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Putin’s Pals Brag: Elon Musk ‘Really Is Our Agent!’
Kremlin propagandists are rejoicing after Congress omitted aid to Ukraine from its most recent government funding bill.
Erm, I’m no fan of Musk, but he did that to Congress how now?
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This episode is largely based on the work of Marisa Kabas at The Handbasket. Great stuff. Go, read, subscribe.
Also based on the work of Ben Collins:
Also quoted:
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No, it really wasn’t. By the time Musk bought the thing it had already been appropriated as a misinformation tool for authoritarians and any value it once may have had was all but gone. Without it there is a very real likelihood that Donald Trump never would have got his political career off the ground. Twitter has been terrible for years, but now it’s super-duper-double-plus-bad-terrible with fascism on top.
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it makes you wonder if skynet initiated the apocalypse to reduce to the number of unexpected variables while self driving. no people, no pigeons, no problems!
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Editor’s note: This story was originally published June 9, 2023. The Forward updates and re-publishes this list from time to time as warranted.
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It’s only logical.
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When looking at the Mirror World, it can seem obvious that millions of people have given themselves over to fantasy, to make-believe, to playacting. The trickier thing, the uncanny thing, really, is that’s what they see when they look at us. They say we live in a “clown world”, are stuck in “the matrix” of “groupthink”, are suffering from a form of collective hysteria called “mass formation psychosis” (a made-up term). The point is that on either side of the reflective glass, we are not having disagreements about differing interpretations of reality – we are having disagreements about who is in reality and who is in a simulation.
Previously on BoingBoing:
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They’re implying that Musk’s shitpost influenced Congress, or at least caught the mood of the nation.
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No it wasn’t? What world are you living in?
Oh, so a platform for misinformation and nazis is fine, as long as the interface is great…
Interface is NOT the real problem with Xitter… It’s not.
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Pure evil is too kind. Elon takes evil to depths we have not seen, we lack the language to properly describe his craven shitty life.
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He got the hat color right.
Only idiots wear all black in hot sun.
But, but… he’s just showing how he’s a BLACK HAT HACKER… also, he has no idea what that means…
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Twitter was already a toxic cesspool that was losing money long before Loneskum decided he wanted to own his favorite toy.
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Twitter Is at Death’s Door
I understand nobody wants to be bothered with work stuff at home but I hope Death finally gets up to see who’s been knocking already.
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He doesn’t answer much after all the TikTokkers leaving burning bags of poop. You know, Jokes Done To Death.
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These days, when you mention Musk’s countless blunders in running X, you get a standard retort from his defenders
When hasn’t that happened for anything Musk is involved in? That “weird nerds” meme is pretty dang old at this point.
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