Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/02/16/elon-musk-to-his-sycophant-pet-journalist-matt-taibbi-you-are-dead-to-me.html
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Toadies and courtiers will never learn. For all Taibbi’s smirking pretenses of sophistication and superiority, his surprise at this turn of events marks him as yet another fanboi rube.
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I really hope this breaks Taibbi so badly he reboots to his 2011 version.
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Something something leopards, faces
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Taibbi once reeked of Musk, but now smells of the desperation of a jilted lover.
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Hey Matt…
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What is a Taibbi? Anyone? Anybody???.. Bueller?
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That’s a shame
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The post-subprime-crisis version was better, but he never shook off the stink of his Moscow drugs-and-hookers days at The eXile. He and Mark Ames are extremely talented and hilariously vicious writers, but there’s always been a nasty and hedonistic edgelord undertone that makes them susceptible to promoting right-wing ersatz-populist Libertarians like Musk.
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…whined the “independent” “journalist”.
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There’s no going back to a version of Tiabbi that progressives will ever take seriously again. He’s shown who he is and it’s no one worth reading.
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Taibbi is up there with Glenn Greenwald on my list of “What the hell happened to that guy?”
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“a favorite strongman sport: ritual humiliation”
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Kicked out of the Incel Nazi clubhouse? Oh no!
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I guess no horse for him.
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I suspect the FSB can reapply that fragrance as needed. He has some real bad opinions, but the public torching of his own credibility, particularly on Russia issues, feels coerced.
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Does something like that ever happen? I envision a further slide to the right.
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Please get off “Twitter”? Does this guy have a single consistent thought? Besides I’m going to take my ball and go home and destroy Western democracy?
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I had the same thought, but then noticed that this exchange was from April 2023. The X rebrand happened in July, I think.
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“Courtiers are indeed just like the counters on an abacus, which according to the will of the person doing the calculating are worth now a fraction of an obol, and a moment later a talent. Just so, courtiers become objects of envy and then of pity at the whim of the king.” – Polybius, over 2000 years ago
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