Putinâs Pals Brag: Elon Musk âReally Is Our Agent!â
Kremlin propagandists are rejoicing after Congress omitted aid to Ukraine from its most recent government funding bill.
Erm, Iâm no fan of Musk, but he did that to Congress how now?
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:
No, it really wasnât. 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 itâs super-duper-double-plus-bad-terrible with fascism on top.
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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Itâs only logical.
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 thatâs what they see when they look at us. They say we live in a âclown worldâ, are stuck in âthe matrixâ of âgroupthinkâ, are suffering from a form of collective hysteria called âmass formation psychosisâ (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 â we are having disagreements about who is in reality and who is in a simulation.
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Theyâre implying that Muskâs shitpost influenced Congress, or at least caught the mood of the nation.
No it wasnât? What world are you living in?
Oh, so a platform for misinformation and nazis is fine, as long as the interface is greatâŚ
Interface is NOT the real problem with Xitter⌠Itâs not.
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.
He got the hat color right.
Only idiots wear all black in hot sun.
But, but⌠heâs just showing how heâs a BLACK HAT HACKER⌠also, he has no idea what that meansâŚ
Twitter was already a toxic cesspool that was losing money long before Loneskum decided he wanted to own his favorite toy.
Twitter Is at Deathâs Door
I understand nobody wants to be bothered with work stuff at home but I hope Death finally gets up to see whoâs been knocking already.
He doesnât answer much after all the TikTokkers leaving burning bags of poop. You know, Jokes Done To Death.
These days, when you mention Muskâs countless blunders in running X, you get a standard retort from his defenders
When hasnât that happened for anything Musk is involved in? That âweird nerdsâ meme is pretty dang old at this point.