How it feels to spread disinformation, by Elon Musk, Age 9

Hopelessly behind on fash watch stuff, so I thought I’d throw out a couple of subject-based posts. This one’s Musk’s fash deadbird social media and related topics. BUCKLE UP KIDS BECAUSE IT GETS EVIL QUICK

In addition to throwing away one of the most recognised brands on the planet, Musk Twitter has this week:

• On Musk’s personal orders, Twitter reinstated the account of a right-wing influencer with over 500K followers who posted child sex abuse imagery. Straight up CSAM. Over 3M views and 8K retweets, auto-suspended, and he put the account back.
• Musk also reinstated the account of a particularly well-known Hitler fan and anti-semite over the weekend.
• Twitter is running ads on the account of active literal Nazi accounts.
• Musk is boosting anti-vaccination conspiracy theorists again, getting clocked by his own automated systems for disinformation, removing those flags, and then deleting tweets made by people who point any of this out.

And if you have any idea that this whole “alt-right disinformation and propaganda fountain” project isn’t his absolute literal intent, here’s a tweet from Elon on Saturday, a “yeah we’re doing it and we know we’re doing it and you know we’re doing it and it’ll still work with some people so we’re gonna laugh at you and your stupid fucking ‘facts’ bullshit” statement:

Elon Musk tweet of dancing dolphins, rainbows, hearts, balloons, and similar imagery captioned “how it feels to spread misinformation.”

Is it rubbed in your face enough yet?

This is what you’re supporting, with money, if you’re still active on Twitter.

Oh, and to round this out – if you have a Tesla, be aware that your car has been lying to you about range, as has Elon Musk, and as has the entire company. It was entirely intentional from the start, it was done with intent to defraud, they set up an entire secret group to divert customers who were complaining about it and trying to set up service appointments because the range estimates on a full charge were never, ever, ever right and were always, always, always too high.

This was on purpose, it was fraud, and how does he feel about that?

See the poster above.

He’s laughing, but mostly?

He’s sneering at you.

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Let’s talk what Republicans are doing to education

If you read these regularly, you know that the Republican state government of Texas took over the Houston public school district, because they wanted to, passed a law letting them do, and then did it.

The first stage of the state Republican plan for Houston’s educational system is to eliminate school libraries and turn them into “discipline centres.”

Fuck Libraries, Let’s Put Students In Jail. That’s the Republican philosophy of education in a nutshell, it really is.

Here’s a bunch more hell:

The Tyee has a big article on how the Right plans to rewrite American history. They want to teach that chattel slavery was good for Black people. They’re bringing Prager U – a right-wing propaganda channel masquerading as an educational channel – into the schools to spread far-right disinformation. They want New College stripped of all diversity, inclusiveness, and equity, but they want to add an entire “cancel culture” centre to promote the idea that cishet white Christian men are the real victims of discrimination. They’re suspending faculty who criticise them in any way.

The University of Chicago is offering an intro course on queer scholarship on Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and naturally, the Republican fash are going batshit over it. They’re similarly going batshit about a schoolteacher transitioning in Wisconsin.

This is what Republicans do – not would do, are doing now – with education where they have control.

This is the Republican plan.

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