Billionaire lefty Mark Cuban appears to finally realize that Bluesky — the social media platform created as a leftist alternative to X (formerly, Twitter) — has become increasingly more toxic and "hateful."
In a series of recent posts on the left-wing social media site, the Cubes came to the conclusion:
Even if you agree with 95 percent of someone’s views on an issue, if you point out just one area that’s open to interpretation, people will label you a fascist or worse.
Welcome to the club, Mark — now you at least have an inkling of how conservatives are treated, daily (including constitutional conservatives who dare to question President Donald Trump, but I digress).
First, let's catch up on the goings-on at Bluesky:
In a Washington Post op-ed earlier in June, titled "The Bluesky bubble hurts liberals and their causes," columnist Megan McArdle wrote: "The social media network was doomed to fail as users tried to re-create Twitter." McArdle continued:
Engagement on Bluesky appears to have peaked in mid-November. It’s now down about 50 percent, and the decline shows no sign of leveling out.
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You can’t blame them for trying, I suppose. But wait, actually, I can. Because even if this works, moving progressives off X into Bluesky’s beautiful blue bubble isn’t a great idea for the movement. ... It’s likely to sap already-waning progressive influence and make the movement itself less politically effective.
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t’s not surprising that progressives want to return to the good old days. But it’s not working, and I’m skeptical it ever will.
Precisely.
Bluesky also isn't working because everyday Americans have long had enough of the left's bitter intolerance, including still calling Trump reprehensible names, along with every time another "constitutional crisis" is concocted — caused by Trump, of course — it gets even more boring. All that remains is an angry, intolerant echo chamber in which TDS-riddled clowns howl at the moon.
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Anyway, Cuban created a Bluesky account in November 2024, just days after the election. He first wrote: "Hello Less Hateful World." Oops. Little did Cubes know what was to come.
The billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks posted on Monday:
The replies on here may not be as racist as Twitter, but they damn sure are hateful. Talk AI: FU, AI sucks go away. Talk Business: Go away. Talk Healthcare: Crickets. Engagement went from great convos on many topics, to agree with me or you are a nazi fascist. We are forcing posts to X.
The problem for Cuban, along with countless other liberals, was that he couldn't see the actual forest for the ever-bitter trees, which I find laughable. You know — being the "genius" Cubes is.
Author and political commentator Jonathan Turley weighed in on the Bluesky trials and tribulations of Cuban in a Friday column:
Billionaire Mark Cuban was one of the early champions of the site ...
Now, Cuban and others are experiencing what many of us have lived through in higher education for years, an orthodox environment where even marginal disagreements are treated as litmus tests.
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The problem is that many users went to Bluesky because they did not want to be challenged in a free-speech environment. It is a site for those who do not wish to be “triggered” by opposing views. If you only watch MSNBC and post on Bluesky, you can live within a hermetically sealed liberal space without the fear of contradiction or opposition.
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Cuban’s call for greater diversity of thought on Bluesky is unlikely to alter the culture of a site that is maintained as a safe space for liberals. That cloistered environment only increases sensitivity and intolerance for opposing views. It is akin to developing an immune deficiency from a lack of exposure to certain elements.
If Cuban and others want robust debate, they will not find it in digital safe spaces like Bluesky.
Again, precisely.
Beyond Bluesky, Turley's observations describe where the Trump-hating left finds itself in general:
From Democrat lawmakers like histrionic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY), serial-lying California Democrat Sen. Adam Schiff, and wingnut House lawmakers like Jasmine Crocket (TX) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), to the pretend-journalists of CNN and MSNBC, to left-wing social media keyboard jockeys, Democrats still can't wrap their heads around the reality that leftism was resoundingly rejected in the November election.
Even worse, Trump is continuing to follow through on the promises he made during his presidential campaign —and America is all the better for it.
As for the Cubes, I got nothin' — other than keep on whining, dude; we love it.
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