"You can't blame us for being awful in the name of love. We knew so little!"

If your haughty condemnation of others was rooted in ignorance, then it was all the more shameful. The only thing you should have to say at this point is, "I'm sorry. And it will never happen again."

It wasn't just condemnation. It was coercion. An unabating effort to try and force compliance with masks, mandates, and lockdowns through shaming, manipulation, and guilt. It was gross and egregious. It bordered on malevolent.

This NY Times op-ed gets it backwards. Late-night TV isn't funny because they're just a bunch of outraged moralists who identify as comedians. In reality, liberals are killing comedy with their preachiness and pathetic intolerance of jokes they don't like.

Here's the link to the piece:

https://t.co/E3nDfu0uui

You’re not just a private company if you’re colluding with the government to censor speech. You’re an unconstitutional arm of the state.

It doesn't take an expert to see that racial discrimination is racist. It takes an expert *not* to see it.

You can’t be wrong about anything. You can’t even speculate about anything. You can only be right. And right is whatever the Government says it is. THAT is free speech.

The vast majority of the people you castigated and shamed merely said vaccination should be a personal choice. Few, if any, decried mere “support” for vaccines.

Lmao at the Congresswoman who thinks the free in free speech is a reference to cost, not liberty.

Paying a fee for optional verification is not the same as paying a fee to speak.

You tweeted this from an Android device. Not everyone has access to Android devices, apps, cellular service, etc.

Also, charging for verification doesn’t exclude anyone from public discourse.

Also, you’re a racist.

The Babylon Bee joins The Onion in urging SCOTUS to defend the First Amendment against an Ohio law that makes parody a felony.

https://reason.com/2022/11/01/the-babylon-bee-joins-the-onion-in-decrying-an-ohio-law-that-makes-parody-a-felony/

Yes, huge respect to Elon Musk. Stepping into this arena to fight this particular battle must be as daunting as it is thankless. I couldn't imagine taking on scorn from all sides for the benefit of the very people who were heaping it on me.

Occasionally Elon walks by our cell with the keys to our freedom jingling on his hip. And every time we reach for them he backs away and says, "Eight dollars."

If you prefer to silence and suppress people who say things you don't like—as opposed to merely blocking, muting, or ignoring them—then you're more dangerous than anything they might say.

You could also try reasoning with or refuting them. Those are healthy, non-evil options, too.

If you're a filthy fascist then you deserve to have the government and big tech work together to rip out your tongue and compel your compliance.

We must fight fascism with fascism.

If 9 out of every 10 murdered journalists are men, then either women aren't being targeted or whoever's targeting them sucks at it.

Maybe other women are doing the targeting and they have terrible accuracy.

I'd rather pay for the product than be the product.

What about a gold check mark on Twitter for $5,000. And no character limit, since rich people say the most important things.

It should definitely cost something to protect your tweets to avoid a ratio. Per-minute protection charge.

"A wall is ineffective, expensive, and immoral." — Nancy Pelosi

If you're not free to be wrong, you're not free.

Twitter can help us have healthy discussions about elections by not helping us have healthy discussions about elections. Just stand down and let us speak freely.