Safe to assume that 2 days before the midterms all of the few remaining Twitter employees doing content moderation are banning people who spoof Musk #FreeSpeech
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Fact is Republican policies of cutting taxes for rich & flooding US with high capacity guns will increase inflation & crime.
Reasonable to report people claiming inflation & crime driving their votes, but negligent to not provide context that inflation (high, but stable & just outpacing wages) & crime (historically low, down since last year) would both likely be worse under Republican policies.
Absence context, natural for news consumers to assume that inflation& crime are at historic highs (which they are not) and that Republicans have viable solutions (which they do not).
If I understand this correctly (and I may not) @Disney forced merged my @hulu & @DisneyPlus accounts, but now is trying to charge me separately for both? Really a pain dealing with these conglomerates.
Will always laugh that people who worship actual billionaires (Trump & Musk), faux populists who work to restrict health & wealth & opportunity of working families, sneering at me because they think I am rich (for caring about big corps taking my money!)
Trump & Musk are faux populists because they claim to be for working people while backing cutting taxes & regulations on super rich, and restricting worker ability to organize for higher wages, safety, social safety net necessary for security & opportunity
Republican controlled areas have a lot more crime than Democratic controlled areas, which makes sense with their easy access to guns and relatively high poverty & lack of economic opportunity.
Important context for people who have crime as their top voting issue in 2022: crime is way down from peak, down since last year, higher in Republican areas (likely due to policies that make people armed & desperate).
Republicans response: sure Republican states have more crime, but Democratic cities in Republican states have a lot of crime, true! But, Democratic cities in Democratic states do not have that much crime, just the ones who live under Republican state rule.
All of the talk on this platform about whether or not Democrats ran a good campaign misses this simple fact: regardless of what topics Democrats choose to focus on is basically irrelevant, because mainstream media chooses to focus on whatever Republicans tell them to focus on.
Democratic mistake is not choosing democracy, or abortion, or inflation as main topic, or moving too far to the left or too far to the right: it is all irrelevant because Republicans bully mainstream media and Democrats don't. So mainstream media bends to Republicans. Full Stop.
Meta to see Republicans attacking this thread as crazy talk: they have been told for decades mainstream media is against them, that they should attack mainstream media, but they don't realize that they are just part of a strategy to bully mainstream media further into submission.
.@elonmusk's $44 billion dumpster fire is going to be a case study in how just because a dude is rich, even if he made a lot of his money (after being born rich), does not mean he know what he is doing, especially in completely different businesses than the ones he made money.
Still cannot get over fact that @elonmusk wants to charge the very few people who work for Twitter for free to continue to produce vast majority of Twitter's content.
Appreciate all of the love for Obama in this thread, and I have written extensively on how the mainstream media buries fire of Democratic leaders, but Obama made meaningful choice to dismantle campaign operations in 2009 & 2013, leaving Democrats dangling while he was president.
As 1st minority president Obama felt it was important (and it was important) to be very presidential, above partisanship: he absolutely did not bring this fire in 2010, 2014, 2016 (outside of his 2012 campaign itself). Decision very costly w/ Republicans running nonstop campaigns