Multi-billionaire Elon Musk has taken over Twitter — and Donald Trump is jumping for joy!
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In a whopping $44 billion deal on Monday, Elon Musk — the man behind the futuristic Tesla car and SpaceX rocket — purchased Twitter outright as a wholly-owned personal “toy” for himself. Interestingly, Musk made it clear that his interest in buying the social media giant had less to do with making a smart investment, but more to do with his disdain for what he calls Twitter’s and America’s “woke mind virus.”
The politically conservative Elon Musk is a devout Donald Trump disciple. He was livid when Trump’s favorite social media network banned ‘The Donald’ for repeated tweets that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, as well as for his role in the January 6th Capitol Hill insurrection.
By purchasing Twitter, Elon Musk says he will now allow more free speech on the social media network. Therefore, his first order of business will be to immediately reinstate Donald Trump and allow him free reign to tweet all the political lies and BS his tiny fingers can type.
Yes, Musk intends to make Twitter’s editorial policy pro-authoritarian. Or, to put it bluntly, he will allow anyone to say and tweet anything their heart desires on HIS new network. Fact or fiction be damned. If they want to tweet it and pretend it’s true, Elon Musk will allow it.
According to Bloomberg News, Musk’s takeover of Twitter and its billions of users would be like Fox News theoretically taking over The New York Times. The ulterior motive is to provide a platform to push propaganda and disinformation over legitimate news and facts.
For anyone who doesn’t use Twitter, the real news here is not that an eccentric billionaire just bought himself a social media toy. Instead, the underlying danger is that this is one more attack against democracy in a push toward American totalitarianism.
The first takeaway here concerns money. For example, President Biden has regularly called for the rich to pay more in their fair share of taxes — whereas Donald Trump actually cut taxes for billionaires and allowed them to pay less tax than the working class for the first time ever.
However, the real deal here is that US democracy is in serious trouble primarily because extremely powerful oligarchs don’t like democracy and have the resources to dismantle it. Elon Musk has regularly mocked the concept of American “wokeness” and has boarded the Donald Trump bandwagon in a thinly-veiled attempt to dismantle America’s centuries-long tradition of being the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Let’s face facts. Donald Trump is the current and reigning symbolic figurehead for angry, wealthy, unaccountable white men everywhere. The slogan “Make America Great Again” was always meant to keep those with the most power in power. By purchasing Twitter, Musk has taken an additional step toward helping those like Trump and his kind to overtake America piece by piece and slowly disassemble democracy bit by bit.
So, stay awake, people, and keep your eyes open. This is about much more than just who owns Twitter. This is why rich oligarchs like Elon Musk are hoping against hope that you won’t stay “woke!”
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Elon Musk buys Twitter and reinstates Trump.
[For anyone who doesn’t use Twitter, the real news here is not that an eccentric billionaire just bought himself a social media toy. Instead, the underlying danger is that this is one more attack against democracy in a push toward American totalitarianism.]
[….the real deal here is that US democracy is in serious trouble primarily because extremely powerful oligarchs don’t like democracy and have the resources to dismantle it. Elon Musk has regularly mocked the concept of American “wokeness” and has boarded the Donald Trump bandwagon in a thinly-veiled attempt to dismantle America’s centuries-long tradition of being the land of the free and the home of the brave.]
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