Elon's purchase of Twitter did one very, very important thing: it showed just how vital this social media site is in terms of political power, which is why he is under attack now.
This app has been from the get-go the favourite social media tool of the US Deep State and particularly its intel faction. Iran's failed Green Revolution, Arab Spring, and so on. All were Twitter-heavy.
Thanks to Elon, we recently learned just how big a role Twitter played in fixing the 2020 election in favour of Joe Biden. This did us (almost) all a huge service. We knew it, and now we have proof.
Just before the Twitter Leaks release, Elon also cleared out all of the political commissars that worked on behalf of the powers-that-be, and without any drop in site performance, showing just how superfluous they were to the perceived core business.
So far, so good. Elon came in to "re-balance" and to "reinforce free speech". These moves would naturally be opposed (and have been) by the shitlibs, because it exposes them for what they have done, and who they are.
The paradox of Twitter is that it is both not real life and is the world's town square. For years and years and years, it strongly tilted one way due to the obvious political slant of its operators and key outside influencers.
Elon's corrective acts have worked to make Twitter appear much more impartial than it was previously. A level-playing field was being created, one that was demanded by conservatives and right wingers.
This level-playing field therefore allowed Twitter to retain its political importance, as all journalists/political types continue to use it despite the bankrupt claims against Elon by many of them.
Guardian be mad!
This is how Twitter retains its value. Twitter's value comes from being the only place where the hoi polloi can interact daily with important, famous, and/or notable people. No other site has anything like this.
Without the presence of these people, Twitter would have failed well over a decade ago. This is why these types need to continue to feel ownership over Twitter.
During 2015-16, when moderation was much more lax than the five years following it, all sorts of anons managed to inflict daily meltdowns on dozens and dozens of these journalists who insisted that we were wrong/evil/etc.
It was this energy that helped propel an outsider into the White House. A lot of the fight happened right here on Twitter. News was broken here constantly, as were the brains of those that hate us.
Yet they still came here, because they had to, and because they set up shop here and felt comfortable here, despite getting rocked day in, day out.
Fast forward to the COVID era, and even with the scales tipped much more in favour of one side of the political divide, many anons still managed to make bluechecks look idiotic, and not just journos but health pros as well, winning over those watching.
None of those health pros/journos would have been here had this not been the world's public square. All of the efforts of those anons would have been for naught, and no one would have seen it.
You need these institutional types to lend perceived legitimacy to Twitter. Our job is to kick them in the balls repeatedly, day after day after day after day, to drive them crazy like what was done during 2015-16.
That cannot be done if Twitter is shown to tilt to the right, because its newly-won impartiality goes up in a puff of smoke with those who are not hysterical 24 hours a day.
Cheering on the suspension of "f*ckhead sh*tlib journos" that we all hate is empty calories: it takes away from the perceived newly-won impartiality of this site, neutering the impact of kicking them in the balls day after day after day.
No one should cry for sh*theads like Rupar and Olbermann. What we should want is for them not to "learn a lesson" or "learn how to behave", but to continue to show up here and expose themselves for what they are on a level-playing field so that we can kick them in the balls over and over and over again on a daily basis, driving them crazy.
Banning these fuckheads due to ego is not a 'win'. At most it is a pyrrhic victory, because at the end what is won with a Twitter that has lost legitimacy in the eyes of the normie? You have won a $44 billion TruthSocial/Gab/Parler.
Any media outlet that is viewed by normies as default conservative/right wing in the USA is automatically tuned-out by them. Keep this up and the main driver of this site begins to dissipate (despite the Twitter addiction many of them have).
Everyone wants to see them get their comeuppance, but suspensions (they'll all be back) allow them to play martyr to a larger audience than is necessary, when it would be much more effective for us to allow us to kick them in the balls as they continually expose themselves as was done in '15-'16.
Some here say that it's about doxxing, which is nonsense: Elon is the 2nd richest man in the world and can hire armies of private security for his entire family. He can call the cops/FBI.
For the conspiracy types: if you think that Deep State is using mental defectives as psychowarfare against him, he can publicize it here on Twitter. But he's already plugged into the MIC via SpaceX anyway.
Elon's intentions with Twitter are not the same as yours. He's done some positive things for people on the right, but do not conflate yourself with him as he has his own interests and game to play. And for those thinking that I was playing David French by insisting on principle, two points:
1. you clearly don't know me
2. f*ck your mothers
"Owning the libs" via "Big man banning journos" is such a self-own as you end up dulling a very, very sharp and deadly weapon that has just come into your possession. But self-owns are what American conservatives/right wingers are best known for.
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Nice.
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