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Glasgow@lemmy.ml to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference

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Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference

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Glasgow@lemmy.ml to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
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    He literally has a black maga hat and calls himself DarkMAGA publicly

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      Yeah I know, but Dark is a bit different than Black Hat imo. Black Hat literally means “the bad guys”, while dark is open to interpretation, like the dark web

      Also, DorkMAGA is what we should call them, lol

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        I mean, the hat is black.

        BlackHat doesn’t mean ‘bad guy’ inherently, it means using bad means to achieve your goals. Like astroturfing to convince the people of something that is totally correct anyway and they’re too dumb to understand. Or in this case, “we are looking at a simple trade against personal liberty — abortion, the rights of gay and trans people, and possibly democracy itself — in favor of crypto, AI, and a tax policy they like better.”

        The guy who owns the company that makes Eliza is directly working with Musk, on the board of Meta, and has written a has written a techno-optimist manifesto for effective accelerationism.

        It’s their MO. Effective accelerationists like Andreessen are ushering on the Dark Enlightenment envisioned by Curtis

        "American democracy should be replaced by what he calls a “monarchy” run by what he has called a “C.E.O.”

        And plenty of people seem to be onboard.

        Tokenized, Inc: BlackRock’s Plan To Own The Fractionalized World: “Markets don’t like uncertainty. Markets like, actually, totalitarian governments… Democracies are very messy.”

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          Fair enough! We all remember the photo and the look on his face when he kissed the ring.

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            Great thread with much more info the "“network state” movement led by Balaji Srinivasan, which aims 2 build crypto-based countries w/in existing states via the creation of “parallel institutions” like X.”

            https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3levv4j35xk2b

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