Who loves buying Twitter blue checks? The Taliban.

This would have been unimaginable a year ago, yet here we are now.

Mind you, blue check status was always a terrible status symbol. It's just more terrible now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64294613

Taliban start buying blue ticks on Twitter

Prominent officials have bought ticks which used to indicate notable accounts verified by Twitter.

BBC News

The funniest aspect is how the Taliban is literally praising Elon Musk, saying he's "making Twitter great again".

What an endorsement!

@atomicpoet Of all the things that could have happened in the 21st century, the one I did not have on my bingo card was “the word ‘great’ completely inverts it’s meaning”
@CraigSloss @atomicpoet "Great" as in "the Great War", "the Great Plague of London", etc