You can polish a turd, but at the end of the day it’ll just be shiny shit.
Rebranding won’t save the sinking ship that is Twitter. Making it a better platform might actually save it, but Musk is not interested in that, he just wants to make money.
The way Musk is leading Twitter he’s either a moron or trying to destroy the entire service.
Maybe someone called him a slur in a tweet and now he wants to remove the entire platform? Who knows. Though we was mostly the guy calling others pedos…
He paid $21 billion of his own money for it. That was like 10% of his wealth at the time. It also had a negative effect on Tesla’s stock price. He lost a lot of wealth because of this.
I think it is more likely that he did not intend to purchase it and was initially just trolling. But someone filed the legal paperwork and he had to go through with it.
IIRC there’s an episode of Jacobin Radio where they interview the author. Really fascinating, actually! I’ll dig around after work and try to find the link!
I don’t ingest a lot of right wing media, but it mighg make sense because people who ingest right wing media are usually living in an echo chamber and are gullible. 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
The us right is the local bourgeoisie and it’s propaganda is intended for everyone so everyone doesn’t climb over the fences and eat them alive. The us “left” is the national bourgeoisie and their propaganda is directed at their members and collaborators so as to maintain unity.
At this point, we need to pull a page out of Iceland’s book. They arrested their bankers over bailing them out. We need to do the same, only include politicians on the menu too.
I wonder if that has anything to do with the growth of the right.
No doubt plays a role, but I’d say it has more to do with the media’s obsession with getting paid. They are a business first and foremost, journalistic integrity be damned. They pushed stories they knew would get clicks without any regard to the facts or properly framing the issue.
Yeah pay walls don’t help but they didn’t cause the issues we’re seeing. Those that follow the actual fake news that conservatives push weren’t reading articles anyway, the paywall wasn’t what kept them from reading and researching properly.
It’s actually frightening how much is spent on right wing propaganda. I know there are whole businesses dedicated to posting on social media pretending to be genuine users. The last election in Illinois they mailed out fake newspapers with all kinds of nonsense in them. They even have country music tours that go to small towns with political messaging.
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