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I’m not saying Elon can’t do this, far from it actually. If he wants to behave this way, fine, it’s his playground.
But for someone who is a free speech absolutist…..it’s rings hallow. It was clearly all a massive lie.
@LnzyHou @Myana @BlastBunny
I console myself with the thought that it's less than half the country.
Then I worry because it's nearly half the country.
Same here. Especially painful when it’s your own siblings.
@LnzyHou @Myana @BlastBunny
I agree. My older half-brother was conservative but well-educated. Were he still alive I'm not sure if he'd buy all that MAGA crap or not.
@Jeber @LnzyHou @BlastBunny When I turned 18 I said I didn't know what party to join. My grandfather said, "I won't have a Democrat set foot in this house." That was in 1980.
Some time around 2000, he saw Bush Sr. on tv and muttered "I hate that man. He made me vote for Bill Clinton."
Yes, even my died in the wool GOP gramps went Dem at the end of his life. He couldn't stand the culture wars and the way that the GOP joined forces with Evangelicals. He'd have hated Trump.
@Jeber @LnzyHou @BlastBunny
"Died in the wool."
Man, what a typo. It's kind of cool, though, so I'm'a leaving it. 😜
A lot of people aren’t on board with the fascism of the new GOP, say what you want about Reagan the man at least played the moderate. He gave a whole speech in favor of easy immigration, legalized abortion, assault weapons bans, and expanded health coverage.
He would be demonized in todays GOP and that is frankly insane to me.
@BlastBunny @Myana @LnzyHou
My opinion of Reagan is complicated but overall negative. He was the 2nd president I served under, and a lot of those around me were ardently worshiping him like Trump's cult members. They were the most hardcore for the wrong reasons.
And have Jesus, upon his second coming, arrested as vagrant and socialist.
Their hypocrisy has been evident for ages. It's just not funny anymore.
My dad, lifelong racist voted for Obama. Not once but twice. I never dreamed I’d see the day. My dad fought Nazis hand to hand in Battle of the Bulge. He would have despised #trump too.
Wisdom sometimes arrives in Act III.
It’s so jarring when you’re close with someone and see their politics and realize they could be ok with authoritarianism.
One of the saddest stories the Holocaust was Jewish people who were caught up in the hate crimes and said along the lines of “These people were my neighbors and my friends and now they’re burning down my shop”
The hilarious part is that if he just kept his mouth shut and did minor changes he would have been successful.
He could have probably even sold that Twitter subscription by just being honest that he needs cash. I’m sure his cult would gladly hand him fistfuls to keep twitter running.
But hah, he let the Nazis and the bigots run free. He insulted everyone who wasn’t a conservative. Including the advertising he needs to stay afloat.
The whole situation is just sad…
@BlastBunny That's what keeps me hypnotized by this disaster. Not Musk's antics; he bought it, he can destroy it if he wants to.
It's the hypocrisy. The insanity, illogic and narcissism. The bloated, rotting arrogance of a rich tech bro on full display.
I have a friend who was a Musk groupie. She loved him, he was brilliant, a visionary, blah blah blah. Over Thanksgiving she admitted that, with Twitter, he'd shown his true self and now he horrified her.