Preeminent conservative economist, funded by a top thinktank and held up as a leading conservative thinker, shows us he and his entire movement are weak-minded and intellectually bankrupt. #DisbandHoover

(This quote is basically “I understand nothing about science.”)
“Incomparable Dr. Sowell” you see what I mean.
Conservative thinkers are intellectual lightweights and we hear from them only because they are funded by rightwing billionaire oligarchs.
#DisbandHoover

[Sowell] is a genius. Ha. See what I mean?

Conservatism is a movement of lightweights funded by rightwing billionaires to say things that help rightwing billionaires.

#DisbandHoover

You just have to laugh. Poor sods, misled by billionaires.
Sowell’s job is to push charter schools to cut taxes on the billionaire donors who pay his salary.
@drvolts you’ll probably like this quote from a dean of the conservative intellectual education movement. Sowell is practically deified by conserv edu people.
Sorry I was a little conflict-forward. I’m just so tired

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Nov 1
Apparently disinformation is what we are going to get from Twitter under Space Karen.

The note is wrong. The Saudi billionaire is part of the Saudi royal family and thus connected to the Saudis- the government. And, he had to kick in money to help Musk. @joshtpm @ChrisMurphyCT Image
And a Saudi fund, Kingdom Holdings, also owns a big share of Twitter. The Saudi prince had to put in money at a pretty high valuation to make this deal work.
So yes. The Saudis did partner with Musk to buy Twitter. They are the second largest shareholder.

forbes.com/sites/mattduro…
If this kind of deceptive BS is going to be attached to Dem Senators’ tweets, Twitter is going to be killed by Musk faster than he, Republican Larry Ellison (whose foundation is also a minority owner), and the Saudis can use it spread deception.
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Nov 1
This is an example of how rightwing disinformation works, and the interplay between social media and outlets.

“Article IIIP” is a rightwing oligarch-funded pressure group (1st tweet is pro-Trump, ex), retweeting Newsweek, a zombie pub.
@FixMediaNow @MAD_Democracy @whstancil /1 Image
Newsweek was purchased by a rightwing outfit, and is now using its legacy name to trick people who are not media nerds into believing rightwing deception is coming from a real media source. /2

newrepublic.com/article/158968…
And the “Art 3 Project” sounds like a real courts group. But it’s a typical DC Koch-network oligarch thinktank, whose purpose is marketing and political PR, not actually about thinking or research.

/3
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Oct 29
They’re getting talking points telling them to be passive and not to mention Republicans.
These are good sentiments.
But they don’t blame Republicans or Trump.
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Oct 28
@DanAncona @moxie True.
He gets the public foundation/public utility part, though. Signal is a good model, but we need a way to get money into it to run servers.
Or maybe we just accept lower participation rates and figure out a donation/membership model.
@DanAncona @moxie The key aspect of the Twitter network is the highly engaged users. Maybe you charge to post (ex: pay for more than one post per week) but not to read. High-engagement Twitter users then subsidize the service, but it’s not chasing profit: house at @mozilla.
@DanAncona @moxie @mozilla Frankly, I don’t think it would be that hard to do content moderation at scale cheaply — the reason Twitter and FB can’t is because they want to max out engagement at the same time. They have an incentive to allow bots/trolls.
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Oct 27
Who are Elon Musk’s investors in this Twitter purchase?
Are the Saudis investing? Foreign oligarchs? Is every investor making a play for profit?

More likely, since Twitter is WAY overvalued at this price, investors are putting money in to affect public debate via Twitter.
That’s not a reason that DOJ and FTC should allow.

Foreign investors should be heavily scrutinized and Biden should use every tool at his disposal to block the deal if any investor is using it to intervene in politics, here or abroad. This should be a pure business deal or die.
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Oct 27
What really happened with media is conservatives spent lavishly on rightwing radio, propping up Limbaugh and Hannity in tough market conditions that killed off Air America.

If liberal donors cared about media, they’d have done the same for Air America.

mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/… Image
Here’s an article about Heritage Foundation billionaires funneling money to Limbaugh.

And that tweet is catastrophically wrong in other ways too!
@whstancil

mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/…
@whstancil Dreyfuss has drifted to the right over time, probably the reason he left MoJo after a kerfuffle there.

But he repeats the liberal/centrist line that media just gives people want they want. No. No no no no no!!!! We now have tons of proof that media changes opinions. /3
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