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TOM LUONGO’S RANT AGAINST FREEDOM FIGHTERS MUSK DERANGEMENT SYNDROME

1. Fullgoldcrown says:

   September 8, 2023 - 4:21 pm at 4:21 pm

   I find it utterly baffling how smart people can be so single-minded as to not see the bigger picture. This week alone X/Twitter Owner Elon Musk took on the Neocon/Davos war machine head on and yet still I have to see the so-called good guys talk about the coming technological ‘pocky-clypse.’

   I’m speaking, of course, about Whitney Webb and her insistence that Musk is nothing more than a fake benefactor for humanity. She’s looking at the evil of ‘biometrics’ on X and turning it into the very evil Fourth Industrial Revolution platform that we’re all rightly afraid of and not seeing the other side of the equation.

   Go read Whitney’s Twitter feed and you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about. Whitney is falling into the classic libertarian trap of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

   Now, think clearly about the two major fights Musk took head on this week which are openly anti-Davos to their core. These are two current third rails of internet politics: Ukraine and “The Jews.”

   Musk is under insane pressure from the Neocon press over his refusal to allow Starlink (something Whitney has gone on and on about as evil itself) to be used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces for military purposes to escalate the war with Russia. Musk’s comments have made it perfectly clear that he understood what their goals were, to force a retaliation from Russia that would give the Neocons the casus belli they are desperate to generate to bring on World War III.

   Somehow, this anti-war stance by a company CEO not wanting to be dragged into a conflict killing thousands of people on both sides, in this instance civilians, is not something worth commending or even commenting on.

   No, praising Musk in any way is now ‘simping’ for the New Boss who is just as bad as the old one.

   I guess being anti-war and on the side of humanity isn’t enough.

   What’s the rule folks? Praise anyone willing to do the right thing even if you don’t like them and lambaste them when they do wrong. Too many on the black-pilled side of the liberty resistance have forgotten first principles here.

   Musk has been under unbelievable pressure since taking over Twitter from all sides of the ‘bad guy’ aisle. That he may have plans which are not in line with our ultimate goals is worth remaining skeptical about. This is a given. It’s the same treatment I give Jerome Powell.

   It’s the same way I treated Donald Trump.

   I’m beyond this bullshit of demanding the people who fight my enemies be White Knights. It’s puerile and childish.

   Accept that people are messy and complicated and cheer them on in their pursuits which align with your interests. Deal with the Devil in front of you, not the Devil standing behind him. Have you so little strategic acumen that you cannot see that their fight weakens both of them making it easier for us to take on the New Boss after he helped you defeat the Old Boss?

   The kicker for me this week, however, on Musk was his encouraging and piling on the #BanTheADL movement that sprang up on Twitter. Whether Musk helped seed this thing into existence or he just piggy-backed onto it is, again, irrelevant.

   For the first time in its history, the ADL was forced into the open and forced to defend itself in the media outside of the Alex Jones/Art Bell set. This is a monumental thing.

   And, again, it should be applauded.

   Does this open up the floodgates to allow ravening hordes of alt-right dimwits to say a bunch of hateful (and mostly inaccurate nonsense) on Twitter? Yes. Will a lot more people be dumb and take the bait to help Davos Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino squelch them under her proposed, “lawful but awful” rule.

   Yes.

   Don’t fall for it. Keep your criticisms of certain groups of protected people constructive and you won’t get the ban hammer. In fact, it’s in your best interest if your goal is communicating what you see as the truth to those who disagree with you.

   How you say something is far more important than what you actually say. If you haven’t learned that lesson yet, get a dog. Better yet, get a really empathetic dog like a shepherd or an livestock guardian.

   You’ll find almost immediately that you can’t lie to your dog. If you want to get them to do what you want you can’t yell at them. They simply shut down and get afraid. Well, guess what folks? No one here or on Twitter knows you any more than what you post there. Why would you waste that immense opportunity to reach thousands of people with a bunch of drivel that is nothing more than selfish rage-peddling.

   The only person you are persuading in that moment is yourself. The only person you are serving in that moment is yourself.

   While no one here really wants to hear this but Yaccarino’s not wrong when she says that “freedom of speech doesn’t guarantee freedom of reach.” Strictly speaking, as a libertarian who believes in property rights fully, that you have a freedom of speech on your property which you control.

   I know there is a legal gray area when it comes to section 230, definitions of ‘the commons’ and the like, but we have to be reasonable in our use of our language in order to be most effective.

   I’m a free speech absolutist, but I also retain the right here, for example, to curtail your speech if I deem it at odds with the goals of this community and constructive discourse.

   So, Musk going after the ADL in order to loosen the overall reins of control over what is acceptable speech on Twitter is an unqualified good thing. It helps expose to millions of people (even if he doesn’t follow through with his lawsuit) how the Twitter sausage is made behind the curtain.

   It exposes the vast amount of resources spent to rob you of your ability to speak. That should empower you, not to start screaming like the dead-enders on Zerohedge’s comment system about the ‘J O O S’ or whatever creative spelling you use that you think is cleverly getting around the censors, but to start talking about the real issues and the real reasons behind why they try to bludgeon us into silence with cries of “racism,” “sexism,” “ageism,” “transphobia,” “misogyny” and yes, “antisemitism.”

   These are tactics within the overall strategy of robbing you of your right to speak.

   And there is no better platform to do this on than Twitter, for all of its faults.

   Moreover, think about what Musk’s crusade against the ADL says about what’s really going on behind the scenes. He’s in a strong enough position now to actually do this and let it flourish. He gave it the imprimatur of acceptability that literally no one else on the planet could have given it.

   But apparently that’s not good enough for those caught in the purity spiral of their own personal pathologies.

   Like it or not there has always been a line between acceptable and unacceptable speech. The goal of the commentator, comedian, editorialist, etc. is to walk right up to the line and fuck around to find out.

   Then it’s the job of everyone else to follow him to that line and expose the hypocrisy, rally folks around them and mock their pathetic attempts at social control.

   If that’s too much work, go to Nostr or Gab or whatever.

   For the Whitney Webbs who can’t see that the fight against the ADL isn’t directly tied to stopping WWIII and are more worried about Musk’s moronic fantasies of putting chips in our heads and becoming the New Boss, well fine.

   Musk isn’t a savior nor is he a White Knight. He’s a guy with deep issues and his own spergy ideas of what technology can accomplish. Whitney is angry because she has doubted Musk’s intentions with Twitter from the beginning. It’s always been a grift to her. That’s all she can see.

   She may not even be wrong that Musk buying Twitter was a grift all along. But, something like Twitter out of the hands of certain oligarchs and in the hands of other oligarchs becomes something different.

   Honestly, with Musk at the helm, Twitter is usable for the first election cycle since 2016. Will things get incrementally worse for the next few months? Likely. Will Musk have to make deals to keep SpaceX and/or Starlink up and running? Likely yes.

   But don’t think for a second that Nostr or Truth Social or Gab are going to be anything other than digital ghettos that they are happily opening up to you to retain your purity while limiting your voice even more than you could imagine.

   The fight is where the normies are. The tools are in your presentation and how you walk the line. Getting around Yaccarino’s limits on your reach are child’s play.

   Irrelevancy is your reward for remaining a child.

2. silverboom says:

   September 8, 2023 - 5:06 pm at 5:06 pm

   Zing.

   • pedro_deleon says:

     September 8, 2023 - 5:20 pm at 5:20 pm

     Damn you nailed it sb!