Well that fucking sucked. A truly miserable election outcome. Competent women are out and chaotic lunatics in. After living in the US almost 25 years I’m now seriously wondering if it’s time to head back to the UK.
In the meantime I have a Twitter dilemma to consider. I dislike Musk almost as much as his new political friends. And browsing social media is definitely not good for my mental health. However, Twitter is the one mainline social media site that allows adult content and that sex workers can still use. I get a lot of blog content from it and there are lots of great dommes still tweeting. So by following them and staying on Twitter, am I supporting sex workers or supporting Musk?
Here’s a nice example of the quality content that can still be found on Twitter. It’s not all racists, spambots and Trump fans. This was posted here by the Lady Lux. She’s a Dutch pro-domme whose professional site can found here. I’m sure a lot of us could use a hug in bondage now.
It’s a dilemma isn’t it. I quit X/Twitter about 3 months ago because I disliked Elon Musk’s actions and words and that was before he became such a vocal supporter of Trump. I do really miss the interaction with the Dommes and Subs that I followed and have been tempted to go back on a few times but so far have resisted. I know that me leaving has no effect on Elon at all but at least I can say that I am not in anyway supporting him.
Yeah. It’s a tricky one. Maybe I’ll invest some more time in blue sky and see if that gets better. Ideal scenario would be everyone migrating to another platform that is OK with SW and adult content. Have you tried that platform?
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I haven’t tried Blue sky but I’ve considered it. Sadly as far as I’m aware only one of the people I followed on Twitter is on this platform.
I feel your pain, even though I am not an American and I do not live in the USA. How is this possible?
Only hope is that when he leaves office, the impact is reversible. This is very much in doubt.
My fantasy is that most of the dommes (at least the good ones) votes blue since empathy and understanding is the key to this profession. Most of the subs also votes blue since they welcome women in charge. Conclusion: we need more femdom (or even gynarchy)…
I am off twitter: the world is a better place without it.
It sounds like an important part of your life, that is of little benefit to him. Buying his cars or power banks is a different story.
It’s funny as a I have a lot of friends with Teslas, all purchased before he was so obviously an asshole. Now they’re regretting it, but so far none have sold them.
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First time user here. I was mousing around the Internet and found this site. I hope I can add my $.02 here. The election was God-awful, but it’ll never happen again, guaranteed. This country will never have another election. After January, we’ll no longer have a president; we’ll have an emperor, a king, a dictator, or whatever tRump (not a typo) wants to be known as. After 91 years, history repeats itself. 1933 Germany – 2024 USA. Same shit, different century.
I’m not that pessimistic, but who knows. He’s so chaotic evil it’s hard to know what craziness will ensue. He’s also old, so that might play a role here.
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As a non-American living outside US, I sympathize.
My hypothesis is that professional dommes (at least the good ones) vote blue since they have empathy, and subs also vote blue since they would welcome a woman in charge.
(conveniently ignoring a few examples to the contrary) I often feel that gynarchy is much better.
Endure we must…
There are a tiny handful of dommes and other SWers I’ve seen on Twitter who voted red, but vast majority were clearly blue. First group kind of blows my mind, but there are some strange decisions being made out there!
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Can you believe the people in this country elected him? Wow, his character, his morals, his bigotry, a convicted felon, cant get along with anybody, stubbornness, disrespectful towards women (or everybody for that matter – and he gets elected to be President of the USA? I am just amazed that this was elected and permitted to happen. In private industry sector, his behavior would not be tolerated, and he would have been FIRED a long time ago! I refuse to say his name. Can I move to the UK with you? Oh crap, I almost forgot – my domme is here in the USA! A qunadry.
Yes. It’s not really a right/left thing for me. It’s a character and sanity question. I had friends who voted conservative pre-Trump and while I didn’t agree, I didn’t cut them off. Now, with him, it’s a dealbreaker. Can’t have someone who takes zero responsibility but wants all the credit in charge.
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I’m wary of the idea that regular people have responsibility for bad corporate actors because of our consumer choices.
When soda and beer cans started to become more popular, and it started to create a lot of litter, there was a push to create a national deposit, so people wouldn’t just throw them on the ground. The industry hired PR people to try to head off the deposit, and the strategy they came up with was to shift the focus off of industry and on to the individual who threw the cans on the ground. That’s there the famous crying Indian commercial came from.
Industry groups have done it many times since then. I read about it from Michael Mann’s book, The New Climate War. The idea that we can fix climate change without regulation by buying electric cars and flying only when necessary is another iteration of that idea. Mann talks about other stuff as well — the industry groups tend to target prominent scientists and try to discredit them (or ruin them) on a personal level.
Unfortunately there’s nothing you can do to stop Musk. There is enormous power concentrated in his hands with no real checks on it. And the network effect is real. We can’t opt out of the phone system, and use some weird alternative one, because most of the people we want to call are on the main one. Twitter’s the same.
I have an account I use to read the site without posting and I use an ad blocker. I figure that by not generating any content of my own and not looking at any ads he’s losing money on me.
There are all sorts of things that people do to try to push responsibility for what’s happened on to us. Dem campaigns sent emails that made it sound like the outcome hinges on whether you’d send them another $100.
If I say, “It’s not your fault” now, I imagine your reaction would be, “Yeah, obviously, I already know that.” But the idea that whether you use Twitter or not contributes, in some small flap of the butterfly’s wings way, to what happened, sort of implies the opposite. That’s saying it is your fault.
This is all on the people who saw Jan 6 on TV and voted for Trump. The people who think RFK, Jr. makes some good points about vaccines. The people who want to deport 15 million migrants, and who want the army to gun down protesters. And it’s on the people who know better, who don’t want those things, but go along with Trump out of cowardice.
It’s not on you.
Thanks for the long and thoughtful comment. Lot of stuff I agree with there.
I think it is a mistake to over-index on the behavior of consumer rather than corporations. It’s even trickier when you get to the leaders of those corporations. I’m sure a lot of CEOs donate to Trump, but I don’t go around checking that data before I buy their companies product. But Social Media and Musk does seem a special case. Users very much are the product in social media. So engaging with Twitter seems like a collaboration rather than a simple act of consumption. Plus Musk is such an asshole :-).
Anyway, I’m a lot more hopefully about Blue Sky than was a week or two ago, so maybe that’ll make this problem go away!
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