I’ll bet that a lot of the devs that managed backend tooling are gone now and their scripts just won’t work with “x.com” as the domain name.
The fact that they’re essentially overwriting url hyperlinks instead of swapping domains shows that there’s some sort of major bitrot happening behind the curtain.
Oh yeah, not arguing that it’s getting worse and we’re primed for something, just that I think it’s a bit unfair to say that a majority of Americans are rabid gun nut chuds.
That archetype is just the type of person the political economic establishment sees as the “American Ubermensch” so propaganda elevates them and establishments protect them.