It is no secret that the PayPal Mafia, the top brass that currently control nearly all private social media data, have networks of social media influencers targeting people based on profiles created from that data, silencing or amplifying based on political preferences, are a major force within global and US politics.
That all started though with the audacity to shake up global money systems, subtly at first, with PayPal before moving on to the repeated crypto schemes, market manipulations and social engineering to make themselves ridiculously wealthy.
Elon is the one PayPal Mafioso best positioned to manipulate, cause trouble, push the public through a number of escalating then de-escalating radicalization cycles normalizing dangerous content, so he generally gets the most attention. Here he says something truthful and hilarious.
The point of the monetary disruptions of both PayPal and Crypto was to wrestle economic control away from centralized governments in order to undermine and collapse. That makes this a bit of an obvious inside joke, especially because a Jury sided with Musk that is okay to defraud investors lying about taking Tesla private at $420 per share, making him just as untouchable as Trump was to his fans until he wasn’t.
Then there was this violent missile attack against Disney’s Up House. The GamerGate violence is obvious while the “Disney-Groomer” attack line favored by Floridian authoritarian Ron DeSantis might not be.
This one, again from Disney referencing Mr. Incredible’s annoyance with New Math, stating Math is Math.
Not sure though what the blended images are intended to be with a real hand holding sun glasses, a possible meme reference that means literally to own someone, as in to dominate. For a weaponized meme, this one is disturbing on multiple levels. It’s fuzzy and convoluted meant in the same way to promote disquiet or unease. Two, it’s violent and out of control rage in the moment it is conveyed. Three the word-gender relationship is intended to connect viewers back to the multiple-gender and LGBTQ hatred that plays well as a specific demonized group for the far-right to target. It doesn’t hurt that Mr. Incredible is white, blonde, angry and rather bulky to tap into the base’s identity.
While the meme has its humor with the differences in linguistic structures, the multi layers and psychological stirrings make this one rather unmistakeable and unsettling of a meme Musk has shared, only missing just misogyny of the core components.
Seeing as this is Math, let me tell you about Utah’s Math Wars.
Alpine School District was paid to pilot a ‘new math’ program known as Investigations Math, launching all sorts of frustration from teachers, parents, students. I was a big part of the online movement, the so-called Math Wars, though frankly most would know Oak Norton better than I was hitting the Newspaper message boards.
The curriculum failed to gain footing and was shut down during the next legislative session. My problem with it stemmed from the moving away of rote memorization and instead moving heavy into abstractness at too early of a pedagogically stage than it should be leaving the vast majority of children who were not cognitively advanced, lost and confused. My recollections of Investigation Math was that it was one heck of a gifted and talented supplement, yet wholly inaccessible to most students.