Why, I have to ask, is The Washington Post paying owner Jeff Bezos’ hard earned dollars to Elon Musk’s Twitter to promote an article doxing a conservative on Twitter? The image to the right is a screen capture, but if you click on it, it will take you to the original tweet.

Post writer Taylor Lorenz spent a lot of time investigating the Twitter account Libs of TikTok. LoTT’s schtick is to find the silliest things leftists put on the social media site Tik Tok, and snark them for sensible people on Twitter. Basically, LoTT is mocking people for their own exposed stupidity. My good friend Amanda Marcotte of Salon loved that LoTT was doxed, doubtlessly hoping that Chaya Raichik, a Brooklyn-based real estate salesperson and LoTT creator would lose her job, and her posting today is a hope that Mr Musk’s buyout of Twitter results in the whole thing being killed.

Elon Musk is buying Twitter for a sum of money so large as to be meaningless to all normal people. That’s enraging many or most Twitter users, but it also feels appropriate. After all, that platform is largely controlled by trolls. So why shouldn’t one of the biggest trolls on the platform own it outright? It’s a little like Snoop Dogg buying Death Row Records. Of course, trolls never wrote “Gin and Juice.” They are just draining the life out of our democracy.

As I argued a couple weeks ago, when Musk first started making sounds about buying Twitter, his plan to let the already obnoxious troll problem spiral out of control will likely sound the death knell for the social media behemoth. Trolls are good for business on social media, up to a point. But if they take over too much, they run all the normal people off. Then the trolls leave too, because they’re hapless and forlorn without non-trolls to troll. Soon it’s just a ghost town, like Donald Trump’s utterly pointless platform Truth Social.

That’s rather amusing, given that Miss Marcotte has posted 22 separate Twitter threads dated April 25^th through 10:40 AM on the 26^th, to promote her own sites and writing..^[1]Miss Marcotte has me blocked, but all I have to do is hit and it takes me to the private browsing screen, in which I am not logged in on Twitter, and I can see what she has posted. She used her willingness to post profanity on the now-defunct website Pandagon to build an ‘edgy’ audience, so it’s difficult not to laugh at her calling other people trolls.

Meet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the right’s outrage machine

A popular Twitter account has morphed into a social media phenomenon, spreading anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and shaping public discourse

by Taylor Lorenz | Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | 6:00 AM EDT

On March 8, a Twitter account called Libs of TikTok posted a video of a woman teaching sex education to children in Kentucky, calling the woman in the video a “predator.” The next evening, the same clip was featured on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program, prompting the host to ask, “When did our public schools, any schools, become what are essentially grooming centers for gender identity radicals?”

Libs of TikTok reposts a steady stream of TikTok videos and social media posts, primarily from LGBTQ+ people, often including incendiary framing designed to generate outrage. Videos shared from the account quickly find their way to the most influential names in right-wing media. The account has emerged as a powerful force on the Internet, shaping right-wing media, impacting anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and influencing millions by posting viral videos aimed at inciting outrage among the right.

The anonymous account’s impact is deep and far-reaching. Its content is amplified by high-profile media figures, politicians and right-wing influencers. Its tweets reach millions, with influence spreading far beyond its more than 648,000 Twitter followers. Libs of TikTok has become an agenda-setter in right-wing online discourse, and the content it surfaces shows a direct correlation with the recent push in legislation and rhetoric directly targeting the LGBTQ+ community.

There’s a lot more at the original, but the problem for the left is that LoTT uses the left’s, and especially the homosexual community’s, own words and videos and actions against them. I have previously noted University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team member Will Thomas, a male who claims to be a female named ‘Lia,’ and asked the obvious question: if someone was out to destroy transgender acceptance, what would he be doing differently?

So it has been with much of the far left: their own words and actions can spawn a negative reaction. Even a slight majority of Democrats have been supporting Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, because while they might support non-discrimination against homosexual and transgender people, they don’t want their own kids to be homosexual or transgender. Parents tend to think that pre-kindergarten through the early elementary grades is simply too young for these topics to be brought up with students, who are, due to compulsory education laws, a captive audience.

What LoTT has done is to bring to the public’s attention the extremes of the homosexual and transgender movement. There will always be people who take hard left, or hard right, positions, but today’s American left seem to believe that they must go as far to the left on sexual issues, or they will somehow be supporting those evil reich-wing conservatives. That leaves the Democratic Party supporting cockamamie positions like girls can be boys and boys can be girls, and normal people in the uncomfortable position of supporting something wholly ridiculous, or rebelling against a significant portion of the issues for which their party stands.

That is why Miss Lorenz, and The Washington Post, and the left are so appalled by Libs of Tik Tok. “The truth shall set you free” is an old, old saying, and the left are so very concerned that LoTT exposing the truth about the extreme left of the party will set some of those Democrats free of their party!