Conservatives, especially the ones in media, innately understand this and have been working for years to sway the majority of the internet toward their interests, turning familiar pop culture properties into battlegrounds they can win. It’s all political, but few people watching understand that

When you examine the average person, the type who probably isn’t on Bluesky (which is most people), they are likely pretty politically illiterate and repulsed by the idea of politics. The average person prefers pop culture. For years, that was a semi-liberal pipeline. Now it’s a conservative one

This has been the conservative end game for years, to take over the main communication platforms, entertainment industry, pop culture, etc. The internet and social media in particular gave them the infrastructure to do it and their opposition didn’t understand or care to stop it in time

Unfortunately the stuff that most people are consuming online to distract themselves from politics (or because they don’t care about politics at all or think politics are going swimmingly) is also a covert pipeline designed to make them more conservative. Lifestyle, entertainment, pop culture, etc

America is a dystopia where we’re constantly being pissed on, then told it’s just rain. And the majority is fine with it. The most powerful and evil men in the world are being lauded as ‘geniuses’ as they dismantle & destroy all progress and strip away the rights of millions.

I chatted with Bluesky users about quitting Meta platforms in addition to X: "We don’t feel like we’re taking a moral absolutism kind of stance, we feel like we’re just living our values by saying ‘This is not OK.'"
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In the midst of any tragedy or humanitarian crisis, it never fails to disgust me just how selective empathy is. How people only care about human life when the crisis affects them & those they’re in proximity to.

This is Johnny D*pp’s repugnant legacy. Baldoni built an entire brand around ‘unlearning toxic masculinity’, got awarded for ‘speaking up for women’ which is crazy in itself, all to overcompensate for his sick sexual deviance & misogyny. Sinister can’t even begin to describe this.

Two new Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni lawsuits just dropped in the past hour—Baldoni is suing the NYT for $250 million and Lively is now suing him in addition to her California Civil Rights Commission complaint. variety.com/2024/film/ne...

It’ll always be ironic that most of the best R&B writers and musicians are actually terrible at relationships. They sell us a fantasy through lyrics that they can’t even uphold in their own lives. Lol

We are all witnessing anticipatory obedience in real time.

The hardest part for many people about migrating here and on threads is losing the community of people they’ve built throughout the years on Twitter. We were mostly strangers but I loved exchanging with so many good, principled & intelligent people on there from everywhere.

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!!

welcome and thank you for being here 🥳

If anyone finds an app that can ensure that all the accounts you’ve blocked on Twitter also stay blocked on here, please let me know. Lol