"Elmo is the most dangerous man in the country, the most dangerous man in the world, and quite possibly the most dangerous man in the history of the world.

[pasmac@atmasto.com]

@wdlindsy This new world status puzzles me ...
It's all on books and history.
We are not very intelligent specie ... recycling always the same errors, including on the origin of the issues.

The new political momentum exists by the lack of strong and trustworthy leadership around the world.

If we look around it's all weak leaders ... afraid, and blocked resulting in inaction and weakening the institutions.
We live so much better but some how they create a different perception ...

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@wdlindsy It would help if Robert Reich weren't being blue-MAGA trash writing anti-immigrant pro-Trump thinkpieces just because Musk is worse. It's possible to condemn them both and stand with our allies.

[phlegmaroid@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy musk is pretty simple: if he ever stops his satanic finger pointing and opts, even briefly, for a mirror, he would have to look at a monster so vile even Christ might laugh at his prayers. So he will continue his anti-intellectual terrorism without a hint of conscience, because bullies hate the people who most exemplify the courage their sociopathic selves can’t have…

[mjglass@mstdn.ca]

@wdlindsy

Thread.

[jeffrey@tooting.ch]

@wdlindsy We already have such groups. This is how people are. You can present most people with facts which criticise their various allegiances and they will not budge, whilst believing they are driven by ethics.

The difference here is the scale and the introduction of a new authoritarian leader.

No politicians have understood or championed the data privacy which would be needed to stop this development. They’ve paved the way for sociopaths and will now be shocked when they take that path.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"You cannot rely on the rich and powerful to simply ally themselves with you or represent your interests because your interests are not their own. Their profit and their power relies on eliminating your interests while creating enough propaganda and controlling communications to the point of convincing you otherwise.

That’s it.

The entire game."

~ Jared Yates Sexton

#ElonMusk #Trump #JeffBezos #MarkZuckerberg #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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What They Always Wanted: Zuckerberg, Trump, and the New Normal

They're not "obeying in advance." They're relieved. They're all-in.

(jaredyatessexton.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Jeffrey As you say, "the difference here is the scale." I read the Guardian commentary to be recognizing that fact.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mjglass Thank you very much.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Phlegmaroid Thank you: impassioned and solid commentary. I like it.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@dalias I think it would help if we didn't rip away at each other and the fragile alliances that hold us together in the face of a serious global threat.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@pasmac We live much better now but somehow they create a different perception: this seems right to me. But I'm not sure the "they" in that sentence is political leaders. I'd be inclined to say that "they" are the super-rich and the media moguls that answer to them.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@CelloMomOnCars A good project, I think.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lupus_blackfur Maybe Musk is simply more out and proud with his penchant for right-wing global politics than he dared be before?

[khm@hj.9fs.net]

please instruct us as to which ethical compromises we must make in order to achieve our goals, thanks in advance

CC: @[email protected]

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@wdlindsy Someone who writes "Trump is right" and supports his attempt to strip away immigrant rights just to oppose Musk is not a member of "each other". He's MAGA.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@wdlindsy FFS let thr fascists infight but don't pick sides and support one to oppose another.

We have a word for someone who picks and supports one of the fascist factions:

Fascist.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@dalias I continue to listen to Robert Reich with respect even when I don't agree with him, as I sometimes don't.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@khm @dalias I prefer to defer to you, since it appears you're inclined to issue such instructions. I'm not so inclined, and that was one of the points I had thought I was making in this thread.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@wdlindsy I follow a personal rule not to respect MAGAs and I hope others will too.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@dalias I follow a personal rule not to respect trolls.