: The “social contagion” theory of gender dysphoria is made-up bullshit. “It is not rapid-onset gender dysphoria… It’s rapid-onset parental discovery.” (Backup link) Relatedly, enjoy this long series of posts documents the origins of the pseudo-scientific term in TERF circles.

Inside the New York Times’ trans coverage: ‘I wonder if people at the top fully believe in trans people’s humanity’. Short answer: no, plus, “This is what Christian nationalist groups banked on happening… They created an entire disinformation network of pseudoscientific organizations that the Times now cites.” The kind of disinformation structures I’ve been exposing for decades. They’ve also been boosting discredited anti-trans claims on their front page.

They have to know. They’ve just decided they wanted to do. And what that is is burn LGBT people to the ground, starting with trans people, to keep “conservatives” reading.

See also California coverage of the violent anti-LGBT group “Leave Our Kids Alone,” treating them mostly as ‘concerned parents’ when they are literally a Moms4Liberty parallel, complete with Proud Boys as their “security” team and anti-Semitism right up front. Here, see Holocaust-denier and January 6th rioter and Enrique Tarrio joining and showing up at protests. Did you know he was convicted of willful cruelty to a child? See also prominent Leave Our Kids Alone supporter, anti-semite, and Nazi-saluting Narek Palyan. See also also their all-Proud-Boy security team at their August 22nd protest.

Oh yeah, they’re also holding book burnings. But they’re just “concerned parents.” Meanwhile, Univision is literally hiring Proud Boys to do ultra-softball interviews with Leave Our Kids Alone.

In short, the media have failed, and are continuing to fail, at covering the political situation which we currently endure.

We’ve kind of rolled into state issues, so let’s keep going, shall we?

In Florida, “Don’t Say Gay” and anti-trans laws have created a crisis of nicknames, which are no longer legal in a wide variety of circumstances. It’s lead to a trainwreck of paperwork and approvals that has teachers terrified. Florida – like the New York Times – also used fake-science generators in supporting their anti-trans-health-care bills, hiding the actual histories of the partisans they brought in to support their agenda.

Talking of “Don’t Say Gay,” the author is facing hard time in his COVID-19 fund fraud trial: Prosecutors seek hard time for Joe Harding. Because they’re all always like this.

A Georgia author speaking at schools mentioned a Batman villain who is gay. Now he’s banned from speaking at schools and the principal has sent a grovelling apology for admitting LGBT people exist. Our crime is existing; anyone else’s crime is admitting we exist.

Missouri’s ban on trans health care has gone into effect after a judge declined to issue a stay.

Nebraska’s governor just followed Oklahoma by writing trans and IS people out of the law entirely, creating a narrow definition that bases gender on gametes and “design.” Trans health care, etc., all illegal, and fuck only knows where an IS person like myself is supposed to be. (Pretty sure it’ll be, “die dyke bitch,” since that’s what they actually want.)

Learn4Life of San Antonio (Texas) suspended Michael Gonzales after he tweeted a picture of himself in his classroom beside a pride flag. The article calls this “picking a fight he couldn’t win,” which is true. But why I mention this ties back to all my rages about Twitter, and people who say they’re staying to “fight” Elon and the fascists. But Elon controls the system in its entirety: it is a fight that you cannot win.

Wisconsin: Sets of Parents Attempt to Drive Trans Child Off a Sports Team.

Popping back up to the national and international level, and analysis:

Law Dork has a few articles on the various legal challenges to laws banning trans health care, and the arguments being used by anti-trans lawyers and judges. The first is Confronting a pair of dangerous arguments as trans people remain under attack, the second is Challengers to Alabama’s felony ban on trans care for minors will seek full appeals court review, the third is Federal judge bars Tennessee prosecutor from enforcing anti-drag law in Blount Pride case. Everything is very much in flux, with a great deal of everything in flux.

The GOP’s Drag Bans Aren’t Meant to Be Good Laws. They’re Meant to Cause Chaos – by which the author means “scapecoat queers.” (And to be fair, the word ‘scapegoat’ is used.)

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals pulled from Dobbs v. Jackson to argue trans health care isn’t “deeply rooted” in history. Neither is women having their own bank accounts, being independent people (vs property of their husbands), or anyone but white men voting, I am just saying.

Trump-administration Stephen Miller’s law firm is suing Target for having pride merchandise. See again: fuck your praxis, corporate pride is acceptance in America. That’s why the fascists hate it so much.

LGBTQ+ Canadians warned about US travel discrimination, calling out new anti-LGBT laws in general and anti-trans laws in general.

Russia’s federal censor, Roskomnadzor, has added a form for users to report websites containing content related to LGBTQ+ people or issues to the authorities. (Note also: The ‘War on Woke’ is a conflict between fascistic notions of the natural order against progressive values, and both Russian funding and disinformation networks have fuelled it.)

Uganda starts pressing death-penalty-for-homosexuality charges. These are the laws praised not just by the fascists, but by a lot of Republicans, some of whom are in office. The death penality for being gay.

That’s always been the goal. It’s never gone away. It just hid for a while.

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