"It's only useful if it's an initiative I agree with" is a dangerous mindset

No, it's not. It's a useful mindset for driving social change.

I am serious when I call them disasters:

* Occupy Wall Street was ultimately nothing more than dividing the country, enraging the poor and middle class against the rich with some vague and never explained anger narrative. This one particularly hits me since I, being the young fool I was, got taken for a ride back then. What a waste of my (and the country's) time and energy that was.

* MeToo only made man<->woman relations more difficult and tedious for no significant benefit. The crimes alleged are obviously absolutely unacceptable, but the way the movement was carried out made women in general a liability to interact with.

* Arab Spring drove the Middle East and Northern Africa into further turmoil. In particular leading to a civil war in Syria that still rages to this day, and pushing back any chances for a democracy in Egypt by at least several generations.

If this is truly the best that can be mustered, then good riddance.

> * MeToo only made man<->woman relations more difficult and tedious for no significant benefit.

Back in the days it was easy as a man to mistreat women. Made men's life easy ...

> but the way the movement was carried out made women in general a liability to interact with.

That statement only begins to make sense from the POV that the default human being is a man and that whatever benefits women received from the heightened scrutiny of sexual offenses in the workplace aren't even worthy of enumeration.

As a thought experiment, how do you think the women you know would react to your characterization of the #metoo movement? Would you feel comfortable showing them your comment?

Back during OWS the main point of outrage was large banks using government money to subsidize their bad bets. Nobody liked this, not even the people giving the banks that government money. But we did it anyway, and the resulting moral hazards of over a decade of 0% interest rates and no antitrust enforcement gave us something even more insane than capitalism: techno-feudalism[0].

I question your read of MeToo's effects, mostly because it does not jive with my experience. What line of work are you in where women are a liability to work with?

Twitter causing the Arab Spring was largely marketing to westerners and not truth. The Arab Spring happened because the price of food spiked, not because Twitter was magically easier to access than the hundreds of other forms of communication people had access to.

[0] As coined by Cory Doctorow. Some other left-wingers call it "late-stage capitalism".

Twitter is still an important resource for many people around the world, most of which are not English speakers and are indifferent to the topics that brought Twitter so much hate. I understand some of the feelings behind these "good riddance" comments, and perhaps Twitter deserved it, but for a lot of the users it's just unhelpful collateral damage.

I wish Twitter was split and/or sold off to someone else.

I actually like TwitterX ever since Musk bought it, I think it's gotten a lot better overall.

But that being said, if the best TwitterX can do are the aforementioned then I also won't shed a tear seeing it go away into the history books.