Do Twitter's Praetorian Guard Still Serve The Old Emperors?
I’ll always remember the day Twitter restored my long-suspended account. Not because it was a particularly meaningful occasion for me, but because it happened to fall on Valentine’s Day. Elon Musk’s romantic gift, as I jokingly thought of it, lasted little longer than a bouquet of flowers or a box of chocolates. Exactly two months and 14 days later, I was booted off the platform again.
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been banned from Twitter. This latest suspension is the 5th, I think, but am no longer sure. All the previous suspensions of my account left me totally indifferent. I never invested much in being on Twitter. I always knew that being on Twitter was like playing a game of hide-and-seek: eventually they would find me and the game would be over. This time, however, I am rather annoyed.
Recall what Twitter was like for the past couple of years, before Elon Musk acquired it. The platform had become, by many accounts, a graveyard. Dissidents, nationalists, edgy bois, and shitposters, had been cleared out long ago. Only a wily and elusive (or lucky) few survived the frequent purges. The majority of Twitter’s users seemed to be leftists, celebrities, and bots. It was no longer a hive of activity and opinion. Of greater concern was the censorship during the height of the ‘Covid 19’ ‘pandemic’. Verified and dignified users, experts in their fields of science, were banned from the social media site for spreading ‘misinformation’ about Covid, masks, vaccines, and anything else really. Here are some significant persons who were flattened by Twitter’s ban hammer:
Dr. Robert Malone
Alex Berenson
Naomi Wolf
Dr. Peter McCullough
There was blatant political censorship as well, with the likes of Steve Bannon and Donald Trump himself being booted off Twitter. The rise of transgenderism brought with it a rise in censorship, with users being exiled for ‘transphobic’ tweets or for ‘dead naming’ a tranny. Jordan Peterson was one such user who was culled for violating these sacraments.
Those are the headline grabbing names in the English speaking world. The censorship across the ‘liberal West’ was strict as well. To make a list of all the banned e-celebs, parody accounts, comedians, independent journalists, and just normal everyday people, would be, if not impossible, certainly impractical for this article because the list would be enormous. As the Twitter Files scandal has confirmed, the censorship on Twitter reached a ravenous fury. I can imagine the moderators at Twitter banning users left and right while cackling with glee, curling their fingers in maniacal pleasure as The Flight Of The Valkyries played in the background. ‘BAN THEM! BAN THEM ALL! MWUAHAHA!’ Of course, as we saw on the famous Joe Rogan Podcast episode with former Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde, the ex-operators of Twitter downplayed their censorship and biases and tried to pass off their nuking of users’ accounts as something that occurs after careful deliberation, but the reality of Twitter’s censorious behaviour seems closer to my dramatic scenario.
Almost all of the censorship went one way. Even the ‘accidental’ censorship seemed only ever to affect those to the right of Antonio Gramsci and those who objected to the official Covid narrative. This ‘accidental’ or ‘inexplicable’ censorship continues even after Musk took over and expelled so many of Twitter’s obviously biased content moderators. Journalist Eva Vlaardingerbroek’s account was suspended with no explanation as recently as March of this year. These things don’t to happen to CNN or Buzzfeed journalists. The capricious nature of these suspensions is, of course, entirely their point. Twitter can ban you on a whim, and they want you to never forget that.
Now, enough about all those people. Let’s get to more important things. Namely: me and my suspension.
Elon Musk has officially been the owner of Twitter since October 2022. I have maintained a cautious distrust of Elon for a long time. I also didn’t expect immediate change to happen at Twitter. While many of The Banned rushed to appeal their suspensions—only to get rejected again—I bided my time knowing that it was too early. I also, frankly, didn’t really care to be back on Twitter. Like I said, I had no love for the little blue bird.
Until that fateful Valentine’s Day. Leading up to February 14, many banned users were happily declaring that their accounts had been restored. After a few months of ironing out the wrinkles in Twitter’s modus operandi, rooting out the useless and partisan employees, and establishing some new policies, it seemed Elon’s Twitter was finally armed and operational. So it was suggested to me that I check in on my account and re-launch an appeal to have its suspension lifted. I did and it was. Curiously, I was given an entirely fabricated reason why my account was suspended. ‘A little background,’ Twitter’s message explaining my suspension said. ‘We have systems that find and remove multiple automated spam accounts in bulk, and yours was flagged as spam by mistake [emphasis mine].’ They even apologised to me for any inconvenience caused by having my account deactivated. The reason given, as I will reveal later, was total nonsense. My account was not shuttered ‘by mistake’ and nor was it ‘flagged as spam’.
At the start, being back on Twitter was nothing special. Then, other users, some of whom you’d never have expected to be allowed back on the site, were reinstated as well. Gone were the days of capricious censorship. The graveyard was now alive with the resurrected reincarnations of some of its most entertaining and influential personalities. The old Twitter was a thing of the past. The new Twitter, Elon’s ‘free speech friendly’ Twitter, had arrived. Suddenly, being on Twitter was…well there really is no other word for it…fun.
It was fun to be able to interact, finally, with friends and fellow users. It was fun to be able to respond to the hateful tweets about White people, the regime’s lies, the propaganda, the sophistry of the journos, and know that a koryos of my brethren would have my back. With freedom to say what we wanted without fear of being banned for spreading ‘misinformation’ or ‘misgendering’ or ‘hateful conduct’, the dissident-nationalist side of Twitter had a noticeable effect on the site.
My ‘following’ grew day by day. I always had a meagre handful of followers on Twitter, chiefly because I would always get banned so quickly. Within a couple of months, I had over 2.5K followers. Not a lot, I suppose, and not that these numbers are the be all and end all, but I simply want to give an example of how rapidly my account was growing. I posted things which received tens of thousands of views, something that rarely happened to me on Old Twitter. With this growth, however, came the same old problem: the jumped up hall monitors. It appears Elon’s Twitter has yet to resolve the conundrum of users who seemingly spend all day on the site snitching on other users.
The writing on the wall appeared when I attracted the Eye of Sauron for engaging in a bit of shitposting on Adolf Hitler’s birthday. Someone on Twitter had asked in a poll whether people sided more with liberals or with Nazis. More voters sided with Nazis. The poll ended either on or shortly before April 20, Hitler’s birthday, and so I retweeted the poll along with a picture of a smiling Fuhrer with the caption ‘What a lovely birthday present!’ This tweet of mine was reported by a disgruntled libtard, who reported another 90 (ninety!) of my tweets. Even the vice president of Twitter’s Trust and Safety department was roped into my birthday tweet, calmly informing a mob baying for my head that ‘posting pictures of Hitler is not a violation of Twitter’s terms of service’. I wish I could share screenshots of these exchanges as proof, which I retweeted along with some laughing emojis, but since my account has since been suspended, the screenshots have been scrubbed and I didn’t think they were important enough to save. Alas.
Not long after this, I was locked out of my account for retweeting a video in which an Arab boy sucker punched a White boy. Apparently someone was upset with my commentary on such a display of anti-sportsmanship and once again he or she, or zir, tattled on me to the Headmaster. However, I appealed my lock-out and was successful. I didn’t even have to delete the tweet which had caught the eye of whoever was out to get me. The writing was on the wall, I was in the crosshairs; but at the same time, these were signs of Elon’s Twitter living up to its promise to allow free speech within the confines of common sense.
Then on April 28, the jig was up. My account got suspended yet again. Not locked under the condition of deleting a tweet. Totally 86’d.
I’ve lost the exact count of how many times I’ve been forcibly removed from the digital premises over on Twitter, but I do remember 3 specific reasons. My very first ban came because I said Dinesh D’Souza is retarded. I stand by that and I always will.
My most recent ban and the one which preceded it two years before resulted from similar circumstances. On both occasions, I got hit by the ban hammer because Jewish people demanded it. Two years ago, a proudly communist Jew who bragged about his relatives who fought in the Red Army told me to kill myself. I responded by saying ‘you first’ and along with that retort I attached a GIF of a kitchen oven. I regret nothing.
Like a bully who picks on everyone at school but runs to the teacher the moment someone fights back and sticks a few knuckles in his jaw, this communist Jew ran to the Twitter moderators and reported my tweet, which resulted in my suspension for committing ‘hateful conduct’. Thus, I sat on the sidelines for two years until Elon’s romantic gesture on Valentine’s Day.
This latest ban also can be traced to a Jew. Ed Krassenstein is his name. I’d never heard of him until a matter of weeks ago. Upon doing a perfunctory Wikipedia search about him, I learned that there are in fact two of him and they are both rather unsavoury characters who have been involved in financial shenanigans and, ironically, were banned from Twitter in 2019 for operating fake accounts. For some reason, Twitter’s new ‘For You’ feature kept showing Ed Krassenstein’s tweets on my feed. I didn’t follow him and I wasn’t too keen on reading his boring, bog standard liberal progressive opinions. One day I responded to one of his ridiculous tweets and evidently this convinced the algorithm that I wanted to see even more of his stuff.
So it was that as I was scrolling through Twitter one day I came across yet another of Krassenstein’s ridiculous takes. On this particular occasion, his tweet was very long (he pays for the privilege of being able to tweet beyond the standard limit of characters) and he ended it by saying that Adolf Hitler was a terrible human being. I don’t even remember exactly why he said this and I didn’t think for a second that my response would put my account at risk. This was Elon’s Twitter after all, wasn’t it? So I tweeted in the replies ‘Not only was Hitler not a terrible human being, he was also not wrong.’
For me, this was such an anodyne comment that I don’t even recall the day I typed it. It could have been several days or even several weeks before the eventual ban hammer struck me. I have no idea, but for tweeting those 14 words my account was summarily executed. Why? This time for committing ‘violent speech’. I can only suspect that Krassenstein, an influential Jew with a massive following on Twitter, reported my tweet and either because he has connections with the relevant people or because his actions on Twitter carry more weight, he was able to ensure that little Pox Populi felt the full force of Twitter’s punishment. So yet again, I am unable to speak in what is nowadays unquestionably the modern public square because of a hypocritical, power-drunk, and paranoid Jew and his (also Jewish) friends at Twitter.
It is especially irksome to be booted from Twitter because of a throw-away comment regarding Hitler. Any word spoken about Hitler than doesn’t express utter hatred is taboo, and as I’ve said many times including on Twitter and also here, I’m not really a Hitler apologist nor do I think that embracing 1930s German aesthetics or arguments is necessary. So why reply to a Jew ‘Hitler was not a terrible human being’? Why did I add ‘he was not wrong’?
Well, on that second phrase, how is the angry Twitter moderator and the seething hall monitor who reported me to know what exactly I am suggesting Hitler was not wrong about? Maybe I meant he was right on economics! Is it really ‘violent speech’ to say that Hitler had sound economic policy? A roster of historians, none very sympathetic to German National Socialism, have said as much. Why can’t I? Or perhaps I was referring to Hitler’s position on issues such as subversive sexual fads and propaganda in mass media? He was not wrong about those either. Is it ‘violent speech’ to say so? The point is, without actually speaking with me and asking my intent, how is anyone to know? The assumption that a paranoid Jew would make is that I was saying that Hitler was not wrong to kill the sacred 6 million. That is not what I was implying, for what it’s worth. For reasons which I won’t get into here, I would never imply that Hitler ordered the killing of the sacred 6 million.
No, I responded with that tweet because, as I have also stated repeatedly, the essentials of the West’s current malaise are all a direct cause of the Allies’ victory over German and Italian nationalists in World War II. This malaise can be traced back further, very further indeed, but the culprit’s fingerprints are most clear around the 1930s and following years.
Consider this: in recent times influential public figures like Tucker Carlson and the popular conservative rapper who goes by Zuby have both drawn comparisons to our time and the Weimar Republic. Why? Because during the Weimar Republic, German society was a chasm of wealth inequality, German currency was worthless, and sexual depravity the very likes of which we are witnessing today was rampant.
While I may not be a Hitler apologist out to redeem the 1930s Germans, I am concerned with the truth and with pushing down the pillars which uphold the temple of lies that is Western civilisation post-1945. Therefore, I am delighted to see that people are noticing the similarities between Weimar degeneracy and today’s global Western degeneracy. I am thrilled that when someone, particularly some disgruntled conservative type, says ‘the Nazis burned books!’ there is an increasing number of courageous and informed people who respond ‘do you know what kind of books the Nazis burned?’ and then go on to inform said disgruntled conservative that the Big Bad Nazis burned books on transgenderism and destroyed transgenderist ‘institutes’. You see, the Nazis were fighting against the same forces of filth and decadence and subversion that we are burdened with today. Which raises the question: if the transgenderists, the drag queen story tellers, the groomers who target children with these sexual delusions, the bankers reducing your currency to worthless paper, the activists promoting mass immigration and the annihilation of European nations, if they all say their worst enemy are Nazis, and the Nazis were indeed their worst enemy in the past…what does that tell us?
The problem is, folks like Tucker Carlson and Zuby then do the unthinkable. In a dizzying display of ignorance and/or slavish devotion to the Steven Spielberg version of history, they not only fail to ask that question, they surmise that all those malefactors were themselves just like the Nazis!
It is because of this utter stupidity that I occasionally engage in historical revisionism. I do seek to change the narrative, to get people making the same comparisons to Weimar Germany that Zuby made, but then to find the right answers. For this reason, I will post about Hitler from time to time and the things he was absolutely right about. I will attempt to de-villify the 1930s Germans and cast that spotlight of blame and defamation onto the true villains of that era. Also, to be quite honest, posting about Moustache Man and zee Germanz is funny. Nothing gets a rise out the leftist schoolmarms and rabid anti-whites like a bit of Nazi posting. They have set up a new church—a new religion—in which they are saints and even God he/himself. Hitler is Satan and zee Germanz are his demonic legions. I am but a humble iconoclast, an agent provocateur from the counter culture here to make a mockery of their ‘faith’.
In short, while it was a throw-away comment that I hardly thought would come with a cost, I believe it was still worth it. I would say it again, and I intend to in the future, until more and more people wake up, as I had to, to the uncomfortable truths and devilish lies about the Second World War.
Elon’s Twitter, Same As The Old Twitter?
So why does this umpteenth suspension from a site I never really cared for anyway bother me?
Because it’s like the neighbours have shown up to shut down my party just as it was getting started. More importantly, it feels like a betrayal. Like a backstabbing.
For it wasn’t just my account which they banned. Joking aside now, I am but a nobody, especially compared to some of the people who were banned around the same time I was. In a purge recalling to mind the dark and drublie days, Twitter struck down users like Kevin MacDonald, a man who surely did not once fall afoul of the terms of service but instead was kicked off the platform for who he is. The same can be said of Varg Vikernes who was also banned within this one week period of purging. To my knowledge, the only things Varg had been posting to Twitter were lengthy tweets about his past, tweets which he implied were more like extracts from an autobiography he’s been working on. And of course the usual tantrums about Mediterranean Europeans.
The capricious banning of Twitter users for who they are or what they believe, rather than their adherence or lack thereof to the site’s rules, is what characterised the Old Twitter. Elon’s Twitter was supposed to be different. He had made that much clear, yet months prior to this latest purge, all of Patriotic Alternative’s accounts on Twitter had been scrubbed along with the accounts of all the individuals most prominently associated with PA. Gemma O’Doherty had been banned as well. Several banned accounts, such as those of Jared Taylor, Blair Cottrell, and Greg Johnson, still have not been reinstated. Putting all this together, can we really say that Elon’s Twitter is much different from the Twitter of old?
This latest purge was in full swing just before it got to me and it seems to have remained in full swing in the days after. Along with publicly known users like MacDonald and Virkenes, several anonymous accounts were banned as well. The removal of the user who goes by Race and Consciousness is particularly telling. Elon Musk recently went on the HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher and repeated the old mantra that defending free speech is meaningless unless you are defending speech you don’t like, and this is key, said by people you don’t like.
Another reason why I am so put out by this latest ban is precisely because Elon has been relentlessly clear about defending freedom of expression after I and the others I mentioned were banned. Prior to his statements on Bill Maher’s show, and whilst another unexplained purge was raging on the platform he spent roughly $44 billion to acquire, Elon Musk tweeted ‘Censor not, lest ye be censored’. Given the context surrounding this tweet, it’s difficult to tell if Musk meant it as a warning to Twitter’s content moderators or if it was a cheeky jibe at those of us who were helplessly watching our accounts or the accounts of our comrades get censored.
Then Musk went on to reply to Irish nationalist Keith Woods’ tweet condemning Ireland’s new legislation designed to stop so-called hate speech.
‘This is a massive attack against freedom of speech’ was Elon’s assessment of the Irish government’s plans.
Keith Woods is by no means safe on Twitter. He had already been banned in the past and only recently had his ‘official’ account restored, presumably upon successful appeal. That Elon Musk is replying to him is obviously significant in more than one way. That he is replying to Woods in full-throated agreement is even more meaningful.
Musk, one could reasonably deduce, must therefore be unaware that his team of content moderators are still removing users based on their political biases, in which case: do we have a clash of powers at Twitter? Is there a bitter old guard of non-binary Praetorians still doggedly banning whoever they can, despite the wishes of the new Emperor? If Elon Musk is unaware, then we must make him aware. Musk’s ignorance of these bans is certainly one possibility, but the fact that rules such as the one against ‘violent speech’, which did me in, even exist and weren’t immediately done away with is cause for concern.
I require some convincing that Elon really wants to put his skin in the game and take on the censorious ‘woke left’. He pledged amnesty for all banned users (within reason) yet as I said earlier, several users have not been reinstated despite widespread demand for their accounts to be revived. Just before my suspension, I was able to get a glimpse of some new tool for censoring undesired content on Twitter: Limited Visibility. A tweet that steps over the still arbitrary and subjective boundaries can be placed in ‘limited visibility’. That means no other users can reply to, retweet, or even like the offending post. Is this the behaviour of a site run by a man who wants to defend that speech the ‘woke left’ doesn’t like, particularly when it’s said by someone they don’t like? Or is this evidence that Musk is trying to find ways to satisfy the censorious appetites and calm the paranoia of other men, men like Johnathan Greenblatt of the the ADL and senator Chuck Schumer, with whom Musk recently met?
To be clear, I am not suggesting that we place our faith in Elon Musk and see him as someone on ‘our side’ simply because he said a few sensible and indeed liberal things about free speech. He is comfortably ensconced in the upper echelon of society and those who comprise it, and we know that no one up there is looking out for our best interests.
If you observe how many normies and conservatives have come to regard Musk, you will see the same sort of desperate love and hope they showered upon Donald Trump. There is something troubling in this. It shows that people feel, deep down, that perhaps the only way we have a chance is if some wealthy and powerful figure throws his weight behind us. They want a saviour. They know that this task is too daunting for them to undertake on their own. In many ways, they are right. We do need wealthy and powerful benefactors. My warning, as ever, is to be on guard and not run willy nilly into the arms of charlatans and pied pipers. Whatever Musk does with Twitter won’t change my mind about his businesses or his ventures into AI and robots and Neurolink, etc., and what Twitter is like despite or because of his take-over has done little to win me over anyway. However, I do believe there is truth in the Great Man Theory and we do need someone like Musk to box for us, therefore, regardless of whether you think he is sincere in his motives, it is vital that we hold him to his promises to guarantee freedom of speech. Without free speech, we cannot take on this oppressive and totalitarian regime.
Finally, the reason why I am embittered by this new suspension is that it comes on the heels of something which I tweeted just one day before getting whacked, which I will now paraphrase:
If we had a fraction of the resources that the globalist regime and its bootlickers have—such as Hollywood, the education system, mass media, and big business—in 6 days we could have the vast majority of the population in favour of sending migrant boats back where they came from and dismantling the NGOs that try to help them. This is why they have to pass hate speech laws and are desperately trying to censor us and kick us off social media. This is why all over the West they are eagerly trying to criminalise dissenting speech both online and spoken out loud. When we engage in the culture war and when people are made aware of what’s happening to their countries and their culture, WE WIN.