mtswIt's pretty remarkable how much Elon's Twitter takeover is a textbook fascist takeover: leftists immediately purged, censorship regime imposed behind the scenes, secret police rooting out enemies, right wing terrorism supported by the state, etc and how uncannily similar the mainstream liberal response of pretending nothing is wrong is, even with *very low* costs of walking out the door and refusing to collaborate.
Not really my problem I guess but def feels like one of those "if you don't know how'd you'd react when the fascist take over, now you know" situation
Probably goes without saying but the often clownish administrative incompetence (along with that fact reassuring the liberals that the regime will therefore collapse on its own without requiring anything of them) is a pretty obvious parallel to actual fascist regimes as well
I don't want to overstate the stakes here. Ultimately, as the site gets ruined you can just... stop using it. But you actually have to, you know, do that. If you stay on, your information environment will slowly be poisoned and therefore your mind will be poisoned.
Flav 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇷🇴@mtsw You don't like censorship? Make your own Twitter! When a word like fascist is being overused it diminishes its meaning.
aptlyundecided@flavc @mtsw Calling a thing fascist is no different than describing its shape. The word isn’t meant to be some reserved title for the particularly horrible things in the world. It only describes:
- nationalism
- dictatorship
- forceful removal of opposition
- social “ranking” or segmentation based on level of dedication.
I think talking about it more, would make people understand it better. Because Twitter atm checks every box above.
@aptlyndecided @mtsw Except for nationalism (which is not a bad thing to love your country), you sound like you're trying to describe the left. Remember when the leftists running Twitter before Musk censored and deplatformed their political opposition? They cheered when Jeff Bezos pulled the plug on Parler. Also "the summer of love" when American leftists torched and tore down entire cities for months. Leftists are everything they claim to stand against.
@aptlyndecided @mtsw Take whatever you want. Are you're surprised to see the Fediverse (not Mastodon network) is not just another safe space for leftists to complain about "fascists" and "Nazis"? You're right that now I can finally vent about leftists without being censored and banned, but I never used Twitter in the first place. Twitter was just an echo chamber where the leftists could tell each other what they like to hear without anybody interrupting them.