Friday, December 16, 2022

Irony Has Closed Up Shop And Taken Up Drinking As A Hobby

Freedom of speech means Elon owns the platform and is the only person free to speak The rest of you speak at Elon’s sufferance. And yes, on one level, that’s fine. Not that Bari Weiss understands that: That argument and $5 will buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks. It sure as hell won't even get you in the door at your local federal courthouse. And considering Elmo is an "unelected individual" with power over the public conversation, as you call it, which he is exercising vigorously and according to his own feelings at any moment: are you really this clueless? More to the point, what the hell do you think you can do about it? Donate to Elise Stefanik? Neither you nor Stefanik are going to get anywhere.  Elon runs Twitter, and by and large he can run it as it suits him (except maybe in Europe). The problem is not just "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."  The real problem is Elon is such a toad. Which is frankly more of an amusement than a problem. (And no, I'm not overlooking the grand pronouncement that Twitter constitutes "the public conversation" over which Elon has so much power now.  It's as absurd as considering the NYT the "Newspaper of Record."  That's self-aggrandizing.  No law or public agency ever declared it so.  That same sense of self-importance inflates every minor discussion into something central to the continuance of civilization.  Rather like Elmo declaring his positions are essential to the continuation of humanity. Yeah, and I'm sure Elmo is just the philosopher to provide it for us. The Greeks call this "hubris," by the way, Bari. You could look it up. And never let yourself forget you agreed to work for the guy. Maybe pay more attention next time, before biting the hand that feeds you.
 
Not that your running buddy Matt Taibbi is doing any better.  He still refuses to see what you see. He’s also not self-aware enough to realize analogies almost always reveal more about you than the subject you’re trying to analogize.
Twitter Files 6 and Taibbi still doesn't have a clue what's going on. The horror! The horror! The real horror is not that Taibbi is clearly Q-Curious, it's that he thinks the FBI is the police force of Mayberry, North Carolina: Clearly the FBI can only pursue one type of criminal at a time, and they should be chasing down...child sex predators, which last I looked, is a state crime unless it involves interstate travel.

This, Ms. Weiss, is the "national conversation" which you contributed to.  Curiously, the nation doesn't seem too interested.  I wonder why that is....?

As I say, on one level Elon can pretty much do what he wants with his platform.  Word now is he's looking to go public again, or at least entertain investors who won't tell him what to do:
Sounds like a "my hot Canadian girlfriend" story to me, too: But a fool and his/her money, and all that. Let them invest. Elon is busy burning the place to the grand in the most public fit of pique and petulance since monarchs used to start wars just because they were pissed off. Who wouldn't want to buy a piece of that action?

I'm sure the national conversation will carry on without even noticing.
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