This line is hilarious: "People like Alex Jones, Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson certainly have organic appeal, but Musk has made the problem worse by using his influence to amplify such voices, along with making other policy changes at X."
Turcker Carlson was the host of the highest rated cable news show for years. He was mainstream American Conservativism of the first Trump term. Even after his lawyers explicitly claimed in court that no one should take him seruously.
He was only let go from Fox because he came too much of a liability. Fox replaced him with Jesse Waters, who is just better at hiding his contempt for his 'lessers'.
Anti-intellectualism is the rule for American Conservativism. This what AM Radio, the only medium dominated by the right, has sounded like for decades. That was the case for the conservative blogosphere pre-favebook. He mentions how conservatives came up with Parler and Gab to counter Twitter. Both of them looked exactly like Papa Elon's X. Even the tactics are old.
Hell, this supposed right-leaning intellectual wrote this is his essay lamenting the loss of intellectual ideas in Papa Elon's world; "Admittedly, I don’t spend a lot of time reading feminist or Marxist scholars, for the same reason I don’t read treatises on astrology. When the premise of a field is that wrong, there usually isn’t much to learn from it. Basic knowledge of biology is enough to preempt anything that one might argue based on the premise that there are no significant inherent personality differences between the sexes, and Economics 101 provides sufficient grounds to toss Marxist analysis to the side."
No serious person would ever write this. Because it is a stupid thing to admit.
Everytime these lament the "censoring of conservatives beliefs", nobody asks "but which conservative beliefs?".
Bacuse the answer usually is "Nazis, Russian propagandists, and anti-vaxxers".
muddi900|11 months ago
Turcker Carlson was the host of the highest rated cable news show for years. He was mainstream American Conservativism of the first Trump term. Even after his lawyers explicitly claimed in court that no one should take him seruously.
He was only let go from Fox because he came too much of a liability. Fox replaced him with Jesse Waters, who is just better at hiding his contempt for his 'lessers'.
Anti-intellectualism is the rule for American Conservativism. This what AM Radio, the only medium dominated by the right, has sounded like for decades. That was the case for the conservative blogosphere pre-favebook. He mentions how conservatives came up with Parler and Gab to counter Twitter. Both of them looked exactly like Papa Elon's X. Even the tactics are old.
Hell, this supposed right-leaning intellectual wrote this is his essay lamenting the loss of intellectual ideas in Papa Elon's world; "Admittedly, I don’t spend a lot of time reading feminist or Marxist scholars, for the same reason I don’t read treatises on astrology. When the premise of a field is that wrong, there usually isn’t much to learn from it. Basic knowledge of biology is enough to preempt anything that one might argue based on the premise that there are no significant inherent personality differences between the sexes, and Economics 101 provides sufficient grounds to toss Marxist analysis to the side."
No serious person would ever write this. Because it is a stupid thing to admit.
Everytime these lament the "censoring of conservatives beliefs", nobody asks "but which conservative beliefs?".
Bacuse the answer usually is "Nazis, Russian propagandists, and anti-vaxxers".