Rational Left
Center-left academic type. Generally pissed about the state of the world but I know none of our endless crises are actually new because I'm a historian.
Joined Oct 2021
A bit of history.
Perhaps the worst campaign slogan in the annals of American presidential elections.
Herbert Hoover, 1932. (I own one of these, actually.)
So the RJC denounces West and Fuentes.
Will they break with Trump if/when he still refuses to clearly break with either?
No, they won't. And it's beyond pathetic - it's dangerous, coddling people who endanger Jewish lives.
Exactly. Trump denies knowing who Fuentes was, but he says he invited West.
"Total free speech" MuskChan continues to ban accounts for no apparent reason.
It appears likely it's a combination of deliberate malice from Musk and the further decay of the moderation systems since he fired most of the staff.
A smart piece arguing that Elon is just dumb.
https://oliverwillis.substack.com/p/i-think-elon-musk-is-just-dumb
Yeah, I wondered about this. Musk keeps saying he'll allow anything that isn't forbidden by local law.
But local law is different in different countries.
Not sure if it's his own coinage, but Rick Wilson referred to the emerging Twitter hellscape as "MuskChan"... which is pretty perfect.
I just got a Washington Post breaking news mobile alert on Jeffries's election as D House leader... with a picture of eyepatch Rhodes.
Not the most felicitous slip.
Receipts on Twitter banning pro-democracy accounts targeted by the Chinese government.
NB that after it got attention and protest, these accounts were quietly restored. Sunlight remains a powerful disinfectant.
https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1597808800547102720
Sadly, the effects of Twitter's evisceration are being felt in China's protests.
The lack of moderation staff combined with Musk's eagerness to help dictators (he howls about total freedom for hate speech yet bans pro-democracy accounts that China targets) is letting Chinese censors drown out the protesters with spam.
Twitter used to be key to circumventing censorship and organizing protest in authoritarian states. Not anymore.
Rhodes's post-trial comments praising the DOJ for nailing him with the evidence came strangely close to "It's a fair cop."
Is he hoping to look 'reasonable' on appeal? Because praising the fairness of the prosecution and the strength of their evidence isn't an obvious appeal strategy...
Rational Left
Center-left academic type. Generally pissed about the state of the world but I know none of our endless crises are actually new because I'm a historian.
Joined Oct 2021