I basically never see the racism or murder at the Racist Murder Pit. You can avoid that kind of thing if you don’t go looking for it. The truth is, the Racist Murder Pit is the best place to have meaningful conversations about politics. And you can pretty easily ignore all the racism and murder
— ceej (@ceej.online) January 2, 2026 at 8:58 AM
As someone whose job it is to be hopelessly addicted to the internet, I do understand how difficult it can be to quit Twitter, and I dragged my feet longer than I should have in doing it, but I switched everything over to Bluesky in an afternoon. It’s not hard, there are tools that can automatically migrate as much of your Twitter presence as possible over there, and while that conclave of pedants who don’t know what jokes are can be difficult to deal with in their own right, Bluesky is not a platform owned by an outright Nazi who is encouraging users to show up to every daycare center within a half-mile radius and demand to see the children. It’s just an elder millennial internet retirement home with some of the most annoying reply guys on the planet.
But Twitter is an explicit part of the fascist project enveloping America right now, and staying on that site means you are willing to sit in the middle of a wide-scale propaganda operation because you think you’re special and smart and immune to propaganda, which is one of the dumbest things that people routinely think. You, nor I, are not too smart for propaganda. No one is. Propaganda is so effective that it renamed itself advertising last century and no one batted an eye. Propaganda works because it preys on basic human instincts, flaws we all share along this mortal coil, and the best way to avoid being influenced by it is to keep it out of your life as much as you can, while welcoming it into your life allows it to influence your life. Do you also think that when you sit in a car your friends are hotboxing that you won’t get high if you breathe the right way?
I promise that all of us who left for Bluesky over the last year have seen a change in all of you who remain on Twitter, and how much more present right-wing propaganda is in your worldview. There is a terrific example of this racist echo chamber happening right now, as almost no one outside Twitter and Minnesota is talking about a three-year old story of Somali immigrant-owned daycare centers that Joe Biden’s DOJ already indicted for fraud, yet even my normie friends on Twitter just there for sports were asking me what was up with it because it’s everywhere on that platform. It must be repeated ad nauseum in this age of fascism: you are not immune to propaganda. Staying on Twitter is breaking your brain in ways you cannot see, and I say this as someone who left Twitter and only then saw how it broke my brain in ways that I could not see.
As much as the Matt Yglesias’ of the world want to call it a town square for hallowed political debate, it is, and has been since 2016, an echo chamber for a shrinking set of political elites. Us progressives learned a valuable lesson in 2020 of how far into real life Twitter can reach (into about one-third of the Democratic Party), and it seems as if conservatives and all the other people like them who are still addicted to Twitter need to relearn that lesson again in 2026. You are not at the forefront of political debate in America, you are at a particularly loud Nazi bar run by the most enthusiastic Nazi in Silicon Valley, and just because you keep it down doesn’t mean that others won’t notice the company you choose to keep. You are surrounded by Nazis, and sticking your head in the ground so you can watch sports highlights won’t change that fact.
If you are a liberal who thinks that you need to protect your big account or win the battle of ideas on a site specifically designed to hide your posts (I watched Splinter’s Twitter engagement fall in half between the assassination attempt on Trump and the election in 2024), you are a small child who must also believe that Santa Claus delivered your presents over the holidays. Those dwindling engagement figures are propped up by a wave of bots, and we at Splinter got at least ten times as much traffic out of our 6,600-follower account on Bluesky than our roughly half-million followers on Twitter. From a purely business-brained perspective for publishers, it’s not close. Bluesky trounces Twitter because they don’t throttle external links, and you’re choosing to lose money by posting to the Nazi bar over Bluesky. All that centrists and liberals are doing over there is screaming into the void to flatter their own egos. There are no sadder Twitter dead-enders than those who believe that their posts are powerful enough to get through an algorithm designed to depress every political position to the left of Adolf Hitler.
If you remain unconvinced up to this point and still want to stay on the MechaHitler site that publishes CSAM and removes women and girls’ clothing for an audience of millions without their consent, I ask, what will it take for you to quit a site that only about 1 in 5 Americans have ever used? Will it have to directly incite a mass shooting? Will you need to see a livestream of a daycare center burned to the ground with children trapped inside? Will Grok have to publish child porn of your kid? Or remove your sister or mother or wife’s clothing and have it boosted to millions of people by apartheid South Africa’s preeminent ketamine enthusiast? What is your red line? Because if you are still on Twitter today, you are proving that MechaHitler and CSAM aren’t it.
