This paragraph by C.S. Lewis, written in 1952, still hits hard:
“We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”
Do not rush to correct every false story about you. Some lies reveal who wanted permission to hate you. Let them gather. Let them speak. Let the impatient expose hunger. Reputation is not protected by panic. It is protected by time, evidence, and the discipline to stay clean now.
Loyalty is rarely tested by love. It is tested by changing incentives. Watch what happens when helping you costs status, money, comfort, or access. That is when affection loses its costume.
Don’t do this. When you’re already in a pit, stop digging. People can tolerate poor governance, but not such blatant censorship.
Instead, form a think tank and introspect on why you’re getting community-noted lately. I’ll give you a hint: it can’t happen unless your traditional supporters are turning against you.
Anyone can write community notes. They don’t go live and appear on posts unless people across different ideological perspectives upvote them. Before the UGC equity issue, your supporters downvoted community notes against you, even when those notes had some merit, but now they’re not. They are actively upvoting them.
So introspect and make corrections. That’s the only way forward. Turning a blind eye and handling it with arrogance will only make things worse for you.
A man is told that he can have family only if he has career
Modern women are told that they need to have a career rather than family
So a man treats career as a means to have family & for a woman family is impediment to career
This is a contrast in their approach to family
Sure I killed my dreams and wasted my precious time on earth by organizing my life around the hallucinated opinions of people who never even thought about me at all, but at least I never felt embarrassed