Twitter also played a huge role in our Cultural Revolution by being a major ideological-enforcement mechanism aka a lynch mob in every pocket.
How many moronic infernos have been launched and nurtured in the past decade because they were "trending on Twitter"? Would we have even known about things like the Covington Kids, Kyle Rittenhouse or the Central Park Karen sans Twitter? The MSM and our liberal clerisy (but I repeat myself) sprinkle some hate chum in the water—look at the evil Whitey!—stir up some manufactured outrage on Twitter to start an intersectional feeding frenzy and voila! another phony controversy to advance their agenda. (Their agenda being more or less: we are Righteous & Holy, our opponents (downscale whites all) are evil and backwards, therefore we deserve total power to destroy them and rule unimpeded).
Twitter may be the greatest propaganda tool ever invented—there wouldn't have been an entire generation baptized in the Social Justice religion without it—and it gave our ruling elites a handy tool to issue crowd-sourced dogma on the fly, manage narratives and create shibboleths, and to attack their enemies while giving themselves the appearance of infallible omnipotence.
Losing Twitter has made it much harder for our self-deputized Thought Police to tell us all what we're allowed to think, say or write—they will never forgive Elon for this and they will do anything they can to regain the power they've lost.
"And most people aren’t too interested in spending scarce free-time wrestling with philosophized meta-concepts about how the left-wing orthodoxy to which our key cultural institutions have bent the knee might affect the conformation of the cultural realities placed before us; we don’t give much thought to whether the culture being imposed on us in seemingly benevolent, “pro-social justice” ways is simply the product of spontaneous derivations of the popular will, or if it’s something more Machiavellian."
I was apolitical until during W's terms when I noted a clear jump in left bias in my regular news sources. It fired me up because I could see it clearly.
I guess this is my only add to this Twitter obsession explanation. I agree that it is left radical activist (aka new normal Democrat) hive hub for cramming left-favoring narratives into the muffin heads of the easily influenced tweet follower. But I think Twitter just became an accidental platinum tool in their already bristling propaganda war chest that includes Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, the mainstream corporate media and Hollywood. And let's not forget the entire public school and higher learning education system.
But we have to take a step back to see a bigger picture for what is happening. The radical left, although larger now because of their capture of the education system that then clones more radicals that get hired and promoted by unsuspecting organizations, is still a tyrannical minority that should not have this level of power with their absurd and destructive cult beliefs.
No revolution in the history of humans was ever really grass roots bottom-up. The conflict was always between camps of elites that would make offerings to the serf-class to gain their fealty.
Today the Democrat party is the establishment party. They connect to the globalist managerial class that have been freaking out that the old Bretton Woods Global Order that launched after WWII is coming to a close. The epiphanies started during the tech stock meltdown in the 90s, then 9-11 and the Great Recession increased awareness by orders of magnitude. Then BREXIT and then Trump... and the wheels started flying off the establishment power constraint train. I still think the Pandemic was planned and executed by this globalist cabal that connects with the CCP because the CCP needs the continuation of the Global Order to continue to loot their way to economic and military superiority.
They are dangerous because they are desperate to hold onto their wealth generating system.
What we have is a clash of titans in conflict about the Global Order. The establishments wants it to continue. George Soros wants the US to just be a giant ATM for the rest of the world. Larry Fink needs Blackrock assets to keep growing. Establishment elites connected to the globalist industrial war industry need the US to keep being involved in global military conflicts.
Then there are the new Republicans... those that know it cannot continue because it has been on the backs of the American working class, and the US is in debt up to its eyeballs... our infrastructure is crumbling and homeless drug addicts fill our streets that are awash with crime. And some of these new Republicans that see clearly the end of the US being the care-giver to the rest of the world are also elites.
However, the establishment owns the media, tech and controlling interest in most large corporations. The establishment has embraced the tyrannical minority radical left for the distraction and because otherwise they don't have the votes to carry on their political and economic malice to the majority of the rest of the country. They have pledged support of the radicals, and the radicals have pledged their fealty to the establishment. And together they have enough votes to keep the establishment in power.
Musk is not part of that establishment. He is one of the titans on the other side.
Note that we are not talking about the end or perpetuation of the Global Order. We are not talking about how three Wall Street firms own controlling interest in the media, tech and most major corporations... and how they connect with the WEF globalist Agenda 2030 project and how they puppet our government officials and politicians. We are not talking about the looming global reset of the global economy as the US can no longer afford to keep giving away our working class economic opportunity and importing the rest of the world's poverty so 1% of the top can become wealthier billionaires.
We are talking about woke, and Theory, and all the absurdities it delivers.
X is their obsession, but is bigger than just the radicals. The powerful economic and political establishment wants Musk defeated and dead if they cannot force him to capitulate to become one of them.
Higher education not only indirectly engages in meta-narrative rewrites but openly touts recreating it. My Rhetoric and Writing Studies discipline and related organizations (NCTE, NEA) literally teach students the critical pedagogy-inspired Counterstory Methodology in order to write and publish their activist scholarship, to change what they target as dominant (oppressive) societal narratives from a minoritized perspective or attitude. I’m finding that Liberals, the Center, and the Right in America are woefully uneducated on these storytelling/Discourse-shaping matters (precisely cuz daily Life). I was until my last decade in academia. Hence my substack. Coda: many graduates and professors departed X for Mastadon and Slack after Musk’s takeover.
What a diatribe of gibberish. What the fuck is the radical left in the United States? The communist party would fit in my living room and the socialist party in my basement. Anything left of Mussolini is a communist to you right?
I agree with 99% of this, but disagree that they attack X because it's particularly powerful compared to other platforms -- X is just the company that fell out of line. If FB had done it, they would attack FB. Their narrative requires them to have control over EVERYTHING, so the squeaky wheel gets the hammer. (Ask Eric Adams about it sometime.)
Of course, since this article is on Substack, and since Substack is FULL OF NAZIS, we can safely ignore it. ;)
OMG who knew we have a "Nazi problem!??! These fucking people are such relentless scolds.
"Substack’s definition of that concept [free speech] goes beyond welcoming arguments from across a wide ideological spectrum and broadly defending anyone’s right to spread even bigotry and conspiracy theories; implicitly, it also includes hosting and profiting from bigoted and conspiratorial content." Uhh that's why it's called FREE SPEECH! And we all know The Atlantic has never profited from bigoted and conspiratorial content, you know things like CRT and Russiagate or 1/6 etc...
"What should Substack do with the writers who are using it to spread Nazi ideas? Experts on extremist communication..." zzzzzzz EXPERTS SAY anyone who doesn't agree with us is a dangerous "far right extremist" and deserves to be silenced....only outlets backed by Social Justice billionaires and staffed by the Good People who graduated from the same 10 colleges and who all have the exact same Approved Beliefs are wholesome and proper...
Liberals will be the last to realize that their "Everyone who disagrees with us is a Nazi" and "Everyone who hates Soros is an anti-Semite" narratives died last month with the 10/7 massacre. Now we all know that the biggest nests of Jew hate in America are the Ivy League and all the other woke madrassas and their backers and funders—who poses a bigger threat to Jews, Richard Hanania or Left academia??
I loved that commercial that insinuated the REAL anti-Semites are white kids posting online, and not the literal throngs of people taking over train stations and freeways and obstructing Thanksgiving day parades.
One of the first rules for liberals is "No enemies to the Left", thus they can never oppose anyone who marches under a banner proclaiming one of their pet radical causes, no matter how stupid or hateful.
Then a newer rule is that only Whites can be guilty of bigotry, while brown and black people are always only spotless sacred victims.
One rule pokes out one eye, the other rule pokes out the second eye, thus rendering them blind—though they can never SEE this...
Power of "X" shown today when Elon Musk tweeted about the Cyber Threat Intelligence League, or CTIL--11 million people viewed it after Musk's Tweet.
Today at 5pm Matt Taibbi held a livestream about CITL. "Many people insist that governments aren't involved in censorship, but they are. And now, a whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of documents, rivaling or exceeding the Twitter Files and Facebook Files in scale and importance."
You can’t quite articulate on detail ? Where are you saying there are any errors ? Your need to reference to a fully paid for msm article has no merit?
Don't look now, but if what Shellenberger is saying is true than they will look back fondly on the days when all they had to worry about were the Twitter Files.
The story of the Twitter Files was never the Twitter Files themselves, but the fact that there's also a Facebook Files, an NBC Files, a Google Files, etc etc etc.
They bought off everybody who "mattered", just like they did during covid.
Edit: This is exactly why they killed Parler when it was the #1 downloaded app in the country.
How appropriate. I could have been clairvoyant. A little Putin bashing always thrown in gives you great form. Outing yourself as a think tankers tanker ???
I honestly dont think they care. as long as the current regime holds power, (and even a change in the executive does don diminish the power they hold in the permanent bureaucracy), there will be no initiative to stop this from cntinuing on.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.
And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.
I believe many of us have read that book. Look for it to be banned soon.
> It was allowing the left to essentially superimpose and normalize a certain conception of America via the Overton Window, which is why X was the perfect tool for a Democratic Party hoping to upend American culture and remold society in accordance with progressive ideology.
There isn’t a single social media platform that isn’t right lenient or just completely off the charts right wing nut job. You are so cognitively challenge, it would be best if you consider to self immolation
There is no shot whatsoever Adam Achiff actually cares about pro-Hamas propaganda, he’d probably rather have Twitter be literally owned by Hamas than by Elon Musk. What he and the other “Anti-Disinformation” frauds actually care about is both the exposure of past sinister machinations of the Democratic Party/Intel-Agency/Media Voltron as well as having people allowed to talk about “conspiracy theories” about the actions of his party over the past 7 years that are straight up true.
Twitter (X) is still far more censored than it was pre-2013, advertisers these days make that inevitable, but Schiff is angry he and his Left-Liberal Establishment ilk don’t have full control of the means of elite communication on the internet.
I really appreciate how you illustrate the ways Discourse shapes what becomes default view, acceptable discussion, and general attitude in society. This framework aptly describes how institutions like schools and media condition us under pre-propaganda to accept the aggressive political propaganda. For example, the 1619 Project narrative posits that slavery founded America rather than the 1776 Declaration and 1789 Constitution and Bill of Rights, and no one accepts that narrative until decades of academic Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, Critical Pedagogy, Marxism, and Queer Theory permeate education and establish the oppressed/oppressor binary as the common new norm. Then comes Kendi and DiAngelo to popularize the omnipresence of Racism and codify new legal discrimination for broader public. In my substack, I am publishing how my discipline's articles, books, and conferences conditioned writing students to operate within this binary social justice paradigm as the default view for scholarship. Postmodernism and the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory appear to have laid much of the groundwork for the social justice paradigm to take root and create what I call the 'Intelleftual' (one who accepts SJ paradigm as default view, acceptable discussion terms, and attitudes).
yes. at the end of the day, narrative is driving the human car.
if we zoom out and look at humanity more broadly, it’s clear that we are a storytelling species. like it or not, we make sense of our complex world through narratives and stories. this is precisely why the elite are attacking Musk so intensely. for over a decade, Twitter was the default Overton Window machine for the media and ruling elite. anyone who spent any time on there can tell U. it might be the most influential website ever created. certainly the greatest brainwashing tool.
Musk is a strange dude, but I will forever celebrate the Billion dollar troll of buying Twitter.
remember the folks who insisted “it’s a private company, they can do whatever they want!”
Were there many attacks on Musk a decade ago? It seems this really started happening once he started appearing on Rogan and got worse with Covid and his purchase of Twitter.
Musk, who became a household name when Tesla grew from merely a niche automaker to the rent-seeking colossus (and niche automaker) that it is today, was once a darling of the Left.
For an obvious reason: if you have bought the Anthropogenic Global Warming theory and you have been told that a "transition" away from fossil fuels is in the offing, but you'd rather drive something cooler than a Prius, you pretty much have to root for Musk, as he's the only one making cool electric cars.
Alas, like a former NY real estate magnate whose game show exploits once made him beloved in his home city, Musk has learned that for "liberals" today, they would rather have someone piss down their back and call it a nourishing rain than consider the possibility that they have been fooled for a very long time.
I enjoyed your article. Great information to digest. One question I have is if X under Musk’s direction is providing real discourse, why is his CEO a very important player in the World Economic Forum? Makes me believe the discourse is being manipulated to a ‘global’ algorithm. It would be interesting to have you provide an article on that very important reality.
For god sakes it’s a private business who decides their own terms of service not falling under the purview of the first amendment whatsoever. And this asshole claims about how the government was trying to censor anything is just completely untrue. All they were doing is pressuring social media platforms to follow their own terms of service. Jesus
As a free speech lefty, it sickens me that Musk seems to be leading that charge. While it appears many of you worship him, he is an asshole employer (check out worker injury rates at Tesla). He collaborates with Israeli government on even better ways to pinpoint Gazans who "must die" (and yes, 10/7 was a horror and travesty).
Anyway, please stop referring to anti-free speech liberals as the left. They are liberals.
How did you become so completely detached from reality? I’m sure the silicone chip status in a basement somewhere in St. Petersburg really sucks. Oh well, you have got shitty vodka, at least....
I think it’s naïve to assume that musk is against wokism. What if he’s just gaining the trust of conservatives to further a more hideous agenda? He is after all a transhumanism broker. I’m not on X and I have no love for Musk. I’m a Jew (not a zionist) and I believe in free speech, so: NO Censorship In my name!
I'm fully convinced that Musk is against wokeism - he calls it the "woke mind virus" and has repeatedly said that the ideology is extremely dangerous and a cancer on society. His recent appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast is worth listening to. But I understand that he's a polarizing figure and not everyone likes him.
I can understand why you think that. I just think on some level everything is an act. He depends on govt contracts. They could destroy his businesses if they really wanted to. Instead we get a lot of drama, as if to show Joe Shmoe “ if this is how much we can hassle the richest man in the world, imagine how much we can hassle you.”
They hassle but don’t destroy him because the amount of attention he garners by being such a polarizing figure is useful to them
I enjoyed your article. Great information to digest. One question I have is if X under Musk’s direction is providing real discourse, why is his CEO a very important player in the World Economic Forum? Makes me believe the discourse is being manipulated to a ‘global’ algorithm. It would be interesting to have you provide an article on that very important reality.
The idea that former pseudo-liberals are not allowed or do not change their opinions has taken hold in those deriding Dr. Malone. It's astounding, because everyone has changed their opinions over time about something important.
In fact, those who have the courage to change their opinions, after having lived their lives under whatever paradigm they believed in, have integrity. Rechtenwald and plenty of other former leftists have completely turned. Malone cites von Mises. Until 2021 or 2022, except for the current fake vaccine (I did recognize its risks in 2020, but not yet the others), I thought vaccines had saved hundreds of millions of lives.
Allow people to change their minds. Give them the benefit of the doubt, even if you feel you must watch them. Usually, you'll find, they have truly turned. The fakes are the exceptions, especially when they've gone very public.
Vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of lives and you are either a blatant agitprop troll or one dumb motherfucker. Statements like that then any credibility you might have been given immediately removed. That’s just an obvious fucking on truth. Jesus Christ you have no proof of that whatsoever just ridiculous claims that a third grader who is conscious of the world around them can easily refute. People are like dealing with a cognitively impaired head injured toddler. Not just dealing with him but trying to reason with them. A complete exercise in futility. OK sure to point out how fucking stupid y’all are. you know, a public service, do you and others like you. If Reagan heading to fuck around with it, you have a really nice hotel room with extra thick wallpaper.....
Vaccines are the biggest scam of all time period. There still had never been a virus to go through a proper isolation test and proven to grow . Court cases around the world counting I believe 4 now show this germ theory is not holding up well where it’s lost every time . Admittedly 3 of these are related to Covid 2 which is easy to prove it wasn’t a virus but instead a bunch of RNA strands found in 6 patients in wuhan that Drosten ( paid for his phd through the German quant family who had the Covid passport contract in the UK) made up a highly unscrupulous paper about. No peer would support it!!
There is no discourse per se. It is simply a cesspool of right wing nut job Nazi fake accounts and censorship of people who call bullshit. The classic agitprop manifesto. Lie, project and deflect. It’s all they got
I agree with you and believe he is controlled opposition just like Trump other wise the powers that be would just kill them both I believe the NWO is the harlot of Revelations and the Beast of Revelations will soon destroy the harlot and all her followers and destroy their strongholds and then we will have Hell on earth until Jesus returns praise be to GOD 🙏
You don’t have to worry about that. The only censorship going on is by the right wing nut jobs who having to call themselves “conservative“, just another one of their delusions, I digress. There are no centrist platforms anymore they all are either right of center or far right brain dead nut jobs. I would stop speaking on topics you have no knowledge on. It makes you look really fucking stupid.
Twitter also played a huge role in our Cultural Revolution by being a major ideological-enforcement mechanism aka a lynch mob in every pocket.
How many moronic infernos have been launched and nurtured in the past decade because they were "trending on Twitter"? Would we have even known about things like the Covington Kids, Kyle Rittenhouse or the Central Park Karen sans Twitter? The MSM and our liberal clerisy (but I repeat myself) sprinkle some hate chum in the water—look at the evil Whitey!—stir up some manufactured outrage on Twitter to start an intersectional feeding frenzy and voila! another phony controversy to advance their agenda. (Their agenda being more or less: we are Righteous & Holy, our opponents (downscale whites all) are evil and backwards, therefore we deserve total power to destroy them and rule unimpeded).
Twitter may be the greatest propaganda tool ever invented—there wouldn't have been an entire generation baptized in the Social Justice religion without it—and it gave our ruling elites a handy tool to issue crowd-sourced dogma on the fly, manage narratives and create shibboleths, and to attack their enemies while giving themselves the appearance of infallible omnipotence.
Losing Twitter has made it much harder for our self-deputized Thought Police to tell us all what we're allowed to think, say or write—they will never forgive Elon for this and they will do anything they can to regain the power they've lost.
An account on Twitter I follow:. It literally changes my mood with every post.
You won't be disappointed.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden
Thanks!
Another great piece for my archives.
"And most people aren’t too interested in spending scarce free-time wrestling with philosophized meta-concepts about how the left-wing orthodoxy to which our key cultural institutions have bent the knee might affect the conformation of the cultural realities placed before us; we don’t give much thought to whether the culture being imposed on us in seemingly benevolent, “pro-social justice” ways is simply the product of spontaneous derivations of the popular will, or if it’s something more Machiavellian."
I was apolitical until during W's terms when I noted a clear jump in left bias in my regular news sources. It fired me up because I could see it clearly.
I guess this is my only add to this Twitter obsession explanation. I agree that it is left radical activist (aka new normal Democrat) hive hub for cramming left-favoring narratives into the muffin heads of the easily influenced tweet follower. But I think Twitter just became an accidental platinum tool in their already bristling propaganda war chest that includes Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, the mainstream corporate media and Hollywood. And let's not forget the entire public school and higher learning education system.
But we have to take a step back to see a bigger picture for what is happening. The radical left, although larger now because of their capture of the education system that then clones more radicals that get hired and promoted by unsuspecting organizations, is still a tyrannical minority that should not have this level of power with their absurd and destructive cult beliefs.
No revolution in the history of humans was ever really grass roots bottom-up. The conflict was always between camps of elites that would make offerings to the serf-class to gain their fealty.
Today the Democrat party is the establishment party. They connect to the globalist managerial class that have been freaking out that the old Bretton Woods Global Order that launched after WWII is coming to a close. The epiphanies started during the tech stock meltdown in the 90s, then 9-11 and the Great Recession increased awareness by orders of magnitude. Then BREXIT and then Trump... and the wheels started flying off the establishment power constraint train. I still think the Pandemic was planned and executed by this globalist cabal that connects with the CCP because the CCP needs the continuation of the Global Order to continue to loot their way to economic and military superiority.
They are dangerous because they are desperate to hold onto their wealth generating system.
What we have is a clash of titans in conflict about the Global Order. The establishments wants it to continue. George Soros wants the US to just be a giant ATM for the rest of the world. Larry Fink needs Blackrock assets to keep growing. Establishment elites connected to the globalist industrial war industry need the US to keep being involved in global military conflicts.
Then there are the new Republicans... those that know it cannot continue because it has been on the backs of the American working class, and the US is in debt up to its eyeballs... our infrastructure is crumbling and homeless drug addicts fill our streets that are awash with crime. And some of these new Republicans that see clearly the end of the US being the care-giver to the rest of the world are also elites.
However, the establishment owns the media, tech and controlling interest in most large corporations. The establishment has embraced the tyrannical minority radical left for the distraction and because otherwise they don't have the votes to carry on their political and economic malice to the majority of the rest of the country. They have pledged support of the radicals, and the radicals have pledged their fealty to the establishment. And together they have enough votes to keep the establishment in power.
Musk is not part of that establishment. He is one of the titans on the other side.
Note that we are not talking about the end or perpetuation of the Global Order. We are not talking about how three Wall Street firms own controlling interest in the media, tech and most major corporations... and how they connect with the WEF globalist Agenda 2030 project and how they puppet our government officials and politicians. We are not talking about the looming global reset of the global economy as the US can no longer afford to keep giving away our working class economic opportunity and importing the rest of the world's poverty so 1% of the top can become wealthier billionaires.
We are talking about woke, and Theory, and all the absurdities it delivers.
X is their obsession, but is bigger than just the radicals. The powerful economic and political establishment wants Musk defeated and dead if they cannot force him to capitulate to become one of them.
This is an awesome comment, thank you!
Higher education not only indirectly engages in meta-narrative rewrites but openly touts recreating it. My Rhetoric and Writing Studies discipline and related organizations (NCTE, NEA) literally teach students the critical pedagogy-inspired Counterstory Methodology in order to write and publish their activist scholarship, to change what they target as dominant (oppressive) societal narratives from a minoritized perspective or attitude. I’m finding that Liberals, the Center, and the Right in America are woefully uneducated on these storytelling/Discourse-shaping matters (precisely cuz daily Life). I was until my last decade in academia. Hence my substack. Coda: many graduates and professors departed X for Mastadon and Slack after Musk’s takeover.
What a diatribe of gibberish. What the fuck is the radical left in the United States? The communist party would fit in my living room and the socialist party in my basement. Anything left of Mussolini is a communist to you right?
Let out of the asylum early?
Hi Hudson, tell me, why out of nowhere did you pop into this article? Why out of nowhere did you tell me myself and Jacob Siegel have no credibility?
Because you don’t, prolly...
And just what news sources were you using at the time when you noticed a jump left? You couldn’t name a left leaning news distributor. MSNBC a center
This clown is nothing but a troll. Might be a bot for all we know.
This entire thread is made up of fake accounts I might be the only real person here. Who the fuck are you?
This is extremely amusing, I can’t help myself but come back here for comedic updates.
Please accept my apologies. I forgot to block your fake ass silicon ship existence from my reality. Ciao Felicia
Come down to the farm and say that shit to my face, Bruh. 🖕
I agree with 99% of this, but disagree that they attack X because it's particularly powerful compared to other platforms -- X is just the company that fell out of line. If FB had done it, they would attack FB. Their narrative requires them to have control over EVERYTHING, so the squeaky wheel gets the hammer. (Ask Eric Adams about it sometime.)
Of course, since this article is on Substack, and since Substack is FULL OF NAZIS, we can safely ignore it. ;)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/substack-has-a-nazi-problem/ar-AA1kF0ef (Kudos to SCA for pointing this out today)
OMG who knew we have a "Nazi problem!??! These fucking people are such relentless scolds.
"Substack’s definition of that concept [free speech] goes beyond welcoming arguments from across a wide ideological spectrum and broadly defending anyone’s right to spread even bigotry and conspiracy theories; implicitly, it also includes hosting and profiting from bigoted and conspiratorial content." Uhh that's why it's called FREE SPEECH! And we all know The Atlantic has never profited from bigoted and conspiratorial content, you know things like CRT and Russiagate or 1/6 etc...
"What should Substack do with the writers who are using it to spread Nazi ideas? Experts on extremist communication..." zzzzzzz EXPERTS SAY anyone who doesn't agree with us is a dangerous "far right extremist" and deserves to be silenced....only outlets backed by Social Justice billionaires and staffed by the Good People who graduated from the same 10 colleges and who all have the exact same Approved Beliefs are wholesome and proper...
Liberals will be the last to realize that their "Everyone who disagrees with us is a Nazi" and "Everyone who hates Soros is an anti-Semite" narratives died last month with the 10/7 massacre. Now we all know that the biggest nests of Jew hate in America are the Ivy League and all the other woke madrassas and their backers and funders—who poses a bigger threat to Jews, Richard Hanania or Left academia??
I loved that commercial that insinuated the REAL anti-Semites are white kids posting online, and not the literal throngs of people taking over train stations and freeways and obstructing Thanksgiving day parades.
One of the first rules for liberals is "No enemies to the Left", thus they can never oppose anyone who marches under a banner proclaiming one of their pet radical causes, no matter how stupid or hateful.
Then a newer rule is that only Whites can be guilty of bigotry, while brown and black people are always only spotless sacred victims.
One rule pokes out one eye, the other rule pokes out the second eye, thus rendering them blind—though they can never SEE this...
Awesome comment. 🎯
Thanks!
Power of "X" shown today when Elon Musk tweeted about the Cyber Threat Intelligence League, or CTIL--11 million people viewed it after Musk's Tweet.
Today at 5pm Matt Taibbi held a livestream about CITL. "Many people insist that governments aren't involved in censorship, but they are. And now, a whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of documents, rivaling or exceeding the Twitter Files and Facebook Files in scale and importance."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPAGaMi6bjg
The only thing any federal government did was demand these platforms abide by their own terms of service. You don’t get it
I certainly do.
You have shown no evidence.
Hudson you are the most patently ridiculous of the fools who commented on old posts out of nowhere tonight.
I know a bit about fools, I’m a clip art Jester.
I really don’t care about the date of the post. Bullshit deserves to be called out. Get over yourself
You can’t quite articulate on detail ? Where are you saying there are any errors ? Your need to reference to a fully paid for msm article has no merit?
Don't look now, but if what Shellenberger is saying is true than they will look back fondly on the days when all they had to worry about were the Twitter Files.
The story of the Twitter Files was never the Twitter Files themselves, but the fact that there's also a Facebook Files, an NBC Files, a Google Files, etc etc etc.
They bought off everybody who "mattered", just like they did during covid.
Edit: This is exactly why they killed Parler when it was the #1 downloaded app in the country.
Yep, and this is government agents doing it directly and skipping the middle men.
No. I’m pretty sure it was the right wing job fake ass silicone ship Putin fellation two accounts....
How appropriate. I could have been clairvoyant. A little Putin bashing always thrown in gives you great form. Outing yourself as a think tankers tanker ???
🤣😂🤣 ad hominem bullshit it’s all you’ve got
Lol
I honestly dont think they care. as long as the current regime holds power, (and even a change in the executive does don diminish the power they hold in the permanent bureaucracy), there will be no initiative to stop this from cntinuing on.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.
And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.
I believe many of us have read that book. Look for it to be banned soon.
> It was allowing the left to essentially superimpose and normalize a certain conception of America via the Overton Window, which is why X was the perfect tool for a Democratic Party hoping to upend American culture and remold society in accordance with progressive ideology.
The left was doing that long before Twitter.
True.
There is a left right here it’s a fucking private company in which the first amendment simply does not apply .....you fucking morons!
There isn’t a single social media platform that isn’t right lenient or just completely off the charts right wing nut job. You are so cognitively challenge, it would be best if you consider to self immolation
When your are so far off the deep end that far-left platforms appear "right lenient".
All of you fake ass agitprop losers have the same tired bullshit. Lies, projection and ad hominem bullshit. I have to come in you. Your batting 1000
> Lies, projection and ad hominem bullshit.
Are you talking about yourself?
Let's back up, do you even know what the words you wrote above mean?
I’m sorry I don’t mean third grade playground shit or engage with intentionally disingenuous assholes. Ciao Felicia
Well you appear to have the reasoning ability of a third grader.
There is no shot whatsoever Adam Achiff actually cares about pro-Hamas propaganda, he’d probably rather have Twitter be literally owned by Hamas than by Elon Musk. What he and the other “Anti-Disinformation” frauds actually care about is both the exposure of past sinister machinations of the Democratic Party/Intel-Agency/Media Voltron as well as having people allowed to talk about “conspiracy theories” about the actions of his party over the past 7 years that are straight up true.
Twitter (X) is still far more censored than it was pre-2013, advertisers these days make that inevitable, but Schiff is angry he and his Left-Liberal Establishment ilk don’t have full control of the means of elite communication on the internet.
Adam Schiff is a tool. That said, none of your claims are connected to reality. None of the authors claims are connected to reality.
I’ll just drop this here: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation
You need to check out your source. It’s not credible. Much like you....
It seems my comments have pissed some people off. Wonder who. Pray tell, what have I said that isn’t credible?
And what did Jacob Siegel say that is incorrect?
Break it down for me please, step by step.
See, I’m just a lowly clip art Jester.
I’m not your research assistant. You certainly can’t afford me.
The fact that you offer no credible source is kind of a dead giveaway. There’s that.
Research assistants won’t be needed much longer, AI and all that. Load the whole article into GPT-4 if you like.
Tell me, what does Jacob Siegel say that is incorrect?
I’m not talking about his “credibility”, I’m asking where he is wrong.
Hudson E Baldwin III may be disregarded in all matters that require thought.
I really appreciate how you illustrate the ways Discourse shapes what becomes default view, acceptable discussion, and general attitude in society. This framework aptly describes how institutions like schools and media condition us under pre-propaganda to accept the aggressive political propaganda. For example, the 1619 Project narrative posits that slavery founded America rather than the 1776 Declaration and 1789 Constitution and Bill of Rights, and no one accepts that narrative until decades of academic Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, Critical Pedagogy, Marxism, and Queer Theory permeate education and establish the oppressed/oppressor binary as the common new norm. Then comes Kendi and DiAngelo to popularize the omnipresence of Racism and codify new legal discrimination for broader public. In my substack, I am publishing how my discipline's articles, books, and conferences conditioned writing students to operate within this binary social justice paradigm as the default view for scholarship. Postmodernism and the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory appear to have laid much of the groundwork for the social justice paradigm to take root and create what I call the 'Intelleftual' (one who accepts SJ paradigm as default view, acceptable discussion terms, and attitudes).
yes. at the end of the day, narrative is driving the human car.
if we zoom out and look at humanity more broadly, it’s clear that we are a storytelling species. like it or not, we make sense of our complex world through narratives and stories. this is precisely why the elite are attacking Musk so intensely. for over a decade, Twitter was the default Overton Window machine for the media and ruling elite. anyone who spent any time on there can tell U. it might be the most influential website ever created. certainly the greatest brainwashing tool.
Musk is a strange dude, but I will forever celebrate the Billion dollar troll of buying Twitter.
remember the folks who insisted “it’s a private company, they can do whatever they want!”
yeah, crickets now...
Were there many attacks on Musk a decade ago? It seems this really started happening once he started appearing on Rogan and got worse with Covid and his purchase of Twitter.
Musk, who became a household name when Tesla grew from merely a niche automaker to the rent-seeking colossus (and niche automaker) that it is today, was once a darling of the Left.
For an obvious reason: if you have bought the Anthropogenic Global Warming theory and you have been told that a "transition" away from fossil fuels is in the offing, but you'd rather drive something cooler than a Prius, you pretty much have to root for Musk, as he's the only one making cool electric cars.
Alas, like a former NY real estate magnate whose game show exploits once made him beloved in his home city, Musk has learned that for "liberals" today, they would rather have someone piss down their back and call it a nourishing rain than consider the possibility that they have been fooled for a very long time.
Your disassociation from reality is so hot concerning
I enjoyed your article. Great information to digest. One question I have is if X under Musk’s direction is providing real discourse, why is his CEO a very important player in the World Economic Forum? Makes me believe the discourse is being manipulated to a ‘global’ algorithm. It would be interesting to have you provide an article on that very important reality.
For god sakes it’s a private business who decides their own terms of service not falling under the purview of the first amendment whatsoever. And this asshole claims about how the government was trying to censor anything is just completely untrue. All they were doing is pressuring social media platforms to follow their own terms of service. Jesus
Damn Hudson, this seems to bother you a lot.
Oh, and, can you read? Or are you drunk again?
Yeah I hate lying piece of shit and fake silicon chip cyber accounts on social media platforms. Ciao Felicia
He has been touting the idea for an everything app (meaning X) like wechat in China which is definitely a dystopian nightmare.
Well written Sir 👏
As a free speech lefty, it sickens me that Musk seems to be leading that charge. While it appears many of you worship him, he is an asshole employer (check out worker injury rates at Tesla). He collaborates with Israeli government on even better ways to pinpoint Gazans who "must die" (and yes, 10/7 was a horror and travesty).
Anyway, please stop referring to anti-free speech liberals as the left. They are liberals.
Adam shifty shiff is not “left.” These are more accurately neoliberals. The real left today could fit in a phone booth
How did you become so completely detached from reality? I’m sure the silicone chip status in a basement somewhere in St. Petersburg really sucks. Oh well, you have got shitty vodka, at least....
How many recent mainstream media hoaxes did you still believe are true?
- Russia Collusion
- Trump called neo-nazis “fine people”
- Jussie Smollett
- Bubba Wallace garage pull
- Covington Kids
- Governor Witmer kidnapping plot
- Kavanaugh rape
- Trump pee tape
- COVID lab leak was a conspiracy theory
- Border Agents whipped migrants
- Trump saved nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago
- Steele Dossier
- Russian bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan
- Trump said drinking bleach would fight COVID
- Muslim travel ban
- Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation
- Andrew Cuomo best COVID leadership
- Trump built cages for migrant kids
- Austere religious scholar
- Trump overfed Koi fish in Japan
- Build Back Better will pay for itself
- Trump tax cuts benefited only the rich
- Cloth masks prevent COVID
- SUV killed parade marchers
- Trump used tear gas to clear a crowd for a bible photo op
- Don’t Say Gay was in a bill
- Putin price hike
- Ivermectin is a horse dewormer and not for humans
- Mostly peaceful protests
- Trump overpowered secret service for wheel of “The Beast”
- January 6 was an insurrection
- BYU students hurled racist remarks at a Duke volleyball player
- Trump mocked a reporters disability
🤣😂🤣😂🤣🙈 Jesus, I’m embarrassed for you. Your skid mark on the tidy Whiteys of America
On target practice again.... another skip back intoPutin bashing territory. Your mind is easy to read with not a jigsaw out of place.
> How did you become so completely detached from reality?
I don't know, you tell me.
This guy has been randomly commenting on my posts today and then blocked me before I could properly respond to his bullshit.
I find it absolutely hilarious that he came back tonight to blow up everyone’s feed on this thread.
I think it’s naïve to assume that musk is against wokism. What if he’s just gaining the trust of conservatives to further a more hideous agenda? He is after all a transhumanism broker. I’m not on X and I have no love for Musk. I’m a Jew (not a zionist) and I believe in free speech, so: NO Censorship In my name!
I'm fully convinced that Musk is against wokeism - he calls it the "woke mind virus" and has repeatedly said that the ideology is extremely dangerous and a cancer on society. His recent appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast is worth listening to. But I understand that he's a polarizing figure and not everyone likes him.
I can understand why you think that. I just think on some level everything is an act. He depends on govt contracts. They could destroy his businesses if they really wanted to. Instead we get a lot of drama, as if to show Joe Shmoe “ if this is how much we can hassle the richest man in the world, imagine how much we can hassle you.”
They hassle but don’t destroy him because the amount of attention he garners by being such a polarizing figure is useful to them
This was my comment.
I enjoyed your article. Great information to digest. One question I have is if X under Musk’s direction is providing real discourse, why is his CEO a very important player in the World Economic Forum? Makes me believe the discourse is being manipulated to a ‘global’ algorithm. It would be interesting to have you provide an article on that very important reality.
Because Musk opened his eyes.
The idea that former pseudo-liberals are not allowed or do not change their opinions has taken hold in those deriding Dr. Malone. It's astounding, because everyone has changed their opinions over time about something important.
In fact, those who have the courage to change their opinions, after having lived their lives under whatever paradigm they believed in, have integrity. Rechtenwald and plenty of other former leftists have completely turned. Malone cites von Mises. Until 2021 or 2022, except for the current fake vaccine (I did recognize its risks in 2020, but not yet the others), I thought vaccines had saved hundreds of millions of lives.
Allow people to change their minds. Give them the benefit of the doubt, even if you feel you must watch them. Usually, you'll find, they have truly turned. The fakes are the exceptions, especially when they've gone very public.
Vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of lives and you are either a blatant agitprop troll or one dumb motherfucker. Statements like that then any credibility you might have been given immediately removed. That’s just an obvious fucking on truth. Jesus Christ you have no proof of that whatsoever just ridiculous claims that a third grader who is conscious of the world around them can easily refute. People are like dealing with a cognitively impaired head injured toddler. Not just dealing with him but trying to reason with them. A complete exercise in futility. OK sure to point out how fucking stupid y’all are. you know, a public service, do you and others like you. If Reagan heading to fuck around with it, you have a really nice hotel room with extra thick wallpaper.....
When you get sober, Hudson E Baldwin III, please re-read my comment.
> Vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of lives
However, writing "vaccine" on a vial of sulfuric acid doesn't make it safe to inject.
Vaccines are the biggest scam of all time period. There still had never been a virus to go through a proper isolation test and proven to grow . Court cases around the world counting I believe 4 now show this germ theory is not holding up well where it’s lost every time . Admittedly 3 of these are related to Covid 2 which is easy to prove it wasn’t a virus but instead a bunch of RNA strands found in 6 patients in wuhan that Drosten ( paid for his phd through the German quant family who had the Covid passport contract in the UK) made up a highly unscrupulous paper about. No peer would support it!!
There is no discourse per se. It is simply a cesspool of right wing nut job Nazi fake accounts and censorship of people who call bullshit. The classic agitprop manifesto. Lie, project and deflect. It’s all they got
I agree with you and believe he is controlled opposition just like Trump other wise the powers that be would just kill them both I believe the NWO is the harlot of Revelations and the Beast of Revelations will soon destroy the harlot and all her followers and destroy their strongholds and then we will have Hell on earth until Jesus returns praise be to GOD 🙏
You don’t have to worry about that. The only censorship going on is by the right wing nut jobs who having to call themselves “conservative“, just another one of their delusions, I digress. There are no centrist platforms anymore they all are either right of center or far right brain dead nut jobs. I would stop speaking on topics you have no knowledge on. It makes you look really fucking stupid.
> I would stop speaking on topics you have no knowledge on. It makes you look really fucking stupid.
Have you considered following your own advice?
Ad hominem nebulous bs all you have?