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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Musk isn’t confused at all. He’s been lying about believing in free speech this whole time. He’s an oligarch—literally the richest person in the world—who bought 𝕏itter in order to control speech.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to say that Musk is confused about what free speech is -- I'm saying he's confused when he hears ideas that conflict with his worldview. He cannot process the idea that contradiction of his beliefs should even be possible and that drives him wild with rage.

I think it's important to understand that Musk doesn't think of most other human beings as "people" and he does not consider what they say as "speech". His worldview is entirely solipsistic and the only speech that exists is the speech he produces and the reflections of it that come back to him. To Musk, everything else is the braying of animals with diseased minds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

This take is so very, very specific 😅 Are you a psychologist or similar?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

He was forced to buy twitter. He did not want it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That’s what the media told us, anyway. Maybe it’s somewhat true, but oligarchs buy the media all the time, not because they’re especially profitable but because they’re especially influential. The slippery slope of the oligarchy media model

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I wish Twitter would have just left well enough alone.