A Poem About Quitting Twitter

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  1. Dwight Ward

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    https://interestingliterature.com/2021/07/on-quitting-twitter-social-media-a-poem/

    I couldn't find a good place for this thread.

    From the poem:

    Eventually, it was us or them. They became
    mere shouts and remonstrations, pleas and cries,
    a tidal wave of suffering without pause,
    of snide retorts and performative assertions –
    the whole lot began to drown us.
    Turn off your radios immediately.

    So we tuned out our frequencies to a dead channel,
    fourteen billion years of static, that perfect state
    before the first authoritarians came,
    a numbness welcome to our battered senses,
    and, not without some small misgiving,
    we cut the line and left the voices dead.
    Thankfully we were not too affected.
    They faded like the effects of nepenthe
    or the Martian atmosphere in Total Recall.
    Already, we wonder how we ever heard the voices.
     
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    I actually like Twitter, @Dwight Ward , and added you as a friend on there. I don’t quite understand the poem though, but again, I do not understand most poetry.
     
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    They kicked me out soon after they censored the President .... too many Pedo Joe comments, I suppose. I haven't been able to re-register.

    The poem itself is obscure. The article is more straightforward.
     
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    Don't tweet.
    Beat feet.
    Sweet.


    -Henry Gibson

    Actually, I see the Biden administration floating the idea that if you are banned from one social media platform, you should be banned by all of them. This is insane.
     
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    Government & Facebook’s Unconstitutional/Illegal War Against Americans!
    https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/gove...constitutional-illegal-war-against-americans/


    This article is on the sensation-seeking side but has good basic facts.
    An excerpt:

    Taking it a step further, we now see before our faces what this government and its ungodly marriage with Facebook and big tech companies are doing when hiding behind each other in their crimes against “We the People” in censoring free speech (1st Amendment Bill of Rights).
     
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    Maybe all your tweets are archived then, because I found your Twitter page right away, and followed you; so the page itself is there still, @Dwight Ward . Maybe it is just something with the sign-in process that is not working ? Since I use an iPad, I seldom have problems with stuff like that, Burt I know that people who use computers are always complaining about it.
     
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    It might be my vpn or some of the other privacy software I have installed. I'm not turning them off just for twatter, I'm not that concerned about it right now. I might find a workaround later. Netflix wanted me to turn all that stuff off but I found a backdoor.
     
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    I wonder if this is related to the weird issue you were having with being locked out of your email.
     
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    Enemy of the State here ...
     
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    That's a big club. I wonder why they singled you out.
     
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    Maybe because I used twatter to document the Biden Family's tendency towards pedopilia; that and referring to the fake prez as Pedo Joe. Still, lots of folks do similiar things and I can't see myself as any real threat to the ptb. The things happening to me are probably individual glitches that have nothing to do with my content.

    Two noia are a paranoia.
     
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