NEWS YOU CAN USE? Want To Exchange Ideas With Annoying Liberals Like Yourself? Here’s How To Delete Your X Account and Join Bluesky.

What’s happening: Obnoxious liberals (many of them journalists) are performatively fleeing X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter, and signing up for Bluesky, an inferior copycat app that caters almost exclusively to obnoxious liberals who think it’s absurd to suggest that people like them exist in a bubble and are hopelessly out of touch with normal Americans.

•  It’s a low-intensity alternative for annoying Democrats who threatened to leave the country if Trump won but never intended to follow through. It’s also much easier than boycotting Amazon or Whole Foods because Jeff Bezos blocked the Washington Post from endorsing Kamala Harris.
• The libs don’t like X anymore because its owner, free speech advocate Elon Musk, is a Trump supporter who will play a (largely symbolic) role in the second Trump administration. They seem to genuinely believe that Musk has transformed the platform into an engine of right-wing propaganda.

What they’re saying (about leaving X): “I’m leaving Twitter,” author Stephen King proclaimed last week as though anyone would care. “Tried to stay, but the atmosphere has just become too toxic.”

• In an interview with the Guardian, NYU history professor and “fascism” “expert” Ruth Ben-Ghiat warned that after Trump takes office, the X platform’s functions “as a Trump propaganda outlet and far-right radicalization machine could be accelerated.” The Guardian, a left-wing British publication, announced last week it would no longer post on X due to the “disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism.”

Leftists who have departed for the echo chamber of Bluesky suddenly feel free to express what can be, unburdened by what has been. Or reality itself. QED: Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin claims ‘Republicans want to kill your kids:’ ‘It’s actually true.’

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): They didn’t leave X because X is a one-sided echo chamber. They left X because X isn’t a one-sided echo chamber.

Wow. CNN admits that @X now represents the average ideological makeup of the US better than it ever did before @elonmusk bought it. Incredible to see them admit this after all the fearmongering they pushed about X since Elon bought it.pic.twitter.com/BzYUxApUoq

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) November 19, 2024