🧵Elon Musk has made it clear that he has no idea what he's doing with Twitter. But there's been so much chaos that I wanted to compile as much of it as I could in a column and thread.
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Confirmed: Trump had dinner with antisemitic rapper Kanye West and also white nationalist fascist Nick Fuentes:
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If only there was a word to describe a political ideology which wasn't "conventionally right" that combined futurism, corporate control, a hatred of the left and treated liberalism as a kind of virus.
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Kanye West is certainly welcome by this crowd. Some of it is about racism, but most of it is about seeing present or past systems as just and right, and worth defending at any cost. Because they're god-created.
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Reupping this video of Nick Fuentes calling for dictatorship after he reportedly met with Trump.
More on this fascist activist and his popularity among Republicans here washingtonmonthly.com/2019/11/22/the
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Nick Fuentes is a Christian fascist who is wildly popular among young Republicans. Why is that? Because he says what they want in plain terms anyone can understand.
If you think that Democrats are the party that's extreme, you are willfully deceiving yourself. Watch:
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Imagine looking at the path Republicans have taken *since* 2015 and thinking: “You know what we need more of? Both-sides false equivalence!”
It’s a proper “Tell me who you really are” moment from one of the high priests of white dude (increasingly reactionary) centrism.
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Will be releasing a episode on this topic. It's about libertarian radicalization. In the 80s through 2000s, the low info types actually thought they were on the left. But they never actually were.
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Elon Musk has spent decades building something big: himself.
And it’s worked. The myth of Elon Musk as the “good billionaire” or the “visionary genius” has made him a lot of money.
So we fact-checked these myths.
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'Anti-woke' bank GloriFi goes the way of University of Austin: first lots of self-righteous hype from rightwing backers at the launch, then the inevitable rapid faceplant that comes when you build a business to solve a non-problem
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The automotive equivalent of "evergreening" will be just as annoying as it is in pharmaceuticals. Regulators need to step in before it becomes worse than just annoying.
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Ludicrous. theverge.com/2022/11/23/234
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Trump hasn't returned to posting at Twitter bc DWAC, the company trying to merge w his "Truth Social" site managed to get approval from its investors to extend its life until September of '23. It was a very long delayed process and Trump didn't help at all
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A great story to kick off your holiday break!
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NEW: Remember the viral “insulin is free” parody tweet that set the internet ablaze?
We were behind that.
Here’s how our staff writer Sean exposed the greed of Elon Musk and Eli Lilly with just $8, 9 words, and 10 minutes.
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Most Trump supporters can't discuss politics without becoming enraged, but if you know some who can, here's a good thread.
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Three guiding principles, backed by research, for responding to MAGA relatives this Thanksgiving.
#MAGA #Thanksgiving @WHCOS @IanHaneyLopez twitter.com/protecttruth_/…
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"Cynics of the world, unite. Kari Lake will lead you. Or at least she’ll be #2 on the ticket. That’s where her sights are set in the presidential sweepstakes: 'Trump-Lake 2024' is the bumper sticker she’s printing in her mind."
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No surprise, unfortunately. I would bet that the vast majority of these highly paid University of California academic employees also falsely claim to be progressive.
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The higher paid University of California faculty are, the less likely they are to support striking grad student workers.
via @snaidunl & @BeccaRoskill
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I asked them that question and never could get a straight answer. I presume they individually meant their favorite translation was literally true.
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I ran a poll on Trump Social about whether the Bible is literally true. The final results aren't exactly surprising.
Who knows how representative the sample is, but it's interesting to see nonetheless.
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Trump’s longtime account testified in court that the Trump businesses lost money every single year from 2009 to 2018.
This is the reason he sought to hide his tax returns from the public
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This is why insanely wealthy people often become less empathetic. They surround themselves with yes men and other people they never have to make a single sacrifice to accommodate and it convinces them they’re geniuses who owe no one else anything.
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theres obviously a lot of deeper stuff going on with the guy but imagine how much knowing that there are tons of people out there who will pay you a monthly fee to defend your every action would warp your self-concept and otherwise irretrievably fuck your view of the world
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NEW: I asked about the Respect for Marriage Act now in the Senate.
He said he's "thrilled" about codifying into law the Supreme Court ruling that bears his name.
"But," he said, "I do have some concerns."
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Steve Robert Wukmer, a former children's minister, has been arrested and charged with possession of child porn.
Police have not released specifics on the charges yet. wsbtv.com/news/georgia/f
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conservatives: gays are sexualizing our children by existing!
also conservatives:
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For the 2nd year in a row, Michael Protzman aka -48 has his cult followers gathered at Dealey Plaza for the 59 anniversary of JFKs death.
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Everything is in bad faith with right-wing media. Including their supposed concern about a "War on Christmas." It's all about manipulating the gullible.
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New Fox News salvo in the War on Christmas is that Joe Biden is too pro-Christmas.
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I talked this morning about an inflection point in this country right now, specifically for reporters:
What are you more afraid of? Being on Breitbart for saying that trans people deserve to be alive?
Or are you more afraid of waking up to the news of more dead people?
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The Elon Musk-Nate Silver crossover is a great example of how, far too often, "centrists" are just reactionaries with slightly better PR instincts.
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Can't believe these are real living guys on seven-figure salaries who manage human adults, talking about "hall monitors" like they're in the 8th grade. Great googly moogly. Anyway, back to reporting.
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I missed this earlier but it looks like another Baptist pastor has been charged with possessing a collection of highly disturbing child abuse materials
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Elon Musk interacting with sycophantic right-wing influencers this weekend, a thread.
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71% of Americans say large corporations have a negative impact on the country.
Meanwhile a majority of Americans say labor unions have a positive impact.
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NEW: ??? renews fight against attaching ??’s permitting reform bill to any must-pass legislation as consideration for the annual defense spending package gets underway
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Imagine you're in a bar & you hear someone say something racist. Then you hear someone criticize that racism. What sort of person feels more negatively toward the person who spoke out against the racism than they do toward the person who said the racist thing?
No need to answer.
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Eli Lilly CEO says insulin tweet flap “probably” signals need to bring down cost dlvr.it/Sd7XgP
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Hours after a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, LibsOfTikTok is targeting another LGBTQ organization in Colorado Springs.
They want to get people killed. That’s really the only explanation here. This is textbook stochastic terrorism.
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Right winger: We want to hunt and kill godless, communist orcs who vote Democrat.
Left winger: We want everyone to have housing and food, and let LGBT people participate fully in society.
Conservative "centrist:" Both sides have problems with extremism.
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From last month: This man believed Trump was going to be reinstated as president on Oct 31st due to Qanon conspiracies & then "patriots" like him would go on "hunting sprees" to get the "cabal puppets"
Basically a domestic terrorist just waiting for his orange daddy to say fire.
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