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  • X isn't as American as they thought

    From Joseph Pereira@1:124/5016 to All on Tue Nov 25 06:22:04 2025

    Many MAGA accounts popular in the US turn out not to be American MAGA accounts at all.

    For example, Caroline Levitt's fan page originates from Macedonia.

    MAGA Nation, with 392,000 subscribers, comes from Eastern Europe.

    America First, with 67,000 subscribers, comes from Bangladesh.

    Ivanka Trump's account turns out to be from Nigeria. The account has a million subscribers.

    These large accounts are funded by X, so now it turns out that smart international entrepreneurs are behind them. Spreading hatred among the far-right in America is a very lucrative business on X... Sad, but true. They profit from that hatred in the US from all over the world.

    There's also a Putin account. It has 292,000 subscribers and is from South Africa.

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to All on Wed Nov 26 09:25:14 2025
    Many MAGA accounts popular in the US turn out not to be American MAGA accounts at all.

    The leftist believes what Elon Musk (our friend) says about accounts on X.

    Not because Elon Musk said it, but because the media said it.

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  • From IB Joe@1:342/201 to Aaron Thomas on Wed Nov 26 11:21:02 2025
    On 26 Nov 2025, Aaron Thomas said the following...


    Many MAGA accounts popular in the US turn out not to be American MAGA accounts at all.

    The leftist believes what Elon Musk (our friend) says about accounts on
    X.

    Not because Elon Musk said it, but because the media said it.


    @Aaron, Elon added a feature to X that shoes the origins of a message based on IP addresses.

    There are bot farms out there that have been exposed because of this new feature.

    Some MAGA... such as myself... IP addresses may ping in Ontario and Alberta and... somewhere on I-75 or somewhere between Montana and Florida... If my IP address is quickly changing... It's because I'm driving through a Blue State.

    And a lot of times I' running a VPN on my phone.

    Even if my IP address says something different doesn't make me less MAGA.

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to IB Joe on Wed Nov 26 17:28:30 2025
    Many MAGA accounts popular in the US turn out not to be American accounts at all.

    I get what you're saying. IP addresses can change frequently. But leftists don't care about IP addresses, they just care about whether or not the media said it.

    I'm a nationalist and I just don't care enough about what people say on social media to dig into their IP address; they have a 0% chance of convincing me of anything unless they're showing me something in real life.

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