Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@bad_leg @ChalioChapelle @frankiemuniz https://t.co/rTanLzBI4X

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@BBCSport @BBCNews I don't know how you can read the following post from George Monbiot and still drive traffic to this cesspit of hate by having it remain one of your main ways to interact with you. Not me. I'm long gone from here other than to bring this to your attention.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it. I’m now posting at https://t.co/0iVBaQEKGy.

Since Elon Musk bought this site, he has transformed it from one on which millions could converse as equals into his personal megaphone. Now the world’s richest man uses it to wage his class war, transferring blame for the ills of capitalism onto vulnerable minorities, boosting the grimmest and most antisocial accounts while suppressing the humane voices with whom he disagrees.

He has used X not only to subvert the election for the US presidency, but to create a role for himself in US politics which, though he has never stood for election and would not be eligible, grants him immense power over the citizens of that nation. This site has been used as a tool to help replace democracy with oligarchy.

Musk claimed, on purchasing the platform, to be a “free speech absolutist”. He is in fact a prolific censor, suspending dissenting accounts and using lawsuits to shut down free speech, while employing an algorithm to increase the reach of his own posts 1,000-fold. He cannot abide a level playing field.

He has permitted or encouraged the growth of a ghost army of bots and trolls to degrade the experience of all who disagree with him. Their task is not just to abuse opponents but, perhaps more importantly, to drown intelligent conversation with a tsunami of stupidity. They respond to data with denial, expertise with execration, insight with insult, humour with hatred and thinking with thuggery. They suck the meaning out of everything. The stupidity trends in one direction: in the service of economic power. It is a weapon used to suppress the possibility of a better world.

Many years ago, when I lived in Brazil, I learnt that the military dictatorship had actively sought to suppress educational levels in schools, as it saw a well-informed population as a political threat. A confused, distracted and ignorant population is easy to manipulate. Now this counter-educational model is being rolled out worldwide, and Elon Musk is its primary sponsor.

I stayed here long after I first considered leaving, as I believed it was wrong to cede the ground to an oligarch and his minions. But I came to see that those of us who do not subscribe to Musk’s grim project are being used as groundbait: stimulating the feeding frenzy of 15-minute, 24-hour hate that now powers this platform. We can no longer build anything of value here. Brute force – the unmediated power of money – has beaten humanity, intelligence, humour and democracy.

On Bluesky I can be the person I want to be, a better person than I am on X, where it is almost impossible not to get dragged into the mud. I feel I can be understood because I am not confronting a deliberate effort to misunderstand me. So I can speak more quietly.

There is no guarantee that Bluesky will not also one day be monetised by its owners or captured by self-serving billionaires. But for now it remains a place in which interesting and enjoyable conversations can be had, kindness can be shown to strangers and a better world can be imagined. I hope to see you there.

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@trfcstore You need to set up a blue sky account and start posting on there too. The mass exodus has begun (14 new users every second). Not moving over there will be like staying on MySpace when Facebook started, or staying on a platform that doesn't share the club's equality aims.

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@elonmusk Says the unelected oligarch making decisions for the American people.

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@secondamendment @jk_rowling That there are no other children suffering like you did. You have to speak out. Such ignorance and hate-mongering kills people. There needs to be more, better trained resources not less. If you've never lived it you don't understand it, so don't dismiss it. 3/3

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@secondamendment @jk_rowling Waited five years on a waiting list. Nearly committed suicide again. Saw councillors, psychotherapists, psychiatrists. Required to live in role to prove I was what I said I was. Had to come out to family, friends and work colleagues. Then someone tries to say you don't exist 2/3

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@ClaytonNik84884 @AntiLeftMemes @jk_rowling I knew aged 6 I was born in the wrong body. That was in the 1960s. Since then I've been inundated with unwanted testosterone in puberty & spent many hours being seen by counsellors, psychotherapists, psychiatrists & surgeons Turns out what I knew at 6 has stayed true for 60 yrs.

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@AntiLeftMemes @jk_rowling No, I was a child born in the wrong body. Trans wasn't a term in the 1960s. Abuse was not stopping me from feeling scared & alone. There were no services for people like me back in the day. Thank God there are people today that help such kids. It's horrible to endure.

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@SambasFather @AntiWokeMemes @rats_joe @jk_rowling Yes, at the age of 10, having realised four years earlier that I was a girl born in the wrong body my parents threatened to take a leather belt to me. They were simply ignorant over 50 years ago. They knew no different. You are dangerously, wilfully ignorant. Big difference.

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@The_Deemster @BrexitResist @AntiWokeMemes @jk_rowling As much as "the deemster" is synonymous with bigoted ignorance. Your cruel dismissal of a genuine reveal is why we continue to speak up. We don't want to. You force us to because we know the angst, the depression and the fear that these children feel if neglected. You just bully

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@ETHEREALARWEN @AntiWokeMemes @AntiLeftMemes @jk_rowling Which is why you have to see psychotherapists and psychiatrists to prove that you're not suffering from a mental illness. There is a diagnosis given and the condition is medically recognised despite what your ignorance tells you.

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@loganmrehm @AntiWokeMemes @jk_rowling Because some of us have lived it for over 60 years. Because despite being in the smallest of minorities we exist and having lived that lonely, scary, confusing childhood, we have to speak up to save others from suffering the same ordeal.

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@MiaMartel64 @AntiWokeMemes @jk_rowling Wrong. I was trans at 6. In 1968. Before the internet. I didn't call myself that. That's a modern term. Bullied at school, threatened with beatings by uneducated parents and no-one to turn to. It's a lonely childhood being trans if there's no support for you. I know. You don't.

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@AntiWokeMemes @jk_rowling You're wrong. In 1968 I knew I was a trans child. Aged 6. There just wasn't a label given to it back then. I hid it. For decades. Was bullied throughout school for being different. Forced to go through puberty. It's not ideology, it's not a choice. It's who I am.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

New billboard in Clacton. We’ve booked this one for six months and will update it every time the new Register of Members' Interests is published.

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@Phenomenal_Cat @CakeRational @jk_rowling So when I, as a trans woman, am out with my step-granddaughter and need to accompany her to the bathroom to ensure her safety, whose concern wins? I've lived more of my adult life as a woman than anything else. I'm in my 60s. Fought for this since 1968. I don't need this hate now

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

If you had a benefactor who wanted to make you a millionaire, they could give you £100,000 a year for ten years. If they wanted to make you a billionaire, they'd have to give you £100,000 a year for TEN THOUSAND YEARS . Nobody should be a billionaire.

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@PaulHelms I'm over 60. I was confused at age 7 in the 1960s. I'll take your $2000.

[Chloe Williams 3.5% #RejoinEU 🇪🇺#FBPE @ChloeW1656]

@big_monkeyball I'm over 60 and I was. Bullied for it too. Driven to the verge of suicide because there was no understanding, no empathy, no discussion.

If I had killed myself there'd have been no reason why anyone would know why I did it. Just another random suicide. Like many others were/are