Joseph Franklin
3 min readNov 22, 2022

Elon Saved Me from the Left

I was a communist, that’s what all my online stuff said about me, that’s what all my online groups reinforced. Twitter under Dorsey, used the algorithm to melt my mind like plastic, making me feel what psychology.com defines as empathy, making me loopy. I really thought at one point every person on earth was deserving of food. Dorsey, with his Californian style, fostered a place safe for performative, mild, radical thinking. I thought. I got to a point of communism where I was thinking the disabled deserved help. All my posts were NPC love for people — all walks of life. Then the liberals quit.

Joseph Franklin

Poet; Quadriplegic; Rust Belt; Zen; Zazen; Pop Culture;