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If you didn't think this was the point of him buying twitter...
It was never about the money, its about growing and empowering a movement that the global oligarchy think they can control.
Why is giving people the right to communicate "elevating the extreme right"?
Because anyone who isn't loyal to their tribe is an immediate enemy.
Yeah, if I ever disagree I get called a MAGA, so literally the left has become what they used to hate.
U r a poopyhead
Dude, you support Trump. You're a maga.
People criticizing you does not violate your free speech. Getting banned from a website does not violate your free speech. Nobody is arresting you.
What right wingers mean by free speech is they want the law to protect people using racial slurs and discrimination above the rights of the people they hate to live equitably within society.
They want to go back to the 1950s, exactly the way they keep saying.
We already had it. Musk took it away.
What right were you looking for? The right to call certain people certain words?
Maybe. I don't care if they get banned. But other people definitely should not be banned for telling them to fuck off.
Which is exactly the same plan as last time. Then, the ultra-rich were afraid of communism so they propped up nationalism. Now though, they are after democracy as such.
What's the downside for them? They either win big or things stay roughly the same and they might pay some extra tax but not much. No one (of them) is losing their bulk of their wealth or their freedom. Might as well roll the dice.
Ask the Russian oligarchs how they feel about Purin causing massive sanctions against Russia.
Or about throwing half of them in jail (or through the window) because they said something he didn't like or because he wanted their stuff.
Everyone thinks the leopard only eats other people's faces.
There won't be any massive sanctions if ~85% of the world's governments on your side. That's why they're propping up it in every country.
However, they'll inadvertently also reignite territorial disputes between countries. The Russo-Ukrainian war is also based on the fact, that in the past, borders were different, and some countries were "greater" at that time.
Ask the Russian oligarchs how they feel about Purin causing massive sanctions against Russia.
It was never a clever ploy. He’s an idiot that said something he shouldn’t have it may ruin far more than Twitter before all is said and done.
I didn't say it was clever, just that it was obvious. This was an opportunity for a foreign government (Saudis) to buy media/ narrative control over US media. A rightwing/ fascist government is easier for them to work on, so they do things that support its creation.