We cats are on Twitter, although not under our real feline names. We've enjoyed it — despite the frequent annoying tweets like "Raise your hand if you agree," "I did not have that on my Bingo card," and "Am I the only one who...?" Mostly, though, it's been informative and fun.
And we're still on Twitter, despite all the right-wing chaos that Elon Musk has fomented. Blocking and muting helps a bit, but there's still too much of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Harry and Meghan, anti-vaxxers, and other boring crap in our timeline. But if we weren't there, how else would we see jaw-dropping stuff like this ? News tips from tweeps are super-helpful.
We also see a lot of Musk, even though we've blocked him, which is irritating. It would be easy to avoid all Musk's provocations if only folks we follow would stop retweeting and endlessly commenting on him. He just wants to pit people against each other to get more traffic, so it seems that the logical response would be to ignore him — and the hateful trolls who are back on the platform. (Not Benedict Donald, though, who appears to be taking a pass.)
Perhaps soon, Musk will realize that his Tesla stock has dropped through the floor since he started all this. Perhaps he'll get bored with his new toy and go find something else to do. Whatever happens, we don't believe in letting right-wing idiots chase us away. Dr. Anthony Fauci, recently targeted by Musk, has the right idea: "I don't pay attention to that, and I don't even feel I need to respond. A lot of that stuff is just a cesspool of misinformation, and I don't waste a minute worrying about it." We cats PURR.
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