'member Aug 6 2024:

https://www.ft.com/content/31919b4e-4a5a-4eba-ada7-88d3fec455f8 ;D

UK faces resistance from X over taking down disinformation during riots

Social media site owner Elon Musk has also been posting jibes at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Waiting to see those jibes at Modi…

And who could forget in April 11, 2024:

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-musk-x-twitter-moraes-bef06c0dbbb8ed87495b1afbb0edf211

What to know about Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ feud with a Brazilian judge

gotta see that feud with Indian judges, nobody asked him to block 8000 accounts, including western media outlets, whatever is he gonna do? :/

I can see you’ve never come across Pakistani/Hindu nationalists online. My impressions so far are: they are angry, hate each other, lie like russians and tens (maybe even hundreds) of millions of them speak English. :D good luck

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Yes, but that’s not a dictator fetish (ok, it is, but it is a different one)… He knows dictators are a bad thing to be, because he calls the people he doesn’t like one. But he never calls out actual dictators, he actually makes deals with them and helps them. That says he likes and respects that model of governance, even if he knows it is deeply unpopular and deeply disrespects functioning democracies. And uses it to rouse his stans.

not my job and this is not the place to waste my time providing a textbook-level of evidence of what you could have researched yourself if you were willing to be persuaded, but ask your History teacher if you’re seriously asking.

It’s a real movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13818368/ probably available from y’er usual place 🏴‍☠️

I think elon called Lula a dictator…and called the UK a dictatorship. That makes it even more obvious what he’s doing.

*neo-nazi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1htGY3_lO4M

That could also be mexican/canadian. USian if you want to be precise :D

Anybody have any “theory” of why now?

If americans don’t rehab the word socialism, they’re not going to even be able to have a word to talk about “making life a little less shit for the 99% that work to uphold the 1%'s lifestyle”.

Or…call it something else: shelterism, anti-oligarchy, equalization, wethepeopleism…

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It’s because the russians are busy resetting their disinformation campaign on VdL (this is the left-wing of it, the right wing exists as well among antivaxxers and other communities), because apparently Europe is not letting Ukraine fall even if trump doesn’t care. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/19/imagined-common-enemies watch out for the “Eurofascism” buzzword.

But it’s pathetic, VdL has no real executive power and the EU decision making is too decentralized to demonize single figureheads with their hamfisted attempts, like it worked with genocide joe.

Do genocide don, genocide bibi and genocide putin first, that would solve 95% of the problems to start with.

How long until Voltron?

Pre-WW1 and WW2 Germans were some of the most educated, informed and progressive societies in the world at the time and it didn’t stop them blundering into jingoism and fascism, I don’t think it is just that.

There is a large component of “the socialists/wokes are coming for you” which glitches regular people into protest voting to the right of center instead of for a left that actually represents their interests.

PS: there is also infighting between lefties, far lefties, “moderates” and liberals that can prevent them from aligning against fascist demagogues until it is too late.

PPS: also, if you just study a lot of STEM in college, your views on humanities may still be atrocious, like elonstans.

People need to see fascism in action in other countries to be reminded of what it is, too bad that it had to be the US, last time it was Germany.

Too bad voters can’t live in a simulation showing the consequences of their vote before they do so, that way it wouldn’t be necessary to stumble and waste resources/progress that we’re going to need in the future.

I love that ending sentence.