Twitter's Death and Anti-Trans Strategies / Chrissy Stroop
This Is Hell!
This Is Hell!
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🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I got that. |
| 0:01.0 | The Picket back! This is hell. |
| 0:35.0 | Behind every great fortune lies a great crime because this is hell and a great fortune has been made by |
| 0:49.0 | Elon Musk and the investors in Twitter or X or whatever it's called nowadays. |
| 0:55.0 | But the cost of that great fortune to all of us is the spreading of hatred, |
| 1:00.0 | intimidation, and causing violence by giving preferential treatment to the extreme |
| 1:05.2 | far right and fascist on the social media platform. |
| 1:09.5 | Any alternative to reactionary racism, sexism, and bigotry of all shapes and sizes seems to have been cut off |
| 1:16.0 | from having their messages seen or heard. |
| 1:20.0 | Followers who have signed up to the platform to hear from the people they find interesting and important |
| 1:25.4 | are instead having those voices silenced on their timelines. |
| 1:29.0 | With the presidential election coming up only 13 unlucky months away this further to the right |
| 1:36.6 | push by X and X that is oddly far too easy to turn into a swastika could have a frightening impact on who the winner of the 2024 November vote is and the politics that all the winners could be embracing not just whoever wins the presidential election. |
| 1:54.5 | In this Halloween season, if that's not scary enough for you, remember all of the success |
| 1:59.0 | the anti-choice crowd had at whittling away reproductive rights, well it looks like |
| 2:04.0 | reactionaries are going to be doing the same thing, the exact same thing, to |
| 2:09.1 | those seeking transgender rights. In a few minutes we will be speaking with ex-evangelical writer, |
| 2:15.8 | editor, speaker, and advocate with a focus on religion, politics, and secularism, |
| 2:21.8 | Chrissy Stroup, who posted the open democracy writing, |
| 2:27.0 | Twitter's death will shape the two twenty-24 U.S. presidential election, |
| 2:32.0 | people forced to give up on truth amid a deluge of fake news |
| 2:36.2 | are more easily manipulated by those with power. |
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