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The New Leftists ANTI-Social Site

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Nov 19, 2024
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Anti-Social Media – BLUESKY

  • Using the “hive of villainy” quote from “Star Wars” seems trite…and yet, deeply accurate…

It has been fun to see, in the wake of the electoral loss for the left, how many on Xitter have been declaring they are leaving the social site for greener pastures – or “bluer” ones, as it were. The rival social platform Bluesky has been the favored destination for journalists, departing news outlets, and general hysterical left-wing users. However, some sobering realities come to light for these digital nomads.

For starters, all the talk of Xitter dissolving and losing record levels of users is – let’s just say, exaggerated. The site has close to 40x times the traffic, and more, than most competitors. 

But beyond the traffic, the word coming out of the Bluesky ecosystem is that it is quite literally a leftist echo chamber, with all of the discussion being about how horrible the place and people are where they left (Xitter, Elon, Trump, Conservatives, etc.) while they block everyone with even a fraction of a divergent opinion and even quick suspensions taking place. On top of that, the hyper-sensitive intolerant set is flooding the site with complaints and reporting of accounts.

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In other words, it is like a kicked-over ant hill, and we are missing nothing going on over there. To see how warped the activity is, the liberals are being booted for claiming the election was rigged.

We mean…c’mon, really?!

Low-Octane Gaslighting – WASHINGTON POST

  • Just imagine, this is what Xitter lost.

Speaking of the Bluesky migration, one such journo making the dramatic exit was Jennifer Rubin, and our loss of her deranged ramblings is now their reward. Seriously, Jenny appears at this stage to be angling to have WaPo fire her so she can collect a severance, that is how imbalanced she has become over the past few weeks.

For her latest, she is essentially at the stage of calling voters “stupid,” explaining to them like they are third-graders how Donald Trump wants to kill their children. She has passed the level of being too exaggerated to describe where her head has gone anymore.

Anti-Social Media – SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER

  • Exposing anonymous writers to prevent them from…from…umm…

Seth Dillon of The Babylon Bee details he had been contacted by the Southern Poverty Law Center. One of its journalists is exposing the actual names of some of the contributors who write under pseudonyms. Why is the SPLC doing this?

It does not explain, but it is clear that this is done as a scare tactic by the leftist organization to attempt to cow the site from printing items it disagrees with.

DNC PR Firm – CBS NEWS

  • Say, Scott, what about the topic of the segment, going to address that?

This is what Trump Derangement looks like. On “60 Minutes,” anchor Scott Pelley sat and delivered his taciturn stylings of speech to intone grave coverage of the recent picks for the new Trump administration. Pelley was deeply critical of the lack of experience and controversial nature of many of the names. 

He used this as his introduction into the segment on the quest to still identify the remains of victims at the 9/11 Trade Center site, after 20 years. So…um, yeah – that happened…

Pathological Media Amnesia – CNN

In addressing the promise of Donald Trump to address the issue of illegal immigration with mass deportations, Jake Tapper fell back on a worn-out media narrative. That would be the tired argument that we need these arrivals to pick our crops for the food supply:

There are a lot of undocumented immigrants who work for the agricultural sector and there’s always concerns about are those people actually going to be deported and, if so, what happens to prices for, you know, regular folk just trying to make a — make an honest living and buy some eggs.

The problem that he – and other journalists lapsing into this trope – run into is how this defies so many other left-wing talking points. Does this not sound somewhat racist? And what about the illegality and no one is above the law, Jake? How about the corporate greed behind hiring illegals? And have we forgotten about the favored push for a $15-hour living wage?

Problematics, all of those, but there is also a small issue with his analogy. Over the past few years, we have had millions of illegals streaming into the country…and the price of eggs has doubled in that time. Huh, seems a contradiction, does it not?