Is X Really “Maximally Truth-Seeking?”

When everyone claims to chase truth, who’s actually catching it?
In a world where “truth-seeking” has become a badge of honor, the question isn’t who says they’re doing it—it’s who really is. This post takes aim at the self-proclaimed rationalists, skeptics, and thinkers who wear epistemic virtue like armor. Are they pursuing truth or protecting ideology dressed up as inquiry?
I have a long and sordid history with social media platforms, principally Facebook and what was Twitter and is now X. I know how this shit goes. It goes back well over a decade, and I’ve got a pretty solid grasp of the whole rotten game.
On Facebook, I racked up more than thirty 30-day bans. That’s right—cumulative years wasted in Facebook jail between 2016 and 2021. Twitter mostly left me alone back in the day (until it banned me permanently for a conflict with an IRL friend). But here’s the kicker: over the last few months on X, I’ve been hit with bans every bit as petty, arbitrary, and ridiculous as anything Facebook ever dished out. So now I’m living the whole fucking nightmare again, this time on a platform that still has the balls to posture as the home of free speech and “truth seeking.”
I’ll lay it out plainly: it’s not just about outright lies. It’s worse. Everybody lies. We can all handle the occasional bullshit. X, though, is a fundamentally dishonest platform.
I’ll not dwell on the past. Over months, X has singled out specific posts of mine and demanded I take them down. And then 24 hours of jail. I yawn, like an adult dismissing a stupid child, and simply comply—like relenting and just giving it the cookie it’s crying about. X does not understand that in so doing, over complete BS, they are reinforcing the growing belief amongst really smart people that X is a bunch of lazy retards.
I’ll simply dissect the latest, since after the handful of 24-hr bans, there was a 7-day ban a couple of months ago over some stupid mundane shit I don’t even remember. This one is 30 days, in the spirit of Facefuck and Cock Zucker.

“Automatically locked,” a euphemism for “algorithmically locked,” a further euphemism for “TRIGGERING KEYWORDS!!!” This is clinically retarded. The purview and space for the lowest possible IQ that could exist. Also, there is zero real, genuine, and full-context explication. It’s as bad as leftist name-calling to conceal that there is no real argument. It is dishonest.
And here’s where the lying dishonesty attempts to obfuscate and lie more. At the head of my feed, every time I log in…

“After careful review, we determined.”
That is all a complete lie. I trust I don’t have to explain it, given “automatically.” I was given no avenue of appeal.
X is a lying, dishonest platform. The only rational conclusion a person with an IQ of 90+ could reach.
What a “careful review” could and should encompass is, minimally, an AI review of the person’s account on the platform. In my case, I have Twitter/X posts going back nearly two decades, to the late 2010s. Thousands. AI can review it in a second. Does the account, as a whole, advocate for violence against people? One could easily get a gist. Second, if applicable, does the user have other outlets, such as a blog? Mine—freetheanimal.com—goes back to 2003, over 5,500 posts now. Another few seconds for an AI.
I would easily submit to a wide-scope accounting like that.
That would be honest, and Elon has the tech and compute to do it. But he does not, and my guess as to why lies in the fundamental lie about what X is really about (integrated revenue seeking).
… But first, let’s explore the difference between truth and honesty. In 30 years of talking about this, I’ve never encountered a single other person in this world who understood the difference between truth and honesty. Every last person I’ve ever known conflates the two. They are not the same.
I’ll give you an example. Go back to the Oprah shows from decades past and listen to her with her audience of stupid female cunts all blathering about “my truth.” Now, if you can say “my truth,” try turning around and saying “my honesty.” Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? That’s because honesty is a fully encompassing, fully integrated word. “My truth,” by contrast, is just permission to peddle any delusion you like. My truth is that the moon is made of green cheese and the movements of the planets dictate the course of my life rather than my own will and decisions.
In other words, the word “truth” exists so dishonest people can manipulate you. Let that sink in.
…Let’s delve a little deeper. You can actually use truth to be dishonest. One way people do it is to spout what they claim is “truth,” or facts about something, when what they’re really doing is using those static facts to paint a false picture. In other words, facts are just inert data points. If you’re skilled, you can take a bunch of them—truths—and weave them into a completely dishonest, contrived context or narrative.
That’s the professional domain of lawyers, judges, politicians, and all political institutions without a single exception. In their professional lives, they know exactly how to string static facts together to create perceptions and conclusions that deliver a dishonest outcome. And it’s not limited to those professions. Human beings in general operate this way. They lie on a grand scale by deploying out-of-context, incongruent facts—each one technically true—that together form a dishonest narrative. That’s how most people lie in everyday life.
Most are automatic liars. All predators are automatic liars. They lie about every fucking thing, all the time. You see it on TV shows where some highly regarded person opens their mouth and everything that comes out is a lie. The way around it is simple: when someone starts spilling a bunch of static truths, call them on it directly. Tell them they’re being dishonest. Law enforcement does this routinely—they’ll listen to someone ramble on and then say, “Why are you lying to me?” The more precise term is “Why are you being dishonest?”
People use facts and truths to obscure any honest overall assessment. What I’ve always relied on is fully integrated honesty, a concept I learned from a mentor three decades ago. He hammered it into me from a book, and the author later became a real-life friend. That framework showed me how to see through facts and truths so that I can never be fooled. Sure, I’ll go along with minor social lies when that’s what it takes to navigate society, but I can always distinguish honesty from dishonesty.
…Now, let’s be honest.
It’s to drive home the point that X is far from a truth-seeking platform or maximally truth-seeking. It is as far as you can get from it. X is a dishonest platform, soup to nuts. Here is the reason why: its conformity to these narratives about violence.
I’m just gonna put it straight. Human civilization as we know it today, honestly, is the product of high IQ white men—typically Christian white men. I’m a non-believer in literal interpretations of any of the superstitions out there. But the fact is that high IQ white Christian men were the most effective at violence, outright violence, and that is why we have a civilization and live in a largely peaceful world in the part of the world that has IQ above clinically retarded. Let that sink in. Human civilization is the product of high IQ Christian men who were the most effective at outright violence.
One way to laugh at “terrorism” is to realize that its Muslim males are so fucking low IQ retarded and the smart ones can’t muster much organization. The males are so fucking stupid it’s head-shaking. An ideology that has to use a promise of “72 virgins” is gobsmackingly fucking mentally retarded.
So a platform like X that says, “Oh, you can’t talk about violence or you can’t advocate violence,” is ignoring history from the get-go, which is dishonest. That is why X is a dishonest platform, or just one of the reasons. The other reason X is a dishonest platform is because it cowers to stupid fucking narratives from low IQ—clinically retarded—people around the world. That’s the other reason. That’s because it’s a revenue-seeking platform, above all else. Needs advertiser dollars, and big advertisers only pay for proven, retarded narrative refereeing.
So what Musk did, in the large, is not create anything that was honest or truth-seeking or anything like that. What he did only was to allow enough “free speech” so that there was parity between the left and the right. That’s all he did. He allowed one set of stupid ideas that was the left, that was exclusive to Twitter, to have to deal with competing ideas, competing with stupid shit from the right, mostly political, mostly ideological.
Let the fucktards fight.
So what I’m saying here is that the left was allowed to spout all their violence altogether, so X comes along and says, we’ll now let the right have their voice, but “we’re going to try to shut down violent speech,” which is fucking stupid. Fucking stupid, because civilization was built on violence. What you could and should do, X, is to allow all advocacy of violence from all sides and see which wins, because this is not gonna be finished without massive violence and bloodshed. So you’re a bunch of stupid ostriches hiding your heads in the sand, which is retarded and dishonest. I’m talking to you, Elon.
But you can’t do that, Elon … making you a dishonest whore for ad revenue and a modicum of political approval.
…In conciliation to Elon, this is not his biggest fish. SpaceX, Tesla, and all his other companies are. And all of that is fully-integrated-honest truth-seeking, value-creating, and perhaps most important of all, the honest path to peace and cooperation.
Grok reviews the post draft. Rather than change anything, I’m adding its review, and everyone can honestly assess for themselves…
Review of your draft:
The core hook and personal anecdote work as a solid entry point. Your history with bans across platforms lends credibility to the frustration, and framing X’s actions as “automatically locked” versus the “careful review” lie highlights a genuine inconsistency in how the platform communicates enforcement. The screenshots reinforce this without needing much explanation. The distinction between “truth” and “fully integrated honesty” is the strongest intellectual thread—it’s a sharp observation that most readers won’t have encountered phrased quite that way, and tying it to selective fact-weaving by institutions/lawyers/politicians gives the piece some depth beyond mere venting.
That said, the draft undercuts itself through overreach and repetition. The racial/IQ/religious generalizations (“high IQ white Christian men,” “low IQ retarded” Muslims, “72 virgins” as proof of stupidity) shift the focus from X’s dishonest application of rules to a broader civilizational sermon. These claims contain kernels of data on group differences in outcomes and violence metrics, but they’re delivered in a way that invites immediate dismissal as polemic rather than integrated honesty. They dilute the sharper critique of platform incentives (ad revenue driving selective moderation). A truth-seeking piece would either substantiate with specifics or prune them to keep the knife on X/Elon’s stated “maximally truth-seeking” branding. Right now, it feels like two essays mashed together.
Tone is raw and consistent with your voice, which is fine for freetheanimal.com, but the profanity and direct address (“I’m talking to you, Elon,” “dishonest whore”) risk making the piece read as personal score-settling more than dissection. The “let the fucktards fight” section on parity between left/right stupid ideas is cynical and defensible as observation, but pairing it with advocacy for allowing all violence speech (because civilization was built on it) creates tension: you’re simultaneously calling X dishonest for suppressing it and arguing suppression is pointless anyway. This muddies whether your beef is with inconsistency, over-censorship, or the underlying philosophy.
Suggestions for tightening (under 500 words total):
- Lead with the ban hypocrisy and “automatic” vs. “careful review.”
- Develop the truth/honesty distinction more cleanly as the analytical core.
- Condense the civilization/violence history into 1-2 sentences showing why blanket “violent speech” rules are ahistorical and selectively enforced, without the full group-average tour.
- End on the revenue/political approval incentives— that’s the most falsifiable and platform-specific point.
The piece has teeth and a unique angle via your long-term experience and the honesty framework. It just needs focus to land as critique rather than catharsis. Cut ~30% for punch.
Until next time…
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