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Heard It On The X

“Calm down! Hey, look, I read on Twitter that a super-villain’s gonna bomb this loser meet and greet.  So I’m here to save the day, like I do, all the time.” – Movie 43

Before I got Twitter®, I’d just yell what I was thinking on the street.  I did get three followers, but I think two were FBI agents.

Back in the day (a long time ago) a gentleman who was somewhat of a charlatan who used to (I’m not making this up) use goat, um, tissue, surgically inserted in to a man’s, um, location in order to increase sexual potency and fertility.  Even in the 1920s this sounded bonkers.  He lost his FCC® license and decided to build a million Watt transmitter in Mexico to irradiate the United States with his sales-focused radio program.  It was said that you could hear his station in Canada.

These stations operated into the 1980s, and I do recall being able to hear one of them, X-Rock 80 up on Wilder Mountain, at night.  A million Watts is a lot of radio, but it was down to 150,000 by that time (if they weren’t cheating, which they probably were – Mexico, right?).  Since these were in Mexico, they all (there were more than one) had the X prefix.  Thus, ZZ Top’s song, Heard It on the X.

We have a new X in town, now.  Elon Musk is quite colorful, and while I haven’t heard of him thinking about transplanting goat testicle, he has talked about putting electrodes into human brains.

So, there’s that.

Elon drives the Left nuts.  Again, I know Elon is on Elon’s side, but he’s just so amusing to watch.  He makes every Leftist love him by making electric cars, makes every NASA employee envious by making way better rockets than they ever could, along with other things.

The thing that brought the Left to hating him, though, was purchasing Twitter®.  The Leftists had claimed Twitter™ as their own.  It was their property.  Twitter© went from being the Free Speech Wing of the Free Speech Party to being just another, curated Leftist echo chamber.  If there was a story they didn’t like, they could make sure that no one ever heard of it.

When Twitter® had Trump Derangement Syndrome.

My account was detuned to the point where my traffic (I got on Twitter, in part, to advertise this blog) dwindled down to nothing because anyone with a non-Leftist take was either throttled or banned regardless if they broke Twitter’s® rules or not.

When Musk bought it, all bets were off.  In response, the Left (and one of the Left’s biggest mouthpieces, the ADL®) did whatever they could to get advertisers off of Twitter™.

Competing platforms showed up.

  • Truth©, which had greater censorship than Twitter®;
  • Mastodon©, which was so boring that I fell asleep thinking about it;
  • SocialGalactic®, which is behind a paywall;
  • My Fridge, because it has magnets;
  • Gab™, which I’m on but don’t use particularly effectively;
  • and Facebook’s© Threads™ which had every Lefty on X™ claiming that they were going to leave, before slinking back to X© three weeks later.

So, a year and change has passed.

What’s happened?

First, Elon bought Twitter™ for $44 billion, but I don’t think he could sell it for anywhere near that number, though it’s certain that’s not his plan.  Musk has talked about lots of different things he’s planning for X©, which includes a lot – he calls it an “everything” app.  So, music, entertainment, banking, inserting wires in your head so you don’t need a psychologist?  Possibly.

It is certain that X© shadow banning is now less, though months after he bought Twitter©, Musk announced that he had found more bans in the software – aimed at moderating Musk’s reach.

The Left has proven to be very “foot-stampy” with Media Matters®, a far-Left organization, going after Musk by, it is alleged, continually refreshing until they had ads for IBM® next to content that IBM™ would find objectionable, especially since they’d sold a lot of equipment to the Germans in the 1930s.  Guess they didn’t want to be associated with certain clients?

Cycle something long enough, and you can create a hit piece.

Anyway, the Left is really after Musk, but it appears that they can’t really do anything to him.  It looks like Musk completely doesn’t care.

I don’t know what total user numbers are doing for Elon, but I think he’s fine.  I think his vision may take years to put together, and he probably has the time to do it.

Regardless, it’s back to being fun on X®.  I’ll have to admit, it does make me smile when I post a meme and get a rabid response from (this weekend) dozens and dozens of Lefties, and then get to live rent-free in their heads for the weekend while they seethe about what I said.  My offense?  This Xeet®:

This actually flew over the heads of several Leftists. 

When they got lippy?  My response:

The funniest thing was that some of them didn’t get it.  Explains a lot.

Where we are now is better than a year ago – there’s an actual location where anyone can go out and trigger all the Lefties they want in a free-range situation fully compliant with vegan standards.

Does it make the world a better place?  Possibly not.  But it’s always nice to be able to send out a message over a million Watts of broadcast power, regardless if goat testicles are involved or not.