This.
The PayPal Mafia has ownership, sat on the board or otherwise has controlled YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In and Instagram, giving a small group of techno-bros control over narrative amplification and/or suppression. In turn what starts out on social media, is amplified sufficiently, matriculates into the mainstream media frequently enough that the desired and generally false narratives pushed on social media become widely accepted. Musk understands this fully as his group is the one with the hands on the proverbial console.
Let’s look at this one.
It’s a murder meme, one of many such weaponized images Musk uses to push radicalizing content mainstream that was once relegated solely to Fred Brennan’s 8Chan and other small radicalization engines. There is a solution that doesn’t require killing anyone though that requires fractions of slicing the two apples at 2/3 and 1/3, then giving the first person 2/3rds of an apple, the second 2/3rds of an apple and the final 1/3 and 1/3 of each apple that jointly equals 2/3rds. The thing though with this meme is the solution is implied with the secondary image and the horror of the middle child above.
This one was replying to the drone strike on the Kremlin, though applies to most of what the PayPal Mafia have funded, from Alfa Bank Trump Tower Hoax, to Project Birmingham. This next one is peak Musk.
Legitimate discourse is being squelched whereas radicalizing content promoted, all on the whims of Elon Musk. Here is another murder meme that is frankly well built.
We are going to have to sweat it out over whether the US economy gets axed by the Republicans warring on the American middle class. Given Biden is President, it’s a foregone conclusion that this Republican manufactured crisis of paying for America’s debts, will go to the last minute.
The GOP is essentially playing chicken knowing that if Biden takes the deal to crush the middle class they win and if he allows them to default, they also win.
My sense on this is that a short term deal is once again made kicking the issue into 2024 where it is far more consequential.
I do get the sense of dread that the GOP has enough crazy that they will ensure the default eventually as that sort of thing has a very destabilizing effect on Democracies with little risk to the party causing the default with the media generally feeding their desired narratives. For that reason I hope the DNC has a counter plan to ensure the economic equivalent of January 6th isn’t allowed to ever occur.