I remember when Musk bought twitter and fucked it and himself and there were some users who kept insisting it was some sort of 4D chess ploy spurred on by Peter Thiel

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Musk acquired it at enormous cost to himself and mismanaged it but it's not like it hasn't achieved anything. It's the most influential and harmful sources normalising fascist culture and beliefs that exists now.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's been so long I can barely remember, but I feel as if it was doing that beforehand as well. But that also wasnt the 4D chess thing.

Elon fell ass-first into twitter after using it for some harebrained scam. He was forced to buy it.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago

Elon fell ass-first into twitter after using it for some harebrained scam. He was forced to buy it.

It's wild how most people seem to have just forgotten about this.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I guess I'm just less inclined to think that all of our enemies are idiots. I think there is strategy, and smart strategy too. They don't successfully turn communist countries like Ukraine into what they are today without a solid strategy of incrementally turning the fascism dial bit by bit.

There are certainly bungling idiots among them and the implementation is at times awful but generally there is a high strategy level occurring that we would be fools ourselves to not acknowledge the existence of.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't think all of them are idiots. I do think Elon is an idiot. I think another mistake is assuming everything that happens is part of some masterful plan on their part. That is a very demotivating way of approaching world events