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Xingyi's avatar

What people need to do in a situation like Musk buying Twitter is a thought exercise that starts something like this:

"How can it appear to be a good thing for humanity while still ultimately serving the establishment agenda?"

In other words, just imagine as many scenarios as you can where the appearance is fabricated but the agenda is still served. I came up with this:

"Twitter is a smoking gun and, if found out by any adversarial investigations, would lead to huge criminal culpability for political elite. Therefore, send in "our guy" (the establishment's guy that is) to clean it up. He will clean it up in a way that sounds like he's doing a service for humanity and will "disinfect" all of those receipts. When he's done, nothing will really be any different in substance but those radioactive piles of evidence will be safely washed away."

Elon is the establishment's "cleaner" -- think Pulp Fiction or Breaking Bad.

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Harold Saive's avatar

Social media is more anti-social than social. It's a technological distancing (not unlike Covid mandates) that replaces person-to-person and spiritual communication with ones and zeros.

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