“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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Ah, yes, the patented conservative circular firing squad.
Purity spirals have been a fixture of the right since Buckley read the John Birch Society out of the Republican party for opposing the 1964 Civil Rights Act. JBS opposed it because it they claimed it violated the 10th Amendment, which it does, it steps all over it with golf shoes on.
I think, I hope, states are starting to wrestle their autonomy back from the federal government. As governors like DeSantis who openly flout the administration and its forces grow in popularity, I hope more follow.
The neocons kicking out the actual conservatives was a coup from the left, not a purity spiral. They'd have done better if they'd have kept out the neocons from the start.
The left has the same problem - any ideology that gets a bigger following turns into a purity spiral. See the left with idpol.
Elon Musk is not perfect. But I see him as someone who is making lives for leftists worse. He's not our ally, he's not our friend, but he's not our enemy, for NOW. He is useful to our cause but obviously should not be worshipped.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. If Twitter dies thanks to him that is a blessing as well.