I'm sitting with the Atlantic article by Charlie Warzel, "What Are People Still Doing on X? Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout."
Here's how I'd act when my favorite neighborhood bar turns into a Nazi hangout:
May 24, 2025
"Of course, with a broadcast social network like X, everyone is both a patron and an owner of sorts."
"Followers can feel like a kind of currency, built up over years: Some people don’t leave the bar, because they’re invested and don’t want to dump their shares. Other people don’t leave, because the alternative hangouts aren’t enticing enough. Some simply don’t want to give the Nazis the satisfaction of successfully driving them out. There is plenty of commentary, even among users of other platforms, about how Threads is bloodless (and owned by Mark Zuckerberg), Mastodon is inscrutable, and Bluesky is humorless.... If a billionaire bought one of your local haunts... brought back many of the people who’d been banned for harassing other regulars, eliminated basic rules of decency... taking your business elsewhere would be perfectly rational. This is essentially what’s happened on X.... A critical mass of the nation’s politicians, news outlets, and major brands regularly post content for free... This platform is owned by the world’s richest man, a conspiracy theorizing GOP mega-donor who still holds a position in the Trump administration.... Let’s pause to sit with the absurdity of these facts...."
I'm sitting with the Atlantic article by Charlie Warzel, "What Are People Still Doing on X? Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout."
I'm sitting with the Atlantic article by Charlie Warzel, "What Are People Still Doing on X? Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout."
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“No one goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
At this point do they have AI writing these pieces? They're so predictable, I think they could do so quite easily.
Any writer who uses the word “Nazi” to describe one’s opponents has no credibility and sense.
brought back many of the people who’d been banned for harassing other regulars
I wonder if an independent observer would see that as harassment or think that many of these people were just getting mad that others were challenging them to support their opinions with evidence.
eliminated basic rules of decency
I interpret this as, he also got rid of employees who were harassing/banning regulars due to the employees' biases.
I'm shocked! Shocked to see the Atlantic call X a Nazi hangout.
Leftists doing the meme “everyone I don’t like is a Nazi” is hilarious. If these retards had any self awareness they’d be truly dangerous.
Althouse has asked commenters to refrain from using the "r" word, but some are tardy in their response.
Nazi hangout. STFU.
Nazi hangout huh.
You people are my enemies. I will do everything in my power to drive you out of my country.
As a wise woman once said about the Washington Post;
"I can see that it means to do what it always does — mix low-level hate with weak encouragement in the hope of keeping readers in the sickly embrace of the Democratic Party."
Applies to the Atlantic as well, although the Atlantic has fallen a lot farther than the WaPo. It had farther to fall.
What do you do with a website that lets people you disagree with post their opinions? As opposed to every other social media platform where you have a comfy leftwing echo chamber and censorship?
Gosh, its tough being an authoritarian leftist who hates free speech.
its interesting how the Liberal/left is constantly attacking everyone on the Right, and viciously calling them "facists" "racists" "Nazis" and encouraging violence and promoting censorship. Meanwhile, the Right simply refuses to attack. Refuses to even call Leftists, leftists. And constantly proclaims how they are against violence of any sort.
Wonder what motivates the Right to behave this way.
Nazis? Whose ramping up the political assassinations, Charlie?
On X, you can instantly fact check any post with Grok at the click of a button, and then you can argue with Grok to flesh out the truth. What other platform has the confidence in it's users to do that? This feature makes X the only reliable place to get your news, the only place where you don't have to just trust the writer, which would be crazy today. This fixes the big disappointment with the internet, which promised to make us all smarter, but did the opposite in many cases.
They have successfully defanged the epithet "Nazi." It's sort of like calling someone a "poopyhead" at this point.
At great personal sacrifice, Mr. Warzel has overcome his declaration of 'Unsafe Space' and delved into the steamy jungles of X to reconnoiter and discover the awful truth: There are Nazis - Nazis ! - living in that jungle. He'd say it out loud on Bluesky, but he'd be cancelled for using the word....
Nice, @AZ Bob.
The Atlantic is pushing an agenda of globalism with an iron fist, so they really don't like it when a peacenik like Trump comes along, and of course, they accuse anybody who opposes their iron fisted globalism of being "Nazis."
The only thing different between The Atlantic's vision for the future and that of the Third Reich has to do with what they used to call "the Jewish question." The Atlantic does admit that Hitler made a pretty grievous mistake on that one. But the people who herded Jewish people to the death camps? Like the Ukrainians and Estonians and still do the salutes in earnest? Well, can't we all just overlook it?
They always accuse their opponents of what it is that they are.
The Atlantic is basically Lauren Powell jobs personal blog.
She got her money ($3.6bn) the old fashioned way.
She married it.
John Henry
Casablanca always reminds me of Lillian Hellman, "every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'."
What do you do when your favorite magazine becomes a hangout for retards?
The left owes a debt of gratitude to the Hitler. Almost alone among their opponents, he was worse the disease worse than their cure.....In France, the left before, during and after the war sought to undermine DeGaulle. In Germany, where Hitler was only elected by a plurality, the Reds and far left were not able to make a common front with the social Democrats against Hitler. In their view, there was no significant difference between the Nazis and the Social Democrats. The far left felt the same way about DeGaulle and his followers.....In Russia, the Whites were no bucket of ice cream, but their crimes were not so monstrous as those that occurred under the Reds.......I would observe that it's a historical fact that the left has been far more effective in fighting against social Democratic regimes than it ever was against Nazi, Fascist, or Communist regimes.
That’s why I left the Democrat Party. It became a Nazi hangout.
If I were going to vomit out garbage, I'd find a toilet, not splash it over the pages of The Atlantic.
And, yet, after all this, X/Twitter still reigns supreme. Firing all the censors didn’t destroy the company - just made it more profitable for Musk.
X/Twitter still reigns supreme
Why won't it die, die, die? X is the Rasputin of social media :)
One of the best scenes in all of film. Of particular note is how the two songs were arranged such that the German song became a perfect contrapuntal melody to La Marseillaise.
And for those who don't understand French, the lyrics are quite bloody, the refrain including "that [their] corrupt blood irrigates the furrows of our fields". The arrangers also stitched i part of a later verse about how "[the enemy] are slitting the throats of our women-folk".
It was a huge gamble to pick a horse that was sidelined, imprisoned and shot. Even Musk is rethinking letting that sink in.
While sitting, to simply ask why would be to imagine the unthinkable.
They play the Nazi card first and often to avoid anyone noting they are Communists that would behave exactly like Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot.
WaPo version of a ‘modified limited Nazi hangout’?
You may not have any interest in participating in a culture war. The problem is that on X, everything is a culture war.
As if the people who refuse to make the tattoo, bake the cake or resist trans their child didn't exist.
Imagine moving “through the looking glass” to find the last President was demented, men dominating womens’ sports, medical professionals maiming children, unvetted foreigners had poured in through open borders, lowly District Court judges setting foreign policy for the country and you know ….
You want to see fascism? Look up Lucy Connolly, a mom imprisoned for almost 3 years for a "hate speech" tweet she removed almost immediately after Islamist Axel Rudakubana chopped three little schoolgirls to death. And she had just lost an infant son to hospital neglect. And her husband has cancer, but she has been refused the ordinary prison visitor privileges granted flagrantly to violent male offenders to spend time with him. Nor her 14-year old daughter.
Locked up for a tweet. No special protective custody. Denied appeal. She may be murdered at any time. Meanwhile, the killer of the three little chopped-up girls was placed in a cushy Muslims-only prison wing and given special cooking privileges, which he immediately used to try to maim a prison guard with boiling water. He was less successful than the Islamist who severely injured three guards with boiling oil.
This is Keir Starmer's Britain. Violent offenders are literally released because they need to make room for "hate speech offenders" -- the white ones only, of course. Special police squads pull decent, law-abiding citizens from their homes for vague or non-existent "hate speech," while often-illegal Muslim pimps rape, torture, and sometimes kill thousands of young white girls, with no consequences. People are silenced to object, out of fear they will be next.
This is why I yammer on about hate crime laws. Mark my words, the same is coming here. The First Amendment won't protect us. And Republicans are just as culpable as Democrats. Including Trump.
It's not going to stop until we stop it. Remember her name. Wonder why you didn't hear about this? Don't.
The story is on X.
If it's a Chicago bar, you can say "I hate Illinois Nazis."
JSM
Trent, ref Lucy Connolly: do you watch Laurence Fox and Fr. Calvin Robinson's YouTube? I highly recommend it. You can stay updated on Connolly, Tommy Robinson, and other thoughtcrime cases - including, unfortunately, Mr Fox's current one.
JSM
To write just about anything with a Hitler reference is very unpersuasive.
At this point I don't think they even know what a nazi is.
Dave Begley: One grows weary of those who describe their political adversaries as members of a cult, too.
This is where Biden fan John Goodman ought to step in and say, "At least it's an ethos."
I use x the way I used twitter, as a news feed. I have never encountered nazi or SA white genocide info.
Addicted to X but the owner’s a Nazi. You should kill yourself…
Warzel makes things up. When he couldn't deny that Elon Musk didn't give a "Nazi salute," he couldn't help implying that Musk was giving something very like a Nazi salute to troll the left and whip up the alt.right.
of course the Times whitewashes Hamas, who murder in real time and in living color, so your mileage may vary
of course Andy Ngo through X shows the tendrils of the left, like Caila Walsh, whose Unite the Field, sounds very weather undergroundish
The Left seemingly doesn't have a plausible argument to make and is left with casting aspersions.
Bart Hall: Thank You, I never knew that.
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