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This is the strangest reply I've gotten, I've been on HN for quite a while.
by systemvoltage 4y ago
This is the strangest reply I've gotten, I've been on HN for quite a while.
- stouset 4y agoThat doesn’t make the position that “Elon’s Twitter is saving freedom of speech from the totalitarian left” any less baffling.
- ModernMech 4y agoYou have to be steeped in American culture wars to decode stuff. Many people supporting Musk at present do so because they believe him to be a champion of free speech. At the same time, they view the left as totalitarian as trying to control speech. Twitter is viewed as a bastion of left-leaning supporters of Democrats who stole the last election from Trump by banning conservative speech from the platform. They believe Democrats are now in the process of implementing a totalitarian state in which Joe Biden, who is corrupt and the head of a crime family, is the dictator. They also believed that Joe Biden is using the FBI, which is aligned with leftists (?!) to silence critics and persecute his enemies. In this framing, by unbanning nazis, qanon, insurrectionists, and anti-trans accounts, Elon is restoring balance to Twitter and saving free speech for the world. It’s basically an exercise in projection to try to whitewash the Trump years through incessant whataboutism.
- nindalf 4y agoI’ve been here twice as long as you and it seems very coherent to me. Your comments on the other hand, less so.