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> assumption other people are partisan.

That's what you are doing. I am pretty left-leaning myself, if you look at my post history.

Twitter was a notorious toxic dump long before Musk acquired it. Nothing in what I described was a lie.

The blue checkmark was supposed to be something that meant "account is verified, person is who they say they are". It was weaponized by the platform itself to mean "this person has no naughty opinions". Now I ask, was this an improvement?

Now it is actually more straightforward. "Blue checkmark means person gives money to Twitter on a monthly basis". It is still a toxic dump, it just smells different.