DEAR MARK CUBAN

Tweeting isn't doing it, so now I'm doing the open letter thing

Dear Mark Cuban,

I’ve been tagging you in tweets for a while now, but Twitter suppression is a hell of a thing, so I’m taking my ask to Substack in the hopes that other people will help get it to you. I know it’s not my place to tell you how to spend your fortune, especially when I’m broke AF, but I’m going to make a suggestion anyway:

PLEASE BUY TWITTER.

You do good things with your money. You care about this country and its citizens, and not just the ones who enjoy sportsball. You seem to want what’s best for others, which makes you an anomaly amongst the billionaire class.

This makes you the anti-Elon. And we need so many people to be as anti-Elon as possible, because that dipshit douchebag only bought Twitter to kill it in time to impact the 2024 election.

You know other rich people who do good things, so together you can do the ultimate good thing and save the most important social media app on the planet. Because, if we’re being brutally honest, if you save Twitter, you’re literally saving the world from being consumed by disinformation.

When I joined Twitter in 2009, it was such a fun place to be. It seemed like it was all writers and comedians who were getting TV shows and book deals from one tweet going viral. We played hashtag games and said good night when we signed off. We didn’t worry about threats, even if we got into any beefs. We had this weird thing called “respectful discourse.” No, really!

Twitter got political in 2012, but I’m here to tell you that I never got trolled by a single Mitt Romney supporter calling me things like “libtard,” and Romney’s voters didn’t cry for months after Barack Obama was re-elected in a landslide. Everyone just went back to living.

And then, 2015 happened.

I tried valiantly to warn everyone about the scourge that is Donald Trump, who blocked me in the fall of that year because he’s a giant baby who hates the truth about himself. I didn’t get my blue check until 2016, and only because I was getting cyberharassed by MAGAts, and that helped to at least boost my visibility.

The MuskRat has taken away everything that made Twitter superior to all other social media apps. It started when he made the Verification process utterly meaningless. Now some basement dweller named “MAGADude89528936526” gets more visibility than a sitting member of Congress. Or a talented writer trying to sell her book.

Since Elon was allowed to buy Twitter—which is always and forever Twitter and never X, because FUCK HIM—hate speech has risen exponentially along with deep fake videos and disinformation. Anti-semitism in particular is running rampant and fully unchecked. #ThisJew can show you far too many examples of Nazis trolling me and Twitter doing fuck all about it.

His lackey, Linda Yaccarino, is no better. A Republican who hired her own son to help create pro-GOP memes to please her boss (that would be Putin, not Musk, and don’t tell me I’m being paranoid, because I think you know I’m not), Linda has never once responded to any of my tweets showing her all of the anti-Semitism she’s being paid to ignore. Linda doesn’t care about Jew hate on Twitter as long as her paychecks keep clearing.

Here are just a couple of examples, in case you never see my tweets no matter how many times I tag you because Elon doesn’t want anyone seeing my tweets.

Yes, I reported all of those tweets. No, Twitter didn’t do anything.

The other day, one person at Twitter seemed to be working and suspended a little shitbag named “Pro2ASteve” who had a blue check and a whole lot of Nazi shit to say. But this was an anomaly. A bug, not a feature.

Steve definitely belongs in the trash. Along with Elon.

I have some of the biggest names on Twitter following me now, like Stephen King, Mark Hamill, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, countless writers and journalists, and most of MSNBC. I’m still trying to get my book deal, but now it’s close to impossible to imagine it going viral thanks to Elon’s suppression of high-profile “Resistance” accounts like mine.

Elon could’ve bought any other social media app where those dumb green frogbois congregate—seriously, is there a dumber word than “Groyper”?—but instead of acquiring Gab or Telegram, he bought Twitter. He could’ve had Truth Social for a buck and a quarter, but he bought Twitter.

A person who can’t pick up on basic social cues shouldn’t be in charge of a social media app. A person who inherited their billions and essentially uses their privileged position to blow shit up shouldn’t have any impact on our elections.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Elon tries to unload Twitter once Trump loses in November, not that he should be on the ballot in the first place, but that’s not your fault.

So ANYWAY, I’m here to humbly ask for you to do something and do it before Elon can do any more damage. Likes are now private (I guess so no one can see how much he loves his anime porn memes) and he’s threatening to take away blocking. No one should have to accept harassment as a part of their online experience.

We want our Twitter back. The only way that happens is for someone who cares and has the means to step in and save it from the Evil Shitlord.

And I’ll only ask for a small finder’s fee once the deal is signed. A girl’s gotta eat, especially when no one is hiring political writers and publishing is in the toilet.

Love,

Tara

(PS, if you’re not going to buy Twitter, then please at least buy my book The Sound of Settling & tweet it to your millions of followers)