Posted on 04/26/2022 3:28:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
Democrats are terrified. Imagine your political future being dependent on your ability to prevent your opponent from expressing themselves. That seems to be what Democrats are counting on, since every indication is their policies and the resulting inflation and supply chain shortages are wearing thin with the American public. The alternative would be to defend their failures and even they, with all the help of the left-wing media complex, can’t polish that steaming pile. That’s what scares them so much about what Elon Musk is proposing.
Musk isn’t a conservative, and it’s pretty clear he’s not even talking exclusively about the United States (yes, free speech is an issue around the world), but the left now hates him just the same. John Dean, Watergate felon turned liberal darling after he turned on Richard Nixon, tweeted, “Not sure I am interested in Twitter if Elon Musk owns it.” Why? He didn’t say because liberals never say. They don’t have to, they aren’t asked.
Angry dwarf and former Clinton administration Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, tweeted, “Elon Musk's real goal has nothing to do with the freedom of others. His goal is the freedom to wield enormous power without having to be accountable to laws and regulations, shareholders, or market competition—which is why he's dead set on owning Twitter.” Bobby has embraced full communism since leaving his Cabinet post and, of course, becoming a tenured professor at UC Berkeley, so it’s not surprising he would project his goals on someone expressly advocating the opposite of them. It’s what Nazis do.
These people are freaking out, showing the world what they really are. How can anyone be so afraid of other people speaking freely? Here’s something very telling: the totalitarian regimes around the world that work tirelessly to silence dissent in their countries aren’t as upset about the Twitter adopting a free speech mission statement as Democrats in the United States are, and that includes China.
Musk controls hundreds of satellites orbiting the globe that provide internet everywhere, allowing, for example, the people of Ukraine to continue to communicate and get video out of the atrocities Russia is committing AFTER the physical infrastructure of the internet had been wiped out. Imagine that everywhere.
That is what everyone should be celebrating, but progressives have no love for free speech. Even the ACLU, a group that made its name fighting for that right against government intrusion, decided to publicly abandon that fight for speech they don’t approve of, has no interest in the concept anymore. The left is now on the side of China, Russia, and every other despotic regime seeking to limit communication of its citizenry, only they’re doing it in the name of “compassion” for “marginalized communities” and various people sensibilities, not the naked power-grab those foreign governments don’t try to pretend aren’t their motivations.
The end result is the same – monopolistic control over what can and can’t be said – and it always benefits those in power, exclusively.
Meanwhile, Democrats are busy accusing everyone interested in unfettered communication between human beings of being Hitler. I wasn’t alive during Hitler’s time, but I have not read a single history book where he is called a champion of free speech. If such a thing exists, perhaps Democrats could point it out? They do, however, share a lot of the same “progressive” policy goals, as you would expect with a group calling itself the “National Socialist German Workers Party.”
All the “wrong,” which is to say all the right people are upset at the prospect of Elon Musk buying Twitter, with many threatening to quit if he does. As a proponent of the free market, I welcome their departure. As a believer in turnabout being the fairest of plays, I would invite those upset to the point that they simply can’t bring themselves to tweet ever again to build their own Twitter if they can’t handle the direction of the existing one.
None of this, by the way, is to say a deal will actually happen. The pressure on Twitter’s board to violate their fiduciary duty and keep the platform for the left is enormous, and if you don’t think there are Biden administration officials burning up the phone lines trying to prevent it you haven’t been paying attention.
The lengths to which someone will go to silence their political opponents, not defeat them in a debate, tells you everything you need to know about modern Democrats. Conservatives would give the left megaphones, because we believe the more normal people hear them the more repulsed they become. They want to silence us because they’re afraid the more people hear us, the more will join our ranks. It’s a choice between a microphone and a gag. If nothing else, this move by Elon Musk made that difference crystal clear.
At a minimum it represents a major hole in their censorship umbrella.
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Not to worry Libs; as the worker bees in the Twitter hive will STILL be running it.
Optimistic!
Millions have been praying for the restoration of our nation, myself included.
I believe God used Donald Trump to begin this process and ( hopefully continue) ....
....and He can use Elon Musk to help carry it forward
Even in our darkest days of ‘Covid fascism’ the past 2 years.....there were also those .. ***..what Satan meant for evil, God used for good revelations!.***...... ‘awakenings’ by parents ( becoming aware what is actually being taught in school)
...citizens retaking their Constitutional freedoms........finding their long lost voices.....having the courage to speak out on many issues !!!!!
We are all weary fighting our individual windmills.
I can dredge up tired pessimism as well as the rest of you!
But what will that achieve?......NOTHING
HOPE!!!!!.......HOPE this is the beginning to the end of those who would enslave us mentally, emotionally, physically........
.....
‘Let us fight as if it all depended on us, but let us look up and know it all depends upon HIM’
Suddenly, on Twitter they can no longer escape from the reasoned or even irrational counter arguments to their bullshit.
When Musk is reviewing the censorship algorithms Twitter was employing I would not be surprised if one of the bits of censorship code read:
“If tweet contradicts anything Dr Fauci has said, then delete”
They are mad because now news like the laptop maybe posted without being deleted. Of truth maybe spoken and discussed. Just deal with it. The news outlets still won’t report this stuff on the morning and evening news.
The truth is that not that many people are on Twitter itself. But the Elites are. Thus, the issue is that the tweets often become news by themselves (by virtue of who made them) and drive the narrative of the day.
It also perfectly illustrates who lazy “journalists” have become that they usually report on tweets from a single source (Twitter).
I have a feeling that another, left-leaning Twitter-like platform will suddenly spring up. Like Tick Tok, it will be financed by the Chinese. But the Lefties will migrate to it in droves. Thus, the joke will be on Musk because he spent all his money for nothing.
But we will see.
I think others will spring up. But inertia will keep many there. And I think some of Musk’s ideas will be welcomed.
It also wouldn’t surprise me if Musk already has a plan to make it profitable.
And he may be able to use it as a means of inexpensive advertising for his Tesla and his other companies.
Depending on what records were kept on blocking people. I think he should start fresh and unblock everybody. With a clear set of rules on what will get you blocked going forward.
the left fears free speech
China is the Communist Party’s model.
Nehemiah 4:10-14 In Judah it was said, “The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.” And our enemies said, “They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work.” At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, “You must return to us.”
So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”
It won’t matter. It’s not the ‘town square’ like Twitter is. This is why this purchase is so vexing to the Groomer Censor crowed.
I think God is showing the various towers of babel for people to bring down. Medicine — Pandemic lies. Finance — Putin, China, canada. Education — Moms fighting pedophiles. etc. i believe God is working.
LOL...he bought Twitter for one simple reason.... to show folks he could if he wanted. Thats why leftists are angry. Its not because theyve lost an echo chamber....its because who took it away from them. They thought Twitter was “theirs”. Now they have to share and theyre throwing tantrums just like toddlers who have toys taken away. The abruptness and quickness of the move stunned these idiots. Now theyre lost .
What Really Scares the Left
Freedom
Truth
Justice
The American Way
Well said, Guenevere. Lovely username, by the way, bringing back memories of Julie Andrews in Camelot. A past time when nobility meant honor and duty. May a measure of that return to America in the years ahead.
How very kind and gracious.
Thank you!
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