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musk writes a tweet that drives engagement on the platform that he owns

• anigbrowl 3y ago
  It drives engagement for his account. I doubt very much it's helping with user acquisition/retention. Incidentally officials have acknowledged his 'neo-nazi ideation' though they've held off identifying a motive. If you peruse his online footprint it's rapidly apparent that he's been suicidal for years primarily due to a dysfunctional family background and difficulty in forming personal relationships. Right-wing ideology serves as explanatory framework/coping mechanism roadmap for a lot of lonely and dissatisfied young men, but the more the odds tilt against them the more likely they are to end up blackpilled. Arguably, some of the smarter/more manipulative figures in that movement invest effort in maximizing that, because martyrs make great recruiting tools. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/09/texas-mall-gunman-neo-nazi-tattoos?CMP=share_btn_tw https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/09/texas-mall-g...
  • version_five 3y ago
    Ironic comment in a thread about conspiracy theories.
    • anigbrowl 3y ago
      There are right wing groups that specifically advocate 'martyrdom' and publish material glorifying mass shooters and other acts of political violence, others that emphasize the inevitability of death and provide instructions for how to plan and carry out such actions. I write about this professionally and have a huge collection of such materials; I'm describing rather than theorizing.