MAGA on X: We did it! We took your liberal snowflake social media! Now you have to listen to us.
Mastodon, too busy picking pictures for #mosstodon and #thicktrunktuesday
MAGA: YOU'RE NOT LISTENING TO US, WE ARE COMING OVER THERE.
Mastodon, blocking any instance that even hosts a single MAGA.
@RickiTarr
I was wondering how long until they got bored of arguing with each other over on Twitter.
@TanekRune @RickiTarr the trollbots are already coming. Still manageable numbers but i noticed a surge e.g. under the # ukraine hashtag after the last twexodus wave.
@anubis2814 @TanekRune They need a Target for bullying
@TanekRune @RickiTarr Odd. I would have expected the incels to enjoy circle jerking.
@WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud @RickiTarr
I think they're now so used to only being angry online that they're incapable of having normal conversations with people that agree with them.
@RickiTarr
Did any particular event prompt this post?
It makes me feel I missed something, too. Sorry, I was busy mosstodoning
@nellie_m @ohmu Just an observation, I keep seeing MAGA people talking about how Liberal people want "Safe Spaces" like somehow people having a space where they can be themselves and feel safe is a bad thing, when that's how we'd all like to live. What kind of person doesn't want people to feel safe and happy?
They are angry that people don't think they are safe to be around
@RickiTarr @ohmu @nellie_m @CorvidCrone That could be restated as “They are angry that people won’t treat treat them as safe to be around, which sharply limits their freedom to come into those people’s spaces & do unsafe things.”
@Gorfram @RickiTarr @ohmu @nellie_m
Sure, but I was specifically commenting on how their world view is so myopic is that they feel left out when there exists a space that is not meant for them.
They feel personally aggrieved they are confronted with the fact that someone doesn't feel safe around them. A safe space they are excluded from is, by definition, a declaration that there are people who do not consider them safe to be around.
@CorvidCrone @Gorfram @RickiTarr @ohmu @nellie_m And they are *always* the victim. If you don't want to be around people who are unpleasant at best and violent at worst, it is they who are aggrieved.
@mikej @Gorfram @RickiTarr @ohmu @nellie_m
They don't see themselves as violent. Most people who are quick to resolve discord with violence feel they are justified in their actions.
@CorvidCrone @Gorfram @RickiTarr @ohmu @nellie_m And it’s not that they’re specifically excluded. Play nice, don’t harass people & you can go anywhere.
@superflippy @CorvidCrone @Gorfram @RickiTarr @ohmu @nellie_m they are creating their own safe spaces. A space where Nazis don't get punched for being Nazis. They just don't realize it.
@superflippy @Gorfram @RickiTarr @ohmu @nellie_m
No, safe spaces do not mean you are included if you're nice. It doesn't matter how nice I am, it would be wildly inappropriate for me to enter a space not meant for me. Being nice has nothing to do with it.
Imagine someone going to a support group for something they do not personally deal with. You wouldn't want that space full of people who empathize but haven't ever lived it.
@CorvidCrone @Gorfram @RickiTarr @ohmu @nellie_m Good point. I was referring to being included in the wider conversation. There’s definitely a difference.
@RickiTarr @nellie_m @ohmu I choose Safe From Dumb Assholes spaces all the time. My home. My work. My friends.
@RickiTarr They literally built Truth Social so they could have a safe space to play Third Reich dress-up. @nellie_m @ohmu
@RickiTarr
People who voted for TFG
@nellie_m @ohmu
I feel like you've answered your own question there.
The kind of person so insecure that they need to make sure all the other bullies in their echo chamber see them bully somebody too - so they're not kicked out of the bully club.
@RickiTarr@beige.party Hell, they got angry at BlueSky for being an "echo chamber" for majority of people just blocking them. It's generally pathetic how desperate they are for attention
@matty Right, you can't bully an empty room
@RickiTarr oh! I forgot! I took some #mosstodon photos yesterday I haven’t posted yet
@monicarooney You can Mosstodon any time lol
@RickiTarr I know it is a bubble..a circle jerk of you are more vulgar like me but damnit, having a space I don't feel like some Tate sexist wannabe that writes erotic fan fiction involving musk, trump and the rest of that turd pile will pop up any minute and tell about me needing to shoot shut my gob .. is such a relief..
@MiaMirto @RickiTarr Let’s be real: the Taterbots don’t have the creativity necessary to write erotic fan fiction.
@RickiTarr magats seem to get their rocks off attacking others. Now that the so-called prey has moved on they're just circle jerking each other on twitter these days.
@RickiTarr The weird part is that if you met some of these angry arseholes IRL, like your plumber or someone in the doctor's waiting room, they'd probably seem relatively normal, whatever that is these days. There appear to be a LOT of ordinary people out there who are seriously messed up on the inside. Worse, they no longer accept genuine reality and keep feeding on the manipulated reality of places like X. Why would you do that to yourself?
@RickiTarr @isotope239
I'm reminded of Morpheus's lesson to Neo on people hopelessly dependent on "the system."
... they aren't ordinary, not any more. This is MAGA country out here, they're Rebels without a Clue. Angry, innumerate, effing Christian Taliban.
Normal is just a handwaving descriptor, sure. Maybe they used to look sorta normal.
Not anymore.
@RickiTarr Me whenever MAGA, ADOS/FBA and other racists show up on my timeline or when they follow me...
@RickiTarr Thank you, yes. This is kind of pretty much why, for so many of us, with all of our slightly different reasons, this place is, really, fine. #fedifrens #fedizens #noncompliance
@RickiTarr As strong a reason as any to always tip your server Admin!
It hilarious because blocking doesn't affect freedom of speech.
@pete Right they can keep saying it if they want lol
@RickiTarr #thicktrunktuesday sounds remarkably obscene
@sivecano You can make it whatever you'd like lol
If you had two social media sites, one for just progressives and one for just MAGAts, the progressive one would thrive and the MAGAt one would die. Progressives will have disagreements with each other, but that's okay. MAGAts need victims to bully, or they won't be engaged.
@csstrowbridge We are watching it happen
@ezmyrelda @csstrowbridge They're really mad about Bluesky
@ezmyrelda @RickiTarr @csstrowbridge Bluesky isn’t a cesspool like Twitter, but it does have a lot of self promoters.
I think Mastadon is in a class by itself.
Fascists always need a scapegoat… too blinded to look at their own incompetence…
@RickiTarr I would never invite to stay any random person who began ranting and insulting me, and threatening my family, and my welcomed guests in my own home...yes, not even if the rando starting stamping their tiny feet while screaming that they had a First Amendment right to free speech. Uh. There is no First Amendment right that requires anyone else to listen.
Blickety blickety block block. It's really the very polite thing to do. And it's John Mastodon approved.
@RickiTarr they are so desperate for our attention, but like their parents, we don't care.
@RickiTarr
Oh? They try to come here? I know they try to invade Bluesky, with more or less success.
Well, there is two Fediverse instance for them: Thruth Social and Gab, what we, normal peoples, call “the Fediverse No Go Zones”.
@RickiTarr
Tribel is virtually MAGA free as well, although they have waves of crypto and porn bots. Sadly, it’s not as popular, but a lot of good content gets linked there.
@Joe_Hill People are pretty good at keeping up with the spam and bots here, but you have to stay vigilant