The absolute shitshow going down at birdsite is fascinating to witness. I still need to remind myself that the average person who's not very online still thinks of Musk as a cool guy who makes cars and rockets and doesn't know that he's an apartheid emerald-mine scion who's a racist, white supremacist transphobe but also astonishingly stupid, petty and evil. Maybe once twitter completely collapses the image will change.
@vinayaravind i think the users know he's a fashist but just don't care. I had several discussions about people paying money to a fash for blue; most of the folks i talked with (somewhat leftwing liberals) were like 'so what, it's their choice, i don't have a prob with it'. No one (!) tried to argue against me calling Musk a fash but still they defended the folks paying money to him. Probably because some of their friends had a blue check, too...