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Guy Chamberlin said:
I didn't engage much with Twitter in the first place and thought this would be a swell time to pull the plug, but when I scoured my X account yesterday I could not find a prompt that let me quit. 

Can anyone point me to the quit button? 
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In Twitter, go to your account, choose Settings and Privacy, choose Your Account (again). There should be an option to "Deactivate your account." 

On that same page, you can download an archive of your tweet history. 

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
I didn't engage much with Twitter in the first place and thought this would be a swell time to pull the plug, but when I scoured my X account yesterday I could not find a prompt that let me quit. 

Can anyone point me to the quit button? 
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I believe in account settings there’s a button that allows you to deactivate your account.

Apparently there’s services that let you completely nuke all your posts first. I might reactivate just to use one of those then deactivate again.

I’m like fully out on the platform altogether at this point, but I am starting to worry about the downstream effects of one of the most prominent social media sites being a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republicans. Americans already consume enough propaganda.

Ken White (Popehat) was musing Bluesky better be ready for Elon to sue claiming IP infringement or some bulls#!t. If they go judge shopping somewhere favorable ideologically he thinks they’ll be inclined to side with Musk regardless how flimsy the pretense is. Lots of prominent GOP folks on Twitter already call for legally enforcing their s#!tty opinions as free speech people MUST be exposed to. Damages against advertisers leaving Twitter. Etc. Yeesh.

 
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Don't get me wrong, life would be more pleasant without reading another irrational screed from Defender AO or the rapidly imploding Loe Doesn't Know. But these are the people who elected our next President, and I can't see the point of a Politics & Religion Forum without them. 

 
someone who can't get along with his family, co-workers, and others who know him best is here chastising people for being f#&%ed up.    how f#&%ed up is that?

 
knapplc said:
In Twitter, go to your account, choose Settings and Privacy, choose Your Account (again). There should be an option to "Deactivate your account." 

On that same page, you can download an archive of your tweet history. 
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Thanks. That kinda worked. But it's unclear if I've actually deactivated. There are steps that seem to discourage it, and a "why are you deactivating?" prompt that doesn't accept any answer. 

 
commando said:
someone who can't get along with his family, co-workers, and others who know him best is here chastising people for being f#&%ed up.    how f#&%ed up is that?
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Literally his daughter and his older brother who is also his best friend. 

That would leave him with only the virtual and like-minded folks he meets on the internet. And that might be the problem.

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Thanks. That kinda worked. But it's unclear if I've actually deactivated. There are steps that seem to discourage it, and a "why are you deactivating?" prompt that doesn't accept any answer. 
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That process starts a timer. You have 30 days to reconsider. If you take no action, in 30 days your account is deactivated. What I believe happens is, you no longer have access to the account, but the content stays on the site. 

 
If I can go keep an MTG voter who watches the news 24 hours a day and is only related to me by marriage company for 5 days straight while my husband plays video games in a different room, so help me God Loe can get along with his brother…

Also, how does one apply for sainthood?

 
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Guy Chamberlin said:
Don't get me wrong, life would be more pleasant without reading another irrational screed from Defender AO or the rapidly imploding Loe Doesn't Know. But these are the people who elected our next President, and I can't see the point of a Politics & Religion Forum without them. 
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I don’t know man. I see your point about those people needing to be represented in the P&R forum. But I also fail to see what earthly good it provides. We know they exist. We know they are the ones who elected Trump. And we know they all have serious flaws in their logic to do so. They have irrational beliefs and feelings.

I have yet to see a cure for their condition. IMO, the better and more pleasant option is to ignore them and pretend they don’t exist. No understanding or benefit or greater good is going to be realized by entertaining their brain disease. And let’s be honest, that is exactly what it is, a disease that there is no known cure for other than a lobotomy.

 
JJ Husker said:
I don’t know man. I see your point about those people needing to be represented in the P&R forum. But I also fail to see what earthly good it provides. We know they exist. We know they are the ones who elected Trump. And we know they all have serious flaws in their logic to do so. They have irrational beliefs and feelings.

I have yet to see a cure for their condition. IMO, the better and more pleasant option is to ignore them and pretend they don’t exist. No understanding or benefit or greater good is going to be realized by entertaining their brain disease. And let’s be honest, that is exactly what it is, a disease that there is no known cure for other than a lobotomy.
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What the hell do the Democrats or whoever do about it? How do you trick people into being passionate about things that are real?

 
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