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Musk is the only person that is both in a position to meaningfully push back against the depraved behavior of the corporate press, and the willingness to do so.

Exhibit A: https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1595994522886234112

Exhibit B: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597058841396797440

Despite his ridiculous antics, I'm cautiously optimistic.

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Yeah I mean the public could not logon for a day to send a message too. I mean that as a euphemism for broader ideas I won’t elaborate on. But let Musk do it, we don’t want that responsibility.

Social media either makes it clear the general public is of immense restraint or too confused to know they don’t really owe carrying around in their heads any of this gibberish and could set aside the assigned work queues and focus on the ignored ones, like infra and healthcare. The government will respond to a populace with twice as many guns as people in a hurry at the slightest whiff of public comity.

Please save us, Musk! … the great white savior complex. Still seeking a high minded savior suggests confused by all the gibberish and noise which is intentional but often ends up being uncontrollable. The code gets deciphered and the old masters get outplayed at their own game. Gen Z grew up digesting this gibberish. I’m hopeful they’re inoculated against it.

Most of the general public are effectively NPCs who robotically repeat what is on the screen. I'm sure you know the behavior I'm talking about where someone expresses "their opinion" and it's word for word something they mindlessly parrot from Fox News or CNN or whatever they watch. That little context/fact check is extremely important. Recently, the White House tweeted bragging SS recipients were getting the largest increase in history. Context was added to the tweet to say it was legally required because inflation was so high and not a new action the government took. They were so embarrassed they deleted the tweet. That's real power.

I doubt Musk is really a high-minded savior figure. If he's just doing this to make money then that is fine by me.

That’s your reductive view of the public. I don’t think they’re dimwitted NPCs, but being treated disingenuously by people who think they’re NPCs.

The public is very aware they don’t deference to any particular individual. Musk, or you. At the end of the day twice as many guns as people in this country.

>but being treated disingenuously by people who think they’re NPCs.

Those non-NPCs either continue to vote for the people treating them this way and/or continue to behave as if their authority over them is legitimate.

From my reference frame you’re one of the NPCs

lol you played yourself by engaging with someone you perceive has having no mind.

I am reciting my own inner monologue reminding myself we’re each just one of billions, nothing special. None of my posts address anyone else specifically at all.

Qualified truth is relative. This is all generic language. You’re hardly saying anything novel. You’re no further beyond the edge of human understanding than I am.

You see it as I “played myself” I see it as you’re another meat bag over stimulated by their own awareness.

Exhibit B: "That American media would argue against free speech in America – within the bounds of the law – is an utter travesty."

Exhibit C: Musk does exactly that. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597285572699074560

Musk IS corporate press.

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