Twitters' Fall and the Rise of Alt social media
So enters Jordan Peterson, the Republican ecosphere of social networks, and bubbles will pop
I just got banned a week or so ago. Of course, it was political. Ever since I stepped off the progressive political train of thought a few years ago, things began to go wrong there. And like I said, good! It is such a mentally destructive platform. Same with all Meta products I quit last year, along with Amazon.
I’ll start Jordan’s message with his summary, anchor-linked:
It’s compelling, and I like the end, throwing stones. What is Twitter thinking?
That they are invincible. That they are the mouth spokespersons for this global entity of governance. Hence the NWO became the Liberal World Order without the mask. And that they will rule over us forever more. This is top-down hive mind control that has extended beyond social discourse into being openly political.
Meta, Google, Facebook, and Instagram do the same. The corporatized so-called progressives there can handle a challenge to their perceived hegemony of truth.
Twitter’s in trouble.
Twitter had two moats. The first was quick news, but Telegram is better at that now. The second was free speech, and not that’s gone with blatant suspensions that are one-sided.
Even too, I see an uptick of progressive migrating to Telegram (you know how you get a notification), which is now a quicker, less cluttered immediate news source than Twitter. I go there first to find out what is happening right now.
And second, free speech is gone. Partisan and illogical suspensions have become the norm. The political banning that Twitter has engaged in is a huge unforced error across their entire business model. But I will just look at it through a partisan lens around elections, my old forte.
Because Twitter (and all Democrats, whether implicit or not) forced the Republicans to build their own, they did! Not just Parlour, which is still big, but not where the action is. Gettr has Republicans galore. Trump has TruthSocial. Gab has conservatives and libertarians. Those are the big three replacing Twitter for political reach on a new social media ecosystem that is inherently Republican. And it is still in its beginning phases compared to the hegemony of Facebook/Twitter on the news cycle for mass reach on the internet.
But at the organizing level, it’s there and is building something akin to a cheerleading silo, which is terrific for energizing partisans. Meanwhile, Twitter is a warzone. This is an advantage that most don’t realize is there already.
People will point to adoption levels and say it’s a minuscule market share drop by Lib Tech, but that’s because people migrate over time. The trend gets baked after a while. Twitter will still be the WEFfer place for the liberals and trolls that want a global liberal new world order. However, the Democrats will be shocked this Fall with the results. They are gonna realize that the Republicans built an online ecosystem that is more decentralized but more cohesive and more uplifting and encouraging. And it worked.
I don’t think Twitter has much of a plan. The Democrats certainly don’t. They are just lashing out now with partisan suspensions. They thought This Is It! Our Time!
It’s not. It was too top-down and coordinated with Democratic officials to respond to creative opposition. Now, they are all in their bubble together and don’t want to hear any alternative to their childish narrative that Democracy is about to fall if they lose or threaten civil war if Republicans win. Those are loser stances with Independents, but it’s where most Progressives are, along with an xxx dose of TDS.
Here on Substack, at The Liberal Patriot: It’s Fine!
Here are the last two posts, which I think sum up where Dems are heading into the election.
The first, ‘No "Ukraine Fatigue" In Sight,’ by Peter Juhl, cringes and reads like something a neocon would have written in 2005 about Bush’s Iraq invasion.
‘It’s going swell, folks, just some leakage in the poll numbers, but we have another few months to imagine we are winning.’
My old liberal pals are becoming just as neocon as the Bush/Cheney hawks were back then. You become what you hate and all that.
The second, by John Halpin, “Democrats are Setting the Terms of the Debate,” is just laughable:
Absent any clear policy alternative, Biden and Democrats will continue to define the fall election as a choice between Democrats supporting the middle class and extremist Republicans threatening individual rights.
This is denialism and projection, political consultant/commentator bullshit. No voter thinks that way. Such tripe. And they can’t even recognize how their physical assault through masks and vaccines on bodily autonomy wrecked their ideological purity on that issue for a generation.
The Democrats’ only real option in this matter is to turn the issue on Mr. Vaccine, Trump, but I don’t think they have it in them to admit they got played by Pharma and Trump to take an experimental shot. They would rather we all memory-hole the past two years and their role in the medical tyranny of shutting down schools, forced masks, and forced injections...
And what does Halpin ever see of the debate other than one side in his media blackout bubble? Nah. He can’t even allow a comment.
I am telling you, the Republicans are winning.
They are winning the registration, the primary turnout, and the generic ballot, and I don’t see an incumbent Democrat in any of these toss-up races above 50%. This looks like 2010 to me, but I think worse for Dems (when you consider the down-ballot races). More like the 1950s ahead.
The Republicans are more cohesive now than ever before in my lifetime. And they have some compelling midterm voices like DeSantis and Kari Lake. At this point, I’d say the R’s wind up with 246 in the House and 52 in the Senate in the Midterms.
Since January 2020, it was clear that the Republicans would need to act and they have built out users and reach on multiple nationwide social media political machines with no Democrats on them since that time. You just have to let that sink in to understand the ramifications. It will greatly help them organize and win a majority in Congress in 2022. It’s akin to the Democrats having ActBlue way before Republicans did, in 2006. And this will be a massive political advantage heading into 2024 for the Republicans.