Whenever people live within a narrow echo chamber of like group think, whatever their ideology is, they lack the ability to see the world for what it really is.
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Wow, you look at things in extremes. Just because I advocate for democratic socialism means I support violent takeover to achieve it? No. And Democratic socialism is not extreme. Many other countries experience it every day. And no, not "everything right of me is fascism". But when I see actual fascism, I will call it what it is. Forced Mass deportation is fascist. Demonizing immigrants, and LGBTQ+ to the point of calling them pet eaters and pedos is fascist. Calling for a return to a mythical past glory by removing those groups, is fascism. Saying immigrants are poisoning the blood of America is fascism. Think for a second of why immigrants are supposedly the problem. Is it because they take our jobs? Well maybe think that someone had to give them that job in the first place. Maybe those employers are more at fault for wanting cheap labor they can exploit. It can't be because they drain all the social services, because they use little to none because they aren citizens and don't qualify. Can't be because they don't pay taxes because they pay billions in taxes every year. Fascism has real definitions and isn't just an insult I use to demonize those I disagree with. There are conservatives who aren't fascist and I disagree with them on almost everything. The GOP is Fascist. They use fascist rhetoric. They advocate for a purification of our country by mass deportation. They use victimhood politics to foster hate and dehumanize their enemies. They are openly planning on purging the government of those that would stop them from persecuting their enemies. Remember project 2025? Well Trump said he knew nothing about it... lie. His cabinet pics wrote the damn thing. They are planning on using "lawfare" (their word , not mine) to go after the people who were trying trump for his crimes. This country has taken a very fascist turn. And if you voted for them, then you are helping it happen. This country's real problem isn't immigrants or LGBTQ+, it's wealth inequality which will only get wider under the fascists. Remember, fascism is spurred on by the capitalists. The Nazis called themselves socialists until they took power, then the first thing they did was eliminate the labor unions. Another power of the people taken away. Face it man, you fell into a fascist ideology by wanting less government, when really government was what was protecting you from the fascists all along. Now the fascists control the government and things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
I say good for Elon - he found a niche of people of a certain intelligence level with the same ideology willing to pay to be in an echo chamber and shout at a wall. However he can to try to catch the falling grains of revenue slipping through his hands.
Keep it up…..just keep it up, please. I would do anything for you all on the left to continue doing the same stuff that is costing you elections, in ‘26 and ‘28.
Very true. In many ways, simply talking to people we disagree with is a casualty of social media.
The irony of the first sentence of your novel there is rich.
Anyway, I think we’ve exhausted any hope for creative conversation. Calling me and others fascist sixty plus times hits my yearly limit. In any case,Merry Christmas, Treq. I truly hope that you and yours have a wonderful holiday season.
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But you were fine when Twitter, under Dorsey, was a left-wing echo chamber that collaborated with the Democrat Party to suppress dissent. Correct? It’s the hypocrisy that bothers me. Musk was a darling of the left until he bought Twitter and stopped banning libertarians and conservatives. Now, he’s Satan with rockets and EV’s. Left-wingers love echo chambers, many on the right do too, so it’s probably best to eject the criticisms of X being an echo chamber for the right when there’s a plethora of echo chambers for leftists. *cough*Reddit*cough*
Ah yes Dorsey the famous "leFtWiNGer" who wanted Musk to take over...and...apparently allowed the Saudis and Indian government to plant their own spies in the company to catch dissenters...
You are aware that multiple things can be true at once, right? Providing perhaps one example where he’s collaborating in the method you describe, doesn’t disprove anything we know happened pre-X. If anything, it further proves that he’s a statist who will collaborate with governments against their people.
The eventual Trump/Musk breakup is going to be entertaining…
Ya.. it totally sucks that guy supplies thousands of people their livelihoods.
That echo chamber just decimated the left and legacy media. But please... cry more. There is nothing I like more then watching the left meltdown.
Very well put. thank you for putting the obvious into words.
37% increase in cost for "X" is just a sample of what we American's will see in the Trump/Musk administration.
Have you been asleep since ‘21, my friend? Where’s your sharp criticism of the ineptitude of the Biden administration with regards to the cost of…well, everything? But NOW you’re worried about costs increasing? Come now.
This is all a bunch of BS that you’re spewing out…wake up
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The political ideology of X is 48% right leaning and 47% left leaning making it the most balanced platform of all social media platforms.
Well aren’t you a blazing liberal. You miss social media being controlled by mainstream media/left and blocking those with any sort of viewpoints against the left. Just shut up with the MAGA hate. Remain pissy that Trump has won back this country that has been a laughing stock to the rest of the world because of incompetence and the left.
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Devout participants in the game, whether to the left or right, are really important. I want to congratulate you and everyone on the red team on an incredible election win. Together we will MAGA. America has been saved.
Well, not for you perhaps, however there are plenty of places on earth where that is the case. Where (foreign) currency buying groups are very active for that purpose. But yes, in its purest form in theory, I agree with that statement. Reality just doesn't always match that. And from a different perspective, you can look at it as a difference between trading and investing, does one have to name every single form? Timelines in markets can vary enormously. Depending on what I'm doing, I'm day-trading (although with crypto the markets are always open, but I don't do exclusively crypto), swing trading, or position trading. One could argue that only longer positions are investments, that is a bit old-fashioned, but got those as well. On the tax forms it is all classed as investments, so there is that.
Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it isn't there.
Credit/Debit cards near real-time balances, obligations/settlements with central banks, medical records, chain of evidence, food chain of providence, trade finance. Just some that I've been involved in myself, and there are many more people. None of the people who are participants or users would know, nor have a need to know. And yes, it offers something that is very costly with a traditional database, a true immutable record, been there and done that as well.Whatever words you want to be attached to it, antisemitic would be one of those words, and it is illegal. The far-left and the far-right are just two evil sides of the same coin. You may have fancy words for trying to distinguish them, but the actions and result to normal folk on the street appear to be the same.
We don't want a movement like antifa as much as we don't want a movement like neo-Nazism. Different rotten peas in the same pot.