Elon Musk is aggressively leaning into anti-vaxx while aggressively tweaking the algorithm on one of the biggest communication systems in the world to serve his preferred political content.

This is so fucked.

He is going to kill so many people.

@gwensnyder 🎯 Spot. On. This is why "staying to fight" is a fool's errand-- not only are the Twitter faithful willfully engaging in asymmetric warfare, they're doing so against a foe that controls virtually every aspect of the battlefield. Nothing good can come out of remaining on Twitter. Nothing.


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Elon Musk is aggressively leaning into anti-vaxx while aggressively tweaking the algorithm on one of the biggest communication systems in the world to serve his preferred political content. This is so fucked. He is going to kill so many people.

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@DataDrivenMD And most of them will be Republicans @gwensnyder

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the fight should be to get people there to move here.

@DataDrivenMD @gwensnyder Also, any ATTEMPTS at "resistance" there will be used by Elon to show how much "engagement" is happening...& once your account(s) are banned there's no getting the data or deleting it (but there is always the possibility of Elon changing Twitter to make it still feed the max amount of fascist propaganda).
@DataDrivenMD @gwensnyder I think it's beautiful and if they didn't ask of me to provide a phone number I would be there too.
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If you're still on Twitter even after it was taken over by Nazis, you deserve to be misinformed.

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By promoting engagement on Twitter, they’re actually helping the foe spread his lies.

@gwensnyder We should already recognize that Twitter is beyond saving. My mission now is to keep him from tanking Tesla...
@toxtethogrady @gwensnyder If the stock price keeps tanking maybe one of the Big 3 or Volkswagen will buy it out
@toxtethogrady @gwensnyder Tanking Tesla should be the goal. If it goes down, he's finished. And it was always a garbage company.
@dalias @gwensnyder Actually, the idea would be removing Musk from management in favor of someone who is less prone to self-destructive behavior. Then Tesla can thrive, deliver high-quality electric vehicles, and Musk can continue to tank Twitter...
@toxtethogrady @gwensnyder And recover financially by his Tesla shares not going to zero. No thanks. Tesla has never been about "high quality electric vehicles" (and large EVs are not even a societal good).
@dalias @gwensnyder That said, I'm going to need a reliable manufacturer of electric vehicles to buy a car from. Maybe Rivian?
@toxtethogrady @gwensnyder Pretty much all the traditional car manufacturers have gigantic massive EVs like Tesla but with much better QC and less (but still unacceptably high IMO) phone-home/OTA/IOT shit. The only net beneficial EVs will be completely different. Aptera for instance is interesting.
@toxtethogrady @gwensnyder Need to think outside the US "look how big my SUV is it means I have a big dick you know that right???" mindset. Lots of cool EV stuff in this space. Tiny trucks (from China I think), e-auto-rickshaws in India, etc.
@gwensnyder Yep and cheered on for it... 🙃
@gwensnyder Ultimately improving the gene pool. Unfortunately, in his case, he has already procreated
@gwensnyder Based on his behavior and tweets I'm starting to think COVID stuff is the main motivator here. He was a COVID skeptic from day one and got really angry when California made Tesla close some factories for a while. He also says he had a transient reaction to his second booster, which is not uncommon but combined with this mentality could definitely trigger him.
@adamierymenko @gwensnyder Honestly, all of the covid minimizing, white supremacy, transphobia, climate change denialism, etc. have their roots in the same thing: the world is changing AND these people are no longer able to insulate themselves from the effects. And they are so scared and angry about being scared.

@gwensnyder It is more important to protect vulnerable Comrades than ever, but as long as this is achieved, let the MAGA creeps die screaming.

The more of them kill themselves off, the better for the future of our species.

We won't be able to tackle the climate crisis if we permit ourselves to be burdened by attending to the inande whims of boomer whitebread right-wingers.

@gwensnyder one of the guiding principle of Economic Royalists:
Profits over people
@gwensnyder Yes he is. Despite his "free speech absolutism" I've been banned for suggesting they don't care if we die from Covid as long as the economy is ok. After ten years there it's now anti-vaxxers and lay preachers.
I won't be appealing my suspension.
@gwensnyder Hello mainstream journalists -- can you please leave Twitter and stop supporting a platform which prioritizes and promotes dangerous anti-science propaganda?
@gwensnyder let them die, at this point the non-intelligence movement is in full swing and they will never listen no matter how good the intentions are. Elon, Trump, DeSantis and the GQP all want dumb people because they are the only ones that believe their bullshit.
@gwensnyder well he did build a self driving exploding car.
@gwensnyder Where are the lawsuits? Where is the Federal Trade Commission? Where is the Food and Drug Administration? Where are state attorneys general? There are laws / regulations about medical quackery - why aren't we asking the regulators the hard questions about anti-vaxx movements?
@gwensnyder billionaire killing is the last thrill
@gwensnyder Well, yeah… but, when the *next* Wave o’ Plague blows through, he won’t even need to slow down the Tesla production lines. At least, that’s probably what he’s aiming for.

@gwensnyder When you look at it from the perspective of the Darwin Theory, it eliminates from society the Musk Cult, so Elon Musk is just eliminating his own base of support.

Let Mother Nature take her course!

Let #Karma do what Karma does!

@gwensnyder you write as if it isn't distinctly his goal, which it is.

@gwensnyder The silver lining is that he’s going to kill his own people, who would anyways have voted for the right wingers.

Hopefully that ends up putting centrists and leftists in a better position once the right herd is thinned.

Not how I would want it to play out. Just how it is going to play out. 😞

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He doesn't care as long as it's not him.
Narcissism runs deep on that one
@gwensnyder Just let Darwin do its thing.
@gwensnyder he’s trying to hide being a toxic wage thief
@gwensnyder Musk may mislead a large number of people to their harm or death. But the numbers will be small when compared to the maiming and deaths caused by T***p.
@gwensnyder Is there any evidence of this?
@gwensnyder
why are you there ?
get out, take as many as possible with you !!
we can make "twitter" inconsequential ✌️🕶️

Conversely, stopping Elon Musk from optimizing Twitter for antivax lies will save many lies.

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@gwensnyder the way to stop Twitter is to make it an advertisers free zone. You can have as many people as you like still using Twitter but with no advertisers it’s dead in the water.

@gwensnyder Yes, he is.

And for everyone trying to celebrate this as Darwinism in action, these folks live in society with us, breathe our shared air, vote against climate and disease mitigations, fight against school vaccination requirements, and so on.

Vulnerable people who have nothing to do with him or Twitter WILL be hurt, and it’s honestly fucked up to celebrate that.