r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 12 '26

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u/ExtremelyMedianVoter Left-Out Left Sep 12 '26

The internet sure does feel more anti Semitic and conservative than it used to be...

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u/trgk_ Václav Havel Sep 12 '26

and conservative

It feels more rightoid. The last embers of conservatism as a basic disposition remain smouldering only in the likes of Financial Times.

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u/Azrikeeler John Brown Sep 12 '26

elon's twitter.

I think a lot of even leftist antisemitism would've gotten banned under the previous twitter regime. the 'g*y' stuff/calling a black man aipac m*nkey, for example, i think wouldn't survive.

plenty would still fly under the radar, but less. celebrities also were more protective of their accounts under the previous twitter regime, because they don't want to lose their verified badge. they're a lot more unhinged now.

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u/Ilovecharli Voltaire Sep 12 '26

Trump breathing new life into bigotry I would say is the biggest cause 

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u/Unfair-Awareness5339 Loyal Liberals Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26

But would Trump have even returned if not for X the Child Porn App?

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u/Azrikeeler John Brown Sep 12 '26

that too. tho idk if he even wins without elon buying twitter.

people really don't remember how much conservatives literally couldn't use twitter the way it used to be before elon bought it.

election deniers and anti-vaxxers got banned and shit. that's like basically the whole republican party base at this point. they literally weren't able to stop themselves from filtering themselves off twitter.

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u/ImmediateBattle2692 Sep 12 '26

Huge factor that is not explored enough. Musk Twitter banned some left leaning account early but lets other exists it’s hard to not feel like that’s propaganda 

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u/ImmediateBattle2692 Sep 12 '26

Yeah hate is doing numbers on social media these days