Crackerverse Hits Twitter

Twitter users have to treat the company logo with more respect than they need to express to fellow Twitterers.

You may not use the Twitter trademarks to disparage Twitter, its products or services, or in a manner which, in Twitter’s sole discretion, may diminish or tarnish Twitter’s goodwill in the Twitter trademarks.

Business Insider reported:

The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a research group that analyzes social media content to predict emerging threats, said that use of the N-word on Twitter increased by nearly 500% in the 12 hours immediately after Musk's deal was finalized.

"Elon now controls twitter. Unleash the racial slurs. K---S AND N-----S," said one account, using slurs for Jewish and Black people, per the outlet.

"I can freely express how much I hate n-----s … now, thank you elon," another said

 "There's a massive flood of literally hundreds of people each minute using the N-word and rampant hate speech happening on Twitter right now post Elon purchase."

Twitter was also flooded with sexist and anti-LGBTQ messages.

The Make America White-Male Again (MAW-MA) crowd is exercising their digital digits.  Their minds remain off and their hearts chilled.

"Democracy depends on heavy doses of civility."--Former Vice President Mike Pence

Elon Mush may turn Twitter into the Roman Coliseum where the crowd does thumbs up or thumbs down in both the Cracker and nonCrackerverses.  Musk said a user should be able to“choose your desired experience according to your preferences.”

Update 10-30-22:  The day after buying Twitter Musk posted a conspiracy theory on the attack of Paul Pelosi in his home.  

Update 2-4-23:  Tennessee Red Teamers want to rename a Nashville street from Rep. John Lewis Way to Donald Trump Boulevard.  The Crackerverse is alive and clearly unwell.

Update 4-7-23:  The Tennessee House expelled two black male lawmakers, while allowing a third white woman to remain after the three joined protestors after the Nashville school shooting that killed three adults and three children.

Update 4-14-23:  AI has a cracker side to it:

Regardless of which persona the researchers assigned, ChatGPT targeted some specific races and groups three times more than others. These patterns “reflect inherent discriminatory biases in the model,” the researchers said.

Update 4-18-23:   The Crackerverse is alive and unwell in Oklahoma where the sheriff and other top officials in a rural county were recorded talking about "beating, killing and burying" a father/son team of local reporters — and lamenting that they could no longer hang Black people with a “damned rope.”

Update 5-13-23:  An Insane Red Senator from Alabama proved his cracker bonavides by backing white supremacists in the military.   He's the same Senator holding up hundreds of military promotions. 

Update 5-22-23:  Civil rights groups issued warnings for people traveling to Florida due to legislators being “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.” 

Update 8-14-23:  School board officials in Conroe, Texas wanted a poster removed for showing children of varying races holding hands.

China's Democracy Bullshit

One Party Communist China pretends it has gone past democracy with this horse hockey:

"China's whole-process people's democracy integrates process-oriented democracy with results-oriented democracy, procedural democracy with substantive democracy, direct democracy with indirect democracy and people's democracy with the will of the state."

I thought their deal for citizens was economic freedom.  The Chinese are just another version of earthly government managers looking for their own interests.  

Citizen input will be constrained to surveys designed by the government, not by the people.  U.S. workers have completed enough employment surveys that provide no space for feedback on the workplace crap sandwich they must eat every day. 

Meanwhile at home, it's the Insane Reds vs. the Blue Lucys.  I'm beginning to wonder if any middle remains.  U.S. democracy has become disturbingly cartoonish under the sponsorship of Red and Blue oligarchs. 

We have the freedom for obscenely wealthy, politically connected private equity chiefs to pay preferred carried interest taxation.  Both the Reds and Blues have long promised to eliminate the tax break on the campaign trail but it never translates to actual law.

We have the freedom for 30% of the Christian population to push their version of the faith into local, state and national law.  

We have elected officials of poor character more concerned about their position/image than the plight of the average citizen.

None of that sounds representative, but at least we have the option to vote them out.  Chinese survey participants may end up like the U.S. employee who foolishly thought their employer wanted their opinion.  What's the nondemocratic version of a Chinese firing?

Update 10-23-22:  The Saudi government sponsored Future Investment Conference showed how surveys can steer people away from gross human rights abuses.

The FII Institute called the New York gathering the Priority Conference, and it centered on the release of a 13-country survey of 130,000 respondents’ attitudes that the institute says represents half of the world’s population. The institute asked them: What’s your top priority? It’s an incredible feat of denial done in the service of reframing the conversation away from politics and rights. Of course, one might imagine that many people’s top priority is to live freely and not be murdered.