Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site or faced difficulty and delays Saturday.

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    I don’t think it’s planned at that level, it’s just people like Elon think they deserve and earned everything they have; and the alt-right preachers tell them that they have it because god deems you worthy. It becomes a big circlejerk and then hen you have the Elon’s drinking that flavor-aid.

    But, and I mean this, before 2000 you could still get the information; you just had to put more effort into obtaining it. That was obviously a barrier too high for many, but it was not unfindable or inaccessible.

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      Elon buying Twitter was pushed for by Peter Theil, who is a right-wing nut job. He’s the new Koch as far as funding right wing causes goes.

      Musk was played like a patsy, but has accomplished the goal of turning twitter into a right wing hellscape.

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        Thiel also put money into Reddit and Facebook. Influencing big social media spaces seems to be A Thing That He Does.

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      Twitter & Reddit have both been incredibly useful platforms for raising awareness of all kinds of issues and causes which are anathema to conservative goals. People have been exposed to ideas & events without ever needing to seek those out.

      The right-wing failed at creating their own networks and have nothing to offer to ordinary people besides paranoia, so the next best thing is neutralising avenues of enlightening information.

      Elon’s demented & clueless, but he & Huffman are very useful idiots for the rest of their class.