Daniel Feldman"He's not a fascist, he's just a contrarian" they say, as he threatens to jail his own employees and also random scientists
what the duck@dfeldman A man of Musk's stature in society can never be a fascist. The media gatekeepers of the polite world will continue to move the goalposts as far as they have to in order to enforce this simple dictate. It is axiomatic: The ultra-wealthy can never be evil, and probably not even garden variety bad. The media types live in a sharply oligarchic social bubble and will twist themselves into completely impossible shapes to avoid seeing their lives or their roles for what they are.
Tofu Golem@Chimneyswift @dfeldman
Sometime during the Cold war, the media started to see itself as part of the establishment rather than a watchdog on the establishment.
We've been on a long, slow decline ever since because our whole way of organizing society and politics cannot function without the Fourth Estate.
@tofugolem @dfeldman After the Vietnam war and the social struggles of the late 60s early 70s, there was a concerted effort by establishment interests to take over boards of directors of major media groups. A free press used to exist, but it was too sympathetic to protesters who had firehoses turned on them for making logically coherent arguments.