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muriel_volestrangler

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3. I'm sure they use things like this as an excuse to go after important accounts that annoy them

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Apr 20, 2026, 02:49 PM

Apr 20

rather than doing it to everyone. My Twitter profile (and it's been there so long that it was Twitter when I wrote it) reads "Elon Musk is a Nazi troll who is politicising Twitter with glee. All use of Twitter should take this into account", but no one's bothered to suspend a nobody like me.

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Journalist Gil Duran just got a permanent suspension from X for pointing out Palantir's fascist manifesto was fascist [View all] highplainsdem Apr 20 OP

why are people still using X. Switch to Bluesky or instagram samsingh Apr 20 #1

Reach. Lots of Democratic lawmakers and liberal pundits and journalists still use X for the same reason. highplainsdem Apr 20 #2

I'm sure they use things like this as an excuse to go after important accounts that annoy them muriel_volestrangler Apr 20 #3