"He bought Twitter because he's a narcissist."
No.
I repeat. No.
Just because you don't understand the game fascists are playing, doesn't mean there isn't a game.
He bought Twitter to normalize fascist thought as part of a plot to get a future president in his pocket, and protect the accumulation of capital at all costs in the face of a boiling planet.
Must is a muppet; he's not an 8 Chan poster. Stop being so fucking lazy.
Again though, I cannot stress this enough:
Elon Musk did not spend 44 billion dollars to collect some fave stars and hang out with Joe Rogan stans on Twitter. He isn't in business with the Saudis to protect the shitposting rights of PinnochetEnjoyer1492.
Wake up. The fascists are actively trying to alter reality by normalizing their ideas and beliefs from the top down; in media, through the courts, THIS is LITERALLY the fascist creep.
"How did Nazi Germany happen?"
LIKE THIS.
@AnarchoNinaWrites Astronaut meme: "Omg, it's all remakes and reboots." ;)
But yeah, it's a pretty natural evolutionary step. If you have power, you'll want to control messaging, which makes the application of said power a lot easier.
@MostlyTato @AnarchoNinaWrites Any opposition or criticism to what they've done (tens of millions of COVID deaths in 2021 and unstoppable Omicron are solely the fault of Twitter) are...censored.
CW: Reddit post - by me - cursing, screenshots without alt-text:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Qult_Headquarters/comments/yl4nwe/comment/iuwnm83/
@AnarchoNinaWrites I think you're giving elmo too much credit here. The entire rest of the dude's personality is "terminally online edgelord" and, as far as I can see, the only slightly clever thing he's ever done is buy businesses that he can use to bolster his tech genius persona.
(The Saudis, on the other hand, seem perfectly capable of playing the long game.)
@AnarchoNinaWrites Oh, you most certainly did not ask. But it's a hazard of a public forum, and my apologies for engaging in the heckler's debate.
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@Agora The people with all the money who own everything and control both for-profit media, and political systems rigged by money more or less agree with the idea that some deserve to live in opulence, and some deserve to be ruthlessly exploited even if it kills people.
Once you accept that kind of baseline reactionary ideology, you have more in common with the fascists than those who would oppose them.
tl;dr fascism is a tool of oligarchic power even if it doesn't seem like it on the surface
@Agora But objectively, I see no evidence that the American right, which is around 1/3 of the country more or less, is unaware that they're pursing a fascist project.
Indeed, I would say they have internalized the idea that shifting demographics make democratic systems less useful for maintaining white patriarchal supremacy and as such they're DONE with democracy; quite openly.
Doesn't seem like a "trick" tbqh. Just greed and rage.
@AnarchoNinaWrites @Agora
This is essentially correct. The primary unifying force for Republicans is racism. But they fear that being extremely racist isn't as popular as it used to be--they might even be in the minority.
So how can a minority impose their will on everyone else? Fascism! Fascism gives a minority control over everyone, and every aspect of their lives, from speech to education
@Agora It’s complicated.
Florida, specifically, is filled with anti-communist Cubans. Other Latins are fairly conservative and religious.
Overall, the right has done a good job of shifting the conversation away from economics and onto cultural issues, and the right has done a better job of packaging their message. Regan eliminating the fairness doctrine has had a big impact on that.
@AnarchoNinaWrites @Agora I'm audio-reading Red Rising and chapter 9 or 10 talks about the Oligarchy's manipulation of the majority as their ultimate tool, consolidated and reinforced by their grip and influence on all things.
Many dont want to be aware of this imo, because since it's tentacles impact everything we touch, it's a fuckload of effort to be aware of this & vigilant against it. On top of invalidating our revered Preconceived Notions of the World.
@hannu_ikonen @AnarchoNinaWrites @Agora
Ok but it might shock you that… ADHD traits are not actually a good shield… we actually see them more because they are more like us. General population doesn’t see them like we see them. Elon is Autistic.
I could probably send you down a rabbit hole… 1983 senate bombing. A lot of terrorist think they are the good guys.
@Agora @hannu_ikonen @AnarchoNinaWrites
Yeah he was diagnosed. And yeah it is weird hiw they do that.
Having a deep sense of injustice is one of the traits of these right wing terrorists. Lack of impulse control, low cognition. Fast to pick up on first information. Slow to drop with new information. Struggle to remember things or remember accurately. Time blindness is very common. Desire and a need for simple rules without ambiguity.
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The big difference between the left wing and right wing Low executive functioners seems to be ridgity around sex and the fact we drop outdated information easier. Some of that is the way you cannot prove information to them cause of how religion defines truth.
Folks with ADHD are particularly vulnerable to high control cults and fundie faiths do to unmet needs for structure.
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someone walks up to you and sells a promise that you will know how to interact with all people. An answer for how to live your life morally and know for sure if you’re doing it right. And the ability to blame your mistakes on God’s will. Have somebody there telling you what to do at all times. Free from the problems of ADHD paralysis
@Agora @hannu_ikonen @AnarchoNinaWrites
Imagine wandering the earth with no meaning in life… And someone is willing to give you one. And they give you a bunch of reasons to push off that rejection sensitive dysphoria. you can pretty much worship that sense of persecution instead of feeling terrible about it
@Agora @hannu_ikonen @AnarchoNinaWrites
i’ve been doing a lot of research into this stuff. O____O
So something that like really tipped me off into the most interesting rabbithole was 9/11 Bush Did it Conspiracy theorists, and where are they now. But also the 1999 Seattle WTO protests.
And the Green Party… and domestic abusers and antisemitic stuff. And points they meet with libertarians and primitivists. 🫣(like WTO protest)
@Agora @hannu_ikonen @AnarchoNinaWrites
and honestly I just start looking like a conspiracy theorist.
The fact that the Ralph Nader group really thought we would be better off with Bush than Gore. And bush was an anti-interventionist. In the year 2000 when he was running.
@Agora @hannu_ikonen @AnarchoNinaWrites
I met a few Nader voters and found out…. All are ADHD so far. And undiagnosed at the time. I even met someone ADHD who was at that protest (WTO 1999) voted Nader, very into socialism, became a Berner, and snapped out when medicated. Still believes in progressive politics but sees stuff differently than before. More complicated than magic wand promises.
@Agora Who is doing the educating?
The media owned by capitalists who have veto and censorship power? The media who is really a ad supported entertainment industry? Educators who have uncritically bought into capitalism and have to teach a stilted version of history?
Then there is the failure of the major opposition party to back substantial economic change. Bernie was pretty popular, and he got buried.
@Agora @AnarchoNinaWrites Amygdala damage:
This study aims to investigate the gray matter volume (GMV) of key neural systems possibly associated with Excess Social Media Use (ESMU) in the general user population. It employs a sex-balanced case (relatively high ESMU scores) - control (relatively low ESMU scores) design with 50 random universi …
@AnarchoNinaWrites Eeyupp...
That's why those collaborators to the Nazi regime were banned from owning and/or operating any media outlets.
Sadly that ban was lifted in 1952.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hugenberg
Yes, Musk IS the fascist creep, but I bet you typed "coup".
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@AnarchoNinaWrites , capitalism is great in brainwashing and all its acolites.
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US4717343A/en
A combined subliminal and supraliminal message generator for use with a television receiver permits complete control of subliminal messages and their manner of presentation. A video synchronization detector enables a video display generator to generate a video message signal corresponding to a received alphanumeric text message in synchronism with a received television signal. A video mixer selects either the received video signal or the video message signal for output. The messages produced by the video message generator are user selectable via a keyboard input. A message memory stores a plurality of alphanumeric text messages specified by user commands for use as subliminal messages. This message memory preferably includes a read only memory storing predetermined sets of alphanumeric text messages directed to differing topics. The sets of predetermined alphanumeric text messages preferably include several positive affirmations directed to the left brain and an equal number of positive affirmations directed to the right brain that are alternately presented subliminally. The left brain messages are presented in a linear text mode, while the right brain messages are presented in a three dimensional perspective mode. The user can control the length and spacing of the subliminal presentations to accommodate differing conscious thresholds. Alternative embodiments include a combined cable television converter and subliminal message generator, a combine television receiver and subliminal message generator and a computer capable of presenting subliminal messages.
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