The problem is that too many people vote like cowards. People flee California and move to Denver or Austin and turn the places into commie enclaves by voting for "progressives". If your solution is to have your billionaire oligarch (Musk) fight on your behalf against other billionaire oligarchs (Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, Soros et al) then you are just back to the European feudalism that caused free people to flee to the US and then get their freedom back from England.
I'm happy that Musk bought twitter. I'm unhappy that Oregonians vote for Lockdown Kate Brown, Chinslee and Newsom. And that Snow and the PMS housewives voted for a dementia patient that was bought and paid for by the chicoms. When McConnell and McCarthy are the leading Congressional Republicans we are forced to have Musk solve the Twitter problem. That isn't a healthy free society.
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=398891
Will anyone center left speak against this?
If Trump established a Ministry of truth would you be silent?
This is some crazy shit, if it wasn't clear before it should be crystal by now.
I don't see how we avoid a civil war in my lifetime if we keep going down this path. America is being ripped apart intentionally.
Six months ago I would have been extremely worried about this. But right now, I view it as a pathetic attempt to maintain control and nothing more. The tide is turning and they know they are losing.
A cornered animal is the most dangerous animal. Never underestimate your enemy D.
The leftists backed the 'animals' into the corner.
They severely underestimated their enemy.
I'm not seeing it. Elon is one of the richest men on the planet. The vast majority are afraid to speak up and or do anything against our? government. I'll ask you the same question my 15 year old asked me earlier this week. Why did the truckers in Canada back down? They backed down because their government eliminated their ability to live freely. The next step was imprisonment or death. We? talk a big game about guns etc. but how many are willing to step up where the truckers got off? No my friend. This doesn't end well as we? and other democracies are well on their way to communist, totalitarian control.
I see it daily. I live more than 10 miles inland from the coast.
You're right. It doesn't end well. For the leftist/authoritarians.
Look, I know I'm being an alarmist and I hope and literally pray every day that you and 46X are right. If there is a silent majority, they are a bunch of cowards.
He wrote exactly what I'm feeling:
"t is dismaying that we have to turn to modern day lords for protection. Geoff Shullenberger wrote about this recently.
Twitter and the War of Oligarchs [Compact – 4/16/2022]
That only underscores the problem with market societies in which a handful of wealthy men lord over traditional and social media, wielding outsized influence over what we get to read and how to think. But these aren’t the present terms of the debate. We are instead fighting over which billionaire or set of billionaires is more beneficial to our common life.
So Elon Musk is my tribal warlord in the fight for free speech. Yay. I am not entirely thrilled with the prospect of being governed by Elon. His climate change beliefs threaten my freedom, as does his contribution toward having electric vehicles replace cars powered by internal combustion engines.
Western civilization replaced tribes, warlords, and private armies with a form of governance that provided protection for all while allowing dissent. That is slipping away.
My freedom is a threat to the left. The federal bureaucracy, as well as most of the media, universities, and corporate America, have all unified in enforcing indoctrination, with accompanying banishment for even stating simple, scientific truths that the left doesn’t approve of…truths such as “men cannot have babies.”[/b]
In a free, civilized country, I shouldn’t need a lord or an oligarch to protect me. The fact that we are all celebrating Elon Musk is an acknowledgment that we have won one important battle, but having to even fight that battle in this manner shows how woke culture has eroded our civilization. We’ve become 21st century vassals.
Hooray for my oligarch, I guess. May Providence give him the wisdom and fortitude to defeat my enemy’s oligarchs. But I’d prefer constitutional self-government."
