If the Twitter/X thing teaches you one thing, let it be this: Twitter was a neoliberal place. Then Elon Musk made it into X, a fascist place. Once again, neoliberalism laid the foundations of fascism. But that’s not the (whole) lesson… Neoliberal folks are still using X, calling it Twitter to make themselves feel better, and pining for the good old days. And there’s the real lesson: When neoliberalism turns into fascism, neoliberals will adapt to life under fascism. Right, class dismissed.

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(We really need a better way to crosspost from mastodon…)

  • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Also the OOP’s line of logic seems to imply Elon bought Twitter because it was neoliberal?

    Elon has billions of dollars he could buy half the lemmy instances if he gave the admins the right check amount.

    • flerp@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      He bought it because even though he has more money than he could ever spend, all his small mind craves is other losers thinking he’s cool. He was granted extra money when he bought it by people who hated the fact Twitter was used to support revolution in the Middle East and wanted to ensure if that ever happened again, they would control the person who could shut it down.