An early summer Twitter/Musk Roundup

I keep telling people not to use Twitter / “X”, because Elon Musk has turned it into a fascist disinformation and propaganda fountain, but people keep using it anyway because when push comes to shove, most people are basically okay with drinking at the Nazi bar.

This is how fascism and fascist beliefs get normalised. Repetition equals truth to the mammalian brain, he shoves more and more of it in your face, people who are diametrically opposed get used to it even if staying in opposition, people who aren’t just decide it’s another normal political opinion, and it doesn’t matter how many times I explain this, it doesn’t matter.

Anyway, it’s been a while since I did one of these, so here’s what Musk has been up to the last few months.

This isn’t the newest, but it doesn’t fit the flow well, so I’m putting it here: Elon declares that people wanting to fight climate change are communists. Which is pretty amazing given that was one of the supposed reasons for Tesla. Clearly his current gang have turned against that hard enough that he’s decided sure, why not.

Also looks like he may’ve helped himself to a big ol’ bowl of insider trading. But that’s just ordinary corruption; let’s get to the real meat of the matter, shall we?

The American College of Paediatricians is a decades-old fundamentalist sockpuppet group. It’s not the real professional organisation, which is the American College of Paediatrics. Its entire job its entire existence has been to crank out various anti-LGBT, anti-abortion, anti-sex-education and anti-birth-control bullshit, along with various other conspiracy theories at times.

Naturally, they’re all-in against health care for trans people, and now Elon is pushing them and their lies as hard as he can on his propaganda platform. Fox News is boosting them too, which they’ve done before.

Elon Musk’s X app ran ads on #whitepower and other hateful hashtags – A review by NBC News found X running ads on 20 racist and antisemitic hashtags more than 18 months after Musk said that he would demonetize hate posts. Because he’s a fucking liar, and doing this normalises neonazi and white nationalism being placed with ads.

Remember when I said that if people didn’t leave the platform – if people decided they were okay with drinking at Elon’s Nazi Bar – that the advertisers would come back? Well, “It’s 2024. Elon Musk Rules X. And the Political World Is Still Addicted. Paid ads for political candidates are all over the platform, and politics insiders are secretly buying blue checks.“

I mean, remember, this is the guy who literally recruited white nationalists and neofascists back to the platform, and pays them. Somehow NBC thinks this is surprising. Meanwhile, Y-combinator authoritarian Garry Tan is boosting Peter Thiel’s “political theology.” Surprise: it’s christofascism!

Musk, naturally, thinks his best bud Trump shouldn’t be prosecuted for crimes, much less punished. He’s auditioning for a role in any future Trump administration, naturally, because he wants to run American elections to make sure they come out right.

Trump, naturally, wants second and third terms, Constitution be damned. He’s been floating this since his first term, so it’s not new, but he hasn’t walked away from this and you shouldn’t think he doesn’t mean it. He does, and Elon would, one presumes, return whatever numbers Trump wants.

Elon keeps boosting tweets from billionaire darling Balaji Srinivasan who openly plans a political purge of San Francisco. It’s literally an ethnic cleansing, though along political lines.

Talking of ethnic cleansing, Elon had a fakeumentary promoting the Great Replacement racist conspiracy theory pinned to the top of his profile for a while. He promotes it regularly and went all-in on it back in March. In April, he spent a bunch of time pushing fake election fraud videos.

Naturally, Mr. Free Speech Extremist sues anyone who reports too accurately on the fascist flood he’s brought to Twitter. He lost another lawsuit back in March, but, well, he has all the money, and people keep giving him more, so he’ll be back.

Talking of “free speech extremism,” remember when the explicitly neo-Nazi cartoonist behind “Stonetoss” got outed? Elon ordered all accounts identifying him be suspended. Again, this is Mr. Free Speech Extremist at work. Please don’t let anyone get away with calling him that, because it’s a fucking lie. Wired put up a big story on all the ways Elon works to protect neo-Nazis and other fascists, of which Stonetoss is only one.

lolgop wrote up a big article on how Elon turned Twitter into a Nazi-generating machine. If you don’t like any of mine, maybe you’ll like theirs.

“Oh, yes, please tell me more about how you could never vote against fascism because it’s wrong to support Democrats who’ve made ideological compromises…on Elon Musk’s Twitter.”

Here’s a longthread documenting some of Elon’s lies. Might be useful reference someday. Here’s a story on his deposition in a lawsuit he’s facing, involving his false declarations that a young Jewish man was part of a neo-nazi brawl, naturally on the side of the nazis.

Also, I can’t link to it because I don’t want to link to Twitter and the screencap is private, but he said that Anthony Fauci is responsible for the deaths of millions of people.

And since everyone’s forgot about this too, here’s a story on that very brief Don Lemon show on Twitter, the one where Musk pulled the plug on the entire show because Lemon asked actual questions instead of sucking his white dick. I’m closing with it not just because it’s the oldest, but to point out yet again the sheer inanity of “staying to fight” on Twitter. If somehow – despite the well-documented suppression of non-far-right voices and elevation of fascist rhetoric – you build an audience and get any traction, all he has to do is notice you…

…and if he thinks you’re actually effective…

…you’re gone.

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i made a biking icon

I still post to Dreamwidth, and get a lot of comments there, which is really nice. Dreamwidth is the last real surviving Livejournal-like, if you know what that means.

In a lot of ways, I use WordPress as a modern posting system for posting to Dreamwidth, more than as a standalone blog. But I do get some readers from the Federation, too, and more importantly, I was able to collect several blogs into this one big blog, and that makes all those old posts searchable.

Regardless – to get back on topic, lol – they do per-post user icons so I finally made one for biking after discovering that no, I didn’t have like five user icon spaces left, I had more like… 205. Apparently I have a lot of user icon slots and did not know.

You’ll only see the new if you’re seeing this on Dreamwidth, of course. But it’s there. Or should be, anyway – that’s what this test post is for! Let’s see if it works.

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