Jordan Sumbu

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

The funding of wars and genocides will be the tip of the iceberg from this point on. Which is already normalized. Americans have created a monster that many will sadly have to be fed to due to their individualism, bigotry, misogyny, selfishness, and most of all STUPIDITY.

For the next years, build community with people with shared values and remove yourself from spaces that cater and acquiesce to the right-wing social world order. And yes, this includes family and friends. There’s no ‘middle ground’ for the cruelty and depravity that we will be witnessing & enduring.

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.

Meta’s pivot to the right sparks boycotts and a user exodus Some users are fleeing Meta platforms to alternatives like Bluesky.

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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Individualism will always be the downfall of any society. I pray for all lives. But especially those whose lives are often deep disposable or ‘less worthy’ of care.

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.

No man should materially benefit from speaking out against sexism and misogyny. Imagine a white person getting awarded for being anti-racist? The fact that he managed to do this for so many years speaks volume. Society’s hatred of women is what allows men like this to thrive.

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.

Justin Baldoni Files $250 Million Lawsuit Against New York Times Over Blake Lively Story: It Relied on Her ‘Self-Serving Narrative’ (EXCLUSIVE) Justin Baldoni and other plaintiffs filed a $250 million lawsuit against the New York Times for its story on Blake Lively's allegations against him.

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...

Sidebar: I miss early- mid 2000’s type of R&B. The new school just doesn’t do it for me. To each their own though.

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.

Well just have to remember which accounts we’ve blocked and block them again here 😂

On a brighter side, now you can find new community and rebuild your audiences as well. But we can all agree that not being part of anything controlled by Elon Muskrat feels great. F*ck that POS forever.

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.

Thank you!

Thank you!

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