“Ahhh gotta love the Right. Elon looks like he's actually about to succeed at the thing we all cheered him for a week ago and half this thread is turning on him and calling him part of the enemy for actually not being stopped by said enemy. No wonder the Right can never manage to actually take any real ground or deal any real blows to the enemy. Even actually trying is considered evidence of being a turncoat.”
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It's a fair comment, but can you blame anyone for being suspicious?
I expected Soros, Bilderberg, Blackrock, all the ESG funds to move in to outbid him, but no. He just fucking bought the the website that has ultimately dictated the popular politics of the entire western world for years.
The cathedral is screeching in pain, but the cathedral also did absolutely nothing to try and stop this. Those two things don't add up, so something at least seems amiss.
Time will tell.
We will learn more about Elon over the course of the next few years than we have over the course of his entire life thus far. We are going to learn exactly what his priorities are simply by watching how twitter policies change.
The problem is that we don't know the rules of the game. It's possible that there wasn't anything they could do to stop him.
I expected woke billionaires and ESG investment funds to join together to try and outbid him. The fact that they didn't tells me that either they believe they can control the platform through other means, or twitter just wasn't worth more than Elon's offer to them.
I can't see how control of speech in a massive chunk of the western world's defacto public square would not be worth 50 billion to them.
Why? Feels perfectly obvious to me that blackrocks of the world have long learned that "public opinion" is not worth spending too much to control. Especially if the control mechanism is twitter level of basic.
In fact, the image of twitter being sold for 50 billion is still comical to me.
OTH I can bet you TikTok can't be sold even for 500 billion.