Truth Social Can’t Handle The Truth, Or Something

Andrew Donaldson

Born and raised in West Virginia, Andrew has since lived and traveled around the world several times over. Though frequently writing about politics out of a sense of duty and love of country, most of the time he would prefer discussions on history, culture, occasionally nerding on aviation, and his amateur foodie tendencies. He can usually be found misspelling/misusing words on Twitter @four4thefire and his food writing website Yonder and Home. Andrew is the host of Heard Tell podcast. Subscribe to Andrew's Heard Tell SubStack for free here:

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  1. Chip Daniels says:

    The core appeal of Trumpism is resentment and grievance, to seek revenge and retribution on those who have usurped the correct order of things.

    They don’t want to be left alone in their own space, free to live their lives unmolested. They already have that. So without a group of libs to punish, this platform will fail.Report

  2. Michael Cain says:

    …has pledged to deliver an “engaging and censorship-free experience” on the platform.

    They’ve also said that it will be family-friendly, and that they’ve hired Hive to do comment moderation using their cloud-based AI. Hive is a real company and comment moderation is one of the services they sell. Twitter and Facebook algorithms, bad! Truth Social algorithms, good!Report

  3. Also the same people running from HCQ to Ivermectin to urine to whatever it is this week.Report

  4. Esther says:

    Love how the author dances around who these people really are by saying that they’ll “get tired” or “state the catechism of buzzwords”–which is to say they are all right-wing maniacs that harbor insane fascist and racist beliefs. None of which should be allowed and is rightfully banned or minimized by polite society online and off. Of course, these people existing are adjacent to the author’s white-guy libertarian type trope: “Less gubmint, derp.” “gubmint no help the ‘others'” “freedom for me, but not for thee.” “both sides should be heard, but these people are bad, but we should hear them, the left wants to restrict them, so we should hear them, but they are bad.”

    Man, this is not even culture or news, its a hamfisted attempt to be a pundit, and its bad.Report

    • Slade the Leveller in reply to Esther says:

      It’s going to be tough to own the libs when there aren’t any around. Then again, if DJT starts using it to spout off, look for the press to start reporting whatever whacko thought he posts that day. If that happens, I can see left wing trolls with more time than sense signing up for an account for trolling purposes.Report