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One of the great truths of American politics is that for the last few generations one side has been motivated by dreams of destroying their enemies, while the other side dreams of befriending the enemy. The people we call the Left in America are the former case and this is their primary definition. Their ideology changes, but the one constant is their desire to clear the field of their enemies. The other side is the Right, which exists to find some sort of accommodation with their friends on the Left.
This impulse to seek a compromise is why American politics has followed a familiar pattern since the Civil War. The Left proposes some novelty and the Right resists, always trying to reason with them. In the end they always cave. As Robert Lewis Dabney observed a century ago, “it (conservatism) demurs to each aggression of the progressive party and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation.”
In the main, this is a good way to describe the political dynamic, but this relationship has had a strange effect on people. The selection pressure for both camps has molded generations of Americans. On the Left, of course, the pressure had been in favor of a feminine histrionics. On the Right, the pressure has been in favor of those who are sure there is some right answer to every trouble. They just need the right guy to say the right words so the kingdom of heaven will open.
We are seeing this with the Twitter story. In the early days of the internet, there was little moderation as no one wanted it. Early adopters liked that it was a place where they could experience heterodox opinion. This openness drove technological innovation and helped make the internet a part of civic life. This is why the Left felt it needed to take control of it. They saw the internet as another institution that they must control in their war on normal society.
As the harpies gained control of Twitter, the so-called conservatives demurred to each new aggression, making angry noises while acquiescing. They supported free speech but demanded the end of anonymity. They supported free speech, but not hate speech, whatever that means. Every “defense” of principle included an important concession to the other side, in the hope of finding a middle ground. Conservative principles are always just a retreat from those principles.
Now we have Elon Musk buying Twitter. Musk has claimed to be a free speech absolutist who is buying the company to open it up again. He has closed on the company and will take it private. It is unclear as to what he intends to do with it in terms of censorship, but he clearly wants his fans to think he will throw open the doors of the platform so it can be what it was ten years ago. Time will tell if he is willing to do what is required to make that happen, but that is the dream.
Here we see those conservative attributes that have been carefully evolved over the last century or so. The first of which is the savior complex. Conservative people have been sure that what they need is a great man who not only has the ability to make conservative arguments, but the courage to do so. The same enthusiasm that put Trump in the White House is what will flood Twitter with new signups. Elon Musk is here to save us from the Twitter mobs.
Another attribute, the most destructive, in fact, is the conservative desire to mix it up with the Left. The reason Twitter exists is otherwise normal people are compelled to interact with people who hate them and want them dead. To be a conservative is to lie awake at night dreaming of left-wing approval. The right argument from the right guy will cause lefty to throw down his arms and embrace you as a brother. Twitter exists so conservatives can beg the Left for forgiveness.
This is obviously true, but conservatives cannot accept it. Gab has been up and running since 2016 and it offers what conservatives claim they want in a platform. Even better, it is free from the deranged lunatics that have ruined other platforms. Conservatives dismiss it because they say it is an echo chamber, by which they mean it lacks the people they claim to hate. They avoid alternatives to Twitter because they want to beg lefty for forgiveness and those platforms do not provide it.
The other conservative quality on display with the Twitter story is the desire to win the approval of the mobs. The same lack of self-worth that drives the conservative to beg lefty for attention is there in their love of the mob. Conservatives are sure if they can get a clear shot on stage, the crowd will reward them with flowers and applause. In a prior age, they would crawl on their belly to be on left-wing television or land a speaking gig at a university. Now they just want to be on Twitter.
Back in the old days, conservatives would argue that they had to be on far-left television shows in order to reach an audience. Today they claim they have to be on far-left internet platforms in order to reach an audience. In Dabney’s time, northern conservatives said they needed to speak with progressive newspapers in order to reach the broader audience. In reality, what the conservative wants is the approval of the Left and there is no limit in how far he will degrade himself to get it.
Twitter is American politics at is most basic. Since Gettysburg, politics in American has been a theater show. The Left hustles everyone inside the theater and puts on a show about a victim or a villain. Sometimes they combine the two. The crowd is told about the plight of some victim group and is supposed to sympathize. Maybe they are warned about some villain, which is always the same villain. Old Scratch takes many forms and the producers of American theater use all of them.
At some point conservatives are brought onto the stage. They shuffle out in their comfort fit slacks and polo shirts. Their job is to dismiss the warnings about the villain or tell the victim to “pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” The crowd is supposed to boo and hiss, but that does not always happen. Often the villain is so ridiculous that the crowd just laughs about it. Other times the victim is too creepy and weird for the crowd to muster anything other than contempt.
Often, the Left brings out their secret weapon, the Hitler costume. The spotlight focuses on the right of the stage and there it is. Then the Left asks if anyone in the crowd will play that role. Sure enough, an idiot runs up, puts on the costume and does the Hitler act. The crowd then starts throwing cabbages and tomatoes at Richard Spencer as he prances around on stage. The conservatives freak out, run behind lefty looking for safety and the curtain falls. The show is over.
This was Twitter from its inception through the 2020 election. The problem is the producers went bonkers and burned down the theater. In that meeting with the board of directors, everyone realized they needed to rebuild the theater. Despite some moaning from the blue checks, the truth is they want the conservatives back in the theater as much as they want to perform for them. The privatization of Twitter is going to be the rebuilding of the virtual stage of political theater.
Time will tell with regards to Musk and Twitter. He will quickly learn that he must obey the rules of Apple and Google with regards to speech. Maybe he has had some sort of conversion and he will go to war over it. Most likely he will compromise in order to get their approval. This will titivate the conservatives, who will see in his capitulation the stamp of approval for their capitulation. Twitter will go from a woke site to a woke site full of conservatives begging the woke for acceptance.
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“Putting that aside”
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Conspicuous by its absence is a monikered “Z Club” for the post-revolution holiday when libertarians will be beaten. They’ll know why.
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Someone else suggested, “I mean, it truly is remarkable.” I do say that a lot. I’m thinking “Z your mind” with Morpheus in the background.
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I love “Z your mind.” That’s awesome.
Have you considered getting a cruise together? People on this side love to go on cruises, I’ve heard…
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try and work a miniature guillotine in as part f your logo.
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“try and work a miniature guillotine in as part f your logo.”
And an upside-down Ukrainian flag.
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Bringing about the only red wave that will truly change things.
A coffee mug or t-shirt with Z on one side and “This will not end well” or something like that, on the back.
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Selling “Z” shirts, clearly a Putin-puppet.
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Putin is fine.
It’s the alliance with the “libertarians” (Honka-honka) that I find most concerning.
Going to have to look for coded eyelid level Morse code messages in the missives now to make sure Zman hasn’t been captured.
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My elderly mother was curious of what I thought about the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk. I replied with a shrug.
I don’t like Elon Musk because he’s an odious degenerate and rent seeker who’s helped kick into overdrive the push by our overlords to eliminate personal transportation by forcing the proles to buy EVs that aren’t worth a tinker’s cuss as transportation devices and cost 30% to 50% more than a normal car with a gasoline or diesel engine. His car company wouldn’t exist if not for government largesse and regulation forcing existing automakers to pay his firm in carbon credits.
Twitter won’t change one iota. It’s still a place filled with left-wing loons who hate our guts and wish us dead. I’m not going there and I suspect most people on our side of the great divide won’t either.
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dr_mantis_toboggan-md: Very well said.
“Twitter will go from a woke site to a woke site full of conservatives begging the woke for acceptance.”
Brilliant and spot on. The only thing more retarded than a conservative bitching about Twitter is a conservative who uses Twitter, and usually they are one and the same. There is little doubt Twitter was and probably still is an arm of the national security state. Will Musk fire each and every employee who acted as an informant or outright agent of the American KGB? Of course not, so welcome to the Trump presidency, Mr. Musk. The calls are coming from inside the house.
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Correction: the Tweets are coming from inside the house.
Unrelated: when you publish your book, Z, will it also be sold on your grift page? I hate, hate, hate putting a dime into Bezos’ pocket.
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The dream is to have a new site by then with my own shop to sell my stuff and handle paywall material. Plugging away at all of these projects, but it feels like trench warfare at times.
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I have always wondered at the “right’s” (for convenience) obsession about “engaging” with the Left. I was a fairly early adopter of social media (for boring career reasons) and it was a real eye-opener. I was as bad as the worst Normie at first: Oh, you wanna talk politics, Lefty? I’m going to turn you into hamburger with my facts and logic…
But even when I “won” those “arguments,” I lost. Make that especially when I won. Because I quickly realized that the dynamic isn’t win / loss, it’s ingroup / outgroup. On social media, as in life, the Left’s standard tactic when they’re losing on facts and reason (and when are they not?) is to go shrieking hysterical damsel in distress. Yes yes, you may have your facts and reason, but you’re such a big meanie!
Even — especially — the ones who agreed with me on facts and reason were firmly in Lefty’s camp by the end of the day, because c’mon man, can’t we all get along? Can’t you see how traumatic this is for poor Snowflake?
The only thing that works in a social media “argument” is what the PUAs call “amused mastery.” The Leftist pretty obviously has lines xzhey need you to say in order to unleash their little canned “Oh woe is me!” spiel… so come right up to the verge of giving it to them, then yank it away with a classic Trumpian smirk. You know, and they know, and they know you know, and you know they know you know, and that’s what you have to keep jabbing at.
It’s exhausting, and it’s ultimately pointless. The only thing useful the Dissident can do on social media is inject triggering yet plausibly deniable memes into their ecosystem and watch them freak out. Otherwise it’s just masturbation. I never could figure out why “our” people are compelled to do it, even though I did it myself.
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Sorry Severian but you’re no Rob Reiner.
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When you look at what happened in the pre-social media days on forums as decrepit as AOL message boards, now-defunct on line newspaper comment sections, and so forth, the Left masterfully developed digital banning and censorship skills in very short order. The template was there, so social media was low-hanging fruit for them, and soon enough the national security state joined hands with the Left and it was game, set, match. This followed the pattern of Left/State-controlled and censored media starting with radio and eventually broadcast and cable television. The only exception that springs to mind was late era conservatard talk radio, largely confined to AM, which was largely an echo chamber.
Memes may be worth it, but I’m not even ready to concede that point.
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Severian: As I believe Wild Geese noted the other day, for all his ‘quirks’ Vox Day has been spot on regarding rhetoric versus dialectic. He’s also correct that most people are idiots. Combine the two, and you have the picture of America Zman has brilliantly sketched.
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I have a Gab account, there are a ton of deranged lunatics on it. The difference is they don’t have any power to censor others on the platform and are a different stripe of lunatic than the ones on Twitter.
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I have blocked thousands of accounts on Gab. I only follow people who are funny or interesting. That makes Gab a nice little hobby for me. I support it for ideological reasons.
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I’ve noticed but you have severely hampered Torba’s servers with all your banishments to the mute motel.
I’m told there is a server farm for the mute motel now.
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Twitter has transformed into State sponsored social media. There is no truth on Twitter.
Twitter and the Biden Administration are pushing/funding the Ukraine Russia war.
Russia may now take all of Ukraine Here https://abrahamstein.substack.com/p/the-usa-just-gave-russia-an-excuse?s=w
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Uncle Loyd and Blankin’ barely missed being blown to bits, if the reports are anywhere near true. Russia apparently demolished the transport hubs the two used after they departed. Again, if true, this indicates the Russkies have intelligence inside the American DOD/Security State and sent the two grifting maggots a message.
Oh, for the days when the United States could at least pretend to be neutral as it peddled arms to one or both sides of a conflict. Or even “peddled” arms rather than run a Ponzi scheme that enriches the MIC, and, of course, its whores.
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Russia has to, otherwise a rump Ukraine will just be a completely US-controlled satrapy that will be flooded with endless amounts of weapons and mercs.
The problem is that gives them a border with Poland, a historical rival and significant NATO country. Romania also becomes a new, significant thorn.
Anyway, I’m having a hard time seeing how this doesn’t go nuclear. The West keeps popping off about nukes every 5 seconds, and Putin has finally realized no one in the West will negotiate in good faith. On top of that, there are plenty of hardliners in Russia who think Kiev should have been nuked a month ago.
On the other hand, free canned sunshine sounds like a lot more fun than the Bolshevik technocrat plan to convert the Earth into a planetary beehive for humanity. That’s actually an insult to bees, since the average drone has more freedom and a better quality of life than what they have planned for us.
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I see all the surviving blue check conservatives are asking for reinstatement of their friends like Ann Coulter with Gavin McInnes. Trump says he’s not going back so you know he will. Really nothing for me there then again I’m no influencer.
As far as what so called conservatives really stand for and just clap like seals for the latest indignities this is from Good Morning America 2018. Making rounds now.
https://twitter.com/michael20224/status/1518281119224922112?s=21&t=OZrd2vZn16bsMkNwyqqsZg
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Alex Berenson, the former NY Times reporter who was banned from Twitter for his accurate claims about the Covid vaccine being ineffective, is lobbying Musk to reinstate him on his Substack page. I wonder how many people will get reinstated. I doubt it will be more than a few high profile ones.
Well, there’s something you don’t see every day: a black guy wearing denim jeans.
Is it an omen of some kind? A coded message?
And the old alt-lite will rise again, probably. But they were always best at grifting and being a gateway to the real dissident right. This is not the worst thing in the world.
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Musk will never, ever be allowed to make Twitter a “free speech” platform.
The drumbeats to repeal Section 230 protections for Twitter are already being sounded.
The left understands power; they are not afraid to reward their friends, and punish their enemies. Government applauded when even buffoonish men like Trump or satirical sites like Babylon Bee were banned, because they didn’t tow the line.
The urge to destroy Twitter by declaring it a “mature” technology and destroying it’s viability by making it a “publisher” will be irresistible.
(Elon must know this, which make’s me curious as to why he’s even bothering with it)
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Mr. Musk personally is worth more than Toyota, Ford, GM and Fiat combined. Aside from billions in wildly inflated Tesla stock, he has billions in cash. Like Trump running for President, the man has everything he could possibly want.
I see Musk more like The Joker character in the Batman movie, where the villain takes a giant pile of money and burns it all. He burns it all because he can. Musk is doing what he wants because he can.
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Twitter exists to sell advertising to corporate customers – that’s the business model and the raison d’etre. Zman absolutely nails the conservative begging/simping dynamic – most of these grifting jokers would crawl over broken glass to get a blue checkmark. But we have to acknowledge that Twitter’s corporate ad clients want a “curated” environment in which to hawk their wares. The left/right dynamic is tangential to this main event.
So it’s impossible to separate the “free speech” stuff from the business model issues at Twitter. Musk will learn this the hard way. He sells cars (and dreams), not advertising. It’s a different business. In the final analysis, the advertisers will dictate what Twitter will become. “And now, a word from our sponsor….”
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What I want to see on twitter is the left and the neocons relentlessly mocked and ridiculed.
A couple of weeks ago on Gab, Marjorie Taylor Green posted “There is one race, the human race.” The replies overwhelmingly picked apart and refuted and hilariously made fun of her statement.
That’s what needs to happen on twitter. Make them cry and shriek.
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That is the one argument for Twitter I like. It’s good for mocking and poking lefties and normies; nothing more. I don’t see it as a “town square”. Elon is one of those guys who has taken whiffs of edgytarian smoke but he is, at base, a business conservative who is young enough to know what’s cool and what’s whack. He’s a mix of Trump energy and Joe Rogan intellect.
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From your mouth to Musk’s ears. Id only use twatter at this point to mock and deride the cucks and progs. Civil discussions are for sane, rational people. The “twitterverse” has shown it is neither. Time to burn down the Ivory Towers.
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Ha. It is often said these days that comedy is dead but the crap show created by these clowns is hilarious. In so many ways.
Robert Reich just posted “where else would consumers go to post short messages that can reach millions…?” Of course he is concerned about short messages in particular; he is 4 feet tall.
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Melissa: Reich and Greg Gutfeld look like brothers from another mother. Of course, given special group genetics, they likely are actual cousins.
Semi-related, but the full-throated roaring of “principled conservatism” (eg, space lawyer Glenn Reynolds) demonstrates there is, truly, one party in “america,” with a shared platform of radical egalitarianism and endless “crusades” for “freedom” and “democracy.” The Republic did indeed die at Appomattox.
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I’m sorry, full throated roaring in support of “defending freedom” in Ukraine with arms supplied by the “american” defense industry. F*cking war pigs.
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They are scrambling so hard to find more material to chuck into Ukraine the US just cinvened an emergency meeting with 40 countries in Germany.
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It’s worse than you know.
They’re already invoking another “Marshall Plan” to “rebuild Ukraine”.
Sell weapons to Ukraine on a payment plan. Buy weapons to replenish “donated” NATO stockpiles. Use weapons to blow up critical infrastructure to declare “Marshal Plan!!!” In the most corrupt country in Eastern Europe.
This may be the grift-gasm that causes the (little) death of the US dollar.
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One positive about getting more thought criminals back on Twitter is their being able to show another perspective to normies on the right and in the middle. Gab is filled with various shades of true believers on the right. They do get a chance to interact and share ideas but no opportunity for bringing normies closer to our way of seeing reality. That is very different than trying to score points against or gain approval from Good Whites which is a fool’s errand
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A century of showing “another perspective to normies on the right and in the middle” to no effect seems like a pretty good real world test of the theory. It turns out that what normie sees when conservatives go on lefty platforms is confirmation that lefty should control the platforms.
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Z your mind, your ass will follow.
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If there is one thing post-2016 internet has taught us, it’s that there is an entire ecosystem behind the internet. Once upon a time if you knew what stripe was you were informed. But then stripe revealed that the credit cards themselves were giving them a ban list. Which may have come from the investor class themselves through “ethical” investing guidelines.
That’s just the money side to internet business. It’s a shame Elon is going to learn this all again. Maybe this time It’ll warrant a Tucker segment.
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what this post is highlighting is the foundation of the uniparty. maybe i am misreading things, but the article strongly implies that these conservative crawlers are somehow a different group than the left. they are not. they are two sides to the same coin. who zman is describing is the normie wing of the prog movement. that is why it is counter productive to try and persuade or convert these people to any oppositional or alternative group. it is also important to consider this when calculating the size of the uniparty, and the remainder of the population that *is* reachable. we are never going to take power through force of numbers (or any other way) and should focus on building a community that is about self-preservation.
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karl: It doesn’t appear to me that Zman is drawing a distinction between left and right politics, merely drawing attention to the role of each side in the uniparty morality play. As Zman notes, if putative conservatives wanted a platform or had any legitimate and distinct views from their opponents, they would make use of existing alternatives such as gab.
But they don’t want just any platform; they want the left-approved platform, just as they want to go to leftist dinner parties and remain within their self-appointed role among their chosen social group.
I applaud Zman for so clearly portraying the bathos of conservatards who will compromise everything and profess anything in their desperate desire to be back in with the kool kids. Except this is not the standard meme of Lucy pulling the football away – this is reality where the kool kids want to kill the grovelers and molest their children and they think it’s funny. And still the conservatards grovel.
And still everyone thinks if they just use the right argument they will win ‘the people’ over. Once folks realize the increasing deaths from the magic vaxx, they will turn on the government with a vengeance. Once people realize Hunter’s laptop was real and Biden was bought and paid for long before he was officially senile, they’ll bring magic charges. Once ‘x’ happens, 50% + 1 will realize that 50% + 1 doesn’t work. Ad infinitum.
Most people putatively on the right – even too many on the DR – still think if they just vote for the right school board member or just get the right tech overlord on board, the ship will be righted. They never want to go back to first things, and actually confront and destroy the lie of equality.
Like a dog returns to its vomit, a conservative returns to . . . tv, football, Hollywood movies, Thai restaurants, and twitter.
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Separation is the only way.
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Bashing conservatives (and normies) is therapeutic sport here on the Z blog, and it’s a guilty pleasure that nearly all of us practice from time to time. It often acts as a pressure relief valve when prominent media cons do something particularly infuriating. In my case, I listen to Bongino a couple times each week in order to gauge the mood of ConInc. Lately, he’s been continuously ejaculating in anticipation of the November elections and demanding that everyone vote harder or die. He also sees Musk as a messiah that will part the seas and free us all from internet tyranny. Between the Progs and the Cucks, I’m not sure the USA is worth saving anymore. The good news is that 4S & Focus is still useful whether your aim is repair or constructive destruction. I’m so old that I can remember when the therapeutic sport of choice was shooting varmints out on the range. And we have no shortage of varmints these days.
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I’ve never used Twitter and probably never will, but I do have to say in the last 48 hours since it’s sale I’ve certainly derived substantial pleasure from the fireworks!
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Are you fuggin nuts?
There’s more gawddamn bohunk Ukrainians up here in Alberta than there are blacks in Lagos. There’s more Uke flags than maple loafs. A guy could get shot round here, wearing that shirt like that!
Do they come in Extra- rotund size, Z? Or maybe an extra caption that says “Rootin’ For Putin”? That would be so awesome…
😂👍
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How about “after the revolution ______(insert word/meme of preference)?
It always amused me to see putative “conservatives” going into the libtard lion den to show they really weren’t the meanies they were portrayed as – and getting torn a new one start to finish. In the old days, it’d have been something like the Phil Donahue show or more recently a nagfest like The View, maybe (((Howard stern))). They’re all pretty much embarrassingly pathetic.
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Something with the phrase “Dirt people” would be awesome!
I don’t really know how I feel about this. I’m sure Tucker Carlson, Babylon Bee, Alex Jones, etc. will make a return. But so what? They can keep making tweets like “People with penises are men” and “Democrats are hypocrites”?
It seems counter-intuitive but “the right” has made the most progress under a hostile and censored environment. Some examples:
– angry parents taking control of school meetings
– increase in homeschooling
– bans on CRT curriculums and LGBT promotion
– freedom convoy(s) in Canada (US had one too but it didn’t do much – this time)
– some churches telling the gov to F off when they tried to shut them down
Small wins, but without the loud but useless grifters sucking out all the oxygen in the room, ie. Trump, Alex Jones, Richard Spencer etc. people have been organizing in real life. These are real people fighting back, in real life. I’ve been forced out into real life more so than 2015-2017, and I’ve met tons of quality people through covid protests and other places.
Anyways, I don’t expect Musk to be some saviour. Musk will do what is best for Musk. Just like Trump. It doesn’t mean we can’t gain something from his moves but until we see exactly what he’s doing it’s a big notherburger to me.
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Very interesting take. Plenty of historical examples of forbidden “ sects” flourishing only when they were persecuted and in the literal or figurative catacombs. Then they emerged and the real struggle was on.
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“Twitter will go from a woke site to a woke site full of conservatives begging the woke for acceptance.”
I’m sure there are a handful of “conservatives” like you describe because there are stupid people everywhere. But, what you are calling “conservatives” is usually CHINO’s. Conservative Hitlers In Name Only. CHINO’s are just part of the dialectic, paid for by the same usual suspects that promote the self-destructive policies of the left. If they are being banned, they may have uttered an unpleasant truth that is “not who we are”. If they return to grovel for the left’s approval, they are just trying to keep the grift going.
I’d like to know how he thinks he can solve the economics of Twitter. He needs twitter to at least pay for its running costs. If he allows anything resembling free speech, the credit card companies will blacklist it. Advertisers will pull out. And, worse, as pointed out in the article, Google and Apple will kick them out of the app store.
In modern America, in order to have anything remotely resembling free speech, you need anonymity. If you want to say anything remotely out of line with the orthodoxy of the day, it cannot be linked to your real life identity. That line about “authenticating all humans” is kind of vague, but it sounds like it could mean an internet ID or sorts.
One problem with Gab is it is ALL politics. No matter what your hobbies are, there is a Twitter scene about it. Gab has the groups, but most are empty or near empty with very little content. The truth is, Gab is just not a very good Twitter substitute.
Gab gets worse every time it is “updated” The newest thing is if you try to comment on a post, you can no longer do it from your feed, which wouldn’t be a big deal if the back button worked properly. It doesn’t take you back to where you were, but to the top of the feed of whatever you were in. Then it takes 10 minutes to get back to where you were.
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I’m hardly the only one in this mindset, but at this point the persistent issues with Gab seem deliberate as only the “hardcore” users will continue to use it while the glitches will scare off any “normies”. When I used Poast for a bit I noticed that the platform was more stable and had more features than Gab, despite being built on the same technology and only being run part-time by one guy.
“Since Gettysburg, politics in America has been a theater show.”
We need more Ford Theaters to stage more productions of Our American Cousin.
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Shameless! Shameless and defiant.
Like Johnny Rotten said, “Selling out is actually a very punk thing to do.”
Middle finger to the audience!
But really, an upscale priced Z hoodie is just the thing for my next vibrant discount shopping spree at Nordstrom’s.
Accessorize, accessorize is the key to fashion success. To complete my Dissident ensemble, may I suggest…
“Z” masks.
Perfect for the ball, the gala, fine dining, and vibrant shopping!
When they ask what the Z means, I’ll affect my stony thousand yard stare, and tell them I was with the Russian 6th Czarist in Karkiv…
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Judging by this morning’s price action it looks like Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street are trying to shave several billion fron Elon’s stash.
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