Reflections From a Murky Pond

As one reads all the rants, screeds, and wailing eulogies for Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s purchase of the social media platform, there is one thing to understand and keep firmly in the forefront of one’s mind – the one’s who are screaming over it are showing their true hearts. Their hate defines them; it is the cornerstone of their identities, their philosophies, their goals, and their allegiances. All else about them are facades, masks worn for public consumption in order to get money off of people.

One of the greatest things about Musk buying Twitter and taking it private and out of the control of short-term profit addicted investors is this very tsunami of hatred, vitriol, and hysterical rantings by the various sorts who quite rightfully fear their “safe space” is soon to be but a memory. Musk’s purchase violently stripped their masks off and showed the world just what these sorts are, what stand for, and what they hate.

And, They All Seem To Hate The Same Thing

Throughout it all since Musk bought Twitter, the fear, hate, and loathing have all been at the same thing or group of people – Straight, White Men. That’s who the Left hates and that’s who they want, at a minimum, censored and silenced on the internet. Hence, they are all the same. They are defined by their hatred of straight, white men.

The mere thought that straight, white men will no longer be censored and often expelled from Twitter drives them stark, raving mad. And yes, whether it’s objectively true or not – it is, but not so completely so that it can’t be denied – that’s exactly what the Leftists in their high dudgeon of race, gender, and sexual choice based hatred obviously believe Twitter has been doing. If this wasn’t entirely the case, they wouldn’t be screaming out their hatred of straight, white men to the world so openly.

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So yes, their hate defines them. Their hatred of straight, white men is their identity and we must always remember this whenever we interact with them.

Tags: America | Elon Musk | Gender Politics | Hate | Leftists | Politics | Race War | Social Media | Society | Twitter | War On Whites

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 1st, 2022 at 7:02 am and is filed under Politics, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Yesterday, April 25, 2022, Multi-billionaire and the richest single individual in the world, Elon Musk outright purchased Twitter for roughly $44 billion. When your net worth is $264.6 billion USD, you get to do that, and the Democrats’ government can’t do much about it and is unlikely to even try. 😉

Twitter As We Know It Is Over… Maybe

So, if Elon Musk does all, most, or even a significant fraction of what he claims his plans are for renewing and rebirthing Twitter – and, since he’s taking it private, there’s nothing stopping him from doing so – the Twitter that we either love or loath is likely over.

Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated. I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.

— Elon Musk

Read Musk’s statement very carefully. Three words in the 1st sentence of it are very, very important, and firmly grounded in US case law. Those words are, “digital town square.”

As I’ve written before, the SCOTUS has already ruled twice that social media platforms are the modern age’s public or town square and are, as such, bound by the restrictions of the 1st Amendment.

Social media allows users to gain access to information and communicate with one another on any subject that might come to mind. With one broad stroke, North Carolina bars access to what for many are the principal sources for knowing current events, checking ads for employment, speaking and listening in the modern public square, and otherwise exploring the vast realms of human thought and knowledge. Foreclosing access to social media altogether thus prevents users from engaging in the legitimate exercise of First Amendment rights.

— Justice Anthony Kennedy
Packingham v. North Carolina, 582 U.S.

So, Twitter is now poised to be transformed into an actual platform for the free exercise of speech… if Mr. Musk actually follows through on his pledge. And truly, the only real thing that could prevent him from doing that is if the market will not bear it and Twitter’s federally limited number of stockholders find this too painful to tolerate. That seems more than little unlikely given people’s addiction to social media in general and Twitter in specific.

Now, it’s true that word of Musk’s now essentially fulfilled intent to buy Twitter spurred certain sorts of users, including some high-profile ones, to “say” #GoodByeTwitter, we’ve all seen, heard, and/or read about that sort of promised exodus before. 😉 So I doubt there will be much in the way of financial fallout from the buyout and proposed changes.

So, the ball is in Elon Musk’s court. Elon Musk’s new platform will largely be whatever he wants it to be. He owns it after all. I’ve some hope for it, but that hope is seasoned by long experience.

Tags: 1st Amendment | Free Speech | Freedom | Social Media | Society | Twitter

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 26th, 2022 at 10:10 am and is filed under Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Like all forms of Information Control, book burnings in the modern era may look different than in the past, but they are the same in intent and effect. Whether it’s deplatforming, demonetizing, or silently limiting the reach of posts, it’s all just the book burning of the Internet Age.

Tags: Censorship | Facebook | Google | Information Warfare | Nazis | Orthodoxy | Politics | Propaganda | Social Media | Society | Twitter | Tyranny

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 at 11:53 am and is filed under Politics, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Some things only change in detail and specific methodology. Whether it’s Goebbels’ Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (RMVP), Facebook, Twitter, or the insinuative monster that is Google, the strict control of information is a prerequisite for the sought after tyrannical rule. Changing the name or the specific methods of control doesn’t change the fundamental fact of it or the effects it has upon Peoples.

Tags: Censorship | Facebook | Fact-Checkers | Google | Information Warfare | Nazis | Orthodoxy | Politics | Propaganda | Society | Twitter | Tyranny

This entry was posted on Friday, January 1st, 2021 at 2:25 pm and is filed under Politics, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

This is the absolute truth! The sorts running social media platforms, e.g., Facebook and Twitter, and those at Google, who are the gatekeepers of the internet, silence unwelcome and unwanted voices, i.e., any who aren’t “woke” enough, because those voices might be powerful.

They know, with the internet being what it is, that any voice could become powerful if left unchecked and uncensored. Therefor, they use whatever means at their disposal to silence those voices that reject the Left’s narrative.

But, if these sorts have decided to silence our words, then it just means that the time for words is over. That is not a bad thing for our People.

Tags: America | Censorship | Facebook | Internet | Silence | Social Media | Twitter

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020 at 4:44 am and is filed under Politics, Society, Technology. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.